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Title: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 31, 2010, 13:05:30 PM
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Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Paulie_D on December 31, 2010, 13:15:42 PM
Don"t forget Vegas in November, Steve.

Looking forward to the updates.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: technolog on December 31, 2010, 14:28:34 PM
This should be a good read - best of luck with this and next year"s poker. You"ve certainly had a stellar year this year and it"d have to be a braver man than me that bet against you winning a medal next year!
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: pokerpops on December 31, 2010, 14:31:15 PM
Good luck with all your goals, but may I query #3

2hr sessions of live cash? I know you said a minimum of 2hrs but if you consider that live dealers and, more so, live players  struggle to complete more than 30 hands an hour that doesn"t equate to a lot of poker...

You did well to avoid the offer of a lift to G Coventry from me by the way - we took a huge detour when I took the wrong turning out of the hotel car park!!!
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 31, 2010, 14:58:48 PM

Good luck with all your goals, but may I query #3

2hr sessions of live cash? I know you said a minimum of 2hrs but if you consider that live dealers and, more so, live players  struggle to complete more than 30 hands an hour that doesn"t equate to a lot of poker...

You did well to avoid the offer of a lift to G Coventry from me by the way - we took a huge detour when I took the wrong turning out of the hotel car park!!!

The offer was very generous though thanks.

The two hours sessions, I see your point and agree that a two hour live session is not a great amount of poker. I would expect most of the sessions to go quite a bit longer but I would be happy with two hours if I decided to leave that session would still count, if I only played for 30 minutes was playing badly and left that does not really count, however two hours is enough to count it.

The reason I put in on here was to help motivate myself to play some more live poker as I don"t feel I play enough. Hopefully that makes sense.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 01, 2011, 19:39:25 PM
Happy New Year.

2011 arrived to a firework display in Swansea last night.

I played my first online cash session the the year, 4 tables ust under and hour,  I misplayed a couple of hands and didn"t play as well as I should have but managed to turn a small profit of £3.21 - so basically a break even session and only 53 poker points. I played a coupleof sessions yesterday and made £75 but they don"t count for this year unfortunately.

I might play the APAT Betfair league next week but will be putting most of my effort in cash this month.

Now for the darts. After Jenkins and Lewis got through this afternoon it will be a very strong semi final line up. I expect Taylor and Barney to go through, although Barney does have a tough game against Anderson. Earlier in the tournament I laid Taylor at even money with some mates. I think it was a good bet at the time but now I am not so confident of winning it from here.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Fatcatstu on January 02, 2011, 10:50:02 AM
Wow is all i will say about the darts last night.

Anderson proved ALOT of people wrong, he is the form horse at the min, and i expect an anderson v webster final, and webster  to take it down.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 02, 2011, 17:48:44 PM
Anderson was on fire last night and Webster was really solid. The only problem is how will Anderson react to the pressure now he is expected to win it. I think he will be fine and expect to see him take it down tomorrow. Webster vs Lewis is the game to watch this evening I think.

Webster to win 6-4 tonight
Anderson to win 6-3 tonight
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 02, 2011, 19:11:18 PM
Very poor cash session today - lost two buyins neither of which I should.

The first one I get AK and make a reraise. from 90p to £4. The flop comes 3-3-6 and I c-bet £6 into the pot of £4. he then shoves for £20. So its £15 to call. This is probably a fold but I convince myself it should be a call - he shows 6-6 and there is no help on the turn or river.

The next one I have AJ (with which I have raised) and a short stack shoves over the top of me. I somehow completely miss the fact that a bigger stack have shoved before him and call what I think is about £5 but it is actually about £20. I lose and end the seesion down £56.

Not happy with that as I was planning to come off about 10 minutes before but was a little bit down (about £10) and was trying to bring it back. Both of those hands happened in the last 10 minutes. I really must stop doing that. I am sure if I ended all of my cash sessions 30 minutes earlier my bottom line would be far better.

Total loss now: -£53.56

Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 03, 2011, 17:30:28 PM
Saw this for the first time in years today. This wsa great back in the day when I was a computer tech

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d85p7JZXNy8
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 03, 2011, 17:44:10 PM
Hmm Cash poker sure is going well so far. I am currently sitting down £120 on the year. I have quite simply made too many mistakes. Earlier today I was in the big blind and the button raises. I am sat with £24 as I have not bothered to rebuy. I call the raise with As7s. The flop comes down a helpful

jh-7c-Ac

I check and he bets £1.20 into a pot of £2.10. I raise to £4.20 and he flats. The pot is now £10.50. The turn comes 10h and I bet £7, he calls again. The river comes 9c. I check, he shoves and it is another £12 to me into a pot of £35. I make a poor call. I should have saved £12 here. He shows me the nut flush.

I reckon I have lost at least £60 to bad play over the first three days. Yes there have been a few coolers as well, I has KK outdraw by QQ for a monster pot of £110 allin preflop and also hit a set of sixs only for my opponent to show me a set of aces. These will even themselves out but the amount of money I am currently dropping to poor play is a concern. 4 buyins down is not a good start to this year.

To mention some of the hands I won, the biggest was a pot of £55 when I get allin with QQ against K-10 preflop. Unfortunately that was the player who took it back with his QQ against my KK lol.

I also won a nice pot with a set of 10"s against top pair. Sky Poker does not let me see hand histories so I don"t know exactly what it was, I do know those are the ony two hands I have won more than £10 in though so far.

Total loss this year = £121.67

If I drop more than £200 I will drop down to the 10p/20p tables until I have made it up.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 03, 2011, 18:39:29 PM
I am currently wondering if Mr Lewis can do it tonight. It would be great to see him take this one down but I think Anderson might have the edge.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: duke3016 on January 03, 2011, 18:42:17 PM

I am currently wondering if Mr Lewis can do it tonight. It would be great to see him take this one down but I think Anderson might have the edge.


currently 7/4 odds on Lewis, I personally think he can do it.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 03, 2011, 22:47:13 PM


I am currently wondering if Mr Lewis can do it tonight. It would be great to see him take this one down but I think Anderson might have the edge.


currently 7/4 odds on Lewis, I personally think he can do it.

Good shout, pleased to see lewis win. He has been due for a while and after he beat Taylor earlier this year he has been in great form. I reckon he will do well in the premier league.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 04, 2011, 20:37:17 PM
Total loss - £203

Should not have played tonight but did anyway and lost the best part of three buyins. This was certainly down to bad play not getting unlucky so no excuses for it. Going to stop playing (will play the final APAT league game but just that one) until I get back from Spain now.

The way the cards have run I could forgive myself for being down by about £50 but have dropped an extra £150 (5 buyins). It is hard to win five buyins *lol*. Tonight was basically a case of chasing money and trying to outplay players that I nevcer should have. I was trying to bluff in bad spots and this cost me, then I started seeing flops with poor hands (K-J UTG and that sort of thing) trying to hit big. Obviously this is never going to work. Annoying as I much prefer to do things the easy way !!!! I was probably due a bad run as I have not had one for the best part of six months but would have liked a better story to start this with. I remember a time when dropping £200 in a week would have left me in shock and never wanting to play poker again. Can"t say I am over the moon about it now mind you :-)
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 04, 2011, 20:39:36 PM
Whilst not playing poker I am going to get the new Dan Brown book to read. I have heard it is really good so will hopefully enjoy that.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Newportlad on January 04, 2011, 20:53:56 PM
Best of luck with this blog Steve.
Stick with it.

BTW: Why aren"t you playing the Betfair Live League?
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 05, 2011, 17:20:31 PM
Thanks Darren

I have to admit to being surprised by how dominant England have been  in the Ashes tour, they are now pretty sure sure to win the series.

So even though I am from Wales on this occasion I have to say - Well Done England.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 05, 2011, 17:25:45 PM


BTW: Why aren"t you playing the Betfair Live League?


Well I am not playing well at the moment and there is a pretty important tournament in Spain soon, perhaps you know about it? so will be taking a break before that and going in fresh aiming to get one more top performance this year and give myself the best chance of the top spot.

Congrats on your recent results also and lets take it to the wire in Spain. Play well!
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: duke3016 on January 05, 2011, 18:04:56 PM

Thanks Darren

I have to admit to being surprised by how dominant England have been  in the Ashes tour, they are now pretty sure sure to win the series.

So even though I am from Wales on this occasion I have to say - Well Done England.


Erm isn"t it the England & Wales Cricket board...
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 06, 2011, 16:48:24 PM


Thanks Darren

I have to admit to being surprised by how dominant England have been  in the Ashes tour, they are now pretty sure sure to win the series.

So even though I am from Wales on this occasion I have to say - Well Done England.


Erm isn"t it the England & Wales Cricket board...

Not sure. Probably the Wales and England Cricket board I expect.

Speaking of which The six nations games is happening on 4th Feb. It is the Friday night game. I never liked the idea of Friday night games but I came around to them pretty quick to be honest. The problem is guess which Saturday I have put myself down to work this month. Sigh. I am more hopeful than confident of a Welsh win this year.

APAT Team shirts are now ordered, for the invincibles at Bolton, with the help of the most excellent Mr Leigh Wiltshire.

How did chocolote bars become so expensive. I bought a Mars bar today and it cost me 65p. I had to check I was really in the canteen in work and not in a service station!!!!
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Newportlad on January 06, 2011, 20:57:21 PM
Friday night 6 Nations games are not in the spirit of the competition IMO.
Saturdays were excellent, as you could all meet in the pub around lunchtime, watch 2 or 3 of the games, and then get very drunk celebrating afterwards long into the night, and then make your way home on the last train.
Now with the Friday game, its a rush to get to the stadium if you have to work, then once the game finishes around 10pm, everyone wants to get home at the same time, so the train station is absolutely packed.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 07, 2011, 21:51:36 PM
Although I was not really playing poker at the moment I decided to have a quick crack at the turbo tournament tonight.

[ ] Went Well :-)

So droped $10 there - year now looks something like this;-

Cash Online = -£203
Tournament online = -$10

Might have to send for the old box of luck to sort this one out *lol*
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 08, 2011, 13:02:56 PM
So Kenny Dalglish has taken over at Liverpool until the end of the season. Couldn"t have a much harder job to start with, away to Man Utd in the FA Cup. I think he will probably do well but getting a top four spot is most likely beyond them at this stage, would be good if he could win them the FA Cup or at least a trophy of some kind. I definately think it will see an improvement in their results even though he has not really been in the game for years.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: duke3016 on January 08, 2011, 13:13:16 PM
Player mentality plays a huge part. I think you will see a completely different Liverpool for the rest of the season.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 08, 2011, 16:50:43 PM
I think that Liverpool will get a huge boost from this. I would not be surprised to see them nick a win tomorrow.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 09, 2011, 13:45:09 PM
On the day of the second coming.

Well thats a good start to coming back to Liverpool, welcome back to Old Trafford here is a dodgy penalty !!!!! Long way to go yet though.

I have been having a quiet weekend this weekend to be best prepared for next weeks festivities. Have a busy week in work so will be well ready for Spain, Paulie is doing a great job of planning the event and Ger is doing a great job of managing him. I have registered for the casino but have yet to recieve my email confirmation.

Tonight is the final night of the APAT league. Although Swansea are only in Div 3 it would be very good to get a top three finish as the Team has started to grow this year and I hope it continues to exist next season whatever the league format.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: duke3016 on January 09, 2011, 13:55:00 PM

Ger is doing a great job of managing him.


FFS I can"t manage myself - he"s his own man
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 09, 2011, 14:48:25 PM


Ger is doing a great job of managing him.


FFS I can"t manage myself - he"s his own man

Sorry poor choice of word - encouraging him would be better.

In the football I think Liverpool are looking a much more commited side and are fighting for the cause here. Might be something to do with the fact it is the FA at Man Utd but they do look at better team than they have in previous games this season. It would not be that surprising if they pinched a draw.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 10, 2011, 12:09:05 PM
The whole of the poker world has gone mad for writing blogs. Blonde Poker has turned into Blonde Blogs and I have never seen this section of the forum so up to date. I am currenty trying to follow about 10 of them which is taking up time where I should be working but there we are.

I realised today that I had made an error of judgement in my planning for the weekend. Obviously and APAT weekend means you take the Friday off work and I had duly sorted this plus next Monday and Tuesday, (it is useful that in my job I can move days around and if I need time off in the week can just go in on a weekend which helps with poker weekends). However a day to prepare is obviously required for such an important mission and I totally forgot to sort out Thursday off. I have this morning checked my calander for Thursday and it was down as a pretty busy day. Guess I am spending the afternoon trying to rearrange this and find some nice people who can help me out with it.

The league game last night went well. To start with I get Ian and Allyson to my left - not ideal but I can cope. I was actually playing OK to start with, not nearly at the top of my game but perfecty OK and got myself up to 3000 chips ahead of the average. Then I decided that with 17 big blinds I would find a good spot to reshove. Anyway Shug made a large raise from EP and I have some kind of suited connector. I decided this is a fine spot even though Shug has barely played a hand and has put in an above average raise from EP. He obviously has aces and makes a full house.

The pokers are going so well this year and we are only 10 days in. My next game will be in Spain, I honestly think this is good as I am going to be more motivated playing live and think it will get me back on the right track. I genuinely expect to play quite strongly over there and as long as I don"t run bad to do well, a final table to complete three for the year would be great.

Anyway Bottom line for me at the moment is:-

Online Cash = £203 Down
Online Tournaments = $20 Down
Live Cash = Not Played
Live Tournamnets = Not Played

Not that concerned, early days and am pretty sure I will start to turn it before the end of the month. Will drop stakes in online cash for now to to bring confidence back when I get back onto it next week.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 11, 2011, 12:06:10 PM
It is Tuesday, which is not that far away from Friday and the time of our little APAT trip to Spain is approaching. Most of the weekend will most likely be spent at various pubs and taking part in other non-poker related activities, but there is the small matter of the poker game which we have to play. The big thing for me is that the number one ranking is still up for grabs and I find myself in with a great chance of taking this.

The fact that myself and Darren Shallis are leading the National Rankings gives it an extra edge (and don"t write Jack off either, he is very capable of getting the big result he needs). Darren and myself learned to play at the same time, in the same games around the South Wales area. We were in various small leagues and competitions with different people, I would win one then Darren would come back and win the next, we were able to establish ourselves as the top two in the area pretty quickly (at the time anyway, there is one player who was around at the time who is now certainly better than both of us). I don"t think either of us really got the upper hand over the other though. I then moved out of Wales and Darren started playing APAT with tremendous success.

Fast forward the best part of five years to the start of 2011 (I moved back to Wales to Swansea), Darren finally managed to convince me to play the APAT event"s for a season and it has come down the final event between the two of us and Jack to win another league, only this time it is the APAT National Rankings. There is no doubt we will both be putting in the extra effort to beat each other and take this down and I have to admit coming out on top would be sweet. I would also love to lead the APAT team in Bolton as APAT's number one player of the season.

Which way will it go? I am the favourite due to points on the board, if I am going to lose then losing to Darren or Jack would not be the worst thing, but I don"t want to lose and will be trying to hardest to make their results irrelevant by making the final table and pushing for another medal. Darren has played great this year and I fully expect to see him making another deep run. If the poker gods are with him on the day then he may yet take it down. Jack has a tough task but can grind out results with the best of them and you know what they say about backing the outsider in a  three horse race.

Either way the most important thing is that it has been an enjoyable season (which is not over yet) and to have a final event like this is great. If either Darren or Jack do win the rankings then I will be supporting which ever of them it is all the way in the CoC event.

3 Days and counting
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 12, 2011, 13:12:17 PM
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: pokerpops on January 12, 2011, 14:59:33 PM

Right time to start my spot checks for Spain,


[    ] Book to read on plane



Every Hand Revealed - What If You Were Able To Get Right Inside The Mind Of World-Famous Poker Pro Gus Hansen--And Learn His Winning Secrets?

Now You Can.  :)
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: PantsMan on January 12, 2011, 17:48:06 PM


Right time to start my spot checks for Spain,


[    ] Book to read on plane



Every Hand Revealed - What If You Were Able To Get Right Inside The Mind Of World-Famous Poker Pro Gus Hansen--And Learn His Winning Secrets?


Seconded.

Oh, actually Rodders is good enough already.

I recommend any of Hellmuths books, they"re really good - honest!  :)

How about some from the new BCPC range?

Brian Yates - Have you heard about the BCPC?
Matt McKinlay - It"s 60-40, get "em in you donk! and Call that you ****!
Tony Trippier - How to win Bronze in an APAT event of your choosing
Debjani Duncan - On shoes, handbags, owls and poker
Ant Williams - My APAT bad beats - Volumes 1 - 27
Andy Overton - What happened was....

and the latest one - Tod Wood - How to play Jack Six off suit and go on to win an APAT.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 13, 2011, 08:50:37 AM
Right OK this time tomorrow will be on my way to Bristol airport. I think everything is ready to go. Will just have to do without anything I forget (have my APAT hoodie). I hope Spain is ready for APAT.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Swinebag on January 13, 2011, 16:19:10 PM


Right time to start my spot checks for Spain,

[ X ] Enough Euros
[ X ] Hotel booking confirmation email printed
[ X ] Flight checkin email printed
[ X ] Shuttle Vouchers
[ X ] Travel Letter to carry some medication I have to take
[    ] Book to read on plane
[    ] Started packing or even getting stuff read
[ X ] my precious!!



FYP
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 13, 2011, 20:44:45 PM



Right time to start my spot checks for Spain,

[ X ] Enough Euros
[ X ] Hotel booking confirmation email printed
[ X ] Flight checkin email printed
[ X ] Shuttle Vouchers
[ X ] Travel Letter to carry some medication I have to take
[    ] Book to read on plane
[    ] Started packing or even getting stuff read
[ X ] my precious!!



FYP

It is right Rob, the precious is a gold medal (a real one) and I have never won one. Never won a live tournament I don"t think.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 13, 2011, 21:29:18 PM
OK, I am packed and ready to go in the morning. Have arranged with Darren to share petrol and parking costs (aka nicked a lift to Bristol off him).

Reading the forum and text messages doesn"t seem like anybody is very excited at all.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Chipaccrual on January 13, 2011, 21:30:14 PM
All quiet here Rodders.

Not sure what all the fuss is about ?
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: technolog on January 13, 2011, 21:43:16 PM
It"s like fecking Christmas Eve when you were 7!
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 14, 2011, 06:03:07 AM
Looks like it"s tomorrow already.

Good morning - Right just making a coffee before grabbing a shower and getting ready to head off to to Costa Brava. The start of the tournament has been delayed until 6pm tomorrow, so have no idea what we are going to do all day *lol*. Breakfast at Bristol Airport FTW like.

APATer"s I will see you all in Baraclona/Lloret. Trip report will follow on Monday assuming I survive the trip.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 17, 2011, 18:05:00 PM
Survived Spain just about (I actually considered dying on Saturday morning and it seemed like the best plan for a while).

Will do a proper report soon but I just have to say the crowd at these events and a magnifcent bunch of people. Not going to name them all as I would be scared I would miss somebody but this season I am honestly thankful to them for making me so welcome and making me feel like one of the crowd from the very first event I went too at the end of last season. I have never failed to have a good time with these guy"s and girls whether I was playing poker, drinking Guniness or just sat there watching the sport after a tournament. APAT is as much about the people involved as about the poker. Whoever you are and however I have met you this season, you are all superstars.

See you all in Bolton and in season five.

PS - as far as the tournament goes, no I didn"t win :-)

Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Fatcatstu on January 17, 2011, 18:25:53 PM
Good to really meet you properly for the first time mate, had a cracking trip, will be doing my own write up tomorrow!
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 18, 2011, 13:11:23 PM
OK, lets start off with the trip report on Spain.

I arrived in Lloret on Friday and at the airport were myself, Darren Shallis, Ian Thompson, Phil TC, Matt Ward, Glen Lamings. There were others I had not met before and I am bad with names but the bus had about 12 on us on it. It takes about an hour to get to Lloret where we find the advance party of Stu Ward, Brendan Byrne, Craig&Beth and Alan Lake sat in the sun with tour leader Paulie "Paulie_D" Davies.

A quick change and shower and we had all joined them. Stu introduced the barman, Max, who was a great bloke himself. A taxi then arrives and out get Leigh Wiltshire, Jack "Technolog" Prime, Ger Smyth Jnr and to the cheers of the crowd gathered Ger Smyth Snr. In about 3 seconds they all have a beer and we are all have a great time. The night quickly becomes very hazy and Lloret is soon spinning. I obviously forgot to get anything to eat due to having much more important things to do. We had to a bar called Gerrys and play pool, which is quite hard when you can"t see straight, although Shallis seemed to adjust to it quite well and takes down both games (Pineapple Luckbox). Richard (Carlarge) arrived at some point as well but I must be honest and say I don"t know exactly where. However I have made a fishy mistake here and forgotten that beer without food is always a bad play and fail to make it much passed 11pm. I tried to eat but as soon as I tried I found it really didn"t work after drinking. I have noted this leak in my game and will not make the mistake again.

After I recover on Saturday morning I quickly get some food and have a few waters and get back to feeling normal. We then get a beer (well I get a beer some people get a few more than that). Before heading down to the casino to play poker. As always the tournamernt is organised well and we discuss before it begins and we all kind of have an issue with staying focused here. This comes true as most of the regs bust out quickly (poker post to follow) and I sit in the bar chatting to Chen and Ian for a while. Leigh provides us with vouchers for free drinks which is good. I manage to progress from soft drinks onto beer again and finally do come back to life. Myself, Darren and some others use up the tokens we have and then go back to Gerrys where we have a few more pints (much more sensible than the night before though) and sit down and have a chat, this is another great part of the weekend. It closes at 3am so we head off to Yates bar down the street. Petch convinces five very attractive women to take us there and after they show us where it is Petch seemed odds on to go on with them to where ever they were going until he explains what poker (pok er) means anyway. We end up going back at around 4am leaving Jack and Petch still happily drinking away. Good day.

On Sunday we get outside the hotel by midday (it"s colder today) after having a coffee and waking up we head off for breakfast. I can"t honestly remember who was there but Ian took a picture so hopefully he will be posting that. The pub we had breakfast in was great and we then headed off to the sports bar to watch the football. A few of us want to go and see Barcalona play, others want to go and play poker at the casino. I decided to go to the game and we head off in a taxi for the Camp Nou, there was Me, Petch, Rod "paradise" Copeland, Stu Ward, Matt Ward and Ger Jnr. We see a great game, Barca must be the best team in the world and the control they had was unreal at times. After returning from the game we go for a final drink before heading back.

Overall another great APAT weekend, respect to the work Rich Prew and Leigh Wiltshire do to keep this running and make the weekends happen, whilst we are all enjoying ourselves and having fun they are always working hard to make the tournament run and keep the updates going.

Stu, it was good to meet you properly as well, sure I will be seeing you again in Season five.

For those of you who are in Bolton I will see you in two weeks - for those who are not, see you in season five.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 19, 2011, 20:13:13 PM
Right back to poker then

So having got back from Spain it"s back to the online game. A bad start to the year had seen me down over £200.  Despite this poor start, I have great confidence in my cash game. I had been playing badly and can"t make excuses so have to say I pretty much deserve to be having a losing year at the moment, it is though, very early days. Do I think I can turn it around? Yes, I am pretty confident I can.

Of course I played my first live tournament in Spain. I played OK for a while. I hit a set against top two pair to win a nice pot and made a couple of decent folds, including folding JJ preflop when the other guy had KK. I ran my stack up to about 35K before I lost some chips with AA. I played the hand OK and believe I lost the minimum on that one (about 8K). Then I played a hand all wrong.

I then got dealt 99 OTB. There is a raise ahead in front of me to 1800 (blinds are 300/600) I three bet to 4200 and there is a call. The flop comes down K-Q-3 and the caller checks to me. I check, turn card is a 10 and he checks. The pot has about 9K in it and I have a hand with showdown value and an inside straight draw. I should check and try to get to the river. Instead I bet out 7K, he says raise and makes it 14K, I honestly don"t think he has much but I don"t have anything and there is too much in the pot to push him  off second or third pair. I fold and lose 11200 on that hand leaving me with about 13K.

My exit hand sees me with about 12,000 chips, blinda are 300/600 and there is an EP raise to 1700. thats about 3K in the pot with the blinds and antes. I look down and find pocket tens and reshove. I don"t think this play is THAT bad to be honest but he has AA and I am out. More about the way I handled Spain and recent live tournaments to come along with future plans.

I got back from Spain on Monday and thought I would play the Blonde Omaha tournament on Sky Poker for something to do. It was only a £5 buyin so cheap and cheerful. I actually didn"t play too bad and came third for £38. I was pretty happy with this although I felt I could have played the final table better but I got the eventual winner all in as a coin flip on I think three occasions only to lose them, twice I rebuilt my stack but could not do it a third time. Still OK though.

Over the last two days I returned to the cash tables. I dropped down the limits as I said I would to the £20 level and I am pleased to say that my play was much better and am up just over 5 buyins. winning just under £105. I don"t think I made many major mistakes although I did play QQ very badly on one occasion. I have been playing a very simple game of just value betting when I have it and pretty much never bluffing other than the normal c-bet you have to make as you lose too much money by not doing so. The thing I have to remember is when I was running not as good early in the month I should have dropped about £50. If I had done so I would now be looking very good over the year but I still have to claw back nearly £100 to get level at online cash. This is apart of my game I need to work on. Playing at the wrong times and playing too much.

My overall bottom line now looks like this

Online MTT = +$30.10
Online cash = -£98
Live MTT = -£75
Live Cash = none played
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 20, 2011, 19:52:17 PM
Played the Blonde tournament last night, folded really well for about an hour before getting knocked out. That was about it really. I think The Duke nicked some of my chips at one point but he usually does that when we are on the same table.

My poker game seems to have a weird pattern. I am a cash game player right? Right. However I do better in different types of game at different times. If I have a day off work and dedicate it to poker my day goes something like this. Get up, shower etc, have coffee fire up PC and look for a good game. Play for a couple of hours, take a break for lunch, probably watch something on TV play another two hour session, take another break snack etc, play another two hour session. Sometimes the sessions are 90 mins long, thats probably a better length for me actually.

Strangely this does not work for tournaments, if I dedicate a day to playing tournaments I usually do much worse than I would at cash. Fine then I will be a cash player and play cash.

But this trend reverses itself in the evening. If I play tournaments I usually do OK but I seem to struggle a lot more at cash games. Having something to concerntrate on (like a league or something) helps me in this too. I can"t explain why this would happen but looking at my sessions, the trend is certainly there. For now I am going to stick to playing cash on weekends and days I am not working and probably use the evenings for tournaments. This might sound silly but I think it has gotta be worth a go.

Not playing today or tomorrow though.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 20, 2011, 22:39:55 PM
Liked the post on Leighs blog earlier (the one called A Fish and his Chips) about the "What is Reality" documentary on iPlayer. It"s actually really good and I would recommend watching it.

I always enjoy that sort of thing perhaps I will post my feelings on it one day, then again this was meant to be a blog about poker and I spend to much time talking about other stuff already.

Hmm I wonder if there is a reality where I am good at poker? Nah, it says it in the title really, it has to be a reality, not a fantasy :-)
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: duke3016 on January 20, 2011, 22:47:57 PM

Liked the post on Leighs blog earlier (the one called A Fish and his Chips) about the "What is Reality" documentary on iPlayer. It"s actually really good and I would recommend watching it.

I always enjoy that sort of thing perhaps I will post my feelings on it one day, then again this was meant to be a blog about poker and I spend to much time talking about other stuff already.

Hmm I wonder if there is a reality where I am good at poker? Nah, it says it in the title really, it has to be a reality, not a fantasy :-)


Nah they said the whole world is ruled by maths - oh wait.  ;D
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 22, 2011, 19:26:48 PM
Still not playing poker at the moment, not really feeling it to be honest and have the event to play next weekend so turning up for that fresh won"t be a bad thing.

I did watch an interesting video from card runners last night though

http://www.cardrunners.com/poker-videos/13-scariest-small-stakes-leaks-of-all-time-przytula/

It"s free and not exactly ground breaking but I think it might be useful for all micro stakes players who need to be reminded of the basics every now and again, will watch it again later and am also doing some work on my 18 man sit n go"s for the Champion of Champions, although I think I have decided just to take my normal game, not the right time for fancy changes. If my A game happens to turn up then I have as much chance as anybody. Unfortunately my main problem with poker is I spend a LOT of time playing my B game and my C game.

Team APAT plans are coming togther next weekend should be good.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Chipaccrual on January 22, 2011, 19:29:59 PM
Collected your shirts yesterday.  They look quite good.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: technolog on January 22, 2011, 22:55:32 PM
Oh great! Time for them to be ironed prior to delivery then.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Chipaccrual on January 22, 2011, 22:57:44 PM

Oh great! Time for them to be ironed prior to delivery then.


I was going to get them to Steve for the Friday night, he should have plenty of time.   ;)
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: SirPercival on January 23, 2011, 09:09:27 AM

Collected your shirts yesterday.  They look quite good.


"quite good"  ???

That"s what my missus said when I was 5th in Coventry.  >:(
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Chipaccrual on January 23, 2011, 11:20:41 AM


Collected your shirts yesterday.  They look quite good.


"quite good"  ???

That"s what my missus said when I was 5th on Coventry.  >:(


I wasn"t too sure about Steve"s style choice, and had a greater concern over his colour choice, but he knows best.

I could post up a pic, but wouldn"t want to spoil the surprise.

They"re not exactly "APAT Green" though, Des won"t be happy.   ;)
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: duke3016 on January 23, 2011, 12:48:10 PM
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(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS_lFia8dmCYBJbvg7nkNH_DQLXlgH1gRELMDfJCm7ajj0z7Bk9_w)
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: HaworthBantam on January 23, 2011, 14:55:02 PM


Collected your shirts yesterday.  They look quite good.


"quite good"  ???

That"s what my missus said when I was 5th in Coventry.  >:(


At least you got "quite good", Stuart, I got "they don"t match" after Luton  ::)  The perils of having a partner with OCD...

As for the shirts, I"m not that concerned about colour (Amanda will now be rolling her eyes), I"m more concerned about getting them over my portly figure...  :D

Great blog Steve, and roll on Bolton.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Des on January 23, 2011, 16:45:47 PM



Collected your shirts yesterday.  They look quite good.


"quite good"  ???

That"s what my missus said when I was 5th on Coventry.  >:(


I wasn"t too sure about Steve"s style choice, and had a greater concern over his colour choice, but he knows best.

I could post up a pic, but wouldn"t want to spoil the surprise.

They"re not exactly "APAT Green"  though, Des won"t be happy.   ;)


It"s all in the detail ;)
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 23, 2011, 19:24:48 PM


Collected your shirts yesterday.  They look quite good.


"quite good"  ???

That"s what my missus said when I was 5th in Coventry.  >:(

Quite good, could be bad - r good, I really have no idea. I have no idea why Leigh thinks I am going to have lots of time on Friday night I will be very busy.

1) See everybody in hotel bar and say hello
2) Travel to casino
3) Donk out of Champion of Champions event
4) Try and find everybody else

And that is all before 8pm!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 24, 2011, 19:28:18 PM
Had a quick session tonight on Sky Poker. Broke even (well was up 4p to be exact). Interesting hand was the following:-

I have JJ in the blinds and about £18 in front of me (still only playing £20nl until I get back to even for the year).

Anyway there is a limper and I make it £1. The limper calls. The flop comes down

9d-8d-8s

This looked like a good flop for my hand so I have to bet. I put £2 in and limper calls. I mentally have him on a flush draw/straight draw or maybe some lower pair. The tourn comes a safe looking 3h. I fire out £4 and he calls. I now have him on the draw and the turn is 7h. Well the only draw that got there is J-10 and I got two jacks so that not very likely. I choose to check/call. After I check he goes all-in and I call off about £12.He show 7-8 for the full house.

I probably should have folded the river there. Even though my plan was to check call his bet looked a bit strong for an overpair to call. So I lose £12 there that I should have saved. Flop and turn is fine I guess though.

Other than that I played pretty good but will be leaving cash games until next week now.

Bottom line is:

Online Cash = -£90
Online Tournament = +$12.51
Live Tournament = -£75

Time to practice for the Champion of Champions. I have decided that my plan is simple. I am not going to bother trying to outplay the people at that table. Most of them are better than me. I am going to sit there, wait for cards and hope I get enough to win. Odds against needless to say but my best chance.

If I get down to a point where what is in the pot will increase my stack by 20% with just the blinds and antes I am going to be shoving with ATC for the cut off or the button. I am not going to be reshoving light with like 15BB as that play is just above me at the moment ABC poker is going to be FTW. C-bets are also going to be kept to a minimum.

It"s pretty unlikely more than one person playing that game will read this and even if they do they probably won"t believe me and even if they do there is not much of a defense against this game (one is not required), it is just likely I will end up blinding out - so be it.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: duke3016 on January 24, 2011, 19:43:33 PM
Ger"s Plan..... push ATC every hand in position regardless. It really pisses off the rest of the table  ;D
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 24, 2011, 20:32:59 PM

Ger"s Plan..... push ATC every hand in position regardless. It really pisses off the rest of the table  ;D

Ger is so much better at plans than me damn it.

The other advantage of Gers plan is I can skip all that silly poker on Friday night (Friday night at an APAT and I have to spend it playing poker !!!)
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Chipaccrual on January 24, 2011, 20:39:57 PM


Ger"s Plan..... push ATC every hand in position regardless. It really pisses off the rest of the table  ;D

Ger is so much better at plans than me damn it.

The other advantage of Gers plan is I can skip all that silly poker on Friday night (Friday night at an APAT and I have to spend it playing poker !!!)


Hang on, let me get my violin out.  So, you"ve got to spend the Friday night playing poker against 14 others and the winner gets a £20k sponsorship package.

Could be worse, you could have to be there, not get to play poker and just update it.   ;D

Should be an awesome evening, whether your playing poker or just enjoying the delights of Bolton.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 24, 2011, 21:09:22 PM



Ger"s Plan..... push ATC every hand in position regardless. It really pisses off the rest of the table  ;D

Ger is so much better at plans than me damn it.

The other advantage of Gers plan is I can skip all that silly poker on Friday night (Friday night at an APAT and I have to spend it playing poker !!!)


Hang on, let me get my violin out.  So, you"ve got to spend the Friday night playing poker against 14 others and the winner gets a £20k sponsorship package.

Could be worse, you could have to be there, not get to play poker and just update it.   ;D

Should be an awesome evening, whether your playing poker or just enjoying the delights of Bolton.

Thats the problem, the winner getting the 20K package, would be better if I was getting it.

*lol* - gotta agree with the last bit.

I did a practice 2 table sitngo, will probably play a few this week. One interesting hand came up which I honestly don"t know if I was right or wrong.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=51620.0
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Swinebag on January 24, 2011, 21:59:13 PM
I"m calling with much worse

gl in the CoC steve
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 25, 2011, 17:20:24 PM
OK, time for more training in my two table sit n go games. I played one for the first time yesterday but did not cash. Doesn"t matter I have over three days to perfect it.

*lol at the predictions on here 9 people have picked me to come top three not really very likely sorry guys. ANyway to Pokerstars will be back to report on the result.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 25, 2011, 18:53:43 PM

OK, time for more training in my two table sit n go games. I played one for the first time yesterday but did not cash. Doesn"t matter I have over three days to perfect it.

*lol at the predictions on here 9 people have picked me to come top three not really very likely sorry guys. ANyway to Pokerstars will be back to report on the result.

Ah - I have solved it

1st place in a $5.50 18 man sit n go. I will try another one later. I will no doubt be a master by Friday. I sure outplayed all of those silly sit n go donks with my vastly superior game. Some people may feel beat KQ with K10 and K7 with J10 helped but they just would be thinking on too lower level.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 25, 2011, 22:59:59 PM
Ah road bump, played two more and forgot to cash in either of them. So I have played four of them and cashed once (but it was a win so I am up at least if only by $14).

I lost £20 on Betfair as well after stupid Man Utd beat Blackpool, there was so much value in the draw at 1-0 and I though I had nailed it after they went 2-2. I should stick to trading on Grand Prix"s on the exchange.

The UK Team Championship approaches and I looked though the teams, Chezger are actually very strong if The Duke allows them to stay sober. Fortunately I"m sure he would sack any of them who even thought about doing that. APAT Champions are going to take some beating and are the team most likely to pick up the gold medal but the  forum team is more consistent and are likely to get more deep runs. BCPC is very strong and could push us all the way. I am going to say the event will be won by APAT forum from Chezger, closely followed by the Champions team (cos that would be a great result and a lot of fun).

I am sure it will be a great weekend whatever the result. I do think that for the first time for quite a while I am turning up to this one focused on playing poker and it looks like my game face will be back on properly for Friday night and the weekend event. I want a good showing to put an end to this season, a cash would be very nice but I at the very worst expect to score some points for the team.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 26, 2011, 23:08:39 PM
Played another 18 man sit n go on Stars today - didn"t win so my record in them is now:-

Played: 5
Cashes: 1
Wins: 1

Total buyin spent =  $27.50
Total Prize money = $36
Total profit = $8.50

Then got bored so played some 25c/50c HU cash on Stars and nicked just over $40 (about £25). So to update my bottom line for the year

Online cash: -£65
Online Tournaments = +$21.08 (About £13)
Live tournaments = -£75

I am £52 down at online poker now this year, so after the terrible first week grinding it back slowly but my volume has been very low. I would say the money I am down is money I shoudl never have lost in the first place due to playing whe I should not have been but I can"t change that now. The lesson is if you should not be playing - don"t. Cash the money out of your account or self excudle yourself for a few days if you need to, but there is nothing wrong with taking a few days off when things are not going well.

I am feeling quite zoned in for poker and think I will play well in the event on Saturday. It is the first time since Luton I have really felt like I am going there to play poker as opposed to see all the regulars and have a bit of fun, even though this one is the one where we should be taking it a bit less seriously, Team APAT are definately in it to win it. If I am out of the tournament on Sunday I may see if there are any cash games running as I still have not put in a live cash session.

If not I have the first one of the year planned at Aspers Sunday 6th Feb as I am off work on the Monday.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 28, 2011, 10:15:14 AM
OK, currently on the train to Bolton!!!!!

I had a quick go on the 18 manner yesterday and got a third place. I have only played a few of them but am happy that is has helped me and means I have a better chance tonight.

ETA I expect to be in Bolton by 4pm and should have everything sorted and be ready to head to the G by about 5pm but will pop into the bar to see all the APAters first.

Really looking forward to the weekend of course, as with all APAT weekends, currently feel very tuned in and read to play poker and I feel confident of doing myself justice over the weekend. I hope to see everybody in Bolton this weekend and for those of you at the casino tonight - will see you there.

Team APAT are all arriving at different times but will be there and ready to win the lot by 2:30 tomorrow.

Will be upading throughout the weekend - see you all soon shortly.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 28, 2011, 12:57:47 PM
Still on the train, bringing the laptop was a good idea you get to follow everybody else travelling up as well.

Can"t wait to get there now
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: pables on January 28, 2011, 13:19:09 PM
In Holiday Inn finishing my certificates for work, then down to pool and gym  :o

Ps nice rooms!
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 28, 2011, 15:39:12 PM
Yeah, the rooms are good so happy with that.

I have arrived in Bolton so reporting from "the field" here. I had intended to get a taxi from the station to the hotel but on leaving the station I meet Jon MW who informs me the hotel is walking distance (bonus) so me his and a nice lady called Sam walk to the Holiday Inn, we did did a couple of wrong turns but to be fair to Jon his Sat Nav phone is pretty good.

Done the checkin bit and taken a shower and am now just planning to head down to the car for a couple of coffees. No doubt the rest of APAT will be arriving and getting "on it" but this event is too big to be drinking before it.

I am happy that I still feel fresh and ready to play. The hour cometh soon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf45I1ZI__w
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Mikeyboy9361 on January 28, 2011, 15:50:57 PM
GL Rodders.  :)
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 29, 2011, 10:50:15 AM
Well last night was interesting, I am sure you all know the CoC did not go to plan.

Everything seemed OK to start with and I was trying to play tight. I think it was level two the first significant hand occured. Brian Martin (who was very active) raised from late position. He can be doing this with a very wide range. I look down and find AK with I flat call with (not the greatest play but OK). The flop comes down ace high and I check, brian bets about2/3 of the pot. It looks like a cbet to me so I call and the turn bring a flush draw so I lead for about half the pot, Brian calls, he might have an ace or the draw. The river completes the draw. I check and brian makes a fairly large bet. Brian would usually check and ace here so I should be able to put him on a flush or something else I don"t beat. I call and he shows the flush, I muck.

A little later I get pocket 10"s and raise to see a flop of 9 hi. I bet but get raised and fold, he says he has pocket sixs. He was probably being honest.

I got out not too long after this. For some reason I raise with K-10 and get flat called. The flop comes King high and  bet out and get reraised about the same amount as the last hand (my bet was 1K and the raise was to 2.5K). I am only going to have about 5.5K left if I fold here. I think about it and I honestly think I am ahead and feel if I fold again it will give the wrong image to the table, so I shove and he (Warren) pretty much snap calls with AK.


So I was out, but I enjoyed it for as long as it lasted and at least going out early meant I could go for a beer
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 29, 2011, 11:03:30 AM
Part Two - The aftermath

So I head across to the pub, eventually get there after Aca comes and shows me where it is. I try to buy a round but Jack keeps jumping in and buying it. Most of the team seem to have representatives in the pub, APAT, Chezger (ldo), Blonde, Blackbelt. We end up talking to a couple of women who Ger Jnr almost successfully convinces to come and suppor Chezger tomorrow. Ironside comes in which is always good for entertainment.

We end up heading back to the casino, which I thought was a bad idea originally until Dawn points out that the pub is going to shut (pretty good point that). So Me, Jack, Pitchie and James start walking over the casino. We meet Des and Sian on the way. For some reason they all decide to follow me. We stop for chicken and I am cheerfully leading the way when I stride straight through a puddle - oh that feels a bit slippy, OK don"t fall over you will look like a right eejit, ah b0llocks. So I fall stright to the ground. Ouch, I get the sympathy I would expect from a group of APATer"s, that being they all would have been if they had not been too busy killing thmeselves laughing :-)

We get back to the casino, apparently I tok the long way around. Where we watch the end of the CoC and Warren wins (well done Warren). I then have a few beers, make an attempt to play cash but am not really in the mood but come off after half an hour £25 up which is not bad.


I sit at the bar and talk to Leigh, Mayliss and a few of the CoC players for a while before myself Leigh and James walk back to the Hotel. Good night overall even though the poker wnet pretty poorly.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 30, 2011, 11:07:24 AM
OK, I rarely get that dissapointed over poker but today I feel pretty gutted after only one of the APAT team made day two. From the beginning you just got the impression that today was just not our day and one by one the team fell away.

I am going to do a proper post about it when I get back tomorrow but I don"t really feel like it this morning. Jack is still in so going to head over to the casino to watch him and to play some cash.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Fatcatstu on January 30, 2011, 13:55:30 PM
It happens steve mate, jack is still in and more than capable of taking it down :) pass my best on to him please!
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 31, 2011, 02:24:45 AM
I wrote this post then deleted it and this is now this post - What happens on APAT Weekends stays on APAT weekends.

OMFG - I love APAT,  thank you season four. Bring on season five.

Rodders (after several beers)
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Jon MW on January 31, 2011, 21:26:39 PM

...

I have arrived in Bolton so reporting from "the field" here. I had intended to get a taxi from the station to the hotel but on leaving the station I meet Jon MW who informs me the hotel is walking distance (bonus) so me his and a nice lady called Sam walk to the Holiday Inn, we did did a couple of wrong turns but to be fair to Jon his Sat Nav phone is pretty good.

...


You spelt her name wrong - close though. It"s not spelt "S", "A", "M" - it"s spelt "C", "A", "R", "E", "Y" ;D

I realised today that if we"d turned right instead of left after leaving the platform we"d have gone out of the front of the station rather than the back. Not only would that leave us with basically one long road to the hotel - but there was even a map of Bolton there which would have showed us the way ;D
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Shogun112 on January 31, 2011, 21:57:39 PM

I wrote this post then deleted it and this is now this post - What happens on APAT Weekends stays on APAT weekends.

OMFG - I love APAT,  thank you season four. Bring on season five.

Rodders (after several beers)


Don"t make new rules, thats Vegas, not APAT.  Tell us..!!  Or.. Is it about Jack and I already know by now?  LOL at Jack..  Just LOL...  Twice..
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: technolog on February 01, 2011, 00:26:47 AM


I wrote this post then deleted it and this is now this post - What happens on APAT Weekends stays on APAT weekends.

OMFG - I love APAT,  thank you season four. Bring on season five.

Rodders (after several beers)


Don"t make new rules, thats Vegas, not APAT.  Tell us..!!  Or.. Is it about Jack and I already know by now?  LOL at Jack..  Just LOL...  Twice..


;D
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Laxie on February 01, 2011, 01:05:15 AM
LOLOLOLOL - come on...spill it!
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 01, 2011, 12:59:12 PM
I don"t actually fully remember why I made the above post, I think it was just the full weekend mixed with Jacks relatively minor but REALLY funny incident. I had a few little incidents to be fair, including not being able to work out what time pubs close and trying to convince Dawn to convince everybody else we should stay in the pub after it closed and falling in a puddle.

Anyway, enough of this, play time is over, down to business.

On Sunday I played my first live cash session of the year. I was originally just watching the game as it was a £1/£2 game which is above my bankroll. I was hoping a 50p/£1 gam would start but eventually I decided I had to have a go in that game, the play was so poor. Gareth Cash was playing in it which was not really what I wanted to see but he had been playing for 24 hours so I felt this would give me an advantage. Nobody else on the table was on any concern accept for Stuart Oliver who given my seat I was going to have position on. I buy in for £200 which is a little short but fine imo.

Early on I get AQ in early position and Stuart raises. I don"t like flatting here so make a reraise. I get called in two spots and The flop is a helpful Queen high. I am pretty sure I am miles ahead of their ranges as there are no realy draws out and I make a small bet (of less than half to pot) they both fold which was fine. I could have flatted a raise and gone from there if they had played.

The players to look out for in the game are Gareth, who is quite aggressive, another guy who has a massive stack but had bought in for £600 so was not up too much and Stuart. Stuart leaves the game shortly after which I am not too dissapointed about, I can"t remember why but I think he got a bad beat against a guy who was drunk and was clearly the fish at the table, I think everybody had figured that. I think he was actually probably not a bad player sober but was very drunk, nice guy though. I lose a pot to Gareth after I flat his raise with 7-7 and the flop comes K-K-5. He bets I raise it up he repops me and I fold. I win it back a little bit later when I raise it up with J-J and a Jack hits the flop, I bet the flop and get called but the turn makes the board look scary and I have the fire quite big to get paid before it gets even more scary and to price out draws. He makes a good fold.

I then get in a hand with the guy who had been there drinking all night. He had been running really good and had about £750 at the table. I had 8-8 and hit the flop and got it all in against his pair and draw I think. I won the hand anyway and doubled up taking £200 on that hand alone. I ended the session £268 in profit after charges and tips (not bad for 3 hours work). Very happy with that first cash session of the year. Think I played well, was very tight as I often am in cash games and got handed a few good spots which I was able to take advantage of. With the exception of Gareth (and Stuart early on) the table was not that tough and some pretty downright poor play was on show as well as people trying to educate the table "You were a massive underdog to my range there" type comments annoy me. Why say it, all you are doing is giving players infomation about the type of player you are. That kind of comment gives more away than a lot of people might realise on a live cash table.

The bottom line for Jan was as follows then:-

Online Cash Games: -£65
Online Tournaments: +£13 (not exact by very close, actually just over)
Live Tournamnets: -£125
Live Cash: +£268

So I manage to nick a profit on poker in January of £91. Not great but could easily have been a lot worse. Will be trying to do better in Feb though. Already have a cash session to report on from this morning and there are also two blonde leagues running so will be doing that. The Blonde leagues really are excellent value I have to say.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 01, 2011, 16:36:17 PM
Played online again today, was sticking to the £20 buyin still until I got even as I had agreed with myself.

So I started the mont £65 down online after a poor start to Jan. It took me just a week to lose £200 and give myself a tough btask to climb back to parity. I made a decent start though, grinding the lower limit and slowly turning it around. Bt the end of the month I was only £65 down online. although still down overall due to the buyins to both APATs (although I had already made the buyin to Spain last year so it does not actually feel that bad. The live cash session above turned it and put me in profit for the year overall.

Back to online and this game is strange. I made a bad start when somebody limped UTG with KK and I raised the button with 77. The flop came K-7-x and I was a buyin down, however that reversed itself almost staright away with AA vs KK. Good luck and Bad luck so broke even in luck and in cash there. I then played quite well and won about £40 no really big hands but some good consistant value betting does the trick and making good folds when you are behind often enough to know it is -EV to continue with the hand. I then lost a buyin when I got it allin on a flop of 5h-Qc-8c with AsQd. My opponent showed 4c5c, so it was a race and I lost but he had 15 outs so I believe he is a slight favourite, not sure how the redraw went but it pretty much played itself and nothing I can so to save chips there. I did mis play one hand I think. Playing against a sky reg in this pot. I have K-J and raise it from the cut of to 80p. I get a call from the blinds by this player and we see a flop of 3-10-7 rainbow. I know this player will often float so I check, intending to check raise or bet the turn as I reckon if he checks he is pretty weak. He does check and the turn comes an A. This is a great card for me to bet as he will find it really hard to continue without the ace so I put in a bet of £1.50. He calls and the river comes down a 2. I decide I have to turn my hand onto a bluff so fire £4 into the pot and get pretty much insta called. He had the Ace which he was never laying down for £4 so I probably there lost £4 I did not need to. Apart from that one hand though I am quite happy with my play.

I tehn got a nice hand, playing pretty deep I made a set against and overpair. I raised his flop bet and he called and we got it in on the turn so I made about £35 off that hand, then ran it up a bit more to just get to £81.11 profit for the day. That will do me for today as it puts me back in the black for the year. The lesson here I get is it has taken me three weeks of good work tocorrect the damage done by one weeks bad play at the start of last month (where I lost the best part of £150 I should not have lost). It is so much easier to stay disciplined when you are doing well though, some tips for online cash players (nothing new here but it would do us all good to remember)

1) Don"t get fancy with plays unless you know EXACTLY why you are doing so - 90% of the time you should just be making the standard best play.

2) Don"t play for too long and don"t play when you are not feeling like it - a leak I have sometimes. If I finished all my cash sessions 1 hour earlier I would have made more money at poker.

3) Take breaks - see above you have to have them. It varies for everybody when you need them but last month I badly needed one but did not take one until I had lost at least £100 that I should not have done.

Back in work tomorrow but I am going to play the Blonde league tonight and also try the Blonde sit n go league maybe. My current bottom line for the year is:-

Online cash: +£16.07
Online Tournaments: +£13
Live cash: +£268 (1 session)
Live Tournaments: -£125 (2 Tournaments)
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: JamieCarra on February 01, 2011, 16:50:53 PM

I win it back a little bit later when I raise it up with J-J and a Jack hits the flop, I bet the flop and get called but the turn makes the board look scary and I have the fire quite big to get paid before it gets even more scary and to price out draws. He makes a good fold.



Am honestly surprised you had JJ here, would have bet my life on you having QQ
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 01, 2011, 17:33:06 PM


I win it back a little bit later when I raise it up with J-J and a Jack hits the flop, I bet the flop and get called but the turn makes the board look scary and I have the fire quite big to get paid before it gets even more scary and to price out draws. He makes a good fold.



Am honestly surprised you had JJ here, would have bet my life on you having QQ

I play them both almost the same in that hand with the way the action went.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 03, 2011, 23:09:33 PM
Testing for the new F1 season has got underway. Those of you who know me will know I am a big fan of this. Hard to predict anything from the first preseason test but you gotta think Vettel Vs Alonso is very likely. I doubt Webber will have as good of a year as last year and McLaren will not be as strong. Renault could also be strong this year with their new exhaust (not sure what it does but all the sites mention ot so it must be good). With KERS back to create more overtaking I am hopeful of another good season.

I am planning to play a bit of online cash on Saturday and maybe Sunday morning and if I feel like it will put in a live session at Aspers on Sunday too.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Chipaccrual on February 04, 2011, 10:47:42 AM
Tune in at 11am

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Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 05, 2011, 08:30:04 AM
Cheers for the above Leigh.

OK so I came back after watching the rugby last night and decide to log on and play some poker. I moved myself back up to my original £30 level. Not much to say about this really, I lose £20 early on with QQ vs AK, allin preflop. And also mange to lose £35 with AA, again allin preflop against JJ and 10-10. Net loss on the night was just under £60. I came off pretty early as I don"t think I would have played that well after losing that pot

Can"t really see much I could have done about and of this though. This put me back to £43.48 down in online cash. I do feel like I am running pretty bad since the start of the year in online cash games. Bottom line is now:-

Online cash: -£43.48
Online Tournaments: +£13 (5 tournaments)
Live cash: +£268 (1 session)
Live Tournaments: -£125 (2 Tournaments)

I will move back to the £20 level until it gets back to even.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Chipaccrual on February 05, 2011, 11:31:25 AM
Steve, where are you playing your cash games online at the moment ?
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 05, 2011, 13:32:16 PM

Steve, where are you playing your cash games online at the moment ?

Sky Poker
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Chipaccrual on February 05, 2011, 15:06:46 PM


Steve, where are you playing your cash games online at the moment ?

Sky Poker


Good choice.   ;)
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 06, 2011, 14:05:18 PM
Not that great yesterday. Played a load of hands but ended up £13 down. Not terrible in itself obviously but there were a few hands that I was unhappy with how I played:-

First one I have AQ on the cut off and raise it up to 80p. I get one caller and the flop comes down Ac-8h-6h. It checks to me and I obviously think I have the best hand but there are a few draws out so I bet £1.25 into the pot and get min raised. This is a draw as often as not and he could also have a worse ace. I raise it up to £7 and he shoves. It"s about £11 more to me. Going back over the hand thedraw is not unlikely and it is starting to look a lot like a set. There are weaker aces in his range but I am not sure I have the odds against his range here realistically. I call and he shows AK. I possibly lose at least £11 that I don"t need to here, getting all in with AQ on this flop is not really very good.

I later got 10-10 in a blind on blind situation. I raise it up to 80p and get a caller. The flop comes J-7-2 and I bet out and get called. The turn is a 5 so I bet again and get called. The river is a 3 and I check it to him expecting him to check any jack here. He bets ouit £5 which does not make sense to me that the time. I call and he shows J-8. Guilty of overthinking the hand here.

So that is at least £16 that I lose that I should not have, this is actually not that bad considering the amount of hands I played but still annoying. I don"t like not being able to use Poker Tracker to go through my hands and look back over them. I would like to know what my EV was yesterday as I feel as though I was playing a +EV game but got a bit unlucky a few times.

Will take a day off online poker today, might go and play live later.

Online cash for 2011 is now a total loss of £56.42
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 06, 2011, 16:08:10 PM
Swansea is full of football fans, the welsh derby finished with Cardiif beating Swansea 1-0 FML.

Neither of these sides have ever done the double but after the win at Cardiff City Stadium ealier this year along with Cardiffs form this season (inconsistent) I was quite confident of a Swansea win. I don"t actually support Swansea, I just live here but it would be good to have team like Chelsea and Arsenal visiting next year (and of course would probably mean no promotion for Cardiff). Swansea should make the play offs and a play off final Vs Cardiff would be interesting.

Currently watching Chelsea Vs Liverpool. A win for Chelsea here would give the table a whole different look after Aresnal and Man Utd slipped up yesterday.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 07, 2011, 01:14:43 AM
Sigh.

OK, I just got back from the casino, didn"t go so well and I played like an idiot. To be honest I did not even feel like going tonight but went anyway.

One of my first hands I get it all in wth pocket jacks and lose to AQ. So lose a buyin. I then manage to get it back when I get an overpair to a 7 high flop and his straight draw misses. So then I was slightly up. So then I decide it is time to give these live donks a lesson in poker and show then how they do not belong on the same table as me. Sure enough next hand, along comes J-10. OK I think I will just outplay the table here. I call a raise and the flop comes down 2-2-J. Oh good. The original raiser makes a pot sized bet, somewhere in my barin and alrm bell rings but I turn it off, I am going to out play him. I make a raise and he calls. the turn is something that does not change anything and he shoves I call, he has QQ. That hand costs me over £100. I end up £167 down, There was no excuse to be down at all in that game.

I am pretty disappointed with myself but probably not as much as I should be. Driving back, I was unhappy but my confidence is just about still there. I am not sure why, as I have not been playing well at all since about mid November and if it continues, at some time I think I have to accept I am probably not the player I currently think I am, although those thoughts are starting to enter my head, I am not prepared to accept it yet. From about May to November last year I was playing good poker, I must still know how. The worrying thing for me is that I am all too often doing the wrong thing when I know it is wrong, but doing it anyway. I can"t go and post on a forum about how to stop doing this as it is very simple, you should just be making the right move. I know this, I just keep not doing it.

Cash
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Live Poker = +£101 (2 sessions)
Online poker = -£56.42

Tournaments
--------------

Live Tournaments = -£125 (2 Tournaments)
Online Tournaments = +£13 (5 Tournaments)

Overall = -£67.42
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: samuel_9 on February 07, 2011, 09:44:12 AM
i mite be roung but it looks like your just a little bit tilty.TRY changeing your game a little bit . MYSELF well i was tilted for about 2years without realiseing it..SO what i did was have a good look at how i was playing and especially the cards  i was playing.So i went back 2 the way i used 2 play . SO yesterday i entered 3 tourneys small rebys first 1 $2 reby did not reby did not addon provit $38 number2....... $5 reby no reby or addon provit $106.3trd1  10.000garentied $5 reby no reby noaddon provit$129. then i went on the cash put in £30 i hour provit £55.00 now im goin to keep  paying my old game and try not 2go fishing 2much and just take what ever bad beat i get cos at the en of the day there is dam all you can do about it....... just someting for you 2 think over glk  :-* :-* :-* :-* all APATERS
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: samuel_9 on February 07, 2011, 09:56:30 AM
now going to watch my show the sons of arnacey very very good show just finished season 1 now on season 2 very very good show
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 07, 2011, 20:18:05 PM
Lost £50 on Sky today. Did not get unlucky, no bad beats or coolers worth mentioning.

I think I need a break from poker, since the start of the weekend I have lost £267 in games where I should be in profit and with hands that should put me in profit. Not going to type up and review the hands at the moment as there are just too many mistakes and I can"t really justify any of it.

Don"t know what I am going to do about it or if there is anything I can do about it, the annoying thing is somewhere in my brain I know that I am playing badly, I know why I am playing badly but when it comes to the time in a hand where I should do the right thing and fold down the hand I am not doing so. I have lost £40 today for example by shoving AK preflop in poor spots to be doing so. I knew at the time it was a bad spot but did it anyway. I currently see no way to turn this around though, if I was making mistakes due to not understanding certain situations then it would be one thing but that is not happening, I know I am making a mistake at the exact time I make the mistake and do it anyway.

Online cash now = -£107.07
Overall = -£115

Been on a bit of a poker roller coaster over the last 6-9 months. I remember having a pretty bad run in June/July time to the stage where I was wondering if it was all worth it. The best six months of my poker life followed but after, what was definately a period of serious over achievement, I am pretty much back to where I was (which was fine at the time), but now don"t want to accept it (although I have always known it in the back of my mind).

Will take a break for a few days and see what happens after that.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: duke3016 on February 07, 2011, 20:22:46 PM
Someone much cleverer than me once said.

"If you think you are behind, you probably are"

Don"t force it , breathe etc (ha ha at me giving that advice)
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: samuel_9 on February 07, 2011, 20:45:25 PM

Someone much cleverer than me once said.

"If you think you are behind, you probably are"

Don"t force it , breathe etc (ha ha at me giving that advice)
take the advice mr AAroddersAA
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: MintTrav on February 07, 2011, 21:13:10 PM
Jesus man, relax. How many thousands did you win last year? Do you think you go from getting back-to-back HU in two tournaments with 400 & 200 runners to being a poor player just like that? Take a break to get your focus if you wish, or else don"t. But don"t come on here pretending you"ve turned rubbish when we know better.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 07, 2011, 23:05:58 PM

Jesus man, relax. How many thousands did you win last year? Do you think you go from getting back-to-back HU in two tournaments with 400 & 200 runners to being a poor player just like that? Take a break to get your focus if you wish, or else don"t. But don"t come on here pretending you"ve turned rubbish when we know better.

Obviously my above post was written slightly on tilt *lol*

To be honest its not that much about the money (although that is always nice). At the end of the day I am only £100 down anyway. Last year in total was just over £10K btw  :-)

It"s the fact I am playing badly. I"m not pretending I"ve turned rubbish, but I am playing rubbish at the moment (there is a difference). It would actually be easier if I had turned rubbish but it"s the fact I am (usually) not rubbish which is so annoying. I am supposed to do better - hmm I guess nobody has any right to win though

I am actually not playing that badly in tournaments, I am having problems in cash games, which is totally back to front to how I usually do.

Probably will switch to tournaments for a while after taking a break just to give my cash game a chance to recharge (not too sure why that should work either but it seems to).


Someone much cleverer than me once said.

"If you think you are behind, you probably are"

Don"t force it , breathe etc (ha ha at me giving that advice)

Might write that down and stick it on my monitor.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: pables on February 08, 2011, 18:24:52 PM
I don"t think you"re playing badly, I think your game has changed!

Go back to what you were doing when Ben pwned you at DTD  ;D and you wont be a million miles off!

See you soon Rodders  :-*
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Fatcatstu on February 08, 2011, 22:37:32 PM

I don"t think you"re playing badly, I think your game has changed!



in all seriousness mate, THIS!!!

It  is something i discovered about myself, and i am now (hopfully) on the way to rectifying it (not being so insanely aggressive!!)

just have a good think about things pal :)
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: pokerpops on February 09, 2011, 10:07:21 AM


I don"t think you"re playing badly, I think your game has changed!



in all seriousness mate, THIS!!!

It  is something i discovered about myself, and i am now (hopfully) on the way to rectifying it (not being so insanely aggressive!!)

just have a good think about things pal :)


You"re not alone Rodders, but the issue is not about being too aggressive per se, it"s about picking the right moments to be aggressive, and the moments to shut down because you know that whatever you bet some players won"t/can"t fold TPTK on a board no matter how obvious the straight or flush potential.

Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 10, 2011, 18:23:44 PM
Premier League Darts starts tonight. 13/8 on Taylor to finish top is available. There has to be huge value in this surely?
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Fatcatstu on February 10, 2011, 18:27:52 PM
Not gonna happen. Too much quality round about the premier league now.

Webster, Lewis and Anderson are all capable of dismantling taylor on his day, and taylor hasnt looked good for ages now.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: duke3016 on February 10, 2011, 19:03:39 PM
Well Lewis plays Taylor tonight - so that will be the benchmark.....
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Fatcatstu on February 10, 2011, 19:06:03 PM

Well Lewis plays Taylor tonight - so that will be the benchmark.....


indeed!

and i am missing it to go play sodding poker! FML!
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 10, 2011, 20:32:50 PM
Taylor looked pretty good in winning the players championship last week. He has to be favourite.

Good efficent start from Webster, very good second game though.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 11, 2011, 22:30:47 PM
Was off work today due to having to go in tomorrow. So I thought I might as well play poker.

Played a shed load of hands online today. Basically started at 11am and played the first session was going along on 5 tables probably a pound or two down but basically nothing was happening, then got 6-3 suited in the small blind. Folds to the button who limps, I complete and BB checks, flop comes down 3-6-2. Ah thats nice, bet out and get called by the button, I put him on an overpair as there is no flush draw, turn is another 6 - BINK. I bet again. He calls. River is an ace, well that annoying as his range is full of overpairs and the ace is a scare card, if I check though he is just going to check behind so I put in a small value bet, he insta shoves.......weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. I call. He obviously has AA. WTF. HOW? So I lose £20 there.

Fortunately I get KK myself on another table not too long after this. Raise to 80p and a call in front of me, I stick in a raise to £3. Original raiser shoves on me, not again? I call he has JJ, yippee, oh that will be a jack on the flop then.

I am then £40 down for the day, I continue and pull back about £15 after hitting TPTK with AK against AQ. Then I lose most of that on one hand where I raise, with AJ, C-bet on a raggy flop. Hit my ace on the turn and fire twice into a calling station only for him to show up with two pair. I end my morning session down £41.

I take a break and feel a bit annoyed about the way it is going overall. I consider switching sites to Betfair or Pokerstars, but decide to stay where I am as I already have some points on the cash for points offer and the whole point of moving from "Stars to Sky was to suuport Blonde and try and help make their sponsorship a success.

So I log back on, fire up 5 tables and away I go. I drop about $10 early just doing standard stuff raising and c-betting, then I hit TPTK against a player who I feel I have a good read on. I bet and he calls. I am now fairly confidetn I have the best hand and fire out big on the turn. He agains calls. The board is Ace high and I am pretty sure I have the best hand. When he checks to me on the river I have got him pinned down on the smaller ace, I am just convinced of it. I fire an overbet all-in. Instacall. $%^&. He shows me AJ. Oh wait a minute AK beats that, I actually won a pot.

Not to long after this though I get dealy KK on another table. I am first to act I think and I make the raise to 80p. A reg who I consider to be decent 3-bets me to £3. I 4-bet to £10 and he shove, I call. He obviously has AA. I think at this point I kind of got up swore at the screen looked at the flop and said "oooh a king - get in there" and sat back down. So now I am only £10 down on the day.

I take a quick break and fire up again

I recover the £10 and go ahead (only by a couple of quid but I am still up, which is usual lately). At this point though my confidence is high again.

In the next two hours I am hitting hands, I get dealt AA three times and KK twice. I end up getting ahead but about £30 and suddenly getting away from hands where I am beaten is no problem, I am controling pots and pricing out draws like I am supposed too. I can"t remember all the hands, and Sky poker does not let me review then in poker tracker, but I end up winning £62 on the day, After being £50 down this is a great result and hopefully stops the rot right there.

I am very happy with my play overall today but am still annoyed with myself for making too many mistakes in general. I am fully confident if anybody had been watching this afternoon they would have said I was playing fine and nothing to be concerned about. I HAVE to play this game more often though. I know my A game is as good as anybodys (to be totoally honest I believe it to be better than the vast majority) but I play it about 10% of the time. My B and C game are probably worse than most peoples and, given the fact I am playing them 90% of the time, this is a big problem.

Online cash poker for the year is now -£44.07 (without cash for points)
Live cash is +£101 (2 sessions)

Online Tournaments are +£7.50 (11 Tournaments)
Live Tournaments are -£125 (2 APAT Tournaments)
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: ForthThistle on February 11, 2011, 23:59:33 PM
Top result Rod...

chin up... you got it...
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: TheSnapper on February 12, 2011, 00:15:59 AM
wp Rodders, like the Tommy Angelo A,B & C game quotes, wise words. The really tough thing about poker and reviewing a session is that results can be misleading but it seems you got unlucky in some spots, got lucky in others but overall, played well.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: duke3016 on February 12, 2011, 00:36:37 AM

wp Rodders, like the Tommy Angelo A,B & C game quotes, wise words. The really tough thing about poker and reviewing a session is that results can be misleading but it seems you got unlucky in some spots, got lucky in others but overall, played well.


[X] I get unlucky
[X] I get lucky
[  ] I play well

Nowt wrong Steve - keep grinding
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 12, 2011, 08:21:45 AM
Cheer Guy"s

Working atm but might play tonight if I feel like I can put in a decent performance.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Newportlad on February 12, 2011, 12:05:54 PM
I"m playing the £35 at Les Croups tonight if you fancy coming along.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 12, 2011, 21:43:30 PM
Was working today so did not play poker during the day. I logged on at the end of the rugby and played for about two and half hours (5 tables). How bad were both Wales and Scotland in the rugby today? I am happy Wales won as we really needed to win after eight losses on the spin (although 6 of them were to the big three teams). Anyway Poker:-

Didn"t have many big hands but ended up £77 up. Which takes me back into profit for the year in online cash, and overall. Bit of a roller coaster this year so far. I think I made some good calls on the river and think my reads on the regular players is improving.

I did win a nice pot with KK where I got allin against A9 and JJ pre flop and it held up. I really wish I had poker tracker working so I could review and post the hands better. Again I feel I played well but a break from cash games is going to be coming up anyway as I am still a bit concerned about my recent poor play and last time I brought it back into profit I then dropped back down almost straight away so want to give myself the best chance to pull away. So taking a break even though I am very happy with today. I now have 1308 poker points and I am aiming for 2000 as that will give me £30 rakeback (or cash for points).

One hand I did misplay is the following:-

I have A3s in hearts and I raise (to 80p) from the button and get called by both blinds. The flop comes down 10d-6h-4h with two hearts. The SB bets £1.20 and the BB calls. I call as well and the turn is a blank and the SB again bets £1.20 and we both call. The river is 10h which makes my flush, the SB now checks and the BB bets £4.50. I then become scared of the paired board and flat call. He shows the 10 which was alway the biggest part of his range so I shoudl be raising on the river there. He probably would have called another £10 so maybe I lost some money there.

Next game will be the Blonde league on Monday and I might even give cash a miss until next weekend and just play the two Blonde league tournaments next week.

Online Cash = +£33.46
Live Cash = +101 (2 Sessions)

Online Tournaments = +£7.50 (11 Tournaments)
Live tournaments = -£125 (2 Tournaments)
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 13, 2011, 19:53:35 PM
Poker is, by it"s very nature, a game that can become all consuming. There is the obvious financial element to it, none of us enjoy losing money and when we do the immediate reaction is to try and get it back. This is especially true if we have lost money in a situation that we see as being "unfair", for example having our pocket aces outdrawn by a smaller hand. There is more to the game than that though, it is the way it always make you feel either at the top of the mountain or within the depths of despair.

When we are winning, poker can feel like the greatest game in the world. When playing online, logging on, expecting to win, and proceeding to do just that, can convince you that you are a great player (and that feels good). Your confidence grows and you find yourself playing hands well and therefore having better sessions and getting happier. Even taking a bad beat does not hurt because you are often still having a winning session and you just feel confident that you can still play well and win. Playing live can be very much the same, walking into a poker room and feeling like one of the best players in the room, and honestly believing this gives you a massive edge before you even start. When this feeling is backed up by a good result and good play it can get even better.

I clearly remember arriving at the Fritz in Dublin this year to play the APAT Irish Championship. I was coming off the back of 3 straight cashes in live poker, 2 APATs (including 2nd in the main event of the WCOAP) and a local tournament at Les Croupiers in Cardiff). I was overflowing with confidence. Play began and I started building a stack, I was making good reads and playing good poker, my hands were holding up and I was confident. I made day two and the final table, that evening as far as I was concerned, I was invincible.  I ended up coming second in that tournament the next day. The feeling of playing good poker and the cards being with us is not matched by much in the gambling world. That night I felt on top of the world.

Is it the money we win that pleases us so much? Well it is a nice bonus, but it is not the main thing that make for that feeling, it is rising above the competition, coming out on top against excellent players and just the overall feeling of winning. In November I was playing in the Blonde League, by the time this was nearly over I was in third place with the Jack Prime (who is a great player) in the lead. At that point we were both fully aware the league win was worth nothing but pride to either of us. However the way we both tried our very hardest to win it showed that pride means a lot to poker players, we both wanted to be able to say we beat the other. I ended up winning that league and even though I got nothing for it (the winner was to be named the Captain of the Blonde Poker team for Bolton, which I would have loved but obviously in the light of the offer from APAT could not accept), it still felt great. The fact that the run in was against Jack who is a mate of mine and somebody who I consider to be a better than good player made it better.

Coming top of the APAT national rankings, just a whisker ahead of my good mate Darren Shallis, who I consider to be overall the best player of all the APAT regulars was probably the biggest honour of my poker career. When I was confirmed as the winner it felt great, again it was not really worth anything, but I am still probably more proud of it than anything else I have done in poker and still take satisfaction from that.

So what is it that makes for that feeling you get when you are winning? I think it is a mixture of the self belief it gives you, the recognition you get from peers who you yourself recognise as being good and the pride you feel after a good result in a tournament or a really good cash session.

At APAT it is this that keeps driving us back to the tables. This is what makes us push for another result, another final table, and the holy grail of an APAT National Championship. This is what will drive me and many others to get on planes, trains and auto-mobiles in season five. To make the long journey to play that tournament which just could be the one. It is never going to be easy, the competition is fiercer than ever, but we would not have it any other way. The desire it to take on the best and to beat the best. The need to be the best.

Onward and upward


Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: pables on February 13, 2011, 20:22:47 PM
Great post Rodders!  :)
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: technolog on February 13, 2011, 22:35:58 PM
Good post Steve. Nicely written. Would read again :)
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 14, 2011, 19:55:17 PM
Bit of a cash session tonight - 6 tables for about an hour making a massive £4.52 and getting my poker points for the month up to 1428 - aiming for 2000 so should be fine there. Onne hand where it was abit iffy. I have AK in 2nd position and raised (to 80p) got called by button and see a flop of 5h-5s-5d. I lead out (for £1.25) and he shove for about £9 more. So I have a pot of around £13.50 and it is £9 to call. I could be in front and even if I am behind I am probably going to win about 29% of the time. So I need to be good about 35% of the time here so I think it is OK, he had 88 and it held.

Going to play the Blonde league again tonight, not that Ia m doing too well this month and I can"t play the events next week as I am working until 9pm every night except for Friday next week. Hopefully I will still have enough time to get my extra 500 poker points on Sky.

I am probably going to take most of the weekend off poker as well - hopefully going to watch the mighty Newport County defeat Luton on Friday night and then planning a few beers on Saturday.

Standing is

Online Cash = +£37.98
Live Cash = +101 (2 Sessions)

Online Tournaments = +£7.50 (11 Tournaments)
Live tournaments = -£125 (2 Tournaments)

Please get ready for a brand new group of posts coming soon. Rodders - The history of an APAT player and how I ended up as a poker player and the journey to APAT. Some songs to get you ready for it. It will make sense when you read the articles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FytMNBUR2CQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlJXHc4jb30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCG9x6AEKg0
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 16, 2011, 20:29:26 PM
APAT and how I got here - or The History of Rodders - Part One

The story begins way back in the day. In fact it begins way back before the day. In those days I was a young part time student / part time leisure attendant. I think the year was 1997  I liked games even back then and we had a chess league that we used to play between lectures (when I could be bothered to attend, which was not often) and I usually did OK at that.

Now one of the guys who I was in college with showed me this new game called Magic the Gathering. It looked a bit bizarre and very complicated but he and another mate of his taught me how to play and I started to work out the way they did things. I was introduced to a few fairly good local players some of whom were very good at the game (or so I thought). I now understand that a lot of the skills that were used in this game were easily transferred to poker and gave me a good head start when I eventually discovered poker years later.

I worked quite hard at this game, after reading the REALLY tiny rulebook (I mean tiny in size btw not content, I dunno why they could not make one of a normal size) and slowly learned the right strategy and started to be able to beat most of the players who did well locally.

I entered a few local tournaments and was doing quite well I was convinced I was getting quite good as I was now able to consistently beat the better players in the area and in local tournaments. In fact the only person who still seemed to consistently be able to get the better of me was Darren Shallis. In local league and competitions I started to make every effort to match Darren and although I never quite got equal, we were very close and clearly the two best players in the group. At larger tournaments we were the ones who were expected to do well. It was not long before we were planning strategy and plays together and trying to push on to be competitive at a national level.

The game was very interesting and fun but sometimes the people who played it were a bit strange, Magic tournaments were no APAT events and although it made you use your brain in the same way as poker does, it was missing the element of gambling and needing to be prepared to put your money on the line that you need for poker. However a new chapter in the story was about to address that issue for me.

TBC

Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 16, 2011, 23:40:23 PM
Played the take on Tikay on Sky Poker tonight. Did play one hand masterfully. Ther blinds had just gone up to I think 200/400 and I had about 3000 chips UTG and I shove woth J-9. Tighty calls me with AQ (luckbox getting AQ there imo). Somebody else misclick calls. I obviously make a straight for the triple up  I manage to luckbox my way past the rest of the Blondes and am on the final table button but am in 7th place as the short stack, the table is three handed and I find A9, the SB raises and I shove from the BB. He then calls with A6 which gets there. I"ll take it. At least I made £20 out of it and went to the top of the Blonde Poker Feb league. I"ll never stay there as there are two events next week that I can"t play in but happy with that result.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 18, 2011, 10:14:14 AM
Working at home today so might run a poker table or two on the side.

Had a little game last night only for about half and hour nothing special but made just over a tenner so not complaining. No hands really worth mentioning alll very standard stuff so just an undate on the bttom line for 2011 so far.

Online Cash = +£48.10
Live Cash = +101 (2 Sessions)

Online Tournaments = +£25.30 (13 Tournaments)
Live tournaments = -£125 (2 Tournaments)

Still quite a way behind the run rate of course, the aim was to make £2K this year so by the end of Feb I would have hoped to be winning about £300. It looks pretty unlikely I am going it hit that. This is down to so less than good play so I will be trying to avoid this for the rest of the year.

Not intending to play on the weekend, going for a few beers and rugby tomorrow. I might play a few tables this evening if I am not doing anything, if I can get myself to £100 (for online cash) up by the end of the month I am going to be pretty happy and anything else will be a bonus. Then try and run well in March.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 18, 2011, 20:23:50 PM
OK, had a few games today. Again did not make much but little acorns and all that.

In cash games I am quite happy with my play. I am value betting well with hands like top pair and top kicker which I am getting full value from when I have the chance. I also played in a small Sat for the Viva Las Vegas. I bubbled but won £7.50 profit. Cash games I ended up £8.66 up. I did lose a £50+ pot aifp with QQ Vs AJ at the end but not much I can do about that. One possible mistake I can find when I review it. I raise with AQ to 80p and BB calls. He then shove £4 into the pot on a 2-3-6 flop. He had done this a few time and I thought I had a good chance of being good and we likely to have outs if not. If had AK. Not a mjor mistake but one for me to keep an eye on so it does not develop into a leak.

I will now move back to the £30nl level as I have got over the bad run earlier in the month. I am hoping this means I will be able to kick on and pull myself back up to target as I am now well behind the required run rate to hit the targets.

Overall

Online Cash = +£56.76
Live Cash = +101 (2 Sessions)

Online Tournaments = +£32.85 (11 Tournaments)
Live tournaments = -£125 (2 Tournaments)

Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 22, 2011, 04:21:48 AM
Lost my motivation to play at the moment, played a little bit on Saturday morning lost about £45 on Sky switched to Betfair for a change (I felt like playing PLO and Sky does not have it) and won about £25 back so lost about £20, no big deal.

Online Cash = +£35.92

Was in work until late today so could not play the Blonde League game which was a shame. I am going to take the rest of the week off playing (really not able to motivate myself to do good volume this year - hopefully that will change when the APAT season restarts).

I see they have cancelled the Bahrain GP. This is probably a sensible decision but means 2 extra weeks to wait until the season kicks off.I don"t expect that to make too much difference although it would be good if another test session was arranged.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 22, 2011, 11:54:54 AM
APAT and how I got here - or The History of Rodders - Part Two

I lived in Newport, and it must have been around 2002. I had left college and went to work from a small local Internet company which would shortly after turn into ntl: which eventually became Virgin Media. I had started out as a tech support agent, then became a senior tech before moving into a role within the training department. This gave me the chance to travel to lots of locations around the country and at this point in time life was generally good. I did the normal things that people do but still played Magic every now and again.

A mate of mine who I had not seen for a while (Brian) was managing a local Snooker club at this point. One day I was passing and decided I would pop in. As it happened Brian was finishing his shift at 4pm that day and he suggested I come back then and we go for a pint. This sounded like a good idea so I did. It was then that I was introduced to a new type of game. A game different to the ones I had played before. This game was called.. playing fruit machines.

Now to start with I must confess to being sceptical. I had played fruit machine before of course as most people have but there was no skill to it, you just put money in and hoped you won, didn"t you? Apparently not. Fruit machines keep about 20% of the money that goes into them and pay out around 80%. So it is like a very expensive rake. Just remember you are not playing against the machine but against the other players playing it. The more skillful players should be able to win whilst the less skilled players lose. The machine knows when it has to pay out and will shows signs that it has to do so. It has to keep it"s percentage correct. The better players won because they had something that is known in the trade as "an edge".

Now I am guessing there might be a few of you out there reading this who have played the odd machine themselves (hopefully not Deal or No Deal *lol*). This of course was in the days of the big Barcrest Machines. There was Hot Stuff, Hellraiser, The Big Cheese (and it"s many clones) Beaver Las Vegas and Vamp it up. There were other makes as well, RED machines were very common and playable and many other that I won"t name here. The edge came from knowing what you are doing and making correct decisions, it was far from an exact art but it was possible, read the signs correctly and some machines would pay you handsomely, in those day Big Cheese was a classic example as when you got it, it was often pretty sure to go again. This was in fact a great money making trick back then. We would often see somebody win the jackpot on a machine and get off straight away and we could not get to those machines quickly enough. One of the golden rules in those days was always have a look behind (when you get the jackpot don"t walk away check again as it may want to pay another one - streaker machines were pretty common). So you would risk a little with the potential of a nice pay day. You use your supierior knowledge to take the money from the munters (a fruit machine term for fish, it means mug punters). I started to get an understanding of all of these concepts and how to apply them.

We found machine routes in Newport, Cardiff, Swansea and other places further away. We spent weekend after weekend heading to different pubs in different towns to play these (good times), in a little under a year we ran a starting bankroll of £125 (which was way to small btw but we knew no better) up to over £1000. We probably spent most of that in the pubs along the way but we didn"t really care about that. We then started to look for other edges. We found Betfair and tried football betting, which went rather badly, we tried Formula One, Darts and Snooker betting which actually went better. We started to understand the way our "edge" worked better.

So now we were looking around for new places to find our edge, we found casinos and tried to work out systems for blackjack, we couldn"t. We once nailed a great bet on the 2005 US Grand Prix due to understanding that the Michelin tyres just were not going to work at that track (thank you Paddy Power).

But amazingly at this point neither of us gave poker a thought. It seemed a bit intimidating. I thought it was all about knowing what the other person had by looking into their eyes and knowing that they were bluffing. I was vaguely aware of online poker due to adverts on betting sites - Paradise Poker wa the main one in those days. I never thought of playing though. How I wish I could find a time machine and head back there now.

However I was about to find poker see the next exciting installment to see how this happened and how it went initially.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Swinebag on February 22, 2011, 21:25:19 PM

I lived in Newport.


Got this far and gave up


























top read really - more please
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 25, 2011, 12:08:08 PM
Last night I got back from work, it was gone 10pm (I was supposed to finish at 8pm but there we go). I decided I was not tried so would play a little poker. about 2 minutes into the session get AA. Good so I raise from late position to £1.20 and get one caller from a player I consider to be a bit of a calling station but not too bad.

The flop came a very safe looking K-4-2 with two clubs. I bet out £3 into a pot of £2.75. He calls and I now have him on the king, or the draw (the king is more likely I think). Or he could be on some kind of under pair to the king I guess. The turn is a safe card and I bet £9 into a pot of £8.75, he again calls and the river is a 6, which be be fair completes a very unlikely str9 draw but the flush draw misses. I don"t think he is laying down a king so I shove and he calls. He obviously had K-6. GG £30.

I manage to lose another £10 before I decide that having spent the best part of 12 hours in work it is probably not the best time to be playing poker. Mangd to end up down for the year at online cash by about £5 although I am up about £60 for the month. Hopefully can make the profitlook at little better over the weekend.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Marty719 on February 25, 2011, 16:30:12 PM

Last night I got back from work, it was gone 10pm (I was supposed to finish at 8pm but there we go). I decided I was not tried so would play a little poker. about 2 minutes into the session get AA. Good so I raise from late position to £1.20 and get one caller from a player I consider to be a bit of a calling station but not too bad.

The flop came a very safe looking K-4-2 with two clubs. I bet out £3 into a pot of £2.75. He calls and I now have him on the king, or the draw (the king is more likely I think). Or he could be on some kind of under pair to the king I guess. The turn is a safe card and I bet £9 into a pot of £8.75, he again calls and the river is a 6, which be be fair completes a very unlikely str9 draw but the flush draw misses. I don"t think he is laying down a king so I shove and he calls. He obviously had K-6. GG £30.



Betting less than full pot on the flop and turn will lead to you getting called by a wider range and therefore result in greater long-term profit.  If you think his range is Kx and underpairs, you want to bet an amount that will keep the entire range in.  With ur turn-betsizing, you pretty much discard air from your range (this betsize with air would be horrendous).  Reasonable villains will be folding all underpairs as well as the weaker Kx hands.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 25, 2011, 23:21:53 PM


Last night I got back from work, it was gone 10pm (I was supposed to finish at 8pm but there we go). I decided I was not tried so would play a little poker. about 2 minutes into the session get AA. Good so I raise from late position to £1.20 and get one caller from a player I consider to be a bit of a calling station but not too bad.

The flop came a very safe looking K-4-2 with two clubs. I bet out £3 into a pot of £2.75. He calls and I now have him on the king, or the draw (the king is more likely I think). Or he could be on some kind of under pair to the king I guess. The turn is a safe card and I bet £9 into a pot of £8.75, he again calls and the river is a 6, which be be fair completes a very unlikely str9 draw but the flush draw misses. I don"t think he is laying down a king so I shove and he calls. He obviously had K-6. GG £30.



Betting less than full pot on the flop and turn will lead to you getting called by a wider range and therefore result in greater long-term profit.  If you think his range is Kx and underpairs, you want to bet an amount that will keep the entire range in.  With ur turn-betsizing, you pretty much discard air from your range (this betsize with air would be horrendous).  Reasonable villains will be folding all underpairs as well as the weaker Kx hands.

To be fair I am pretty happy with how I played this hand. As previous hands I have posted show I rarely do this but felt this was a spot vs this opponent where I should. I would not play it differently. Although in most spots like this you are 100% correct.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: MintTrav on February 26, 2011, 13:24:14 PM



Last night I got back from work, it was gone 10pm (I was supposed to finish at 8pm but there we go). I decided I was not tried so would play a little poker. about 2 minutes into the session get AA. Good so I raise from late position to £1.20 and get one caller from a player I consider to be a bit of a calling station but not too bad.

The flop came a very safe looking K-4-2 with two clubs. I bet out £3 into a pot of £2.75. He calls and I now have him on the king, or the draw (the king is more likely I think). Or he could be on some kind of under pair to the king I guess. The turn is a safe card and I bet £9 into a pot of £8.75, he again calls and the river is a 6, which be be fair completes a very unlikely str9 draw but the flush draw misses. I don"t think he is laying down a king so I shove and he calls. He obviously had K-6. GG £30.



Betting less than full pot on the flop and turn will lead to you getting called by a wider range and therefore result in greater long-term profit.  If you think his range is Kx and underpairs, you want to bet an amount that will keep the entire range in.  With ur turn-betsizing, you pretty much discard air from your range (this betsize with air would be horrendous).  Reasonable villains will be folding all underpairs as well as the weaker Kx hands.

To be fair I am pretty happy with how I played this hand. As previous hands I have posted show I rarely do this but felt this was a spot vs this opponent where I should. I would not play it differently. Although in most spots you are 00% correct.


Be fair - he"s a bit higher than that.....
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: noble1 on February 26, 2011, 13:51:08 PM



Last night I got back from work, it was gone 10pm (I was supposed to finish at 8pm but there we go). I decided I was not tried so would play a little poker. about 2 minutes into the session get AA. Good so I raise from late position to £1.20 and get one caller from a player I consider to be a bit of a calling station but not too bad.

The flop came a very safe looking K-4-2 with two clubs. I bet out £3 into a pot of £2.75. He calls and I now have him on the king, or the draw (the king is more likely I think). Or he could be on some kind of under pair to the king I guess. The turn is a safe card and I bet £9 into a pot of £8.75, he again calls and the river is a 6, which be be fair completes a very unlikely str9 draw but the flush draw misses. I don"t think he is laying down a king so I shove and he calls. He obviously had K-6. GG £30.



Betting less than full pot on the flop and turn will lead to you getting called by a wider range and therefore result in greater long-term profit.  If you think his range is Kx and underpairs, you want to bet an amount that will keep the entire range in.  With ur turn-betsizing, you pretty much discard air from your range (this betsize with air would be horrendous).  Reasonable villains will be folding all underpairs as well as the weaker Kx hands.

To be fair I am pretty happy with how I played this hand. As previous hands I have posted show I rarely do this but felt this was a spot vs this opponent where I should. I would not play it differently. Although in most spots you are 00% correct.


seems fine to me marty, he went with his read and adjusted his sizing to the player.. on the turn card when its an x and rodders reads it as not helping/improving the stations hand then you should bet as much as possible, like from how he describes whatever villain called on the flop he is more than likely calling the turn..
what u mention though marty is true when applied with or without reads,position,image,game flow,board texture etc
afterall though when playing stations the adjustment is to cut out the bluffing so rodders will never have [or rarely :)] an air range will he not?

interesting thoughts marty but it gets a tad more complex when adjusting to elastic or inelastic ranges, opponent types and various board textures....

ul river sir....
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 26, 2011, 18:01:01 PM



Last night I got back from work, it was gone 10pm (I was supposed to finish at 8pm but there we go). I decided I was not tried so would play a little poker. about 2 minutes into the session get AA. Good so I raise from late position to £1.20 and get one caller from a player I consider to be a bit of a calling station but not too bad.

The flop came a very safe looking K-4-2 with two clubs. I bet out £3 into a pot of £2.75. He calls and I now have him on the king, or the draw (the king is more likely I think). Or he could be on some kind of under pair to the king I guess. The turn is a safe card and I bet £9 into a pot of £8.75, he again calls and the river is a 6, which be be fair completes a very unlikely str9 draw but the flush draw misses. I don"t think he is laying down a king so I shove and he calls. He obviously had K-6. GG £30.



Betting less than full pot on the flop and turn will lead to you getting called by a wider range and therefore result in greater long-term profit.  If you think his range is Kx and underpairs, you want to bet an amount that will keep the entire range in.  With ur turn-betsizing, you pretty much discard air from your range (this betsize with air would be horrendous).  Reasonable villains will be folding all underpairs as well as the weaker Kx hands.

To be fair I am pretty happy with how I played this hand. As previous hands I have posted show I rarely do this but felt this was a spot vs this opponent where I should. I would not play it differently. Although in most spots you are 00% correct.

lol That was meant to be 100% - edited
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 26, 2011, 23:11:43 PM
Got back to being in profit again tonight for the year.

Online cash now = +£6.74 (wondering if it is all worth it lol)
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 27, 2011, 21:32:32 PM
Not impressed with my play at the moment. I don"t know why I am playing at the moment. I don"t actually want too or feel like it but am basically just playing for the sake of it. I should take a break until I actually want to play again so I will play the final event of the Feb Blonde league tomorrow then I am going to take a break for the whole of March.

I might actually stop with Sky Poker as well. Not being able to use Poker tracker is annoying.

See you all in April (unless I change my mind, which is pretty much a certainty).
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 06, 2011, 18:49:14 PM
I gave up playing Magic after losing in the first round of the Welsh Nations. I think that was in 2002. Only a couple of months before this I had been travelling with a tournament with Darren and we had been discussing poker for the first time and how we would like to give it a go. We had both started to watch the Poker Million on Sky Sports.

I played a bit online for play money and Darren was playing as well, Paradise Poker was the online site of choice in those days. I soon progressed to real money playing 1c/2c cash games. I was pretty useless. Myself and Darren and a few other friends of ours arranged a few live games, early on we were clearly the top two players and were pretty evenly matched with neither of us able to gain an edge on the other.

One day I was working hard at machine playing with Brian and another mate our mine (Mark) and mentioned the poker. They already knew all about it as there were games running in a few of the local snooker clubs. We setup a few games and actually started a league, I was easily able to convince Darren to join is as well.

Early on we were all pretty terrible but slowly we started to learn. Darren was leading our snooker club league in our first effort at it whilst i was beating him in our friendly Sunday night game so we were still going along quite even. I think I was a small amount up both live and online although the amounts we played for were small (basically £5 and £10 sit n go"s)

We soon found a game a Casino in Cardiff (Now the G on Cardiff Bay) which ran poker tournaments. Darren and I headed down there to try the game out one Wednesday night and Darren actually managed to finish second in his first attempt. I did OK as well but went out just before the money. At this point I was quite happy I was OK at the game.

I then (not really that long after starting playing) hit the coldest run I have ever hit. In the games down the clubs I could not hit a card. I was terrible at the casino going out really early time after time. During this time Darren and one of the other guy"s who we played with regularly did really well which confused me as I could not see how they were so much better than me. I came close to giving up on it a few times as I was quite convinced I was doing something wrong and could not work our what it was, nobody else seemed to know either. I can"t really remember how I came out of it but I did.

I spent a lot of time checking poker forums and reading poker books (Super System, Hellmuths book and the Harringtons). I remember the first time I won an MTT. It was a silly little tournament in a snooker club in Newport and I think I won about £150 but at the time that was amazing. I got a funny little bracelet for it (which is till have, I can see it next to my APAT medals *lol*).

I still played online but my poker still did not have much direction. I did not know if I was a cash player or a sit n go player. I did not have a proper bankroll and basically just treated poker as a bit of a gamble. I managed to do quite well at cash games but really did not understand the correct way to play but between 2002 and 2006 I grew into what seemed to be an OK player.

At this point I had heard of Blonde Poker but had never really bother to do much but read a few of the threads and there was a brand new organisation called APAT which I read about. Tournaments with proper structure for an affordable buyin. I thought maybe I would try and play one some day, they looked really good and I guessed that they would have some very good players in them.

It was almost the end of 2006 and something was starting to click. I now knew I was more than just another player and started to show a steady if small profit from online play. I started to play cash games and started to multi-table and my results started to become more consistent. At this point I decided to turn my whole life upside down and move 200 mile north of South Wales, to the lovely town of Crewe in fact. It was a great decision for several reasons. I will stick to talking about poker though.

Now it was time to start getting serious, coming next my poker in 2007 and 2008 as I try to fine tune my game and become more than just another poker player.


Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 08, 2011, 20:28:41 PM
Have not really updated this for a while as I have not had a lot to say. I have been extermely busy in work and talking about the workings of ISP networks is really not very interesting. Poker wise I am taking a break until April, or until I feel like I am properly recharged.

Went for a beer last weekend in Swansea on what was meant to be an all dayer. I don"t get where my stamina has gone. I"m sure it was not too ago I used to have no problem going out for a beer at around 1pm and not getting back until the early hours. These days if I am out before six I always want to go home and go to sleep by 9pm, it"s not even a acse of being drunk, I just can"t keep up the pace any more. It is most annoying as I miss some really good night because of it.

Will try and keep posting updates during March. One thing I am going to stop though is posting updates on profit and loss. I never want to post a loss and have therefore been extending sessions to try and turn small losses into small wins, only for them to turn into bigger losses. I will keep an occasional update of how I am doing though.

OK, time to watch Barcalona knock Ar5enal out of the champions league.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 13, 2011, 20:14:26 PM
OK, have been neglecting this a bit, due to being really busy in work and not playing much poker, but still going to be keeping it up to date.

Played a bit of PLO on Friday night on Sky as I was watching the game and it looked like a good chance to win some money, only the one table but that game really can be brutal, three buyins (at £50) dissappeared fairly quickly. Annoyingly I didn"t really do anything wrong and got my money in good each time but that"s the nature of PLO.

I have been reviewing my play this year. I am down by about £300 overall this year at poker which is a big dissapointment. I have made a few mistakes but looking back I think I have made a lot more good plays and to be honest I don"t think there is too mcuh wrong with my actual game, and I have just run a bit poorly. I can"t really complain as I ran well for the last 6 months of last year.

Now this is where my main current problem lies. I currently have unrealistic expectations. I expect to be winning three figure amounts whenever I play and it just does not happen (nor is it supposed to). For example this weekend I wanted to try and regain some confidence so I started playing 6 tables on £10nl. To make a long story short I won £50 across the weekend. Most people would consider this a good result but I am not happy with it (I should be but I just am not).

Now this time last year I was doing well by playing 10 tables of $10nl on Pokerstars and was always very pleased with making $50 in two days and was usually able to average a profit of £100 per month. At the time this seemed good, now it just does not seem good enough to me, I want to win £500 in a month (and if I did that I would still want to push for more). I end up playing sessions that are too long and not sticking to playing the tables for a sensible amount of time. If I am winning I don"t feel like I am winning enough and if I am losing I feel like I have to try and get at least level. It is this which is causing a lot of my mistakes.

Even though I know I am basically burned out for this weekend and it would be -EV to play now, I am still tempted to fire up the tables and try the £50 PLO again to try and boost the winnings.

I don"t really know what the answer to this is. Part of me says take an extended break from poker for a six month period or so. I can"t say I am enjoying playing it at the moment. The silly thing is I know what I would advise somebody else to do here.

1) Play games you know you can do well at only stick to £10 and £20 buy in games for a while and just play these.

2) Set fixed times that you are going to play and keep session to a max of 60-90 minutes

3) If you are losing then take a break for a few days this will ensure you are not playing tilted.

4) Play a tight aggressive game making all the moves that you know are +EV

5) Just play tournaments that you enjoy such as league games and APAT's.

If I did the above I would be winning again pretty quickly.

The above is what I should do but is unlikely to be what I will do at the moment. Luckily I expect work to be manic this week so I am not going to have time to be thinking about or playing poker.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 21, 2011, 13:46:06 PM
Played the APAT online events over the weekend. Enjoyed them very much as usual, I do like the 888 structure.

I went out of the main event when I made a bit of a mistake by flat calling an aggressive player preflop and then overplaying second pair (which turned into two pair on the river). When he checked to me on the river I should have checked as I still would have had 8000 chips left, instead I shoved and he called me a better two pair. Put that one down as a mistake I think.

Cash is going better for me now at least. I was up £70 over the weekend after moving down to micro stakes (£10nl) to try and get back to winning and regain my confidence. I think it is working, although I am £15 down today.

I am working Saturday morning so I am unable to get to Coventry but I will be watching on APAT TV and following online (which I will enjoy but I hope I will not be doing for the rest of the season).

Away from poker I have my bonus from work this month and have decided that it is time to buy a new car. My Corsa has been really good (the amount of miles I have done up and down the M5 and M6 is high but it has never let me down) it is time for a new one though so I will soon be booking time off work to go and find one.

Talking of time off this week I will be booking up the time to play APAT Vegas. Then I can start booking things up once this is confirmed.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 22, 2011, 17:49:47 PM
I think it"s summer again. I was out at 7:30am for work today and the sea was blue and the sun was shining. Makes things seem a bit bright overall doesn"t it. Swansea looks very nice in the summer, now all we need is for it the be July and all the students go away. I tend to play better poker in the summer as well, let"s hope that trend keeps up.

I checked all my holidays for Vegas out in work today got to wait for confirmation but shouldn"t be too much of an issue. I can"t wait to book my flight.

The other exciting thing happening soon is the beginning of the F1 season. You can"t really bet against Vettel but you just can"t tell, a team could pop out of nowhere.

Gonna try a quick hours poker this evening as well, I generally don"t do so well in the evenings after work but I am doing an hour each night to see how I go. I am sticking to micro stakes as I am still not feeling as confident as I would like too. Will update afterwards.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 22, 2011, 19:11:12 PM
Interesting little session there. It"s weird sometimes I seem to know exactly how to play this game whilst other times I am just useless, I played pretty well today although I was only £4 up at the end of the hour. I was playing 5 £10 tables and for the first 15 minutes or so nothing happened and I just lost some blinds.

Then I got Dealt AK. I raise it up to 50p (I think there had been 1 limper) and get a single caller The flop comes a helpful K-3-4. I like this flop although there is a flush draw so I bet £1 into the pot of about £1.05, the other player raise it to £3. I put him on various weaker kings, maybe a flush draw or a set oe 3"s or 4"s with a vey small chance of an underpair to the King and air. I therefore call and the flop comes a Queen and does not complete any draws.I check intending to CRAI he bets £3 and I feel he is commited with any of the above hands and shove, he calls me with K-Q. I am happy with how I played the hand as I think it is very against that range.

At this point I was about £15 down but when I am playing well this does not bother me and I don"t try to force the action. I shoudl really learn something from this as I all too often don"t do this. A little while later I get dealt KK with a full stack and again raise to 50p with a limper in the pot, two callers and the flop comes down Q-6-9 no flush draw. Another good flop for me and I bet £1.25 into the pot of about £1.60 and get called pot is now over £4 and the turn is a blank - looks like a queen of some kind at this point as there is not much else he can have unles he is floating me. So I bet £3.50 on the turn. He calls, I am now thinking queen or slow played monster - a queen is much more likely, when the river is a blank I make the shove and he calls with Q-J. Again I am very happy with my play and think I make some extra money by making that shove on the river rather than doing the passive thing and check - calling which I had got into the bad habbit of doing earlier in the year.

Apart from that I make on iffy play, I get QQ and somebody raises from early position to 40p, one caller before me and I make it £1.40 the original raiser shoves for £9 and the caller folds. I fold - thoughts? I rarely see shoves with much that QQ beats (calling shoves yes but not actually shoving) - this is where poker tracker would be very useful.

I get it all in with 8-3 Blind vs Blind on a flop of 8-3-2 where my opponent has a slow played AA it holds but he only has a short stack. I win a race with AK and lose a race with AK against small stacks so pretty standard stuff.

So I end the session slightly ahead but am very happy with how I played. Will try and do the same tomorrow night and see how I do again.

Feel free to comment on the QQ fold by the way (or any of the hands for that matter) I don"t think it is terrible but is very marginal.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: TheSnapper on March 22, 2011, 19:54:53 PM


Then I got Dealt AK. I raise it up to 50p (I think there had been 1 limper) and get a single caller The flop comes a helpful K-3-4. I like this flop although there is a flush draw so I bet £1 into the pot of about £1.05, the other player raise it to £3. I put him on various weaker kings, maybe a flush draw or a set oe 3"s or 4"s with a vey small chance of an underpair to the King and air.

I therefore call and the flop comes a Queen and does not complete any draws.I check intending to CRAI he bets £3 and I feel he is commited with any of the above hands and shove, he calls me with K-Q. I am happy with how I played the hand as I think it is very against that range.


Though I"m hardly ever folding here (villain dependant) I rather not CR turn, it gives villain opportunity to play perfectly and fold out the weak end of his range, pot size already allows for stacks to go in on the river.


Quote from: AAroddersAA


Apart from that I make on iffy play, I get QQ and somebody raises from early position to 40p, one caller before me and I make it £1.40 the original raiser shoves for £9 and the caller folds. I fold - thoughts? I rarely see shoves with much that QQ beats (calling shoves yes but not actually shoving) - this is where poker tracker would be very useful.

Feel free to comment on the QQ fold by the way (or any of the hands for that matter) I don"t think it is terrible but is very marginal.



Very much villain dependent, what is his ep raising range. But if you are going to fold to a 4bet best to not 3bet, doing so you are burning equity. If villain is positionally aware flatting is best usually.

Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 22, 2011, 20:44:59 PM



Then I got Dealt AK. I raise it up to 50p (I think there had been 1 limper) and get a single caller The flop comes a helpful K-3-4. I like this flop although there is a flush draw so I bet £1 into the pot of about £1.05, the other player raise it to £3. I put him on various weaker kings, maybe a flush draw or a set oe 3"s or 4"s with a vey small chance of an underpair to the King and air.

I therefore call and the flop comes a Queen and does not complete any draws.I check intending to CRAI he bets £3 and I feel he is commited with any of the above hands and shove, he calls me with K-Q. I am happy with how I played the hand as I think it is very against that range.


Though I"m hardly ever folding here (villain dependant) I rather not CR turn, it gives villain opportunity to play perfectly and fold out the weak end of his range, pot size already allows for stacks to go in on the river.


Quote from: AAroddersAA


Apart from that I make on iffy play, I get QQ and somebody raises from early position to 40p, one caller before me and I make it £1.40 the original raiser shoves for £9 and the caller folds. I fold - thoughts? I rarely see shoves with much that QQ beats (calling shoves yes but not actually shoving) - this is where poker tracker would be very useful.

Feel free to comment on the QQ fold by the way (or any of the hands for that matter) I don"t think it is terrible but is very marginal.



Very much villain dependent, what is his ep raising range. But if you are going to fold to a 4bet best to not 3bet, doing so you are burning equity. If villain is positionally aware flatting is best usually.

Good post as usual mate

OK, The first hand you are right, I am either way a head or way behind. I would say there is a small part of his range that might call the turn but fold on the river (flush draws) which was my initial thinking, but now I think about it more you way of playing it is better as it keeps bluffs in his range - good point.

The QQ I am not sure about. You might well be right again, the raise is folding out hands I beat, but I like the three bet as I think plenty worse calls (JJ, 10-10 etc), I just don"t think it raises. For example a hand like 10-10 or 9-9 might call and get married to the hand on a low flop. Also if I flat and the flop comes Jack high, I still have to call or raise a c-bet and end up making things really complicated don"t I? By three betting I have his range more defined and if he flats me he ALMOST never has AA or KK.

I think the 3-bet loses less to AA and KK and wins more from JJ and 10-10. OK I might get pushed off by AK or JJ every now and again but still think this is most profitable against an online random. I can see the advantages in flat calling though.

If you just flat call in position and the flop comes Jack high how do you play the flop? Are you raising or calling the flop bet.

What if it comes King high?
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: noble1 on March 22, 2011, 21:53:24 PM
regarding the QQ as played folding is ok in micros, like u say there 4bet range is basically AA KK [AK sometimes depending on villain]...
3betting without reads is ok, with reads if u have seen villain call a lot oop then 3betting is ok imo, just expand your 3bet value range and reduce the trash :)
if villain/s fold a lot to 3bets increase the trash, if they are fold or 4bet types then your 3bet value range could for instance be only AA KK and air, the air ratio is your choice based on how often they fold, flatting QQ would be arguably more +ev....
if your not sure of how these guys react to 3bets, then 3bet more at the start of the session and note how they react and whether or not they adjust [and how].. then u can adjust your strategy....

3betting or flatting is a bigger subject than a few sentences, have a sit down and a beer/tea etc take 10 mins and have a good think...
what/why would cause u to make any of the adjustments below -
Add trash
Add broadway hands
Add more pocket pairs
Add suited connectors
Add suited aces
Remove the bluffing range
Remove the middle (JJ, AQ, TT, KQs)
Flat with premium hands (QQ+, AK)

if u dont come up with anything then at least u have a nice break and a cold beer :)
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: TheSnapper on March 22, 2011, 21:58:58 PM


The QQ I am not sure about. You might well be right again, the raise is folding out hands I beat, but I like the three bet as I think plenty worse calls (JJ, 10-10 etc), I just don"t think it raises. For example a hand like 10-10 or 9-9 might call and get married to the hand on a low flop.



It really depends on villains ranges. If he"s tight in ep......

Versus a range of 99+,AJs+,KQs,AKo, QQ does well with ~58% equity.

But think about how your hand does when you isolate versus only the part of his range that does"nt fold to your 3bet, again though, you need to consider how he will react so you can best decide whether or not 3betting is correct.

That you dont include reads maybe suggests room for improvement in that dept???


Quote from: AAroddersAA


Also if I flat and the flop comes Jack high, I still have to call or raise a c-bet and end up making things really complicated don"t I?

If you just flat call in position and the flop comes Jack high how do you play the flop? Are you raising or calling the flop bet.

What if it comes King high?



If you flat you play poker ip and get more info on each street and strive to make better decisions than your opponent. By paying close attention to your opponents tendancies you can best recognise what his actions mean and read him better than he reads you.

I suspect from your post that you dont use PT or HM, when you consider almost all your opponents will use these tools, you are definately taking the worst of it before you even start.

Quote from: AAroddersAA


By three betting I have his range more defined and if he flats me he ALMOST never has AA or KK. *****I think the 3-bet loses less to AA and KK and wins more from JJ and 10-10. OK I might get pushed off by AK or JJ every now and again but still think this is most profitable against an online random. I can see the advantages in flat calling though.



Some default assumptions in there tbh Steve, some flat with AA & KK at least some of the time imho. My experience is that AK is the one hand they are least likely to flat with and more likely to 4bet jam.

*****This is seriously flawed thinking Steve

Say he raises a range of 99+,AJs+,KQs,AKo from ep and folds 50% to your 3bet.

QQ versus.........

99+,AJs+,KQs,AKo....      has ~58%

QQ+,AKs,AKo......           has ~40%

Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 22, 2011, 23:15:44 PM



The QQ I am not sure about. You might well be right again, the raise is folding out hands I beat, but I like the three bet as I think plenty worse calls (JJ, 10-10 etc), I just don"t think it raises. For example a hand like 10-10 or 9-9 might call and get married to the hand on a low flop.



It really depends on villains ranges. If he"s tight in ep......

Versus a range of 99+,AJs+,KQs,AKo, QQ does well with ~58% equity.

But think about how your hand does when you isolate versus only the part of his range that does"nt fold to your 3bet, again though, you need to consider how he will react so you can best decide whether or not 3betting is correct.

That you dont include reads maybe suggests room for improvement in that dept???


Quote from: AAroddersAA


Also if I flat and the flop comes Jack high, I still have to call or raise a c-bet and end up making things really complicated don"t I?

If you just flat call in position and the flop comes Jack high how do you play the flop? Are you raising or calling the flop bet.

What if it comes King high?



If you flat you play poker ip and get more info on each street and strive to make better decisions than your opponent. By paying close attention to your opponents tendancies you can best recognise what his actions mean and read him better than he reads you.

I suspect from your post that you dont use PT or HM, when you consider almost all your opponents will use these tools, you are definately taking the worst of it before you even start.

Quote from: AAroddersAA


By three betting I have his range more defined and if he flats me he ALMOST never has AA or KK. *****I think the 3-bet loses less to AA and KK and wins more from JJ and 10-10. OK I might get pushed off by AK or JJ every now and again but still think this is most profitable against an online random. I can see the advantages in flat calling though.



Some default assumptions in there tbh Steve, some flat with AA & KK at least some of the time imho. My experience is that AK is the one hand they are least likely to flat with and more likely to 4bet jam.

*****This is seriously flawed thinking Steve

Say he raises a range of 99+,AJs+,KQs,AKo from ep and folds 50% to your 3bet.

QQ versus.........

99+,AJs+,KQs,AKo....      has ~58%

QQ+,AKs,AKo......           has ~40%



You hand anaysis is great as always Brendan.

I will respond to this tomorrow though, as it"s an interesting one, I can see all of your points but don"t 100% agree with them all. This might be one we need to have a beer at an event and discuss though :-)

As for Poker Tracker, of course I have it. It just doesn"t work on Sky Poker, neither does holdem Manager. You have to do it the old fashioned way with player notes, I only keep them on the regs though and this player was not somebody I had noticed before. So yes, I am having to make this decision without a lot of the information that would normally be available. Does that change it? Do you really include 99 and AJs in his 4-Bet shoving range here.

I will check my hands from "Stars in PT tomorrow actually and try to work out if it is profitable to call with QQ in this spot.

Also QQ has to be a three bet here unless it is very opponent dependant. Doesn"t it?
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 23, 2011, 17:29:46 PM
Good day today, sorted my holidays for Vegas so time to get the flight booked.

I am again going to do a quick hour long session tonight and see how it goes. Will come back to my QQ hand later.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 23, 2011, 19:36:59 PM
OK, played a session and ended up being £1.50 down. A couple of hands worth posting the first one was when I called a min raise with 44. The flop came down 4-5-J and the original raiser bets out 10p into the pot of around 60p. I decide this looks pretty weak and so I call hoping that the player behind will raise but he jus calls. The turn comes a 2. The bets another 10p I decide I may as well pull the trigger now and raise it to £1 not really expecting any action, the OR then shoves, I call and he shows A-3 for the turned straight. I think I played that badly as if he has missed the flop he is unlikely to pay me any more on the turn so the best play would have been to make a proper bet on the lfop.

I then get dealt AK on the button and pop it up to 70p when the whole table limps in. I get three caller and the flop comes down.

Ks-Jc-7c

There is a check then the middle position player bets £1.50 into a pot of around £3. There is now £4.50 in the pot and I have £7.50 back. I raise it up to £7 and one of the players behind calls allin. Everybody else folds and he misses his flush draw.

One more interesting hand to say about. I get dealy JJ and a regular player (who is generally quite passive) raises it up to 40p. In early position, I know his range for doing this to be quite wide. so I flat call with JJ. The flop comes down:-

8h-4c-6s

He checks over to me, I now reckon my hand is good so bet 65p into the pot of £0.95, he calls. The turn brings a Qh. He checks to me and I check as well my thinking being that now the queen is out I shoudn"t really get called by too much that I beat. The river card was 7h and completes an unlikely flush. He bets £1.13 into the pot to £2.20 and I call. He shows Aces. This hand is interesting compared to the one Brendan and me were discussing last night.  Lets say I played it as I did last night, the way it probably goes is he makes it 40p. I make it £1.40 and he most likely reraises making me fold preflop. So that would have cost me £1.40. In this case the hand costs me £2.08 but I actually get to show down and there is an arguement that my river call is bad. Definately see the point in the just call and play the hand in position but I remain unconvinced long term tbh. Going to try this tactic again though.

Might play the Blonde league tournament tonight as well. Why not join in - it"s the take on Tikay at 8:30pm on Sky Poker.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: technolog on March 23, 2011, 19:58:41 PM

Might play the Blonde league tournament tonight as well. Why not join in - it"s the take on Tikay at 8:30pm on Sky Poker.


Okay Steve. I bloody well will!
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 24, 2011, 21:28:37 PM
A lot APAT business to take care of at the moment for me.
I have booked up Newcastle flight and hotel. I have booked time off work and flight for Vegas.

Now to the business of selecting the Welsh team. Unlike the Team Championship in January this team event is extermely serious but to be one of the Captain of the Welsh team is a major honour, especially considering how successful the Welsh have been. Myself and Darren have the ideal two teams in our mind but it depends on if those players are available and who else puts themselves forward but we want to get the teams selected soon to give everybody the chance to book up their flights and hotels.

I played another hour of poker tonight and was able to make just over a buyin, but it was all pretty standard stuff tbh.

btw @Brendan or whoever else wants to answer, back to the QQ and 3-Bet of flat. What if it is not QQ but AK? Does that make you more inclinded to 3-Bet/fold? I have been trying doing the flatting thing in position with QQ and JJ and it seems good, still not 100% convinced it is optimal though. I think you can be +EV using both methods but suspect the 3-Bet is more +EV.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: TheSnapper on March 24, 2011, 23:03:27 PM


btw @Brendan or whoever else wants to answer, back to the QQ and 3-Bet of flat. What if it is not QQ but AK? Does that make you more inclinded to 3-Bet/fold? I have been trying doing the flatting thing in position with QQ and JJ and it seems good, still not 100% convinced it is optimal though. I think you can be +EV using both methods but suspect the 3-Bet is more +EV.



The previous discussion and any points made were solely relevent to the very specific scenario......

Early position (ep) unknown raiser, it is wise to give him credit for a tight range until you see evidence to the contrary, likewise expect an even tighter range for continuing versus a 3bet.

That all adds up to flatting over 3 betting and keeping the hands we dominate in the hand.

The other end of the spectrum is the raiser with a wide ep raising range and 3 bet calling range, this is a 3bet spot for sure since he continues with lots of hands we dominate.

Cliff notes:



Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 25, 2011, 17:54:41 PM



btw @Brendan or whoever else wants to answer, back to the QQ and 3-Bet of flat. What if it is not QQ but AK? Does that make you more inclinded to 3-Bet/fold? I have been trying doing the flatting thing in position with QQ and JJ and it seems good, still not 100% convinced it is optimal though. I think you can be +EV using both methods but suspect the 3-Bet is more +EV.



The previous discussion and any points made were solely relevent to the very specific scenario......

Early position (ep) unknown raiser, it is wise to give him credit for a tight range until you see evidence to the contrary, likewise expect an even tighter range for continuing versus a 3bet.

That all adds up to flatting over 3 betting and keeping the hands we dominate in the hand.

The other end of the spectrum is the raiser with a wide ep raising range and 3 bet calling range, this is a 3bet spot for sure since he continues with lots of hands we dominate.

Cliff notes:


  • 3 bet the hands that do well against his 3 bet calling range

  • As their 3 bet calling ranges get tighter, add in 3 bet bluffs





Sounds about right the more I think about tbh
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 26, 2011, 20:10:02 PM
This last four days I have been sticking to a pretty good disciplined schedule as far as poker goes. I have been getting back from work at around 4:30 - 5pm and have played each evening for about an hour. My results playing the £10nl tables are as follows:-

Tue = +£4
Wed = -£2
Thu = +£13
Fri = +£17

Obviously the figures are rounded up and down to the nearest whole number but I have made 3 buyins over the week for this level and I think I have played well. In the past this used to be pretty standard for me and I will see how I do now this weekend  Even in terms of real money won based on my results so far this week that is a good week. Playing the lower limit takes the actual money out of it more (which becomes a concern even when playing inside your bankroll when you are on an bad run) and makes you more focused on playing correctly and making the right plays. It is not very exciting though and wins and losses mean less. Which is actually a good thing.

What I think I should do here, what I would advise somebody else to do is stay playing at this level for a couple of weeks, maybe a month. Setup a schedule that you stick too and record your results. If you are getting good results then try that same schedule again at the next level up and slowly work your way back to where you are playing confidently but don"t go outside your bankroll. Hmm that sounds like a good idea, I"m good at this pokerz business.

The problem is I have no inclination to do that. I still have more than £600 sat on Sky Poker (so I am actually up on the year which is pretty amazing considering I have been playing useless, I am down at holdem cash but am up at tournaments and Omaha cash) so my brain is saying just go back and play the £30 buyin games again, they are within your bankroll in theory and you know you can beat those players. I am well aware this is not a good idea at this point though.

Well I am going to give my advice a go anyway and see how I do. If my discipline holds out I hope that my game will start to come back together. The plan is from now until the end of next week and I am going to play £10nlhe tables only. I will multi table 4 or 5 tables at a time. I will then record the results and see how I do.

26/03/2011 = 8pm to 9pm (+£19.21)
27/03/2011 = 6:30pm to 7:30pm (+£4.54)
28/03/2011 = 6:30pm to 7:30pm (+£6.39 - changed session time to 9pm to 10pm due to being stuck at work)
29/03/2011 = 5:30pm to 6:30pm (-£12.56)
30/03/2011 = 5:30pm to 6:30pm (+£23.78)
31/03/2011 = 7pm to 8pm (-£5.21)
01/04/2011 = 10am to 12pm (+£5.29)
01/04/2011 = 1pm to 2pm (Did not play)
01/04/2011 = 4pm to 5pm (-£7.21)
02/04/2011 = 10am to 11:30am (Did not play)
03/04/2011 = 4pm to 5pm (Did not Play)

This is 12.5 hours
They say the average winning player should make 5BB/100 - I should point out I have never met they so I have no idea if they has the qualifications to decided this. A suspect you should have a high expectation at this level.

Anyway lets say that I get dealt 250 hands per hour (50 per table) that's 3125 hands
If I can run at 5BB/100 that's 50p I should make per 100 hands

So the expectation based on this should be to win around £15.60 for an average player at this level. Well OK we will see how I go compared to that. I have to be honest and say that sounds ridiculously easy are my calculations even right? I know I may have under estimated the hand per hour but even if it was 70/table then the expectation is still only around £22. Basically what this seems to be saying is that I should be very happy with anything over £25 profit.


Edit for update ended up with a profit of £34.23, but did put in an extra session during which I lost £33.55 so it ended up being basically a break even run.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 27, 2011, 20:06:44 PM
What an interesting little session today. Again I am pleased with how it went and how I played. As always it came down to how a few specfic hands were played. First one is a QQ hand.

I raised in EP to 40p and get reraised by a player who has not really been out of line, it folds back to me and I flat. Flop is Jack high. I check, he bets 2 and I vall. I check again and he shoves. I don"t see what he could be reraising me with here pre then playing that strong on the flop and turn, so I fold and think that is a good play.

Next hand of interest was when I raise with KQ. I get called and the flop comes queen high. I bet out and again get called and turn turn pairs nines on the board. I check call his shove (he did not have much left) and he show 89. I lose about £4 there.

i then raise again with KQ and get called by another short stack who has about £5 behind. The flop comes queen high. He checks to me and I bet, he shoves and I call. He shows A-Q.

I lose some other small pots and end up down about £12. Then I get KQs. I am OOP in the small blind but when the pretty active button raises I decide to 3bet light.I don"t do this often but it felt like a good spot. He just flats and the pot come A-7-x with two clubs including the ace. I bet as I reckon I can rep the ace and have the nut flush draw. He calls and the turn completes my flush. I think he might have an ace so I make a pot size bet and he reraise me back. I wonder if he might even have two pair or a set so shove he calls with a set of sevens. The river does not help him and I take a pot of about £25 there.

I win a few more pots with cbets and by double barrelling a player who always seems to callc-bets on the flop and give up on the turn.

So yes, good session and I seem to be on my way to recovering my game.

I need to practice by sit n go"s. I have played plenty of PLO cash games but never really played PLO sit n go"s so will get a bit of practce online. MIght do the Blonde sit n go league if there is one next month.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 28, 2011, 10:13:37 AM
http://www.virginmedia.com/science-nature/video.php?bclid=72350499001&bctid=672141821001&keywords=science,nature,area+51,Nevada,secret+building

Hmm Area 51
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 30, 2011, 20:43:07 PM
Poker is going along quite nicely. Even though I lost just over a buyin yesterday I think I played quite well made one call that was not great on the turn but other than that was fine, won"t bored you with some fairly standard hands. I did well today though and won just over two buyins, which was nice. Now I am playing the Take on Tikay for a change from cash.

Over all with my little "experiment" I am now up by £41.36 after playing 5 hour long sessions. If i could just find a way of getting Sky poker to tell me how many hands I have played that would be useful.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 31, 2011, 15:13:11 PM
Finished work early so put in a quick session did not go too well and ended up down £33.55. Hmm should have stayed in work.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on April 10, 2011, 23:21:49 PM
I have been neglecting this for the last week or so, I have lots of posts I want to make but have been quite busy with non poker related matters. Oh and sorting out the Welsh Home Nations team

Anyway an update on the online cash games is required. One thing is certain, but it"s not exactly anything we don"t already know. If you are not focused on the actual money you do better. I have seen on various media suggestions you should set a target and try and hit it, I am sure this is incorrect. You should play for however long you were going to and come off and be happy if you have made the right plays. This is a lot easier said than done but it is true.

Over the last month or so (about 5 weeks actually) I have been playing 5p/10p and have been doing a good job of being disciplined and not getting hung up on results. In tis time I have made 21 buyins (£210). Not wonderful I know but I would happily make £210 each month for the rest of the year, although I would hope for more to be honest. Once you add the little bit I won in the Take on Tikays for the Blonde league I won about £250 since starting the attempt to improve my play to good disciplined play.

I have the next two days off work and am planning to do 3 one hour sessions each day and see how I do. I will also play the Blonde League and Chezger League tomorrow. I may or may not update this thread on how it goes depending on how I feel. Posting all of my results is not something I like doing as I feel it has a negative impact on my play (I don"t know why).

The Home Nations is coming up in less than two weeks and Wales are in with a great chance of taking it down. We have two excellent teams and will be very hard to beat, in this game though you never really can tell, I just hope the cards are with us.

More posts are coming soon including:-

My thoughts on the APAT Online League
The conclusion to my how it all began story
A little piece of creative writing (I used to write shirt stories) I want to do about APAT

Oh my APAT results this year are not great but I will be trying to improve those in the next couple of weeks as well.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on April 14, 2011, 21:47:01 PM
How can this possibly be right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiRH47J_zuI

I mean Darth Vader would obviously win - silly you tube :-)
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Ludovician on April 15, 2011, 18:18:24 PM

"(I used to write shirt stories)"

Can we expect a short sleeve story or a T-Shirt story or more of a formal evening wear shirt sort of story



;D
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on April 15, 2011, 18:23:23 PM
So I am driving to work this morning, feeling a bit bad about the fact that next week at the Home Nations there are six teams and only one bronze medal for them to win, when I go to drive into the office car park and somebody jumps out in front of my car. So I brake sharply wondering what emergency could have caused this.

I open the window and some CWU union rep is trying to give me a paper (which it turns out didn"t even have a sports section) and wants me to fill in his form so I can give away some money every month. I politely told him I needed to get to work, what with having a real job to do and eveything and drove around hmm.

In retropsect that was a poor read by me. I should have just driven through him.

Ludovician - I will try when I get the chance, although I how put myself in a bit of a tough spot now - proof reading posts FTW
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on April 16, 2011, 18:09:31 PM
Had planned to go and watch Newport County today but then realised that it was the APAT UK Online Championship so will be playing poker instead.

19:00 - 40K Gtd on Pokerstars (was hoping for an overlay but does not look likely) - Out, KK lost to AK AIPF for the world
20:00 - APAT Game (KK < AA)
20:30 - Blonde League Deep Stack on Sky Poker (shoved with J5 and lost to QJ)
21:00 - APAT Omaha Game (KKTT < AAxx)

Will add a couple of cash tables on Sky. Won a bit at cash but not much.

Some of the play in these tournaments is pretty poor, surprising.

Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Newportlad on April 16, 2011, 22:59:45 PM
Didnt miss much at County Steve.
They only won 5-0
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on May 06, 2011, 12:10:28 PM
OK, going to have a go at restarting this properly this month. I have been pretty busy lately withnon poker related stuff (mainly work) but want to start doing updates on each session again and posting hands. Had a great month last month. Won a little bit in live cash (about £80), Wales A won the Home Nations (so was up £250 on that weekend) and I was about £400 up online which is much more like it.

However I did have a problem last time I was trying to do that and whenever I try to do this I don"t seem to do as well as when I am just keeping the results private. I have no idea why. Will start this up tomorrow though and see how it is doing.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on May 07, 2011, 10:59:39 AM
Just played my first session since I said I would restart this. I was down £50, this is my worst session since I stopped this!!!!

I will keep trying to do updates on this but it"s really strange, whenever I start putting results on any kind of public forum I start to lose. I was killing the game last month just playing without posting but we will try again later and see wher it goes.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on May 07, 2011, 13:08:55 PM
Made a quick change to the setup of my PC"s and monitors, lets hope that helps the afternoon session
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on May 07, 2011, 14:12:00 PM
Had a break even session this afternoon. Happy enough with how I played it but right at the end of the session I got it allin with AA on a flop where I was called by the flush draw. The actions went like this. I have £24 and my opponent has about £20. I have AA UTG and raise it to £0.80. He raises it to £1.80 so I make it £4 (probably not enough. The flop comes down Quuen high with two diamonds. I bet out £6 into a pot of just over £8. He shoves and I call. He hits and a £40+ pot goes to him, was a bit annoyed about this so cut the session short.

I might have brought it on myself though by not 4-Betting enough preflop, but reviewing this I am not sure I did too much wrong. Played pretty well in general, will be back later to report on later sessions. I am still £50 down today though,  one pretty bad mistake but nothing major other than that.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: jbworldwide on May 07, 2011, 14:36:25 PM

Had a break even session this afternoon. Happy enough with how I played it but right at the end of the session I got it allin with AA on a flop where I was called by the flush draw. The actions went like this. I have £24 and my opponent has about £20. I have AA UTG and raise it to £0.80. He raises it to £1.80 so I make it £4 (probably not enough. The flop comes down Quuen high with two diamonds. I bet out £6 into a pot of just over £8. He shoves and I call. He hits and a £40+ pot goes to him, was a bit annoyed about this so cut the session short.

I might have brought it on myself though by not 4-Betting enough preflop, but reviewing this I am not sure I did too much wrong. Played pretty well in general, will be back later to report on later sessions. I am still £50 down today though,  one pretty bad mistake but nothing major other than that.


You are thinking about the AA all wrong. Why would you want him out of the pot? you want to get max value from aces. Also he made the mistake of shoving the flush draw on the flop, he will lose money in the long run doing this. (Although granted it is better to shove than call.)

Your 3 bet pre flop is fine, again you are being results orientated. You want him to shove with the worst hand. remember you are 85% against any two cards pre flop.

I can"t comment on the percentages after because I don"t know the board, but if he hasn"t connected and is shoving a flush draw under a queen only he is about 30%
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on May 07, 2011, 15:19:28 PM


Had a break even session this afternoon. Happy enough with how I played it but right at the end of the session I got it allin with AA on a flop where I was called by the flush draw. The actions went like this. I have £24 and my opponent has about £20. I have AA UTG and raise it to £0.80. He raises it to £1.80 so I make it £4 (probably not enough. The flop comes down Quuen high with two diamonds. I bet out £6 into a pot of just over £8. He shoves and I call. He hits and a £40+ pot goes to him, was a bit annoyed about this so cut the session short.

I might have brought it on myself though by not 4-Betting enough preflop, but reviewing this I am not sure I did too much wrong. Played pretty well in general, will be back later to report on later sessions. I am still £50 down today though,  one pretty bad mistake but nothing major other than that.


You are thinking about the AA all wrong. Why would you want him out of the pot? you want to get max value from aces. Also he made the mistake of shoving the flush draw on the flop, he will lose money in the long run doing this. (Although granted it is better to shove than call.)

Your 3 bet pre flop is fine, again you are being results orientated. You want him to shove with the worst hand. remember you are 85% against any two cards pre flop.

I can"t comment on the percentages after because I don"t know the board, but if he hasn"t connected and is shoving a flush draw under a queen only he is about 30%

I am pretty sure every play I make in the hand is +EV

However I am supposed to raise more here preflop. Completely happy with how I played the hand but after he makes it £1.80 with his 4Bet I think I could make it more. OK in this one hand it might have folded him out but I honestly thought he had a much stronger hand. Therefore I should probably make it more than £4 here. £5.50 would be better?

Or is it fine as played? I want to make a decent sized pot to be able to commit both players on the flop right?
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on May 07, 2011, 17:23:33 PM
OK, just played a session and made £16 back. Again unsure what I could have done different. Might have mad a bad call in one hand when I had JJ. I raise it up to £1 after one limper and get a call and see a flop of 2-K-9, rainbow. He check to me. I c-bet £1.50, my opponent calls. I the turn was a blank and he checks. I also check. The river is another blank, no flush is on, not real str8 draws.

He bets out £3 and I call, it kinda looked like a King all the way through so I probably lost $3 I didn"t need to there. I have not really been leaking much money though. Will be having another crack later of course. Still losing £34 today.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on May 07, 2011, 23:44:20 PM
Well managed to retrieve the situation up to a point. I ended the day a fiver down which I can live with after being £50 down earlier today. I have reviewed the sessions - played about 5 hours worth of 6 tables over the day.

My first mistake was an AQ hand. I raised from the cur off to 80p and the button made it £2, he was playing about £9 and I had a full stack. I had already had to fold a hand to him not too much earlier and so I shoved my AQ. He called with AA. This is a poor play. The raise is OK and I can call the 3-bet although it would be better to fold. Basically lost £8 I did not need to lose. on this hand.

This was about the only hand all day which was terrible though. I had a few coolers. My flopped straight lost to top two pair when it made a full house (Omaha, so not as bad as it sounds). I had set under set and also had the AA hand I mention above.

Will continue with this blog for the month and see how it goes. I could play some hands on 888.com as I am not liking not being able to post hand histories.

Does anybody know if 888.com is much tougher than Sky in terms of competition?
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on May 09, 2011, 22:37:26 PM
Fell asleep so forgot to update yesterday. Basically I won £45 online in a very uninteresting day. I wish that all of my poker days went like that. I did lose a buyin getting AA AIPF against QQ, however I won the money back off the same guy in a similar situation. I made a set Vs his overpair so it didn"t make a huge difference. I am £40 up this month though. I did not play today as only got back from work at 8pm and needed to go to Tesco.

I played the APAT Div 2 yesterday and ended up 11th I could have folded into a min cash but winning $13 didn"t excite me that much so when I shoved my J-7 into A-8 I was not to disappointed.

I played two small bounty hunters on Sky. I have no idea of the correct way to play these I never get any heads. I min cashed in them both and ended up losing money (only about £2 but still). Also missed the Chezger league today (sorry Ger and Tighty) but will probably play the Blonde Poker version tomorrow. Will probably not play a worthwhile online session now until Thursday as I am going to be working until 7pm most of the week but will do a good session that day with updates.

I sense a good run coming on the pokerz. I do hope I am correct since November I haven"t really been firing and even though I am nearly £700 up over most types of poker this year (Cash and tourneys, live and online) I feel I am not really doing myself justice. The breakdown is this fwiw (I did play one home game that is not included but made £55 in it)

Live Cash = +£231 (5 sessions)
Online Cash = +£374 (disappointing to say the least)
Online Tournaments = -£52
Live Tournaments = +£125 (4 events inc Home Nations)
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on May 12, 2011, 09:43:13 AM
Had a degen moment last night. Was playing in the sat for SPT Cardiff and found a bad player on my table who was also playing 50p/£1 PLO so decided I was going to take a shot on that table. It was all going well and I was up to about £120 when I got it allin with A-A-J-3 with one of my aces sooted. I lost the hand though (as can easily happen in PLO). So lost myself £100 there. Not worried about it as I was definitely a favorite in the game even though its above the limit I should be playing as I am not really comfortable at that limit online.

Anyway will go back to playing 10p/20p and 15p/30p today as I just feel much happier at that limit even though in reaity the standard is not very different.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on May 12, 2011, 11:26:43 AM
Playing a bit at the moment.

Was up about a buyin, then just had this hand. I raised to 80p with KJ from the cut off and get called by both blinds. The flop comes down K-A-J with two diamonds. The pot is £2.40 so I bet out £2. The SB folded but the BB raises to £6.50.

After thinking for a while I shoved and got called by AK. THe shove might have been bad there as it is quite unlikely I get called by worse as a raggy ace probably folds to that.

EDIT - Couldn"t get it going properly this morning, down £12. Will try again later.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on May 12, 2011, 14:52:08 PM
Not looking that great today. I was doing finr and had brought myself back to being about £10 up for the day. Then 3 of my six tables emptied and there were no other tables to play.

I brought up and Omaha table (still 10pm/20p) and lost £44 in 10 minutes on there. I won"t go into the details but I was in front every time the money went in. This has put me down about £55 for the day. Don"t think I am going to be keeping this going for much longer as it does seem to have a negative impact on my results but oh well, I might turn it around yet.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on May 12, 2011, 15:10:57 PM
Down £39 in total today, only two buyins might be able to recover if I decide to play another session
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on May 14, 2011, 08:20:33 AM
Decided I would have one more night of being a degen last night so hit the £100 PLO tables again.

+£182 - It seems quads are quite good and getting them twice helps.

Hmm OK that was fun, think I had best go back to being sensible now and playing the normal games. Out today though so won"t be until tomorrow.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: Newportlad on May 31, 2011, 03:22:09 AM
Bump
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 16, 2011, 13:44:10 PM
Hello

Going try to bring this back after DTD, based on some people apparently wanting to read it (God knows why). Last time I tried it I seemed to play worse because of it (not sure why) but that might just have been a bad run so I will try again.

I have not been playing a great deal at the moment as I have been stupidly busy with work. Hopefully that is now going to calm down.

I have been playing some PLO online with fairly mixed results but am about $200 up on the PLO Deep stacked tables on Pokerstars. I should be more like $350 up but spent a day playing on tilt and managed to burn through $150 in total, most due to my poor play. As I am off work the week after next I will be playing some and seeing how I perform.

Not playing so much on Sky now, I will still play a bit to support Blonde leagues and that sort of thing but am going to take cash games back to Pokerstar"s as the PLO games run much more there and that is what I would like to learn to be better at. Will still play Holdem as well of course.

I have played no live poker since May but will be playing some cash at DTD as well as the main event and PLO tournaments, will also play some of the online events.

Hopefully the break from poker might make me feel a bit more like playing again (not sure if this will actually work). Looking forward to DTD but more because it will be a chance to see all the APATer"s again and I have not gone on a APAT weekend since Newcastle back whenever that was. I am going to arrive on Friday and stay until Tuesday morning so basically get 4 full days (as I will get there at around 2pm on Friday).

Oh and I have also made a twitter account http://twitter.com/#!/AAroddersAA. Not sure why I need twitter when I have Facebook but it seems to be the in thing to do so why not. I need more followers so please start following :-)

I will tweet some updates at some point or another. Right OK back to work then.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: technolog on August 16, 2011, 22:16:23 PM
(http://blondepoker.com/forum/Smileys/default/hello.gif)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Laxie on August 16, 2011, 22:19:55 PM

(http://blondepoker.com/forum/Smileys/default/hello.gif)


OMFG!!!  Imma strangle him well and truly!  Told him you were asking for him and the best he can come up with is that cheesy smiley?!  Soz Rod...I tried.  Sigh.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 17, 2011, 09:20:30 AM
Well bring this back did some good anyway as it brought Jack out of hiding. Looking forward to seeing both of ya at DTD obv.

In between then and now I have been invited to two football games on Saturday, One is a Premiership game involving my home town"s team (Swansea), one is a Blue Square Premier game involving some team from somewhere I used to live in a previous life dressed in orange. They are basically Wales two top teams though (cos any team with a stadium that looks like it should be at Lego-land does not count *lol*).

Which one should I go too?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: KarmaDope on August 17, 2011, 10:39:46 AM
Swansea, not Newport.
Title: Re: Back to reality - 2011
Post by: thinsy147 on August 17, 2011, 10:55:29 AM

Oh and I have also made a twitter account http://twitter.com/#!/AAroddersAA. Not sure why I need twitter when I have Facebook but it seems to be the in thing to do so why not. I need more followers so please start following :-)


I use Twitter for just poker/sport/interest matters...... I use Facebook for hearing mindless/useless/pointless matters that I couldn"t really care about anyway!!  :P

I"m following you on Twitter.......

Now read this  ;D
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Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Laxie on August 17, 2011, 11:22:00 AM
Flip a coin imo.  Heads - you go Swansea.  Tails - you go tango.  Simples.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 18, 2011, 00:17:13 AM
I think I am going to watch the orange football match on Saturday.

This is probably sad but I was bored earlier I started looking for amusing things to watch on you tube. This channel assumed me for some reason :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m0YYy9lqqs&playnext=1&list=PLF182E6D3031ABF70

Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 18, 2011, 10:38:56 AM
Song for today is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztypys1wF40

DUCY
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 18, 2011, 23:34:11 PM
I will be glad when it is the weekend this week. I worked all through last weekend so will have done 11 straight days where I have been there for at least 10 hours (more in most cases). A large amount of this has been spent listening to calls from various contact centres and without going into to many fo the boring details it has been pretty mind numbing. On the plus side I am only in work for 3 days next week until Wednesday and I am then off until 8th September.

This weekend however I am going to watch the football in Newport. Way way back in a previous life before, I had ever even thought about playing poker or met anybody who plays APAT or any other events I was a regular Newport County fan (only they were called Newport AFC then) and they were in what what then called the Beazer Homes League. I did not miss a home game for two years at one time and was a regular at the ground for about 5 years. I also went to some of their first games after they were formed and at their old ground (which is now houses). I was also offered tickets to a Swansea City game thsi weekend against Wigan but felt like a blast from the past as it will only be a one off (although I might dig the old orange Scarf out) .

It is over 10 years since I last went to one of their games but two mates of mine are season ticket holders and I got invited along to see their first conference home game. I am actually quite looking forward to it. We are going to the club bar first to watch the Arsenal Vs Liverpool game and then to a few random pubs in Newport after until I get tired and go home and leave them to what I am guessing will be a very late night.

Today at lunch I gave a collegue some PLO lessons today, I showed him how to make profitable plays by thinking about what your opponent could have based on flop texture and the action and to play accordingly, I sounded really clever explaining how when you raise the turn, a call normally indicates a draw or a medium strength hand trying to get to showdown and other such brilliant things. I lost $30 of his money in the process. Well he can"t expect such wizdom for free can he *lol*
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 20, 2011, 09:19:28 AM
Off to see Newport today which should be fun, off the Bar Amber first to watch The Liverpool game though.

Should all be good fun - and a week today I am playing the WCOAP day 1a.

Good luck to all apater"s playing the DTD GP
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 22, 2011, 22:24:17 PM
Had a great weekend. Went to see the football where Newport County drew 0-0 with Grimsby. Watched the Liverpool game in the bar before the game and the Chelsea game after, very nice and very different to how I remember it. Next time I will be sampling the food before the game though. Went to a birthday party after and had a few pints and some great food there, was a great weekend, hope to do some more like it soon.

Stayed in Newport on Sunday and came back to Swansea this morning, before work. Very much looking forward to DTD now, only two more days in work and 4 more sleeps until I get there on Friday, gonna be another great weekend. A lot of people who I have not seen for ages I am really looking forward to seeing and getting a drink for.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 25, 2011, 12:13:20 PM
Hello WCOAP 2011, APAT's premier festival begins today at the best card room in Europe Dusk Till Dawn.

Unfortunately I am not going until tomorrow but will be following online. Obviously supporting Wales in the team event and friends in the side event (stud today I think). I am driving up and intending to be there for 2pm tomorrow, quick check in and then over to DTD.

I am only playing cash tomorrow but I doubt that will last long as more people arrive. I am really looking forward to this event, not that concerned about how I do poker wise at the moment although that will probably change when I get to DTD but more expecting a really good weekend with some of the finest people around.

Playing the main event and PLO (not playing 6-max as need to watch the grand prix).

Today I will be washing my car, I don"t normally drive to APAT's but it"s over an hour quicker than getting on the train door to door. I will probably end up stopping at the services for a coffee though.

Also today packing and getting everything that I need before making the trip.

See everybody tomorrow :-)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: technolog on August 25, 2011, 12:42:19 PM
See you tomorrow Steve!
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 25, 2011, 13:39:47 PM

See you tomorrow Steve!

Are we there yet?????
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 31, 2011, 15:45:15 PM
Had a disappointing WCOAP, played badly in both the main event and in the Omaha. Was good to see people as always but poker did not go very well. Not sure why but these days I just cannot imagine myself sitting a a table playing poker for 10+ hours with only short breaks. It just feels so boring and there always seems to be better things to do especially at APAT events. Not too long ago I used to be able to sit at a table and not play a hand for two hours quite easily, now that is just not going to happen.

Anyway going to give playing online another go instead of playing live for now.

I am off work until a week tomorrow which I am going to spend playing some online poker. Hopefully it will go well. I am currently happy enough with my online game although I make too many bad calls on the turn and river.

Live though, I have not played a tournament where I felt I have played well since APAT Luton last year. I know the mistakes I am making and could write them all down and what I should do in the situations in which I get myself into trouble. I still keep making the mistakes though. It"s therefore a case between now and the end of the year, start playing well (I don"t need to get results just play well to my own satisfaction) or "give up" serious live poker. I would still probably play some APAT events and other local things but would stop pretending that I am taking them in any way seriously give up trying to see where I went wrong and trying to improve it in any formal way.

Will post later online cash results.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 31, 2011, 16:32:26 PM
Just played this hand, just wondering what would anybody put him on doing this and what your play would be??
It"s early in session so no worthwhile poker tracker stats

Seat 2: Rodders ($37.55 in chips)
Seat 3: JimmyRare ($34.04 in chips)
Seat 4: ginndaniels ($4.09 in chips)
Seat 5: delapaso ($45.73 in chips)
Seat 6: maxkruder ($13.68 in chips)
delapaso: posts small blind $0.10
maxkruder: posts big blind $0.25
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Rodders [Ad As]
Rodders: raises $0.75 to $1
JimmyRare: folds
ginndaniels: folds
delapaso: folds
djalexlee joins the table at seat #1
maxkruder: calls $0.75
*** FLOP *** [7h Ks 8s]
maxkruder: checks
Rodders: bets $1.50
maxkruder: calls $1.50
*** TURN *** [7h Ks 8s] [3d]
maxkruder: bets $1.50
Rodders: ????????

Simple shove right?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: nosey-p on August 31, 2011, 16:58:35 PM
Yep, shove for me if he has trips so be it.  
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 31, 2011, 21:45:03 PM
Cheers Wayne (well played in Nottingham btw), did shove and was good. But wondered what people thought the strange bet on the turn meant, probably nothing.

Dropped $60 tonight anyway - I suck :-)

Any opinions on this one are also welcome

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=54895.0
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on September 01, 2011, 00:43:29 AM
agree with wayne, his bet just looks...rubbish tbh.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on September 01, 2011, 00:49:26 AM
re handd on blonde.... feels like 910 alot of the time to me just looking at it.

pre, i am naturally more inclined to be aggressive so i prob 3 bet, but calling feels ok too.

its just such i random board for way han plays, he MAY have flopped a set, and been able to slow play it, but then shoving a straighty river would be awful IMO.

I reckon i just sigh fold and move on.

Not that im much good at Omalol. Just my thoughts :)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: noble1 on September 01, 2011, 05:15:38 AM
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 01, 2011, 08:05:37 AM
Thanks Noble. Good post, I will respond later though because I still think shoving in the NLHE hand is better (being a fish and all *lol*) would you make a smaller raise?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on September 01, 2011, 10:11:33 AM



Not that im much good at Omalol. Just my thoughts :)


just thought i would re itterate this point.

i just think that, through my experience, just ramming all your chips into a pot where you dont have the nuts in omaha is a bad idea lol, would personally just check it back and move on to the next hand. obv dont know how the villain thinks tho.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 01, 2011, 13:33:10 PM




Not that im much good at Omalol. Just my thoughts :)


just thought i would re itterate this point.

i just think that, through my experience, just ramming all your chips into a pot where you dont have the nuts in omaha is a bad idea lol, would personally just check it back and move on to the next hand. obv dont know how the villain thinks tho.

Me too, as evidenced below

PokerStars Game #66850224112:  Omaha Pot Limit ($0.05/$0.10 USD) - 2011/09/01 8:25:03 ET
Table "Gotha IV" 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: CardBrute ($12.03 in chips)
Seat 2: adi tevi ($23.30 in chips)
Seat 3: Successful68 ($8.03 in chips)
Seat 4: AAroddersAA ($26.14 in chips)
Seat 5: elvis210981 ($10.37 in chips)
Seat 6: greenmih ($9.80 in chips)
Successful68: posts small blind $0.05
AAroddersAA: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to AAroddersAA [Kh Kd Td 6h]
elvis210981: folds
greenmih: raises $0.20 to $0.30
CardBrute: folds
adi tevi: folds
Successful68: folds
AAroddersAA: calls $0.20
*** FLOP *** [3c 8h Ts]
AAroddersAA: checks
greenmih: bets $0.62
AAroddersAA: calls $0.62
*** TURN *** [3c 8h Ts] [8d]
AAroddersAA: checks
greenmih: bets $1.80
AAroddersAA: calls $1.80
*** RIVER *** [3c 8h Ts 8d] [5s]
AAroddersAA: checks
greenmih: bets $5.22
AAroddersAA: calls $5.22
*** SHOW DOWN ***
greenmih: shows [Ah Js 8s 8c] (four of a kind, Eights)
AAroddersAA: mucks hand
greenmih collected $15.15 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $15.93 | Rake $0.78
Board [3c 8h Ts 8d 5s]
Seat 1: CardBrute folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 2: adi tevi (button) folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 3: Successful68 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: AAroddersAA (big blind) mucked [Kh Kd Td 6h]
Seat 5: elvis210981 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 6: greenmih showed [Ah Js 8s 8c] and won ($15.15) with four of a kind, Eights
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 01, 2011, 17:03:28 PM
Played some more PLO today. Can be really tough when it is not going your way, I was down by about $40, which means I am just over $100 (4 buy-ins) down the last two days. I have made some mistakes and could have saved some money here and there but have definitely run bad. That"s not an excuse though there have been spots where I should have saved money. I am going to spend some time on odds oracle tonight to try and see if I can improve my play in 3-bet pots as this seems to be where I am struggling most.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 02, 2011, 10:47:29 AM
Just a quick post away from poker.

I have been playing APAT regularly for nearly two years. I have said many times that I have met some great people who I hope I am fortunate enough to call friends now.

Leigh recently posted that he is taking break from APAT. When I first started playing APAT properly at the 2010 Welsh Nationals it was the welcome given by a lot of people but especially the organizers (Leigh and Tighty) that convinced me to go back and play at the Vic. Welcoming new people and making them feel comfortable is really important with something like this and the fact the guy"s in charge did this was one of the things that brought me back.

Just wanted to say thanks on here to Leigh for all the work he put into APAT I never waited for more than an hour for a reply to a PM/email I sent him and he was always helpful. We all obviously wish him the best for the future. Hopefully we will see Leigh back at the tables next year :-)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 02, 2011, 11:14:44 AM

hmmm not the best move imho guys, are u looking at this in the right way?  cash is about extracting value, is just shoving all in going to be the best EV move?
of course it can be player specific, there is always that, but, really [dramatic pause] shove??

Sorry for taking so long to actually put a response to this together but I wanted to make sure I did a good one. (because Noble has an excellent point here)
Is shoving to go be the most +EV move? I think it is.

He has called a standard raise preflop so I have no idea what he could have at that point. Flop comes down fairly dry (an unlikely straight draw). The King is a good card for me as it hits some of his range.

I "c-bet" for around 3/4 pot and he calls. With so few draws out there, he could have a King or a pair like nines or tens. Yes he could also have a set and if he does it"s nh at this point.

The turn changes nothing but puts a flush draw out there but unless he has something like KQs then it doesn"t help him. We have a pot that is around $5 and he bets $1.50 into it leaving him with about $10 behind. I really do think he has something at this point and calling just seems terrible (there is just not enough air in his range that he is going to barrel on the river). I also think it"s likely he has the king. So I am going to raise. The most sensible raise size is going to be a shove. It would be really unusual for him to call a raise to say $5 but not call an allin. Also even if he does then the river might make the board more scary and even if we are still ahead we may miss value.

I would therefore suggest than in this spot shoving for value is the right play. The only reason to not to raise is if we think he has nothing and will bet the river, I think we lose value with this play.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AMRN on September 02, 2011, 11:22:46 AM


hmmm not the best move imho guys, are u looking at this in the right way?  cash is about extracting value, is just shoving all in going to be the best EV move?
of course it can be player specific, there is always that, but, really [dramatic pause] shove??

Sorry for taking so long to actually put a response to this together but I wanted to make sure I did a good one. (because Noble has an excellent point here)
Is shoving to go be the most +EV move? I think it is.

He has called a standard raise preflop so I have no idea what he could have at that point. Flop comes down fairly dry (an unlikely straight draw). The King is a good card for me as it hits some of his range.

I "c-bet" for around 3/4 pot and he calls. With so few draws out there, he could have a King or a pair like nines or tens. Yes he could also have a set and if he does it"s nh at this point.

The turn changes nothing but puts a flush draw out there but unless he has something like KQs then it doesn"t help him. We have a pot that is around $5 and he bets $1.50 into it leaving him with about $10 behind. I really do think he has something at this point and calling just seems terrible (there is just not enough air in his range that he is going to barrel on the river). I also think it"s likely he has the king. So I am going to raise. The most sensible raise size is going to be a shove. It would be really unusual for him to call a raise to say $5 but not call an allin. Also even if he does then the river might make the board more scary and even if we are still ahead we may miss value.

I would therefore suggest than in this spot shoving for value is the right play. The only reason to not to raise is if we think he has nothing and will bet the river, I think we lose value with this play.


imo very often at these levels, if people are going to call, they will call a min raise, a 3x raise, or a shove.... they have it programmed that they are calling the bet on the river, no matter how large..... so, if you feel you have the best hand, then I think that yes it is +EV to shove. The times that you get called will provide enough value to cover the times that he folds..... and it"s highly likely that if he is folding to a shove, he is folding to a smaller raise anyway.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 02, 2011, 18:01:03 PM
Seem to be running bad at PLO at the moment. Dropped more cash at that today so down $150 this week. Made $75 back at holdem so not so bad really.

I am going to play the PLO tournament at 8pm tonight so easy chips there obviously *lol*

I have been playing with odds oracle as well, it"s an excellent piece of software, if you have not tried it I strongly recommend that you have a look at it.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 02, 2011, 21:59:57 PM
Lost $100 tonight. I seem to be running really bad atm. The number of folds I have had to make on the river is annoying but I have not done too much wrong. That said I now seem to be down $250 (10 buyins) this week. Reviewing the hands though and looking at the plays I have made there does not seem to be much I am doing wrong, I can see mistakes but there are always going to be and working with odds oracle suggests that most of the plays I am making are good +EV plays. I am putting this week down to mainly running bad, hopefully it will turn it around soon.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: noble1 on September 02, 2011, 22:23:45 PM


hmmm not the best move imho guys, are u looking at this in the right way?  cash is about extracting value, is just shoving all in going to be the best EV move?
of course it can be player specific, there is always that, but, really [dramatic pause] shove??

Sorry for taking so long to actually put a response to this together but I wanted to make sure I did a good one. (because Noble has an excellent point here)
Is shoving to go be the most +EV move? I think it is.

He has called a standard raise preflop so I have no idea what he could have at that point. Flop comes down fairly dry (an unlikely straight draw). The King is a good card for me as it hits some of his range.

I "c-bet" for around 3/4 pot and he calls. With so few draws out there, he could have a King or a pair like nines or tens. Yes he could also have a set and if he does it"s nh at this point.

The turn changes nothing but puts a flush draw out there but unless he has something like KQs then it doesn"t help him. We have a pot that is around $5 and he bets $1.50 into it leaving him with about $10 behind. I really do think he has something at this point and calling just seems terrible (there is just not enough air in his range that he is going to barrel on the river). I also think it"s likely he has the king. So I am going to raise. The most sensible raise size is going to be a shove. It would be really unusual for him to call a raise to say $5 but not call an allin. Also even if he does then the river might make the board more scary and even if we are still ahead we may miss value.

I would therefore suggest than in this spot shoving for value is the right play. The only reason to not to raise is if we think he has nothing and will bet the river, I think we lose value with this play.


Rodders look out any material on the subject of the way ahead way behind concept, in position and out of position..
I really think judging by various hh"s i"ve seen you post over time that this will help your game a lot. The biggest leak imho at these stakes is that players over play there over pairs and forgive me if i am wrong but [totally honest sincere etc opinion] it won"t surprise me at all that if you analysed all your hh"s that you maybe a tad leaky with them based on your current thought process. [not just losing to a set etc but losing value in spots when way ahead plus add in minimising your losses, it all adds up to those extra bb"s you can put on your win rate]
Honestly i"m not a big fan of in a vacuum with no reads analysis but on the above hh villains action does not suggest strength imo.. With no reads in general at these stakes villains will cc cc top pair or ch/r turn maybe the flop etc so to shove just lets him play [make his decision easier] his range better.. He can fold all his pp"s [only has 2 outs] his weak FD"s can now find a fold etc etc.. Until i had reads of sorts or a general feel on villains style then i"d treat his weak donk bet as a check and base/treat my action on the turn as that. A smaller bet say $4 may get one more call out of a weak king, a weak FD or 9T 99 TT JJ etc.. Flatting his weak turn donk may get extra on the river from a king etc etc... All in all it would be far easier to assess with some idea/read on villains style etc, so full circle back around to concepts etc, understanding these better than others at your stake level will help you categorise opponent ability and get better general reads/feel with every showdown that you see..

A general quick thought on turn donk bets, it can be used to get value from opponents that you think checks behind a lot. Against opponents that barrel turns frequently, the turn donk bet can hinder there turn bluffs. [all dependent on board texture etc there level of thought] A turn donk can induce some types to over play, bluff or go to far with tptk or over pairs :) etc when you do it for value..
The cc flop lead turn is just a variation/different line on rather than check raising air on a dry flop for instance, we just mix it up, cc lead turn looks more like you have something, it makes it harder for the opponent to put as much air in your range. Its a line you can use for all sorts of purposes, be it bluffing, value or when you pick up draws..
I am definitely not suggesting this opponent grasps the uses of turn donks by the way :)

Sorry in advance if you think you are ok in the over pair department, another stat you could look at [if you have a tracker] is your position stats, look at all hands played ip and oop... [not just losers but winners as well, could"ve you got more value etc, lost less on the losers]

ASK, QUESTION, QUERY + BE CREATIVE. KNOW WHERE THE FOLD BUTTON IS ;)  work on those reads fella :)

Break your game down, if you can afford it then hire a good well regarded coach at the stakes you play. This may help a lot getting the building blocks/thought process/leaks you maybe over looking fine tuned.. Sometimes things just get foggy or we get stuck in a rut and all we need is a nudge in the right direction..

Also ask other friends/poker colleagues who know your game better far more than i do for there no fuss frank opinions on possible weak/leaky areas in your poker style/game etc...

Wales won OMG  :o  England may only score 3 or 4 Tuesday lol  ;)

regards
noble
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: samuel_9 on September 02, 2011, 23:03:54 PM
make sure you sit in the right seat when your playing
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 03, 2011, 00:13:58 AM
Noble, good post again fella. Agree with most of what you say and am well aware of some of the leaks that have come into my game recently (and some that have always been there). As usual your points are well made however in this spot I still like the shove. It"s not as I really think I get called by worse quite a bit.

Obviously I know about the way ahead way behind concept although it entirely possible I don"t apply it well enough. In general what you are saying makes sense.

As for England Vs Wales, I have no idea what the score will be however I would be surprised if it turns out to be much of a contest unfortunately. Really hope I am wrong on that but will not be holding my breath.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 03, 2011, 14:11:11 PM
Well, played around 800 hands today and am somehow down just over 1.5 Buyin"s.

I don"t think I have made a major mistake (which is unusual) and my EV graph shows that I am running more than 4 buyins below EV. This is how I have run this week. The 4 biggest pots I have lost I have got in with at least 60% equity including a 400BB pot where my opponent hit a gutshot on the river.

Looking back at the hands I have played this week and how I have done, I can"t see that I am doing anything wrong, but I have lost every day.

Not too sure how I have managed to be only 1.5BI down today to be honest, hopefully I will start running better soon.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 04, 2011, 13:10:48 PM
So this is what a winning session feels like *lol*

Made a couple of buyins back this morning. Still think I am playing really good PLO at the moment but I seem to be missing a lot of big draws and opponents are hitting them against me, it happens of course. I am arranging a Teamviewer session with one of the really good PLO players over at Blonde and spoke to another one of them last night and he seemed to think this was pretty standard for this game which is good.

Will just keep going more hands to be played this afternoon.

EDIT: Just out of interest what are people opinion on how I play this hand?

Seat 1: freddy spitz ($19.19 in chips)
Seat 2: DaNuts90 ($12.43 in chips)
Seat 3: AAroddersAA ($9.83 in chips)
Seat 4: birbidon ($10.30 in chips)
Seat 5: rhaelor ($10.97 in chips)
Seat 6: Holdem8282 ($7.97 in chips)
DaNuts90: posts small blind $0.05
AAroddersAA: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to AAroddersAA [Ad Ac Qd 5h]
birbidon: folds
rhaelor: raises $0.25 to $0.35
Holdem8282: folds
freddy spitz: folds
DaNuts90: folds
AAroddersAA: calls $0.25
*** FLOP *** [Ah 3d 9c]
AAroddersAA: checks
rhaelor: checks
*** TURN *** [Ah 3d 9c] [Kc]
AAroddersAA: bets $0.65
rhaelor: folds
Uncalled bet ($0.65) returned to AAroddersAA
AAroddersAA collected $0.72 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $0.75 | Rake $0.03
Board [Ah 3d 9c Kc]
Seat 1: freddy spitz (button) folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 2: DaNuts90 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: AAroddersAA (big blind) collected ($0.72)
Seat 4: birbidon folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 5: rhaelor folded on the Turn
Seat 6: Holdem8282 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Santino67 on September 06, 2011, 09:42:54 AM
Prob re-raise to about 0.85 pre, or given the way you disguised your hand pre, pop in a 45c bet on flop. It"s a dry flop but for a small amount some villains will come along to see a turn. Doubt anyone puts you on AA hole cards betting out on that flop after you flatted pre..............but then again I"m sh** at Omaha and still inexperienced  :D
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 06, 2011, 12:25:58 PM
Had a rest from poker yesterday, Back in work on Thursday, had a nice rest but starting to get bored so will be happy to be back. I am currently playing PLO on Sky Poker 10p/20p was doing really well until I got it all in (for a £60 pot) pre with AAJ9 with one of the aces suited and lost to TTQ9 when he made a straight.

Think something must be wrong even though I can"t see what it is, it really looks to me like I am consistently getting the money in good and getting outdrawn. My hands in Poker Tracker seem to back this up and I am not really getting any back in the way of winning hands from behind either. I feel like I am playing really well but keep losing.

EDIT - and I come off 2 buyins down - straight beaten by a rivered full house (90% of the pot in by the turn, I called his small allin on river).

I am starting to think I should give poker a rest period. My live game is shockingly bad at the moment and I can"t see why I am losing here. It might be time to leave this game alone.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Santino67 on September 06, 2011, 13:16:57 PM

Had a rest from poker yesterday, Back in work on Thursday, had a nice rest but starting to get bored so will be happy to be back. I am currently playing PLO on Sky Poker 10p/20p was doing really well until I got it all in (for a £60 pot) pre with AAJ9 with one of the aces suited and lost to TTQ9 when he made a straight.

Think something must be wrong even though I can"t see what it is, it really looks to me like I am consistently getting the money in good and getting outdrawn. My hands in Poker Tracker seem to back this up and I am not really getting any back in the way of winning hands from behind either. I feel like I am playing really well but keep losing.

EDIT - and I come off 2 buyins down - straight beaten by a rivered full house (90% of the pot in by the turn, I called his small allin on river).

I am starting to think I should give poker a rest period. My live game is shockingly bad at the moment and I can"t see why I am losing here. It might be time to leave this game alone.


TBH Steve I"m probably going with villains hand as well (would be keen to know the suits of opponent as well though). Yeah your aces are ahead and yeah one of them is suited but villain has a hand which would be smacked firmly in the face with any reasonably high/paint flop (again would be keen to know were they suited/double suited etc). I had a similar spot when I was all-in pre against Steve Redfern in the PLO at DTD (Think I had a single suited KKxx and he flipped TTJQ double suited) and i commented to Steve that I"d rather have swapped hands before the flop was dealt. Thankfully I doubled up but I"m sure only because we had a really raggy board.

I also had a turned straight in 888 PLO game a couple of nights ago rivered by flush, it"s harsh at the time but you"re favourite with 1 card left so don"t beat yourself up.

Stick at it mate, going through similar running bad spell at the mo myself, so just continue analysing, learning and improving. I"m sure I remember you have a few medals to remind you that you"re generally doing things right  8)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 07, 2011, 08:46:44 AM


Had a rest from poker yesterday, Back in work on Thursday, had a nice rest but starting to get bored so will be happy to be back. I am currently playing PLO on Sky Poker 10p/20p was doing really well until I got it all in (for a £60 pot) pre with AAJ9 with one of the aces suited and lost to TTQ9 when he made a straight.

Think something must be wrong even though I can"t see what it is, it really looks to me like I am consistently getting the money in good and getting outdrawn. My hands in Poker Tracker seem to back this up and I am not really getting any back in the way of winning hands from behind either. I feel like I am playing really well but keep losing.

EDIT - and I come off 2 buyins down - straight beaten by a rivered full house (90% of the pot in by the turn, I called his small allin on river).

I am starting to think I should give poker a rest period. My live game is shockingly bad at the moment and I can"t see why I am losing here. It might be time to leave this game alone.


TBH Steve I"m probably going with villains hand as well (would be keen to know the suits of opponent as well though). Yeah your aces are ahead and yeah one of them is suited but villain has a hand which would be smacked firmly in the face with any reasonably high/paint flop (again would be keen to know were they suited/double suited etc). I had a similar spot when I was all-in pre against Steve Redfern in the PLO at DTD (Think I had a single suited KKxx and he flipped TTJQ double suited) and i commented to Steve that I"d rather have swapped hands before the flop was dealt. Thankfully I doubled up but I"m sure only because we had a really raggy board.

I also had a turned straight in 888 PLO game a couple of nights ago rivered by flush, it"s harsh at the time but you"re favourite with 1 card left so don"t beat yourself up.

Stick at it mate, going through similar running bad spell at the mo myself, so just continue analysing, learning and improving. I"m sure I remember you have a few medals to remind you that you"re generally doing things right  8)

:-)  Cheers Grant

All very true mate, just felt like a silly rant after a bad week *lol* - it is allowed I checked and everything :-)

Actually I am pretty sure I am playing OK at the moment (not my best but my tracker graph says I am +EV) and I just need to cut out a few silly mistakes I am making. Back at work now anyway so will be forced to take a break from Poker which is not a bad thing.

I have decided not to go to Ireland as there is a football game I am going to that weekend but hopefully will be back for Luton (if Blonde still want me in their team that is *lol*). I am saving the holiday days from Ireland to allow me to play the Pro/Am in London in Dec if I want too.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 07, 2011, 18:12:02 PM
Going to play the £22 8pm on Sky Poker today, I qualified for £4 so that sounds like a good deal. Will also probably play the mini £3 version.

Currently 3/18 in the mini £1 re-buy as well

EDIT - Now 3/4

Busted 4th - Re-shoved with 2-2

Decided not to play the ones tonight, so unregged the £22 one expected it to refund the buyin, but it didn"t wp me.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 10, 2011, 18:31:56 PM
OK, I have had better weeks. I am now not able to make the team event in Luton, which is a great event as I have double booked myself with a trip to London. Oh well. Then England won today FML.

Currently watching the football in ESPN, this season looks like a big Manchester Vs Manchester battle. I think Man Utd will prove to be a little stronger across the season but its going to be hell of a battle.

A couple of friends of mine are going to watch Newport County away to Mansfield today, they are currently losing 2-0, very disappointing start to the season.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 15, 2011, 09:53:48 AM
Not a good week from an APAT point of view. Looks like I am going to have to pull out of the trip to Vegas, I just can"t find a solution to the problem I had getting some of the time off work. I am also away in London on the week of the Luton event so I am not going to get to that one either. Looks like the next APAT event I am getting too is the Euro"s in Jan. I wasn"t going to go to that one but might have too now.

I have arranged another Team Viewer session tomorrow to work on my PLO cash game with a very good player from over on Blonde. I also had a small result in the mini Primo on Sky last week came 7/360 for about £100, which isn"t bad for a fivers entry. I think I am going to try to play a few more tournaments on there.

I also need to look at my approach to live poker. At the moment my live play is made up entirely of APAT events, which I no longer take seriously. When I go to them I am not even really thinking of them as a poker tournament but more as a mini holiday with some poker mixed in. Therefore I am going to start playing more local events which I reckon I might be able to take more seriously as I think I am hurting my game. I will obviously still play APAT just need to stop playing it exclusively.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 18, 2011, 08:45:57 AM
Bored with poker at the moment, played a little bit of PLO yesterday broke even but could not get my best game going, I"m sure it will come back though.

A couple of my mates went to Braintree to watch Newport county yesterday, long trek down the M4 and M25 that. The fact the team coach broke down is funny, but not as funny as the replacement coach they sent them also broke down. Newport lost 1-0 and things are not looking good in the Blue Square Prem. Will do well to get a mid-table finish at the moment.

I am also setting myself a little challenge. I have put £100 into my Betfair account and have to get to £200 on the exchange. I am a massive favourite to go broke but fancy giving it a go. I am going to go the following to begin with:-

Mark Webber to come top 3 in the F1 drivers Championship (2.0) £5
Michael Shumacher to finish above Nico Rosberg in the drivers championship (2.52) £3

Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 29, 2011, 19:07:16 PM
Been meaning to post an update here for ages but have been doing loads of stuff.

Away from poker, Newport County have sacked their manager? I don"t see what this achieves, sure the start to the season has not been great but performances have been much better than results. I would have liked to see him given more time but you do have to ensure you stay in the division and give the new man a chance to maybe even get a playoff spot. Although I don"t live in Newport any more for the first time for a few years I have made an effort to get to some of their games now they are in the conference again.

It"s strange how football grounds in the lower leagues are a bit like a time warp in a lot of ways. Newport Stadium is the same as the old ground (Somerton Park) used to be nearly 20 years ago, same kinds of people. The bar is a lot nicer though we go in there after the matches on a Saturday and watch whichever premiership game is on.

I have decided that over Christmas this year I am going to try and do something nice for people, something better than just giving some money to something. I don"t know what yet but will think of something.

I am also going down to London in a few weeks, mainly just to spend time in as many pubs as possible (seems sensible). I quite like London but have not been there for years.

Madras is my new favorite type of curry.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Santino67 on September 29, 2011, 21:22:12 PM
Find your way towards Tottenham Court Road mate, lots of nice pubs with cask ales, foreign beers etc and half the price of the majority in London. Nice eaterie"s in the area as well at good prices, though also been a few years since I was there.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 05, 2011, 20:30:28 PM
This is a ghost writer. Rodder"s is away on an important mission. There is apparently no certainty that his mission will be successful. I don"t know if he is looking for a golden ring, it would seem to fit the situation, but I think it more likely he is hunting for that box of luck he left somewhere in season 4. He was saying he had go on the mission as Duke and Jack told him too? I am unsure what he means.

Not that he ever makes much sense, being Welsh seems to mean he has a poor grip on the English language but I think it was a kind of street he was looking for, or it might have been Jesus. Oh and something about favour"s owed to him from the dim distant past (something about an ntl: whatever that is).

I am hopeful that he will return at sometime on the weekend and clear all the confusion up. Hopefully he will get back to Swansea before he is due in Luton to play for Blonde Poker. So if anybody sees him or hears from him can they let us know and ask him what this strange mission involves?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Newportlad on October 06, 2011, 21:40:57 PM
Rod, i thought i told you to stop taking that stuff
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Paulie_D on October 06, 2011, 21:49:42 PM

Rod, i thought i told you to stop taking that stuff


Feck that...where can I get some?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 07, 2011, 17:50:40 PM

Rod, i thought i told you to stop taking that stuff

PMSL

I have no idea what Darren is on about. The mission was a very difficult one and needed a great amount of skill. It involved ensuring that I was off work and have everything covered well enough to spend a week in Vegas.

Duke said "find a way"

So after running into various Avenues and Circles, I finally came across a way. I did try putting my faith in Jesus as when I searched the internet for "a way" it told me Jesus was the only way, I thought this was strange at the time given that he did not exist.  Anyway I can now confirm that this method does not work either, if you want something doing you have to do it yourself.

Being the awesome person I am though I managed to solve all the problems and have now got a nice week in Vegas all booked up. GET IN.

On to the weekend then. Up at 5am tomorrow to watch the rugby then probably go to watch Newport play Southport.

Will discuss Vegas plans with everybody in Luton.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Santino67 on October 08, 2011, 00:51:30 AM
Nice one Rodders, mission accomplished  8)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 09, 2011, 12:48:03 PM
Yesterday was an interesting day. Started well early, and watched the rugby. I am very excited about Wales looking really good. Not counting any chickens but it would be so good if we got to the final. I make us slight favorites to do so but we must not underestimate France. It would be just like them to pull a performance out of the hat now.

Then went to Newport for the football in the afternoon. It was Justin Edinburgh"s first game in charge of county and he came out to a great reaction and there was a real buzz in the bar before hand and in the ground. Reminded me of the old days at Somerton Park. When County nearly scored from the kick off the crowd really started to get behind them and we were saying how the season is likely to get back on track now. Then it all fell apart. Southport were winning the mid-field battle with ease and quickly went 1-0 up. The team tried to respond and so did the crowd. Two long throws toward the end of the first half resulted in a half timer score of 3-0. The second half did go slightly better which gives hope for the future of the new manager but a 3-0 defeat was not a good start.

I was pleased with the fact everybody stayed behind the team right until the end and kept singing all the way through. After the match everybody was still pretty positive about things so hopefully a few good performances and things will turn around.

We then headed into Newport to drown our sorrows which we did successfully. Came back to Swansea this morning after watching the rugby, next weekend should be interesting, Hope to be watching Wales Vs New Zealand in Luton.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 09, 2011, 20:55:10 PM
Love this APAT league and 888


***** Cassava Hand History for Game 313132605 *****
$75/$150 Blinds No Limit Holdem - *** 09 10 2011 20:51:26
Tournament #33302851 $10 + $1 - Table #1 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 7
Seat 1: _AAroddersAA ( $1,775 )
Seat 2: PBevilbow ( $4,662 )
Seat 5: colmcgg ( $4,739 )
Seat 6: cormach1 ( $2,627 )
Seat 7: avongirl888 ( $1,103 )
Seat 9: biggeezy33 ( $3,058 )
Seat 10: Wiseman74 ( $1,508 )
colmcgg posts small blind [$75]
cormach1 posts big blind [$150]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to _AAroddersAA [ Qd, Ad ]
avongirl888 folds
biggeezy33 calls [$150]
Wiseman74 folds
_AAroddersAA raises [$1,775]
PBevilbow raises [$3,400]
colmcgg folds
cormach1 folds
biggeezy33 folds
** Dealing flop ** [ Kd, 5s, 3h ]
** Dealing turn ** [ 2d ]
** Dealing river ** [ 6h ]
** Summary **
_AAroddersAA shows [ Qd, Ad ]
PBevilbow shows [ Td, 4c ]
PBevilbow collected [ $3,925 ]
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Santino67 on October 09, 2011, 23:57:13 PM
Unlucky Steve, that hurts  :o

just  ::)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 11, 2011, 10:11:16 AM
So I go to the bank yesterday intending to take some money out to buy some extra dollars. I want a larger than normal withdrawal (not massive but large enough you can"t do it across the counter) so have to go to a special desk and fill in a form. They also need me to provide ID. All seems very reasonable. I fill in the form and hand over my driving licence.

The pretty young girl behind the counter looks at the form and at my licence and says the signatures don"t match. I look at them and she is right they don"t (I signed the licence about 16 years ago and now sign differently). OK, I say shall I just fill in another form. She explained that I can"t do that, so I say OK, I"m going to need another form of ID? She explained that I don"t really require that either. So what do I need to do?

Come back later and fill in another form and ask somebody to else for the withdrawal? Eh? How does this protect my personal information? I decide to just leave it and go back on the weekend to do it. *lol*

Not in work today so going to play some pokers.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 15, 2011, 12:08:51 PM
So Wales are out of the Rugby World Cup.

We went down fighting and today every Welsh rugby fan can wear the shirt with pride. Just like the team wore it with pride and passion throughout the tournament, the way they have represented our county and conducted themselves also brings great pride in them. This game was really tough on them, going down to 14 men after 20 minutes due to a spear tackle was unlucky. My first reaction was that there was no way that it could be a red card and a terrible decision, however thinking about it since, it could only be called a spear tackle, a spear tackle is defined as when one player lifts another into the air and dumps them upside down, and that is what happened. The IRB laws state that this is a straight red card, so I would have to say yes Sam Warburton did have to go off. He conducted himself well accepting the decision as you would expect, as did the team. Of course that is just an expectation in rugby.

The response of the team was what we have come to expect from this group of players, they did not lie down and roll over but fought with all they had, another great defensive display with all the character in the world. Their skill and fitness is tremendous, the team is mainly young and hopefully they will have other days like this, they fought right up until the end. Yes there were missed kicks and you cannot do that at this level but Wales showed the world what they are made of.

To be honest I was pretty impressed by France as well, there was the natural outburst"s of anti-French feeling around the Welsh after we lost such a close game where we performed so well and a win would have been so good but before the game everybody pretty much agreed it was going to be difficult for France to win this one. The first 20 minutes seemed to back that up as Wales were in control. Then Wales were down to 14 and suddenly France had a chance of the World Cup Final. France then did what they had to do, it was not pretty, it was not good to watch but they kept the ball and whilst they did not look like creating much outside of the penalties they did get the job done and gave their fans a World Cup Final to look forward too. I can"t fault them for this and have to give them some credit. FRance are of course known for being able to be brilliant in one game. Well now they only have to win one game. I can"t see them beating New Zealand, but if they are playing Australia then you never know.

As for Wales, the young players now have great experience and although they lost this game I just can"t see it as a failure and I doubt anybody else will. Going forward to the Six Nations early in the new year I think we start as favorites and it has been a while since we can say that.

Anyway onward"s and upwards as they say. Newport County Vs Tamworth today, after a great win in mid week we need another three points today to ensure we start to climb up the table and out of trouble.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: technolog on October 15, 2011, 12:47:27 PM
Well said Rodders. Gutted for you. I think the sending-off decision was technically correct to the letter of the law but surely he could have exercised some discretion and handled it more sympathetically?

I wouldn"t rule out France against the All Blacks either. It"s the French that knocked them out of the 1999 & 2007 World Cups when they were massive underdogs and the All Blacks have gained a reputation (arguably undeserved) of being World Cup "bottlers", not having actually won the thing since 1987.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Santino67 on October 15, 2011, 13:01:05 PM

Well said Rodders. Gutted for you. I think the sending-off decision was technically correct to the letter of the law but surely he could have exercised some discretion and handled it more sympathetically?

I wouldn"t rule out France against the All Blacks either. It"s the French that knocked them out of the 1999 & 2007 World Cups when they were massive underdogs and the All Blacks have gained a reputation (arguably undeserved) of being World Cup "bottlers", not having actually won the thing since 1987.


Aren"t Australia still in then  :P
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: technolog on October 15, 2011, 13:10:04 PM
Oops. Yes of course. I just fancy NZ to beat "em.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 18, 2011, 17:47:39 PM
OK, the pokers are interesting at the moment. I am bored with online cash games so started playing those 180 man $4.50 jobbies on Stars. Run pretty well and made a few final tables since the start of the weekend to make some small S. Still useless in the APAT league this season, got knocked out by Frank who decided to have a hand when I decided he didn"t. The shove was crap though and I should have check/called.

I am getting everything in work sorted in time for my week off next week. I will be going to Luton on Saturday where my main plan is to help Blonde take down the team championship. I expect to have done that by Monday and will be traveling back. Tuesday and Wednesday is for Vegas prep, still have a efw things I need to do so two speare days will be a good chance.

[X] ESTA
[X] Dollars Bought
[ ] Medical letter
[X] Medication Transport packs
[X] Hotel at airport booked
[ ] Train ticket to Manchester airport
[X] Various bit"s and pieces bought
[ ] Get mobile phone unlocked to use US SIM
[ ] Convince Darren Shallis to stop dithering and book Vegas

As you can see I have enough to keep me busy. I have bought my SIM card for the states. Dunno how to use it but I expect Paulie will help :-)

All this needs to be done in those two days. Then I am off to London for a couple of days, it"s like a mini warm up for Vegas (the proper warm up is in Manchester on the 16th). I did manage to get myself a free upgrade to a club room there by complaining about the fact their call center did not do a security check when I called them - silly call center also got a bottle of wine and bowl of fruit thrown in. Not great but not bad considering strictly speaking my inquiry did not even require a security check.

I will be returning on the Saturday in time for Newport County Vs Braintree.

Speaking of which we have Kettering tonight, I was thinking of doing the 120 mile round trip to see the game but will give it a miss this time and follow it online.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLUl8xkKSTk
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on October 19, 2011, 02:44:53 AM
[ ] Convince Darren Shallis to stop dithering and book Vegas


do this plez x
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: technolog on October 19, 2011, 12:40:36 PM

[ ] Convince Darren Shallis to stop dithering and book Vegas


do this plez x


+ quite a bit
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Newportlad on October 19, 2011, 20:21:28 PM


[ ] Convince Darren Shallis to stop dithering and book Vegas


do this plez x


+ quite a bit


i"m definitely NOT going at this moment in time. Of course, if i (or the team) win this weekend in Luton, then i"ll change my mind.... probably
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: duke3016 on October 19, 2011, 20:54:47 PM
Oh FFS Darren,

The negative article is so unfavourable, resistive, adverse, contravening, disallowing, disavowing and abrogating.

Whereas the positive article is so much more straightforward, clear-cut, definitive, palpable, specific and bold.

JFDI - soft lad - JFDI
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 20, 2011, 18:30:54 PM



[ ] Convince Darren Shallis to stop dithering and book Vegas


do this plez x


+ quite a bit


i"m definitely NOT going at this moment in time. Of course, if i (or the team) win this weekend in Luton, then i"ll change my mind.... probably

So in other words you are still dithering. Or are you not too sure about that?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 20, 2011, 18:41:50 PM
So anyway,my Internet broke down last night. Getting it fixed is a very funny story that I can"t really post here.

I find it incredible how much we have come to rely on being on the Internet. 12 years ago I did not even have the Internet, now I cannot do without having it. I need a 50Mb service coming into my house and a mobile connection that runs about 20 times faster than my original connection. I also have a laptop that I take everywhere, it will come to Luton next week and it will come to London, it might even come to Vegas. My first Internet connection cost £11.99 for PAYG access. I have no idea what I did in those days, read books,  watched TV and listened to the radio I think. How do people manage when their connection is down for 5-7 days.

I could easily live without a single TV channel or my phone line but without my Internet connection and Mobile phone I would be lost. I even had Internet Access running off my mobile but that was nowhere near good enough.

I wonder where we will be 10 years from now, it seems that the TV, internet and phone will all become combined and TV channels will become like streaming services with no specific times for anything but live events.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Santino67 on October 20, 2011, 23:27:16 PM



[ ] Convince Darren Shallis to stop dithering and book Vegas


do this plez x


+ quite a bit


i"m definitely NOT going at this moment in time. Of course, if i (or the team) win this weekend in Luton, then i"ll change my mind.... probably


I used to be indecisive, but now i"m not so sure  ::)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 24, 2011, 16:55:00 PM
Had a good weekend with the Blonde team at Luton. Drove up on Saturday morning and met Del and Frank early in the hotel. Also met some of the team for the first time. We headed over to the casino where we went through the usual photo"s etc.

I had a good start to day one, got involved in a hand with The Mole early on which I managed to take down making a decent but not too hard of a call on the river, which I think was correct. I then got dealt AA again Sharplea"s JJ and. This got me up to about 24000. I then got AK a couple of times and was able to get it to hold up and had lot"s of chips. I didn"t feel that great at the table but kept getting up and getting some fresh air and was OK. I ended day one on 90000 chips in fourth which was good. Blonde had 3 players left and were in with a shout.

I went back to the hotel early and got a good nights sleep and was feeling quite good about day two, I raised a couple of pots early, then lost a couple to stay about even, then I raised up with KJ and got a caller. The Flop came A-K-x and he leads into me for about one third of the pot. I call to keep the bluffs in his range as I could have the best hand here. The turn is a blank and he leads small again, I call again, the river is a King and he checks. I slightly overbet the pot and he calls I show he mucks. I made a mistake here as I should have shoved and taken his last 11K as well. The next hand I make a huge mistake which eventually knocks me out. I now have about 120K and it fold to me in the SB. I raise with A-10 and the tightish BB three-bets me. He has about 55K, it"s a pretty easy pass but I think it could be a blind Vs Blind play and shove, he calls with QQ and I take a big hit.

I eventually bust in 20th By running AK into the AA of Andy Overton, that hand played itself but the earlier hands were played poorly so it was my own fault.

Overall I am not to disappointed with how I played in this one. Sharon went on to cash for Blonde and I think Blonde played well but did not get the run at the sharp end.

I join the rail and cheer on Ian Thompson to second place and have a chat with the APAT team some other play the £50 comp running that night but I don"t bother. Drove back this morning and have got my $$$ for Vegas sorted. I put some on one of those cards (which are insured for free if you lose them) and also got some in cash. Not long to go now and I can"t wait to see everybody - Luton was great - Vegas is going to be epic.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Santino67 on October 25, 2011, 16:22:25 PM
Was great catching up with you again Steve, unlucky finishing just outside the cash mate but well played to get good points for the Blonde Team
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 25, 2011, 18:03:02 PM

Was great catching up with you again Steve, unlucky finishing just outside the cash mate but well played to get good points for the Blonde Team

Cheers Grant hope to see you again soon mate
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 27, 2011, 12:45:19 PM
On my way to London on the train currently. I am looking for a horse to do so if anybody has any tips please feel free to post them here. I obviously know nothing about horses but we want to do some kind of accumulator.

We don"t get to London until 2pm so need some horses for after that time. If anybody wants to help out them please post.

in 21 days we will be off to Vegas, this is getting very close now, can"t wait. I have my $$$ sorted and nearly everything ready to go.

Two of the guy"s say "Hello APAT"
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Laxie on October 27, 2011, 14:40:26 PM
Definitely pick a horse with four legs.  They run best.  No need to thank me.   ;D
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 28, 2011, 02:43:28 AM

Definitely pick a horse with four legs.  They run best.  No need to thank me.   ;D

Wish I had listened to this the 3 legged ones did not do too well. God only knows how much money we gave the bookies, ah well can always blow more tomorrow weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Awesome night in London though.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 02, 2011, 20:44:32 PM
London was quite fun. Catching up with some friends I have not seen for quite a while and spending two days getting rather drunk. Was not sure I could still handle that kind of pace but put up quite a reasonable showing in the end. It"s all about the Wetherspoons Breakfast, always have one of these before spending the day in the pub.

Anyway we got up on the day of going back, me and my one mate declaring we could never face another pint ever (this was about 10am). Got on the train to Newport from Paddington and ended up playing heads up poker all the way. I obviously won.

We get back to Newport at 2:35pm, just in time for a taxi to Newport Stadium (via snooker club to pick up other people) and we watch the might Amber Army easily defeat Braintree by four goals to three getting the winner in injury time. Since I started actually going to the games again that was probably the best game I have seen and on the terrace at the end of the game was great with the team cheered off the pitch. We headed to the Club Bar which is called Baramber. However that sounds like some kind of teenagers nightclub. Most people know it as Bar Amber (two words FFS). Our abstention from alcohol lasts about 7 hours as we all soon have pints in. We head into Newport where we have a good discussion about sports and games. Head off and have a nice curry.

Drive back to Swansea on Sunday and back to work for Monday.

Had a great week off work, APAT Luton was awesome as ever and London is a fabulous city, only Dublin beats it in this part of the world. Wonder how I will top that next time I am off................  Oh I know :-)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 02, 2011, 20:51:50 PM
I have now made 600 post on this forum and need some of you clever people to settle an argument for me. Which of these activities would you stay classifies as a sport?

Football
Formula One
WWF Wrestling
Pool
Bar Billiards
Shove H"penny
Snooker
Darts
Chess
Poker
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: ian.ski309 on November 02, 2011, 22:41:28 PM

I have now made 600 post on this forum and need some of you clever people to settle an argument for me. Which of these activities would you stay classifies as a sport?

Football
Formula One
WWF Wrestling
Pool
Bar Billiards
Shove H"penny
Snooker
Darts
Chess
Poker


Only football and wrestling - and I HATE wrestling.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: noble1 on November 03, 2011, 04:37:11 AM

I have now made 600 post on this forum and need some of you clever people to settle an argument for me. Which of these activities would you stay classifies as a sport?


Football (http://www.tutorialized.com/upload/20111004083658_tick.jpeg)
Formula One (http://www.tutorialized.com/upload/20111004083658_tick.jpeg)

WWF Wrestling
Pool (http://www.tutorialized.com/upload/20111004083658_tick.jpeg)
Bar Billiards (http://www.tutorialized.com/upload/20111004083658_tick.jpeg)
Shove H"penny (http://www.tutorialized.com/upload/20111004083658_tick.jpeg)
Snooker (http://www.tutorialized.com/upload/20111004083658_tick.jpeg)
Darts (http://www.tutorialized.com/upload/20111004083658_tick.jpeg)
Chess (http://www.tutorialized.com/upload/20111004083658_tick.jpeg)
Poker (http://www.tutorialized.com/upload/20111004083658_tick.jpeg)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: KarmaDope on November 03, 2011, 09:58:28 AM

I have now made 600 post on this forum and need some of you clever people to settle an argument for me. Which of these activities would you stay classifies as a sport?

Football
Formula One
WWF Wrestling
Pool
Bar Billiards
Shove H"penny
Snooker
Darts
Chess
Poker


Sport: Football, Formula One, Pool, Snooker, Darts

Game: Bar Billiards, Shove H"penny, Chess, Poker

Entertainment: WWF Wrestling.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: thinsy147 on November 03, 2011, 10:30:12 AM


I have now made 600 post on this forum and need some of you clever people to settle an argument for me. Which of these activities would you stay classifies as a sport?

Football
Formula One
WWF Wrestling
Pool
Bar Billiards
Shove H"penny
Snooker
Darts
Chess
Poker


Sport: Football, Formula One, Pool, Snooker, Darts

Game: Bar Billiards, Shove H"penny, Chess, Poker

Entertainment: WWF Wrestling.


+1
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Paulie_D on November 03, 2011, 10:51:47 AM
Sport: Football, Formula One

Game: Pool, Snooker, Darts, Bar Billiards, Shove H"penny, Chess, Poker

Entertainment: WWF Wrestling.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Waz1892 on November 03, 2011, 11:29:56 AM

Sport: Football, Formula One

Game: Pool, Snooker, Darts, Bar Billiards, Shove H"penny, Chess, Poker

Entertainment: WWF Wrestling.



Hard to argue with this, other than WWF.

Entertainment CBBC: WWF Wrestling
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Paulie_D on November 03, 2011, 11:35:54 AM
Sorry...I assumed WWF Wrestling meant fighting a panda....hence entertainment.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 03, 2011, 18:20:46 PM
IN 14 days time we will be coming into land !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blog needs to start to revert to be a bit more about the pokers soon also as opposed to random posts.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on November 03, 2011, 18:27:23 PM

IN 14 days time we will be coming into land !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blog needs to start to revert to be a bit more about the pokers soon also as opposed to random posts.


are you as excited as me? its all i can think about now, off to poker tonight with phil and the stockton fossil and it will be all we talk about there i am sure.

The apat being announced has just made it worse!!!
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 03, 2011, 19:32:12 PM


IN 14 days time we will be coming into land !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blog needs to start to revert to be a bit more about the pokers soon also as opposed to random posts.


are you as excited as me? its all i can think about now, off to poker tonight with phil and the stockton fossil and it will be all we talk about there i am sure.

The apat being announced has just made it worse!!!

Fking tell me about it

At around this time in 14 days or 336 Hours or 20160 Minutes that flight is going to like Redbull.

After travelling to Manchester to get onto that flight,oh the poor people on that flight who know not what they have let themselves in for. A night in a hotel in Manchester forcing ourselves to be sensible, whilst just wanting to let loose and get the holiday underway. Checking in, Going through security, boarding the flight and then - THE TAKE OFF.

After hours of flying over the Nevada Desert the bright lights will be visible. After 9.5 hours of flying we will be able to see them getting closer, larger we will start to make out certain places. The advanced scouts such as Paulie_D and Curlarge on the ground will be considering getting the beers in on the strip for the arrival.

The seat belt signs will come on as they prepare to dim the cabin lights for landing.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Paulie_D on November 03, 2011, 20:16:11 PM
I hate to burst a bubble or two...



After hours of flying over the Nevada Desert the bright lights will be visible.



No you won"t...it"ll be daytime.

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After 9.5 hours of flying we will be able to see them getting closer, larger we will start to make out certain places.



More like 10.5 hours...and probably not...you actually land with the plane coming in perpendicular to the Strip...so the view is pretty restricted unless you"re in the cockpit.

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The advanced scouts such as Paulie_D and Curlarge on the ground will be considering getting the beers in on the strip for the arrival.


No....I won"t be considering "getting the beers in"....I"ll be feeding my face at Toby Keith"s putting in a good bedding for the alcohol fueled frenzy later.

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The seat belt signs will come on as they prepare to dim the cabin lights for landing.


Sorry...they turn the cabin lights ON for landing for greater visibility in case of emergency.

Other than that...not bad.;D
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 04, 2011, 12:47:50 PM
My thoughts on the sports question

Poker, Chess, Shove h"penny, Bar Billiards, WWF wrestling are NOT sports
Darts and pool may be sports or maybe games, I am unsure
Snooker, Formula One, Football are definitely sports

So anyway, I need to get back into the pokerz a bit I think. I have definitely lost my interest lately although I had a relatively good showing in the last APAT event (about time). Right now I definitely can"t muster up the enthusiasm to start grinding low limit online cash games but probably can play some little tournaments (they take a lot less concentration).

My game is still a bit of a mess as well, I keep knocking myself out of tournaments by making moves that I know I can"t do. I know how my game works I should stick to it. I know how to pick out decent spots and should not be trying to find extra spots where I am doing silly things. I should be playing good solid poker, not just ABC but making the reads I know I can make and following logical steps to pick up chips in easy situations. I really would like a good showing in Vegas (it would be the ultimate APAT to win).

Have registered for a few small tournaments on Pokerstar"s this afternoon so will report on those, think I will leave playing online cash until I get back from Vegas though. Maybe a month after as I am likely to be pokered out.

Will play both online APAT tournaments tomorrow and probably add a Stars tournament or two to that. Next year I want to try and get myself back to playing as I did in my pre-APAT days. Recently I have overdone sessions far too often and tried to jump up levels if I lose a few sessions (I have actually run quite well when doing this but that is not the point).
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 06, 2011, 10:14:46 AM
Played a bit of the Pokers over the last couple of days. I am pretty happy overall with how I played although trhere are a few spots I could have played better in. As I said previously I have not currently got the motivation to get down to grinding cash but hope to get back to it in December, will have to see how it goes though.

Anyway Over the last couple of days I have played the following tournaments:_

4x180 Man $4.40 (Pokerstars)
The Big $11 (Pokerstars)
The APAT North American Online
The APAT North American Omaha

In the little 180"s I generally did OK but did not run that great and did not manage to get a cash, a couple of deep runs before losing out in spots I could not have done much about.

The Omaha game I think I was playing well. I lost a huge pot where I don"t think I did much wrong. I have KsJhTc9h with the blinds at 125/250 with a 25 ante. I am in the BB and after 3 limpers the SB raises to  With this hand I have plenty of equity to see the flop so I call, there is another caller behind me and the flop comes down 9c-3s-Qh. So I have basically flopped the world with a pair and a wrap. I decide that with this hand there is no harm in trying to take what is there and shove the entire pot. THe original raiser have aces and we get it in and I miss my draws. I go out shortly after but think I played that quite well and got my money in good.

THe Hold'em Game. I got down to about 25 left when there was an EP raise and I have KJ on the button. Now all night I have been avoiding these spots and had plenty of chips (18K although slightly below average) to find something better but for some reason I call the raise to 3800. This is a really big raise and not something I should be calling with this hand. Anyway the flop comes down K-Q-9 which is as good as I could have hoped for really (top pair and a gutshot). There is 10K in the middle and the preflop raiser shoves. I don"t like it but have got myself into the spot now. I have 14,000 left and there is 38K to win. I call and she shows AA I miss my out"s and that was gg. Don"t think I played that hand very well. Should have just folded pre to that raise.

Anyway through all of this I was busily playing the Big $11, the tournament started out with 8950 players. I successfully made my way to the cash and then despite being short-stacked managed to continue to make progress and find spots. I reshove in a couple of good spots and steal some blinds. I make my way to the top 100 and climb up to 5th in chips. I then have to fold a few spots and drop back a bit. I make the final 3 tables and start to think I am looking OK for a bink here ($10K for the winner). I have a difficult seat though I have raised 3 times from the button and the SB has 3-bet me every time. He has done the same to the player to my right. I then get dealt A8s on the button, when it folds to me I have to raise, the SB 3-Bets me and the BB folds. I shove it in for about 800K (blinds were 20000/40000/3500 at this point) he thinks for almost his whole time before calling with AK and that was gg. I win $180 which is a bit gutting when I though I was looking good for a final table at one point. The play is probably OK though, really not too sure.

Overall not too bad and a decent warm up for Vegas. Might play a couple of little sats today and see if I can qualify for something decent tonight
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 11, 2011, 10:10:22 AM
At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month I will stop for a silent minute of thought. I will wear a poppy on my chest with pride and remember fallen heroes.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 13, 2011, 19:15:52 PM
There is a league game tonight so I might as well play a little bit of poker. Will go with the following

Pokerstars Sunday Storm
Pokerstars Bigger $11
APAT League Game
Sky Poker Mini Primo

Gonna play the "stars tournaments with my normal game and try something new in the other two.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 16, 2011, 11:44:13 AM
And so here we are. In just a few short hours I will be meeting up with some of APAT's finest people for the final build up to APAT Vegas. With this in mind a strange calm has come over me, in anticipation of the storm that is about to happen.

I am very sure that I will be very sensible this evening as I don"t want to spend 10 hours on a plane tomorrow with a hangover so it will be a little bit of food a couple of drink and an early night.

Needless to say in the company of the likes of the most excellent "Jaxie", Jack Prime and Dawn Dineen, The Stockton Brothers, Stu and Matt Ward, Derrick "Delboy" Andrews, Sharon "Supernova" Roberts and the legend that is MickyP this will not be too easy but it will be worth it when you remember this is a walk in the park, tomorrows crowd (in addition to the above) will include Dan Owston, Paul McGuniess, Paulie_D, Curlarge, Scouse, Matt M, James Barber, Darren Shallis and god only knows who else, I have lost track. That of course is without bring up the man who came up with this idea in the first place that being Ger Smyth Senior and Vegas rookie Ger Smyth Jnr (It only took him two days to get to Vegas after being 21, can"t fault that). Last, and anything but least, the very great Tightend - Mr. Richard Prew.

As always it will be an absolute privilege to spend a week in the company of these fine people and I am sure there will be some tales to tell by the end of it.

I will be getting my train at 13:04, arriving at Manchester airport this evening, quick taxi to Premier Inn and it will all be underway. I will be trying to update this most days in Vegas as per Paulie"s great efforts so far.

Right now all I need is a bit of run good and a box of luck to make this trip just about perfect.

One last very special mention for Adam and Julie of course who will be getting married in Vegas of course, they are a great couple and it will be a pleasure for myself and all of the other APATer"s to wish them well.

If this was happening anywhere else I would be quite scared for the place, however I reckon Vegas will deliver.

Bring it on !!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 16, 2011, 14:06:08 PM
I have just survived a heart attack.

As some of you might know I kinda booked this trip up at not quite the last minute but I wasn"t exactly well prepared. One issue I did come across is that my passport was due to expire in January. I quickly checked with Virgin Atlantic and was told this was no problem as long it it was valid for the time I was actually in the USA. I therefore happily booked up and forgot all about it.

So I am on the train today and am happily reading through some threads on the forum. I happen to click on a post by Paulie (who knows about things like this) which states that you need a passport with six months left on it. I get kinda worried for about 10 minutes until I check the government site below

http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/travel-advice-by-country/north-central-america/united-states?ta=entryRequirements&pg=4

Which confirms all is OK. That was nearly a legendary fail, to say I would have been unhappy is an understatement.

Anyway I have just gone through Hereford and am speeding into the Midlands towards Manchester. Not long now :-)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: duke3016 on November 16, 2011, 14:19:16 PM
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Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 20, 2011, 16:14:32 PM
I got around the above problem and got into Vegas fine. It has been a fun trip so far. We arrived on Thursday and the plane landed early (nice) but due to not having a parking spot it had to wait for about 20 minutes before we could get off. Anyway we take JB"s limo to the hotel. You could have bottled the atmosphere in that car and sold it as Red Bull at that stage. Anyway we get to Harrahs and go downstairs and all end up at Carnival Court. For some silly reason I decide to play poker at the end of the night and manage to drop $50 before I wonder why I am playing poker when I don"t even want too and then go to bed.

Friday was different, there is a 10am tournament but I decide I can"t be bothered to play poker and sit talkig to Ger, Stu and a few others. We then head over to the Imperial Palace for the $1 drinks. The night goes from one place to another, getting to the Monte Carlo was an experience, I think Stu could tell that story better. We go from one place to another, I am not sure how but I somehow end up back at Harrahs at about 3am. This seems strange as to why I am here, I think I got lost or something and the homing device came on. Anyway I am not tired but now basically have nothing to do. I find Del playing poker so decide to do this. I get rid of about $300 in short order but it was fun, again could not really sort out actually playing properly.

Saturday was APAT. I got a nice table but again got bored very quickly and was really not playing very well at all. The table did liven up though and there were lots of apaters on it and I manage to click my game on a little but still nowhere near where it should be. I somehow make day two with 15 left but my hopes are not high. The final table would be nice but I doubt it.

Yeah, anyway Vegas is cool, poker sucks. that is about it.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 22, 2011, 17:06:34 PM
Somehow or another managed to come third in the APAT event over here. At least my conversion rate of final tables to medals is good and having three final tables is also something to be pleased with. That was actually my main aim when I started playing APAT at the beginning of last season - to match Darren Shallis" 3 final tables. OK I have done that now so anyway, oh hang on he got another three in between then and now again *lol*

The APAT crowd are all legends - every one of them. Will do a post on the non-poker parts of this trip when I get back. I will just say I have enjoyed them far more than the poker *lol*

I am going to try a cash game today, still really not feeling it for live poker which is a shame. I hoped that Vegas would spark my interest but can"t say I have any great desire to even play today. I will as I had always intended to spend today and tomorrow doing that. I am not that excited about it to be honest though. Will be taking it seriously on this occasion though.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Des on November 22, 2011, 18:35:02 PM
Job very well done in Vegas Rodder"s and hope you had a great time besides.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: lukybugur on November 22, 2011, 19:49:39 PM
The one they call Rodders was last spotted taking a seat at the 1/2 cash table I just stood up from.

GL Fella!
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Santino67 on November 22, 2011, 22:48:39 PM

I somehow make day two with 15 left but my hopes are not high. The final table would be nice but I doubt it.



Very nice work getting a bronze then Steve, especially considering you"re not quite in the zone at the mo.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 23, 2011, 00:56:26 AM
Cheers for the replies guy"s - just taking a break from playing cash. I did really well and am very happy with how I played winning $360. I am planning to play some more later as well after a quick bit of food and taking some time out.

I have some hands that I need to post in the PHA section (on Blonde Poker) as I had a few interesting one"s. Some good calls and one bluff that I think I did really well on but need to feedback to make sure. Main thing of course is that I am up overall for the trip, I am still $40 down at cash due to two sessions where I played drunk (one was very drunk as Delboy will confirm) this is my own fault but would like to say I at least repaired the damage.

As for not being in the zone. I think I am actually playing OK (not great but OK), but am not really enjoying it. I mean at this moment in time I do actually want to play tonight but I doubt it will be an ongoing thing. Online is different I am still completely happy with playing online but live just seems so dull at the moment, kinda like watching slow drying paint *lol*

Not actually sure where everybody else is today I might find out later if I get bored with poker however I think I might just go and get some photos of the strip at night. The Venitan had it Winter in Venice show today and that was really good as well. Everything over here is really good. If I stop playing live poker (which right now seems likely, at least in the short term) I am really going to miss APAT a lot.

Away from poker I actually feel pretty normal again as well. OK, let"s try and get some run good tonight and do well.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: lukybugur on November 23, 2011, 01:08:33 AM
Nice work Rodders! That"s a tidy profit indeed.

I"d love to see your HH on here if you don"t mind copy > pasting from Blonde (I couldn"t find your post there).

Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 23, 2011, 12:14:47 PM

Nice work Rodders! That"s a tidy profit indeed.

I"d love to see your HH on here if you don"t mind copy > pasting from Blonde (I couldn"t find your post there).



Not written them up yet mate, will post them when I get back I expect, just making some notes about them now.

EDIT - They are now there and called "Hand"s from Vegas"

Anyway, think I made a tactical error tonight maybe. I decide to take an hour off and go back to the room to relax, after making the last post I obviously fall to sleep and wake up at midnight. Oh well.

I head downstairs and have a fruits salad and a banana and get a coffee and stroll of to the poker room. I play for about 3 hours before the game breaks. Early on I lose about $30 by getting AIPF with aces, I am such a fish getting it in with one pair (luckily he did not have much money in front of him obv).

In a really funny hand I again have aces (luckbox) There is a raise ahead of me to $10 I look at the raisers stack which is small and see about $70 in chips so make it $35, he calls. The flop is a rainbow 8-2-3. Nice flop for me that. I say "I put you in all" he insta calls with pockets eights. See I told you I was a fish. The dealer counts up and tells me I owe $148 (?????). He had a $100 note hidden behind his stack. It may not have made any difference to the result of the hand but this is why I don"t like cash being used at tables.

Anyway I grind it back and in a big hand make a set and stack a player for $200 (he flopped two pair and called me all the way). I make $125 in the session and again think I played it well. I really can"t believe these games, the standard of $1/$2 here is lower than the 10c/25c on Pokerstars and it isn"t really close. Anyway $480 (just over) for the day is a good result. I saw a couple of the APATer"s about as well and everybody seems to really be enjoying Vegas. The only problem I have now is local time is 4am and I have nothing to do, might go back to the Venitan after I make a note of some hands I need to post up. Some note"s:-

Live poker is boring - but you make money
Live poker drunk is fun - but you lose money
Online poker is likely the way forward for me for now at least

Still a day to go and my stats look like this

Live cash (whilst sober) +$480 (about)
Live cash (Whilst drunk) -$350 (about)
Tournaments +$1000 (about)

Total for Vegas +$1120 (plus anything I have given out in tips etc whilst playing as that is not included in the total)

Still tomorrow to go yet of course
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: noble1 on November 23, 2011, 15:35:08 PM
http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=55829.msg1459072#msg1459072

on the river size your bet so u will get called/paid off by worse, unless of course u have seen villain make hero calls with Ace rag hands or 2 pair on boards like this ip to 3barrels...
he could have A3 A2 33 A4 A5 AT 56 34 45 maybe 67 66 55 Ax or 22
at these stakes villain will either have a monster or a weak Ax which he"ll fold mostly to your river action imo, what do u think he perceived your hand to be on the turn Rodders?... [again if he cant fold top pair ace or 2 pair then shoving is ok, player/read dependent of course]

""Is the limp/call preflop OK""
yes if u think they will stack off light.... if the BB is tight and can make a big folds in multiway pots then the limp call pre is pretty marginal oop ... also depends on how light the 2 limp callers stack off...


http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=55830.msg1459073#msg1459073

i don"t like your reasoning or your hand selection in this situation...
if the isolator and the limpers folded a lot to 3bets then its marginally ok ish :)
as per post flop i dont mind your line. he can hero call TT JJ or 88 maybe... also u met get him to fold better...

edit [later thoughts] - http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=55830.msg1459073#msg1459073


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""Q7ss is alright, can flop top pair, and is, importantly, suited.""

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""If you ARE gonna 3bet light though you picked a absolutely fine hand to do it with.""


when players on a loose passive table open limp then imo u should tighten up your raising standards... your FE preflop has been diminished, even moreso with the isolator who has overall position playing this deep, so oop if you raise its far better to raise for value, widen the top part of your value 3bet range [not your air range against these types oop]
you need a better hand than total bollo#ks, oop in a 3bet pot playing this deep with a hand that plays poorly post flop is a recipe for losing money.... if u feel that the villains [isolator and limpers] will fold more than 70% then Q7s is ok ish [notice the ish part, in fact ATC"s is ok but keep in mind that when villains have position on u they will be more likely to call ]
imo if u feel u have say 55 to 70% FE still keep in mind to widen the top part of your 3bet value range and forget Q7s as the air part, include more flexibility for your air range with high implied odds hands such as 78s 86s or even 42s would be better than Q7s.. this will give u more chance of a +EV situation plus it will make your decisions a lot easier post flop.... big card potential [Q7s the Queen part] is a concept for shorter stacks NOT deep stack poker 150bb+.....

bet sizing - read up on it imho try to keep open minded on as many various views as u can and use sizing that will suit your style and how u think your opponents will react pre and post...
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 26, 2011, 14:00:38 PM

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=55829.msg1459072#msg1459072

on the river size your bet so u will get called/paid off by worse, unless of course u have seen villain make hero calls with Ace rag hands or 2 pair on boards like this ip to 3barrels...
he could have A3 A2 33 A4 A5 AT 56 34 45 maybe 67 66 55 Ax or 22
at these stakes villain will either have a monster or a weak Ax which he"ll fold mostly to your river action imo, what do u think he perceived your hand to be on the turn Rodders?... [again if he cant fold top pair ace or 2 pair then shoving is ok, player/read dependent of course]

""Is the limp/call preflop OK""
yes if u think they will stack off light.... if the BB is tight and can make a big folds in multiway pots then the limp call pre is pretty marginal oop ... also depends on how light the 2 limp callers stack off...

Good stuff as always but a few comments. In these games the river bet will get paid off by far worse, yes it is possible that we are beaten but we are usually in front here and the shove is the most +EV move. As far what he put me on when I bet the turn. To be honest I don"t think he thought about it, I think he saw his Ax or two pair and was not going away. The river gave me no reason to change that view and I felt he would pay off the shove. In a lot of games your thinking is right, in a live cash game in Vegas, my line is better.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=55830.msg1459073#msg1459073

i don"t like your reasoning or your hand selection in this situation...
if the isolator and the limpers folded a lot to 3bets then its marginally ok ish :)
as per post flop i dont mind your line. he can hero call TT JJ or 88 maybe... also u met get him to fold better...

Agree with you the reason for doing it sucks but the hand selection is fine if you are going to do it (which to be honest I should not have been). I also should have 3-bet bigger.

edit [later thoughts] - http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=55830.msg1459073#msg1459073


Quote
""Q7ss is alright, can flop top pair, and is, importantly, suited.""

Quote
""If you ARE gonna 3bet light though you picked a absolutely fine hand to do it with.""


when players on a loose passive table open limp then imo u should tighten up your raising standards... your FE preflop has been diminished, even moreso with the isolator who has overall position playing this deep, so oop if you raise its far better to raise for value, widen the top part of your value 3bet range [not your air range against these types oop]
you need a better hand than total bollo#ks, oop in a 3bet pot playing this deep with a hand that plays poorly post flop is a recipe for losing money.... if u feel that the villains [isolator and limpers] will fold more than 70% then Q7s is ok ish [notice the ish part, in fact ATC"s is ok but keep in mind that when villains have position on u they will be more likely to call ]
imo if u feel u have say 55 to 70% FE still keep in mind to widen the top part of your 3bet value range and forget Q7s as the air part, include more flexibility for your air range with high implied odds hands such as 78s 86s or even 42s would be better than Q7s.. this will give u more chance of a +EV situation plus it will make your decisions a lot easier post flop.... big card potential [Q7s the Queen part] is a concept for shorter stacks NOT deep stack poker 150bb+.....

bet sizing - read up on it imho try to keep open minded on as many various views as u can and use sizing that will suit your style and how u think your opponents will react pre and post...

Very happy with my bet sizing in the 44 hand. In the Q7 hand I should have raised more pre, the river bet was too big.

Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 26, 2011, 14:51:11 PM
APAT HITS VEGAS

A great week in Vegas with the APAT bunch has just ended. I think that I have recovered from it as well.

It all started on Wednesday night with a nice sensible evening in the Premier Inn in Manchester, the anticipation was palpable and everybody was well up for it. After a later night than planned we slept and awoke the next morning. We headed off to the airport where we met up with the crowd, it was like a whose who of APAT everybody was there. We get on the flight and fly to Vegas. It was a long but enjoyable flight and nobody was sleeping.

We landed in Vegas and I get in a limo with JB, Jaxie, Darren, The Stockton Massive, Sharon, Delboy and probably some others. We arrive at Harrah, check in and head down to Carnival Court. The beer flows and the whole of APAT is there, most go off to play a tournament, I just get drunk. His royal Tightness arrives and says hello and so does Joobie (who is a little excited over her upcoming wedding it seems). Eventually we head back to the poker room where The Duke, The Stockton Rock, Ger Jnr and Matt McKinlay are playing for the tournament win. Good start for APAT that. Matt eventually win"s with Ger Jnr in second so well played all. I get in a cash game and lose money as I appear to be to drunk to think properly. So I go for more drinks instead and talk to Scouse who correctly observes I appear to be totally broken (at this point I have been awake for 30 hours and am living on nothing but aeroplane food and Budwiser). I give it up at 2am and go to bed.

Friday gets underway with another tournament I do not bother playing. APAT success continues with Stu and Glen chopping it up. We then go over to Casino Royale where we meet Delboy, Jack Prime, Phil_TC and The Stockton Rock drinking $1 beers. I buy a shirt and join in. I then go back to my room to change and fall to sleep for about an hour after having a shower. I wake up and quickly get dressed and run down to the casino. I meet Jaxie and Julie on my way who tell me everybody is still at Casino Royale. I arrive and we continue to drink. We for some reason decide to walk to the Monte Carlo from here. This is perfectly walkable but for some reason it takes us an hour (it is a 20 minute maybe 30 minute walk)? Apparently this is my fault as I was the only one who actually knew the way.

We arrive and drink some more beers before some of us go to the ice lounge which was really good. It is a lounge which is kept at -5 and everything is made out of ice. Even the glasses for the drinks. It was really good. When we come out we head for the Tikki Bar eventually find it and are not sure we are going in, however we have a look and find the rest of the crowd is already there. Julie has invented a cocktail called umbongo and we all have one of those. Paulie_D the skilled travel guru quickly replans the night as we have all manged to mess it up by all being in the wrong places, no worries though we are soon good again. We stay in the bar for a while and everybody seems to be there. The whole night flows very well with Curlarge giving a performance of Wonderwall on the guitar in an Irish bar which was really good (there really are no end to the man talents). I end up lost and somehow back at Harrahs. I remember getting a cab with two people but cannot honestly remember who. I don"t feel at all tired so go to find some more people and I soon find Del, we decide we are obviously in perfect condition for a cash game. I gg about $300 I think and come off. I meet Asa shortly after this and it is now 7am, I have no gone two days without eating so go to bed. I set my alarm for 12pm so I can go and play the apat.

I play the APAT and make day two, they keep bring us free beers which is nice. I get quite lucky as I beat Carl with AQ vs 10-10 for my tournament life and also beat Delboy with 4-4 vs AK. I also put a pretty sick one on Matt McKinlay beatting his 99 with A-9 to knock him out. The tournament is OK as it has a lot of APATers in it which made for an OK table. After the tournament I can"t remember what I do but have a pretty early night as I want to try and do well tomorrow. I know I went to Casino Royale with Jaxie, Micky, Stu and others and was then back at Harrahs.

Sunday takes me back to day two and I try to stick to water, this does not work so I go back to drink Budwiser. I come third but make one bad play against Micky which probably costs me the tournament. Micky takes it down which is cool. At the end of day one somebody asked if Micky was still in and since then I have repeatedly asked Micky if he was still in and he keeps telling me he was going to take my chips (and he did - along with everybody elses). AndrewT comes in second which was also good. Great result for APAT.

We go to the Imperial Palace and play Pai-Gow and drink. Another good night was had by all.

Monday we go to the Wedding which was very good and both Julie and Adam looked very happy all day which is nice to see of course. The JAPAT tournament was a good event which Jack won. After the tournament there was a 3-6 PLO8 games going on which I did not feel like playing in so I got a taxi back with Jaxie and Delboy and it seems everybody plans Fremont street tomorrow. I am planning to play at The Venitan tomorrow so say I may not make it. They go for food, I did actually eat something already today so go for an early night - which was a mistake.

I go to sleep until about 7am and head to the Venitian to play poker. I basically spend the next 36 hours or so playing, sleeping, going back to playing and sleeping again. I run into various people at various times during this time but go into some weird cycle of feeling like I have to keep playing even though I am honestly no enjoying it i the least. It eventually gets to about 4pm on Wednesday and I am about $400 up over the last couple of days but was $80 down in my last session. I decide to go to sleep against and have one final session. I see Paulie_D playing and mention this to him and say I will see them all later. To be honest at this point I have not been eating whilst in Vegas, have drunk too much, I have not really been sleeping properly and have run out of adrenalin a few days ago. I am not able to find the rest of the group and decide to have a quick nap. In the back of my mind I know that this is it and I am not getting up for the meal. I go to sleep and wake up at 12am. I go back to sleep and wake up again at 6am. I go and have breakfast and meet up with some of the APATers who wonder where I have been. I play one more poker session and get back to being $480 up before we all head back to the airport.

The flight back is not too bad but the train journey from Manchester is hard work not to fall to sleep.

I get back and finally get home from the best APAT trip yet. The whole of the crowd are awesome, Both Ger"s, Jaxie, Stu, Phil, Matt, Carl, Michelle, Micky, Delboy, Colin, The other Stockton boys whose names I have forgotten, Sharon, Dan, Scouse, Matt, of course Adam and Julie, Jon MW etc etc etc........ This could go on forever I got bored of typing name *lol*

Great trip, great people. They are what has kept me going back to APAT events for the last year. They are what makes it worthwhile spending weekends away from home.

APAT is like a weekend away from reality (does anybody else think that). These people who you see so rarely and yet when we all come together everybody gets on so well and it just seems like everybody is the best of friends. Hope APAT lives on for a long time to come.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: pables on November 26, 2011, 16:47:31 PM
Nice read Rodders, makes me realise how lucky I was to stay at home  :"(
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 27, 2011, 23:03:56 PM
Recently I have been becoming more and more bored with live poker. I am at the stage where the only live events I play are APATs and that is due to the people involved more than the poker event. Once I am out, I have not been playing the side events and for a couple of them have not even bothered coming to the second day if I am not still in. Live cash seems a chore these days as well.

Since playing my first APAT event at the start of 2010 I have more than less arranged my life (and in a few cases other peoples) around the events to ensure that I can attend them all. Before I have said I can do anything, I have had to firstly check there is not an APAT event, when sorting the rota in work the first thing I check is when there is a APAT event before working everybody around that to ensure I am not working that weekend and am able to get days off around it if I need them. My holidays have also been mainly planned around APAT.

So now I have decided it is time for an extended break from live poker. At the moment I am intending to not play any live poker for the rest of the year and not a whole lot in 2012 (maybe the odd local tournament). I don"t see the point in doing something I am not enjoying just because it is "what I do".

It"s of course possible I will not stick to this and will change my mind once season six gets annouced but for now I can say I 100% believe this to be true and I will not be playing live again (not for a while at least).

I am really hoping this will allow me to start to move my online game on to the next level as I have not been doing as well as I would expect lately. The two games play very differently and I don"t think playing both has worked out that well for me. I make money but don"t feel I have got any better as a player for a while. Time to change that.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: duke3016 on November 27, 2011, 23:12:59 PM
Steve,

Fully appreciate your predicament, but APAT is about craic (for me anyway) the poker is secondary. Live life as it should be lived, make your choice as regards poker but don"t bin APAT tournaments. You are great company and treat the APAT as a chance to meet up with good people and if the poker clicks so be it.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Santino67 on November 27, 2011, 23:17:41 PM
Very sad that you"re feeling like this Steve. I"m sure you"ve made the correct decision for the right reasons and suspect you"ll be back playing (certainly APAT's) sometime in the near future. With 3 medals to your name and solid performances over the 2 seasons you"ve proven you"re playing very well and doing something right. You"ve also become a very well liked and respected APAT"er so we"ll all hope to see you again grace the tables. I"m sure you"ll continue to progress in the online game as well mate so stick at it.

All The Best
Grant
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on November 28, 2011, 00:25:28 AM
You do realise you sound precisely like i did before we went to vegas dont you? :p

i would say keep plugging away mate, stopping going to APATs would be one of the biggest mistakes you ever make in my opinion

i agree with what Ger said to be honest.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Laxie on November 28, 2011, 08:49:01 AM
Deffo give yourself the space you think you need, but don"t give up the APAT's altogether ffs!  You"ve friends here and we"d miss you.  Would be like cutting off yer nose to spite yer face if ya decided to go totally missing.  Plus I"d have to hunt ya down.  Just sayin"...
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Cyntaf on November 28, 2011, 12:15:25 PM
Hey, Rodders I for one will miss you. Still I respect your decision and wish you all the very best online.
Hope things go as you plan and maybe we"ll see you again playing live very soon.

P.S. Do not give up the blogging.

Cheers Paul MAc :)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: PHIL_TC on November 28, 2011, 13:04:45 PM

APAT is about craic (for me anyway) the poker is secondary. Live life as it should be lived, make your choice as regards poker but don"t bin APAT tournaments. You are great company and treat the APAT as a chance to meet up with good people and if the poker clicks so be it.


This really  ::)

Take some time to chillout after the Vegas trip and reconsider in a few weeks. We"re all knackered and not thinking straight.

Will miss you though mate if you do stick to the decision. Hope its only temporary x
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: PHIL_TC on November 28, 2011, 13:21:21 PM
p.s. something to make you smile  ;D

http://minus5mc.zenfolio.com/p12141660/e3cbd8605 (http://minus5mc.zenfolio.com/p12141660/e3cbd8605)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 28, 2011, 15:26:11 PM
I might change my mind when I see season 6 anyway, although what I said is currently true. 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. Last thing I want to do is end up hating the game. If it gets June time next year and I want to play again then I will.

I will certainly be going along to APAT Wales in season six, not intending to be playing but will come along just to see everybody. Also if there is another one within driving distance I would be likely to do the same. Love that side of APAT.

I might just make one exception anyway in the WCOAP.

Certainly will be keeping this thread going and will pick live poker back up at some point, even if it is not until this time next year, Vegas 2012 would be a good time.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Supernova on November 28, 2011, 15:44:06 PM


APAT is about craic (for me anyway) the poker is secondary. Live life as it should be lived, make your choice as regards poker but don"t bin APAT tournaments. You are great company and treat the APAT as a chance to meet up with good people and if the poker clicks so be it.


This really  ::)

Take some time to chillout after the Vegas trip and reconsider in a few weeks. We"re all knackered and not thinking straight.

Will miss you though mate if you do stick to the decision. Hope its only temporary x





Ditto xxx
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Jon MW on November 28, 2011, 17:39:37 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....


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.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: HOLDorFOLD on November 28, 2011, 18:50:31 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.


This ... and ditto to other comments



xx
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: technolog on November 28, 2011, 19:09:58 PM
We all love you Steve, hurry back.

Dawn and I are likely to be largely absent too but for different reasons.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 28, 2011, 21:54:47 PM
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).
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 02, 2011, 11:30:20 AM
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.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 03, 2011, 10:51:48 AM
Going to play some tournaments today and rail the APAT in Manchester. Went back through the hands I have played this week and am happy enough even though I ended up break even. Going to start off today playing a couple of the 180 manners. Pokerstar"s has some strange tournaments, what are these time limited tournaments all about? Anyway will update this post later with how it is going and what other games I am adding if I choose to do so.

*----------------------------

Played the two little MTT"s, didn"t cash in either but played fine.

For some reason decided that I should try a bit of heads up PLO and managed to get rid of two buyin"s at that. Strangely recently I am feeling a lot happier playing tournaments than cash, maybe I will focus on them a bit more this month as I seem to be playing better in them at the moment. Will play a few more later I expect. Will then put together a little schedule for the next week or so.


*----------------------------

Currently playing

2x $4.50 on PS
The Big $5.50 on PS
The £2.20 DS on Sky Poker
The $11 DS on Betfair Poker

Just one of the $4.50"s left, 2 tables left and I have double the average. A final table would be useful. Currently 2/14.

Finished 9th in that one for around $8.80
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 07, 2011, 17:26:18 PM
Gonna play a couple of Little $4.50"s tonight. Might do a mini bink.

1. $4.50 45/180
2. $4.50 156/180

Went from one of them very early, got dealt KK in EP with the Blinds 10/20 so raise it to 120 getting one caller. The flop comes down 7-8-9. It"s me to act and the board looks poor but I reckon I can over-bet and get called by lot"s worse so I shove it in. I definitely get called by a lot worse here in one of these but he has J-10. GG Me.

2nd one I walked AJ into AK whilst shortstcked - M"eh happens I guess.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 08, 2011, 20:56:44 PM
Spent some time going through my hand database tonight from poker tracker. I actually have two one sits on my poker desktop and the other on my laptop but my desktop is the main one. I went back a couple of years to back in the day and found something interesting. My best winning days seems to come at FR tables rather than the six max tables that I now play exclusively.

I also seem to have developed a case of "fancy play syndrome". I get it every now and again where I try to play simple spots too clever. It usually results in a smallish pot being lost but these extra bets I am paying add up. So in my never ending quest (it seems) to regain the form I used to have I am going to give FR another go.

3 Day weekend after tomorrow (yay) so can get some cash hands in and should get to Silverstar as well.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 10, 2011, 09:04:35 AM
Love all the new blogs that are popping up on this site. Hopefully they will survive and keep getting updated in the new year as I really do enjoyed this section of the forum. Jack get back to updating your"s the only way I know how your DIY and things are going is by reading Dawn"s blog :-)

Going to try and get this back to how it was at the start of the year from next month and try to post monthly results from NLHE, PLO and tournaments. That was the original intention anyway but this year I gave myself unrealistic targets in terms of volume and suffered for it. I really don"t deserve to be up at poker in 2011. To many sessions online where I have played on for much longer than I should also not enough time spent working on my game, I have tried to just play my way to improving my results assuming I am just "supposed to win". Will see what I do about live poker when APAT's season six is announced, not a huge fan of Aspers in Swansea so not going back to it any time soon. I will be back at some point in 2012 though.

Only played the 10c/25c tables last night and ran bad but still managed to make around $40 ($37.68 to be exact) which was well under expect EV. I am happy with this result and with any luck going back to those types of tables will see me improve my results (I somehow seem to be money up this year online but am down as far as BB/100 goes as I have kept changing the limits I am playing and ran good at the higher limit luckily).

Also got to Silverstar on Stars so can now start working on getting to gold. I did make a few mistakes but know where I went wrong so don"t need to post the hands, but will post one for pure comedy purposes (ftw it"s worth I play that specific hand against that player exactly the same).


PokerStars - $0.25 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 7 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

CO: $9.40
BTN: $26.91
SB: $47.75
BB: $45.19
UTG: $41.45
UTG+1: $26.66
Hero (MP): $23.65

SB posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero has 6c 9c

fold, fold, Hero calls $0.25, fold, fold, SB calls $0.15, BB raises to $2.50, Hero calls $2.25, SB calls $2.25

Flop: ($7.50, 3 players) Qc Qs 2c
SB checks, BB checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($7.50, 3 players) Ac
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets $5.00, fold, BB raises to $10.00, Hero raises to $21.15 and is all-in, BB calls $11.15

River: ($49.80, 2 players) 8s

BB shows Qd Qh (Four of a Kind, Queens) (Pre 80%, Flop 100%, Turn 100%)
Hero shows 6c 9c (Flush, Ace High) (Pre 20%, Flop 0%, Turn 0%)
BB wins $47.80

Right going to play some cash and will update soon - and everybody start a blog they are my new favourite part of the APAT forum.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Laxie on December 10, 2011, 09:28:31 AM

Love all the new blogs that are popping up on this site. Hopefully they will survive and keep getting updated in the new year as I really do enjoyed this section of the forum. Jack get back to updating your"s the only way I know how your DIY and things are going is by reading Dawn"s blog :-)



Why do I get the feeling you say that like it"s a hardship?!  Where"s me whip ffs...
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 10, 2011, 10:40:56 AM


Love all the new blogs that are popping up on this site. Hopefully they will survive and keep getting updated in the new year as I really do enjoyed this section of the forum. Jack get back to updating your"s the only way I know how your DIY and things are going is by reading Dawn"s blog :-)



Why do I get the feeling you say that like it"s a hardship?!  Where"s me whip ffs...

Not at all as ya know *lol* I learn loads from your diary, who knew ketchup should be kept in the fridge!!!!

Just want to see the blogs on here updated as I find them very interesting.

Gives me something to do whilst clicking fold :-)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Laxie on December 10, 2011, 11:09:51 AM



Love all the new blogs that are popping up on this site. Hopefully they will survive and keep getting updated in the new year as I really do enjoyed this section of the forum. Jack get back to updating your"s the only way I know how your DIY and things are going is by reading Dawn"s blog :-)



Why do I get the feeling you say that like it"s a hardship?!  Where"s me whip ffs...

Not at all as ya know *lol* I learn loads from your diary, who knew ketchup should be kept in the fridge!!!!

Just want to see the blogs on here updated as I find them very interesting.

Gives me something to do whilst clicking fold :-)


Good save!   :D  Will bug him to update his blog later today, but right now he"s on the roof with a hoe.  Needs must and all that.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 10, 2011, 18:28:41 PM
Did not do so well today. Was down $20 although played lots of hands (around 2000) so have now got 1000 VPP this month which is one third of the way to Goldstar for the month.

Played some hands quite well and made a few mistakes as well. I don"t think you are ever going to play it perfect of course. At the end of one session I did play for about half an hour too long which is pretty poor and probably lost about $10 that I should not have lost. I also lost a stack with the 2nd nut straight when he had the nut straight so not much I can do about that.

OK played enough poker for today so I am now going to go and have a beer and watch El Classico (I have £10 on the draw). Stats for today were:-

Hands = 2016
VP$IP = 11
PFR = 8
3-Bet = 3

Todays Loss = $20.34

Bluffs on the river seem to be much harder to get through playing FR than 6-Max.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: TheSnapper on December 10, 2011, 20:40:10 PM


Stats for today were:-

Hands = 2016
VP$IP = 11
PFR = 8
3-Bet = 3



Omg Rudders hats off to you sir, I would quickly lose the will to live playing 2016 hands @ 11 / 8.

as an aside, that is decent volume and would net a decent few quid in rakeback on one of the many ipoker skins offering up to 50%.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 11, 2011, 13:37:03 PM



Stats for today were:-

Hands = 2016
VP$IP = 11
PFR = 8
3-Bet = 3



Omg Rudders hats off to you sir, I would quickly lose the will to live playing 2016 hands @ 11 / 8.

as an aside, that is decent volume and would net a decent few quid in rakeback on one of the many ipoker skins offering up to 50%.

I over compensated and probably went too tight moving back to FR. I will get somebody to have a look at some time and correct this as it looks too tight to me. It"s probably possible (quite easy) to play these stats and be profitable at $25nl but doubt it is optimal.

Just starting going through the hands now. Will play a shorter session later today and some tournaments tonight.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 11, 2011, 17:11:10 PM
Played a session today of only about 500 hands. Not much happened really. I ended up winning $3.93 so basically a break even session. There were pretty much no interesting hands. At one point I was down about $5 at my lowest point and at one point I was up 5 at my highest point. The biggest pot  I won was a $10 pot (a net win of about $6) the biggest pot I lost was also about $10. So in other words nothing to report really. It was all fairly standard stuff.

Session stats below

Hand Played = 503
VP$IP = 13%
PFR = 10%
3-Bet = 4%

Session profit = $3.93
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 12, 2011, 09:36:14 AM
Only played three tournaments last night drew three blanks but more than happy with how I played.

I was playing the following tournaments:-

1) Bigger $11 on Pokerstars
2) Mini primo on Sky Poker
3) APAT League game

Main hand in the bigger $11 was where I got it allin with KK against QQ and QJ and the case queen hit the river. That would have given me a top 20 stack but the hand played pretty standard.

The Mini Primo was pretty hard to do much in as I was pretty card dead and pretty spot dead as well. I eventually got it in with 10-10 but somebody behind found KK, again pretty standard

I played the APAT league game and was going well, got a bit of luck when I reshoved with KQ and got called by 9"s but I hit. Then I had the chip leader to my right and this was making it quite difficult as he was raising lot"s of hands and playing them hard. Stealing the blinds was pretty hard but I was doing OK and had a top 5 stack when I get 88 in the SB and it folds to me. I raise and he ships on me. I expected this and call, he shows me A-6 and hit"s his ace. I was a big chip leader if I win that hand so happy enough with it.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 12, 2011, 21:22:03 PM
OK, just finished today, got some really good volume in and ran well which always helps. Finshed the session about $25 above exepected value. It was a long session today, played about 8 hours with only one break but was playing well and feeling happy. Poker has to be the most annoying game I have ever played, how can I play pretty well and make good plays on days like today and at other times just be so terrible. This weekend though I have played well and I am happy with the result"s.

Today I played 3072 hands winning $143.80. There we one or two hands where I think I could have done better, this one is the prime example:-

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=56061.0

There were some hands I made bad folds on, have a look at these and see if you think they are bad (one is and one is probably OK)

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=56064.0

I am happy that I managed to make almost no really silly calls all the way through and think I ranged my opponents hands well and picked up good value, getting three sreets of value when it is there is an important skill that a lot of players lack (including me sometimes). How would you rate the betting on this hand? Should I make the turn bet a little bigger and allow me to go for more value on the river against his range?

PokerStars - $0.25 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 5 players

CO: $17.95
BTN: $32.69
Hero (SB): $25.64
BB: $25.35
UTG: $28.77

Hero posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero has  A:club: K:club:

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to $1.00, BB calls $0.75

Flop: ($2.00, 2 players)  T:diamond: K:diamond: 2:spade:
Hero bets $1.50, BB calls $1.50

Turn: ($5.00, 2 players)  4:spade:
Hero bets $2.70, BB calls $2.70

River: ($10.40, 2 players)  4:club:
Hero bets $4.00, BB calls $4.00

Hero shows  A:club: K:club:  (Two Pair, Kings and Fours) (Pre 75%, Flop 86%, Turn 93%)
BB mucks  Q:club: K:spade:  (Two Pair, Kings and Fours) (Pre 25%, Flop 14%, Turn 7%)
Hero wins $17.51


Like I said I am very happy with my performance over the last three days. Excellent disipline for long periods of time which is what I need to be doing. More of the same for the rest of the month will be good and I should hit Goldstar and also get my $50 bonus. If I can then maintain Goldstar next year which is the plan I should get the $50 every month in addition to the Stellar Rewards and freeroll entries. I doubt I will do it every month as I will run bad and need to take breaks sometimes but will try and do it most.

Stats for todays sessions

Hand Played = 3072
VP$IP = 11.85%
PFR = 7.85
3-Bet = 2.88%
Todays Profit = $143.80

I am still playing like a nit but am not convinced that is not right at this level.

Also played a couple of tables with Noble1"s brother today which was fun. We clash quite a few times and I think the result was an honorable draw. Do you cal this river?


PokerStars - $0.25 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 9 players

SB: $28.28
BB: $10.00
UTG: $19.75
UTG+1: $25.60
MP: $32.52
MP+1: $9.75
Hero (LP): $23.81
CO: $17.80
BTN: $26.67

SB posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero has Ad As

fold, fold, MP raises to $0.75, fold, Hero raises to $2.75, fold, fold, fold, fold, MP calls $2.00

Flop: ($5.85, 2 players) 9s 7s 9h
MP checks, Hero bets $3.50, MP calls $3.50

Turn: ($12.85, 2 players) Ts
MP checks, Hero checks

River: ($12.85, 2 players) 4c
MP bets $26.27 and is all-in, fold

MP wins $12.23
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 13, 2011, 12:52:59 PM
OK played a small session this morning as I am working afternoons today. The stats look like this:-

Hands = 680
VP$IP = 10.88%
PFR = 7.35%
3-Bet = 4.45%
Today"s Profit = $9.14

Again I am very happy with how I played the session. Had to make a couple of folds as always but seem to be able to do that fine at the moment and am not spewing off cash when I should not be. I really wish I could maintain this level of play at all times. Since moving from 6-max to FR on 08/12/2011 my stats look like this:-

Hands = 8214
VP$IP = 11.68%
PFR = 7.84%
3-Bet = 3.11%
Profit = $161.67 @ 3.93 BB/100

If I can keep this up is another matter of course.

I currently have 1354 VPP MTD so I am a little bit behind the required run rate to hit Goldstar, hopefully I can pick that up a bit on the weekend, even though I am going to the football on Saturday so that"s most of the day out. Below is a hand from today that I did not play so well :-)

PokerStars Game #72083160861:  Hold'em No Limit ($0.10/$0.25 USD) - 2011/12/13 11:07:05 WET [2011/12/13 6:07:05 ET]
Table "Alamak IV" 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 2: Mistwalker54 ($36.84 in chips)
Seat 3: CB_Sandow ($17.31 in chips)
Seat 4: lukeaces1 ($25 in chips)
Seat 5: Hero ($24.75 in chips)
Seat 6: MOHXFOKELSBB ($26.24 in chips)
Seat 9: gerbard ($10 in chips)
Hero: posts small blind $0.10
MOHXFOKELSBB: posts big blind $0.25
Lagutin1988: sits out
MrSchnuff: sits out
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [3h 3s]
gerbard: folds
Mistwalker54: folds
CB_Sandow: folds
lukeaces1: raises $0.75 to $1
Hero: calls $0.90
MOHXFOKELSBB: folds
*** FLOP *** [3d Ts 5c]
Hero: checks
lukeaces1: bets $1.25
Hero: calls $1.25
*** TURN *** [3d Ts 5c] [2c]
Gilya-com joins the table at seat #1
Hero: checks
lukeaces1: checks
*** RIVER *** [3d Ts 5c 2c] [Ad]
Hero: bets $2.50
lukeaces1: raises $4.25 to $6.75
Hero: calls $4.25
*** SHOW DOWN ***
lukeaces1: shows [Kd 4d] (a straight, Ace to Five)
Hero: mucks hand
lukeaces1 collected $17.35 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $18.25 | Rake $0.90
Board [3d Ts 5c 2c Ad]
Seat 2: Mistwalker54 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 3: CB_Sandow folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 4: lukeaces1 (button) showed [Kd 4d] and won ($17.35) with a straight, Ace to Five
Seat 5: Hero (small blind) mucked [3h 3s]
Seat 6: MOHXFOKELSBB (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: gerbard folded before Flop (didn"t bet)

Something else I was thinking of is what is the best use for FPP"s? I normally just buy the instant bonuses with them but there seems to be more value in buying tournament tickets. If I am +EV in the tournaments and was going to play them anyway then I will get more out of that. A Big $11 ticket is 700 FPP and a $50 bonus costs 4500 so for the same price you are going to get about $70 of tournament buyin"s seems a no brainer as I do play that tournament Saturday"s when I am not doing anything as well as sometimes on a Sunday.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Santino67 on December 13, 2011, 23:28:23 PM

Something else I was thinking of is what is the best use for FPP"s? I normally just buy the instant bonuses with them but there seems to be more value in buying tournament tickets. If I am +EV in the tournaments and was going to play them anyway then I will get more out of that. A Big $11 ticket is 700 FPP and a $50 bonus costs 4500 so for the same price you are going to get about $70 of tournament buyin"s seems a no brainer as I do play that tournament Saturday"s when I am not doing anything as well as sometimes on a Sunday.


Pretty annoying hand that Steve, what can you do?  As for the FPP, $11 tickets FTW  8)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 14, 2011, 12:06:59 PM
Played another little early morning session today. Not sure if I got unlucky or what but did not feel that I played as well as I could have. I did run about $35 below EV but I still feel that there are some spots where I could have done better, a couple of pots where I double barreled in bad spots, that kind of thing was still going along quite nicely up about $25 when I lost a race with AK Vs JJ so lost $10 there then this happened:-


PokerStars - $0.25 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

MP+1: $11.31
LP: $13.28
CO: $10.00
BTN: $23.35
SB: $10.00
BB: $25.78
Hero (UTG): $23.91
UTG+1: $20.41
MP: $10.00

SB posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero has 5h 5s

Hero calls $0.25, UTG+1 raises to $1.50, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls $1.25

Flop: ($3.35, 2 players) 9s 9d 5d
Hero checks, UTG+1 bets $1.75, Hero calls $1.75

Turn: ($6.85, 2 players) 8c
Hero checks, UTG+1 bets $3.75, Hero raises to $8.75, UTG+1 raises to $17.16 and is all-in, Hero calls $8.41

River: ($41.17, 2 players) 9c

Hero shows 5h 5s (Full House, Nines full of Fives) (Pre 20%, Flop 83%, Turn 91%)
UTG+1 shows Jc Jd (Full House, Nines full of Jacks) (Pre 80%, Flop 17%, Turn 9%)
UTG+1 wins $39.17

Obviously you are going to get them and not a lot you can do about it. It"s strange how the fact you know you are playing quite well at the moment has on those sort of spots. There are times when that would have tilted me and I would need to come off but I just kinda thought, that sucks, and reloaded. Did get back into profit although only a small one by the end of the session. Still very happy with my play at the moment just need to cut out one or two mistakes if I can. Session stats were:-

Hands = 736
VP$IP = 13.82%
PFR = 8.7%
3-Bet = 2.7%
Profit Today = $2.47
VPP"s this month = 1400

I need to fit a few sessions in I think to try and hit Goldstar, I am in the right frame of mind to do it and don"t want to leave myself with too much to do over Christmas and New Year (might leave a few VPP to get on New Years Eve just for the fun of it - hopefully the connection won"t drop lol).

My had of the day - does anybody play this any different - if so why?


PokerStars - $0.25 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

UTG+1: $10.53
Hero (MP): $22.75
MP+1: $23.43
LP: $27.59
CO: $12.70
BTN: $11.52
SB: $25.00
BB: $25.00
UTG: $27.40

SB posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero has As Ah

fold, fold, Hero raises to $1.00, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, BB calls $0.75

Flop: ($2.10, 2 players) 9s 4s 6c
BB checks, Hero bets $1.75, BB raises to $4.75, Hero calls $3.00

Turn: ($11.60, 2 players) 2d
BB bets $7.00, Hero raises to $17.00 and is all-in
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: jbworldwide on December 14, 2011, 12:30:02 PM
That last one feels very strong.

Check raise and then lead.

It is an interesting spot, he could be doing with TPTK (he doesn"t lead the turn with this), K6 flush draw (unlikely, will check call), but a call for $1 pre, he could well be set mining, or he could have something like 10"s or JJ"s and wanted to see a flop before getting busy.

I think I play it the same way, I"m not sure you can get away, he either has a set or he doesn"t. If he has then oh well.

Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: TheSnapper on December 14, 2011, 14:50:07 PM
One observation I feel is important Rodders, in both those last two hands your stack wasn"t full @ $23.91 and $22.75, you should strive to not let this happen. You are playing a Tag 11/7 game which is essentially, certainly close to, a nut pedalling type of game where you plan to get full value when you hit a hand. Because of this you should strive to always have a full stack.

Hand 2,

This spot is hugely dependent on reads and even then tough to put down.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 15, 2011, 00:01:30 AM

One observation I feel is important Rodders, in both those last two hands your stack wasn"t full @ $23.91 and $22.75, you should strive to not let this happen. You are playing a Tag 11/7 game which is essentially, certainly close to, a nut pedalling type of game where you plan to get full value when you hit a hand. Because of this you should strive to always have a full stack.

Hand 2,

This spot is hugely dependent on reads and even then tough to put down.

Excellent point about stack size, have corrected this in Pokerstar"s settings. Apparently they are different for 6-max and FR.

Here is my take on the AA spot, no way in the world I am folding at any point in this hand btw.

I raise to $1 and he calls. If he is observant I am meant to have something here. Important point though, very few players are actually that observant.

My raise and his call can mean lots of things. It"s hard to put either of us on a good range of hands at this point. I am a nit so I am meant to have a strong hand from this position. He could be calling with a wide range here. It includes pairs, SC, big cards like AK, AQ, AJ etc.

The flop helps my hand, I also have position which is really powerful in this hand. There are not many draws there, he does a check and so I obviously c-bet. I can see no good reason not to do this. His raise is then fairly strong. I am now thinking he could have an overpair to the board or a draw of some kind (flush draw is most likely obv). A set might well do this but it"s not usual for them to flat and fire back on the turn. There are not really any realistic two pair hands here. My in this position my aces are a big favorite to be the best hand.

My options are shove it in or call and have a look at the turn and reassess. Getting it in feels like putting the hand face up and SHOULD only get called by a hand that beats me (probably not true in real life I know). QQ could call I suppose but QQ would usually at least 3-bet pre. He should not have KK as that MUST 3-bet pre. Flush draws are also very possible and should fold if I shove (unless they are AK of Spades). He could have some weird medium strength hand and be on a semi bluff (on this board in this pot a top pair type hand). Him having air does not feel likely but not impossible. Given a shove here causes most hands I beat to fold and hands I lose to to call. I see the turn.

Turn is a great card for me and should not have changed anything, my aces should still be ahead most of the time. If I was ahead on the flop I am ahead on the turn. This also shows the great advantage of position. He now has the lead in the hand so might feel he has to continue and has to go first. He bets. I am really only losing to sets and you can"t spend your poker life being scared of sets, it"s often OK to get stacked with AA against a set and this is one of those times. I see almost no two pair hands here and a little bit of air in his range (people do bluff and this is a spot he would feel he can). There is now enough in the pot and I get called by lots and lots of hands that I beat as he may often feel committed with a medium strength hand and he is getting a great price. I shove.

The question here is quite simple. How do I get all of the money in the middle? I believe my line is optimal in this spot, the other options are:-

3-Bet shove the flop
Call on the turn and hope he fires on the river

I posted this as it is an interesting hand - I am quite happy it was played correctly, will try a few more of these and will include the relevant stats and info on opponents.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: TheSnapper on December 15, 2011, 01:19:12 AM
How many hands did you have with this guy Rodders and what were his stats for

Vpip
Pfr
3bet
Donk
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 15, 2011, 10:59:59 AM

How many hands did you have with this guy Rodders and what were his stats for

Vpip
Pfr
3bet
Donk

Only 104 hands,
playing 21/18
3-Bet is 8.5%
Donk Lead = 5% (by Donk I assume you mean bet when first to act after calling a pre-flop raise - 1 out of 18)
Check Raise flop 0% (ignoring the above hand)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 15, 2011, 12:22:03 PM
Played session this morning, played badly making a few bad calls. Hands like the one below (not good enough)

PokerStars - $0.25 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

MP+1: $33.89
CO: $24.65
Hero (BTN): $19.12
SB: $25.00
BB: $9.24
UTG: $26.71
UTG+1: $39.28
MP: $25.00

SB posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero has Kh Ah

UTG calls $0.25, fold, MP raises to $1.00, fold, fold, Hero raises to $2.75, fold, BB calls $2.50, fold, fold

Flop: ($6.85, 2 players) 5h 6d 2c
BB bets $6.49 and is all-in, Hero calls $6.49

Turn: ($19.83, 2 players) Jc

River: ($19.83, 2 players) 7d

BB shows Th Ts (One Pair, Tens) (Pre 54%, Flop 72%, Turn 86%)
Hero shows Kh Ah (High Card, Ace) (Pre 46%, Flop 28%, Turn 14%)
BB wins $18.86

Might be down to me playing too much lately so I need to pick up on that asap. I might give Holdem a rest for a while and play some Omaha or some tournaments. Overall happy with this week but today I was poor. Strange how it"s possible to change from day to day so much.

Hands = 548
VP$IP = 9.31%
PFR = 5.84%
3-Bet = 2%
Todays loss = $36.09
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: jbworldwide on December 15, 2011, 12:38:28 PM


How many hands did you have with this guy Rodders and what were his stats for

Vpip
Pfr
3bet
Donk

Only 104 hands,
playing 21/18
3-Bet is 8.5%
Donk Lead = 5% (by Donk I assume you mean bet when first to act after calling a pre-flop raise - 1 out of 18)
Check Raise flop 0% (ignoring the above hand)


what did he have?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: TheSnapper on December 15, 2011, 13:44:07 PM

Only 104 hands,
playing 21/18
3-Bet is 8.5%
Donk Lead = 5% (by Donk I assume you mean bet when first to act after calling a pre-flop raise - 1 out of 18)
Check Raise flop 0% (ignoring the above hand)


Yea pretty much never folding to that type. One other point though, I kinda feel this is a way ahead way behind spot and when we raise the turn we allow villain to fold some hands we beat that may put another bet in on the river.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 16, 2011, 10:08:07 AM


Only 104 hands,
playing 21/18
3-Bet is 8.5%
Donk Lead = 5% (by Donk I assume you mean bet when first to act after calling a pre-flop raise - 1 out of 18)
Check Raise flop 0% (ignoring the above hand)


Yea pretty much never folding to that type. One other point though, I kinda feel this is a way ahead way behind spot and when we raise the turn we allow villain to fold some hands we beat that may put another bet in on the river.

This is a good point (obviously as Brendan is making it *lol*).

I still prefer my way of playing it, but do wonder what other people think. I think Brendan has it spot on in theory (it should be we are either way ahead, or he has a set), but in practice we actually get a lot of calls from hands we beat (as people think they have good odds and are priced in with a pair) and a lot of hands that would call on the turn, just check/fold the river (he folded to my raise btw). We can also get value from flush draws which are a small part of his range.

As I said next time I do this I will post the relevant info to make it better.

Good responses again Brendan, top man.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 17, 2011, 11:49:07 AM
Cash session this morning did not go to plan with a $40.51 loss over just over 400 hands. Played KK badly as shown below (I am now $20 down with this hand over the last 10K hands but that is partly my own fault). I should probably just flat call the raise here but I probably end up getting it in anyway, maybe would fold to a really good turn bet. I only had 4 hands on the player at that point so no reads.


PokerStars - $0.25 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 7 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3 (http://www.pokertracker.com)

BB: $15.31
UTG: $11.01
Hero (UTG+1): $25
MP: $17.27
CO: $25.00
BTN: $13.40
SB: $29.33

SB posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero has  K:spade: K:heart:

fold, Hero raises to $1.00, MP calls $1.00, fold, fold, fold, fold

Flop: ($2.35, 2 players)  T:spade: 9:heart: J:diamond:
Hero bets $2.00, MP raises to $4.00, Hero raises to $23.10 and is all-in, MP calls $12.27 and is all-in

Turn: ($34.89, 2 players)  5:diamond:

River: ($34.89, 2 players)  7:diamond:

Hero shows  K:spade: K:heart:  (One Pair, Kings) (Pre 91%, Flop 8%, Turn 3%)
MP shows  Q:diamond: K:club:  (Straight, King High) (Pre 9%, Flop 92%, Turn 97%)
MP wins $33.16

Hands 404
Loss Today $40.51
VP$IP = 10.81%
PFR = 8.91%
3-Bet = 4.02%

Was going to go to the football today, went to the car to drive to Newport, window cracked somehow *lol* great. Sorted that anyway without to many problems, but now can"t be bothered to drive over to Newport as I would miss the game anyway and don"t really feel like going out tonight. Guess I will play some more pokers instead. Tournaments to play today (will add to them as I see fit). Also will have a go at qualifying for the 10th Anniversary Million tomorrow.

Pokerstars Sunday Million Qualifier @ 17:00,m it"s a freeroll (with password) that gives three seats so not too bad

Pokerstars Big $11 (50K Gtd) @ 7pm AK into AA probably should have got away from it though

Pokerstars Silverstar $30,000 VIP freeroll @ 7:30pm Cash for $21

Pokerstars UK and Ireland Sunday $10 Million Freeroll sat @ 7:45pm (may as well if I am say here playing poker anyway) it is an open freeroll and only gives one seat lol

180 Manner $4.50 #1 Min Cash for $8.75

180 Manner $4.50 #2

Pokerstars $1R NL Omaha (whatever that is) Cashed for $19.43 ($7 spent)

Total cash prizes tonight = $49.18
Total Cash buyin = $16.10
Total FPP buyin = 800 FPP

Tournament profit = $33.08
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 18, 2011, 20:48:53 PM
***TILTED POST WARNING***

OK, it is fair to say I have had better days :-)

Managed to burn through $125 trying to qualify for the Sunday Million, should probably have just bought in. Anyway thought I won a seat in this rebuy thing where I thought the top 9 got a seat. I am not sure why I thought this I am sure I read it in the lobby but was playing different ones at the same time. Anyway thinking I had qualified I went out.

Having come home to play the thing and some other tournaments I find out that I actually didn"t have a seat (after sorting through some various hand histories and tournament lobbies). Obviously the best thing to do in this situation is play cash and go on tilt. Lucky I was only playing 5c/10c as I managed to tilt my way through 4 Buyin"s fairly quickly on PLO (in 275 hands). The first one was not my fault to be fair.

I clearly should have just turned the PC off and gone and done something else.

Really not happy with myself for this I know much better.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Newportlad on December 19, 2011, 18:43:28 PM

***TILTED POST WARNING***

OK, it is fair to say I have had better days :-)

Managed to burn through $125 trying to qualify for the Sunday Million, should probably have just bought in. Anyway thought I won a seat in this rebuy thing where I thought the top 9 got a seat. I am not sure why I thought this I am sure I read it in the lobby but was playing different ones at the same time. Anyway thinking I had qualified I went out.

Having come home to play the thing and some other tournaments I find out that I actually didn"t have a seat (after sorting through some various hand histories and tournament lobbies). Obviously the best thing to do in this situation is play cash and go on tilt. Lucky I was only playing 5c/10c as I managed to tilt my way through 4 Buyin"s fairly quickly on PLO (in 275 hands). The first one was not my fault to be fair.

I clearly should have just turned the PC off and gone and done something else.

Really not happy with myself for this I know much better.


Oops. You should have stayed at Les Croups and railed me. You could have also played the side event there, Quite a few of them had never played Omaha before.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 21, 2011, 21:04:13 PM
Off Topic post

OK so it appears to be Christmas again here in Swansea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj3m1hkWCIY (mods delete that if its not allowed, APAT's kinda a respectable forum) **DO NOT CLICK ON THIS IF THERE ARE CHILDREN PRESENT - SERIOUSLY **

So it"s time for peace and goodwill to all men etc etc. Nah run out of goodwill this year, I will get a new lot come new years day and be back to normal. Will lose the negative slant and everything :-)

The Rodders player and community person of the year award goes to.....

Richard "Curlarge" Baker........ for being super duper consistent during APAT this year with more day twos and deep runs than John Murray has cashes at APAT events (well not quite but he was good). He also got some really good results elsewhere. He was also responsible for sorting out the deal we got for the hotel in Vegas and helped sort a venue for the event. As well as playing every event in season five. He doesn"t get a prize or anything but at least I mentioned him in the thread so he kinda like famous now.

The other good thing about Christmas is we can all set poker goals. Like most new year resolution they will be forgotten by about 15th January but we get to set them. I of course will rise above most and keep to mine. I will post them before the end of the year.

Next year I am going to keep this as up to date as I can, it fell apart last year as at the start of the year I had ideas way above my station in the poker world, the game spent a whole year reminding me that I"m still a fish *lol*.

So what would people like to see in the blog next year. I will try and keep monthly profit and loss records for online cash and online tournaments. I will post "interesting" hands from cash sessions from both PLO games and NLHE and lins to hands I think I could have played differently on the PHA board. Anything else people would be interested to see?

*********************************************************************************************

OK I will make one part of a post slightly positive.

The good thing about APAT is you meet lot"s of cool and interesting people, below is a list of people I have met this year. In some cases I kind of knew them before but they were just there and I never really took any notice of them, I am pleased to say I got to meet them properly this past year.

Stuart Ward, Dan Owston, Grant Speirs, JP Round, Steve Bayliff, Max the barman, Craig & Beth MacInnes, James Barber, Mark Gregory (sort of), George Bedi, Michelle Gascoine, Nellie Gascoine, Sharon Roberts, Matt McKinlay, Paul Pitchford, Warren Jones, Will Young, Steve Harrison, Dylan Herbert, Rudders, Mary Martin, Glen Lammings, Don Roberts, Don Logan, Brian Harland.

I reckon about four of that lot are likely to actually read this *lol*
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on December 21, 2011, 21:35:07 PM

Off Topic post

OK so it appears to be Christmas again here in Swansea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj3m1hkWCIY (mods delete that if its not allowed, APAT's kinda a respectable forum) **DO NOT CLICK ON THIS IF THERE ARE CHILDREN PRESENT - SERIOUSLY **

So it"s time for peace and goodwill to all men etc etc. Nah run out of goodwill this year, I will get a new lot come new years day and be back to normal. Will lose the negative slant and everything :-)

The Rodders player and community person of the year award goes to.....

Richard "Curlarge" Baker........ for being super duper consistent during APAT this year with more day twos and deep runs than John Murray has cashes at APAT events (well not quite but he was good). He also got some really good results elsewhere. He was also responsible for sorting out the deal we got for the hotel in Vegas and helped sort a venue for the event. As well as playing every event in season five. He doesn"t get a prize or anything but at least I mentioned him in the thread so he kinda like famous now.

The other good thing about Christmas is we can all set poker goals. Like most new year resolution they will be forgotten by about 15th January but we get to set them. I of course will rise above most and keep to mine. I will post them before the end of the year.

Next year I am going to keep this as up to date as I can, it fell apart last year as at the start of the year I had ideas way above my station in the poker world, the game spent a whole year reminding me that I"m still a fish *lol*.

So what would people like to see in the blog next year. I will try and keep monthly profit and loss records for online cash and online tournaments. I will post "interesting" hands from cash sessions from both PLO games and NLHE and lins to hands I think I could have played differently on the PHA board. Anything else people would be interested to see?

*********************************************************************************************

OK I will make one part of a post slightly positive.

The good thing about APAT is you meet lot"s of cool and interesting people, below is a list of people I have met this year. In some cases I kind of knew them before but they were just there and I never really took any notice of them, I am pleased to say I got to meet them properly this past year.

Stuart Ward, Dan Owston, Grant Speirs, JP Round, Steve Bayliff, Max the barman, Craig & Beth MacInnes, James Barber, Mark Gregory (sort of), George Bedi, Michelle Gascoine, Sharon Roberts, Matt McKinlay, Paul Pitchford, Warren Jones, Will Young, Steve Harrison, Dylan Herbert, Rudders, Mary Martin, Glen Lammings, Don Roberts, Don Logan, Brian from the Stockton crowd (don"t know his surname) Harland.

I reckon about four of that lot are likely to actually read this *lol*



hahahahahahaaaaa.

Oh love max :)

We need a Llorett Return for APAT this season i think, Max must be missing us :D
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Paulie_D on December 21, 2011, 21:37:34 PM


We need a Llorett Return for APAT this season



Shhh....don"t mention APAT going abroad.  ;D

I mentioned it a little while ago, I think I got away with it but you can"t be too careful these days
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on December 21, 2011, 21:39:19 PM
LLORETT AND VEGAS NEXT YEAR AGAIN PLEASE!!!!
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: KarmaDope on December 23, 2011, 18:33:34 PM
Lloret this year - Vegas in 2013 please, all plan a massive trip and invade.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: HOLDorFOLD on December 23, 2011, 18:49:08 PM
Pleasure to meet you too this year Rodders.

Avoid big puddles plz/ty

xx
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 23, 2011, 19:30:37 PM

Pleasure to meet you too this year Rodders.

Avoid big puddles plz/ty

xx

Damn, you just reminded me I forgot somebody - will edit.

And you would not say that if you were there I"m sure, James, Jack, Des, Sian and Pitchie all confirm it was hilarious. Stupid place to put a puddle, right in the middle of that pavement. Not the funniest thing that happened that weekend of course


Lloret this year - Vegas in 2013 please, all plan a massive trip and invade.


Tallinn
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: HOLDorFOLD on December 23, 2011, 19:37:22 PM


Pleasure to meet you too this year Rodders.

Avoid big puddles plz/ty

xx

Damn, you just reminded me I forgot somebody - will edit.

And you would not say that if you were there I"m sure, James, Jack, Des, Sian and Pitchie all confirm it was hilarious. Stupid place to put a puddle, right in the middle of that pavement. Not the funniest thing that happened that weekend of course



I WAS there ... just not right there .... and stop trying to deflect your puddle stories with "not the funniest thing that happened" teasers  :P
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Supernova on December 23, 2011, 22:50:26 PM

Off Topic post

OK so it appears to be Christmas again here in Swansea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj3m1hkWCIY (mods delete that if its not allowed, APAT's kinda a respectable forum) **DO NOT CLICK ON THIS IF THERE ARE CHILDREN PRESENT - SERIOUSLY **

So it"s time for peace and goodwill to all men etc etc. Nah run out of goodwill this year, I will get a new lot come new years day and be back to normal. Will lose the negative slant and everything :-)

The Rodders player and community person of the year award goes to.....

Richard "Curlarge" Baker........ for being super duper consistent during APAT this year with more day twos and deep runs than John Murray has cashes at APAT events (well not quite but he was good). He also got some really good results elsewhere. He was also responsible for sorting out the deal we got for the hotel in Vegas and helped sort a venue for the event. As well as playing every event in season five. He doesn"t get a prize or anything but at least I mentioned him in the thread so he kinda like famous now.

The other good thing about Christmas is we can all set poker goals. Like most new year resolution they will be forgotten by about 15th January but we get to set them. I of course will rise above most and keep to mine. I will post them before the end of the year.

Next year I am going to keep this as up to date as I can, it fell apart last year as at the start of the year I had ideas way above my station in the poker world, the game spent a whole year reminding me that I"m still a fish *lol*.

So what would people like to see in the blog next year. I will try and keep monthly profit and loss records for online cash and online tournaments. I will post "interesting" hands from cash sessions from both PLO games and NLHE and lins to hands I think I could have played differently on the PHA board. Anything else people would be interested to see?

*********************************************************************************************

OK I will make one part of a post slightly positive.

The good thing about APAT is you meet lot"s of cool and interesting people, below is a list of people I have met this year. In some cases I kind of knew them before but they were just there and I never really took any notice of them, I am pleased to say I got to meet them properly this past year.

Stuart Ward, Dan Owston, Grant Speirs, JP Round, Steve Bayliff, Max the barman, Craig & Beth MacInnes, James Barber, Mark Gregory (sort of), George Bedi, Michelle Gascoine, Nellie Gascoine, Sharon Roberts, Matt McKinlay, Paul Pitchford, Warren Jones, Will Young, Steve Harrison, Dylan Herbert, Rudders, Mary Martin, Glen Lammings, Don Roberts, Don Logan, Brian Harland.

I reckon about four of that lot are likely to actually read this *lol*


:o nah more I think x
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: technolog on December 24, 2011, 03:48:45 AM


Pleasure to meet you too this year Rodders.

Avoid big puddles plz/ty

xx

Damn, you just reminded me I forgot somebody - will edit.

And you would not say that if you were there I"m sure, James, Jack, Des, Sian and Pitchie all confirm it was hilarious. Stupid place to put a puddle, right in the middle of that pavement. Not the funniest thing that happened that weekend of course


Lloret this year - Vegas in 2013 please, all plan a massive trip and invade.


Tallinn


FYP - just one of the funny incidents that happened that notorious weekend that I don"t remember.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Santino67 on December 24, 2011, 20:10:40 PM


OK I will make one part of a post slightly positive.

The good thing about APAT is you meet lot"s of cool and interesting people, below is a list of people I have met this year. In some cases I kind of knew them before but they were just there and I never really took any notice of them, I am pleased to say I got to meet them properly this past year.

Stuart Ward, Dan Owston, Grant Speirs, JP Round, Steve Bayliff, Max the barman, Craig & Beth MacInnes, James Barber, Mark Gregory (sort of), George Bedi, Michelle Gascoine, Nellie Gascoine, Sharon Roberts, Matt McKinlay, Paul Pitchford, Warren Jones, Will Young, Steve Harrison, Dylan Herbert, Rudders, Mary Martin, Glen Lammings, Don Roberts, Don Logan, Brian Harland.

I reckon about four of that lot are likely to actually read this *lol*


:o nah more I think x


I certainly did read it and listened to that song as well, hopefully continue to have more discussions with you in 2012 Steve. Until then I hope you and the family have a superb Christmas and New Year mate. See you in Brighton  :)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on December 26, 2011, 09:29:10 AM
Stone cold. Quick question if you dont  mind.

Started playing (mainly) 18man sngs on stard last night, gonna give them a good grind, or so was my intention.

Had success so far, but when you play, do you not find the seemingly very very very small winnings you can have at micro stakes life tilting?

hope you had a good christmas :)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 26, 2011, 11:56:16 AM

Stone cold. Quick question if you dont  mind.

Started playing (mainly) 18man sngs on stard last night, gonna give them a good grind, or so was my intention.

Had success so far, but when you play, do you not find the seemingly very very very small winnings you can have at micro stakes life tilting?

hope you had a good christmas :)

Did have a good Christmas thanks, working all this week :-(
But off all of next to make up for it :-) So after the New Year festivities are over and done with I will be starting the 2012 grind and am looking forward to smashing it next year.

The seemingly very very small winnings are indeed a massive issue. Yes, I agree, it can be really tilting. It"s also easy to start letting your expectations get out of control. As I have mentioned previously I did that at the start of this year based mainly on running like god for the second half of 2010.

In my case this has lead to me playing for too long and playing at times where I am just not in the right frame of mind or when I am not feeling 100% (for example a little bit tried after a long day in work). This makes a losing session more likely and this has happened to me time and time again, you then think you will just play a little longer to try and get it back to even, which is the worst thing you can do. As I have said before I have lost more money this way than any other this year.

What I think the best thing to do is plan out what you want to achieve each month and check it is realistic. In my case I know that playing $25nl cash games I tend to run at about 4BB/100 hands when playing well. So if I play say 10K hands per month (which is very doable) . Therefore my expectation per 100 hands is $2. So my expectation for the month is $200. But I don"t always play well so I may actually only run at 3BB/100 so realistically I can only expect $150. Which is less than £100. You need to decide if this makes it worth your while.

Another problem is that you can swing more than the monthly expectation is a day relatively easily, I have had 3 days this month where I have won or lost more than 4 buyin"s). When you win you have to keep expectation in check and when you lose you have to not get to tilted by it. I think (hope) I have learned a bit about that this year and expect to be much better at this in 2012. I am going to post goals before the end of this week.

In your 18 man sit n go"s I am told that an ROI of 20% is really excellent (can a sit n go player correct me on this if I am wrong my knowledge on this is not great). So you can expect to win $1 per sit n go. If you multi table them using tools like Table Ninja and of course Poker Tracker/Hold'em Manager then your ROI will go down but you play more so your actual monthly profit goes up as you play more. If I was to play 18 manner"s I would set a target of an ROI of 10% for the first month and see if that can be achieved. If you play 200 of them your expected profit is $100.

So I guess what I am saying is the best thing you can do is set your goal at the start of the month and keep it in mind throughout. It"s not easy to do and far to easy to get carried away with short term good results and tilted over short term bad result"s. Try to limit a session to x number of sit n go"s and stick to that (if you lose accept it as you will get more good sessions than bad one"s and this will wipe out the bad sessions but they WILL happen). Don"t get too down on yourself over mistakes everybody makes them.

So with micro stakes it is a question of if you can be bothered to grind out the small wins and hot your monthly target. I would say though this is the best way of making a consistent profit at online poker. 

I went on for much longer than I meant too there but I am fairly confident that it is accurate. Hope you do decide to make a go of the $5/$10 sit n go"s. Would be very interesting to follow your progress.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 26, 2011, 23:12:23 PM
That Ace of Spaces that comes up every time you try to use the word as at the start of a sentence is infinitely more tilting though. Not bother with capital letters from now on :-)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Paulie_D on December 26, 2011, 23:26:38 PM

That Ace of Spaces that comes up every time you try to use the word as at the start of a sentence is infinitely more tilting though. Not bother with capital letters from now on :-)


It"s a grammar filter...perhaps. ;D

One should not start a sentence with a preposition.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 28, 2011, 09:42:14 AM
Goals and Ambitions for Poker in 2012

I have given these a fair bit of thought. I want to make them achievable for myself without having to spend every spare second I have playing online poker (which was my initial mistake this year). I am therefore spliting it into monthly goals depending on how I am doing at the beginning of each month.

I will also have an overall set of goals for the year to work towards. The goals are definately going to be online based as I am still unsure how much live poker I am actually going to play, it"s not likely to be much at all, probably just main events at a few APAT's, so best leave it out of any goals.

Firstly a volume goal. Goldstar is too hard to achieve every month at the levels I play. Therefore I just need to do enough to get Silverstar so I will say the below:-

On Pokerstars

120K hands at $25nl Hold "em.
12K hands at $25 (250bb deep) deep stacked PLO
300 180 man sit n go"s at $4.50
25 Big $11 Tournaments

A mistake I have made this year is trying to play too much online poker, just to get even for the day, or because I am bored. This leads to playing when I am not in the right frame of mind. This is -EV and I need to stop it now. This is probably the mistake that costs me the most money. It is very important to remember when playing $25 nlhe the long term expectation for 100 hands is about $1 max when multuitabling. So the goal here is to maintain discipline as often as possible. Each month I may do an upper limit on cash hands played.

Play some online APAT's if they continue to run and win an online APAT medal. I have 3 National Championship medals and I have won one team medal from the Home Nations. They are all live medals. I have always considered online poker to be of a better standard than live poker and even though in this case it is very much the same player pool. I consider myself an online player so would like an online medal. If it was gold, well all the better.

Keep an accurate record of profit and losses for the whole year and keep it updated in this thread. Profit and loss for Cash Game"s / sitngo and MTT

Make 50 strategy posts in the APAT Acdemey section with the goal of contributing to the community

Finish 2012 in profit.

I will post my goals for Jan some time this week but believe these are good objectives for the whole of 2012 imo.

An Overview then - over the course of 2012

1 )  120K nlhe cash hands
2 )  12K PLO cash hands
3 )  300 180 man sit n go"s
4 )  25 bigger $11 tournaments
5 )  Stick to allocated volume each month don"t play too much or when not in right frame of mind
6 )  Keep an accurate record of all wins and losses online each month
7 )  50 Strategy post in the Acdemey
8 )  Win an online APAT medal
9 )  Finish 2012 in profit

Smart Objectives FTW
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: TheSnapper on December 28, 2011, 15:59:43 PM
120K hands at 25nl is decent volume and worth about 1k a year rakeback on a euro site offering a decent rakeback deal. Some 50% deals still available (I can point you to a decent affiliate). Playing this volume on Stars is -EV.  
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 29, 2011, 10:51:27 AM

120K hands at 25nl is decent volume and worth about 1k a year rakeback on a euro site offering a decent rakeback deal. Some 50% deals still available (I can point you to a decent affiliate). Playing this volume on Stars is -EV. 

You need to consider more than the number of hands though. Looking at what this amount of hands will actually get you from Pokerstars.

12K hands will generate about 1500VPP per month , with Silverstar this equates to 2250FPP
So annually I will make around 27000FPP
Looking at this in it"s most basic form if I exchange this directly for cash it is worth $300
If I exchange it for tournament tickets it is worth around $425
I would also earn $200 in Stellar rewards

So at first glance you are making about twice as much per hand on ipoker.

Pokerstar"s averages about 70 hands/hour and ipoker about 50. So playing 6 tables you will play 420 hands on Pokerstars and 300 hands on ipoker per hour. When I last played on ipoker playing 6 tables was not that easy (although is has now changed and tables can be re-sized, but on "Stars it is a piece of cake). I am still not convinced that it is as easy to multi-table on ipoker. Pokerstars also offers VIP freerolls (ipoker may also do this I don"t know).

So from a rakeback point of view, it probably is -EV but not by much and you are getting far better software and a server that basically never goes down or drops the connection. It is also much easier to Multi-table and the traffic is FAR better (you can literally play any time night or day - this is not true of ipoker).
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: TheSnapper on December 29, 2011, 16:17:56 PM


You need to consider more than the number of hands though. Looking at what this amount of hands will actually get you from Pokerstars.

12K hands will generate about 1500VPP per month , with Silverstar this equates to 2250FPP
So annually I will make around 27000FPP
Looking at this in it"s most basic form if I exchange this directly for cash it is worth $300
If I exchange it for tournament tickets it is worth around $425
I would also earn $200 in Stellar rewards

So at first glance you are making about twice as much per hand on ipoker.

Pokerstar"s averages about 70 hands/hour and ipoker about 50. So playing 6 tables you will play 420 hands on Pokerstars and 300 hands on ipoker per hour.


Where do you get these hourly figures from, it"s a very interesting point if the numbers are reliable. But you might also consider that Stars charge about 8% more rake per 100 hands.


Quote from: AAroddersAA

When I last played on ipoker playing 6 tables was not that easy (although is has now changed and tables can be re-sized, but on "Stars it is a piece of cake). I am still not convinced that it is as easy to multi-table on ipoker. Pokerstars also offers VIP freerolls (ipoker may also do this I don"t know).


It seems you haven"t played on ipoker in quite some time then. You can comfortably 6 table on there now (Mr Magoo and his extended family excepted of course)


Quote from: AAroddersAA

So from a rakeback point of view, it probably is -EV but not by much and you are getting far better software and a server that basically never goes down or drops the connection. It is also much easier to Multi-table and the traffic is FAR better (you can literally play any time night or day - this is not true of ipoker).


Stars provide far better software of course but ipoker is very useable just the same. I have played many hours on ipoker this year and haven"t dropped connection ever so not sure how or why you get the impression that it"s a relevent point. Star"s traffic is definately better but so is the general standard of play so I suspect you pay small but not insignificant premium in expected winrate, that said I doubt very much you will have any problem loading sufficient tables on ipoker at the times you want to play. Traffic can drop post 3am but I suspect that won"t be your preferred playing time.

Just my twopeneth, good luck at the tables and please keep up the excellent blogging.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 29, 2011, 23:26:25 PM
Your twopeneth is always more than welcome in this thread Brendan and I am always happy to have it.

I will take another look at ipoker then as it is likely to have improved a lot since I have properly last tried it, way back when Blonde had a cardroom on there. Will start of on Pokerstars though, if I like ipoker I can change. If you could PM me your affiliate it would be helpful and if you want, your name on there to ensure you get any refferal bonus due.

Have a great new year and hope to see more of your thoughts in the new year.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 31, 2011, 11:05:55 AM
Aims and Objective in Poker for January

Play 15K NLHE hands at $25nl on Pokerstars
Play 1K PLO hands on Pokerstars
Play 30 180 Man sit n go"s
Investigate ipoker as an alternative to Pokerstars
Play APAT Online tournaments on 14/01/2012
Play good disciplined poker all month playing only at the correct times to do so.

Worked over the Christmas period (had just Christmas Day off since 19/12/2011). At times I thought this was a really bad idea but woke up this morning and realized it was in fact a great idea - I now have 10 days off. I am planning to use this time to get on with smashing up poker in 2012. I am busy most of the day tomorrow but might be able to sneak a few hands in, in the morning. The have to watch the darts final on Monday, but have plenty of the day free to grind, can play in the morning on Wednesday before going off to Bath in the afternoon to watch Newport County destroy Bath City. I have Thursday and Friday free so should be able to make a really good start to those goals (although hopefully work will be ringing me to discuss a new role that is coming up within the company at some point). Will keep this blog updated each day with hopefully interesting stuff about how I am doing, hands I think I have played well and mistakes I have made. Hands I am unsure of will be appearing on the PHA board so you can all sign up and comment on those as well if you like.

Oh cheeky little session planned for later today as well. It"s 2011 so I am bound to lose *lol*
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: samuel_9 on December 31, 2011, 11:50:50 AM
glk
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 31, 2011, 17:53:46 PM
Played a quick session this afternoon, here are the results:-

Hands = 575
VP$IP = 12%
PFR = 7%
3-Bet = 3.92%
BB/100 = 3.77
Profit = $10.83

I am going to quickly run through the hands tomorrow morning and will post some interesting ones. The biggest win of the session though was $4.63 and the biggest loss $3.

One important consideration of this session, is that I ran at about a long term expectation. It felt like I was sitting there not doing anything at all just making standard plays, it was quite an easy session to play. During the year not all sessions will be like this. There will be sessions where I run way above expectation winning multiple buyin"s and sessions where I run badly and lose multiple buyin"s. The trick is going to be maintaining discipline when it is going wrong still being able to make correct fold when I have too and not making calls that are too loose and chasing draws against the odds. These are the things that seem so easy when winning and so hard when losing.

Right I am off to the pub so everybody have a great new year, get as drunk as you like and have a great time.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 01, 2012, 15:33:10 PM
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY

Played my first session of 2012 this afternoon. I may need to reassess the volume goals I have set, playing 1000 hands was much harder than I expected. 30K hands in a month might not be doable, unsure on this. It did not sound that hard but is actually much tougher than it looked. Not sure where the pros who play 200K+ hands per month keep the concertration for what must be some monster sessions.

I am not totally happy with how I played although it was decent and I was in profit. I made a couple of bad calls that cost me about $18. Both times it was after I had clearly gone behind after being ahead. One hand I flopped two pair and my opponent rivered a set and made a massive overbet OTR. It was pretty clear at that point I was beaten, but called out of stubborness. I did something similar when I had AQ on a queen high flop and bet the flop and turn after being checked too. Then a King hit the river and my opponent fired a pot sized bet at me. He is not supposed to have a king here but I knew he did and called anyway telling myself that he has not played it like he had a king. He obviously did. Really important that I get this right this year. I also need to ensure I don"t catch fancy play syndrome again.

Hands = 1094
VP$IP = 12.25%
PFR = 8.41%
3-Bet = 3.05%
Profit = $17.52 (about $2 above EV)
BB/100 = 3.2
VPP = 59

These stats don"t look that great the VP$IP and PFR are too far apart and it still looks too tight but I am happy with the game I am playing. If every session of the year goes exactly like that one it"s going to be a very good year anyway :-).

May play a bit later, not sure if I will play cash or 180 sitngo"s though. Will also check for overlays in the Sunday Storm and the Bigger $11 just in case they are worth playing.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 01, 2012, 20:04:46 PM
OK, played another cash session which did not go very well. I was doing fine then I hit two coolers pretty much at the same time (within a couple of minutes of each other anyway).

First hand I have AJ in MP and raise it to 75c. One caller in the SB. Flop is A-J-2 rainbow. He checks it over to me, I bet $1.50 into $1.75. The SB raises it up to $5.60. I shove and he calls with pocket two"s which is the only hand he can have that beats me. I am pretty sure that I played that hand OK but ran into the top of his range.

Second hand I have pocket twos in LP, there are some limper"s so I limp as well. The flop comes down Q-Q-2 and we get it all-in on the flop. My opponent (who was BB) has Q-2. These two hands cost me about $60.

I come off pretty quickly soon after this as I was coming off pretty soon anyway. Bit disappointing as I had played quite well and can"t do too much about either of those hands. End of day stats looked like this

Hands = 2150
VP$IP = 11.99%
PFR = 8.18%
3-Bet = 3.45%
Total Loss = $21.39

VPP = 110

Still pretty happy with the way I played but do feel like I deserved a winning start to the year. If I keep playing like I did today I should have a profitable year though.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 02, 2012, 01:41:41 AM
I had intended to leave poker for for the evening then got a message on Facebook inviting me to play in a private game. Thought I may as well play whilst watching the darts. It"s a 5c/10c game with a $25 buyin. I obviously buyin for the max. I only open the one table as I don"t want to play a full session.

So I play a bit, lose a pot to Darren Shallis somehow (how bad can I run *lol* - joking obv). Anyway I win back the $21 I was down earlier, so was pretty happy with that. I decide to stay for a while as the darts was overruning due to all the playing about with the breeze on the stage. I win some more and get myself nearly  back to where I was before the last session. I am about 600bb deep and cover the table. The next biggest stack is about 450bb deep. A hand comes up where there is a raise from EP to 40c. The 2nd biggest stack then shoves about $45 into the middle, I have two Aces, which is useful and elect to call. The EP player folds after thinking for ages and I am up against AK. This is a good thing.

PokerStars Home Game #73130738577: {Xtreme Poker}  Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10 USD) - 2012/01/02 0:22:58 WET [2012/01/01 19:22:58 ET]
Table "Rostia IV" 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: AAroddersAA ($59.74 in chips)
Seat 3: wansky69 ($14.77 in chips)
Seat 4: Si_player_1 ($19.27 in chips)
Seat 5: DigsyDave ($26.76 in chips)
Seat 8: Dayeface ($20.50 in chips)
Seat 9: bevan147 ($43.53 in chips)
bevan147: posts small blind $0.05
AAroddersAA: posts big blind $0.10
AAroddersAA: posts the ante $0.02
wansky69: posts the ante $0.02
Si_player_1: posts the ante $0.02
DigsyDave: posts the ante $0.02
Dayeface: posts the ante $0.02
bevan147: posts the ante $0.02
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to AAroddersAA [Ac Ah]
wansky69: raises $0.30 to $0.40
Si_player_1: folds
Dayeface said, " haha what an absolute clown"
Si_player_1 said, "lol"
DigsyDave: folds
Dayeface: folds
bevan147 said, "<-------------DONK"
bevan147: raises $43.11 to $43.51 and is all-in
AAroddersAA: raises $16.21 to $59.72 and is all-in
bevan147 said, "gg lol"
wansky69: folds
Uncalled bet ($16.21) returned to AAroddersAA
*** FLOP *** [9d 7s Kh]
*** TURN *** [9d 7s Kh] [9s]
*** RIVER *** [9d 7s Kh 9s] [8s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
bevan147: shows [Ad Ks] (two pair, Kings and Nines)
AAroddersAA: shows [Ac Ah] (two pair, Aces and Nines)
AAroddersAA collected $85.54 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $87.54 | Rake $2
Board [9d 7s Kh 9s 8s]
Seat 1: AAroddersAA (big blind) showed [Ac Ah] and won ($85.54) with two pair, Aces and Nines
Seat 3: wansky69 folded before Flop
Seat 4: Si_player_1 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 5: DigsyDave folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 8: Dayeface (button) folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 9: bevan147 (small blind) showed [Ad Ks] and lost with two pair, Kings and Nines

Actually felt slightly bad about this as the guy I beat is actually a nice guy who had been playing well up until that hand. Still very happy to turn it around and get the pretty good start I had been hoping for. You see what I mean about the swings though.In one day I have been swinging around all over the place losing $60 in two hands then the poker gods decide to just give it back to me. Still happy with how I played this session and over the day.

Hands = 471
VP$IP = 30.79%
PFR = 18.9%
Session profit = $79.80
BB/100 = 86.68

Not bad for one tabling

So my overall result for the day was:-

Hands = 2623
VP$IP = 15.36
PFR = 18.9%
Todays Profit = $60.26
BB/100 = 13.93

VPP = 166

So after one day I am more than one fifth of the way to maintaining Silverstar for the month. No way I am going to do 30K hands and all the rest, will have to review the volume targets.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Newportlad on January 02, 2012, 13:17:37 PM

I had intended to leave poker for for the evening then got a message on Facebook inviting me to play in a private game. Thought I may as well play whilst watching the darts. It"s a 5c/10c game with a $25 buyin. I obviously buyin for the max. I only open the one table as I don"t want to play a full session.

So I play a bit, lose a pot to Darren Shallis somehow (how bad can I run *lol* - joking obv). Anyway I win back the $21 I was down earlier, so was pretty happy with that. I decide to stay for a while as the darts was overruning due to all the playing about with the breeze on the stage. I win some more and get myself nearly  back to where I was before the last session. I am about 600bb deep and cover the table. The next biggest stack is about 450bb deep. A hand comes up where there is a raise from EP to 40c. The 2nd biggest stack then shoves about $45 into the middle, I have two Aces, which is useful and elect to call. The EP player folds after thinking for ages and I am up against AK. This is a good thing.

PokerStars Home Game #73130738577: {Xtreme Poker}  Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10 USD) - 2012/01/02 0:22:58 WET [2012/01/01 19:22:58 ET]
Table "Rostia IV" 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: AAroddersAA ($59.74 in chips)
Seat 3: wansky69 ($14.77 in chips)
Seat 4: Si_player_1 ($19.27 in chips)
Seat 5: DigsyDave ($26.76 in chips)
Seat 8: Dayeface ($20.50 in chips)
Seat 9: bevan147 ($43.53 in chips)
bevan147: posts small blind $0.05
AAroddersAA: posts big blind $0.10
AAroddersAA: posts the ante $0.02
wansky69: posts the ante $0.02
Si_player_1: posts the ante $0.02
DigsyDave: posts the ante $0.02
Dayeface: posts the ante $0.02
bevan147: posts the ante $0.02
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to AAroddersAA [Ac Ah]
wansky69: raises $0.30 to $0.40
Si_player_1: folds
Dayeface said, " haha what an absolute clown"
Si_player_1 said, "lol"
DigsyDave: folds
Dayeface: folds
bevan147 said, "<-------------DONK"
bevan147: raises $43.11 to $43.51 and is all-in
AAroddersAA: raises $16.21 to $59.72 and is all-in
bevan147 said, "gg lol"
wansky69: folds
Uncalled bet ($16.21) returned to AAroddersAA
*** FLOP *** [9d 7s Kh]
*** TURN *** [9d 7s Kh] [9s]
*** RIVER *** [9d 7s Kh 9s] [8s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
bevan147: shows [Ad Ks] (two pair, Kings and Nines)
AAroddersAA: shows [Ac Ah] (two pair, Aces and Nines)
AAroddersAA collected $85.54 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $87.54 | Rake $2
Board [9d 7s Kh 9s 8s]
Seat 1: AAroddersAA (big blind) showed [Ac Ah] and won ($85.54) with two pair, Aces and Nines
Seat 3: wansky69 folded before Flop
Seat 4: Si_player_1 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 5: DigsyDave folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 8: Dayeface (button) folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 9: bevan147 (small blind) showed [Ad Ks] and lost with two pair, Kings and Nines

Actually felt slightly bad about this as the guy I beat is actually a nice guy who had been playing well up until that hand. Still very happy to turn it around and get the pretty good start I had been hoping for. You see what I mean about the swings though.In one day I have been swinging around all over the place losing $60 in two hands then the poker gods decide to just give it back to me. Still happy with how I played this session and over the day.

Hands = 471
VP$IP = 30.79%
PFR = 18.9%
Session profit = $79.80
BB/100 = 86.68

Not bad for one tabling

So my overall result for the day was:-

Hands = 2623
VP$IP = 15.36
PFR = 18.9%
Todays Profit = $60.26
BB/100 = 13.93

VPP = 166

So after one day I am more than one fifth of the way to maintaining Silverstar for the month. No way I am going to do 30K hands and all the rest, will have to review the volume targets.


You utter luckbox!!
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 03, 2012, 09:42:08 AM
Working over Christmas was a REALLY good idea, it seems everybody else has to go back to work today and I am still of for the rest of the week. I see Des has given a clue that the first event of season 6 may be the last weekend of Feb.

Going to play online today of course, hopefully get a good few hands in but not at home so playing on my laptop without my main setup so volume might be a little lower. Will start off with cash games but likely to switch to the MTT"s later today to start on the aim of 30.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 03, 2012, 17:37:47 PM
Played a bit of poker today, still not 100% happy with myself but maybe I am over-rating my own ability. I am going to make mistakes. Today I logged on, got lucky and got ahead by binking a house on the river when I got allin (only for effective stacks of $10) with AK on an A-A-J-7 board against JJ. A seven hit the river and I win the pot. Then I get JJ myself in the SB, I 3-bet a 3x raise from the button and a flop of A-J-8 looks great for me. I bet, he raises, I shove and he calls with AJ, I win about $18 on that hand so am off to a good start. I get to being about $35 up.

I then lose $19 when my AA runs into a set of fours, standard hand and nothing I can do about that. Then I make what I think was a good fold, it won"t look like it as a hand history but I think it was.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3938041

My opponent who seemed quite capable was playing 21/19. Pretty aggressive but I have seen him hit a set and check it already. Only had 41 hands on him but this spot just felt bad and I am glad I had the disciple to fold it, maybe shoving the flop is a better play but I really think I was right in this specific spot.

Needless to say I am a long way from perfect and this is a hand played badly

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3938045

Basically this was only the other players second hand at the table. I see a flop with my 77 (this is fine). The flop is a good one for me and I do have position on my opponent. He bets $2 into the $2.75 pot. I call this as it can easily be a c-bet. The king lands on the turn. He bets $2.75 which looks weak. I get fancy play syndrome and decide that he could have the bare Ace of hearts and I am winning, after all the king is a great card to fire the second shot with and it does complete a flush draw. The bet also looks a little weak to me so I call it not really having a plan of what to do OTR. I think I was going to hope he checked and fold if he showed any real strength. The river is a heart. He checks and I think he can"t have a good heart. This is reasonable enough of course. I think I can therefore steal the pot. There is a pot of $12 so I bet $8 ($6 would actually have accomplished the same thing). I have not played the hand like I have a high heart so I think his call on the river is a good one. I have not played the hand well though and my story is inconsistent.

I then call a couple of raises and miss sets and some c-bets don"t get through and I am suddenly $15 down less than half an hour after being $35 up. SIGH.

The good news is I do not tilt. Not that I am going too at the moment I don"t think, I am not in that mindset. I take a break for an hour and get back to it. I run pretty good with some of the below hands being totally standard imo.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3938059

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3938236

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3938240

I also play it fairly well at this stage and am making good bets at the right times and make a good comeback. I also manage to stay away from the kind of marginal spots I am great at losing money in. I"ll give myself a B+ for today, it was not perfect but I am still happy enough with my game.

Overall today

Hands = 1630
VP$IP = 10.49%
PFR = 7.12%
3-Bet = 3.31%
Today"s profit = $29.18
bb/100 = 3.58
VPP = 92

I will play some Sitngo MTT"s later and post results
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Des on January 03, 2012, 17:54:40 PM

Working over Christmas was a REALLY good idea, it seems everybody else has to go back to work today and I am still of for the rest of the week. I see Des has given a clue that the first event of season 6 may possibly be the last weekend of Feb.

Going to play online today of course, hopefully get a good few hands in but not at home so playing on my laptop without my main setup so volume might be a little lower. Will start off with cash games but likely to switch to the MTT"s later today to start on the aim of 30.


FYP :)

Liking your early stats btw Steve.  Hopefully some form of charts will follow.  I really love charts!
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 03, 2012, 18:36:26 PM


Working over Christmas was a REALLY good idea, it seems everybody else has to go back to work today and I am still of for the rest of the week. I see Des has given a clue that the first event of season 6 may possibly be the last weekend of Feb.

Going to play online today of course, hopefully get a good few hands in but not at home so playing on my laptop without my main setup so volume might be a little lower. Will start off with cash games but likely to switch to the MTT"s later today to start on the aim of 30.


FYP :)

Liking your early stats btw Steve.  Hopefully some form of charts will follow.  I really love charts!

Cheers Des, obviously quite happy with the start I have made, much better than last year.

What kind of chart are you thinking of? I could export the session stats from Poker Tracker at the end of each month. This would allow people to see how I have done each day of the month and what the daily stats were.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Des on January 03, 2012, 18:40:00 PM



Working over Christmas was a REALLY good idea, it seems everybody else has to go back to work today and I am still of for the rest of the week. I see Des has given a clue that the first event of season 6 may possibly be the last weekend of Feb.

Going to play online today of course, hopefully get a good few hands in but not at home so playing on my laptop without my main setup so volume might be a little lower. Will start off with cash games but likely to switch to the MTT"s later today to start on the aim of 30.




FYP :)

Liking your early stats btw Steve.  Hopefully some form of charts will follow.  I really love charts!

Cheers Des, obviously quite happy with the start I have made, much better than last year.

What kind of chart are you thinking of? I could export the session stats from Poker Tracker at the end of each month. This would allow people to see how I have done each day of the month and what the daily stats were.


I"m a bottom line man.  Culmulative profitability on a daily or weekly basis is something that would always be of interest.  Perhaps against a forecast line that reflects your projected winnings based on your targeted ROI.  But crikey, don"t start adding work - sounds like you have enough on your plate already to get your hands in.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: TheSnapper on January 03, 2012, 20:14:16 PM
AA hand,

would need a really good read / reason to fold here, there are lots of bluffs and weaker made hands in his flop raising range. He bets strongly at the

4h 3s 2d 6d turn

when lots of his range should slow down (assuming he is semi decent), I would suspect him to have nuts or air now and there are a lot more combos of air thus it is less likely he has 57,A5 also though dependent on your cbet frequency, its a good spot to bluff raise your flop bet on a flop that should be perceived as missing your range.

Shoving the flop would be bad in as much as you don"t want to discourage his bluffs from firing the turn.

77 and 66 hands,

Much prefer to keep these in my raising range, actually I don"t think its good to open limp ever. Would be curious as to what hands are in your open limp range and would suspect it to be very small and thus very transparent. For example in the 66 hand, on a flop of  5c 6s 7c, as your ranges currently stand............

when you limp preflop you are very likely to have set or oesd.

when you raise preflop, you can never have a set.

Maybe the oppo in the AA hand had this figured?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: HOLDorFOLD on January 03, 2012, 20:23:21 PM


Working over Christmas was a REALLY good idea, it seems everybody else has to go back to work today and I am still of for the rest of the week. I see Des has given a clue that the first event of season 6 may possibly be the last weekend of Feb.

Going to play online today of course, hopefully get a good few hands in but not at home so playing on my laptop without my main setup so volume might be a little lower. Will start off with cash games but likely to switch to the MTT"s later today to start on the aim of 30.


FYP :)

Liking your early stats btw Steve.  Hopefully some form of charts will follow.  I really love charts!


(http://i779.photobucket.com/albums/yy71/HoldyFoldy/DesPieChart.jpg)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 04, 2012, 13:23:24 PM
Some good point to answer above. Yet another great post by Brendan, his anaysis is excellent, what happened to Noble btw, is he still missing in Canada? Loving Michelles chart much better than anything I could have come up with, mine would have been boring stuff about poker, although her"s is a bit optimistic imo. And of course DES POSTED IN MY THREAD. I feel so, well nearly important *lol*. Will address Brendans points in a post of their own as they deserve it. A review of this morning:-

Not a good start to the session today, although I don"t think I did too much wrong. At the start of the session I was just running below par in general. C-bets were not working for example. Then one by one these hands came up.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3940063

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3940064

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3940067

Could not have done anything about any of those hands. They are just those type of hands that are going to happen from time to time which are basically coolers. I like the way I played in them all.

This one might be a bit tougher.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3940073

His hand does look a lot like a flush draw and I think OTR he either has some kind of ace or a flush. He would be more likely to raise the flop or bet the turn with an ace though. I actually still think it is fine, it is posted on Blonde Poker though so I will find out if I am wrong soon enough.

I also had a hand which I can"t convert but it"s another one I am unsure of but it can be found here. Please feel free to comment either on the PHA thread or in here http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=56312.0

I also had a few plays that were pretty much fine go wrong and I ended up down by about $70. At this stage I thought that maybe I should come off, I thought I was still confident of playing well though and that there was no reason to change any of the tables I was playing. Then I get a slice of good luck when this happens.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3940078

I really did not think he was that strong on the flop and thought he had an ace, decided not to raise (which would have been slightly better actually as he probably calls if he does have the ace and if he doesn"t I don"t get much more out of him anyway). I didn"t think he had the flush on the turn but though he might have a single club so did not want to give him a cheap draw or lose value if he did not have a club. The river is the perfect card for me as I now beat everything and shoving here is a great play. A lot of people at this level will call with hands like AQ or AJ. I was lucky in this hand but it"s swings and roundabouts.

I then stack KK with 66 after making a set on the flop - totally standard hand where I call his preflop raise from the blinds and lead into him and get it allin on the turn.

Then things start to work and I am back to being less than a buyin down. I then make a mistake on a hand where I win when I misread the board and call on the river when I should have shoved but that only costs me about $6 as that was all my opponent had left but this hand still brings me close to being level. The hand below brings me into a small profit for the session. I do miss a bet OTR in this hand as well maybe?

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3940081

I am very happy with my play in that session as I was running bad to start with but continued to play well and make good plays. I do think this is what i need to be doing more often but talking myself through it on here helps with it. It would have been very easy to give it up when I was running bad but I did not do that and I did not let it effect my play.

The stats for today so far are:-

Hands = 1028
VP$IP = 9.73%
PRF = 8.07%
3-Bet = 4.09%
Profit = $4.13
bb/100 = 0.8

Volume remains good and I have now played a total of 5281 hands this year so looking good to do 15K this month. I need to do 10K per month to hit the target of course but this month is when I have some spare time off work so looking to get a good start. Now have 315 VPP"s this month so going along well enough on that as well.

May play some more cash later or may play some more MTT games.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: TheSnapper on January 04, 2012, 15:00:44 PM


I also had a hand which I can"t convert but it"s another one I am unsure of but it can be found here. Please feel free to comment either on the PHA thread or in here http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=56312.0

The stats for today so far are:-

Hands = 1028
VP$IP = 9.73%
PRF = 8.07%
3-Bet = 4.09%
Profit = $4.13
bb/100 = 0.8



Assuming you were beat in the above hand where you check called the river for $4.30, folding that hand in that spot saves 17 bb"s, doubles your profit and doubles your win rate. Which leads to a thought provoking Noble"esque type question,

Of the $4.13 profit, what percentage is directly attributable to spots where you lost less than you should have?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 04, 2012, 15:29:46 PM
You mean lost the minimum right? I find this a difficult one to answer.

I would say the hand where I make the straight against the flush I lost the minimum, or did I just lose value by not raising the river as long term it is profitable to do so? Not sure so, did I really lose the minimum or was just calling bad?

Didn"t really get any other spots like that one today, although the AA hand we were discussing yesterday I do believe I lose less than I am meant to long term in that spot. I am in the middle of responding to you previous post regarding as it takes some doing.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 04, 2012, 16:15:33 PM
Responding to Brendan :-)

"Would need a really good read / reason to fold here, there are lots of bluffs and weaker made hands in his raising range"

It"s possible that he has an overpair here and is raising the flop with the overpair. The fact that all indications were that he was a capable player also supports your view. However at the most basic level the way he has played the hand says I am beaten. I would say it is more correct to say that there SHOULD be lots of bluffs in his range. I honestly don"t think many players are capable of exploiting this spot. Not many players do this often. To be honest I am not even convinced bluffing here is actually good, although it does look like a good spot to do so, well in all honesty it"s a great spot.

From his point of view, even if he is able to put me on a hand like AA, and been able to figure out I can"t have a set, he can"t know that I am going to fold it, a lot of people would call anyway. He could be making a play thinking I have something like AK. AK sometimes plays like I have and gives up when it misses the turn. We are giving the player a lot of credit here though, more than I believe we should give most $25nl players unless we have something that tells us they are able to do this. I am not saying most of them are bad but we are talking quite high level here for most $25nl players. You would not go into this level of thinking in a live 50p/£1 game these games are not of a standard that is THAT much higher than those games. It is also FR which makes a bluff less likely. The best approach to take here is that most spots are what they look like, treat them as such. By doing otherwise we are inventing a dynamic which is probably not there.

"Shoving the flop would be bad in as much as you don"t want to discourage his bluffs from firing the turn"

I think this is 100% correct in this spot, if you are sticking it in anyway then may as well give him the chance to put more in. Calling also gives you the chance to reassess on the turn which I think is important.

On 66 and 77

"Much prefer to keep these in my raising range, actually I don"t think its good to open limp ever. Would be curious as to what hands are in your open limp range and would suspect it to be very small and thus very transparent"

It"s is very transparent. Again it does depend on the other players being observant but it is easier to do that the above, much easier. In later position small pairs should be rasied like they would be in 6-max games. You can limp call small pairs in early position profitably if you are just set mining. It might be easier to just fold them though but at the moment I am finding the EP limp in to be OK. Again, at the end of the day, it will make you money in these games - especially in FR. You are (as usual) right that player"s SHOULD be able to tell when I make a set. It"s esay enough I check fold when I miss the set and come out betting and raising when I hit, it usually works fine though and big pairs still pay me off. Again it"s what players actually do that matters not what they should do.

BUT.. Looking at this, you are right, it is getting towards being to easy to exploit. small and mid pairs are the only hands I would do this with. I don"t play SC 100BB deep as they don"t play well and I am always raising big pairs and big aces. If I limp from EP I can only have some kind of small pair and if I call a raise and still want to play after the flop I can only have a set. It works fine and I do wonder how easy it is to spot this at the table. Saying that, one reason I did not like doing it was that I found that I was raising 4xbb and then a big pair would repop to between 10-12BB and 100BB deep I am not really abot to call that profitably. I have recently altered my opening raise to 3xBB so this might make it easier to call as reraises are generally smaller. Next month I will move them to the raising range, it will be interesting to compare the result"s.

Overall I would say that limp calling with small pairs in fine in these games but why not try the alternative as it may be better.




Where do you get these hourly figures from, it"s a very interesting point if the numbers are reliable. But you might also consider that Stars charge about 8% more rake per 100 hands.


Meant to also answer this. The stats did not come from anywhere reliable just by adding up the average on Genting compared to Stars at the time of the post. I would expect them to be pretty accurate though might try it later though (one table on each for an hour). I had no idea about the 8% difference though which is pretty massive tbh.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: TheSnapper on January 04, 2012, 17:54:29 PM

You mean lost the minimum right? I find this a difficult one to answer.

I would say the hand where I make the straight against the flush I lost the minimum, or did I just lose value by not raising the river as long term it is profitable to do so? Not sure so, did I really lose the minimum or was just calling bad?

Didn"t really get any other spots like that one today, although the AA hand we were discussing yesterday I do believe I lose less than I am meant to long term in that spot. I am in the middle of responding to you previous post regarding as it takes some doing.


Take as an example the K9s hand when the board runs out....

Kh 8c 2s Jh 8s

Let"s assume we hold a better hand and we illicit a call from our opponent of our decent sized river value bet. We would be correctly and suitably elated at having owned our opponent.

Let"s now assume villain holds a better hand and we correctly fold to his river value bet. We should also recognise this correct fold as having equally owned our opponent and on the bottom line, the $4.30 saved will have the same value as the $4.30 gained in the previous example but we tend not to value the two scenarios equally.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 04, 2012, 20:34:02 PM
Decided to have a small session this evening on the cash tables to help the hand count. Wanted to play about 500 hands as this should not take too long. It was going quite well, then I made probably my worst mistake I have made for a while. This is so bad because I know it is wrong and I have gone through hand histories several time to prove to myself that this exact spot is -EV.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3941599

Yuck that"s awful play :-( The guy who 4 bet had only been at the table for two orbits and had three bet twice so I convinced myself it was a good spot, it never ever is. One poor play turns what could have been a decent day into a basically break even day !!!!

Session was fairly standard apart from that won a couple of small pots. I think this might be an example of what Brendan was talking about earlier when he said about folding in the right spot, I would not normally post this as there is not much to discuss about it but as it has been mentioned.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3941604

I wonder if I can save more money by just check calling the turn in this kind of spot? I can"t give it up on the turn for sure. What Brendan was pointing out above was that money saved is as good as money won. This spot sort of demonstrates that quite nicely and is something all cash players should be aware of. I will try and include more of these types of hands when I review sessions.

This might also be an example, but could also just be too nitty, the reason for this one is that the 3-better has not 3 bet in any of over 250 hands I have on him, a quick check in PT (after the hand) showed that he had flat called with AK before and also 77. I therefore made a very tight fold here that I think stands a good chance of being right.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3941608

I think both of these plus, the AA hand from yesterday and maybe the hand where I make the straight against the flush are examples of saving money where I could lose more. It"s sometimes hard to say of these examples are good examples of this or just hands where I have failed to maximise long term value though although the QQ vs AA one above is a good one.

Something I find more difficult is doing the oppposite and maxing the value in marginal spots. I sometimes think I miss bets when I should be extracting more value. Maybe like this one from earlier, although tbh this one is probably fine. Not much is likely to call OTR that I beat.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3940081

Evening session went like this:-

Hands = 598
Profit = $2.50 (due to the poor play with AK)

Overall Month To Date

Hands = 5879
VP$IP = 11.26%
PFR = 7.93%
3-Bet = 3.53%
BB/100 = 7.43
Total Profit = $96.07
VPP = 360

I think I have spent enough time on the nlhe tables for now and I am ahead of the required hand rate. So tomorrow and maybe Friday will be spent on the MTT sit n go"s. I should have no issue hitting the 15K hands this month so can afford to leave the cash tables for a couple of days. I also need to do one some PLO sessions. I can"t multi table as well at PLO therefore the volume target is quite low.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Bigfella42 on January 04, 2012, 21:32:52 PM
Great reading and some interesting hands there - the QQ fold in hand 2 is one that most players at those stakes could not make IMO.

Apologies if this is covered earlier in this blog but what poker software do you use, what stats do you focus on from that software, and how important is it to your online game? Do you keep other notes on players or is the tracker all you need? I"m interested as I don"t use any software myself, as my online volume is quite low, but am looking to up that this year so may need to prepare properly.

Final question. At what stage would you move up stakes?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 04, 2012, 22:00:54 PM

Great reading and some interesting hands there - the QQ fold in hand 2 is one that most players at those stakes could not make IMO.

Apologies if this is covered earlier in this blog but what poker software do you use, what stats do you focus on from that software, and how important is it to your online game? Do you keep other notes on players or is the tracker all you need? I"m interested as I don"t use any software myself, as my online volume is quite low, but am looking to up that this year so may need to prepare properly.

Final question. At what stage would you move up stakes?

No intention to move up stakes atm. It would come down to feeling much more confident in my game than I do over a long period of time, I have never been able to consistently beat $50nl on Pokerstars although I have not really given it much of a go as I have always been more profitable at $25. Could be a mindset thing.

I use Poker Tracker as I always have although generally Hold "em Manager is considered better

My HUD is set as:-

VP$IP / PFR / 3-bet / fold to 3-bet
Flop c-bet / fold to flop c-bet
Turn c-bet / fold to turn c-bet

I likt to keep notes of any bet sizing tells, if a player will limp/fold pre and what min bets and donk bets mean, my player note are quite simple.

The HUD will win you and save you some bets and win you some pots by helping you to double barrell it also help you put a player on a range of hands. A player who has a VP$IP of between 12% and 15% is probably just playing prem hands and pairs for example. So if you get one of these who folds to lots of c-bets you know you can c-bet any flop and expect to make a profit.

One of the players from Blonde sort of taught me to use them but I am nowhere near as good as some people over there. I could function quite well without a HUD, you should not need one to make a profit but they do help quite a bit.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 05, 2012, 17:25:15 PM
Played two of the little 180 manners last night. Did not cash in either so I am currently down $22.50 at those, don"t think I have done too wrong in them but I have not yet run well enough in one to get really deep.

Tried to play some PLO today. That did not go too well though. It has been a while since I played and I think that showed be begin with. I don"t really understand why this would be the case, but I did feel off form. I made some questionable 3-bets pre and probably called off to light in some spots, thinking of one main hand here.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3945927

Then I went too passive for a while, not raising enough. Also ran more than 4.5 buyin"s below EV, which is easy enough to do in PLO. Also kept running into the top of opponents range. Making good bets and have them go wrong.

These kind of spots kept coming up where nobody really does anything wrong but I lose the pot.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3945871
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3945873
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3945874

This hand shows why you should NEVER make loose calls OOP in this game. The flop play is fine but I should not have been in the hand really.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3945875

Probably the worst mistake of the session I would say is this one, I have no idea why I don"t raise / get it in on the flop. If I play this hand right and win it I break even for the session (actually end up with small profit).

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3945728

Still $45 below EV is always going to be tough to turn around so not going to worry about a losing day when that happens. I know where I went wrong in most spots and again if I maintain this level of play over the year I will win.

Hands = 830
VP$IP = 23.37%
PFR = 14%
3-Bet = 5%
Todays loss = $23.66
VPP month to date = 463

Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 05, 2012, 23:32:36 PM
I was watching sky poker today for the first time for ages. Is it me or are the "experts" terrible except for Tikay? Luke Schwartz was on earlier today though and he was really good. I suppose they have to be careful what they say though. They can"t really come out with "that was a terrible play, what a donkey".

Having taken a break after earlier session I was going to play some sitngo MTT"s but I decided to play some more PLO as I am now fresh again, I find a deep stacked table that is actually running so go an that. There is one very agressive player on there and I get into a few pots against him. There is one hand where I have the nut str8 on the turn, hw has two pair, and we somehow get it allin (for a pot of about $60) he rivers the str8 for the split, oh well I guess he could have made a house. I then raise with AAKJ with one part suited and flop a flush draw and bet, he calls, I bet the turn, he calls I miss the flush and check the river and he bets full pot, I sigh and fold. Then I make a set of tens against him and he calls my raise on the flop, he check calls my turn bet and the river completes flush draws and str8 draws and he fires full pot. I fold. I win one back when he tries to bluff me off top two pair when the board remains safe.

Then this happens. It"s a really interesting hand which shows how much fun really deep stacked PLO can be and why PLO 100BB deep, whilst a good game, is not the same as there are so many things going on in this hand that would not happen 100bb deep as it would all be in on the flop.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3947440

I was a bit lucky in this hand but I knew what I was doing. I have position (playing this hand out of position would be wrong due to the reverse implied odds it creates) and I can get away from this if I need to. The flop is near perfect. I lose to 44 but I can"t be scared of that I expect him to bet the flop which he does. I expect him to call my raise wide, he does call. He could have a number of overpairs here as he does not like folding very much and has been mixing it up with me quite a bit. He could have a 2 in his range here for sure. I doubt he has 44 as he would want to get it in.

Then he checks the turn which is an ace. I bet out $5 (this is too small btw in this spot) he just calls. I am a little confused as he should now not be calling with an overpair to the flop now the ace is there. A2 should try and get it in really, he could be slow playing AA but I think he tries to get that in as well. I now think he must have a 2 of some kind.

Then he fires big OTR which is a 9. I am not folding, but am a bit worried he might have a better FH given he has now led out big after two check/calls, this line can be quite strong and if he had a marginal hand (like a 2 on it"s own) he should be check calling really. I know he can be bluffing here though so I have to at least call. I honestly did not consider the straight. I probably should have shoved, he is not going to fold a 2 for another $8 and I really don"t think AA or A2 are that likely given how it played out.

I played on to complete the 1000 hands of PLO I said I would play, didn"t intend to do it in a day so if I get time I will play some more. I am happy enough with the volume I have got in this week. I am winning at Cash in both NLHE and PLo at the moment. I am not winning at the MTT"s but these have a lot of luck involved so you have to expect some dray runs in those.

Overall PLO today

Hands = 1002
VP$IP = 24%
PFR = 13%
3-Bet = 3.56%
Todays Profit = $15.22
BB/100 = 7.59

VPP"s this month = 498

In the end I only ran $35 below EV so was $10 above EV in that little session tonight.

#swingsandroundabouts
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 06, 2012, 17:41:55 PM
Decided to play some hands to get my holdem hands up to 6000 for the month. Lost about $10 over not much happened, I made a questionable call on the turn one hand but other than that is was OK.

I am trying to do some work on my MTT"s today. I am not as confident in my MTT game as I am in playing cash. Although I generally do fine I know I make fundamental ICM mistakes and my shoving and calling ranges are probably off by a bit.

I intended to play 3 of the $4.50 ones but accidentally registered for one of the $2.20 turbo"s during which I ended up shoving AT with 11BB from the SB into the BB AQ so that was pretty standard.

In the $4.50"s I was playing here are some intersting hands.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3949242

I honestly am not sure what I am meant to do here, it"s a shove or fold spot. I certainly shove from late position but what I should do from here I can"t honestly say I am 100% sure.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3949315

Here is another one, the limper is playing 19/0 over 36 hands (so has limped in 6 times). Am I supposed to shove here from the BB as it will add 20% to my stack?

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3949319

Another very similar hand, limper is playing 40/13. I guess a shove has to be profitable against his range right?

Exit hands are of course important, of the two that I played today one was just KK into AA which is totally standard and can"t be avioded. Pretty sure the other one is fine as well.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3949321

MTT results so far this year

Total played = 8
Total buy in"s = $34
Total cashes = $0
ROI = -100%

More to come later
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 06, 2012, 22:15:31 PM
Then I took a break and came back to play another two, they take ages *lol*

Went out of the first one like this:-

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3949690

Flame away if there is anything wrong with this. I know I am not meant too go broke in an unraised pot :-) but this seemed a very simple bet on the flop once the ace falls I can"t automatically think they have it can I? Should I check call?

The last one went well though and I finished second for $147.60. Here are some of the hands

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3949691

Skill game - well I was going to raise BvB there and I can"t really raise/fold with my stack

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3949693 - About an orbit later I think
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3949695 - Not sure but I think this is OK
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3949696 - I like the semi bluff here he can"t call unless he has the Jack and I have outs
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3949697 - This guy had three bet above average so hand is standard
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3949700 - On final table - is a check/call better? I think I like winning it there tbh

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3949701

This hand is quite cool as Pokerjeng had started to reshove and had done so quite a bit so I was expecting it and gussed that if the BB had half a hand he might try the "resteal

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3949702 - this is the final hand of the tournament

So I finish second, it is worth saying I got very lucky apart from what I have shown you above I was having to shove light quite a bit but you can only pick your spots right and hope the cards are on your side. This week they seem to be with me.

Please feel free to comment on any of this and tell me if I could have done anything better. There are plenty of better tournament players than me reading this I expect so the advice will be gratefully recieved.

MTT games
--------------

Total played = 10
Total buy in"s = $43
Total cashes = $147.60
Total Profit = $104.60
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: samson on January 06, 2012, 22:35:14 PM
Hi Rodders
Looking at the 77 hand, that was something i was folding oop, but watched mondatoo just before xmas when he was smashing up the $35 180s and he was shoving these sorts of hands in these positions.

Don"t know if its the same at our levels though

might be worth getting Ray or James on blonde to take a look at the hands
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Swinebag on January 07, 2012, 06:15:10 AM
First 3 hands are all shoves for me given how short stacked you are. You have a bit of fold equity but not for long. You will get looked up by smaller pairs, most aces including ones you crush and most broadway overpairs. With your stack you need to win a race. (disclaimer - though I think I do make a lot of mistakes generally with small pairs)

AQ hand is fine-just win the race next time

35 hand is vul - you"d be surprised at weaker hands that stack off there.

QQ hand should be 4 bet all in. Flatting the 3 bet achieves nothing as you are pot committed going to the flop. AK may fold flop now , meaning you miss value. If flop is A hi, you miss value from underpairs.( lol - auto correct put underpants there). With shallow stacks you shouldn"t be playing any flops and looking to get it in. Getting 3 bet holding QQ is fistpump shove time.

Will read the others and post
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Swinebag on January 07, 2012, 06:28:33 AM
Q4 from SB is a shove-well done!

KT hand is fold or shove. I tend to a fold due to villains stack size where he should be playing the hand to the bitter end. With a read though, shoving will get through a lot there.

As played, he must be a weak player because he has put in a thirdish of his stack and is now folding. I think your, "he can only call with a J" thinking is flawed. A decent player will call off with most hands that they raise with and c bet ( all pairs, AQ, AK, KQ and maybe worse).
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Swinebag on January 07, 2012, 06:39:48 AM
Q9 hand is fine - deffo call on the river. There may be more profitable lines, but when I try and steal the blinds and hit the flop, I just want to get to showdown and catch a river bluff if I"m lucky enough to get one.

AK hand - I assume you posted to demonstrate what you are up against at this level. Tag villain as weak/spewy with chips. His 3 bet fold is just awful. His thinking is so basic it hurts, I only ever 3 bet for value against your stack size so would snap the shove. You played it correct obviously.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Swinebag on January 07, 2012, 07:02:52 AM
QQ facing 3 bet all in. Villain has shoved less than 10 bigs. I snap call pretty much all my raising range here, and only fold the weakest of steals. I will fold more weak hands if I am running over the table and they are letting me steal at will.

JQ hand. You have 20ish bigs so it fold or 3 bet shove here. Calling OOP is terrible. I probably go with fold pre here over a shove as villain is UTG. Would need a read to justify shoving there. As played you hit your Q and for similar reasons to the KT hand would be getting them in here. You become predictable when you c/r air and c/c hands that hit. Stacks are a little deeper than KT hand (though not by much) so villain will stack off with most underpairs and maybe AK.

Final hand. Stacks are now pretty deep but I think it"s ok to get them in with a pair. You are most likely racing given the betting but I just think I have the nuts when I get a pair HU. Just win it next time. There may be better lines but I pretty much do what you did (but hold obv :))

There you go steve. Thanks for posting some MTT hands. I let Brendan deal with the cash ones (though no doubt he will be here later to shred my MTT thoughts). I"ve just posted these whilst rocking my little boy back to sleep. One handed iPhone skillz FTW?!
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Swinebag on January 07, 2012, 07:11:38 AM
Just reread my bit on the QJ hand and think that c/c is an ok line. I think you also c/r enough stronger hands in other spots, so you are not predictable that you can take the c/c line. This is probably read dependent. I still fold pre though, as stacks are shallow and post flop play is very difficult and I don"t want to be making tough decisions here.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: noble1 on January 07, 2012, 11:02:30 AM
i haven"t had time to catch up with all that"s in your blog Rodders, but after a quick scan of that hh  :) i"ll give you 2 pointers that may help you...

ONE.
@25nl there are many opponents who will call the flop rather light, my spewy brother ;D has the mindset atm that they are stations so he basically dismisses the idea of ever bluffing them on any street... WRONG TOTALLY WRONG imho... Rodders look for spots/textures where a turn or river bluff will be profitable, look through your database for opponents who call flops light, when they do this they will have a significantly weaker range for the rest of the hand !! [true? do you agree?] with a read like this on these types you have much more fold equity than what most realise [after all there turn and river range will be mostly weak]....
Get into the habit of noting these types [yes even when multi tabling], just make sure to discern between the types who will call you down no matter how weak there hand is.. [note what size bets they call as well for obv reasons, that HH is rife with spewy types]  note the fit/fold types also @25nl, obv your FE for bluffing them will be far less.. [there are plenty of them also :)]

TWO.
understand how to exploit others, to help yourself do this look through your database and go through the regs and learn there common tendencies... eg - the lines they take and how they react to differing textures, in that HH a river re-raise is mostly always for value for instance.. the HH also brings up a few spots where the reg/s 3bet and then check flop textures like 89Tssh, there range is mostly weak, look to exploit the buggers :)....
whilst going through others tendencies, look at your own also, by understanding how you play certain situations where you know that you can be exploited it will/should help you understand how to exploit others... [plus it may help you start to understand how they [the regs] think/view various spots]
i just felt you was missing a few spots in that HH.....

http://tworags.com/index.php?ACTION=charts&todo=view&ID=82 - this might help if your relying on HUD stats etc, use them by all means [along with good old fashion notes/reads :)]  if you"re going to be tangling with the same mostly mediocre group of regs, the above points should help push your learning curve on Rodders...

basically abuse position and know your victims Rodders, they are making plenty of mistakes.. i"m not saying to suddenly start play LAG etc, just work on adding a few more tricks to your repertoire and observe like a serial killer :)





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Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 07, 2012, 11:51:22 AM

i haven"t had time to catch up with all that"s in your blog Rodders, but after a quick scan of that hh  :) i"ll give you 2 pointers that may help you...

ONE.
@25nl there are many opponents who will call the flop rather light, my spewy brother ;D has the mindset atm that they are stations so he basically dismisses the idea of ever bluffing them on any street... WRONG TOTALLY WRONG imho... Rodders look for spots/textures where a turn or river bluff will be profitable, look through your database for opponents who call flops light, when they do this they will have a significantly weaker range for the rest of the hand !! [true? do you agree?] with a read like this on these types you have much more fold equity than what most realise [after all there turn and river range will be mostly weak]....
Get into the habit of noting these types [yes even when multi tabling], just make sure to discern between the types who will call you down no matter how weak there hand is.. [note what size bets they call as well for obv reasons, that HH is rife with spewy types]  note the fit/fold types also @25nl, obv your FE for bluffing them will be far less.. [there are plenty of them also :)]

TWO.
understand how to exploit others, to help yourself do this look through your database and go through the regs and learn there common tendencies... eg - the lines they take and how they react to differing textures, in that HH a river re-raise is mostly always for value for instance.. the HH also brings up a few spots where the reg/s 3bet and then check flop textures like 89Tssh, there range is mostly weak, look to exploit the buggers :)....
whilst going through others tendencies, look at your own also, by understanding how you play certain situations where you know that you can be exploited it will/should help you understand how to exploit others... [plus it may help you start to understand how they [the regs] think/view various spots]
i just felt you was missing a few spots in that HH.....

http://tworags.com/index.php?ACTION=charts&todo=view&ID=82 - this might help if your relying on HUD stats etc, use them by all means [along with good old fashion notes/reads :)]  if you"re going to be tangling with the same mostly mediocre group of regs, the above points should help push your learning curve on Rodders...

basically abuse position and know your victims Rodders, they are making plenty of mistakes.. i"m not saying to suddenly start play LAG etc, just work on adding a few more tricks to your repertoire and observe like a serial killer :)

Welcome back, hope you had a great time in Canada. Nice link there as to what percentages are likely to mean what with hand ranges. What would you say is a good hand range to be playing at $25 FR (VP$IP/PFR/3-Bet) and would you always open for a raise or can you limp with some hands?

I would agree with your point that people DO bluff, however I would say they are not USUALLY well thought out with a consistent story being told throughout the hand. Right or wrong? Really simple example of where regs will sometime bluff, if you bet the flop and check the turn in position with a marginal hand then you can often bluff catch a bet on the river from an opponent with nothing (yes it"s exploitable in some ways but trying to demonstrate a point). My player notes are very simple usually just like:-

"can bluff river if checked too"
"will float flop"
"can call down light on dangerous board"
"overplayed top pair"

Your advice on looking through hand histories for opponent who will try to exploit these spots (like the ones you mention that will call light on the flop) is well taken, I am spending more time looking through my tracker this year.. I probably rely on winning money from bad players to much and don"t exploit regs enough, I am working on this so keep the comments coming please (that also goes for Brendan (snapper) and anybody else who wants to chip in).

The only thing I would say that in a vacuum unless you have a reason to think otherwise assuming players always have what it looks like they have at $25nl is not going to be that bigger leak, and as long as you do the basics well you will be a winning player. I understand it"s not optimal though.

If you have spare time one day are you able to comment on the AK hand I commented where I shove into the Kings.

Also if we can get the cash game at DTD set up will you play? We could get a really good table going.

@Rob (Swinebag22)

Thanks for the advice there, always interested in the opinions of better MTT players on my play in these things as I also want to make an effort to improve my understanding of MTT play. I will post some more soon.

PS - Watching soccer AM, think I am becoming a Leyton Orient fan *lol*
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: noble1 on January 07, 2012, 13:58:31 PM
Quote
I would agree with your point that people DO bluff

re-read it again Rodders, you"ve mis-understood what i wrote..

Quote
Your advice on looking through hand histories for opponent who will try to exploit these spots

no you have to look through your database and understand where and how the regs have exploitable tendencies @25nl..
BUT also look at your own, it will give [hopefully] you a feel/understanding of how your opponents think and view situations/board textures etc...

Quote
What would you say is a good hand range to be playing at $25 FR (VP$IP/PFR/3-Bet) and would you always open for a raise or can you limp with some hands?

1. What would you say is a good hand range to be playing at $25 FR (VP$IP/PFR/3-Bet) - adjust to how the players to your left and right are playing imho... look to target the players that u will have position on if you think you can profit from them, rather than just solely playing your cards..
2. would you always open for a raise or can you limp with some hands? - opponent dependent, never say never, if you think the play is profitable then do it... mostly a raise is better than limping [obvious], there are spots i can think limping say 44 utg would be ok [can you think of a reason or two as of why?]


Quote
"can bluff river if checked too"
"will float flop"
"can call down light on dangerous board"
"overplayed top pair"

don"t take one example to literally though, if its a reg, ask yourself why did he make the play that he did, was he in a pot with a fishy type? did he make a adjustment? would he do that against you? etc etc
put a question mark against your note, update as u learn more about there tendencies [will they bluff often enough, what sizing, on what sort of board texture etc]

Quote
I probably rely on winning money from bad players to much and don"t exploit regs enough

thats ok, i"d rather be in a pot with a bad player than a better one :)
but if you are looking to improve your win rate, build up your bankroll etc and then hoping to play higher stakes, you cannot just rely on table selection etc and bum hunt, you have to learn now at 25nl how to adjust and beat the regs because at 50nl 100nl the player pool will only get stronger..

Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 07, 2012, 14:34:28 PM
Quick session on cash tables today, did not go that well got KK into AA below.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3950846

Next one, Never folding this even though I was not at all surprised to see AA here. I do wonder if I can save the bet on the turn here? Can I really fold the turn?

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3950850

These both happened within about 10 minutes of starting so was down nearly a buyin quickly.

I then lose $6 with AQ when I raise to 7sc and get a call, flop comes queen high, I bet out $1.25, short stack shoves and I have to call, he has a set. The I get TT and reraise a MP opener to $2.25 only to have a full stacked player shove behind me. I havwe to fold (he had AA).

Add to this some pot"s where I raise, get called in multiple spots (don"t think I even found a good spot to cbet) and miss a couple of sets with pairs.

I win back a bit with AA wheer a 3-bet pre, bet the flop and take it down on the turn.

I then manage to make a terrible bluff after I raise in LP with 44 and call a 3-bet with good odds  to set mine (well about 12/1). The flop misses my set and comes Ace hi, he checks to me so I take a shot at the pot, this is fine, he calls. The turn is a blank and he checks again so I put in a PSB, he then shoves. I don"t like my play here at all. So overall worst session of the year:-

Hands = 501
VP$IP = 11.98%
PFR = 9.78%
3Bet = 2.27%
Total loss = $48.83
BB/100 = -19.49

Bit annoyed to have lost around $60 over the last two days at cash which has dropped monthly profit to just $37. But this is still running above what I said the expectation was (3BB/100 - although I am starting to think that this needs to be nearer 5BB/100). These swings are completely normal I suppose and to be a winning player you have to accept it. I think orgetting about the money side of it is the key and accepting that it will take care of itself if you keep playing well.

Going to play some tournaments later today then maybe a small amount of hands tomorrow before having a break from poker until next weekend.

#swingsandrounderbouts
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 07, 2012, 19:24:20 PM
Found £20 in my Sky account I had forgotten about quite felt like a little punt so popped off to the PLO tables to try and do an "unofficial" spin up with it. Spun it up to £110 which was nice. Will pay for entry into next weeks online APAT events. Now off to play some Stars tournaments. Will just edit this post later with results:-

Big $11 (or 700 FPP) 50K Gtd (gone AA < KK for a 9K pot 20 minutes in)
100 FPP 30K Gtd (AQ < 99)
$4.50 sit n go #1 (gone A9 < AK)
$4.50 sit n go #2 (88 < KK)

OK and now time to take a break from poker until next weekend :-)

Not a bad first week of the new year bottom line currently looks like this

NLHE Cash = +$37.39 (6504 Hands)
PLO Cash =+$15.22 (1002 hands)
Tournaments = +$94.79 (12 x 180 man and 1xBig $11)

Total Profit = $147.40

I would have taken that after one week. Good volume and good profit.

Tune in again next Saturday for more exciting updates including the Online APAT games.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 09, 2012, 12:45:52 PM
Back in work today, which I don"t mind, weeks off are nice but you don"t realize how much you miss the day to day stuff until you get back to it.

I have not played any poker since my last post but wanted to make a quick update post. I have started to properly go through my database (which contains lot"s of hands from the last 18 months or so, must see if I can purge the older ones) and look at regular opponents. I kind of did this anyway but was missing a lot of info as I just looked at hands that I was involved in and usually the ones I lost.

Yesterday after a Facebook conversation with Noble1 (who must surely be bored with me by now *lol*) I have started to actively research my opponents and update my notes on Pokerstar"s. It"s going to be a long process as the player pool is so large but I have already developed a colour scheme to help with table selection and have started adding some really useful notes to players who I see regularly at the table. Things like their basic betting patterns and how they play certain types of hand. A lot of players have tendencies that will allow you to narrow down hand ranges and actually improve my ability to make the most valuable play . Obviously I knew this before but if you have never properly gone through this process you will be surprised how much info you can glean from it and how much it provides extra understanding of the general game play.

It"s hard work but very interesting and I am looking forward to doing more of it, I am going to put in about 90 minutes after work on this each day this week. I would recommend this process as it also really shows you how a standard opponent at this level actually plays, I have only just started really getting into it but will be making it a regular thing to do. Even if I never meet any of the players I have made notes about on the table (and I will) it will still be a worthwhile use of time.

Whilst I am here I can say thank you very much to Noble for his help and some of the stuff he has shared with me really is well worth having. Although I don"t always agree with him (that would be really boring), I admit but have to respect his knowledge of the game and the research he has clearly put in. Also the way that he has spent time gathering all of this stuff together and passing on to me and answering questions when he really doesn"t have too at all. I should also mention that Brendan (aka snapper) has done the same in the past but I never really thanked him on the thread.

A few people have recently commented on the way people on this forum are happy to help each other out just because it what they do. This is another example of this, hopefully he, along with people like Noble and Brendan will continue to be contributors to this thread as their views are really helpful to myself and make the thread more interesting.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 15, 2012, 11:13:45 AM
Had a pretty poor day yesterday. Over the week I had been working on my HUD and the way that I play against certain types of player. I thought I had worked out a good few improvements to my game and my setup for the HUD. I had also spent quite a bit time going through regular opponents and making notes on them to try and exploit certain types of player better.

It didn"t work.

To begin with the table looked cluttered as the HUD was taking up to much space, this directly lead to me making a poor mistake in one of the first hands I played and losing a buyin. I then ran a straight into a rivered full house which cost me another buyin. I then ended up down $75 after losing some smaller pots.

I did at one point manage to bring it back to being only $10 down then ran QQ into AA preflop, I really felt that it should be a fold pre in this pot but against the stats I was looking at QQ seemed to be ahead of his three bet range so I called and got it in on a low flop.

Then I rivered a full house in a small pot ended up getting more than a buyin in against quads.

Overall not really happy with the new system I have setup. I still need to put some more work in away from the table but I am pretty sure that if I had not done all of the stuff last week and just played my normal game with the same cards and situations I would have ended up up yesterday.

Hands played = 1799
VP$IP = 14.34%
PFR = 9.67%
3Bet = 3%
Total Loss = $79.13
bb/100 = -4.4

Not sure if I should play or not today, I want to but kind of feel like I should not due to thefact I don"t think I was playing very well yesterday but I think it was more that I was trying to do thing differently to normal, maybe I will just try and play a small session and see how that goes.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: TheSnapper on January 15, 2012, 14:25:33 PM
Do you use HM Rodders?

Have you tried to customise your pop up Huds? much tidier especially when playing on a laptop. Image below is an example of some of the pop up hud stats I use. You can set your permanent hud to show minimal stats and set larger custom pop up hud panels to appear when you hover over a stat on your smaller permanent Hud.

(http://i1013.photobucket.com/albums/af253/7lb12oz/hudpopup-2.jpg)
Right click select "view image" for full view of image.

I"d be happy to help out if you are unsure about this HM feature. Feel free to drop a pm and we could do a quick teamviewer session sometime.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Swinebag on January 15, 2012, 22:04:57 PM
brendan, you are a star, and sum up what APAT is all about

Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: noble1 on January 15, 2012, 22:45:52 PM
read page 42 onwards rodders, every1 goes through it, EVERY1.....

http://www.groene-appel.nl/moving_through_uNL_2010_verneer.pdf

tough it out dude........
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 20, 2012, 20:00:58 PM
I can"t believe it"s a week since I last played. Had a really good week away from poker though so that is good. I have been offered that job that I mentioned somebody was coming to speak to me about, it"s not a great deal different to what I do now but does extend my area of responsibility a bit further so means life would be more interesting and busier. Going to be having a closer look at what the job involves before saying yes or no. .

Anyway back to a weekend of hard work on the old poker game. I might need a day off to watch the football tomorrow but hey ho. Going to have a little game now going to try and make some interesting hands which involve plays properly trying to exploit certain players. I don"t feel I did it very well last weekend but that could be a bit results orientated .

Will post here so Noble/Brendan/anybody else who wants to can make their ever welcome comments.

Inb other news APAT is hosting the final event of season five in Brighton this weekend. Good luck to everybody playing in it.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 20, 2012, 22:31:27 PM
Short session played tonight with another poor result. I really do feel like I am running really bad but don"t know if it is really down to that or down to playing badly. Lost $33.78 tonight. $10 of it I can put down to bad play. This hand was the first hit I took.

Opponent is playting 41/15 and I have seen him slow play a FH when he hit it on the turn. He seems to call too much.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3996490

Preflop is pretty standard and the flop is a good one for me. He unexpectedly leads into me. I could flat call here but I likely have the best hand and have seen him calling down light so opt for the raise which I think is best. I am not that surprised when he calls and still believe I have the best hand. The turn card is pretty much a blank (unlikely str8 draw got there) I then bet the turn and he min raises. As I know he has slow played in the past this feels really strong. The only hand I have seen him raise post flop is the full house. The pot odds are really good but mu hand can"t improve and there are loads of bad rivers which put me in a tough spot. It seems very likely he will shove the river so I fold.

Not long after this hand happens

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/3996493

Preflop is again standard and given the stack sizes I don"t see a way of getting away from it on the flop. Can I just call the raise and see what happens on the turn if a safe card comes down?

At times I can see what some people in the thread have said about flop texture and the way certain opponents play but it is very hard at the moment and I seem to make a lot of mistakes. I am finding it very annoying as I consistently seem to get decisions wrong when trying to base them on what a player should do. Most of the time it turns out bthey were just playing their cards and nothing more. I suppose I need to improve on identifying different types of player though.

Hands Played = 248
VP$IP = 17%
PFR = 15.25%
3-Bet = 3.23%
Total Loss = $33.78
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on January 21, 2012, 00:14:25 AM
First hand i probably play the same way, is definately a fold for me to the min raise.

Second hand is tricky, cause that flop smacks his BB hand right in the kisser, but then you cant give up on a 9 high bored with AA there really.

I have always found that min raises at this level are just Uber strong, they have it 1000000% of the time and i have done so much money in these spots!!

Like you have said, players generally play their cards at this level, so thinking about how they "should" play is very very dangerous IMO. There actually could be such a thing as being too good for them!!!!
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 22, 2012, 15:23:42 PM
Skipped playing poker yesterday in the end, went to the football instead. It was PROPER Saturday afternoon football, watching a Blue Square Premiership game (with the associated standard of reffing) in the freezing cold then all gathering in the bar after to warm up and dissect the game. Obviously we have smart phones these day which contributed to me and my mate doing £50 gambling on random games at half time and after the game. Some of the guy"s over there are pretty much summed up by this song (unsure if I have posted it before) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYPWwuRFdjw
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 23, 2012, 21:34:59 PM
Mini session tonight, not worth writing about as nothing happened, I won nearly two buyin"s by getting AA when my opponents had KK. Easy Game

Hands: 142
VP$IP: 7.9%
PFR: 5.2%
Profit: $42.21
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 24, 2012, 20:08:59 PM
*LOL*

I am so bad at this game sometimes. Played PLO and manged to do $80 in about 25 minutes, for some reason thought it was a good idea to get it allin with KKxx preflop TWICE. Like I said I am a fish sometimes.

Might try Brendans suggestion of trying ipoker again. I have spent great amounts of time trying to write up notes on players etc but the Pokerstars player base is so damn big they are useful so rarely. Will leave it until next month though, at least I was still up overall of January if only a very small amount (was down in cash but tournaments saved me). I will post the full result at months end.

I have a small bet on Palace tonight to win their game at Legoland as well. They are 1-0 down after 5 minutes.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 03, 2012, 21:47:51 PM
Due to really REALLY struggling for motivation recently I have decided an extended break from poker is needed. Not sure what the problem is but right now I can"t be bothered to actually make an effort and play properly whenever I play. Last night played and lost two buyin"s by basically just playing silly and making calls for large amounts when I knew I was beat for the sake of it (not even thinking there was any chance of being good but - well I have no idea why). This was about 15 minutes after sitting down and there had not even been any poorly played hands or anything to annoy me just basically started playing and that"s how I was playing. At the moment I quite simply no longer enjoy playing poker.

To be honest I have known for quite a while that something was not right and it was more than just being off form or needing to bring it up to date. I have just finishing cashing out of the sites I had money on, removing every bit of poker software from my main computer and my laptop. Poker Tracker, Poker Stove and all the poker clients, all gone.

I will certainly be back but could do with a few months without playing. I also have a new role in work that is going to keep me very busy for a while so now is a good time to do it. The motivation will probably come back soon enough but I am not going to come back to playing until I actually want too as I have been forcing myself to play a bit. All of the software can be downloaded again when that happens.

Good luck to you all and I hope season six of the live tour is a great success and I will be watching with interest and hoping that the usual suspects do really well this year :-)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: 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 :)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: 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.....
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Swinebag on February 04, 2012, 00:55:25 AM
Glad you are taking a break steve. Grinding low stakes cash can be soul destroying and your soul seems a bit destroyed.

come back when you feel it isn"t a chore


And take ger up on his offer. I might even tag along if stu comes down the same night as well
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: HOLDorFOLD on February 04, 2012, 04:02:16 AM


And take ger up on his offer. I might even tag along if stu comes down the same night as well


Ger and the aquarium is going to be over run soon ... I got an invite tonight as well ?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: nosey-p on February 04, 2012, 08:30:26 AM
I as getting to that stage recently (not cash) and was also going to have a break but 1 good night and things change.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 10, 2012, 17:44:45 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 :)

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.


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.....

Ger, you are a top man. I may well accept this very kind offer would certainly make playing poker interesting again.




And take ger up on his offer. I might even tag along if stu comes down the same night as well


Ger and the aquarium is going to be over run soon ... I got an invite tonight as well ?

For when? If everybody else is going I definitively wanna come.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Paulie_D on February 10, 2012, 17:57:23 PM
Date"s not set yet...probably towards the end of July.

Get yourself over to the Chezger forum and get your name down.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 11, 2012, 15:21:36 PM
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.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 11, 2012, 15:38:18 PM
So onto this weekend which I had free. I finished work at midday on Friday as I am doing longer days in the week and half day Fridays at the moment.

I got home and decided I would play a quick game so played a little bit of PLO HU. Didn"t go so well and ended up down just over $100, ah well it happens. Went on the 6-Max instead. Managed to lose $21 on this as well including making a complete mess of this hand *lol*

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137670

So tried playing some sitngo"s instead. The $4.50 180 manner things. Played 5 of them and managed to bust out of four early on without getting going. In the last one there was a player fairly early on who was shoving lot"s as players do in these things. I decided to take a shot against him here.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137671

Marv, this really was going well so I was down to 385 chips and was going to call it a day, shoved the SB with King High next hand

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137674

Now had a stack again even though I was way below average I had enough against the blinds. So I do nothing for a couple of rounds then get this spot which seems a good spot to reshove on the SB.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137672

OK, now I am back to starting stack, which is useful seeing as I need to win the stupid thing to get back in profit for the day. I spend some time folding a lot of hands and picking up the odd blind here, the odd pot there and get to this hand.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137677

This puts me right in the game and I am now able to play a bit. I do nothing for a few rounds and then for the third round in a row it folds to the small blind and he makes up we see a flop and he bets the pot, this is the same pattern we have seen for the last three rounds.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137681

That"ll learn him :-)

I then go back to my plan of doing nothing until I get a double up with AK Vs AJ BvB. This gives me about 6000 chips and not too long after I make a shove over the top of a raiser and caller with the same hand. Do we like this play?

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137683

I then play this hand in not the best way and take a small hit as a result of it

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137687

I get a bit of luck when I raise with KTs and a shorty pushes on me with KJ and I make a flush to knock him out. I would still have had enough chips though if he had won the pot.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137689

This hand pops up, I call pre intending to get it in on any non ace flop and I think he probably folds to a raise preflop and I can keep his bluffs in his range in this spot. It worked out OK and I was looking pretty good here.

I then start picking up a few more pots and blinds uncontested and with C-bets as you can in these things, I do make a poor job of this hand though the pot should have been bigger.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137690

You could probably say the same here but it just really felt like one of them had a Jack, not sure why but was pretty convinced at the time.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137691

Things then progressed nicely and I got into the money. I then got in a hand with a player I had down as a calling station and this was a key hand at this stage.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137693

BOOM, now I was one of the chip leaders. I made the final table. A hand that came up was this one

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137694

I think I quite like how I play this here although I would not normally limp this hand on the button. I slowly pushed on until we ended up just 5 way. I am the chip leader and the second chip leader is to my right and the other players are folding when we are in the blinds which is allowing him to raise my blind quite a bit. I tried 3-bet last round and he shoved on me. My plan here is to raise him on the flop, it"s all about making the wrong move at the right time see :-)

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137695

By the river I had figured out he had a real hand so just shoved it in, although the play is the same whatever I put him on I guess at that point. So we are now 4 way and I have more than half the chips. Surely an easy win from here to turn the day around. Things go pretty well and I am able to get chips and people are not making a stand against me.

It goes to three way and I still have more than half the chips with 155L playing 103K and a microstack of 11K. Then I can"t get anything to work. The micro stack double through and somehow ends up on 50K and the other larger stack is 3 and 4 betting me all over the place and I am getting owned. Every time I try to make a stand he just fires back at me.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137696
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137697

This carries on for a while and I adjust and wait for a few hands but when I raise him with both TT and AK he just folds and I am having a hard time maintaining confidence.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137698
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137699

As it happens he takes a big hit to the other player and then I finally find a good spot against him, he is shoving wide and I think this is a good call.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137700

Ouch, fair to say I am gutted as I am down to dust, but then I double back up to 44K when K4 > A6. A few shove get through and then 88 > AJ and I am back up to 100K.

I get to heads up against the same player I have been struggling against and I am behind in chips 167K to 102K but he no longer has the positional advantage which helps a lot. He is still shoving very wide but I now feel I have got the handle on him, I start to grind the chip lead back and JJ arrives just at the right time.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137702

The flop provided a sweat but the hand holds up and I finish the job a few hands later ftw.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137703

A bit of luck at the right time goes along way sometimes the day read

PLO HU = -$105
PLO 6-Max = -$21
$.50 180 manners = +$200

Seemed a good point to call it a day really.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 11, 2012, 15:44:54 PM
Did not do a lot of playing yesterday but did put in a short session playing two tables of PLO. Happy with how I played and think it was certainly much better than I have played recently:-

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137750

This is the first hand that is of interest. I raise from the cut off which is standard with this hand. The BB is a reg and has been three betting me and other plays quite a bit. He has been aggressive post flop but not too far out of line. I have seen him get 200BB in post flop with top and bottom pair on a semi connected board. Think I make a mistake in this hand though although it probably would not have changed the outcome of the hand.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137752

This is another hand I play poorly, it shows how much you have to consider reverse implied odds in this game, is bottom set ever going to be that good here?

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137753

This is another hand where this becomes a consideration although I make the required fold in this hand.

I did not play many hands badly though and won $95 playing 226 hands. My overall results for the weekend were:-

PLO HU = -$101
PLO 6 Max = +$74
180 Sit n go"s =+$144

For the Month of March

PLO HU = +$95
PLO 6-Max = +$128
180 Man sitngo"s = +$144
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 18, 2012, 16:32:43 PM
Meh, well that sucked. Managed to just dropped 4 buyins at PLO by playing crap. Not even going to post the hands as I don"t need people telling me what a bad idea calling all ins with bear aces on the flop is in this game especially when playing deep. Never mind at least sports results go well this weekend, Wales won the Grand Slam and Newport County made it to Wembley. So that will be a good weekend on 12th May.

Results this weekend

Hands Played: 202
Total Loss: $96.50
VP$IP: 47%
PFR: 35%

I do like the new APAT league structure as I don"t like the idea of playing until 3am on a Sunday. Hopefully I can put in a better performance than last week.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Santino67 on March 20, 2012, 00:06:08 AM
Haven"t bumped into you in the league yet Steve but lots of strange new usernames for me to figure out as I"m new to Stars. Hope you"re doing well mate, poker seems to be flowing recently  :) See you at tables sometime soon hopefully
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 23, 2012, 17:52:46 PM

Haven"t bumped into you in the league yet Steve but lots of strange new usernames for me to figure out as I"m new to Stars. Hope you"re doing well mate, poker seems to be flowing recently  :) See you at tables sometime soon hopefully

Stars username is 33teetwo33 - have not posted it before due to the fact I have posted quite a lot of thought patterns on here and that could be exploited (although why bother at $25nl I suppose). Not done too well in the league, been trying different strategy to see how they work, so far they don"t *lol*.

Hopefully I will be at some live events soon, have not played live since Vegas but think I am getting towards the stage where I can come back. The Cardiff event seems favorite.

You still playing the old PLO? Really like that game atm, gotta be played deep though. The 250bb games are the nuts.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 24, 2012, 13:56:03 PM
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
------

PLO 6-Max (inc Zoom) = +$14 (great hourly)
PLO Heads up = +$220
Tournaments = +$95

Total profit = $329
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on April 15, 2012, 14:16:11 PM
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.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: 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

Sure went well
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: cashman on April 15, 2012, 17:58:48 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


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
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on April 15, 2012, 20:41:40 PM
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
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on April 16, 2012, 15:41:35 PM
Was playing some PLO again today, played some Heads up and some 6-max deep stacked. In the 6-Max. The reason I like this game is you can pick up on opponents and exploit things more effectively than you can in holdem.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4227420

This hand is between me and two other players. I had been playing in position against the player to my right a fair bit. He was fairly loose and passive who tended to bet big whe he had the hand and small when he did not. He was seeing a lot of flops with a VP$IP of 70% over 132 hands. The original raiser was more aggressive but also fairly straight forward in how he played. I call with the intention of outplaying them on the flop should the chance present itself. The flop is pretty good for me anyway. When the player to my right bets 30c on the flop into a pot of $2.85 I am fairly sure he is weak. I call to see what the original raiser does and when he calls I can"t see him being that strong. The turn is an ace and when they both check all the signs say weakness, somebody could be on a flush draw but I have blockers to that and if they miss they are likely to check to me on the river. The ace is useful as it will allow me to check the river and beat the missed draws most of the time. If somebody does call me as the ace has made them two pair my flush outs are probably live as is my gutshot. I make the bet and as I expect they both fold.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4227427

This hand is a really good one to show how you can exploit situations and how important position is (it helps remember to not get involved when you are not in position). Here I am on the button and get raised from the cut off. I call and we get two other callers. The flop gives me a gutshot and some overcards and it checks to the raiser who min bet"s I think he is very weak but call to see what the other players do, they also call so they are not that strong either it seems. The turn gives me another gutshot draw and we again get a weak bet from the original raiser. Everybody on the table now looks weak. I call intending to bluff the river, a raise may be better here, I do expect at least one of the two behind to fold and am pretty sure they will not raised based on the play so far. They both fold which is fine. We again get the little bet on the river. I ignore it and raise to take the pot down.

These are just hands that are examples of why I like this game. I also played a little bit of heads up and won in 2 out of 3 games putting me a total of $103 up for the day. I am not going to do some work on some common spots in the HU game that I am playing to confirm the most profitable move in these spots, alot of people seem to get it wrong which again is a good thing.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: pokerpops on April 18, 2012, 09:05:55 AM

Was playing some PLO again today, played some Heads up and some 6-max deep stacked. In the 6-Max. The reason I like this game is you can pick up on opponents and exploit things more effectively than you can in holdem.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4227420

This hand is between me and two other players. I had been playing in position against the player to my right a fair bit. He was fairly loose and passive who tended to bet big whe he had the hand and small when he did not. He was seeing a lot of flops with a VP$IP of 70% over 132 hands. The original raiser was more aggressive but also fairly straight forward in how he played. I call with the intention of outplaying them on the flop should the chance present itself. The flop is pretty good for me anyway. When the player to my right bets 30c on the flop into a pot of $2.85 I am fairly sure he is weak. I call to see what the original raiser does and when he calls I can"t see him being that strong. The turn is an ace and when they both check all the signs say weakness, somebody could be on a flush draw but I have blockers to that and if they miss they are likely to check to me on the river. The ace is useful as it will allow me to check the river and beat the missed draws most of the time. If somebody does call me as the ace has made them two pair my flush outs are probably live as is my gutshot. I make the bet and as I expect they both fold.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4227427

This hand is a really good one to show how you can exploit situations and how important position is (it helps remember to not get involved when you are not in position). Here I am on the button and get raised from the cut off. I call and we get two other callers. The flop gives me a gutshot and some overcards and it checks to the raiser who min bet"s I think he is very weak but call to see what the other players do, they also call so they are not that strong either it seems. The turn gives me another gutshot draw and we again get a weak bet from the original raiser. Everybody on the table now looks weak. I call intending to bluff the river, a raise may be better here, I do expect at least one of the two behind to fold and am pretty sure they will not raised based on the play so far. They both fold which is fine. We again get the little bet on the river. I ignore it and raise to take the pot down.

These are just hands that are examples of why I like this game. I also played a little bit of heads up and won in 2 out of 3 games putting me a total of $103 up for the day. I am not going to do some work on some common spots in the HU game that I am playing to confirm the most profitable move in these spots, alot of people seem to get it wrong which again is a good thing.


i think you should :-)

I read your blog a lot and tend to not post much - to be fair I don"t post a lot here, primarily because I"m an infrequent APAT attendee and thus an unknown to most.

Kudos though on the work you"re doing on your game. I love the idea of omaha but I doubt I"ll ever find the commitment to learning enough about it to be able to play even the micro-stakes. Hell, holdem"s hard enough.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on April 18, 2012, 13:09:32 PM
Cheers David, not sure why I typed I am not going to as I obvious meant, I am going to. I really should proof read these things. I am reasonably happy with the adjustments I have made to my game recently and have had some good results as well, some people have been very helpful including Noble1 and TheSnapper (Mark and Brendan) both of whom should be given credit for all of the help they give to players on the Strategy boards. I do keep thinking I should contribute to those more but it takes time to put worthwhile posts together so major props to those who do it.

Had a good day yesterday and won $60 and am $15 up today, not huge amount but beats being down.

Here is a hand I am not to sure about, will probably put it on PHA but maybe you guy"s can make some suggestions. It"s Zoom poker playing against a 43/30 player who has a 3-bet of 25% I only have 55 hands on him though. Should I just be flatting the 3-bet pre here? If I flat what is my plan for the flop? As played what should i do on the flop?

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4231358

Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on April 18, 2012, 16:49:19 PM
This is a hand which is interesting and I thought it would be a good one to post on here and see what people in general thought of it. I think I play it badly.

It is Zoom Poker and The hand involves me, and two reasonably tight players. I am OTB and have a very good hand, it would obviously be better double suited but it is still really strong. I get an open from EP playing 100BB and I reraise it and then get a call from a player playing 250BB. This is the player I really want to play against in the hand, I have a great post flop and and position on another big stack. When the original raiser pots it I know he has aces. I don"t want the third player in the pot to fold as I want the pot to be three way so I flat call. It"s not impossible that the OOP player also has aces and if he does then he will probably want to get it in here and I can then get it in pre against then both. If he flats I can play him on good flops for me and get away from in position on good flops for me and get away on bad flops. He calls and the flop is not that great for me just giving me a bad straight draw (13 outs maybe). The bigger stack puts in a bet 1/3 of the pot which looks weakish to me. AA guy shoves and so I am now getting 5/1 on my call so I call looking to hit the straight (bad on a flushing board?).

The turn is a blank and he checks to me, I am happy to check behind and would have folded to a shove. The river completes my straight, he checks and I am fairly happy i have the best hand. The allin guy may have the nut flush but there is not much I can do about him now. Should I be value betting this river after he checks to me, I am inclined to say no as given the river card he could check K-T or a small flush but might well call a bet.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4231456

Should I just be getting it in preflop?
Should I fold on the flop to the bet?
Should I bet the river?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Paulie_D on April 18, 2012, 17:19:17 PM
Steve,

I haven"t partaken of Zoom yet but I disagree with the "very strong hand" statement...sure it has potential but is so easily dominated in so many ways....it"s single suited and VERY flop dependent.

You have to be VERY sure that he ONLY has aces. I have no problem with calling the original raiser"s pot bet but the re-pop seems a little too much in my opinion.

On the flop, you have the idiot end of the straight and no flush draw, this gets even worse on the turn with now two flush draws against you.

As played it worked for you (and I wouldn"t have played it any different post-flop) but this feels like you got the nice end of the stick rather than the smelly end.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on April 19, 2012, 07:34:17 AM
Good post as usual Paulie :-)

Flat calling with this hand on the button is perfectly OK but a 3-bet is better in my opinion. We can take the initiative in the pot and when he four bets we can near 100% define his hand and we can indeed be very sure he has aces. 4-bets are almost always AAxx especially when they are pot sized. We are still going to flop enough equity often enough to call. Having the betting lead and position in PLO is massive, much much more important than in unlimited holdem. So I can flop good and my hand is pretty disguised, again something that is much more common in this game. Also because I have position I can often represent something and take down a bigger pot than I would have if I had flat called. I actually think that preflop is fine. However I maybe should fold on the flop? But the pot odds are good, meh I got lucky. The flop is probably a fold but I was just thinking I have 13 outs which is incorrect. What do you think? Make sense? Load of nonsense :-)

I managed to lose $90 playing HU last night anyway, I was getting it in good but losing. Thats PLO for you though and I have run good recently so can"t complain. I am going to make a few posts in the Strategy section today. I keep saying I should contribute to that section but I never do. It"s a very under used part of the board imo. I am busy for the next two days so probably won"t play much poker. Will try and fit in a couple of the little 180 manners I like.

I have a few hands I do want to post but will stick them on the Strategy board to see how they go down over there.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Paulie_D on April 19, 2012, 10:04:57 AM

However I maybe should fold on the flop? But the pot odds are good, meh I got lucky. The flop is probably a fold but I was just thinking I have 13 outs which is incorrect. What do you think? Make sense? Load of nonsense :-)


Even though you"re probably not favourite on the flop, I"d still play it much like you did.

The $5 lead into a $20 pot screams (to me) some weakness. Even though the non-AA player he had decent overs he clearly didn"t like the flop THAT much. Playing it cool with those odds and just flatting the flop bet is fine.

After that it plays itself and, as it happens, it worked out for you.

My "issue", if you will, was with the description of your hand as "super strong" or similar. It"s pretty but very vulnerable and incredibly flop dependent. Not that I wouldn"t play it (I"m looser than a whore"s drawers at PLO) but absent flopping the stone cold nuts, I play it somewhat slower than you did.

Different styles obviously.

I"m keen to see more of your posts in the Strategy section...it"s been lacking a bit recently.

Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on April 20, 2012, 10:02:31 AM
I just had the worst 24 hours of poker I think I have ever had. At the beginning of yesterday I had $600~ sat in my Pokerstar"s account.  That is not down to $0 *lol*. I normally don"t even leave that much money on there and cash it into my poker account. That will be this month well and truly in negative figures then.

The thing is I am looking through the hands and I just can"t see I did much wrong. I was playing PLO HU which can be swingy at the best of times but 80% of the hands where I get the money in I am ahead, I just lose almost all of them. It started last night when I was playing a HU games again in which I dropped about $250. Two of those buyins were my fault but I am pretty confident I was not -EV in the game. After that I jumped into another game where I lost another $75. One of those was my own fault. So I was down $325 and probably should have called it a night but went on and played some more (I honestly thought I was playing pretty well). Then then managed to lose another $100 again mainly down to spots I could do nothing about I don"t think.

Decided to come back to it this morning and played a game against a player I know I have an edge on but every time I got it in with the best of it I was losing again. Strange game but never mind :-)

The thing I am slightly unhappy with is that normally I would have cashed the account down to $300 that way if anything happens to the account or I have a really bad day my liability is limited but I did not bother thinking I would do it at the end of the week.

I reloaded the account but probably best to give it a rest for today as I will end up tilted (although I don"t think that"s why I did badly). Just Skyped somebody about it and have been told it is fairly standard in those games and huge swings happen all the time anyway. A 24 Buy-in downswing is not fun though.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on May 01, 2012, 21:43:13 PM
Was bored last week and noticed that the SPT was coming to Cardiff. I tossed around the idea of playing it but just did not like the structure. If I am playing a £110 tournament I at least want to be able to have some room to play, that tournament does not give it to you.

After work on Friday I popped off to Les Croupiers anyway to see how the cash tables were playing. I thought that with the SPT there would be Sky Poker players and that should be +EV. I didn"t play that well, my seat was awful, and I should have got up a lot sooner than I did, I had a good local LAG to my Left and Darren Shallis to his left this is not a good spot and I was down to them both and probably should have been more so. The table was not as soft as I expected but still worth playing overall and I won £50, if I had been playing well it would have been more like £200 but I kept trying to invent spots that were not there. Live poker is simple, find a good hand and then keep betting until somebody raises. I was trying to make it as complex as possible when it is very easy.

Anyway after playing live for the first time since returning from Las Vegas last November and not being bored to death I am now probably ready to play a live tournament again, that SPT was such a poor structure though. I want to play a good structure, maybe I will find one in Swansea or Cardiff soon they don"t seem that common. Any suggestions?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: MintTrav on May 01, 2012, 23:16:14 PM

I want to play a good structure, maybe I will find one in Swansea or Cardiff soon they don"t seem that common. Any suggestions?


Here"s one I came across that you could try:     http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=11025.0
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Newportlad on May 03, 2012, 21:38:11 PM
Saturday night tourney at Les Croups.  £35+£5 for 10K starting stack and 25 min clock. All the levels as well.

Really good cheap tourney.

Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on May 04, 2012, 23:01:41 PM
Just reading through my previous posts on this forum as a result of a conversation with some non poker playing friends who were reading this thread. I first posted on the forum in 2007 but only made 8 posts before 2010 and did not make a single post in 2008.

The tone of them is very different to how I would expect a post on a poker forum from me to sound and I guess it shows how my feeling towards poker have changed over the last few years, even though in APAT events I have run ridiculously good, I sound far to happy and cheerful most of the time, pretty sure I am not really like that *lol*

I tried to buyin to the Welsh Event this week but some silly problem with my account on William Hill which was registered via some mentoring site years ago I cannot buy into tournaments with more than 1% of the money I have on the site. So to buy into an APAT require me to deposit about £8.2K  just to buy into one tournament then withdraw. Needless to say I won"t be doing that. I expect a seat will pop up on the seat exchange at some time they usually do.

I can"t win at poker at the moment, seem to have been doom switched by "Stars and cannot get a hand to hold up. Played for a couple of hours tonight twice got all-in preflop with AA (Hold'em) for 100+BB and lot both, ended up $60 down. Got all in with the nuts on the flop in PLO (hand straight and flush draw) and lost 250BB there, he had the nuts as well and hit back door flush draw, so lost $35 there. Ended session down $90.

Will put 50p in the tin later :-)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on May 05, 2012, 14:53:40 PM
Bored with playing cash again at the moment, not playing too bad but I am not feeling so confident at present. That"s fine as my tournament game is much better at the moment. I am therefore going to play a run for 100 $4.50"s on Pokerstar"s got the first batch of 3 running now.

Maybe it is time to mix a bit of online poker back in as well, going to play the APAT at Les Croupiers assuming I do get a seat. Maybe I will finally take Darren"s advice and play the Saturday night tournament at Les Croups as well.

I am off to Wembley next weekend to watch Newport County Vs York in the final of the FA Trophy. Using it as an excuse for a long weekend at the West End of London so will be going down on Friday and spending the night in London. I honestly think County are a good bet to beat York as they are the outsiders but in the last couple of months beat York at home and were unlucky to only get a draw away from home. York also have to worry about the playoffs whilst County have been able to prepare for the final since the end of the league fixtures. County will be outsiders but are at full strength and have been strong in the form league in the second half of the season.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on May 10, 2012, 09:15:26 AM
RIGHT. I am officially excited now. I have booked a long weekend off work and tomorrow I am heading up to London for a weekend there which will include a trip to Wembley to see Newport County try and win the FA Trophy against York. I really like the County"s chances, especially with York distracted by the playoff final Vs Luton. I will be placing a bet of £50 on them just to make it even more exciting. 12/5 Looks too good to me I can"t believe County don"t win this game one time in three.

http://sports.williamhill.com/bet/en-gb/betting/t/924/English-FA-Trophy.html

Also spending the afternoon/evening in various West End establishments will be great. I love visiting London. Game of poker arranged on the train also.

In poker I have played some of the 100 180 manners I was planning on playing the results are not inspiring:-

Total game = 7
Total buyins = $31.50
Total cashes = $8.85

Going to play another 4 today before getting ready for tomorrow.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfgGhSWb06o
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Santino67 on May 17, 2012, 13:05:31 PM
Glad you got a seat reserved for Cardiff mate, would"ve been very strange without you
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Paulie_D on May 17, 2012, 14:42:49 PM

Glad you got a seat reserved for Cardiff mate, would"ve been very strange without you


This...

Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on May 17, 2012, 20:02:59 PM
Cheers Grant and Paulie

I was pretty much coming anyway if I had a seat or not but if I am going to be there might as well play I guess. See if I can last longer than the 20 minutes I managed in the event last year :-)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on May 18, 2012, 17:01:44 PM
Why does the forum think I posted the last post on here last night, sure it was earlier today ???

Anyway I am now looking forward to playing the APAT again. Hopefully it will be well attended I am very out of touch with what is going on as I have stepped back from live poker for quite a while and not been playing much online either. For a while I felt I would prefer to stick pins in myself than play live poker but that has passed for now.

I finally managed to show a profit in the $4.50"s I am playing on "Stars current state of play is

Played: 12 (volume has been really poor)
Cashed in: 2
Total Buyin Spent: $54
Total prizes: $107
Total profit: $53

My sharkscope (33teetwo33) shows I have an ROI on those things of about 20% - is that good for those games does anybody know? I kind of assume it"s pretty good but am not too sure as the fields are not really very tough.

Poker this year and towards the end of last has been really strange. I am doing well in MTT"s and not too bad in Heads Up cash but 6-max cash which was always what I was really good at I seem to have slipped at a bit. I have started playing PLO a lot more than hold"em as it is a better game, especially for cash. I am still a few hundred up for the year overall so not moaning but not sure why the format I would expect to do best in is suddenly the one I am struggling with.

I did make 4 buyin"s at zoom earlier today so that helps as well but still about 8 buyins (just over) down on the year which is annoying me as online cash is the only format I really care too much about and is the only format I am down at. I am up at live cash (1 session) and online MTT"s, have not played any live MTT"s as yet.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on May 18, 2012, 17:32:29 PM
Good to see you getting back into APAT's Steve fella. Hope that this means you are going to make a showing in Nottingham in August please thankyou!!!!
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on May 18, 2012, 18:11:09 PM

Good to see you getting back into APAT's Steve fella. Hope that this means you are going to make a showing in Nottingham in August please thankyou!!!!

Yeah, DTD is pretty much nailed on. Not sure what I will play but will be there, time off work is confirmed and everything.

I am thinking about Cork as well, depends on work though to a certain extent, hopefully not too busy in July so may well be OK. You in Wales next weekend mate?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on May 18, 2012, 18:18:52 PM


Good to see you getting back into APAT's Steve fella. Hope that this means you are going to make a showing in Nottingham in August please thankyou!!!!

Yeah, DTD is pretty much nailed on. Not sure what I will play but will be there, time off work is confirmed and everything.

I am thinking about Cork as well, depends on work though to a certain extent, hopefully not too busy in July so may well be OK. You in Wales next weekend mate?


no i will be working that one, DTD will be my next one, i am there for the whole thing, gonna try and play in as  much as possible though, will be goo to see you back at an APAT table again though :)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on May 20, 2012, 19:18:25 PM
**The Following Post has Nothing to do with Poker

I quite like watching football. I watched the Champions League final last night, it was a poor game but I enjoyed it due to the occasion. I like watching the FA cup final in the pub. I enjoyed the climax to this season between Man City and Man Utd. Football is a good thing which creates enjoyable times.

Way back in the early and mid-nineties I lived in Newport (where I was born) and was a Newport County fan. Home and away games were the best days out even though there were only about 100 of us. Team like Liverpool take 20 coaches to away games that must be quite a rush for those Liverpool fans. Same goes for Man Utd and Arsenal. Anyway a lot of the friends I went to the games with moved away and lost interest and as you often do I lost touch with a lot of the friends I knew when I was in college.

This led to me losing a lot of the interest in County. I still went to the odd game but it was pretty rare by comparison, still watched for their results and where they were in the table, but it did not have the same feeling of seeing the same faces week after week and getting to know the people there, you all knew you all really cared and were all "in it together". As it happened I at that time knew a lot of people who were football fans, but they were all Liverpool and Man Utd fans. I did not really understand this but never really bothered arguing about it as it seemed pointless at that time as I didn"t care what they called themselves.

A few times I was asked who I supported. I usually just said nobody really as I did not consider myself to be a proper fan at that time. I did mention County a few times and the reason I did not think of myself as a proper fan but this did not seem to be considered an answer. People seemed to have a hard time excepting this for some reason and it came up one day that I should say who I supported in the premiership. Well that was easy enough, my favorite team in the Premiership is Newcastle. This seemed easy enough for everybody to accept and I was labeled a Newcastle fan. Again I just accepted this as I could not see the problem with it. I was actually never that bothered if they won or lost and made no special effort to check their results.

A few years back a mate of mine invited me to a County game again, I went quite happily as I had not been to a game for a while and Newport were doing quite well in the Blue Square South. I went to a few games and Newport won the Blue Square South and went into the Conference. At this time one of the guy"s who I work with was also a Newport fan so I was talking to him about them quite a bit and I knew some of my friends were going to game regular. I quite frequently visit Newport at weekends as my Mother and my sisters family still live their so I got into the habit of going to the game again and the new social club was also a good reason to turn up, it made the experience worth it again. Now we had the Internet and forums as well. So I again became what I consider a proper County fan.

So my question is how can Liverpool, Man Utd, Chelsea and Arsenal fans really call themselves as fans. There is much more involved in being a fan of a club than just watching for results. I was never a Newcastle fan, but I guess I was as much a Newcastle fan as they were fans of their clubs.

None of them are likely to read this but hey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYPWwuRFdjw
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on May 26, 2012, 23:59:41 PM
So today was APAT Cardiff. It"s strange it really didn"t feel like an APAT during the build up. I did not need to go anywhere or worry about hotels or anything of that sort. With one of these it always feels like there should be a story for the Friday night but there was not. I did pop into the casino on Friday and caught up with Asa and Sharon but it was not the often experienced full on APAT Friday night. No problem though.

I arrived at the casino this afternoon with a little time to spare and found Steve Redfern and Richard Baker. Grant and the Scots boys arrived not long after this. My table was not a good one in terms of the strength of the players on it, Asa, Tony Trippier and Ben Young were all on it. JP Round joined it later. The table was actually good fun though and I actually felt pretty comfortable on it. I played some hands well and some hands badly but managed to get my stack up to about 30K. Then the table got broken and I got moved to another table with Sharon and Frank Ballie on it.

I folded the first few hands, then got AJ so raised, Sharon 3-bet me so I folded. Next hand I get TT Sharon I again raise and Sharon shoves on me for the rest of my chips. I could fold and still have about 22K at 500/1000. mm think I can find a fold here but just felt like this was a call. I might have got her range wrong here but I felt this was a play she could make with AK and some smaller pairs as the raise was so big it was confusing. She shows me AA and that was gg game. I think she played it well as the shove looked exactly like AK or maybe a hand like JJ or 99. The previous hand made me think this was more than likely the case. It might well have been a bad call, we all make them sometimes, I am reasonably happy with the logic behind it although am wondering if I calculated her range wrongly as I never gave AA a thought.

After I was out I went and ordered food, spoke to a few of the other players, including the APAT legend that is Paul Mcguniness, but it did not really feel the same as normal (it was just like a normal Cardiff tournament). I left at about 10:30 and drove home. Looking forward to DTD in October (and maybe Cork) as they will be more like the real thing.

Still an enjoyable day overall, I think I will actually fade the PLO tomorrow in favour of trying to contribute to another Welsh win in the league.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on May 27, 2012, 18:46:40 PM
Have investigated my exit hand from last night a bit and have concluded that my call with TT was probably incorrect. To make the call a good one I have to have Sharon on a range of AQ+ and 88+ which does not feel right, mind you I did not think she would have AA or KK there which is why it is a good play.

Been thinking about my poker lately and I have concluded that recently I have not been playing very well at cash. not sure why, I still know what I should do but seem to go against my instinct a lot. I think I have run bad this year including one weird downswing which involved losing 24 buyins in about 48 hours (gotta love PLO). Will work on putting that right but might give cash a break for a while, it has been my main game for the last 6 years and does not owe me anything but recently I have been getting better results in tournaments. This is probably mainly because Pokerstars has a lot if fish in tournaments but the cash games are shark infested, or that is how it seems anyway.

The money is never really going to be relevant unless I play a sat and bink a decent score but it might be a bit more interesting than grinding cash

So I am going to carry on playing the little $4.50 tournaments and maybe mix in some $10"s as well and see how I do in those.

Following this weekend I might go to Cork in July if factors allow me too (getting the mon/Fri off work being the main one, but that should be OK). It was good to catch up with the APAT people and a proper APAT weekend (ie one that does not involve living on 30 mins from the venue) sound like a good idea.

Anyway have to play some poker tonight as Wales need a good turnout to try and go top of the regional league so the schedule will be something like this

APAT Online National League (stars)
$4.50 SitnGo #1 (Stars)
$4.50 Sitngo #2 (Stars)
Blonde Bash Sat (Dusk Till Dawn)

Most likely just leave it as that as working in the morning.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on May 29, 2012, 21:12:38 PM
Forgot to update yesterday with the results of my efforts on Sunday. I lasted nearly and hour in the league game and cashed for £0 in the sitngo"s and didn"t bink the Blonde Bash Sat. So it was all quite standard really :-)

I really want to play Cork at the moment but I am not able to book the time off work until next week annoyingly this should not be a problem though. I just discovered my passport has expired too! (wp me). I don"t need one to go to Cork do I? Anybody know for sure, I don"t trust google.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Paulie_D on May 29, 2012, 21:16:16 PM


I really want to play Cork at the moment but I am not able to book the time off work until next week annoyingly this should not be a problem though. I just discovered my passport has expired too! (wp me). I don"t need one to go to Cork do I? Anybody know for sure, I don"t trust google.


Technically no, or at least so I believe but in real life the UK does not have an official ID Card.

Also, most airlines (certainly Ryanair) will not let you fly unless you can produce one.

Better pay for the urgent service.

Quote

It is each passenger"s personal responsibility to ensure that he or she has valid travel documentation which meets the requirements of Ryanair, immigration and other authorities at every destination. Please also note that

A valid travel document is required by all passengers travelling on Ryanair flights (including infants)

For travel to Morocco - a valid passport is required.  N.B. a EU National Identity Card is only accepted if a group of more than 8 passengers are travelling on a travel agency organised tour and hold an official hotel voucher approved by Moroccan Immigration.

A passport for travel outside the EEA (European Economic Area) must be valid for period of intended stay

If a visa is applicable any children/infants must be travelling with the adult named on a visa vignette
In order to ensure compliance, passengers should carry a valid passport (and visa if applicable) or EU/EEA government issued national identification card on all journeys. Any fines, penalties, payments or expenditures incurred as a result of breach of these requirements shall be paid by or charged to you.

Ryanair does NOT accept driver licences, residence cards, family books, seaman books, a police report (issued in the event of travel document loss/theft), military ID cards etc. Expired or damaged forms of photo-id will not be accepted on any flight.

Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: duke3016 on May 29, 2012, 21:43:56 PM
Officially you don"t need one as our esteemed travel guru says, but most airlines demand it. The Boat however does not, but thats not really a help. Urgent service for the win.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on May 29, 2012, 21:50:26 PM
Urgent Service it is then.

Should really have avoided this issue based on the below post


I have just survived a heart attack.

As some of you might know I kinda booked this trip up at not quite the last minute but I wasn"t exactly well prepared. One issue I did come across is that my passport was due to expire in January. I quickly checked with Virgin Atlantic and was told this was no problem as long it it was valid for the time I was actually in the USA. I therefore happily booked up and forgot all about it.

So I am on the train today and am happily reading through some threads on the forum. I happen to click on a post by Paulie (who knows about things like this) which states that you need a passport with six months left on it. I get kinda worried for about 10 minutes until I check the government site below

http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/travel-advice-by-country/north-central-america/united-states?ta=entryRequirements&pg=4

Which confirms all is OK. That was nearly a legendary fail, to say I would have been unhappy is an understatement.

Anyway I have just gone through Hereford and am speeding into the Midlands towards Manchester. Not long now :-)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 01, 2012, 19:43:28 PM
Not doing anything this weekend, no football to go to and no poker to play.

I am going to play online a bit going to play at least 10 of the 180 manners. Volume is not great I know but only playing 2 at once currently. Will also play the APAT league game on Sunday of course.

Next weekend is the Blonde Bash which will hopefully be fun.

Results on the sit n go"s last month were

Played: 19
Profit: $21.50

Want to try and play twice that many this month without playing too many tables.

I lost at cash again which is really annoying as I know I should do better but keep making bad plays for no real reason.

Also best get my passport sorted for Ireland.

In the non-poker world, Newport County got a new ground. They will be sharing with The Newport Gwent Dragons. Unsure how I feel about that as I feel we should have our own ground, the fans have reacted very positively though so hopefully it will be a positive thing
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 03, 2012, 11:32:27 AM
Tournaments suck :-)

So far this month I have played the following

7 x $4.50"s
1 x Silverstar VIP Freeroll
1 x $3.30 PLO
1 x $11

Out of all of those I have cashed for $9 in total so I am down $36.80 (although the $11 was on one of my Big $11 token of which I have loads). So the actual total loss on tournaments is $25.80

I have not really run that well and have struggled to get going in a lot of them and seem to be consistently running into the tops of people ranges.

I have played some PLO cash ($10 Zoom) and am winning at that, up $58 over 959 hands this month which is fine. I of course then went and played a HU game and lost $50 when my AAxx got beat by a wrap, all-in preflop on what was almost an exact 50/50 spot (actually according to Odds Oracle I was 49% and he was 51%). I have been guilty of doing this recently. I win then try to spin up what I win, lose it and end up back to where I started. This month just going to try and book a winning month online. Will play some Zoom and find some hands to put in the strategy section today as I have not done so for a while.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 03, 2012, 18:21:15 PM
Played a little bit of NLHE cash today as I have not played a lot recently. I wanted to try and play a bit more aggressive and play more hands. Played micro stakes Zoom for a couple of hours and ran well.

Overall stats for the session were as below


Hands:356
VP$IP:30.06%
PFR:21.07%
3-Bet:8.63%
Profit:$50.16


I was only about +$30 in all in EV though so definitely was running good. Since playing a plot of PLO though I do think I have vastly improved my post flop game, don"t think it was that bad before but because PLO forces you to play flops properly you get to recognize things strength and weakness better. My red line looks a lot better than normal. Some of the hands I played.

This is probably an example of a hand I played badly and the sort of thing I just have to get right if I want to alter the play style

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4343925

I also made $20 at PLO which was nice but then lost $20 trying to play PLO8, maybe I should spend some time trying to figure that game out before trying to play it.

Played 2 $4.50"s did not cash in either of them Current stats on them are:-


Played:9
Cashed:0
Total Loss$40.50
ROI0%


Will play two more tonight whilst playing the league game.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 03, 2012, 21:39:22 PM
Nearly broke my run of non cashes but then this happened on the bubble

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4345351
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 05, 2012, 17:37:30 PM
Last night I was bored so decided to play poker and wanted to make some hands for the Strategy board. This is a leak as being bored is not a good reason to play. I also didn"t really get any hands for the board. This hand happened pretty early on.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4348531

Don"t like how I played it obviously The flop shove is a great move if the pot is heads up and gets a lot of folds but 4-way it is just not very good.

This one is not great either http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4348532

Anyway the stats for the session were

Hands: 314
Profit: $4.80
VP$IP: 41.4%
PFR: 29.3%
3-Bet: 10.38%

Looking forward to the Blonde Bash this weekend going up on the Friday, going to have to come back on the Sunday but it should be fun.

EDIT: Hang on didn"t we have one of these a couple of months back?

http://www.pokercircuit.com/index.php/pokerstars-announce-new-micromillions-schedule/
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 06, 2012, 06:39:08 AM
Completely unable to sleep last night for some reason, still not tried now. Anyway thought I may as well get up and play some poker, this might also be a leak. For some reason I seem to be playing quite well at cash currently. I played 149 hands with the following being of interest

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4349119

This is more of a cooler than anything else. When I reviewed it I was wondering if I could get away from it but I think it is silly to think I ever could when I flop the full house 68BB deep. If he had had 300BB then it become a more interesting problem. I should be good enough to get away in that spot without getting stacked. I would lose more though. I have to call if he pots the flop and the turn. If he then pots the river it"s interesting, not sure I could fold although I probably should. This is the only hand I had played with this opponent.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4349120

This one is far more interesting as it is against a Zoom regular. He is a decent player for this level who will sometimes call a cbet and fold on the turn with a marginal hand (top pair type hand). He probably views me as aggressive, does not lay down hands that easily and knows that a 3-bet does not just mean AA or KK. Importantly in this hand I would expect him to know I almost never check the turn with a good hand. I could have AA or KK here but I never have QQ or a 5 (from his point of view) and there are no real draws for me to have. I make a mistake by betting the river as it is a pretty obvious check/fold when that card hit"s as the only draw he could have was the flush draw and if he had any sort of hand the only hand he can put me on that beats him is JJ. So this hand is a mistake.

There is one hand I played I am really not sure what the best option is even after reviewing it. I think it is a difficult one to be honest. It may well depend on the players but it is hard to get a good read in Zoom, although if you do review sessions and make notes on players it is a great advantage as most players are not going to have this.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=58014.0

Overall stats for the session were as follows

Hands: 149
VP$IP: 36.24%
PFR: 22.15
3Bet: 6.35%
Profit: $25.05

One thing I think I have improved recently is my non showdown winnings. My red line is now consistently in the positive which it never was before so I am picking better spots to steal pots and playing better again the players.

I have to stop playing at the wrong time though if I want to get my game back to the level it should be at. Both of the sessions I have played in the last two days were not played because I felt like playing or because I thought it was a good time to play but simply because I wanted something to do. Will try and stop that as it is really bad and most be -EV long term I would think.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 16, 2012, 18:14:50 PM
Quick update on this had not had much time to keep it up to date.

Running pretty bad at the moment at the pokers but not losing money whilst doing it which is obviously how I like it. I THINK I am playing quite well. Its not alway easy to tell.

On Pokerstars I am down playing PLO cash this month by $50. I was doing well until hit a bad run and tilted off 3 extra buyins so will gave myself a stern telling off for that. I do that way too often, it"s down to not wanting to have a losing session and trying to play "just a little bit longer" to get even. I have said it before if I could just get that out of my game I would be far more profitable as a cash player.

I am $70 up at NLHE cash and very happy with my game which I have been working hard on this year and I am playing so much better on the turn and river now and making much better plays against certain players. Playing PLO has helped a lot with that. My red line has improved a huge amount and is now usually positive after a session.

I have manged to lose $103.50 at the $4.50"s by failing to cash in 23 straight. But a nice run in the Sunday Storm and the Bigger $11 last Sunday plus a couple of little cashes in the VIP freerolls has put me $325 up in other online tournaments this month.

So overall I am doing quite well.

Right I am off to win the Silverstar freeroll and then to draw blanks in another 6474564658 $4.50 180 manners :-)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 19, 2012, 18:23:14 PM
Well I didn"t win the Silverstar freeroll but I did cash. I bubbled another 180 manner, then I cash in two tournaments on Sunday night, the $3.30 at 19:00 and the APAT league event. In a massive turn up it seems there is a downside to being Welsh. I scored 39 points in the league which would be enough to get top 3 in any other team. Where did I finish in the Welsh team? 7th :-)

I also won $40 at Zoom and £100 on Skypoker cash tables over the weekend, so this is all good. I have some good notes and stats on the Zoom regs now and seem to have a good read on the tables. That puts me back in profit for the year on online cash games at least (I am $0.57 up *lol* and £100 up). However in online tournaments I am now $634.23 up so happy enough with that. Live I am £60 up in cash (1 session) and £122.50 down at live tournaments (2 tournaments). Will post some hands in the Strategy section at some time this week.

I also want to try my hand at some sports betting, I have seen some writing from some people who have done quite well at it but I have never really been very good at it. If I start with 500 points I wonder what I can get to by the end of the year (smart money is on 0).

Today I like 5 points on England to beat Ukraine @ 2.06 (Betfair) so that is going to be my first bet on this

I even started a thread on this http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=11395.0 would be good as the Sports section does not get a lot of traffic these days.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 20, 2012, 17:55:32 PM
I won said bet unfortunately, stupid England ball was clearly over the line and who cares about offside :-).

New Balance is 505 points.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 21, 2012, 17:54:37 PM
5 points on Portugal @ 1.72 (Betfair) might look short but I just can"t see Portugal not winning tonight
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on June 21, 2012, 20:46:28 PM
Rodders my old bean, how the devil are ya?

Decided to play some 180 man $2.50"s on stars tonight (played 2, one 4th place for $32 so far, 24th in the other one)

Any advice? What is expected cashing rates n ROI n stuff?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 21, 2012, 22:26:30 PM

Rodders my old bean, how the devil are ya?

Decided to play some 180 man $2.50"s on stars tonight (played 2, one 4th place for $32 so far, 24th in the other one)

Any advice? What is expected cashing rates n ROI n stuff?

Well they are a long term proposition but you should be able to crush these. Sharkscope says me ROI is 19% (Pokerstars name is 33teetwo33). I have tracked these from the start of the year and Poker Tracker tells me I am only 5% ROI on $4.50 180 manners this year but I have run/played badly in them lately.

Games: 73
ITM: 5
ROI: 5%
Total Buyin: $328.50
Total winnings: $346.17

I normally play the non turbos. The traffic is not as good but I only play about 4 tables of them so it is not too much of an issue. If you have a good post flop game (which I would say you do) then it is worth seeing a few more flops and playing a bit more aggressive as you will easily see the spots where you can pick up the pots and gain some chips early on most of the time. Don"t try anything to elaborate though most people play their hands face up. I would not usually bluff too much but (for example) if somebody checks to you three times then you can bet the river and be confident of picking up the pot. This is just an example of where you can pick up a pot I know I don"t need to teach you to suck eggs and you already know how to spot this kind of thing. If you prefer you can just play very tight early on, this strategy works as well but I would favour the other way which I reckon would be more your style anyway.

You can do this and be pretty successful until the antes come in. Then you have to be nicking pots. Most people fold quite easily and you can make little raises and pick up pots really cheaply often showing a profit by picking up only half the pots you try too, realistically you should do a lot better than that as people generally play too tight at this stage (ie they have the classic back to front strategy). Min raises will often be enough, so you are basically risking 500 chips (at 125/250) to win more than 500 chips (625 at a full table with the antes and blinds) in a situation where the bet works more than half the time so it is really +cEV. You can have a loose range in LP as you will win the pot uncontested so often.

As times goes on and stacks get shallower look for people who are doing the same as you (my HUD does this for me) and you can exploit the fact they are trying to pick up pots by 3-bet shoving light and find really profitable spots. Obviously it is best to do this from the blinds and if you have a chance to increase your stack by about 20% then it"s worth having a look to see if it is profitable to 3-bet shove by checking your opponents PFR percentage, ideally in line with recent levels of play as often players are raising more pots late on than early (as you should be).

As you get to the money and the final table you start to get deeper stacked again sometimes and this means you can often find really good spots to 3-bet light and pick up more chips. People fold to 3-bets too easily and you don"t even have to 3-bet that big. Even if you get called a c-bet will often win the pot and you can really chip up this way.

You are still always going to need to win a couple of big flips to win one of them but this is a basic outline of the best way to play them in my mind. Make sure you are happy with shoving and calling ranges in the various spots you will get and you can expect to do very well.

If you want to make some notes look for the normal stuff, bet sizing tells and how players react to certain boards, how they play their draws etc. Will increase you edge a bit.

I would add I am no expert in these things and there are far better players than me about. Still fairly confident in the above though.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on June 22, 2012, 18:02:19 PM
Cracking post as always Steve fella :)

My first impressions.... early doors is mental, middle bit slows a bit, then people need to know their shoving ranges (which i still struggle with) Its not the most skillfull of games and you HAVE to run good in the early parts of it due to it being a turbo. Mildly tilting but i shall try and stick at it!
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 22, 2012, 18:32:54 PM

Cracking post as always Steve fella :)

My first impressions.... early doors is mental, middle bit slows a bit, then people need to know their shoving ranges (which i still struggle with) Its not the most skillfull of games and you HAVE to run good in the early parts of it due to it being a turbo. Mildly tilting but i shall try and stick at it!

Any reason you don"t just play the non turbos. You do still need early run good but it becomes less important. I might try some of the turbos this weekend as I have not a lot to do. I wish the football season would start.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on June 22, 2012, 18:54:15 PM
There is no $2.50 non turbos lol!
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 22, 2012, 22:26:32 PM

There is no $2.50 non turbos lol!

I know

There are $4.50 non turbos though, still cheap enough and I think more +EV
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 23, 2012, 09:55:35 AM
I now have 508 points on my betting experiment. Although looking back maybe the Portugal bet was not the best one although I am happy the England bet was good.

Today I am going 5 points on Vettel to get pole @ 3 on Betfair
1 point on Rosberg to win the European GP at 17

Today also looks like a good day to break my bad run in the 180 manners so gonna reg for a few of those as well. Probably play a bit of zoom as I still need to get a few more FPP this month.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 23, 2012, 14:42:03 PM
Got the FPP I needed this morning but broke even (very slightly up by 90c) after doing my very best yoyo impression. Got unlucky, then got really lucky so likely to be a fair result. Just playing the $3.30 Saturday Micro at the moment. and after nearly two hours have starting stack.

Vettel won me my bet so I am now on 516 points with the Rosberg bet open, I will try and find an opportunity to lay that tomorrow.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 24, 2012, 12:14:06 PM
Will be playing a session today. Will do a better one next weekend as I don"t have to work next Monday but have to be in the office for 7:30am tomorrow so want to be done by 11pm tonight really. So just a small session:-

12:30 The Hotter $4.40
12:35 $4.40 PL Omaha
14:00 The Bigger $5.50
16:00 The Bigger $8.80

Probably adding in some $4.50s
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 24, 2012, 19:33:58 PM
current points 516

2 points on Italy to beat England @ 2.96 - Betfair
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on July 01, 2012, 12:51:50 PM
514 Points on my Betting plan.

Poker

Lost $40 at cash in the month of June only played about 3000 hands though so I will live with that. Down $26 in PLO and $14 in NLHE. Not playing cash very well at the moment but will probably spend some time looking at it and should put it right quickly enough.

Made a bit of a come back in the $4.50"s at the end of the month but still ended up down for the month on them by $26 over 33 tournaments but that after a run of not cashing in the first 24 and being down $108 on them.

I actually played 34 other tournaments and won $317 in them which saved the month a bit.

I was down $17.58 in the $2.50 turbo"s, only played 9 and min cashed once.

The total for the month was $233.42 in profit. This month I want to do 6000 cash hands across NLHE and PLO. I want to play 60 $4.50"s. I will also try to post some hands in the Strategy section and link them from here.

Will do a Sunday schedule today and update on The Rail Thread
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on July 02, 2012, 08:37:55 AM
Opening Balance 514 Points

The Open Championship

1pt Lee Westwood @ 16.5 on Betfair
1pt Rory McIlroy @ 18 on Betfair

Closing Balance 512 Points
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on July 03, 2012, 12:08:10 PM
2 points Vettel to win British GP @ 3.95 on Betfair

Closing Balance = 510 points
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on July 14, 2012, 18:12:05 PM
Mid moth update on how I am doing on the pokers this month.

Cash

Hands: 3390
Total Loss: $45.20
Total Allin EV: -$55
BB/100: -6.67
VP$IP: 30.4%
PFR: 18.55%

So not the best month in Cash. The fact I lost $80 in my first day playing has not helped. I have played some hands badly though so I can"t really complain.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4437326

This is an example, a tight player 3-bets here and I am fairly sure he has a big pair. Don"t mind my call preflop as I SHOULD be able to play better as I have the button as well after the flop. Once he fires the full pot he is never folding though so I am not supposed to shove here as I am about a 35% underdog. No real reason for this play just a bad play on my part.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4437328

This one on the other hand is probably a cooler. Does anybody think I can get away from this kind of hand?

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/import.php?error=1&reference=725687137

This one may or may not be an error, I probably should reship preflop here. I pretty much know the shortstack has AA and know it"s really unlikely the caller does so I should be reshoving my KK I think.

Tournaments (MTT"s)

Have played a few more this month a total of 25 tournaments and I am up $35.94. Actualy it would be more than that as the Sunday Storm and Bigger $11 I played were played on tickets. I did qualify for the million one Sunday but got unlucky when I Got it allin pre for a 30K pot but lost to QQ. Was a long way from the money anyway. Also had a good run in the Storm.

I just fired up Poker Tracker and Stars looked at it and thought I really can"t be bothered tonight what shall I do. I was about to toss a coin between going to the pub and meet some of the guys after work or go to Newport to the new Newport County club, when I had the idea of going to the casino. Hmm been a while since I felt like doing that but yeah OK, obv not going near Aspers so it will mean a drive to Cardiff for the Les Croupier deep stack. It will be full of live players so I will most likely win which is a bonus :-)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: KarmaDope on July 15, 2012, 00:46:52 AM
1st hand PLEASE fold flop. You have top pair with no redraws and a bare non-nut backdoor runner runner flush.

2nd hand is a cooler.

3rd hand we actually can"t see - it uploaded wrong!

Oh, and I don"t play Omaha, but 30/18 seems to be a bit fishy to me. You call too much!
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on July 15, 2012, 13:44:36 PM
Played live last night
[ ] Won

Quite good though may well do it again some time before 2013 :-)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on July 22, 2012, 13:02:59 PM
Playing a little schedule today as I am off work tomorrow. Work gave me 8 bottles of London Pride so might have one or two of those whilst I am playing (would be rude not to use them).

I am planning on playing:-

14:00 - Bigger $5.50
16:00 - Bigger $8.80
17:00 - NLHE $3.30
18:00 - NLHE $5.50
18:30 - $11 Sunday Storm (MicroMillions Edition)
19:00 - Bigger $11
19:30 - Micro Millions Main event $1M Gtd

Should be good, I thought a few people would be playing today with the micro main event being on. Anybody want a mirror prop? We can adjust the schedule for it.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 07, 2012, 19:13:39 PM

Please pass on good luck to Darren Shallis from all the Rileys boy"s


Well that was a waste of a post *lol* he ended up getting half the chips and losing. Poker was easy then though ;-).

Since then I have made 999 more post including this one which makes this my 1000th post. Some of the posts have been pointless, hopefully some have been useful to some people at least. I will make more because I like the forum. The strategy section is a great part of the forum and I hope I contribute to that part of the forum in a positive way. This diary is not too interesting when I am not playing much poker but people seem to read the thing for some reason. It"s good for keep in touch with people who I like but don"t get to see that often. I am actually looking forward to the next 6 months as there are 5 event"s I am able to attend so will be able to catch up with a lot of people who I mainly have interacted with on here lately.

I read a lot of the diaries on here and it is good to see what is happening to the apaters in their real life situations. I say that because when you go to an apat it is often like real life goes on hold whilst we do the apat thing. The fact you don"t see each other that often make it that much better. Currently looking forward to seeing everybody again at DTD. When are people getting there?

Glasgow also sounds like it could be great really want to go to that one.

I am currently taking a break from poker in order to be fresh for the ECOAP. I hope that lead to a good performance. I am playing the six max, the main and the Omaha, currently planning on getting up to Nottingham on Saturday, not sure if driving or catching the train. The other option is to get up there on the Friday which does have some appeal depending on who will be there at that point.

Looking forward also to (hopefully) playing the next 5 events over the rest of this year and making a final table. To do that I will need to perform really well and be 100%, the competition is as tough as ever.

<<< Platinum Member
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: technolog on August 07, 2012, 19:21:33 PM
Congratulations on the 1000th post Rodders! See you in Notts on the Sunday.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on August 07, 2012, 19:26:57 PM
At the risk of making you come on Saturday... I will be there Friday night. Beeeeeeeeeeeeers!!!
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Laxie on August 07, 2012, 19:45:39 PM
Congrats on the grand and see ya in Notts!  {{{hugs}}}
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 07, 2012, 19:59:14 PM

At the risk of making you come on Saturday... I will be there Friday night. Beeeeeeeeeeeeers!!!

Oh FFS, now I gotta come up on the Friday, I assume Matt, Phil, Brian etc etc are also there? What you doing the Friday night, they ain"t for Poker? Will sort it with work tomorrow. Will need to book an extra night at hotel also.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on August 07, 2012, 20:27:31 PM
I think Phil is, my brother is a no as he can"t get time off work for the weekend :( Brian is looking at coming down but just for the main event I think :( get it done tho, I am up for whatever as long as I can have a beer :)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: amcgrath1uk on August 07, 2012, 22:22:18 PM
Congrats on the 1000th post fella. Best of luck in Notts, as unfortunately I have no chance of getting time off for it. I"m a definite for Glasgow though :)

Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: HOLDorFOLD on August 08, 2012, 01:45:21 AM


At the risk of making you come on Saturday... I will be there Friday night. Beeeeeeeeeeeeers!!!

Oh FFS, now I gotta come up on the Friday, I assume Matt, Phil, Brian etc etc are also there? What you doing the Friday night, they ain"t for Poker? Will sort it with work tomorrow. Will need to book an extra night at hotel also.


You know it makes sense ;-)      Unlike Bolton, there will be no major puddles to avoid ... avoiding Stuart though might be more of a problem  ;D

Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: duke3016 on August 08, 2012, 08:17:14 AM



At the risk of making you come on Saturday... I will be there Friday night. Beeeeeeeeeeeeers!!!

Oh FFS, now I gotta come up on the Friday, I assume Matt, Phil, Brian etc etc are also there? What you doing the Friday night, they ain"t for Poker? Will sort it with work tomorrow. Will need to book an extra night at hotel also.


You know it makes sense ;-)      Unlike Bolton, there will be no major puddles to avoid ... avoiding Stuart though might be more of a problem fecking impossible ;D




FYP
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 08, 2012, 08:36:57 AM

You know it makes sense ;-)      Unlike Bolton, there will be no major puddles to avoid ... avoiding Stuart though might be more of a problem  ;D

Have you seem the weather lately, reckon there might be puddles, everywhere. Stu will be no help in avoiding them and Ger is playing the team event. I suggest you come up on the Friday as well to ensure we don"t wander into any zone that might have puddles. 

Jack and Dawn should also come (sure do remember the last time I was in Nottingham with them).

Shame Asa can"t make it as well (can"t work cope without you for just a few days?)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: amcgrath1uk on August 08, 2012, 10:07:37 AM


You know it makes sense ;-)      Unlike Bolton, there will be no major puddles to avoid ... avoiding Stuart though might be more of a problem  ;D

Have you seem the weather lately, reckon there might be puddles, everywhere. Stu will be no help in avoiding them and Ger is playing the team event. I suggest you come up on the Friday as well to ensure we don"t wander into any zone that might have puddles. 

Jack and Dawn should also come (sure do remember the last time I was in Nottingham with them).

Shame Asa can"t make it as well (can"t work cope without you for just a few days?)


It ties in with the busiest few days of the year :( That, and my head office has decided it"d be a great time to take my boss out of work and put her on a training course for a week. Which means I"ll probably being doing 5/6long days. All it means is I"ll just have to win it all at Glasgow and at the worlds in late March/early April!
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: PHIL_TC on August 08, 2012, 10:42:00 AM
Wiiiiiiiiiii congrats on the 1000 rodders!

Yip will be there Friday, I will have my "what the feck is this stud malarkey" book with me, will be drinking from midday. Friday evening I"ll be having incredibly witty conversations in my head whilst probably looking on the outside like I"m in a coma / a little bit simple. So no difference really.

Happy days. Please come  ;D
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: HOLDorFOLD on August 08, 2012, 14:41:54 PM


You know it makes sense ;-)      Unlike Bolton, there will be no major puddles to avoid ... avoiding Stuart though might be more of a problem  ;D

Have you seem the weather lately, reckon there might be puddles, everywhere. Stu will be no help in avoiding them and Ger is playing the team event. I suggest you come up on the Friday as well to ensure we don"t wander into any zone that might have puddles. 

Jack and Dawn should also come (sure do remember the last time I was in Nottingham with them).

Shame Asa can"t make it as well (can"t work cope without you for just a few days?)


Waaaay ahead of ya .... I"m there with bells on ... well, not literally, unless you bring bells obv.

See you Fri night  ;D

Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Paulie_D on August 08, 2012, 15:14:13 PM
Feck, I fully intend to go deep (ooer) in the Stud on Friday.

That might delay my appearance at the bar...or not.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 08, 2012, 22:05:21 PM
Pointless post alert

Phil just to answer the question, studs are something on football boots, nothing to do with poker to the best of my knowledge. Not sure what Paulie is taking about with something delaying his arrival at the bar, maybe he is coming by steamer? (or was that Carl?)

Jack and Dawn are not coming to Nottingham until Sunday this time so I am likely to remember more than being in a hotel bar and Chambers before waking up in my room the next morning. Unless they change their mind, if they do can everybody please buy Jack lot"s of full fat beer.

Hopefully it will be sunny therefore Michelle will forget all about the puddle and not mention it all weekend. Not that she reminds me of it that often anyway.

Great news is that both Ger and Dan Owston are playing the team event which they are likely to take quite seriously so the bar will remain fully stocked on the Friday. However Scouse has managed to gain entry to DTD so may have the reverse effect on that.

Asa needs to plan better in April but can follow online and see us all in Glasgow.

Stu will be Stu all weekend, somebody once told me he once did quite well in the European Championship once. Made the final table or something like that.

Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 30, 2012, 17:16:35 PM
So last weekend was DTD. The weekend was one of the really great APAT weekends, so many legends there, Jaxie, The Stockton Massive, BCPC, Michelle, Paulie_D, Ian T, Curly, Grant, JP, Suzanne, Dan, Rudders, Paul Mac and of course Ger "The Duke" Smyth. Loads more as well sorry have not got space to name that many.

The weekend started a bit strange. I wanted to go up Friday but could not get away due to having this week off work also the front screen heater on my car stopped working and I didn"t want to drive up not being able to see where I was going so go a lift with Darren Shallis (APAT great of about 143 final tables). We drove through the sea for some reason (although we both agreed the M50 should have been there). We got to DTD and it was like it used to be. All the people were there, we don"t have enough of these any more.

I entered the six-max, played with some card and chips got knocked out somehow, not that I actually remember how. Then sat at the bar chatting with various people well into the night. Eventually got a lift back with Paulie at about 3am.

Woke up in the morning, 10:30am what to do for the next 4 hours, ah that"ll be the Waters Edge then. We all get food and the beer flows, we wonder if we should go and play poker or just stay here, then go and play poker. Don"t know why we keep having to do that on APAT weekends. Anyway I spend the next 13 hours playing poker, manage to actually take it seriously, get some chips lose some chips then get them back. Everybody else goes off to Chambers, I don"t as I am still playing poker. Mind you that might not be a bad thing, I remember the last time I went to Chambers, I blame Dawn... and Jack.

Anyway I had lots of chips at one point but the blinds kept going up so I had to get some 3-bets through which I was able to do made day two with about 22 bigs which I thought would be enough. Find the boys and girls who have made it back to DTD. Phil_TC disappears into thin air which is a great trick. Stuart who has been drinking all day but can strangely still stand and talk drinks Phil"s pint for him. I then stand in the smoking area talking to Stu and Michelle before we get a taxi back.

Day two I make a good start and get up to close to average with a few well timed 3-bet shoves, then I make an error by putting the wrong colour chips in the pot and end up flat calling with KK and losing all my chips on a raggy flop. This is really poor play and I think I was clearly unhappy about it..... for about 10 minutes.

I watch Dan playing the PLO for a while but he was more interested in his PLO game on his ipad, from what I know about him it was probably a bigger game than the one he was playing at DTD. I eventually left, I can"t really put down in words how good this weekend was and I have not done it justice here. The APAT people are LEGENDS and a better group of people you will not find. I know it gets said all the time but it"s true.

Call out to Asa who was missed, therefore the WCOAP in April will be improved by his presence. I will see you in Glasgow mate.

Many Congratulations to Suzanne for her Six-max win and of course to Carl Pilgrim (Fandango) for taking down the main event - well played. DTD is a great place to be playing a final table there is something extra too it that others don"t have, they are so hard to get and few and far between so it"s really important to enjoy them. I think they did.

I got back and went to watch Newport County Vs Hereford a game we won 2-0. That won"t mean much to many of you but it is a bit like a local derby and we had not played for 20 years. It was the biggest crowd at Newport since their football league days and the whole thing was just something else #comeonthecounty.

Well I now had 3 days to get the 750 FPP"s needed to gain Silverstar status on Pokerstars. I have got 600 so far with a little bit of profit as well. I will do a proper poker update later on with some interesting hands.

Still not sure I actually LIKE live poker but at an APAT it really doesn"t matter. I seem to usually play quite well at them, even though most of the time I am not in the least bit bothered if I am still in or out, maybe there is something too that?

Play of the weekend in my opinion goes to Brendan though who made a great lay down with KK after correctly putting his opponent on AA, great effort by him as well in the main event, top bloke and a good player.

I will do a proper poker update later.

Oh and we are looking for a few good men or women for this

http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=11860.msg188560;boardseen#new
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 01, 2012, 11:37:07 AM
Is it really September already? I mean really thats crazy I am sure the year only started a couple of months ago. Well August was a good month. Newport County made a great start to the season winning five out of five, The ECOAP went off well and APAT arranged to take over Yarm. All excellent stuff really.

I have also booked my Hotel for Glasgow which whilst smaller than the last one will still be a good weekend. So what am I going to do in September. Playing some online poker will be good. I am not going to the football today as the coach was leaving at 9am and I had stuff to do in Swansea at 10am. Therefore I am going to start playing a bit online. My goal is to get enough FPP to attain Silverstar without playing cash. Actually I want to do it just playing the 180"s. That will be mainly the $2.50 and the $4.50 versions. I want to get a good start today and play about 50 of them and see how I do. I reckon I can do this and make a profit whilst I do it. Sharkscope has changed it"s mind about how much I am up in between yesterday and today. It now reports me to be £793 up at the start of the month so the goal is pretty simple the amount has to be above that at the end of the month having played enough of them to get silverstar.

The rake on the smallest ones is 22c so playing 50 of then should net me 77 points making the target number for the month somewhere around 500. Not sure if this can be done or not. If I am not making it at the end of the month I will most likely add some tournaments in to speed up the rate of getting the points.

Right let"s get started now.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Laxie on September 01, 2012, 11:43:12 AM
Good luck with them!!!

Was great to see you last week-end too.  Always a smile on your face and take the manic with the calm.  lol
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 01, 2012, 12:01:13 PM

Good luck with them!!!

Was great to see you last week-end too.  Always a smile on your face and take the manic with the calm.  lol

tytyty

Now stop wasting your time on this silly thread and go and post confirmation of your attendance on the Yarm one :-)
How can we have an invasion without you and Jack?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: HOLDorFOLD on September 01, 2012, 12:56:56 PM

Anyway I had lots of chips at one point but the blinds kept going up so I had to get some 3-bets through which I was able to do made day two with about 22 bigs which I thought would be enough. Find the boys and girls who have made it back to DTD. Phil_TC disappears into thin air which is a great trick. Stuart who has been drinking all day but can strangely still stand and talk drinks Phil"s pint for him. I then stand in the smoking area talking to Stu and Michelle before we get a taxi back.


That was indeed an awesome trick ... I would have appreciated it more if I hadn"t spent the best part of half an hour stumbling round DTD looking for said Dynamo  :-\  

As for Stu .... the amazing drinking all day and still standing up trick also comes with the end of night cab sleeping trick .... how on earth can someone announce ""I am going to sleep now"" then head drop and literally fall alseep in a nano-second?????  

Another fantastic APAT weekend ... my ribs hurt so much from laughing, esp with the Curly convo"s and Walkabout frebreeze convo.    Next time I really should concentrate on the poker ;-)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 01, 2012, 13:43:38 PM


Another fantastic APAT weekend ... my ribs hurt so much from laughing, esp with the Curly convo"s and Walkabout frebreeze convo.    Next time I really should concentrate on the poker ;-)

I wouldn"t bother, you get to sit at a table all day whilst everybody else sits in the bar drinking beer and generally having a great time, then they go off to the Karaoke bar and Walkabout, return after a few beers to tell you what a great night they had. Lose people and cigarettes due to an unexplained black hole at DTD. They sometimes reappear which is also strange.

So yeah, don"t worry about poker, not sure why we always have to have these games going on at APAT weekends to be honest they kind of get in the way :D

PS - Book Glasgow now please.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: HOLDorFOLD on September 01, 2012, 14:37:40 PM
Totally forgot about the disappearing/re-appearing cigarette!

GLASGOW FLIGHT BOOOOOOOKED  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 02, 2012, 05:18:27 AM
Ran pretty badly yesterday. Could not win an allin, Pokerstars kept taking the piss out of me by letting me get to the river ahead before crushing me.

Tournmanets played: 34
Profit: $1.58

I was quite happy with the result given the fact I really did not run well. I did get a third but even in that one which could have been a first but I couldn"t win the flip at the key point.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4529300

Pretty standard spot there I think, every hand was a shove pre and I am clearly ahead of his range and there are not enough chips for me to fins a better spot.

I also got a 4th place where I ran AK into KK to lose most of my chips so standard spot again. I won"t post any other exit hands as they are pretty standard like I said.

Don"t think Silverstar can be done just on the silly little tournaments though so will have to play a bit of cash to keep that up. Played a short session of that (only about 200 hands). Won $6.80. Should have won more but could not lay down TPTK on a dry flop when my opponent almost always has a set.

So basically spent a whole day clicking buttons for a profit of $8. Up is up and all that.

In non poker events Newport County lost for the first time this season 2-0 away to Wrexham and I managed to break a coffee table. M"eh first world problems and all that.


GLASGOW FLIGHT BOOOOOOOKED  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Well done, that weekend is now shaping up well also.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 02, 2012, 18:20:01 PM
$2.50 Turbo"s

Tournaments played today: 19
Tournaments played Month: 53
Profit/Loss today: -$42.58
Profit/Loss Month: -$41
VPP: 100

Ran pretty bad today again and don"t think I played that well either. The turbo games are different to the non turbos in quite a few ways. I think by shoving and calling ranges are quite good though. I want to try and keep my volume up throughout the week. Plan is about 10 of these each evening.

Also played 300 hands on $25 Cash (This is holdem not PLO)

Hands: 304
VP$IP: 20.72%
PFR: 19.08%
3-Bet: 9.91%
Profit/Loss: +$15.66

Nothing exciting happened.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 02, 2012, 20:46:10 PM
Something popped into my head today. I have been off work this week and am back in tomorrow. I am lucky enough that I quite like my job and enjoy working with most of the people I work with. It"s quite a laid back not too stressful role which is unusual in the environment I am in. So I am quite happy to be going back in tomorrow and don"t get the thing that other people tell me about where they dread going back after a week off. I suppose I run quite good there.

Now I was reading some updates and blogs on Blonde Poker earlier today and it came to my mind that the way I have spent this week ie played the ECOAP met up with a number of the other apat people had lot"s of fun. Spent lots of time playing online, also did some other cool stuff not related to poker. Seems like a decent way to spend a week off. It"s quite natural to think I suppose it would be good to just do this all the time.

Then I thought, well some people actually do. This is how they spend their life their life. It reminds me of the lyrics to a song.

Is it a blessing, or is it a curse?
Does it get any better, can it get any worse?
Will it go on forever, is it over tonight?
Does it come with the darkness, Does it bring out the light?
Is it richer than diamonds or just a little cheaper than spit?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vddn9S7HHXg
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 03, 2012, 21:36:13 PM
So played a very short cash session only 99 hands and won $6.57.

VP$IP: 28.28%
PFR: 26.26%
3-Bet: 13.16%

Month

Hands: 403
Profit: $22.23
VP$IP: 22.58%
PFR: 20.84%
3Bet: 10.74%

Hold'em cash is difficult on Pokerstars at the moment even playing just the $25 buyin games. I am really struggling with my PLO at the moment unfortunately. Hopefully I can do something to help sort that out soon, got a few ideas,  but will just keep playing NLHE until then. Played a few of the $2.50 turbos as well.

Played - 11
Profit/loss : +$26.25

Bit disappointed with that as I had the chance to do better, in a few of them. I also probably made a huge mistake here by not raising pre, problem was he was usually calling my raises. Pretty sure I should still raise, end result probably same in this case.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4534429

Monthly total

Played 64
Total Loss = $14.75
FPP: 117.27
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 04, 2012, 19:55:57 PM
Another quick session tonight with 101 hands of cash and 10 turbo $2.50"s. Results in cash were as follows:-

Today

Hands: 101
VP$IP: 26.73%
PFR: 25.74%
3Bet: 17.50%
Profit: $1.83

Basically a break even session. I am now $24.06 up for the month in cash over 504 hands though. This is running really good as it is 9.55BB/100 hands.

Also played 10 of the $2.50"s ran pretty good in one of them to pick up a second place:-

Played: 10
Profit: $87

Month to date

Played: 74
Profit: $47.25
ROI: 25.53%

VPP: 135.92
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 05, 2012, 19:46:27 PM
Played a little session again today. Started with 100 cash hands which went well. Second hand I raised T6s from the SB and flopped 7-8-9 with 4 to a flush. Got it in against a player who was only playing $14, he had A8 so that made for a good start. I then proceeded to hit most of what I needed, got AA for the first time in cash this month and made a few dollars, flopped a set against KK, I kept running these hands into shortstacks but not complaining, in the small session to end up with these stats for the day:-

Hands: 100
VP$IP: 25%
PFR: 24%
3-Bet: 25%
Profit: $46.65

Month to Date

Hands: 603
VP$IP: 23.71%
PFR: 22.22%
3-Bet: 14.03%
Profit: $70.71

I then played 11 $2.50 180 manners, failed to cash in 10 of them and got a 3rd in the other one. Profit for the day on those was $21.33.

Month to date

Played: 85
Profit: $68.58
ROI: 32.27%

Total Profit: $139.29
Total VPP: 165
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 06, 2012, 19:53:59 PM
Pretty uninteresting day today to be honest. I have one semi interesting hand from cash where I most likely make a bad call on the flop.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4543853

Not even sure about my preflop play here, I call but I am not really going to be good unless I make a set. I don"t make a set and the flop comes ace high. It checks around so I try to rep an ace on the flop, after calls and I check the river and he bets I am not sure what I beat on the river that could call the turn. Anyway the final stats were

Hands: 100
VP$IP: 23%
PFR: 19%
3Bet: 4.56%
Profit: $2.62

Switch to the 180 manners played 10 of them. Got some hands which are kinda interesting I suppose. First one is an exit hand:-

A call that is clearly +cEV but should I call in this spot? I only have 3 hands on my opponent and he has raised 2 of them.

Average stack is about 10K and we have less than 30 players remaining, can I lay this hand down (I don"t think so).

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4544335

Played 10 of the 180 manners did not cash in any I had another hand very similar to the above where I had AQ and called a shove and lost to 77. I probably could have folded both and min cashed in both tournaments but I have more chance of making a really deep run by making the calls here.

Month to Date

Cash Hands: 703
VP$IP: 23.61%
PFR: 21.76%
3Bet: 12.5%
Profit: $73.33

180s Played: 95
Net Profit: $45.58
ROI: 18.75%

FPP: 186
Total Profit: $118.91

The idea is to get 750 VPP using this method of very short sessions. This is the first time I have actually been playing mid week for quite a while as I have really just played on weekends recently. I am going to try and hit hard on the weekend, even though I want to go to the football on Saturday and do need to nip into work for a couple of hours on Sunday. Will try not to over do it though as I am pretty happy with how it is going.

In other news I have booked the time off work for Stoke (I used to live up that way) and for the WCOAP. I used Paulie"s link to get the cheap deal for the hotel for Stoke, enough people staying there so getting taxi"s to the venue and back should not be an issue. The only problem is I can"t get that Friday off work (can get a half day) so will drive up and play with the M6 after work.

Newport County lost to Dartford away last night which means they have lost two straight games after winning the first 5. Hopefully they will recover and beat Stockport on the weekend. I will probably go to the pub to watch Wales lose to Belgium tomorrow night as well.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: hi_am_chris on September 06, 2012, 22:23:29 PM
The TT hand, im just not sure hes shoving that wide of a range for that many bbs utg that TT beats, i think were going to run into overpair (maybe not AA and KK as will assume he will open raise these as opposed to open shove a larger percentage) a lot here or be flipping :\ If he shoves it in from later position obv his range gets wider and the tens is a much more comfortable stack off. Do you have any stats on the player?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: TheSnapper on September 06, 2012, 22:30:26 PM

Pretty uninteresting day today to be honest. I have one semi interesting hand from cash where I most likely make a bad call on the flop.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4543853

Not even sure about my preflop play here, I call but I am not really going to be good unless I make a set. I don"t make a set and the flop comes ace high. It checks around so I try to rep an ace on the flop, after calls and I check the river and he bets I am not sure what I beat on the river that could call the turn. Anyway the final stats were



Calling pre to hit a set is fine, sets are gold in these games but keep in mind that it"s an implied odds spot and we have better implied odds versus tighter opening ranges, they will more often have a hand that can stack off versus our set.

If the preflop call is based on the plan to setmine, you need to stick with that plan and not get involved in tough marginal spots that drain on the overall profitability of that plan. No set no bet!

For some perspective on the "bad" river call, that one bet is 10 bb"s lost and turns your session from +15bb/100 to +5bb/100, thats from good to great in one decision over a 100 hand session.

I"d also make a note on villains half pot river value bet with 2nd pair, suggests he"s somewhat capable and is likely super transparent and exploitable.



Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 06, 2012, 22:50:37 PM
Yep 100% agree with you there Brendan, Good post again etc etc :).

I have made a note of the player of course and think your assessment is spot on.

Problem with tighter opening ranges is everybody opens looser these days, we both remember the days when these games were limpfests, now you almost never get an unraised pot. It means you have to play better post flop, which I definately did not do in this hand.

It happens, and it always will, but the idea is to minimize it so if you could just keep reminding me how silly this sort of thing is when I post them I would be most grateful

btw Brendan - at ECOAP I was a bit dismissive about your fold of the Kings in that spot. Thinking about it it really is an excellent fold (not one many people can make) and the correct one from how you described it. It was a horrible spot but if ou can consistently get away from that sort of spot you are going to do really well long term. So yeah, fantastic play, don"t think I said that at the time.

Hope to see you at Glasgow (though ideally not at my starting table). I put Team Viewer back on my new PC if you are ever interested in watching a short cash session, no doubt you could offer some great advice, would also be happy to reciprocate of you want.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: TheSnapper on September 06, 2012, 22:57:53 PM
Happy to do a session on teamviewer, probably better to review some hands on HM replayer. I can jabber on and thats distracting when you are playing ;D
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 07, 2012, 23:24:33 PM
Another pretty uninteresting day on cash which is how we like it. I did play a few more hands today but tend to think 100 hands is enough after a day in work. Hopefully be able to put in a decent session in the morning before going to the football.

Hands today: 201
VPIP: 20.4%
PFR: 18.41%
3Bet: 6.02%
Profit: $10.89

Nothing worth mentioning happened. Best win was $5.75 when a short stack shoved A9 into my AK BvB. I have not had many big hands but have just been winning small pots and am quite pleased with my red line.

I then lost $13.03 in 180 manners, played 8 and came 9th in 1. Still feels like I am flipping really bad but can"t be too bad as I am still $30 up over the month in them.

Total Cash profit: $84.22
Total 180 man profit: $30.55

Not too bad really.


Happy to do a session on teamviewer, probably better to review some hands on HM replayer. I can jabber on and thats distracting when you are playing ;D

That"s also fine by me mate
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: noble1 on September 08, 2012, 01:52:39 AM
Quote
Pretty uninteresting day today to be honest. I have one semi interesting hand from cash where I most likely make a bad call on the flop.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4543853

Not even sure about my preflop play here, I call but I am not really going to be good unless I make a set. I don"t make a set and the flop comes ace high. It checks around so I try to rep an ace on the flop, after calls and I check the river and he bets I am not sure what I beat on the river that could call the turn.



Right, this is my last attempt to get you thinking and and looking at/reviewing ranges..

I dont mind the bet on the turn, why?
because if say villain is raising say 15% from MP 6 handed -
22+,A9s+,KTs+,QTs+,JTs,T9s,98s,ATo+,KJo+

if you think he will cbet all his ace x hands then thats 33% of his range gone already..
what can he check back? - Qx AA QQ

how much of his range after checking the flop back consists of Qx ?
only 12% - KQs,QTs+,KQo
how much of range will be mosters including the deuce turn? 12% - AA,QQ,44,22

so you may get a fold 67% of the time, even if he has checked back some of his weaker aces, betting that much on the turn as you did will show a profit as long as you get 35%+ folds.. [and yes you can even taking into account the 3rd player in the sb, he has checked twice, so you figure it out]

right the river - even if he has checked back the flop with some of his weaker aces, combine that with monsters then he will have a range of about 33% at best, i"m allowing for a % for him to bet flop or to re-raise your turn bet with his stronger hands [AA,QQ,44,22,ATs-A9s,KQs,QTs+,ATo,KQo] , look at his bet sizing, what would you weigh his range as most likely to be?  look at the pot size, if you check raise he may fold from 50% to 64% and maybe more, thats allowing for the odd hero call with a Queen or KK you could check raise to $10 and show a profit, you would need him to fold around 58% to break even, make it $7.5 then you need about 50% folds, do some maths for the check jam, how often do you think he will call? allow for to be called by monsters and the weaker aces he checked behind on the flop, then for fun start to allow for a % of when he will bet his monsters on the flop, re-raise your turn bet with 2pair+ etc etc to see how often your check jam would be called...

get pokerstove and a calculator and start breaking these scenarios down, always think about your opponent’s range of hands and how he will play that range, use a bit of deductive reasoning to determine what hands are likely [never auto pilot]... making the best decision is mostly improved away from the table, add in experience/volume of play so then that your assumptions of various players ranges and how they would play them will improve, then you"ll be on your way to beating whatever stake you are playing at..
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 08, 2012, 07:56:58 AM
Check raising the river never entered my head. Is this really bad?
Will try and do what Noble suggested on that hand which sounds really complex and come back to it. Here later.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Chipaccrual on September 08, 2012, 08:45:36 AM
I might see if noble1 fancies writing Poker"s Ten Commandments  :D
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 08, 2012, 09:09:57 AM

I might see if noble1 fancies writing Poker"s Ten Commandments  :D

Reckon he could as well, definitely should do it !!!!
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 08, 2012, 12:11:30 PM
So decided to pop a session in this morning sticking with the formula I have been using this month. Thought I would play a bit more cash to push the VPP points up a bit as I have decided 750 can"t be done with just the 180 manners.

Cash went pretty well, ran good in a few spots when I needed too. The hand coverter is not working at the moment but I got it in on the flop with AA against a loose player. The flop was a monotone and I had the nut flush draw. I was pretty sure he was calling with a worse flush draw and also a worse hand so over bet the flop slightly to set him in. He called and had top pair with no flush draw. I hit the flush on the turn to lock the hand up, but was well ahead anyway.

I got lucky when I tried to steal a pot on the turn after raising J8 OTB got called by AT and the flop came Ace high, I chcked the flop, he checked to me again on the turn so I bet the turn which was a J as I did not think he had the Ace. He called so I thought I was ahead and was going to check behind OTR I think. The river was then a jack so I was 100% in front I bet the river and he called and for some reason had AK. He should not turn up with this hand here but it made me a little money.

I lost a pot when I bet the flop and the turn after hitting TPTK with AK. I honestly thought he had a worse ace so probably should be betting the river as well. I checked the river and he showed a worse ace but had hit two pair on the river. I felt very clever at the time but looking at it again the check on the river is bad and bet/fold is much better as he has a lot of worse aces there as well as certain other hands he has decided not to believe me with.

I seemed to encounter a lot of 3 betting, and had to fold to most of it. Was quite happy with a play I made against a player where I shoved the turn on a stone cold bluff (see what I did there Stu?). He 3 bet me which he has done a lot (you build up hands pretty quickly on the regs in zoom) I called him with 55 and missed a dry flop. I check raised him, I knew he was calling me pretty wide but think I get enough folds to make it worth doing. I know he will shove on me with a strong hand. He calls so I know he does not have sets or good two pairs, an overpair is possible but he should see that I am repping a strong hand and can"t have a draw on this flop. His call is pretty weak here. I shove the turn and he quickly folds. I quite like that hand as I think it is a good example of how to pick spots.

Did get a bit coolered when I ran QQ into KK pre, it did not all go in but I did call the 3-bet before having to call flop and turn bets before we both checked the ace on the river (river may have saved me another bet). Don"t think there is too much of an issue there.

Hands Played today: 306
VP$IP: 20.86%
PFR: 18.86%
3Bet: 6.25%
Profit: $22.32

So cash goes really well. This month I am up $106 over 1200 hands which is running really well. I have played the best I have played for a while though.

I played 10 of the 180 man sitngo"s but did not cash, now pretty much break even for the month on them ($5.50 up). This is a hand on the bubble of one. There are a few shorter stacks than me, is anybody doing anything different?

PokerStars - $2.28+$0.22|500/1000 NL - Holdem - 7 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

CO: 8,855.00
Hero (BTN): 9,534.00
SB: 33,272.00
BB: 29,073.00
UTG: 14,476.00
UTG+1: 6,825.00
MP: 12,850.00

CO posts ante 100.00, Hero posts ante 100.00, SB posts ante 100.00, BB posts ante 100.00, UTG posts ante 100.00, UTG+1 posts ante 100.00, MP posts ante 100.00, SB posts SB 500.00, BB posts BB 1,000.00

Pre Flop: (2200.00) Hero has Ac 2c

fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 9,434.00 and is all-in, fold, BB calls 8,434.00

Flop: (20068.00, 2 players) 7s 8c Th

Turn: (20068.00, 2 players) 2s

River: (20068.00, 2 players) 8d

BB shows 7c As (Two Pair, Eights and Sevens) (Pre 60%, Flop 93%, Turn 95%)
Hero shows Ac 2c (Two Pair, Eights and Twos) (Pre 40%, Flop 7%, Turn 5%)
BB wins 20,068.00

Obviously I would fold this hand if somebody shoved into me but I have to shove there don"t I? Or don"t I?

Right off to the pub now before going to watch Newport County Vs Stockport. We have lost both of our last two games but they were away and we are looking really good at home so hopefully get back to winning ways.

I need to get 9 VPP tomorrow to be on target to hit 750 by month end.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 09, 2012, 21:18:54 PM
Lost a buyin today, played 104 hands of cash and did not play that well if I am honest. Made at least one poor call on the river. I had been folding to a lot of 3-bets this month and decided I should peel one off and got myself into trouble for it (as often happens).

Did not bother with the 180 manners today, likely to play some of those after work tomorrow

Hands Today: 104
Loss Today: $24.71
VP$IP: 25.96
PFR: 24.04
3Bet: 10.34
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: HOLDorFOLD on September 10, 2012, 11:52:10 AM

Lost a buyin today, played 104 hands of cash and did not play that well if I am honest. Made at least one poor call on the river. I had been folding to a lot of 3-bets this month and decided I should peel one off and got myself into trouble for it (as often happens).

Did not bother with the 180 manners today, likely to play some of those after work tomorrow

Hands Today: 104
Loss Today: $24.71
VP$IP: 25.96
PFR: 24.04
3Bet: 10.34


Might join you ... T Viewer later?  



EDIT: Just realised it"s the Irish Online ME Sat tonight ... probably will play that so bump TV session to another night if yr free?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 10, 2012, 17:43:13 PM


Lost a buyin today, played 104 hands of cash and did not play that well if I am honest. Made at least one poor call on the river. I had been folding to a lot of 3-bets this month and decided I should peel one off and got myself into trouble for it (as often happens).

Did not bother with the 180 manners today, likely to play some of those after work tomorrow

Hands Today: 104
Loss Today: $24.71
VP$IP: 25.96
PFR: 24.04
3Bet: 10.34


Might join you ... T Viewer later?  



EDIT: Just realised it"s the Irish Online ME Sat tonight ... probably will play that so bump TV session to another night if yr free?

Would be great. Just ping me whenever.

Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 10, 2012, 20:07:19 PM
Had another up and down day. Up in cash, down in tournaments, I thought I left that model of playing poker behind ages ago *lol*.

Played cash first and played 202 hands which is more than I would normally do but wanted to get a bit ahead of the game in the VPP stakes. I won $26.88 which is nice.

We will go with the hand that had the biggest loss first. I will try and explain my thinking all the way through. I have no hands on my opponent which is a hazard of playing Zoom.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4551017

I raise KQo from UTG+1. I pick up a call from the button. Everybody else folds. The flop is fairly good for my hand and I hit top pair good kicker. I think I am good unless he has KJ as I have eliminated most combos of AK as they would three bet pre. He probably does not have a 4 so I beat most of his range, obv he could have a set of fours but not that concerned about that tbh at this point. I bet out for about 3/4 of the pot and he calls. I am thinking he could have a Jack here or a worse King. The six on the turn should change nothing and I bet again about half the pot and he calls. The river again changes nothing and if I was good on the turn I am good on the river. I therefore put in a little bet which I reckon will get paid off by worse Kings and maybe the odd Jack. He shoves on me. I just don"t see him doing this with a busted flush draw which is about all he can have that I beat. I think I pretty much have to be beat here so I fold. This maybe incorrect, happy for people to pick holes in the above but I am fairly happy at the moment

Here is a hand for another perspective though. Again this maybe good, it may be bad but happy for holes to be picked. This is against a more regular player who plays 20/18 (pretty standard) will raise light in position and usually fold to a 3-bet of he is light.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4551021

When he raises I put in a 3-bet and expect to get a fold. When I don"t I am putting him on maybe a pair or two broadway cards. The flop should give me a super profitable C-bet so I do that and get called again. Now I think he could have a weak pair (maybe the ten) or a draw with the two face cards. I think he would raise a set but he could have it. I bet again on the turn and he calls again which I didn"t expect. I thought he would either stick in in my face and force me to fold, or fold himself. His whole line looks pretty weak. The river is a 10 which makes it less likely he has got one. At this stage there are a lot more draws in his range and maybe some stubborn pairs as well. I decide shoving here is the best move. I think I played him pretty well there although it is a bit risky out of position.

I then spent some time winning little pots by making some pretty normal moves. One thing I have noticed is that I am coming up against a LOT of 3 betting at the moment. Here is a good example of a player I know will 3-bet light from the blinds. Reckon I played this well but people can tell me otherwise if they want too.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4551024

Hands Today: 202
VP$IP: 27.72%
PFR: 25.25%
3-Bet: 7%
Profit: $26.88

So I happily headed off to play some 180 manners. I regged for 4 of the $2.50"s and 2 of the $4.50"s. I much prefer the $4.50"s but they run less often and take a lot longer to play.

Not much happened. I played and I lost. I did make an important mistake in one of the turbos though.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4551026

I should probably be shoving pre here, probably getting called anyway but it"s a bit poor really.

So Yeah

Played: 6
Cashed: $0
Loss today: $19

Not sure if I am doing anything wrong or this is just the swing of turbo"s. Probably the later, may switch to the $4.50"s.

Not sure there is any point in continuing the daily updates now as the point was to try and get 750VPP playing only the $2.50 turbo"s. I pretty much gave up on that straight away and played cash and now have played some of the $4.50"s as well. Suppose I may as well keep it going for the month as I have started it.

I have 285 VPP by the way and I am one third of the way through the month.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 11, 2012, 20:46:54 PM
So another day of pokers. Not too sure how some people do thius and only this every day I would have thought it would be soul destroying on times.

So came home from work (I usually enjoy my job but today was a pain in the ass) and popped on intending to play around 100 hands of Zoom. Get invovled in this hand, don"t think I cover myswelf in glory. I don"t hate how I played the hand but my logic was all wrong. The player is a random.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4552267

In the best poker-speak, onvious preflop raise is obvious. I get called which happens quite often. Flop lands dry. Callers in this spot can have a really wide range of hands. I therefore bet out as it"s going to be profitable to c-bet this flop 100% of the time really bvb. My bet is 2/3 of the pot and he calls. This to me means he should have something, the hands that run through my mind are:-

Flush Draw
Some Kind of Ten
Some other pair
Very small % of the time he had a set.
Random float

The turn comes down and against the above range I am getting a fair few folds. A set or flush draw should certainly raise me so if he has that at least I lose no more money. A ten may call and may fold any other pair is folding. A float may call me if they had a club. He calls so I have him on

A Club
A small % of tens

OK so the river hit"s. The Ace was one of the main club cards I think he could have been holding so that reduces the single club hands a little.

I try to rep the club myself then but unless I have a KK or QQ I am not sure this is a good spot as I am repping a really small % of hands. I think I still get a fair few folds there, it"s not a terrible play as if in doubt betting is usually better than checking.

I get it back when I get in a hand with a player who I have more hands on just over 100 who 3-bets wide, his % is higher than mine, and I have a note on which reads "floats flops very wide, usually bets/raises with strong hands".

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4552269

It is harder to put him on a range of hands here butI was not a fan of him calling the 4-bet as I expected im to fold so I knew he must have something. AA or KK would have got it in but QQ, JJ, TT, AK and AQ are all possible a few smaller pairs are also in there somewhere. When the flop is Ace high I think I have to c-bet. The problem is I know he does not have to have the ace to call here so I am forced to basically shove on the turn. It"s a high variance spot that went my way this time.

I am going to need to start to Note how players react to 4-bets better as there is so much 3-betting going on these days and I am not expoliting it as well as I should be.

Anyway

Hands Today: 105
VP$IP: 26.67%
PFR: 25.71%
3-Bet: 11.76%
Profit: $6.09

My fold to 3-bet stands at 85% is this too high do you think? Between 60 and 70 sounds better.

Anyway that was cash, continues to go relatively OK.

The 180 manners, still can"t cash lol will do review of them tomorrow
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 12, 2012, 18:52:43 PM
Small cash session today. Will complete write up later, have not looked back through it yet. I dispute any suggestion I am a lucky fish in the hand where I have 99 *lol*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxzlIVin-g8&feature=plcp

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Made the little You Tube Video to show a run of the mill cash session and how things generally went.

There were a few hands that thrown up questions. Let"s start with the 99 hand.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4556428

I raise 99 UTG, I think this is OK. He 3-bets which can be a fairly wide range at these tables however I don"t see the point in 4-betting. I call and see the flop which is not bad for 99. He bets the flop. To be honest the bet is quite strong and alarm bells did ring. All the overpairs are in his range here and some random tens. I feel like I have to call but was planning to give up if he shoved the turn and try to get to showdown as cheaply as possible. The turn comes down BINK, he shoves, I rip up the previous plans and call to win a decent pot. He has AA.

I should probably have read a bit more strength in his 3 bet as I raised UTG, if I had been the button my play is probably fine but looking back at it now I don"t like it too much.

Then there is the AK hand against AQ.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4556429

On this hand preflop is obviously fine, the flop must also be fine and the turn seems OK as well. Do I miss value on the river. I can"t decide, I mean he probably folds this hand if I bet the river at a decent size but long term I miss value here by not betting don"t I. He can"t have a big hand very often and the only hand he realistic might have a bit that I lose too is KQ. Should have bet that river.

Hands Played today: 114
VP$IP: 24.56%
PFR: 22.81%
3-Bet: 6%
Profit: $17.94

Unfortunately decided to play another session last night. Not going to go too much into it as don"t like bad beat/cooler stories but lost $51.25 by running AA into a set and by getting Top pair in against a flush draw which hit. Stuff like that happens but It means my cash profit for the month is now only $65. Doubt I could have done much about either situation to be fair.

Wonder if I am brave enough to try and take on the 180 man sitngo"s tonight.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: pokerpops on September 13, 2012, 12:13:16 PM
AK v AQ hand, I think you can bet more on the turn. I read a decent piece somewhere recently (wish I could remember where) which suggested that betting half pot, half pot on hands like this lost value and that 65-75% was preferred. Tie that view in with the oft-expressed view that at this level we can bet bet bet until we get raised and the hand wins more.

Bet the river too.

His range may include KQ, or an 8 of some flavour (but not many) but the way he"s played it doesn"t suggest he has anything that scary.

99 hand. Are we set-mining? Not sure there"s value in that given an effective stack of $13. Definitely not folding to a very routine c-bet on that flop though.


Love the reports you write and wish I had the discipline to do the same.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 13, 2012, 12:38:45 PM

AK v AQ hand, I think you can bet more on the turn. I read a decent piece somewhere recently (wish I could remember where) which suggested that betting half pot, half pot on hands like this lost value and that 65-75% was preferred. Tie that view in with the oft-expressed view that at this level we can bet bet bet until we get raised and the hand wins more.

Bet the river too.

His range may include KQ, or an 8 of some flavour (but not many) but the way he"s played it doesn"t suggest he has anything that scary.

99 hand. Are we set-mining? Not sure there"s value in that given an effective stack of $13. Definitely not folding to a very routine c-bet on that flop though.


Love the reports you write and wish I had the discipline to do the same.

David, thanks for the comments mate. Do hope your home town survives, I hear it is coming under attack. I reckon yourself, Brian and that other group of players (assuming they get past the bar) will defend it"s poker tables and pubs more than adequately, although I would suggest you request assistance from the mayor just to be on the safe side.

Sorry poker, yes.

99 hand

No, not set mining, as you say no value in that. I have been seeing a lot of 3-betting in this game lately and therefore thought I was likely to be ahead of a 3-bettor range. On reflection, this is flawed though, I got this wrong as I raised from EP, as I said if I had raised the button it would have been fine I think. The flop is really good for my hand, I am going to see an overcard often but a 10 is not very scary and two of them make it that much less likely he has it. Played bad and got rewarded, it happens sometimes.

It was pretty obviously going to happen anyway though, I have read the rest of the forum recently and learned Stars is rigged/flawed/does not work properly. So those of us who get our money in bad keep winning. Personally I find this very useful and have emailed Stars to request they continue to do this as otherwise I am bound to start losing money on the site. :p

Sorry, back to being serious :)

I agree with your assessment of the AK vs AQ hand and think your point about bet sizing is spot on. Also the bet until raised point is excellent. I know Pleno (on Blonde) is a huge advocate of that at micro stakes and he has regularly destroyed them.

I like writing this blog every now and again, doing it all the time is too hard though, wish I could keep it up all the time but it"s pretty cool even infrequently I reckon. I started doing this month as a challenge to myself to get silverstar just playing $2 180 manners but figured out I could not do it but just carried on writing up the standard games anyway. Am off work today as I was owed some days therefore going to lose some money at 180 manners later.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 13, 2012, 17:59:11 PM
So played a decent sized cash session this morning. It didn"t start that well and this was one of the first hands that I played.

http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=11950.0;topicseen

Not 100% sure that my calling the shove is a good play, he shows up with JJ and it is a race (which I lose). It"s a bad call though, I somehow doubt he is doing this with AJ and if I give him a range of 88+ and AK then it is a clear fold.

Then I manage to play a few hands a bit poorly, some of spots were OK and I just ran into the higher part of peoples range. A couple of examples here.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4558373
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4558375

I then got some back in a standard spot with AA against a short stack with $10. Then I spend some time breaking even just winning and losing small pots. Manage to stay ahead of the blinds and rake but not much else.

Then got QQ and won a hand with that so ended the session.

Total hands: 514
VP$IP: 23.54%
PFR: 21.4%
3Bet: 12.23%
Profit: $11.69

update on 180 manners later. I really will do it today.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 13, 2012, 19:31:33 PM
I am really not doing very well in the 180"s at the moment. Losing a lot of flips which is part and parcel of these. I know it will turn around so not too worried about it of course.

Played Today: 8
Loss today: $30
Loss month: $57.95

I have made a few bad plays as well so can"t complain too much about that.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 14, 2012, 15:07:38 PM
Bad day today on the pokers. For some reason played PLO this morning:-

Hands: 100
VP$IP: 25.87%
PFR: 17.13%
Total Loss: $30.25

Played badly no other excuses for it.

Then played 8 $2.50"s did not cash in any of them.

A few exit hands from the 180"s here. These are from today, I don"t think I am doing too much wrong here but have run pretty cold in them lately. It will go in the other direction at some time so just have to grin and bear it really. Will look through the hanmds and run sitngo wiz on a few tonight but can"t see too much wrong.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4561167

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4561168

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4561159

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4561160

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4561162
*This one is not an exit but is the most significant hand

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4561169
*This one is not an exit but is the most significant hand

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4561166
*This hand I am fairly sure he is callling with any two but I need to double through anyway so thats OK?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: hi_am_chris on September 14, 2012, 16:19:06 PM
Hi  i know you don"t know me but hope you don"t mind me commenting.

I think the 10 10 hand in the 10/20 blind level is a little loose, others might disagree but i think in this format this early a call is fine pre flop and then fold to the shove. Obv once you have 3 bet theres too much of your stack in thre to fold. I know you have to finish top 3 for decent money but i don"t think you will be getting it in way ahead very often this early pre.

The TJ hand i am def shoving some of the time but i don"t know if its worth putting your full stack in the pot for what you can win or if its better waiting for a different spot.

The AT hand i think you are going to have him dominated a fair bit and pretty much never be behind from what you said and its his mistake for that *cough amazing call that he made.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 14, 2012, 16:35:27 PM

Hi  i know you don"t know me but hope you don"t mind me commenting.

I think the 10 10 hand in the 10/20 blind level is a little loose, others might disagree but i think in this format this early a call is fine pre flop and then fold to the shove. Obv once you have 3 bet theres too much of your stack in thre to fold. I know you have to finish top 3 for decent money but i don"t think you will be getting it in way ahead very often this early pre.

The TJ hand i am def shoving some of the time but i don"t know if its worth putting your full stack in the pot for what you can win or if its better waiting for a different spot.

The AT hand i think you are going to have him dominated a fair bit and pretty much never be behind from what you said and its his mistake for that *cough amazing call that he made.

Anybody can comment at any time for sure.

You may well be right on the TT hand. It might be loose early on but people can turn up with small pair here as well. It is going to win chips long term is it worth putting your life on the line? I think so but never been that great at figuring that out - there is a small edge there and I doubt I should be turning it down. Not 100% sure though.

The TJ hand, If you are raising it has to be shove. The stacks are effective 12BB deep raise/folding should not be an option here.

I think I can fold the AT if I am huge on chips and so is he, even if I think he is calling with that hand but I needed to get a double through anyway so am happy enough to take the better side of a 60/40. He was pretty much calling everything which people at this level do and why not, it"s cheap and fun.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 14, 2012, 16:39:37 PM
Just made this as well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWeSZgHpjfM&feature=youtu.be

Has some interesting hands in it, better than the other one I think?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: hi_am_chris on September 14, 2012, 18:40:17 PM
I agree about the TJ hand, i just meant that i think open folding is an option but you want to pick up chips to make a top 3 and even when called your probably not going to be dominated too much and be live.

The TT hand as said previously i would rather play the flop this early than get in a raising war but im more used to 18 man/ 9 man sngs.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 14, 2012, 18:57:50 PM

I agree about the TJ hand, i just meant that i think open folding is an option but you want to pick up chips to make a top 3 and even when called your probably not going to be dominated too much and be live.

The TT hand as said previously i would rather play the flop this early than get in a raising war but im more used to 18 man/ 9 man sngs.

Yeah open folding is an option. Thinking shoving makes you chips though, will run through sitngo wiz when I can be bothered :-)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: KarmaDope on September 14, 2012, 23:52:42 PM

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4561167
Just call pre-flop. Once we have EP raise and 4 limpers this early in the 180 we are effectively set-mining in position. Call>Fold>Shove>Raise IMO.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4561168
Standard hand :(

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4561159
Again, standard.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4561160
Standard.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4561162
Fine IMO. Shove>Fold as effective stacks are 10BB and there are antes.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4561169
Cooler.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4561166
Cooler - shove is fine and WTF he is doing calling with 53 is beyond me.


Apart from the first one your play is fine Steve. Keep going, just seems to be the bad side of variance in 180s at the moment.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 18, 2012, 10:07:22 AM
Did not update this on the weekend. Did play a little bit of cash, did not do too well. At least I didn"t win, I lost about $25 (1 buyin) main due to one hand which was very silly and I don"t really know why I did it. Called a 3-bet with 45s which is a bit poor in itself but then decided it would be a good idea to ship it all in on a flop of 2-6-6 with a flush draw and inside straight draw. Pokerstars had a glitch in the software which meant I lost that pot which was most confusing as the site is meant to be rigged ffs. I have emailed them about this issue.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4566159

Why do I play the hand like that? Answers on a postcard please as I can"t work it out. This one is also poor

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4566164

I should shut down on the flop as I know this player is usually folding to a c-bet just looking at my HUD, I think he played it perfectly fwiw.

Apart from that I played OK but did not really do much wrong. I had this hand which I think plays itself

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4566162

Result over the weekend were:-

Hands: 620
VP$IP: 25.97%
PFR: 22.58%
3-Bet: 10.24%
Total Loss: $23.85

This still puts me just over $84 up for the month, which is small although I have run a fair bit behind EV and am still winning at just over 5BB/100 which is always the aim.

Month to Date

Hands: 3102
VP$IP: 23.75%
PFR: 21.62%
3Bet: 10.21%
Total Profit: $84.00

VPP: 583

I have also picked up some bonus $ and 2 $11 Tournament tickets which adds up a little. Next month I I have worked out Silverstar will be worth $50 bonus money and two $11 Tournament tickets. I am collecting the tournament tickets quite nicely at the moment (I have 7) as I have to done an MTT session for ages. I like doing them on Sundays and I have always been in work early on Mondays lately. Maybe I will give them away as Christmas presents or something :-)

I am still down at 180"s but pretty sure that is down to just being on the bad side of luck so far this month. I have been on the other side of it often enough so certainly won"t be complaining about that I will lose sometimes and am quite happy to lose due to that (it sure beats losing due to playing badly).

I have played 145 of the 180 manners, a mix of the $2.50"s and the $4.50"s and am $78.11 down.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 19, 2012, 10:54:59 AM
Little session this morning sae me end up a few $ down. A few spots I got wrong as below:-

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4568103

Here my preflop play is obviously fine, although raising that hand UTG may be a little bit loose I don"t mind doing it too much.

The board is then paired and I have a gutshot. I am out of position which sucks with this type of hand which is why raising it UTG is marginal.

I make a bet on the flop which I thik is fine as well. When he calls he does not have to have the Jack, although he does have it a lot. He can have other pairs of course as well.

The King on the turn should not help him and might be a scare card as I could have been c-betting AK so I bet again, he puts in a strong raise and I have to fold. Think I probably should check/fold the turn there.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4568105

This kind of goes wrong against a pretty passive player I had decided I was going to try and outplay him. Not too sure why I don"t 3-bet pre. There is a little bit of history in this hand as I have raised him on a few flops in the last week or so (4 times I think) and he has folded each time. I therefore see no reason not to believe when he 3-bets me on the flop.

Total Hand = 102
VP$IP = 29.41%
PFR = 26.47%
3-Bet = 12.5%
Total Loss = $5.15

Wish I could regain my motivation to play more hands per month. This month I will probably hit about 6K. I use to be able to do that in a day (certainly over two days) at one time. Will keep doing what I am doing for now and look at ways to improve the volume.

I have a three day weekend this weekend, if I am free I may play an MTT session on Sunday as I will not have to be up Monday morning.

I need to rename the blog in 2013 as well, wonder what I will call it.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 21, 2012, 10:13:25 AM
Small little 201 hand session in the last couple of days. I really do wish I could get my motivation to play longer session back but if I played anything much longer right now I would probably play badly.

The biggest hand of the session won"t convert on the hand replayer annoyingly. It all started with me getting dealt KK in the BB. UTG player kindly raises it to 75c and it folds to me and I 3-bet to $2.25. He then makes it $6. I am still ahead of his range but a 5-bet really definaes my hand and gets snapped off by AA whilst gives JJ, QQ and AK the chance to fold. I therefore flat it and we see a flop of 6d-8s-5s. I check with $19 left behind (he covers). He bets $5.78 into $12.10making the pot about $18. Now seems like a good time to get it in as JJ and QQ should be paying me off and AK is more often than not done with the hand now. I shove, he snaps, oh that will be AA then. OK Pokerstars, do your stuff. There we go King, blank on the river on the turn ship the pot.

Think that hand played out pretty standard I get lucky to win the hand obviously, but those things even themselves out and it level up my EV for the month (I am now slightly ahead of EV). Other hands of interest were few and far between. I played a lot of standard pots and made some good bets in good spots to take down a few hands.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4571450

Biggest loss was this hand. I am quite happy with it, my opponent is a reg and he does not have to have the ace, until he calls on the turn, at which point I am pretty certain he does so just give up. I assume he knows I don"t have to have the ace here either so he might call on that flop but when he calls the strong bet on the turn I am fairly sure of where I am.

Overall result

Hands: 201
VP$IP: 22.89%
PFR: 20.9%
3Bet: 14.63%
Total Profit: $34.71

Cash games Month to Date (NLHE $25)

Hands: 3406
VP$IP: 23.87%
PFR: 21.73%
3Bet: 10.47%
Total Profit: $113.56
BB/100: 6.67

PLO

Hands: 263
VP$IP: 33.08%
PFR: 24.71% (hmm)
3Bet: 8.33%
Total Loss: $39.56

Cash Overall = $74 Up
Tournament overall = $$78.11 Down

MTD Overall = -$4.11
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: pokerpops on September 21, 2012, 11:34:06 AM
If the QJ v AJ was your biggest loss of the session you did pretty well I"d say.
I just launched a 10nl zoom session and flopped a set of threes on what looked a safe run out 4 3 8 K J we got full stacks in on the river - he had flopped a set of fours :(

Do you read the "Ape and a notebook" thread elswehere? Lots of interesting stuff there, not advocating trying John"s style, but there are some gems of advice for us all from his mentors.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 23, 2012, 11:50:31 AM
Had a poor day (pokerwise) yesterday, played in the morning before going to the football. Didn"t run too good.

I lost a decent pot early with this hand. I actually don"t like my own shove on the river when I looked back at it but don"t hate how I play the hand.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4574939

Check/call is better on the river here though. I probably still have to call if he shoves the river as I have put too much in there. Can"t see too many hands that I beat that call on the river though.

A couple of hands later, this happened. I am not at all sure about if I should fold to the cold 4-bet. I think without reads I possibly should.

http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=12090.0

I just gave up after this one as I would have gone on tilt

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4574940

I know that my opponent in this hand plays Ace rag and an ace is a large part of his range here. I therefore think my check behind on the flop is good as I don"t want to bloat the pot at this point as I probbaly need to hit a flush to win the hand. Pretty sure I play this hand fine as well so not too worried about a bad result on the day. Honestly don"t think I played too badly just one of those days

Hands: 267
VP$IP: 25.67%
PFR: 23.8%
3Bet: 13.98%
Total Loss: $82.15

Bit annoying to be honest but I have not run that good this month and that sometimes happens.

Gotta put something non poker related in here today

Went to the football yesterday, definately am going to need a coat for this soon, it was feeling pretty cold in just a football shirt. Still at least it wasn"t raining like today. The game was Newport County Vs Southport with Newport trying to stay top of the division. It started badly and Southport looked a much better side with one of their wingers being extremely good, Newport Countys goalkeeper, Lenny Pidgley (best keeper in the league a lot of experts say) made two fantastic saves to keep us in it. Southport took the lead after about 15 minutes from a penalty and were well in control until about 25 minutes in. Newport then picked up the pace and came back into it. On about 35 minutes our forward (Danny Crow) was about to kick the ball into the net when he was bundled off the ball. This is a clear red card and penalty which everybody except the ref saw. The ball goes lose to Aaron O"connor who then appeared to be tripped inside the area still but that was not given either. The whole team was clearly extremely unhappy and the crowd was going mad. The refs always get stick but this was at a different level. 5 minutes later he misses a clear handball in the area. I was starting to think this was some kind of wind up. At half time everybody was REALLY annoyed, it wasn"t just the normal thing you get, I was getting concerned that some of the guys on the terrace were actually going to try and jump onto the pitch and did the "come on we"ll get the job done in the second half approach".

Second half Newport were much the better team but some more strange decisions and the fact the ball just would not go in the net made you think it just was not going to be our day. Then finally in the 77th minute our top scorer Aaron O"connor gets the ball just inside the area and struck it into the net, the ground went mad as it felt that losing this game would be an injustice. The next 15 minutes were one of those times you can"t really describe in words as the whole ground got behind the team and they pushed forward looking for the winner, the singing and chanting was something you had to just be there too see. Stoppage time arrived and Subsitute Ben Swallow struck the ball from 30 yards. It seemed to hng in the air forever, until it landed in the top corner. The whole ground went into total mayhem. It felt that an injustice had been avioded and the spirt of the team to come back and win the game late on was amazing

The atmosphere in the pub after the game was like Red Bull, we still didn"t like the ref though. It is still a long season and we are realistic enough to know that it will be really hard to stay top of this league but for now We are top of the league.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: hi_am_chris on September 23, 2012, 12:21:05 PM
Ex chelsea youngster I think and would have thought he"d be in league one or league two (Lenny)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 23, 2012, 15:02:00 PM

Ex chelsea youngster I think and would have thought he"d be in league one or league two (Lenny)

Yeah he was at Chelsea as a trialist I think. He is good enough for the higher leagues for sure. He came in without a pre-season as cover for the previous first choice keeper and looked a bit lacking in confidence to begin with but now he has really been one of the best players in the team and gives the back four a lot of confidence. If Newport don"t go up this year I doubt he will still be there next year.

Some highlights here are enough to show his performance yesterday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWm4mrWfk7I&feature=share
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 29, 2012, 18:41:37 PM
So finished off the month after work a few nights last week. Managed to lose $27.76 in the process. Don"t think I did too much wrong but was only break even for cash at the end of the month and down in tournaments. Looked like this

Cash (nlhe)

Hands: 4530
Profit: $3.65

Tournaments (nlhe)

Number: 158
Loss: $76.01


Ran pretty bad in the 180"s so not concerned at all by the result. Unsure what to do next month now, I could just take a break from playing until I get back from Glasgow to ensure I play well there.

Will go back to just doing the odd monthly update on this next month. Not 100% sure if the constant updates are really that interesting tbh, reading back through the month most of the hands are pretty standard actually.

Anyway might play some 180"s tonight due to not having anything else that is actually worth doing. Sitting in the pub moaning about a nil nil does not appeal :-)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: hi_am_chris on September 30, 2012, 03:19:12 AM
I enjoy reading this blog and I for one hope keep it going
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 30, 2012, 09:01:39 AM

I enjoy reading this blog and I for one hope keep it going

It will definitely keep going but will just do weekly updates rather than daily as the constant ones were basically me trying to make standard sessions look interesting/worth reading about, when they really weren"t, or don"t seem to be when I read back through the month anyway. That way I can make them interesting to the reader and post some hands that are actually worth talking about hopefully.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Supernova on September 30, 2012, 16:29:17 PM


I enjoy reading this blog and I for one hope keep it going

It will definitely keep going but will just do weekly updates rather than daily as the constant ones were basically me trying to make standard sessions look interesting/worth reading about, when they really weren"t, or don"t seem to be when I read back through the month anyway. That way I can make them interesting to the reader and post some hands that are actually worth talking about hopefully.



I"m enjoying reading it too Rodders and I agree with you 100% here. Don"t let your blog become a slog! You won"t enjoy it if it does and it then becomes a chore.

Shaz -xXx-
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 30, 2012, 19:38:07 PM



I enjoy reading this blog and I for one hope keep it going

It will definitely keep going but will just do weekly updates rather than daily as the constant ones were basically me trying to make standard sessions look interesting/worth reading about, when they really weren"t, or don"t seem to be when I read back through the month anyway. That way I can make them interesting to the reader and post some hands that are actually worth talking about hopefully.



I"m enjoying reading it too Rodders and I agree with you 100% here. Don"t let your blog become a slog! You won"t enjoy it if it does and it then becomes a chore.

Shaz -xXx-

Cheers Sharon. It"s not that I find it boring or a slot at all. Just that I want to ensure it is as interesting as possible. Trying to think of ways to improve it currently maybe post graphs or something. Don"t know but will certainly come up with something.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 03, 2012, 23:44:47 PM
Pretty interested in peoples opinions of this hand

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4607894

I usually have some idea where I went wrong in a hand but in this one I honestly don"t know if it was just a massive cooler or I should have done something different. Given the flop I lose loads whatever I do but I suspect there is a better way to play it anyway.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=59184.0
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Swinebag on October 04, 2012, 10:01:49 AM
I can"t see how you do anything other than stack off here.

the stacks are big here so I think flatting pre is ok but given the way villain plays the hand (very well IMO) it is still difficult not to lose 300BB here
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 04, 2012, 13:08:12 PM

I can"t see how you do anything other than stack off here.

the stacks are big here so I think flatting pre is ok but given the way villain plays the hand (very well IMO) it is still difficult not to lose 300BB here


Opinion on PHA thread is that it is definitely a call pre and I agree.

The opinion on if it is OK to stack off ott is split though, a few people reckon it is a bet/fold.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: TheSnapper on October 04, 2012, 15:19:24 PM

I can"t see how you do anything other than stack off here.

the stacks are big here so I think flatting pre is ok but given the way villain plays the hand (very well IMO) it is still difficult not to lose 300BB here



+1, set over set is really unlucky :"(   set over set versus the only other 300bb stack :"( :"( :"( :"( have you been skipping church??

Hate the 3b pre, what do you think 3b"ing achieves?

How you deal with the aftermath can be the difference though, you can look for solace and there is plenty to be had in this instance, or, you can eek out the smallest amount of clues that may just get you to a position where you eventually recognise that folding is a real consideration.

As an aside, it seems to me that you are a little hard on yourself when it comes to your cash game. I read earlier in the blog that you are running at 5bb/100 hands, that would put you in the top 5% bracket afaik. Imho it is important to acknowledge that, it can feed your enthusiasm for the game.

Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 04, 2012, 15:54:19 PM
Good posts by Both Rob and Brendan here, nothing unusual about that of course, they are two of the best posters and players APAT has.

See below



I can"t see how you do anything other than stack off here.

the stacks are big here so I think flatting pre is ok but given the way villain plays the hand (very well IMO) it is still difficult not to lose 300BB here



+1, set over set is really unlucky :"(   set over set versus the only other 300bb stack :"( :"( :"( :"( have you been skipping church??

Hate the 3b pre, what do you think 3b"ing achieves?

Sitting at my desk right now I don"t think it achieves a whole lot. At the time I was thinking that I could end up with a really well disguised monster hand against another big stack that I could win a really big pot with. Like I said I understand the flaws in this but that is what I was thinking.

How you deal with the aftermath can be the difference though, you can look for solace and there is plenty to be had in this instance, or, you can eek out the smallest amount of clues that may just get you to a position where you eventually recognise that folding is a real consideration.

Yes looking back through hands is important. I quite like doing it and getting feedback on the hands. Don"t mind people telling me some plays were really bad either (like the 3-bet in the above hand). It all helps cut down the little leaks I think.

As an aside, it seems to me that you are a little hard on yourself when it comes to your cash game. I read earlier in the blog that you are running at 5bb/100 hands, that would put you in the top 5% bracket afaik. Imho it is important to acknowledge that, it can feed your enthusiasm for the game.

I hear you and you make a great point tbh

Not having problems with enthusiasm for online poker atm. I do sometimes but that"s just how I am and I just stop playing for a while.

I do OK at Hold'em cash, year to date I am running at just over 4BB/100 at $10nl and $25nl put together. I have lost it back at PLO though which is what I am going to be trying to put right when I get around to it, for now I am just leaving PLO until. I also took a couple of "shots" at $50nl which did not go so well so I am losing overall at online cash this year (not by much).

I am up about $500 at tournaments though, according to PT (including the APAT National League on Stars). The bottom line looks OK.

I make too many mistakes though by "clicking buttons". For example played about 500 hands today and won about $15 playing $10nl. This is about ~31BB/100 but I can still think of at least 5 situations where I really should lose less, clear mistakes not hands I am not sure over. I am sure everybody does this but it does sometimes annoy me that I make such basic mistakes (I am much more likely to get "tilted" by this than by getting outdrawn).

Overall I think my game is above average as I can beat $25nl on Pokerstars which I am lead to believe is pretty good. It is certainly a lot harder than beating most live games.

Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: hi_am_chris on October 04, 2012, 18:24:23 PM
How do you play if you get four bet?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 06, 2012, 19:36:59 PM

How do you play if you get four bet?

I can"t remember, the hand has confused me so much.

I think I was going to fold, but I should just fold pre here apparently, although I can"t get a consensus even from some of the best players in these games about what is best in any part of this hand.

I think I have come up with this

Preflop - Is a fold
Flop - is a bet/God knows (fold, I guess?)
Turn - is a bet/fold

This is the sort of hand that is the difference between a really good player and just an OK player and merits spending some time on.

My opponent who is a zoom reg at $10nl and $25nl also plays the hand really well. My main mistake is not considering the impact of reverse implied odds before getting involved.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: hi_am_chris on October 06, 2012, 22:27:46 PM
Maybe but to you he was an unknown? Still would find it hard to bet fold the turn, I saw the blonde thread but I really don"t know how many people are getting away from this
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: TheSnapper on October 07, 2012, 00:05:43 AM


I think I have come up with this

Posting - Never post results in OP fyp ;D ;D
Preflop - Is a fold
Flop - is a bet/God knows (fold, I guess?)
Turn - is a bet/fold

This is the sort of hand that is the difference between a really good player and just an OK player and merits spending some time on.

My opponent who is a zoom reg at $10nl and $25nl also plays the hand really well. My main mistake is not considering the impact of reverse implied odds before getting involved.


Just a read through the blonde thread and I 100% ( just for you Honeybadger ) think it is results based posting. See fyp above.

Don"t think folding pre is good this deep and especially versus a strong opening range.

Getting coolered as you did, is not evidence of this being a reverse implied odds spot imho.

On further reflection, your turn reraise may be a mistake, I just feel that it allows villain to maybe fold AA,KK,AQ,33,78 though at zoom 78 is very unlikely. Ranges here are likely super tight, its zoom poker and its an utg raise thats been 3b.

Finally, I totally agree with your assertion that it has been very worthwhile to analyse the spot and certainly not 50p.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Santino67 on October 08, 2012, 14:48:58 PM
Well done on your win last night Steve. Great to see your flying the Welsh flag and posting to encourage more of your team mates. Hope they"re hearing you loud & clear mate, look forward to catching up in Glasgow on friday  8)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 09, 2012, 13:07:05 PM

Well done on your win last night Steve. Great to see your flying the Welsh flag and posting to encourage more of your team mates. Hope they"re hearing you loud & clear mate, look forward to catching up in Glasgow on friday  8)

Cheers Grant will look forward to Friday a lot  8)

I do believe it is only 3 days away now.

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Poker has not been as good as it could be this month.

I am break even over 27 180 manners

180 man Tournaments: 27
Profit: $1.84
ROI: 2.73%

Cash has not gone well. I started the month on the first say by losing 3 buyins (the 77 vs QQ hand had something to do with that) and have been running at about break even since then. I have jumped around between $10nl and $25nl.

Hands: 5366
VP$IP: 23%
PFR: 18%
3Bet: 9.25%
Total loss: $79.83

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Is it Friday yet?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Laxie on October 15, 2012, 00:44:58 AM
Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii - very well done this week-end!!!   :D
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Santino67 on October 15, 2012, 01:07:18 AM
Very well played Steve, a great weekend all round. Look forward to meeting up again soon mate  8)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Waz1892 on October 15, 2012, 07:29:39 AM
Well played to get another medal Steve.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Logie66 on October 15, 2012, 08:41:50 AM
Steve, very well played over the weekend. You went for the win and it didn"t come off. Great record of 4 final tables and 4 medals.

A Gold one will come !!
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Curlarge on October 15, 2012, 12:40:02 PM
Excellent 3rd place Rodders, VIP sir!!!!! ;D
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Sunseekers on October 15, 2012, 14:26:08 PM
WP dude, so close,

must have been nice to say Raise to 1 MILLION
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 15, 2012, 14:27:28 PM
Post is tldr

I know that this thread is supposed to be about poker and I tend to leave trip reports and discussion on live events to those people who are good at it (usually Ger or Paulie). This past weekend though has been worthy of even me writing up what happened.

On Friday morning I left Swansea to travel almost the length of the country to Glasgow. I jumped on the train. Played a little bit of poker until the connection became too poor to continue. The journey was a good one and I arrived at Bolton in good time. I met up with Asa and we headed off the Glasgow. We got stuck just outside Carlise for about an hour but we didn"t care as we were busy playing 10 card double flop PLO8.

We arrive in Glasgow get food and head over to the casino to have a look around. It seems nice and we order a taxi into town to have a few beers with Grant. A good night followed talking about football and the Home Nations. We then get word that everybody else has arrived and decide to go back to the casino. We jump into a taxi and head over. I jump out of the taxi (literally) and head in. At this point the doorman decides that I am clearly to drunk to go in. Now whilst it is true that I had been drinking I was certainly not about to fall over, throw up in the toilet or not be aware of what I was doing, which is more than I can say for some of the people who we saw in there over the weekend. Sigh whatever. Me Asa and Adam go back to the hotel bar and play a DC game. I did make the mistake of reporting all this on Facebook which may not have been the best plan (Ger played a blinder as always).

Next morning I check the facebook status, trying to explain the reality of what happened seems pointless at that point so just go with it. I go and meet Adam and we go for breakfast at Wetherspoons. We find the only casino in Glasgow that does not open until 5pm on the way back to Alea. Adam is already planning what we do after the tournament day one ends it seems to involve a lot of gambling which is a great shout. We go back to Alea where we meet a few of the regs. Good to see some of the Scots again they have some great players and had a strong representation with Grant, David Blacklaw and Eck leading their assault. New England skipper Richard Baker was also present as he always is at these events and I sometimes wonder if there is anything this man can"t do. The Stockton Massive were out in force, Both Garys, Brian Harland (Great player) Lucy Amos (who I met for the first time shes cool as the rest of them), the very lovely Michelle (you are just awesome), and of course the AWESOME Phil_TC (mate - YOU ARE A TOTAL LEGEND),

I would say it could not get any better but the missing in action list was quite long this time. Darren Shallis (who I understand was busily binking local tournaments instead - what a shock), Ger (no Ger is just wrong at these), Paulie (see Ger Comment), Stu Ward (Was on duty sorting out his England team, so please you are an England captain mate) and Sharon (Thanks for the support yesterday) were all not able to make it. I look forward to seeing you all in Stoke.

Anyway we then have to play a poker tournament. I have Craig Dawson on my table which was a pleasure from a personal point of view and a pain from a poker point of view. I get the table figured out and play fairly loose seeing flops. I make a bad call on one river but generally end up going in the right direction and double my starting stack the get KK and 3-bet it and we get all the chips in on an 8 high flop and I hold against TT. I try to push it quite hard to get a stack, peak at about 100K but drop down to 82K at the end of the day which is still OK and I felt happy with my play.

It is now about 1am for some reason everybody goes home so me and Adam (after playing with hotel lifts for a while) head over to Gala to play blackjack and rail the tournament over there where Michelle and the Gary gang :-) are on the final table. Phil has a new friend who is the APAT chip leader) One of the Garys eventually binks it. The night that followed this, well I just can"t do it justice. Ringing Stu at 2am, 35p - no really 35p, taxi journeys, The hotel reception (not our hotel reception by the way), the poor girl outside that hotel reception. 23os. We all end up in ALEA, We all get in despite most of us being more drunk than I had been the previous night. We watch a 3 card poker table (OK we weren"t actually watching the table). We end up getting back to our hotel at about 5:30am.

So onto Sunday, we go for lunch with the Stockton Massive and Phil manages to get them to put breakfast back on even though it"s gone midday, the man is just brilliant. Anyway I get back to the casino and it restarts. I get AK first hand and take it down with a 3-bet shove. It seemed to go on for ages without an elimination then loads come at once and we go from two tables to the final really quickly. I started the final table as chip leader but manage to mess that up by misplaying jacks. I was really feeling like I could win this and am totally focused. Alan is playing great though and as the players drop down the clash seems inevitable. When we got 3 way to be honest Alan and myself were really battling hard and he got the best of it in the end, quite rightly he was the best player at the final table. I was pleased to see him take it down heads up.

After it ended Alan, myself and the rest of the APAT crowd who were still there played super poker with super blinds and a super river. Alan knocked me out again but Curly took the win. We have a few beers and just generally round the weekend off really well.

I have not done this trip justice here, great it was.

OK last thing on a more serious note. I few people have pointed out that I said around this time last year that I was basically done with live poker. Nothing has changed this is still the case. I don"t play live poker at all any more except for APAT and I would not play those if it was just a poker event. The people who are at these events are the reason for going and as long as they stay I will probably continue to do so. 

See you all in Stoke.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Newportlad on October 15, 2012, 18:28:52 PM
        ^^^^^^^^

tl dr

Cliffs: Got banned, finished 3rd, had a blast
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: pables on October 15, 2012, 18:31:36 PM
Rodders....................pure class!

Love always  :-*

Ian

Plenty of gold to come m8!!
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 15, 2012, 18:36:34 PM

       ^^^^^^^^

tl dr

Cliffs: Got banned, finished 3rd, had a blast - made 4th final table only 2 more needed

FYP

Ian and everybody above, thanks for the congrats posts.

Move onto Stoke and try again I guess :-)

The great news is everybody is going, can it get any better? Oh wait a minute..........

JAXIE - thanks for the posts any chance of a guest appearance in Stoke to change it from awesome to the greatest thing ever.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: HOLDorFOLD on October 15, 2012, 22:20:05 PM
Massive congrats to you Rodders .... Stoke is yours!

Loving the way you had to out-do the puddle stry for a taxi one this time  ;)

:-* :-*
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: technolog on October 15, 2012, 23:49:03 PM


The great news is everybody is going, can it get any better? Oh wait a minute..........

JAXIE - thanks for the posts any chance of a guest appearance in Stoke to change it from awesome to the greatest thing ever.


Awwwww. We missed you lot too. Luckily we had the distraction of our trip home (for Dawn) to Ohio to take our minds off it. We"re certainly hoping to make an appearance at Stoke, if only for the Saturday evening. A longer stay would depend how the finances look after Americky.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 16, 2012, 13:43:06 PM
And breath.

APAT mode disengaged. You lot can all go now, unless you want to read about poker hands, tournament"s calling ranges and all that other boring stuff I usually go on about on here. Although you might find it amusing the difference in how annoyed I get between the following two scenario"s so maybe pop back on every now and again *lol*

1) Blowing a massive chip lead 3 way and finishing third in an APAT live event
2) Losing a $20 pot in online cash

Everybody as they were. A proper post will follow shortly.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Paulie_D on October 16, 2012, 14:52:00 PM
Steve,

I have one question...(with follow-up)

Did you, at any point, feel that the "other" guy (whose name I forget) was laddering?

Adam commented on it in the update thread and it certainly seems as though he was very passive once you got 3 / 4 way.

If the answer is "Yes", did you consider pressuring him rather than playing back against Alan.

I"m not taking anything away from you at all...I just wondered.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 16, 2012, 15:07:28 PM

Steve,

I have one question...(with follow-up)

Did you, at any point, feel that the "other" guy (whose name I forget) was laddering?

Adam commented on it in the update thread and it certainly seems as though he was very passive once you got 3 / 4 way.

If the answer is "Yes", did you consider pressuring him rather than playing back against Alan.

I"m not taking anything away from you at all...I just wondered.

I think the answer to this is no to be honest (did I think of pressing him). He was short stacked and just seemed to be playing his cards and shoving with any decent hand (pair or big ace).

Not sure that that tactic was even open with the dynamic we had to be honest. I was button to his BB.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Paulie_D on October 16, 2012, 15:13:22 PM
Fair enough...I wasn"t there (DAMN IT!).  ;D

Just wondered...
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 16, 2012, 17:57:49 PM
Think I need to take a few days break from poker, just managed to spew off two buyin"s in 106 hands. Basically had JJ into AA when I should have got away on the turn. AA into a set where I also should have got away.

I only need to get another 110 VPP"s this month anyway. Back to it next week me thinks :-)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: hi_am_chris on October 16, 2012, 18:40:22 PM
Basically been my motivation for the last week is frequent player points, Cardrunners doing a promotion where you get a years free membership worth 360 dollars when you get 250 points on WPT poker. Got 150 points so far, so getting towards the back end of it now :D then back to stars as i need to make sure i get the first 50 dollar bonus by the end of the year.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Santino67 on October 16, 2012, 18:43:38 PM

Blowing a massive chip lead 3 way and finishing third in an APAT live event


Steve, don"t kick your own ar5e for a very good performance mate. At that stage, and more importantly the way the game was going, it was generally looking like you and Alan were going to finish 1st & 3rd. Paul had very little play, but seemingly enough chips to do either of you a reasonable amount of damage if you got committed with him. It was always looking like you & Alan getting hands against each other and being involved in the collisions.

What exactly did you do wrong ???

Would you rather sit back, do very little and finish 2nd  :P
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 16, 2012, 19:33:29 PM
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 21, 2012, 17:59:19 PM
Seems like ages since I did a proper update on here. Looking at this month I have not exactly been at the top of my game either I don"t think. Figures look a bit poor to be honest.

Cash Games

Hands: 7807
VP$IP: 23.41
PFR: 19.46
3-Bet: 8.63
Total Loss: $33.45

I have been really really gulity of playing at the wrong times. I few times I was in work for pretty long days got home at like 8pm or whatever time and went on and played. I lost over $50 doing this so should probably stop.

180 Manners

Total Games: 47
Total Loss: $54.89

I might go back to playing the non turbo version of these but I really want to be good at the turbo versions as well as I get really bored waiting for the 15 minute games to start.

Not a great month overall so far but the losses are small (less than 2 buyin at cash and the sit  go"s can turn any time) and I have time to get it back inot the green. Will post some hands at some time. Going play the league game and main event Scotland online game tonight.

I am off work for a week and half from 31st Oct although I could change this and go to Portugal? Assuming I don"t do that then I will probably keep a daily blog of how I am doing on the cash games and 180"s.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: duke3016 on October 21, 2012, 18:05:27 PM

I am off work for a week and half from 31st Oct although I could change this and go to Portugal?


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Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: technolog on October 21, 2012, 20:49:03 PM


I am off work for a week and half from 31st Oct although I could change this and go to Portugal?


(https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTgG0IYhEYBJZLXuy4a1LBSWRHHLE7Ay8MR2aS6sl_emZUv29Zk)


obv

and can we have less boring poker nonsense on here please and more on the life and times of Rodney J Medalwinner pls? If you"re worried about privacy, just tag it and that way everyone will know it"s just for me and Dawn to read.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 27, 2012, 10:08:58 AM
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: technolog on October 27, 2012, 12:38:51 PM
tl;dr

where"s the tags ffs?!?!
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: pokerpops on October 27, 2012, 16:37:28 PM
I wonder if the victim in your quad sevens hand is the hero of blonde Mantis, or just a random Mantis?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 01, 2012, 17:45:48 PM
Sorry this post is tldr again but for most people who actually read this thread it is probably one hell of a lot more interesting than the last tldr. I am off work for 10 days not so thought I would spend some time playing and putting up posts.

New month, last month sort of just ended without me ever really playing much more. I played the APAT league on Sunday but did not play that well.

Played some Zoom cash today. It is an interesting game as it is harder to get reads on your opponents so basic strategy is important. I played this hand. I am really unsure how good this play is. No info at all on my opponent.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4662813

I hate doing the 3-bet c-bet give up on the turn especially on that flop and turn. He could have the king but he certinaly does not have to have it. Maybe I should just fold pre but I don"t like flatting as we are not deep enough. Like I said not sure I played that hand very well, it would have been okayish OTB.

I do like how I play this next hand though

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4662814

The way he plays it looks exactly like a misplayed overpair. Would not change anything about this hand.

This might also be a mistake, always unsure about this kind of spot.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4662819

Here my preflop raise is fine. I have about 250 hands on the BB who is a reg in these games and I would expect him to have hands and notes on me as well. He is pretty tight and only had a 5% 3-bet.

I don"t think he is 3-betting with air although it is not impossible. I call trying to hit a decent flop which I do. He bets and I sort of want to shove but that looks exactly like a flush draw. Now he knows that I can be raising really wide here but I think he folds AK and AQ type hands anyway. If he has JJ-KK I am still 40%. I go for the smaller raise as it looks stronger than the shove and call off the shove I have the odds to do so against his range. Unsure how good peeling the 3-bet preflop is here even in position.

This is a spot I am on the right side of which I think is important.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4663568

He does not have to have the ace but two barrells mean he usually does.

Finally a pretty easy hand to play this but my opponents play is pretty standard play with QQ at this level. With most people the 4-bet can only be AA ot KK (maybe AK) if he

knows my game then he may know I CAN be 4-betting light but QQ is probably a fold once I 4-bet. I think this is an important part of being a winning player at these levels. I don"t think you have to go broke with QQ there.

Plays itself after the flop though.

This kind of hand is always interesting

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4662908

So I have raised the button with basically nothing and hit top pair without a kicker, how do I play it from there? I think this is probably not too bad.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4662909

This one is a good one imo. It sort of looks like a huge hand preflop but the weak bet on the turn in combo with check on the flop make me think AK. The river should probably be a fold. I am calling too many river value bets at the moment I think.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4662911

I like how I play this one the way it turns out, After the Ace hots the turn I reckon a bet may well fold out anything a beat anbd the board is not very scary so I check to give him the chance to bluff the river

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4662913

Again this is an example of how often big hands get misplayed preflop. If the players knows me (and I have 100+ hands on him) he should know that he can profitably 4-bet AK against me here. As it is Maybe I miss some value as I did not think he was as strong as he was. I think it is probably fine again

Hands: 500
VP$IP: 30%
PFR: 26.8%
3-bet: 7.1%
Profit: $21.11

Played a few 180 manners as well

First one, went out in a pretty standard spot with QQ VS AK Think it was OK apart from that. Got up to 5K chips by getting it in with KK against JJ, here is exit hand, any issue here do you think?

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4663562

Second one, Started quite badly lost a pot with AA when I limped UTG and had to fold so was down to just over 1000 chips got it in 3 way against AQ and TT but lost probably my own fault for trying to be too clever with the AA to start with.

Third one, Again made a bad strat with possibly a bad call on the river in a pot early on. Ended up down to 850 Chips and having to play tight so folded hands for a while. Ended up having to shove a bit ang shoved about 1K at 75/150 from button, had J4 not that it really matters. BB called with A4, hand is pretty standard again tbh.


Tournaments: 3
Cashes: 0
Total buyin: $13.50
Total Cashes: $0
ROI: 0%
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: TheSnapper on November 01, 2012, 19:58:57 PM
Other than the QQ hand, are these all zoom poker hands?

What is your fold to 3b stat?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 01, 2012, 20:03:13 PM

Other than the QQ hand, are these all zoom poker hands?

What is your fold to 3b stat?

They are all zoom including the QQ hand. Fold to 3-bet is 70.5%.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: TheSnapper on November 02, 2012, 01:54:52 AM
76s: Why would you consider 3 betting light has any value? I haven't played zoom though I did toy with rush poker where ranges were really tight given the immediate access to your next hand.

I'd like to hear your rational for barrelling the turn. Seems spewy to me tbh. I mean the second King changes nothing so say villain's preflop and flop calling range is something like 99+,AQs+,KQs,AQo+  (maybe even tighter), of that 57 combo's I'd expect JJ+,AKs,KQs,AKo, 29 combos to continue for sure and maybe even add 6 more combo's to account for when villain may get stubborn half the time with 99 & TT. So ~60% of the time you get looked up with ~8% equity.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 02, 2012, 15:08:56 PM

76s: Why would you consider 3 betting light has any value? I haven't played zoom though I did toy with rush poker where ranges were really tight given the immediate access to your next hand.

I'd like to hear your rational for barrelling the turn. Seems spewy to me tbh. I mean the second King changes nothing so say villain's preflop and flop calling range is something like 99+,AQs+,KQs,AQo+  (maybe even tighter), of that 57 combo's I'd expect JJ+,AKs,KQs,AKo, 29 combos to continue for sure and maybe even add 6 more combo's to account for when villain may get stubborn half the time with 99 & TT. So ~60% of the time you get looked up with ~8% equity.

Zoom Poker does not play as tight as Rush used too when Rush first came out.

The three bet from the small blind might not be that great here and I think the calling range of people is slightly wider than you suggest, but not by a huge amount (I certainly don"t think it is tighter). There is not really an answer to your point though, the bet on the turn is just not that good.

I do think that some combos of AK probably raise on the flop and a few KQ do as well, so really don"t think that a king is as bigger part of his range as it might seem and I think the second king does make a king less likely (there maybe a few random Kings in his range as well that peeled the 3-bet). Unfortunately this is balanced out by the fact it makes hands like 99 and TT more likely to call so I agree with your point that you get called too often for this to be a good play.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 02, 2012, 20:05:38 PM
Decided to try another 500 hands of Zoom Poker today, Seems to be quite

good for racking up the VPP"s.

Made a pretty awful start to be honest. Third hand I completely misplay

and make a bad steal attempt OTR.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4664611

The PFR is fine obviously and the c-bet is not terrible even if it does

look like a c-bet on this flop. His calling range is likely to be middle

pairs maybe a hand including a 4 and something with a 5 slow playing,

maybe he has peeled with an Ace high type hand. The turn gives me a

gutshot so I check and miss the river makes him lot"s of full houses and

give his ace high hands a bit of value. I bet when he checks to me I am

most likely better of just giving up as I don"t get many folds here.

I quickly follow it up with this hand

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4664612

This is not so bad as his calling range is weighted towards hands that

include a Jack or a nine and the turn card hits my range quite well

although it does make it less likely I have a flush. Don"t dislike the

way I play this one too much.

This hand though is just spew

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4664613

Played backwards from start to finish got what it deserved.

I then win some small pots and lose some small pots and lose a medium pot

with TT. I Get some back when I 3-bet A4 of hearts from the BB to a SB

raise and flop two pair and win about $5 from his pocket eights.

I then win this hand but probably don"t play it as best as I can

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4664618

Just wondering on that turn card if it is worth calling and then just

betting the river if he checks. I have a monster hand and he could have a

hand like JJ or QQ here although when he bet the turn with the sizing of

the bet I thought he had the King. The call on the turn gives him the

chance to bet the river with his air as well. I just thought there was

not much air left in his range at that point. Not sure on that one

raising and calling both may well be fine.

This one was nice and easy. Four bets here are strongly weighted towords

AA, KK and AK with a hand like QQ or JJ he is much more likely to call

and look for a safe flop. That is probably a leak in most players at this

level.



Then I play this hand

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4664617

This is another one, do I leave value on the table. I think my hand is so

strong on this dry board that a bet folds out so much that can at least

pay a bet on the turn. If he has flopped a set I can stack him anyway and

the only hand that checking against is really bad is AK.

So I had brought it back to being in profit then these two hands

happened. I think I should lose less overall or at least egt more in on

the flop where he hits the flush.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4664652
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4664653

Actually the second hand there I could lose less, or coudld I. Preflop is

fine. The flop is also fine on the turn I am wondering how many sixs he

actually as in his range that calls a raise. Looking at it now 88 just

seems very likely. Maybe call turn and call river is a better line. It

feels like he has 88 more than he has a 6 there. Maybe that is being

results orinated a little?

Daily Result: Down $17

Also played two 180 manners, didn"t cash in either.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: pokerpops on November 03, 2012, 11:41:33 AM
How many tables do you play Steve?

The K2 raise is somewhat spews when you can just early fold stuff like that and see possibly three more pairs of hole cards in the time you wait to raise and get yourself in a tricky spot postflop..

Love the 22 v AA hand for you though, he mangles it by that .10c bet on the flop.

67s another easy fold to a raise I"d suggest, you got away with it, but that"s not going to happen often enough to be profitable long term.

A8s hand - Definitely opening that from the button but fold or 4bet when he raises surely?


Meh - ignore as much of the above as you choose, my zoom play is characterised by getting stacked by set over set and running AA into KK or KK into AA and losing both ways....
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 03, 2012, 20:39:19 PM

How many tables do you play Steve?

The K2 raise is somewhat spews when you can just early fold stuff like that and see possibly three more pairs of hole cards in the time you wait to raise and get yourself in a tricky spot postflop..

Love the 22 v AA hand for you though, he mangles it by that .10c bet on the flop.

67s another easy fold to a raise I"d suggest, you got away with it, but that"s not going to happen often enough to be profitable long term.

A8s hand - Definitely opening that from the button but fold or 4bet when he raises surely?


Meh - ignore as much of the above as you choose, my zoom play is characterised by getting stacked by set over set and running AA into KK or KK into AA and losing both ways....


1 table of Zoom usually or 4 standard tables, I can go to 2 Zoom or 8 normal though but would not normally do so as I am trying to get good player notes and reads that are a HUGE edge in Zoom.

The K2 hand may be bad (I actually don"t think it is that bad though).

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4662908

The fact you can insta fold is not really relevant in my opinion. I would be raising the button there a lot in a normal game so I should not be fast folding. I reckon I am +EV on the button with most hands so I should be playing that hand. Players seem to play their hands pretty face up a lot of the time so we should be able to exploit the power of the button plenty.

The 67 hand is a fold pre

The A8 hand, as I said I am not sure that peeling the 3-bet is bad. Conventional wisdom would say it is a 4-bet or fold but I am not 100% convinced by that and with position there may be a way of making it profitable. I have been watching some of the big live games that include Ivey and Dawn and I notice they seem quite happy to raise/call with this kind of hand, maybe that has to do with stack size though? I need to do quite a bit of work on that kind of spot to be honest.

Definitely would never ignore your feedback though David, your record speaks for itself. Will we being seeing you in Stoke? If not I may heave to make an effort to make the trip to Stockton soon.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 03, 2012, 21:35:00 PM
Had plans of doing various things today but then in was cold out and I couldn"t be bothered so I ended up staying at home and playing online. The downside of this is that I must be getting old, ten years ago the weather would not have kept me at home. The up side is that I got some good online volume in and got well ahead of my VPP points target. This is good as I am hoping to spend some time this month playing on Full Tilt.

OK so after a pretty bad day yesterday I was hoping to get a good start. I did get a good start when I flopped the nut straight against a smaller straight. Easy game.

Unfortunately I then decided to play this hand badly.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4664842

Preflop he is 3-betting a really small % of the time so I have time on AA or KK type of hand. I obviously call with the small pair and the flop comes down Ace high. He bets really weakly and this makes me think he most likely does not have the ace. So I raise and he calls. I have disregarded AA now as he should probably shove over a strong raise. I therefore fire out on the turn. I think he has KK now and that there is a decent chance I can get him to fold. He calls. This is a case of not knowing your opponent properly and again I get what my play deserves, quite annoying that that keeps happening *lol*.

As there sometimes is in Zoom I come across a lot of 3-betting. I make two attempts to 4-bet, in what looked like good spots, and get shoved on both times and have to fold. I basically spend ages doing nothing other than winning and losing tiny pots. I do notice it seems hard to get much through today.

Next hand of any interest is this one

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4665572

I three bet from the button, I am having a lot of success with that at the moment. Pokerstars is rigged so I flop two pair. After that it is just a case of bet sizing correctly which was not that hard. When he check calls I have got him on some King hand. KQ, KT or a flush draw. I honestly though he was more likely to have the draw but although it missed the river I am last to speak so might as well bet and get paid off nicely. Is there much he can do? No I don"t think so, maybe my turn bet is strong but I doubt he can get away from it (fold to the 3-bet pre obv).

I then bleed some chips away in small pots, betting out on draws and missing (I still like that sort of play).

Did this http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4665574

I should click it back if I am going to defend against the 3 bet not get involved in this sort of thing. Just folding is probably better.

I then go through another period of doing nothing for a while, won a flip when I got queen in on a low flop against AJ with a flush draw. Then a few c-bets don"t work and I drop it down again to near level. Not much happens and I take a break from the session about $4 up. Not really happy with how I played either too many mistakes and bets in the wrong spots and bad calls. I would give myself a - must do better grade.

Part two of the session

Get KK all in pre against TT and hold for a small pot. Played itself.

Then I did this

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4665585

I have no idea what I am doing here. I should be checking the flop and as played giving up on the turn (even with the flush draw).

I get some back shortly after though when I get dealt AA and get three streets of value

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4665586

So I am now down a little bit and I am not sure how well I was playing but I still felt like I should be doing well and that my game was good enough to win. I did have to make some small adjustments and tighten up but I decide not to leave the table. As it happens if I had been up at this stage I might have done and locked up the win. That must be a leak.

I then win a pot with TT when I check/call the turn and river on a Jack high flop. I had 3-bet pre and so there were not many jacks in his range.

Another hand follows shortly after this

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4665587

No idea what is happening there. I had him on a worse Ace

Then this hand happened not long after

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4665590

Is it OK to get it in with AK do people think here? I really don"t like it

The session finished with me winning more little pots than I lost for an overall day that looks like this

Hands: 1501
VP$IP: 24.01%
PFR: 21.22%
3-bet: 6.1%
Profit: $30.89

Overall I think I ran well and played OK but not great. Did enough so that I should be able to comfortably beat this level, it would not be good enough at $50nl on stars though which is the level I would like to be able to beat. I think that is going to become a goal for next year. Right now as I see it I can beat 10nl and 25nl on Pokerstars which is enough to be able to crush any 50p/£1 game in the country I am sure. Almost certainly good enough to beat $50nl on most other sites as well as I understand it but the game on Stars is the one I want to be able to beat. Right now I can"t so will have to work harder to be able to do that.

Leaks I must stop-

1) Don"t three bet marginal hand OOP
2) Don"t three bet marginal hand In Position ~100BB deep
3) Don"t call so light on the river so often - I am paying off too much

I played 2 180 manners for fun obvious I did not cash :-)

Might play an MTT session tomorrow and use some of those tickets I have as it is double vision.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: pokerpops on November 04, 2012, 14:57:49 PM


1 table of Zoom usually or 4 standard tables, I can go to 2 Zoom or 8 normal though but would not normally do so as I am trying to get good player notes and reads that are a HUGE edge in Zoom.

The K2 hand may be bad (I actually don"t think it is that bad though).

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4662908

The fact you can insta fold is not really relevant in my opinion. I would be raising the button there a lot in a normal game so I should not be fast folding. I reckon I am +EV on the button with most hands so I should be playing that hand. Players seem to play their hands pretty face up a lot of the time so we should be able to exploit the power of the button plenty.

The 67 hand is a fold pre

The A8 hand, as I said I am not sure that peeling the 3-bet is bad. Conventional wisdom would say it is a 4-bet or fold but I am not 100% convinced by that and with position there may be a way of making it profitable. I have been watching some of the big live games that include Ivey and Dawn and I notice they seem quite happy to raise/call with this kind of hand, maybe that has to do with stack size though? I need to do quite a bit of work on that kind of spot to be honest.

Definitely would never ignore your feedback though David, your record speaks for itself. Will we being seeing you in Stoke? If not I may heave to make an effort to make the trip to Stockton soon.


The point about the K2 hand is that whilst raising it in a standard game may be ok because we get the button once an orbit and maybe therefore only once every 5 or so minutes, in Zoom we get it much more often and can be more selective...

My "record" is very much over-rated. I"m a losing player online, and reaped the benefit of two very good spells of run-good in the DTD GPs.  One of the benefits is the upcoming trip to St Kitts from which I return on the Tuesday night before Stoke. Short of winning the ME over there I can"t see a way I"m going to get a pass out for Stoke.

Get up to Teesside soon
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 04, 2012, 16:40:55 PM
Shot at MTT"s tonight

16:00 - Bigger $8.80
18:00 - $5.50 NLHE
18:30 - $11 Sunday Storm
19:00 - Bigger $11
19:00 - APAT League

May add some more as well
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Newportlad on November 04, 2012, 17:31:33 PM

Shot at MTT"s tonight

16:00 - Bigger $8.80
18:00 - $5.50 NLHE
18:30 - $11 Sunday Storm
19:00 - Bigger $11
19:00 - APAT League

May add some more as well


Best of luck!
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 04, 2012, 21:54:23 PM
Quite a tough day today at the tables. I just could not get anything going. Every time I felt like I was starting to get somewhere something would happen to knock me back down. This was mainly on the cash games but even in the MTT"s I either could not get started or was struggling as soon as I did and would get knocked back down. Starting with cash games.

Hands: 1970
VP$IP: 20.36%
PFR: 15.43%
3-bet: 6.08%
Total Loss: $19.62

I definitely ran below allin EV which was about level for the day. Not only that but I ran into a few situations where I was always losing my chips and there was nothing I could do about it. I dropped a buyin down early and never brought it back.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4666591

This is the first hand I lose which is totally standard and nothing that can be done about it. If I don"t go broke on this hand then I am doing something wrong, badly wrong.

I then lose a lot of medium sized pots where I am double barreling and it is not getting through, again standard sort of stuff. I was smashing into the top of peoples ranges all over the place.

I don"t think there was a big pot I played that badly but lots of little pots I was losing bets that I probably did not need too. Not going to post them up as really no point as they are simple enough I just get them all wrong.

I have to fold QQ and AK to four bets a few times, this is the right thing to do long term I am sure. The biggest pot I win is $8.97 with AA against KK.

I play some of the MTT"s but can"t get going in the APAT when my early doors QQ runs into somebodys AA luckily for me he lets me off and I lose the absolute minimum (apparently my play is terrible *lol*). I shove light a few times to stay in the game but can"t find anything and go out when I have AT into JJ.

I go out of the bigger $11 when I get it in with KK against QJ for a massive pot and lose, if I had won that pot I would have had 20K and been looking quite good.

I min cashed the Sunday Storm

I got knocked out of the bigger $8.80 somehow as well.

So that was today. I actually made money on the MTT"s as the entry to the Storm and bigger $11 is free on the tickets. I am still just over $15 up for the month in cash having played 4.5K hands.

Not the best day I have ever had and not the best start to the month but at least I am not losing.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 05, 2012, 16:20:11 PM
Some more interesting spots did come up today in the session. Very happy with the volume so far this month.

Todays session started off quite well. I sat at just above even for about

150 hands.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4666968

Then I get a bit lucky here, although again I do prefer my play in this hand to either of theirs. I raise it pre and then when nobody seems interested on the flop and the turn I try to steal it before hitting the river. I really think that the guy with JJ should have played a bit stronger at some point though, probably 3-bet pre and certainly look to raise on the flop or turn. When I bet the river it is a fold of the JJ. I think my play is fine and I take advantage of my opponents mistakes there.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4666969

Then comes this hand which I probably play OK. I am not sure. I c-bet the flop and get called. He can have lot"s of hands here and does not need to have the jack. I am putting hands like TT and 99 in his range as well as maybe smaller pairs and floats seeing if I give up on the turn. He could have a monster but I don"t give that too much thought. The turn give me a flush draw so I bet again and he calls, now I think he has something, probably some kind of jack. The river gives me top pair so I check call.

This might be bad, I am not 100% sure that he bets with much I beat here and would probably just check a hand like KJ. He is not bluffing as he could not have been chasing a draw when calling on that board. Think I should fold this river.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4666972

What is everybodies opinion of this without any info on the player by the

way. I do think that this is the best line to take with this hand (and

QQ) here. I could just flat the raise but worse calls the 3-bet a lot.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4666973

This is a hand I should probably put on PHA as I really have no idea what the best line on the turn is. The answer may be don"t 3-bet pre but my hand is ahead of his range even though I am out of position. The flop is pretty good for me as well and when he does not raise I am more likely to be good as he probably does not have a ten and overpairs tend to raise the flop. The problem is betting the turn tends to fold out the hands I beat and checking seems so weak. Is CRAI better?

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4666974

Think this is OK although need to do some more work on this QQ and AK thing in 3-bet pots. Is it better to just get them in preflop, most good players seem to believe it is but the hands I am seeing play out seem to disagree with that.

The biggest pot I win annoyingly won"t convert but it was pretty standard, I raised KK, got 3-bet and 4-bet to $2.50. The flop came 9 high allowing me to bet out $4 which got called. the turn was a blank so I could shove got a call from TT to win a nice pot and a profit of nearly $14.

Very interested in opinions on this hand

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=59449.0

I folded top set on the river and am wondering if a call is better. To

call I think my opponents range needs to be something like This

A2s+
KJs, KJos
QQ, TT, 99
AQ and QT

His range does not look that wide and I know he is somebody who chases draws and every draw has hit. It is likely a good fold.

This is probably the hand I am least happy with how I played. My opponent has a 3-bet of 15% over 90 hands (I know the sample is small) so if I am going to defend I should really 4-bet not flat call and get in an awkward spot. Check/call or chack/fold the river depending on what he bets is also probably better than blocker bet/fold.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4667567

Here is an example of how not to play a poker hand *lol*

Cash games result today

Total hands: 1008
VP$IP: 20.96%
PFR: 16.73%
3Bet: 4.57%
Total Profit: $22.03

May do a couple of 180 manners later.

Full Tilt tomorrow though. I wonder if I can actually manage to have two good days in a row on the cash games.

EDIT: Still can"t cash in 180 manners. Now played 9 this month without a cash, wonder if I can actually cash one before the end of the month. Might play the bunch of fives tonight, was going to go to pub but looks cold out.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 08, 2012, 12:49:31 PM
Not done an update for a couple of days but have been playing. Have had a pretty break even time of it (slightly up but not by much). I have played 2000 hands in the last couple of days though on Pokerstars. I found $50 in Full Tilt so tried to spin that up which did not go well. I bricked both of the bunch of fives tournaments, although to be honest I was not really trying very hard in them (not sure why, I wanted to but sort of could not be bothered). I won my seat at Stoke for £11 which can"t be bad though.

Unfortunately the hand replayer has been down for a couple of days so I am not able to convert the hands in the normal way so will have to post them from Card Runners.

So anyway on with the session reviews. On Tuesday I started with the plan of trying to three bet a bit less in marginal spots as I have probably been over doing that. I also set my HUD to highlight players who are not three betting often so that I could raise their blinds more often from my button and hopefully get three bet less when doing this.

Early on I 3-bet AQ and take it down with a c-bet on a dry flop. I make a set of threes and lead out and get no action but I still like leading out with sets.

http://www.cardrunners.com/pokertools/hand/14449531/

This hand then comes up. It more than less plays itself although I certainly was not loving it when he shoved on me as bottom set can be easily dominated there. I guess he could have a few overpairs in his range that he has gone crazy with but it is mainly Flush draws and a few sets. Ran it through Pokerstove and it"s profitable but not a fist pump spot. Not that it matters as I am never folding with the way the action goes.

http://www.cardrunners.com/pokertools/hand/14449551/

Lost this hand, not sure if I should be folding TT there. The thing is he can have underpairs in his range a lot and also some silly random hands so pretty sure it is a call. He had JJ.

http://www.cardrunners.com/pokertools/hand/14449561/

Not sure if I am a huge fan of how I play the aces in this spot. The plan was to raise allin on the turn. Maybe trying to get it in on the flop is better.

http://www.cardrunners.com/pokertools/hand/14449581/

Lost this one but I think it is totally standard and again plays itself. He has K8 of clubs.

http://www.cardrunners.com/pokertools/hand/14449591/

This is horribly bad, whoever sees me next could you please punch me for this hand. He has KJ obv.

http://www.cardrunners.com/pokertools/hand/14449601/

Get this against a player who has been raising constantly so I just complete he raises as expected. I shove as I know he calls with lot"s worse. He calls.... with TT, I get there.

http://www.cardrunners.com/pokertools/hand/14449611/

Very standard hand but wins me a buyin

http://www.cardrunners.com/pokertools/hand/14449621/

And this one loses me a buyin

Total hands: 2000
VP$IP: 20.3%
PFR: 16.2%
3-Bet: 5.25%
Profit: $5.76
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 10, 2012, 13:45:02 PM
Only played a small 150 hand session yesterday. Nothing that exciting to post about, won a pot with AA which cover about $5 of a $6.95 win. All pretty standard stuff.

Hands: 150
VP$IP: 17%
PFR: 15%
3-Bet: 6%
Profit: $6.95

Going to try and get a few more hands in today.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 26, 2012, 18:03:19 PM
End of the month then. Final totals on cash was OK

Cash (Pokerstars)

Hands: 10840
Total Profit: $80.26
VP$IP: 21.90
PFR: 17.70
3-Bet: 7%

MTT & 180 sitngo (Inlcuing APAT League and Bunch of fives)

Tournaments: 43
Total Buyin: $270
Total Cash: $310
Total Profit: $40

I also made a tiny profit playing cash games on APAT Poker, and won a sat on Genting into the Uk Championship

So overall a decent month really. I was in a bit of a hole in the MTT"s but got out of it by winning last weeks league game but had a 0% ROI on 180"s this month (played 16 cashed 0). Took a couple of shots at the bigger $10 and Sunday storm so $44 of the buyins was actually tournament tickets not cash so my actual profit is $44 more than shown here.

Things I have to improve on are bad sessions.

I lost $50 in one day due to playing when I should not have been this meant I only ran at 2.5BB/100 instead of closer to 4 which would have been pretty good.

This was my biggest loss of the month in a single cash hand I think

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4720187

Should I 5 bet pre? I think this pretty much turns my hand face up but he can have KK a lot there and not fold so maybe 5 betting is better.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4720188

By contrast my biggest win was this hand where I beat AA.

I do pretty well with pocket pairs but am break even with broadway hands. My worst two hads this month are KQo and AKo. I think I just ran a bit bad with AK this month as I ran into a set with TPTK in 3-bet pots twice. I don"t think there is a lot I can do about that

These are for entertainment purposes only

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4720189
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4720191

Next month I am only in work 10 days so will keep some updates going throughout the month.

First though it is back to the live arena and Stoke with the Home Nations and UK Championship. I will be there from Friday as I am going to miss Thursday night which is a shame.

I have been very lucky in my APAT life so far since arriving at the start of season 4. I have run miles and miles above my natural level in terms of results. I have been at a WCOAP final table. From a poker point of view though the greatest achievement was winning the Home Nations as part of Team Wales last year. Can we do it again, time will tell, I have great confidence in the team I have selected and I know they will all give their all and after that I don"t mind what the result is. I do hope Paul McGuniess is left with a headache when selecting the WCOAP team after some of them turn in amazing performances on Friday though. Wales B start as favorites imo but don"t give them the trophy yet!!!!

Hopefully my amazing run at APAT's will continue in the last event of the season, a fifth final table would be magnificent. If not and I go out on day one then the list of attendees should ensure a great weekend being had by all. I will most likely make some illogical post at some point during/after this weekend before returning to a logical cool online poker player until the UK Team Championship in January.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 03, 2012, 19:24:32 PM
Well I am really not sure where this year has gone. It is Dec already.

So having been away at Stoke this weekend it was time to get some hands in today and I duly did this. I would like some responses if people want to make them, don"t care how good you think they are and I won"t be in the least offended

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745146

Early on I get this hand. I have been struggling a bit with KQ do we think this is OK, it is just so cheap all the way along.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745147

Think this is pretty bad as swell. I should do a big 3-bet on the flop, even though the turn is a bad card for me I think I could get paid of quite wide here.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745149

OK this is the kind of hand I have been playing badly later and leaking chips with. I raise pre and hit top pair. I can"t remember why I checked the flop on that board. Looks like I should be top pair there. I think the call is fine and the turn is a check fold given the sizing?

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745152

AK was another hand I had a bit of trouble with last month and lost a small amount on it (although that was mainly down to a couple of unavoidable coolers). How do we like the way we play this against a player we know to be pretty aggro. Would it be better to 4-bet pre as we definitely have fold equity?

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745153

Not sure about this one (KQ again). Do we like 3-betting the button, I have been just flatting with this in that spot but think there may be a case for three betting against a standard opponent. When he calls the flop I don"t think there is much in his range he can still continue with so turn bet is OK.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745154

Poor attempt to nick the pot on the river, it does not look like I have the ace here.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745156

I have two here though

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745157

And a set of eights slow play which worked out nicely. When he bet river I put him on the queen or nothing so simple shove.

Hands: 1001
VP$IP: 21.18%
PFR: 19.23%
3-bet: 6.3%
Profit: $36.29

Easy game like :-)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 04, 2012, 16:51:42 PM
I am getting to old for APAT live events (or the full on version anyway), after getting back from Stoke yesterday I woke up at midday today. I never sleep till midday, literally never. The 4 hour drive back didn"t help.

Today went strange, the games seemed to be harder than normal for some reason. I tried to get some more interesting hands so that I can explain reasons for the plays.

Before starting the session I noted down a couple of things I want to try and aviod doing as they are leaks at the moment.

1) Don"t spew chips by calling the river when the action says you are behind even if logic states you should not be.

2) Don"t call three bets to light out of position

So we started off and got a nice start with the hand below

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745837

I have almost no hands on my opponent but the few I do have shows him to be playing 38/7 so him calling me preflop is not a big surprise. I am guessing he could have a pair but there are some worse aces in his range as well.

The flop is great for my hand and I don"t think he gets away from a worse ace here and I take down a nice pot. Happy with that hand.

The next hand which is only a little one is AJ OTB

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745839

Not sure if I play this well or not. He was playing 31/18 so I think I am ahead of his raising range, he was also 100% fold to three bet over a small sample size.

Next hand is AJ again this time in the SB with a button raise.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745841

Don"t have many hands on the button here. I call as I think he can raise with a smaller ace, maybe a 3-bet is better. The flop leaves me almost certainly miles ahead so I like my check. The turn puts some draws out there so I make a bet and get a call. The river basically makes me the uts, or as near as. I put a bet in, he calls with AQ so he had me crushed preflop. I run good.

Then had this hand, I think I play it OK against a reg who if he views me as anything it is probably as overly aggro. I know he will probbly just flat me on the flop here with top pair.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745846

I think the turn card is a good one for firing again on the turn as AK just got there and he may know that is in my range, I can still hit and ace to probably have the best hand or a ten for the nuts. He called both flop and turn quite quickly. I have heard it said this often means a draw but I could not disagree with this more strongly. It usually means they have no intention of folding and are not even thinking about it. I have to get away from the hand here.

This hand confused me but it didn"t matter as it is easy. He probably had a queen I suppose he played it well.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745849

On the flop I thought I was value betting against a hand like 88 or 99. I thought he usually would bet AQ on the flop. On the turn I thought I was betting mainly for value but also to get a cheap showdown as he is very likely to check to me on the river again. When he raised the turn I am almost never good and it is an easy fold.

I then get JJ dealt in this hand, I can"t get it to convert which is annoying as it is a good hand. I get raised from LP and 3bet the with JJ. I get 4-bet and I know my opponent is quite aggressive and I am likely to be ahead of his 4-bet range. I call instending to get it in on a good flop. Flop is good enough for that. I hit a set of Jacks on a K high flop, the money goes in and he had AK.

Do you think shoving it in preflop is better though?

I will be speaking to Stars about the below. I am sure they are supposed to send the queenball on the river :-)

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745857

Not a lot I can do about this one lol.

I won and lost some other pots but the overall result was a little win.

Hands: 1000
VP$IP: 18.3%
PFR: 16.1%
3Bet: 6.75%
Profit: $9.41

Overall I think I am still playing well. A few points to keep a look at:-

1) Don"t spew chips by calling the river when the action says you are behind even if logic states you should not be.

2) Don"t call three bets to light out of position

3) C-betting on the turn in 3 bet pots, I need to choose spots better here.

That"s about all.

May play a couple of 180"s later.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 05, 2012, 18:09:12 PM
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: mporter123 on December 05, 2012, 18:41:38 PM


http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4747871

This one looks fine to me. There are some bluffs in there that float the flop that we beat. i.e. 22-66, AQ,A10 that might float the flop could bet the river. Would play the same but probs betting the river smallish.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 08, 2012, 23:13:23 PM
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 09, 2012, 16:13:38 PM
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 10, 2012, 23:29:32 PM
lol so true

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_Qaqyv9eZJQ#at=475
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 12, 2012, 16:47:04 PM
Had first losing session of the month today. This would not be so bad but it more than cut the monthly total for cash games in half.

http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=12960.msg198196#new

It is interesting because something I have identified as a leak in my game (calling too light on the river). This one is actually very close though so really not sure if it is correct or not.

So go along until the first big hand that comes along. This one is totally standard in my opinion. I am prett much never folding to the tiny 3-bet when I have position after the flop. Post flop plays ityself.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4759214

Pretty sure there is not much I can do about the hand above. This one is probably a mistake though and I should fold on the turn. If the ace of hearts was not on the flop it might be closer to being a call.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4759215

I play a little bit more and win some pots and lose some pots in fairly standard spots. Make a bad bluff. I do notice C-betting ace high flop is BVB spots seems to get little respect these days,

This pot then kind of annoys me as I kinda of feel I should win as I play so much better than my opponent, this really should not annoy me but it does for some reason

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4759218

It is possible I lose value on the river in this hand. He does have a flush draw in his range but can have other aces as well. It does not look like a staight has got there and his line is suggesting a worse ace. I probably get paid by lots that I beat on the river here.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4759220

I then get given a gift when I raise to 30c with AJ and somebody from the BB shove for $6. This is usually a small pair or worse ace in my experience. Yes he can have AK or AQ but they are about the only hands I am in real trouble against. It is not JJ - AA (actually JJ is possible but not the top 3 hands).

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4759221

I get back to being less than a buyin down and play two hands horribly

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4759223
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4759224

These two hands came in quick succession and basically cost me two buyins. The JJ hand is a good spot to set mine pre as the 3-bettor probably has a bigger pair and the caller a smaller pair and we are all sat really deep so I can win a big pot of the guy who I think has AA or cooler the guy with the smaller pair. I should really be giving it up on that flop though. The other hand is just trying to outplay somebody for no reason. I was trying to float the flop to take it off him on the turn. Once that did not work I know he usually has an overpair type hand and should give it up. The river bet is terrible. The problem here might have been I was in a rush to get the session back to even which was basically going to happen anyway but I wanted to be even there and then. Again this is something that I sometimes do.

So I was back down $25. I then have a little period where my raises are getting 3-bet and I am having to fold to drop down some more.

Didn"t play well from there with hands not going my way and also managed to misclick raise in one hand when I meant to click fold. End of the session looked like this

Hands: 858
VP$IP: 22%
PFR: 18.5%
3-Bet: 6.96%
Total Loss: $47.02

Not happy with how I played the session overall, made too many mistakes and let some of the leaks slip back into the game. I did a few times call OOP with marginal hands when I got three bet overall. I was also trying to steal pots in bad spots or against the wrong player. You get sessions like that though.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 12, 2012, 20:55:28 PM
Just found a new leak, something I am not doing correctly is making notes on how regs react to 3 and 4 betting. I know how to exploit the percentages of course but I need better notes on their reactions to this.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 14, 2012, 20:03:29 PM
Total yoyo couple of day these last two days. I played a high number of cash hands yesterday and for some unknown reason ran like a three legged horse. I am sure this is not supposed to happen to me but I was 5 buyins under EV at the end of the session. Unfortunately I think I made a couple of mistakes due to this and lost more than I really needed too. Not going to post too many hands as they are either bad beats or me playing like a clueless donkey. An example is below:-

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4761639
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4761640
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4761642

So yeah, that was kinda crappy overall. There were quite a few outdraws and I was almost level on the day in allin EV but that does not excuse bad play in any way at all.

Hands: 2522
Total Loss: $55.69

So anyway I needed to try and do better today. Didn"t play many cash hand, won about $7 playing cash but then stopped to focus on a couple of 180 manners that I was playing.

Early on in this one I get AK on the button and have to 3-bet fold which is annoying, it is definately correct though in this spot and shows the importance of making correct decisions. Even though I am left with less chips I am still in the tournament with plenty of chips compared to the blinds.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4761646

I then get a nice slice of luck when QQ holds up here giving me a stack back. The hand pretty much plays itself from my point of view but I can easily be out of the tournament here

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4761647

I then get in a hand with this player. He has raised and c-bet a lot at this table (PFR 31%) and when I shove I reckon I have loads of fold equity and if he calls I still have outs. (PS - I am also a lucky fish).

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4761648

Standard hand is standard

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4761649

I then nick some pots and make some chips and start to look good for a deep run. The pot below helps me as we go into the money places.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4761650

At this point my 3-bets are quite effective so I am able to collect chips without ever going toi showdown which is the advantage of having a larger stack. The pot below is what really set me up though.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4761651

NOw I had double the average chip stack and was on the way.

I more than less stay where I am until near to the final then I make this error which knocks me back. My hand is just a terrible hand to call with here and is a very basic fold and it is not even close.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4761652

Never one to learn too quickly though I do the same thing again more than less. His range here is filled with AK and AQ this call is just as bad as the one above, on the upside I am now chip leader. At least whatever was wrong with Pokerstars causing my run bad ysterday seems to have been fixed.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4761653

I then make the final table. This hand is very significant as I had been 3-betting quite wide. Mt opponent in this hand seemed to have picked up on it and had already 4-bet me once. I four bet back at him the next round, then this hand popped up. Queue action. This could have got awkward otherwise when people won"t back down it usually does.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4761654

I think I play the below hand well

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4761655

As we go down to three plays I manage to keep my agression up and get to heads up which goes back and forth for a while before I lay the smackdown below:-

http://www.boomplayer.com/poker-hands/Boom/1473131_A5BC23F4D5

When I bet the 20K on the flop I did not want to see a call. I think he would have caled with most hands with showdown value so his range was very much flush draws, air and maybe the odd King, although a king would often slow play.

Not a bad day winning $7 in cash and $204 in MTT"s made up for yesterday anyway.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Santino67 on December 15, 2012, 03:18:39 AM
Just wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, nicely done mate  8)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 16, 2012, 13:55:27 PM
Thanks Grant :D

Played 1100 hands today and lost $31.

This was mostly down to playing badly, not a lot more I can say about it. It is annoying that I know what I am doing is wrong but do it anyway. I know everybody does this but why, how do you get around it?

Some hands:-

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4763634

Preflop is fine and the flop is fine for a c-bet as well. However when I get called with that flop he is not calling with nothing and I am obviously beaten, AQ and KQ are in his range. I am unsure why he checked the turn but I suppose on that flop as I have given up it is a reasonable play. The river is probably a check fold unless he bets small. Bet/call is the nut worse line. Check/Call might be OK if he bets out small.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4763635

This hand is pretty lol bad. I should 3-bet pre rather than call from SB here. When I hit TPTK on that board it is still really REALLY marginal against his range. I have no idea why I lead out we get it all in and he wins which is a fair result. This is bad poker.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4763636

I am not being aggressive enough in Button Vs Blind situations and this is an example of why. The BB is pretty aggressive here and I think and will 3-bet wider than just JJ+ and AQ+ so I should 4-bet pre and this is the reason the hand goes wrong. If I 4-bet here he might even fold. If he doesn"t I might still get stacked but at least it would have been correct. Calling the flop as played is OK but the turn is a fold.

There were lots of little hands where I am doing the wrong thing at the wrong time as well. I just am not playing very well these last two sessions.

Todatys Result

Hands: 1100
Total Loss: $31.76
VP$IP: 23.84%
PFR: 19.72
3-bet: 7.49%

So that puts me down around $50 in cash for the month. I am up about $300 in MTT"s so not too bad (I am also up on both cash and MTT"s on APAT Poker poker). I should not be down though, if I had played correctly I would be up about $100, I have not run bad and have not been unlucky. It does feel at the end of most sessions like you have but when you look at it a bit deeper you usually find the reason you lost was bad play and this turns out to be the case again in the last couple of days.

I am sure I will turn it around by the end of the month but it is annoying that so many mistakes are getting into my game at the moment in an environment where you just can"t have them.

I will go and play some 180"s instead this afternoon.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 16, 2012, 21:54:19 PM
Does anybody fancy a small prop bet in 2013. Say $50 (or less if people prefer) on Pokerstars? It can be more than two people but the rules are:-

1) You have to play at least 200 tournaments on Pokerstars in 2013 (any stake), if you play less you lose automatically
2) The winner is the person who OPR says has the highest ROI on Pokerstars at 6pm on 31st Dec 2013

This would help keep us focused during 2013

We could try to do something with cash games but that would have to be done with the use of tracking software as there are no reliable 3rd party trackers, and posting up screenshots which becomes really complicated.

Anybody up for this?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 21, 2012, 16:52:05 PM
Playing really bad at the moment. Doing lots of things wrong which I know are wrong but I just do them anyway. Today I was playing and was up $40, I knew I was not playing 100% any more and thought I should come off. Then just didn"t and went down to just $25 up then started to try and force the action knowing I should come off. So I just opened another table instead and ended the session down about $30.

I basically lost $70 in 200 hands. I don"t think I should have lost $10 in those hands when I really should have left the table and not been playing at that time. The problem I have at the moment is that I seem to be tilting very easily and silly things are tilting me (like players playing generally badly, got annoyed yesterday because I guy called me down with JJ on a king high board when I had AK as it was so obvious he should have folded the turn, no idea why this should bother me in the least, I should be quite pleased, but things like this are starting to tilt me).

Not sure what to do about this, it happens every now and again but it makes no sense. Why I am doing things that I know are wrong, I know the right play in my mind but it"s like I just do the opposite. The best one was playing 250BB I raised QT to 30c and got called I then c-bet the flop and the turn and got called twice (I had nothing). I checked the river and the other player shoved for about $22. So I called with queen high.

Silly game sometimes
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: mporter123 on December 22, 2012, 08:28:28 AM

Does anybody fancy a small prop bet in 2013. Say $50 (or less if people prefer) on Pokerstars? It can be more than two people but the rules are:-

1) You have to play at least 200 tournaments on Pokerstars in 2013 (any stake), if you play less you lose automatically
2) The winner is the person who OPR says has the highest ROI on Pokerstars at 6pm on 31st Dec 2013

This would help keep us focused during 2013

We could try to do something with cash games but that would have to be done with the use of tracking software as there are no reliable 3rd party trackers, and posting up screenshots which becomes really complicated.

Anybody up for this?


Yup, tournaments, in for $50.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 22, 2012, 08:42:40 AM


Does anybody fancy a small prop bet in 2013. Say $50 (or less if people prefer) on Pokerstars? It can be more than two people but the rules are:-

1) You have to play at least 200 tournaments on Pokerstars in 2013 (any stake), if you play less you lose automatically
2) The winner is the person who OPR says has the highest ROI on Pokerstars at 6pm on 31st Dec 2013

This would help keep us focused during 2013

We could try to do something with cash games but that would have to be done with the use of tracking software as there are no reliable 3rd party trackers, and posting up screenshots which becomes really complicated.

Anybody up for this?


Yup, tournaments, in for $50.

Awesome $50, highest ROI, how many do you want as the minimum? 300 or is that too low?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: mporter123 on December 22, 2012, 10:44:59 AM
300 is fine. I should play a fair few more than that next year but won"t be stopping if I bink early :-)

Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 22, 2012, 18:18:43 PM
Playing so bad now it is silly. Here are 3 hands from today which pretty much defined how I did

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4780211
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4780212
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4780214

Now I can honestly say as I played these hands I knew 100% what the right play was but did not make it. This is just setting fire to money.

First hand - Preflop looks fine and I don"t mind my check on the flop in this spot as I can make the nuts or a better pair. My bet on the turn for value is good, his raise is huge strength on that board though, he has lots of two pair combos and sets I lose too. Fold to the reraise is fairly simple and calling off 110 BB on the river is just lol bad.

150BB wasted

Hand two is very simple, fold pre to the 3-bet or fold the flop. Fancy play is not required.

150BB wasted

Hand three is slightly less simple but when he raises the flop I should probably flat to keep the pot smaller and then reassess on the turn. With a smaller pot and deeper stacks getting away should be easy.

90BB wasted

So in total that is about 390BB just thrown away. I can"t start to explain how bad this is or justify it.

Still very confused about what i do about this as it"s not something I have suffered with to this stage before. I know I should not be losing very much over the last few days (the way the cards have fallen I probably should be up). The annoying thing is that I was actually played very well for long periods today but then gave it away.

Overall loss today on cash was $13.22
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: ForthThistle on December 22, 2012, 22:27:25 PM

Does anybody fancy a small prop bet in 2013. Say $50 (or less if people prefer) on Pokerstars? It can be more than two people but the rules are:-

1) You have to play at least 200 tournaments on Pokerstars in 2013 (any stake), if you play less you lose automatically
2) The winner is the person who OPR says has the highest ROI on Pokerstars at 6pm on 31st Dec 2013

This would help keep us focused during 2013

We could try to do something with cash games but that would have to be done with the use of tracking software as there are no reliable 3rd party trackers, and posting up screenshots which becomes really complicated.

Anybody up for this?


In for bet.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 23, 2012, 06:33:21 AM


Does anybody fancy a small prop bet in 2013. Say $50 (or less if people prefer) on Pokerstars? It can be more than two people but the rules are:-

1) You have to play at least 200 tournaments on Pokerstars in 2013 (any stake), if you play less you lose automatically
2) The winner is the person who OPR says has the highest ROI on Pokerstars at 6pm on 31st Dec 2013

This would help keep us focused during 2013

We could try to do something with cash games but that would have to be done with the use of tracking software as there are no reliable 3rd party trackers, and posting up screenshots which becomes really complicated.

Anybody up for this?


In for bet.

Cool. The way I am playing at the moment it is basically free money *lol*

So Dave/Mark are we happy with doing it between the three of us $50 per man highest ROI according to OPR on Pokerstars at the end of the year wins and the other two pay the winner $50?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: mporter123 on December 23, 2012, 09:39:05 AM



Does anybody fancy a small prop bet in 2013. Say $50 (or less if people prefer) on Pokerstars? It can be more than two people but the rules are:-

1) You have to play at least 200 tournaments on Pokerstars in 2013 (any stake), if you play less you lose automatically
2) The winner is the person who OPR says has the highest ROI on Pokerstars at 6pm on 31st Dec 2013

This would help keep us focused during 2013

We could try to do something with cash games but that would have to be done with the use of tracking software as there are no reliable 3rd party trackers, and posting up screenshots which becomes really complicated.

Anybody up for this?


In for bet.

Cool. The way I am playing at the moment it is basically free money *lol*

So Dave/Mark are we happy with doing it between the three of us $50 per man highest ROI according to OPR on Pokerstars at the end of the year wins and the other two pay the winner $50?


Yea, sounds good to me.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Newportlad on December 24, 2012, 11:34:18 AM
Morning Rod

You"re going to need your "A" game for our annual cash session this afternoon at Pockets.  Lots of sharks/fish about i imagine.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 24, 2012, 19:28:51 PM

Morning Rod

You"re going to need your "A" game for our annual cash session this afternoon at Pockets.  Lots of sharks/fish about i imagine.

PMSL that is all

I spent most of it in the pub over the road. This is like the worst game of snooker I have ever seen, think I player 8 hands. All-in blind ftw.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 31, 2012, 18:33:43 PM
Result for Dec first. My APAT results have gone from Poker Tracker for some reason.

Cash Game: Loss of $38
Tournaments: Profit of $221

I know I was up on the APAT site this month after winning a PLO8 tournaments and I think I cash in another bunch of fives PLO?

Give myself a C (must do better) for poker this year. That being said I am really happy with some of the improvements I have made in my game this year and I think I now do a much better job of adjusting to players than I used too and tend to be thinking on a higher level too. In the new year I need to have a better schedule for actually playing, at the moment I play at times when I should not be playing and often play for too long when playing cash.

Will skip posting hand for this post and post what I would like to do in the next year poker wise:-

Resolutions
------------

1) Read The Mental Game of Poker
2) Attend more Skype sessions (ideally two per month) reviewing hands and discussing improvements
3) More Time reviewing hands to improve player notes on regulars
4) Play a DTD Deepstack
5) Maintain Silverstar each month on Pokerstars (which should now be a piece of cake)
6) Look at possibility of formal online cash game coaching


Ambitions
----------

1) Two APAT live Final Tables in 2013 (This could be tough I am long overdue some run bad in these events)
2) Win an APAT individual gold medal (ditto above)
3) Attend a Stockton G Home Game with such legends as, Stu Ward, Phil TC, David Amos, Matthew Ward and Brian Harland.
4) Top 3% on OPR

The resolutions are things I really should do and are not hard to accomplish and just take the motivation to actually do. The ambitions are meant to be a bit more of a challenge. The main thing that I want to do is too continue the improvement I think I have made in my game this year. I don"t think I am ever going to get to the "next level" but would like to be good at the level I am at now.

The other thing I need to do is stop spewing money which I have been doing a lot of lately. As I have said before it comes from playing too long when I know I should not be playing. It"s not really down to tilt as such it is just continuing to play when I know my edge is gone. I even know the warning signs. I"ll call from the SB rather than 3-bet or peel a 3-bet because it"s easier than trying to decide if I should 4-bet or fold. Also trying bad bluffs in poor spots. Not enirely sure how to cut this bit out. Suggestions are welcome.

I need a new name for this thread in the new year I think. For now I wish all apaters big and small, old and young, much good health, great times, run good and binkage. World greatest people, so many people say it that it just cannot be wrong.

Peace out 2012

Now let"s do it all again - see you all in 2013. Can"t wait until Luton #TeamBlonde ftw for sure.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 01, 2013, 19:40:10 PM
A new year and hopefully a successful one in poker. I decided to try and get it off to a good start today.

Cash games I think I played quite well in most spots. This year I am going to make a real effort to make good player notes as I think this is a big advantage in zoom. I also

want to make sure that eveything I am doing is for a reason. I think I did this correctly today in most spots. There are a couple of big pots I have looked at again after the

session and I can see where I could have played them better.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4792784

No real reads on any of the players in this hand. I try the 3-bet steal from the button with a decent enough hand to do it. I think I get this through a lot of the time in these

games so think that this play is fine. The flop is excellent for me but quite wet so I want to get some money in now to charge any draws or to get value from any hands that want

to pay me befoe a card to kill the action arrives. I bet out $2.65, I think in retrospect I like $3 better as anybody who is calling $2.65 will also call $3. I only get one

caller. So he could have some kind of draw (likely) or a marginal hand that is just planning to call down or reassess on the turn.

The turn is not a great card for my hand as it means if he has something like JJ or QQ I am not less likely to get paid on it. It does not change any of his drawing hands

though. I check to him to make him think I am scared of it hoping that he will see fold equity and semi bluff his drawing hands. Although this happens I don"t like it as the

board is already scary and draw heavy and I don"t charge him at all and if his draw hits it will be hard to fold and if he misses he gets away for free. shoving the turn is a

better play by far. As it happens my plan works and I get the chips in with 90% in equity but I still don"t like it much.

It is easy to look at this hand and think I got unlucky however when you look at it properly and think if I had made the best and most +EV play on the turn I most likely win the

hand.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4792787

This is an interesting hand as well. preflop is standard, I raise and get two callers. The flop is really good for my hand so I bet out on the flop with a standard cbet. I get

min raised and the other caller folds. Now I have a huge hand and I am happy to get it in here so what size should my bet be? His min raise could be great strength but normally

means a draw type hand in my experince. It does not really matter what he has now anyway, I make it $4 and he calls. The turn is not the ideal card for me, a Jack. It gives me a

pretty useless pair and cuts my equity. If I check and he shoves I will need to call $5.95 to win $14.90 so I will need about 29% equity to call. I am going to have more than

that on average. I therefore think that my shove is optimal as him folding is the best result for me. I do think I get a small numbr of folds here which increases the expected

profit in this spot.

Another hand from today is currently posted in the Stategy section

http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=13048.msg199563#new

Let me know what you think in there, not going to give away the result in here yet :-)

Looking at the other side of the coin and big pots won. Well there were only two of them as well. One was a standard get it in spot with KK preflop against AK which won me 110bb

and the other was a race when I 5-Bet shoved AK against an agressive preflop playing in a BvB spot, he called me with JJ and I won the race. There were a couple of smaller pots

where I win about 50bb playing hands correctly against certain players.

Overall Cash Result was:-

Hands: 1002
VP$IP: 22.16%
PFR: 19.66%
3-Bet: 8.43%
Total Profit: $29.07

MTT ($4.50 180"s)

Played: 4
Total buyin: $18
Cashed: 0

Also trying to keep a spreadsheet to keep a track of everything across all sites in one place as I tend to play on APAT as swell as Stars now.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At-Acuf8tqPodGlkXzB4U0MwREtuSkttdmcwOUI1MHc#gid=0
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 06, 2013, 10:57:00 AM
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 06, 2013, 21:34:07 PM
Another day and another 1K hands done with. Although I did make some mistakes today the Poker Gods refuse to let me lose and continue to rig Pokerstars in my favor.

I have noticed one really interesting thing about Zoom at the moment and that is BvB nobody seems to fold once they are in a pot, if they have a little bit of it they are calling all the way. I have adjusted to this I think by playing pretty tight/aggressive in those spots.

I made a good start to the session today getting some money up without ever really getting in a big pot.

Below is the first decent sized pot I won. It is a standard spot. I flop TPTK and go bet/bet/bet. He actually plays it fine too. The river for him is actually likely to be a fold but the river card makes that really hard to do.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4804974

I then lost a couple of small pots before finding a good spot in a BvB. I get more than I should here. I get his call on the flop and the turn but I am showing massive strength on the river and his bare ace without a kicker just is good so rarely in that spot. As I said earlier noticed tis a lot BvB. Like my bet sizing in that pot.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4804975

This next hand is a good one. I am really not sure how well I play it. Preflop I am well aware that the BB can 3bet me light. I elect not to 4bet as i want to keep all of his air in his range which is really wide at the moment.

He bets the flop. I for some reason raise, I am not sure why if I am honest. There is no real straight draw and the flush draw is very unlikely. It just seemed that I had to hope there was something I could get value from. When he calls I am thinking he can have the flush draw here. The turn is a great card for me and when he checks I make sure I give him odds to draw to the flush. He does, it hits, he has it. He pays me. To me this is a good example of how not to play a hand around 200bb deep from him. His three bet is fine but I think he should shut down on the turn.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4804976

I am obviously so clever and would never donk off chips like that. Except when I do. I like my play up to the turn when sticking him all in is pretty poor. I thought that the turn made a lot of draw possible but it also completed lot"s.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4804977

I took a quick break and got back too it again. Win a standard flip when I have QQ OTB against AK from the BB neither of us are folding those hands against the other.

Apart from that I win and lose little hands and break even. Have a break before the last 200 hands where this happens

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4804978
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4804979

Nice couple of hands that basically play themselves. The AK one I thought the river was the nuts or nothing so called. I think that line of thinking is sound. The quad threes was against a very aggressive opponent who has seen me raise with nothing and did the work for me.

This last hand shows me playing like a muppet and getting lucky, it"s something you are all quite use too and not exactly ground breaking news (Rodders butchers hand but still wins).

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4804981

Would like to tell you I had lots of cool stuff going on in my brain on this one but actually I just played it like a donkey. Calling the 3-bet is pants. I should just fold. The call on the flop is bad as AK got there so I lose to almost his entire value 3-betting range (if he is three bet bluffing then I should 4-bet pre). The turn bet is OK but he is always calling it with most of his range. The river card is just dumb luck for me.

So at the end of the day:-

Hands: 1013
VP$IP: 25.07%
PFR: 22.61%
3Bet: 11.17%
Profit: $37.56

Did not play any 180"s today. In cash I am up $122 so far this year and am definitely running good. Have not run so good in 180"s but have only played 7.

I then went and played PLO with Stu on APAT for a while. Lost about $15 in that game but went and nicked it back in heads up. then played some blackjack for some reason and lost it again. the played hold"em and won it back again. Apparently I am $0.11 up on APAT so far this year.

Tried some of those $1.50 hypers that Adam has been playing. Played 7 of them with 5 wins and two losses. They are quite fun.

Talking to Stu Ward about PLO as well today and watched him make about $200 on APAT poker. I know he is a top bloke and all but whenever he made the nuts people were just falling over themselves to give him money MBSFN. I think there is some money to be made in the little cash game on BOSS. I like the Zoom games at the moment but when I get my Silverstar for the month I will play some Holdem on there. Maybe some MTTs too as I used to like the ones on DTD.

Hope this run good holds out until Luton. 2013 is going to be a good year me thinks.

Oh Special mention to everyone"s hero Mr Phil TC. Congratulations on your engagement. You should bring your young lady to an APAT event so she can meet the gang....... Oh wait a minute, maybe not then.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: noble1 on January 10, 2013, 18:02:07 PM


http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4792787

This is an interesting hand as well. preflop is standard, I raise and get two callers. The flop is really good for my hand so I bet out on the flop with a standard cbet. I get min raised and the other caller folds. Now I have a huge hand and I am happy to get it in here so what size should my bet be? His min raise could be great strength but normally means a draw type hand in my experince. It does not really matter what he has now anyway, I make it $4 and he calls. The turn is not the ideal card for me, a Jack. It gives me a pretty useless pair and cuts my equity. If I check and he shoves I will need to call $5.95 to win $14.90 so I will need about 29% equity to call. I am going to have more than that on average. I therefore think that my shove is optimal as him folding is the best result for me. I do think I get a small number of folds here which increases the expected profit in this spot.


this might increase your win rate in similar situations with given reads...

Quote
I get min raised and the other caller folds. Now I have a huge hand and I am happy to get it in here so what size should my bet be? His min raise could be great strength but normally means a draw type hand in my experience.


Hand Information
PokerStars No Limit, 0.1 BB (6 handed).
Hand History converter courtesy of pokerhandreplays.com

Table Information
Seat:  1 c9l9i9n9t ($10.25) Dealer
Seat:  2 dragusmen ($19.24) Small Blind
Seat:  3 hanna312 ($14.7) Big Blind
Seat:  4 killer0497 ($9.36)
Seat:  5 naughty_ept ($10.81)
Seat:  6 Hero ($20.12)
Dealt to Hero
(http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/images/poker_image/AS.png) (http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/images/poker_image/JS.png)

Preflop  (Pot:0.15)
killer0497    FOLD    
naughty_ept    FOLD    
Hero    RAISE    $0.3
c9l9i9n9t    CALL    $0.3
dragusmen    FOLD    
hanna312    CALL    $0.2

Flop(Pot: $0.95)
(http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/images/poker_image/8S.png) (http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/images/poker_image/TS.png) (http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/images/poker_image/QH.png)

hanna312    CHECK    
Hero    BET    $0.65
c9l9i9n9t    RAISE    $1.3
hanna312    FOLD    
Hero    RAISE    $4
c9l9i9n9t    CALL    $2.7


right do you agree with this range for villain - TcTd,8c8d,AQs,KJs+,QTs,J9s,T8s+,97s,AQo,KJo -

i only gave him 1 set of 8"s + T"s due to the way he played it [give him all 3 combo"s reduces equity by a couple of percent]

giving you 63% equity and you 3bet raise to $4 ?? think about what gives you the most EV Rodders.. always anticipate these guys at these stakes to call a good percentage imho with top pair etc , then consider the action killers on the turn..

now ponder if you 3bet jam and expect these guys not to let go of top pair hands and weaker spade draws etc , i think if you do some calculations you"ll find it better EV wise.. [you are gtd to see turn/river and realise your full equity]

for example if villain had J9 for the straight and flatted your 3bet raise on the flop, approx 72% you miss your spade or King on the turn, check pokerstove and see the difference in equity for villain when you miss your outs , same for top pair hands.

comb through your tracker base and see if you are missing out on other spots where you can maximise your EV better...


ref your tilt/spew every now and then problem - something you can try when you feel like you are getting annoyed is inject logic statements to whatever you do...

for example when you are calling a bet post flop, what are your reasons for calling?

logic wise you can think in steps to yourself -

Step 1,
Villain"s range <-> Hero do i have sufficient Equity?
Step 2,
Can i profitably raise?
Yes, better now or later? -> Later, Call to slow play
(When most hands that will call a raise will also VB themselves, then often it is better to call to keep his range wide, ask what raising will accomplish? Fold out AIR, fold out the bottom of his VB"ing range, then calling is most likely better.

No, (i"m not ahead of his calling range) -> reasons to Call
1. Calling to slow play
2. Calling to bluff catch
3. Calling for value (Villain can VB a worse hand, but we can"t raise and get called by worse)
General Strategy,
Whenever it is close it is usually better to be at the top of your calling range then at the bottom of your raising range, especially when a raise represents a very strong range and villain is unlikely to bluff catch wide.


expand your logic like this and if you continue to tilt/spew then force yourself to quit :)


edit - plus think about your general strategy for zoom, if i was to play 10nl my general approach would be -
1. Value betting
2. No Bluff catching non-std spots.
3. No Bluffing without Equity
4. I"d find spots where certain people are extremely unbalanced and exploit the f##k out of that.:)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 11, 2013, 19:57:17 PM
Interesting start to the year. Away from poker Newport County have signed Christian Jolley from AFC Wimbledon which gives them an excellent chance of reaching the playoffs this season and a shot at getting into league two.

Lot"s of exciting things on the horizon related to people from this forum this year. A trip to Yarm in a few weeks time which I will be trying very hard to attend (depends partly on work). We are just two weeks away from Luton which is an excellent venue and the forum championship is one of the best events on the APAT calendar. I have the very great honor of being part of the Blonde Poker team who are in my opinion favorites to win the event. I really hope we run well enough to be able to be there at the sharp end.

There are tentative plans for APAT to hit Vegas this year, hope that happens, as Ger would say, the trigger is due to be pulled soon. Of course there is the WCOAP in March which will be another great event. Also this year I am planning to play a DTD deepstack the plan being to get in via satellite.

Have played a little bit online this week. I am down about $12 in cash over the week but have still run good so far this month. I am up 11 buyings and about 5 buyins above EV.

I played two $4.50"s and cashed both should probably have done better in them but will post a better poker post on the weekend.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 17, 2013, 21:20:17 PM
I know this is a poker blog but.............

Yay managed to upset three contact centers worth of people today with an email about snow. I think it was more the fact that it said if it snows you still have to come to work.

Apparently snow means you get a free holiday. It also makes your legs fall off and your ability to walk completely ceases. Oh and if the buses stop running do not attempt a 30 minute walk or anything like that, I mean that could cause you to get wet or something equally terrible.

Yeah I will go back to talking about poker now.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: pokerpops on January 18, 2013, 15:43:29 PM

I know this is a poker blog but.............

Yay managed to upset three contact centers worth of people today with an email about snow. I think it was more the fact that it said if it snows you still have to come to work.

Apparently snow means you get a free holiday. It also makes your legs fall off and your ability to walk completely ceases. Oh and if the buses stop running do not attempt a 30 minute walk or anything like that, I mean that could cause you to get wet or something equally terrible.

Yeah I will go back to talking about poker now.


We call DVLA to verify driving licenses, the service was suspended today due, it seems, to a lack of staff...

Southern (Welsh) Softies
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 18, 2013, 17:25:05 PM


I know this is a poker blog but.............

Yay managed to upset three contact centers worth of people today with an email about snow. I think it was more the fact that it said if it snows you still have to come to work.

Apparently snow means you get a free holiday. It also makes your legs fall off and your ability to walk completely ceases. Oh and if the buses stop running do not attempt a 30 minute walk or anything like that, I mean that could cause you to get wet or something equally terrible.

Yeah I will go back to talking about poker now.


We call DVLA to verify driving licenses, the service was suspended today due, it seems, to a lack of staff...

Southern (Welsh) Softies

Those are not real Welshman obviously. We are not phased by such things as getting wet and cold whilst walking 2 miles to work, in fact we like it. The English have infected the gene pool though and there are so few left.

Anyway got to work this morning after having a nice walk through some snow, was quite nice. I got there and about 20% of the staff that should be there had turned up (I made a point of walking around thanking them, although all they had really done is what they should do). Then some director who is not even in Swansea, probably never been here, decides we should send everybody home as the snow (which had melted by this point) might freeze and cause an accident. Not sure how this is even possible but it turns out melted snow is very dangerous.

Real Life is too tilting, I"m going to play poker now.

M"eh Silly snow
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 18, 2013, 21:57:44 PM
OK need to put a proper poker post onto here rather than just wittering on about much of the not very interesting stuff I am doing. Off to Newport in the morning to hopefully watch Newport County beat Barrow unless it gets called off as the last 4 games I have tried to go to have been.

So the last proper update I put on was on 6th of this month. Since then I have not played a huge amount but have got updates on both cash and 180 manners. Firstly lets go with the cash games. To be honest I don"t think I play that well at these. I play well enough to beat the online micro stakes games on Pokerstars (which these days is still pretty good) but I am a mental game fish. I have picked up a copy of "The Mental Game of Poker" and hope I will be able to further improve my game with this as it is annoying to pretty much constantly play worse than I know I should. I have taken up jotting down session goals at the start of each session and trying to inject logic when I feel my game going off during a session. I think if I can fix this leak it will be pretty huge for my game this year.

So anyway back to the actual Poker. Since the last main update I have played 6 cash sessions, three have been winning and three have been losing. Worst losing session was for $45 or 4.5 buyins. Now the losses in this session were down to a couple of hands I played very badly. I only played. The biggest pot I won in that session was $0.78 but I till played badly. Here are some example hands.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4826057
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4826086

Both hands have a weird kind of logic to them and are pretty specific dynamics but the call with AJ high on the first one is poor and the bluff on the turn in the second one is probably bad (although there is a chance it is not as the player does not fold to many c-bets but does fold to turn c-bets. On that board it is still most likely bad).

Those were my worst two hands on the last couple of weeks and saw me set fire to nearly 200BB basically.

The lost and won a few hands in standard spots. A bit of a roller coster to end up in the following spot:-

Hands: 2531
VP$IP: 22.24%
PFR: 20.07%
3-bet: 12.05%
Fold to 3-bet: 83.46% (Hmmm)
Total Loss: $4.88

OK would like to be winning obviously but considering I ran well for the first week of the month at cash and I am still 12 buyins up for the month, well ahead of EV then I am happy enough with that.

180 manners got much better since the last update:-

I have only played 6 but in those 6 I have had two final tables and one tenth place, in one I lose a huge flip for about three quarters of the chips to finish 4th. I have also had two 25th place finishes just outside the cash. My monthly on MTT"s now looks like this:-

Tournaments: 14
Net Profit: $28.05
ROI: 41.28%

So running good this month overall at this point. Also been talking to Stu about cash poker a lot and have been impressed by his understanding of the PLO version of the game. He has been pretty much owning the APAT freeroll each night. Next week I will do something about this :-)

Don"t know what to do this weekend, if the weather is cold maybe I will just stay at home and play poker got Luton next weekend which is going to be a bit different to normal as it will be spent in the company of #TeamBlonde. I still say that the rest of the team will do well to keep up with this team but you never can tell and no matter how good a team is you do not win a team event without a good slice. If we get it then we may be unbeatable. This may sound big headed but I honestly can"t see a team that will beat us if the cards break even. I have no doubt that the other teams at the event will have something to say about that though.

EDIT: Just finished second in a 180 for $147.60 so kicks the profit in MTT up to $171.75 for the month Total profit for month on Stars is now $291. Which I will accept.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 28, 2013, 12:49:01 PM
Luton Trip Report

Enjoyable weekend overall if a little different to normal. There was a distinct lack of regulars at the event it seemed. There were a fair few there of course, Adam, Asa, Michelle, Paulie, Rich Baker however everybody was split up into their little teams. I met up with #TeamBlonde on the Friday night and a good night was had. We all bought into the comp late and all got put on the same table. After a number of Jagerbombs and other strange drinks we all got split up. I got moved to a new table, got bored and knocked myself out.

The next day we were really pumped for the team comp and really though that we should be in with a great shout of winning it. It all crumbled pretty quickly as two of the team were knocked out due to horrible beats that there is no way they could have got away from. I made some really bad plays at the wrong time and played one of the worst tournaments I have played at APAT. I didn"t know what my plan was and could not feel comfortable at the table, I also felt tired for some reason which is not like me at these events. I tried to play some hands to start with but it soon became clear that my poker brain was not fully engaged and I was not playing my A game. I tried to just nit up and just play hands for value. I got myself back to about 13K in chips then lost a pot with KK when I had to fold on the turn when the board was bad and I got raised, pretty sure it was a good fold, even though my read on the table was not as good as normal at that stage. I made one good 3-bet c-bet to recover slightly, then knocked myself out by completely misplaying a hand against Brian Harland. It was a long way from being an acceptable performance for a team that it was a real honour to represent, and for which there were so many worthy candidates. I hope some of them get the chance to represent Blonde Poker next year.

I was really tired after I got knocked out and did not feel like playing poker so I went to the hotel for a sleep planning to come back later. I set my alarm for 10:30pm and went to sleep at about 8pm. The alarm did go off but I don"t remember switching it off all I know is I woke up at 6am the next morning. I then felt completely fine and had a shower and some fruit and coffee and actually spent a couple of hours playing online before going to Wetherspoons for food and over to the casino. I toy with Adams idea of going to London but join Paulie, Charles Mason and JP to watch the Chelsea game.

After that for the first time in a long time at one of these I actually feel like playing a cash game. There is only one table and Steve Redfern, Charles Mason and other APATers make it look a little less appealing but I sit down and play anyway. I nick a pot early on to win £20 then lose it back to Steve when I 3-bet him with KQ only for a micro stack to shove behind we both call (it was only £2 to me) the flop has an ace and I am pretty sure I am losing and there is no point in fighting over a dry side pot. I insta fold to a bet on the river after the flop and turn are checked.

I then lose two more pots of similar size. The problem was everybody was playing like £20 to £40 stacks which made find good spots hard. I eventually got back to even and ended up £10 up before for some reason leaving the game to play PLO.

I should really have just stayed at the cash game as it was quite a good game which was I was enjoying. The PLO tournament went as PLO tournaments do for me. I am just not very good at them and so I lose after making a bad play when I had KKxx on a 4-7-7 flop. Raiser obv has 44. TBH his strong bet on the flop should have tipped me off that I was not good.

One thing that did come out of the weekend though was that due to certain members not being there (mainly Ger, Dawn&Jack, Stu, Phil, Darren&Shaz etc - you get the theme here). Playing poker seemed like a viable option on the Sunday morning, although if that group had been present Vodka and Red Bull might have been the option rather than sleep on Saturday night. Maybe the time has come to start some live poker back up. I said after Vegas I needed to take a break and other than APAT  I have only played a few times since then. This weekend is the first time I have really felt the desire to jump onto the cash table again and seriously considered going to London in search of a decent game.

I will see how it goes but right now I am pretty happy with my cash game overall and do think I am a favorite in most live poker games. Hopefully I will have some updates in that way soon.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on February 10, 2013, 16:21:22 PM
I forgot to post an update for January. Online poker went well in general I won $290 in the month which is very good for the limits I have been playing.

Stats were as follows:-

No Limit Hold "em Cash
------------------------

Total Hands: 8500
VP$IP: 21.64%
PFR: 19.32%
3-Bet: 10.28%
Fold to 3-bet: 73.22%
Total Profit: $125.39

PLO Cash
---------

Total Hands: 472
VP$IP: 19.07%
PFR: 13.14%
3-Bet: 7.14%
Fold to 3-bet: 63.16%
Total Profit: $16.08

NLHE MTT Tournaments
---------------------

Tournaments: 18
Total Profit: 150.65
ROI: 160.27%


I think I ran really well in Jan and played OK too. Happy with the result although there are still a good few mistakes that I can correct, the MTT"s are 180"s. I am reading through the mental game of poker and can see a good few issues in it that I also have as you would expect.

This month is going to be quiet but I have booked 2 weeks off work at the end of March/Start of April which will include. Yarm Invasion III and The WCOAP.

I am slightly up on poker this month, thanks to an OK run in the Pokerstars VIP freeroll. I am slightly down in cash and slightly up in MTT"s.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 21, 2013, 11:40:32 AM
OK so it"s been a while since I updated this, poker was a little bit meh last month and was slightly down overall will do a proper update on that when I get back from WCOAP. Hopefully I will win that.

However this thread is going to be a live update thread for the next few days as we update the event that is #YarmInvasion.

Now you can follow the adventures of APAT on tour as a few (OK a load) of us are due to arrive in Yarm in about 3 hours time. To say this could get messy is an understatement though. The guest list includes:-

Ger "The Duke" Smyth
Ger Jnr
Stu Ward
Jaxie !!!
Phil_TC
Matt Ward
JP Round
Delboy
Paulie_D

This could be the greatest of APAT trips this side of Vegas. If you are not coming (poor decision) you can follow the updates here. I am current at Manchester Piccadilly which facebook seems to think in in Nottingham but it is not.

Right Let"s do this thing.

#YarmInvasion
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: pokerpops on March 21, 2013, 11:56:41 AM
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Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Paulie_D on March 21, 2013, 13:01:21 PM


#YarmInvasion



Jeez...get it right!

#InvasionYarm
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: technolog on March 23, 2013, 11:32:35 AM
Worst live update ever - FACT!
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 23, 2013, 12:07:36 PM

Worst live update ever - FACT!

This is very true but I have been a bit busy what with all the invading, losing poker tournaments and pillaging the cash games (AKA being a lucky fish).

However I seem to have some time before I head off for some food so to begin. I started my trip to the lands of the north early on Thursday morning and a journey lead to me arriving at Manchester Station in good time. I knew Ger was coming but I did not know where he would be. I headed for the pub and assumed he would appear automatically. He did.

Ger buys the beers, I order a bottle as I am thinking it is going to be a long day, Ger jnr arrives back with a pint and a bit of spare beer (long story). I drink it anyway and we get the train to Darlington a bit of chinese poker later and we are there and meeting up with Stu and Matt.

Stu drives us to the hotel and we drop bags off meet up with Delboy and Jaxie before getting a drink in and then heading to the place of legends "The Eagle" the place where The Stockton Massive was formed. We meet up with Lucy, David, Brian and others before the arrival of the Great Phil_TC and the equally great (almost) JP Round. Stu teaches me how to play darts and Lucy tries to teach me the strange rules of pool in England.

Beers flow, shots appear and disappear and then we are at the casino. We go via taxi and sing songs. On arrival at the casino we get more beer and sit down to play the home game. I didn"t win but JP did, however thats not exactly news worthy it happen like all the time.

I go downstairs and dust off £60 in the cash game getting owned by Ger who is just running over the table, I think it is fair to say he had a decent night at the tables. We drank port for some reason, I suspect it was JP"s idea.

We get back to the hotel at about 3:30am grab a bit of sleep and refreshment and Myself and Stu are the first to the pub at about 11:30. We actually have a sensible discussion about poker until Jaxie arrives closely followed by Ger and the troops and Lucy and then it all goes made. Rounds appear more quickly than Gateshead games get cancelled and I am quite well gone by about 6pm. Paulie must have arrived at some point as he was there at the end but pretty sure he was not in the pub when we got there *LOL*. We head to the casino again and I enter the tournament and get knocked out in about 5 minutes. I go downstairs to the cash game thinking I will just do a quick £50 whilst some other people get knocked out and then I will be OK. However the game is LOADS of fun. The tables includes Ger and Delboy and dome locals who are a lot of fun. This kind of makes my poker brain click into gear for some reason and I run really well and win £290 in I think about two hours. Including outdrawing Ger in a really silly hand, I think he still got the best of our clashes over the weekend so far. I then retire to the bar and get a pint Ger arrives and buys us all some EVIL drink. More fun ensues and we leave and get a taxi back to the hotel about about 2:30. Jack and Dawn go for a Parmo.

Which brings us to, well now. It is time to head over and meet up with Jaxie and the troops before probably heading over to the Eagle. What adventures will we have today/ Who knows but more is to follow.

Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 23, 2013, 15:21:56 PM
With Stu trying to get the taste back, he is eating and has some colour again Jack is leading the way in the pintage so far today.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 23, 2013, 15:25:34 PM
Dawn has just bought Stu a colouring book. He also has been given a sticker
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 23, 2013, 15:59:00 PM
First shots of the day have been done
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 23, 2013, 17:43:45 PM
Things have woken up here and Ger is on it we are in trouble lol
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Laxie on March 23, 2013, 18:08:56 PM
Quote from Delboy, "No no no...it"s ok. I didn"t see his winkie."

I"ll leave you to make what you will of that.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 23, 2013, 19:14:56 PM
Laxie this is a family thread

Beer is great we are back in full Invasion mode Ger is leading the getting beers charge. It was slightly quiet earlier not any longer
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 23, 2013, 19:30:07 PM
Beware Jack Prime is match fit again be afriad be very afriad beers going down well
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Curlarge on March 23, 2013, 20:32:22 PM
 We actually have a sensible discussion about poker

It was all quite believable until this  ;D
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Paulie_D on March 23, 2013, 21:10:11 PM
I don"t see why this should be so surprising. Discussions this weekend have included "Best boxer ever", "Tyrone vs. Ali", "Best racing driver ever", "Best WWE wrestler ever " and"  liklihood of Stu getting his kecks off"!
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on March 23, 2013, 21:41:24 PM
Floyd mayweather, , Tyson, senna, Stone Cold Steve Austin, 110%
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Paulie_D on March 23, 2013, 22:00:57 PM
Not surprisingly the general consensus was that the answers came down to "It depends on what era you are talking about". So no real answer. :-)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on March 23, 2013, 22:06:19 PM
ExcePt for the last one. No matter what era it is, I"m taking my trousers off.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 24, 2013, 00:16:13 AM
Toffocc parry currently in progess in Jaxies room
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on March 24, 2013, 00:20:46 AM
Invaders got tired and went to bed. Yarm 1-0 invaders
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Laxie on March 24, 2013, 04:29:32 AM
it

Invaders got tired and went to bed. Yarm 1-0 invaders


In yer dreams man. We"re not hitting it til now
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 24, 2013, 04:38:14 AM

Invaders got tired and went to bed. Yarm 1-0 invaders

Hang on, No, I would let most things go but what???

Invaders have just gone to bed now after Yarm gave in about 5 hours ago.

Laxie won, but has agreed Ger the Hun now controls Yarm. Yarm is occupied invasion complete, with the forces from the West side of the bridge it was too much for even the greatest of Yarm defenders.

Yarm invasion is complete, Rodders, Paulie the Conquerer, JP Round and Ger the Hun, in assocation with Jaxie were to much for even The Stockton Massive only Rodders, Ger The Hun and Jaxie survived but it is complete.

#YarmInvasion - we won and have occupied Yarm which will now be controlled from Chezger
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 24, 2013, 11:10:27 AM
Well that was fun.

Yarm Invasion ended last night and once one of the best weekends that I have been on for a LONG LONG time. |I am now sat on the train on my way home looking forward to the WCOAP. Overall what can we say about the people on this trip. Everybody is a legend. It is the people who make this community and they are the reason why we keep coming back to these things.

Yarm is a great place as well, so much that you could do in that part of the world. I am sure I will be back in the future but for now it is onwards and upwards. This weekend was about people and having fun, next weekend is going to be about poker. It will be the biggest event of the year with the best people in the world.

#apatpoker #WCOAP
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 26, 2013, 20:43:51 PM
So it is again time for the WCOAP. I feel my preparation for this event has been good. I have not played any poker in the last month, and actually self banned myself from all the sites (which I never do) to ensure I was not tempted to try and play. Instead I have focused on ensuring I have a winning plan and that I am confident with what I am going to be doing. It is the same method I used prior to a deep run in 2010 so hoping to give myself a good shot again, it feels like I should do at the moment but you never know until you get there. I did play a little bit in Yarm last weekend but that does not really count. I actually won a decent amount and overall played pretty well.

It looks like the community is very excited about this event, I however am pretty calm and reserved over the whole thing. Looking forward to it but not really what I would call excited about it (I think I got all that out in Yarm), I am pretty sure this is a good thing. I will go to Nottingham, I will play poker (pretty confident it will be played well tbh) and we will see what happens. I am for once taking this event pretty seriously and really want to do well.

Everybody who is going to WCOAP, may you play well and have no bad beats.

Oh and just for fun a competition around the WCOAP, the winner will get $10 on Pokerstars. You have to answer question one and question two correctly. If more than one person gets them both correct we will go to a tie breaker. Oh and you have to have more than 200 posts on this forum to enter as I don"t really want the thread spammed.

1) Of all of the players playing for Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland in the Team Event at the WCOAP who will be the highest place finisher in the main event?

2) Name any two APAT Award winners

Tie Breaker (closest to the correct result wins): What time will the winner of the main event be announced on the live update thread. Please put in hours, minutes and seconds so for example 09:31:22 pm.

Answers in this thread please before the start of the Main Event. Good Luck :-)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Newportlad on March 26, 2013, 21:14:56 PM

1. Darren Shallis

2. Paul McGuinness and Carl Pilgrim

3. 9:31:22pm
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: amcgrath1uk on March 26, 2013, 21:50:36 PM
1. Asa McGrath

2. Carl Pilgrim and Ger Smyth

3. 9.31.23pm
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on March 26, 2013, 22:32:11 PM
1. Steve Rodderick (just causse i know how up for it you are)
2. David Amos and Carl Pilgrim
3. 10.42pm
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: ian.ski309 on March 26, 2013, 22:39:29 PM
1. Warren Jones

2. Carl Pilgrim and Ger Smyth

3. 11.02.46pm
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: josharp01 on March 26, 2013, 23:10:49 PM
1. Tom Clark

2. Carl Pilgrim & David Amos

3. 10.06pm
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 28, 2013, 11:32:08 AM
The WCOAP starts today and I am on my way to Notts now. Looking forward to seeing everybody and playing for the Welsh team. It will be a tough tournament but I think we have a very slight edge and are just about favourites. It will be such a tough competition though. Only about an hour away from Notts now, this one should be good.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on April 02, 2013, 11:48:51 AM

1. Warren Jones

2. Carl Pilgrim and Ger Smyth

3. 11.02.46pm


I am pretty sure this is the winner here.

Well done Ian, please post your Pokersars id and I will xfer you the $10 :-)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on April 02, 2013, 15:32:46 PM
Got back from the WCOAP yesterday. The weekend was great as always the poker not so much. Quite unhappy wih my performance in the Team Event. I think that if I put in a better performance then Wales would have made the medal matches but I was just consistently bad for the whole of the event. This was a shame as it is the second time this year I have not really put in a good enough performance when playing for Wales. I played OK in the Cash Championship which I would like to see become a more regular thing at APAT. I lost a flip to make the final table with decent chips (it was a £240+ pot) but still only lost about £8 in the game, I also lost a flip for £160 with 99 against AK which I think would have got me to the final as well.

The main event unfortunately was not good, I didn"t feel great on the day (I seem to have caught a cold, guessing lack of food and sleep during the weekend did not help, maybe there is a lesson there - no I doubt it) and could not concerntrate on the table. I tried to play very tight but just could not see myself lasting a whole day at the table and basically gave up, did 15K chips in one round of the table and went back to the hotel and fell to sleep.

Getting back I spent yesterday afternoon going through Pokertracker to try and find some leaks in the game.uncovered a few things. A few things I want to try and do now are:-

1) Learn to play PLO8
2) Play a few more online tournaments
3) Learn to play PLO tournaments right and be +EV at them

Think I will now go and play some $4.50"s now to try and push the number of MTT"s I have played this year up a bit.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AceOnTheRiver on April 02, 2013, 15:47:47 PM

The main event unfortunately was not good, I didn"t feel great on the day (I seem to have caught a cold, guessing lack of food and sleep during the weekend did not help, maybe there is a lesson there - no I doubt it) and could not concerntrate on the table. I tried to play very tight but just could not see myself lasting a whole day at the table and basically gave up, did 15K chips in one round of the table and went back to the hotel and fell to sleep.



You definitely weren"t yourself mate  :(
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: PHIL_TC on April 02, 2013, 15:49:42 PM


The main event unfortunately was not good, I didn"t feel great on the day (I seem to have caught a cold, guessing lack of food and sleep during the weekend did not help, maybe there is a lesson there - no I doubt it) and could not concerntrate on the table. I tried to play very tight but just could not see myself lasting a whole day at the table and basically gave up, did 15K chips in one round of the table and went back to the hotel and fell to sleep.



You definitely weren"t yourself mate  :(


+1 we were both worried about you fella x
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Laxie on April 02, 2013, 16:19:03 PM
Reckon it was the back to back week-ends that did it.  Have a proper rest please and thank you.  We want our Rodders feeling better.  xx
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on April 02, 2013, 16:26:23 PM
Oh there is nothing really wrong with me tbh, will be totally fine by the weekend, I would be fine normally as little bugs don"t bother me but I had not really slept properly over the weekend and was not exactly eating regular or healthy food :-)

The way JP was playing I reckon he would have got my chips anyway eventually (really unlucky the way you went out mate). Table was a good one and a shame it seemed to break early.

Great weekend overall mind you :-)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: ian.ski309 on April 09, 2013, 15:28:21 PM


1. Warren Jones

2. Carl Pilgrim and Ger Smyth

3. 11.02.46pm


I am pretty sure this is the winner here.

Well done Ian, please post your Pokersars id and I will xfer you the $10 :-)


Many thanks Rodders and great to finally meet you at WCOAP. Sorry I had to dash off after our exit at the Team Event, we flew to Vegas on the Sunday morning for the wife"s 50th birthday, just got back !  ;)

Stars ID : Emeryt309

Thanks again !
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on April 13, 2013, 21:01:37 PM
OK so my volume this last couple of months has been a bit, well poor to be honest. I only played a small amount in Feb and was down slightly (by like 2 buyins) at cash and up at tournaments so up overall just about but not by anything major.

March I did not play online at all. Played some poker in Yarm and won Around £180 over the course of the weekend, due to one silly cash session then went to WCOAP and did £220 in tournament and £8 at cash (in the WCOAP cash game, wish I could have flipped better in that final hand). Overall I ended March down by about £50 so not too bad considering.

This month I have hit online quite hard again and have done OK so far, will try and post some hands tomorrow. I am up by $15 in NLHE cash after a start to the month that saw me drop to $50 down. I am up by $10 in PLO cash games and down by $29 in NLHE tournaments so pretty much having another break even month, I seem to be very good at that but I make money on the bonuses and the players I buy pieces have done a good job toI have a chance of cashing the tournament I am playing now, although it is only a 180 man $4.50 game.

Couple of points of order:-




1. Warren Jones

2. Carl Pilgrim and Ger Smyth

3. 11.02.46pm


I am pretty sure this is the winner here.

Well done Ian, please post your Pokersars id and I will xfer you the $10 :-)


Many thanks Rodders and great to finally meet you at WCOAP. Sorry I had to dash off after our exit at the Team Event, we flew to Vegas on the Sunday morning for the wife"s 50th birthday, just got back !  ;)

Stars ID : Emeryt309

Thanks again !

Job done earlier this week, well done, look for more exciting competition during live events during season seven. Talking of competition. I have a bet on with David Blacklaw (Scotland Hero of the Home Nations) and Mark Porter of staking thread fame.




Does anybody fancy a small prop bet in 2013. Say $50 (or less if people prefer) on Pokerstars? It can be more than two people but the rules are:-

1) You have to play at least 200 tournaments on Pokerstars in 2013 (any stake), if you play less you lose automatically
2) The winner is the person who OPR says has the highest ROI on Pokerstars at 6pm on 31st Dec 2013

This would help keep us focused during 2013

We could try to do something with cash games but that would have to be done with the use of tracking software as there are no reliable 3rd party trackers, and posting up screenshots which becomes really complicated.

Anybody up for this?


In for bet.

Cool. The way I am playing at the moment it is basically free money *lol*

So Dave/Mark are we happy with doing it between the three of us $50 per man highest ROI according to OPR on Pokerstars at the end of the year wins and the other two pay the winner $50?

How are we doing with this at the moment guy"s?

I have can"t access OPR at the moment for some reason (might be that I am on mobile connection) but Poker Tracker tells me I am on an ROI of 69.6% so far this year. How are you both doing?

My volume is awful I have only played 61 all year, however going to try and focus on them this month to get up to the 100 and maintain a decent ROI by the end of the month.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on May 18, 2013, 14:30:43 PM
Hellloooooo apat forum

Feels like ages since I posted on here, it"s actually about three weeks which might suggest I spend too much time posting on here *lol*. Not played much this month (again), but have done a great job of losing lots of money on PLO8. Like the game just gotta get a lot better at it. Also played some holdem tournaments, but not doing that great at them either down about $100 this month so far but that"s the way it goes.

Have a had a look around the forum this morning and see we don"t yet have next seasons schedule but knowing the guy"s I am sure it will be worth waiting for. I was also surprised to that that APAT have aquired LPPL. I don"t know much about this organisation but I have been reading up on it now and if there are games local to me I might even make an effort to play them. Knowing me this is quite unlikely as I get bored with live poker so easily and think I could be at home playing online but I may well make a token effort and might even enjoy it. I think there may be an oppotunity for APAT to create a bit of a local scene with players having a route to grow and start playing in the APAT Nationals.

The ISPT games are underway and I am hoping to see a few apat players in the mix to Wembley. I did not play any qualifiers for this so will not be taking part but will be watching to see how those of you who are playing do. I will not be heading to Wembley myself for either the ISPT or the APAT Masters, have a look at this video from my last visit there though http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ckBHSNC8N4. I am hopeful that Des, Leigh and all will be giving us a bit of notice for the first event of the season as I have missed the opener for the last two years. I am expecting a central type venue to get as many people as possible from all areas of the country there.

I have booked myself onto the Vegas tour in November with such legends are Ger, Curly, Paulie, Don and other"s, can"t wait for that one. What can possibly go wrong. I need to start annoying people like Darren and Stu to get themselves booked up as well (I know you are both reading this so get it booked).

So from a total lack of anything to do for the rest of the day today I think I will play some Pokers. Will edit this post later with a schedule. Playing on Stars and Boss.

Good luck to Dawn and Jack in their race today, gutted I was not able to make it up to support you, but had something that I had to deal with this morning.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5069938

btw do think I lose value on this hand? Opponent in the hand is playing quite tight (16/10) but has shown an ability to float on the flop. I am playing even tighter (11/10) I have no idea if he is likely to know this or not. I am happy with my preflop and flop play. I was checking to see what he did on the turn and probably check/calling on the river.

Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Laxie on May 20, 2013, 10:00:01 AM
We missed you, but we know you"d have been there if you could.   :-*  
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Chipaccrual on May 20, 2013, 10:39:14 AM


The ISPT games are underway and I am hoping to see a few apat players in the mix to Wembley. I did not play any qualifiers for this so will not be taking part but will be watching to see how those of you who are playing do. I will not be heading to Wembley myself for either the ISPT or the APAT Masters



Really ?

And the winner of the Facebook APAT Tag & Share is Steve Roderick. Congratulations Steve, contact me with your DTD details, and we"ll get a Day One token into your account. Many thanks to everyone that took part.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on May 20, 2013, 10:56:32 AM

We missed you, but we know you"d have been there if you could.   :-*  

Cheers Dawn, I still have a bottle of Toffoc with your names on it that I forgot to hand over at the WCOAP. Hopefully you will be in Coventry but if not I will get it to you somehow. Maybe we will have to do a Desford Invasion :-)




The ISPT games are underway and I am hoping to see a few apat players in the mix to Wembley. I did not play any qualifiers for this so will not be taking part but will be watching to see how those of you who are playing do. I will not be heading to Wembley myself for either the ISPT or the APAT Masters



Really ?

And the winner of the Facebook APAT Tag & Share is Steve Roderick. Congratulations Steve, contact me with your DTD details, and we"ll get a Day One token into your account. Many thanks to everyone that took part.


Woah, that is AMAZING, thank you so much APAT. Hope I can do it justice, in the very unlikely event I do a nice score I will make sure that I donate something back to the APAT community.

Need to check when the day ones are as I need to fit it in with work.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 08, 2013, 17:44:39 PM
Been meaning to update this for ages but never seemed to get around to it. Didn"t win that freeroll into the ISPT so supported Leigh. Well what can we say. The man is a legend and unless somebody is planning on binking the main event in Vegas he has to be favourite to win the best performance by an APAT player this year in the end of year awards. I am going to have to ask Leigh and Paul McGuniess about Leigh making a one time return to ensure England don"t luckbox another win win the world team event (sorry boys the period of much respect etc is over and we are now going back to ripping the proverbial out of the English)

Have not played much cash at all as I have really been poor this year. I am still very slightly up but really think I need to take a break and have a proper look back through my game. This is fine though because it gives me the chance play some tournament games which I have wanted to do for a while. Even though cash is a much better game and has a much smaller luck factor involved tournaments are just lot"s of fun and you have the chance of the big score.

Saying that I am mostly focused on the 180 games this month as per the nice little APAT league I kinda of started on the thread on the main page. I hope everybody who plays enjoys it. I am wondering if there is a way of making it a monthly thing but to play it on the APAT site so we can support APAT whilst playing. I don"t know traffic on the network is obviously the main concern but maybe I can come up with something.

Anyway 180 turbo man sitngo"s. They are great for learning how to handle that squeeze point you get in every tournament, you just have to understand hand ranges to a great level )I don"t as yet btw). The swings in them will force you to accept the way poker works and handle the luck factor a lot better. Also stops you being scared as pushing the money in correctly with 82o becomes second nature. You would be surprised how often this is correct in these as well. Hopefully this will imporave our play in live events when it comes to those spots where you are at the squeeze point in the tournament and you have to shove that 72os (of course if you are on my table in a National Championship please remember I would never do such a thing and probably have aces so you are best of just folding when I do).

But tonight, from a lack of anything better to do (isn"t it time for the football season to start yet FFS) I am going to play on Stars

Some 4.50 sitngo"s (1 table at a time)
Some 2.50 Turbo sitngo"s (3 tables at a time)
16:00 The big $8.80
17:00 $3.30 nlhe
17:30 The Hot $11
18:00 The $5.50 nlhe
19:00 The Big $11

Good luck me.

Anyway let"s have a Rodder"s competition (Just as good as Ger Competitions) first person to post the right answer wins $20 on "Stars.

Who will win the Coventry main event? Who will it be.............

(to the tune of que sera sera)
Will it be Curly, Will it be Ger
We"ll have to wait and see

My bet - Stuart Anthony Ward
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Curlarge on June 08, 2013, 20:17:43 PM

Been meaning to update this for ages but never seemed to get around to it. Didn"t win that freeroll into the ISPT so supported Leigh. Well what can we say. The man is a legend and unless somebody is planning on binking the main event in Vegas he has to be favourite to win the best performance by an APAT player this year in the end of year awards. I am going to have to ask Leigh and Paul McGuniess about Leigh making a one time return to ensure England don"t luckbox another win win the world team event (sorry boys the period of much respect etc is over and we are now going back to ripping the proverbial out of the English)

Have not played much cash at all as I have really been poor this year. I am still very slightly up but really think I need to take a break and have a proper look back through my game. This is fine though because it gives me the chance play some tournament games which I have wanted to do for a while. Even though cash is a much better game and has a much smaller luck factor involved tournaments are just lot"s of fun and you have the chance of the big score.

Saying that I am mostly focused on the 180 games this month as per the nice little APAT league I kinda of started on the thread on the main page. I hope everybody who plays enjoys it. I am wondering if there is a way of making it a monthly thing but to play it on the APAT site so we can support APAT whilst playing. I don"t know traffic on the network is obviously the main concern but maybe I can come up with something.

Anyway 180 turbo man sitngo"s. They are great for learning how to handle that squeeze point you get in every tournament, you just have to understand hand ranges to a great level )I don"t as yet btw). The swings in them will force you to accept the way poker works and handle the luck factor a lot better. Also stops you being scared as pushing the money in correctly with 82o becomes second nature. You would be surprised how often this is correct in these as well. Hopefully this will imporave our play in live events when it comes to those spots where you are at the squeeze point in the tournament and you have to shove that 72os (of course if you are on my table in a National Championship please remember I would never do such a thing and probably have aces so you are best of just folding when I do).

But tonight, from a lack of anything better to do (isn"t it time for the football season to start yet FFS) I am going to play on Stars

Some 4.50 sitngo"s (1 table at a time)
Some 2.50 Turbo sitngo"s (3 tables at a time)
16:00 The big $8.80
17:00 $3.30 nlhe
17:30 The Hot $11
18:00 The $5.50 nlhe
19:00 The Big $11

Good luck me.

Anyway let"s have a Rodder"s competition (Just as good as Ger Competitions) first person to post the right answer wins $20 on "Stars.

Who will win the Coventry main event? Who will it be.............

(to the tune of que sera sera)
Will it be Curly, Will it be Ger
We"ll have to wait and see

My bet - Stuart Anthony Ward


Errrrr....NO, NO and a very big NO  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 09, 2013, 18:55:56 PM
Dunno Rich, I think both yourself and Stu have a great chance to win any given event assuming you don"t spend too much time at the bar and get too focused on the beer like :-)  Ger may struggle in this one though seeing as how he is not playing.

I did a win in one of the little $2.50 tournaments last night, which was lucky as I only cashed in three out of 28. Going to watch the Grand prix and play another few now.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: s4ooter on June 09, 2013, 19:59:32 PM
I suppose it would only be fair for me to say "Dave Howard", i mean the rest of us in Team Gotham are tired of carrying him since the worlds!!! :)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 09, 2013, 21:21:07 PM

I suppose it would only be fair for me to say "Dave Howard", i mean the rest of us in Team Gotham are tired of carrying him since the worlds!!! :)

Oh come on at least give yourself a chance :-)

Only joking Dave, good pick obv
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: amcgrath1uk on June 09, 2013, 21:48:59 PM
I think Coventry is going to be the time Rodders finally wins ;)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: s4ooter on June 09, 2013, 22:03:06 PM


I suppose it would only be fair for me to say "Dave Howard", i mean the rest of us in Team Gotham are tired of carrying him since the worlds!!! :)

Oh come on at least give yourself a chance :-)

Only joking Dave, good pick obv


Think my run good is all gone at APAT, 19th in the WCOAP 6 max, 50th in the WCOAP Main and 6th in the Masters.  Cov will either be 1st, or 1st out for me!
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 10, 2013, 13:05:11 PM

I think Coventry is going to be the time Rodders finally wins ;)

This has the potential to be both a great and terrible pick.

If I drive to Coventry on Saturday and sit down with a clear head then at the moment I could easilt run deep and I know how to turn a deep run into a very high finish on day two.

If I go down on Friday night, meet Stu, Darren, Phil, Paulie etc and leave the casino at 5am after we have tried most of the drinks at the bar, well I could well be dead money at that point.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Supernova on June 11, 2013, 16:36:46 PM


I think Coventry is going to be the time Rodders finally wins ;)

This has the potential to be both a great and terrible pick.

If I drive to Coventry on Saturday and sit down with a clear head then at the moment I could easilt run deep and I know how to turn a deep run into a very high finish on day two.

If I go down on Friday night, meet Stu, Darren, Phil, Paulie etc and leave the casino at 5am after we have tried most of the drinks at the bar, well I could well be dead money at that point.


And then there "s the Rugby! teetotal erm............
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on July 01, 2013, 18:38:33 PM
OK, I am so bad at updating this thread, I have been playing but have not updated.

Obviously I just got back from another really fun APAT weekend with all the regs. I made a last minute decision to go on Friday night. Got drunk, played cash, didn"t win but didn"t lose much either so that was OK. Went back to the bar and sat down with Dawn, Jack and Stu. That ended pretty much as you would expect. I vaguely remember having Dawns handbag on my arm for some unknown reason which Stu found hilarious.

I then sat having a conversation with Stu (if you can call it that) about what, nobody really knows. I successfully got back to my hotel room, I known this as I woke up in it on Saturday morning feeling strangely awake and ready for the day. I decide to walk to the Casino as I had already moved my car there the night before. I walk there down the middle of the dual carriage way as there is no footpath. However being Welsh I skillfully went across the fields and 20 minutes later arrived at the De Vere at which point it occurs to me to wonder if I was suppose to be walking there. Hmmm maybe I should walk back to the Hotel and get a taxi? Nah, can"t be bothered, I go to the bar instead where I find Stu, Jack, Darren, GiMac and the amazing JP Round all looking very awake, this is not normal for a Saturday after an APAT Friday. JP demonstrating why he is amazing had sorted out some beer for us all. I had intended to get an orange juice or a coffee to start with but everybody else has a bottle so it seemed rude not to really. Well Played JP. We watched the rugby went to the casino.

Paulie arrived as did Curly. Some other things probably happened too.

I get my table draw and go and find my seat. Suzanne Hayward is on my table which is nice, in that I like Suzanne but not so nice in that she is good at poker so makes it harder. Then Brian Harland also arrived, well that didn"t help much. Then GiMac sits to my right, just what I needed *sigh*. Then just when I think somebody must be having a laugh Jack Prime sit"s down to my left and Mark Lassman arrives. Oh well at least this is as bad as it can get.

"Allo Rodders"

"Alright Warren where are you sat"

Oh button to my BB obv.

It is fair to say that it was a tough starting table.

So it was not that surprising when I did not get off to a great start. I lost a pot early when I raised pre with AK and flopped top two pair on an all heart board. I bet the flop and got called and bet a blank turn only to be met with a strong raise. I had to fold and he shows me the nut flush. Then I walk into quads with Top Pair Top Kicker. I think I do manage to lose the min here though and was quite pleased. I then got some chips back and played some pots, flopped quad aces and did not get paid. I bet out 600 into a 1000 pot on and A-A-A board and he folds. I get back to starting stack in time for the break.

As the day goes on I manage to chip up a bit and get a good read on the table and it"s really only Warren I am not feeling comfortable against. I am now active and playing lots of pots but really only maintaining my stack at between 15K and 16K. I try to take a pot UTG with Q3 just before the break and hit top pair. I check it and a short stack bets half his chips it folds to me and I put him all in and hold against his straight draw. Now I have about 24K. We get back and one of the BCPC players joins the table, he had a lot of chips. I raise A8s into his BB and flop a flush draw. I bet out 3K and he calls. The turn gives me the nuts and he calls my 6K bet. I go for the shove on the river that does not change anything as I only had about 11K in chips behind he folds but I am now up to around 30K in chips.

Next round I raise his BB again with 88, he 3-bets smallish and I call and we see a flop of 9-T-J two clubs. He bets out quite large and I call. the turn is a 5 I think and he bets again quite small this time. His line and play in general don"t feel that strong to me. I raise him up fully expecting him to pass. The river is a Q and he shoves. This makes no sense to me. Unless he has KQ why has he played the hand like this and he can"t have KQ or he would have bet bigger on the turn and got it in on the turn. The pot odds are good. I reckon I am about 50/50 here to be good with my straight. I call and he has AQ. So he flopped the up/down straight draw with two overcards, I kind of got away with that one but thought I played and read it pretty well. I am up to 60K. I then kind of go up and down between 50K and 70K for most of the rest of the day. I lose about 15K between two hands getting it in with a short stack two hands in a row and losing, I then knock out Brian Harland when he shoves and I find KK. At the end of the day I manage to gain a small amount on the day two bubble and end the day with about 80K.

Ger has arrived and is busy beating up some locals in the deep and steep event they have going, Stu is also on the final table and getting in trouble, something to do with calling the floor to find out if John Murray has a sock or something like that. The final table seem to like Stu though so all is good. Ger gets bored with him though so knocks him out. I go to bed at 4am, Ger later wins the tournament.

Day Two of the APAT kicks off and I don"t really find a hand or a spot for a while. I eventually get into a flip with Warren with my JT vs his 99. I win and this leave Warren crippled. I was basically squeezing from the BB here against a button raise which Warren had flatted again Warren puts the pieces of the puzzle together and makes the call. I got lucky. Warren was down to 25K but got right back to it. I was up to about 120K for the first time.

We get down to two tables and into the points and the money bubble bursts. We end up playing 5 handed for a while as the blinds go up my stack becomes short. I am having to shove a lot as the game tightens up. Eventually the final table bubble bursts and for a 5th time I make the final table.

I was the short stack going in so come out super aggressive shoving twice in the first half an orbit lifting my stack from 13BB to 18BB. Then there is a raise from EP and I find AK. There is about 40K in the pot and I have about 170K so shove and get called by KK. I actually make a flush which is no good against his full house so go out in 9th which is a result I am happy with. The final table was good and the right person won. Warren Jones with one of the greatest performances of poker I have ever seen, shortstacked, big stacked and when the heads up was threatening to allow his opponent back into it Warren kept calm and made sure that never really happened and it never looked like he was going to lose.

Huge congrats to you mate well happy you won it, also big congrats again to Sharon Roberts for 3rd place. They both will be pushing more final tables this year I am sure.

Was a great weekend and great to see everybody.

Role on Cardiff. I am not playing, but will be attending the Friday night. At least this is the plan, it is not unthinkable that Newport County"s game gets moved to the Friday night as it is one of the 125 year anniversary games for the Football League (so will be on Sky and will need to fit their schedule) and their first league game for 25 years. I REALLY hope it does not get moved as it basically means I have to miss the Friday night stag doo which I really really really really don"t want to do.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on July 02, 2013, 00:14:49 AM



Obviously I just got back from another really fun APAT weekend with all the regs. I made a last minute decision to go on Friday night. Got drunk, played cash, didn"t win but didn"t lose much either so that was OK. Went back to the bar and sat down with Dawn, Jack and Stu. That ended pretty much as you would expect. I vaguely remember having Dawns handbag on my arm for some unknown reason which Stu found hilarious.



Funny :) very very funny. Jaegerbombs make Rodders want to cross dress, who knew?!?!




Ger has arrived and is busy beating up some locals in the deep and steep event they have going, Stu is also on the final table and getting in trouble, something to do with calling the floor to find out if John Murray has a sock or something like that. The final table seem to like Stu though so all is good. Ger gets bored with him though so knocks him out. I go to bed at 4am, Ger later wins the tournament.



Oh i had forgotten about that all i really remember about that tourny is spilling alot of my pints everywhere, demanding to know why the floor wouldnt confirm John was a cock, Ger telling a Hungarian (?) that he didnt like the whole of his country because of him, and the old fish playing KK sneakily.

What a great weekend. Still not recovered yet!

Well played again mate
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: mporter123 on July 08, 2013, 13:31:13 PM
Quick update on the prop bet we have:-

Rod -3% ROI (335 games)
Mark -6% ROI (263 games)
Dave -11% ROI (266 games)

Get the run bad out of the way in the first half. I feel a heater coming.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on July 28, 2013, 11:59:12 AM
I should really stop being lazy and update this a bit :-)

Played some poker tournaments this month and lost some money in the process. I have a prop bet with Stu and Mark on best ROI this month. I am at 1% Stu is at 220% so he is a bit of a favorite really. I would say his round in Cardiff but seeing as he is not allowed in Wales it will have to be his round in Vegas.

Planning a big session today which will hopefully include the Micro Millions events and the Sunday Storm and Big $11 if I am playing well later. Update here how it is going.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: pokerpops on July 28, 2013, 13:07:49 PM

I should really stop being lazy and update this a bit :-)

Played some poker tournaments this month and lost some money in the process. I have a prop bet with Stu and Mark on best ROI this month. I am at 1% Stu is at 220% so he is a bit of a favorite really. I would say his round in Cardiff but seeing as he is not allowed in Wales it will have to be his round in Vegas.

Planning a big session today which will hopefully include the Micro Millions events and the Sunday Storm and Big $11 if I am playing well later. Update here how it is going.


Did Stu min cash the one tournament he"s played?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on July 28, 2013, 13:59:12 PM
No Stu has done well. I am trying to recover something today, not doing too great

35K in 11am Micro Millions, ave = 26K
6.6K in 1:30pm MM, Ave = 7.5K

I am also 2/6 in a 180 $2.50 I am playing but only have 45K (8BB) and chip leader who has 128K to my left so I will probably come 6th. Lost a massive hand to chip leader with A9 vs KT which would have given me about 70% of the chips.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on July 28, 2013, 14:23:47 PM
Managed to do a win in that one.

Still in both Micro Millions that I have played so far, stopped regging for now as need to grab some food and everything

In the $2.50"s I still got

2/25
9/27
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on July 28, 2013, 14:38:44 PM
Shove A7 into AA in one and then lost this hand for the chip lead

PokerStars Hand #101993627195: Tournament #766596952, $2.28+$0.22 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XIV (800/1600) - 2013/07/28 14:33:40 WET [2013/07/28 9:33:40 ET]
Table "766596952 17" 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 4: 33teetwo33 (22406 in chips)
Seat 5: zenh8 (21626 in chips)
Seat 6: taki972 (26627 in chips)
Seat 7: NL Avatar (20190 in chips)
Seat 8: VuiZe (10989 in chips)
Seat 9: iRaiseProffs (30159 in chips)
33teetwo33: posts the ante 150
zenh8: posts the ante 150
taki972: posts the ante 150
NL Avatar: posts the ante 150
VuiZe: posts the ante 150
iRaiseProffs: posts the ante 150
33teetwo33: posts small blind 800
zenh8: posts big blind 1600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to 33teetwo33 [4c 4d]
taki972: folds
NL Avatar: folds
VuiZe: folds
iRaiseProffs: raises 28409 to 30009 and is all-in
33teetwo33: calls 21456 and is all-in
zenh8: folds
Uncalled bet (7753) returned to iRaiseProffs
*** FLOP *** [Js 8d 3d]
*** TURN *** [Js 8d 3d] [Jc]
*** RIVER *** [Js 8d 3d Jc] [8s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
33teetwo33: shows [4c 4d] (two pair, Jacks and Eights)
iRaiseProffs: shows [Ad 3h] (two pair, Jacks and Eights - Ace kicker)
iRaiseProffs collected 47012 from pot
33teetwo33 finished the tournament in 12th place and received $3.89.
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 47012 | Rake 0
Board [Js 8d 3d Jc 8s]
Seat 4: 33teetwo33 (small blind) showed [4c 4d] and lost with two pair, Jacks and Eights
Seat 5: zenh8 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: taki972 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 7: NL Avatar folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 8: VuiZe folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 9: iRaiseProffs (button) showed [Ad 3h] and won (47012) with two pair, Jacks and Eights

Can"t really complain still about $65 up on the day so far.

That"s without the 11am MM which I have already cashed in as well.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on July 28, 2013, 14:49:16 PM
PokerStars Hand #101994134361: Tournament #2013005093, $2.00+$0.20 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXI (800/1600) - 2013/07/28 14:47:45 WET [2013/07/28 9:47:45 ET]
Table "2013005093 606" 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: mortenbrenoe (21500 in chips)
Seat 2: sesil73 (50851 in chips)
Seat 3: Igor_Himich (13200 in chips)
Seat 4: K4r4b4n4n4 (40538 in chips)
Seat 5: elastix (19173 in chips)
Seat 6: novik017 (67322 in chips)
Seat 7: *Le-Rapid* (26053 in chips)
Seat 8: 33teetwo33 (27825 in chips)
Seat 9: Liebelein75 (76632 in chips)
mortenbrenoe: posts the ante 200
sesil73: posts the ante 200
Igor_Himich: posts the ante 200
K4r4b4n4n4: posts the ante 200
elastix: posts the ante 200
novik017: posts the ante 200
*Le-Rapid*: posts the ante 200
33teetwo33: posts the ante 200
Liebelein75: posts the ante 200
novik017: posts small blind 800
*Le-Rapid*: posts big blind 1600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to 33teetwo33 [4h 4c]
33teetwo33: raises 26025 to 27625 and is all-in
Liebelein75: folds
mortenbrenoe: folds
sesil73: folds
Igor_Himich: folds
K4r4b4n4n4: folds
elastix: folds
novik017: calls 26825
*Le-Rapid*: folds
*** FLOP *** [7d 3h Td]
*** TURN *** [7d 3h Td] [5s]
*** RIVER *** [7d 3h Td 5s] [9h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
novik017: shows [Ah Qc] (high card Ace)
33teetwo33: shows [4h 4c] (a pair of Fours)
33teetwo33 collected 58650 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 58650 | Rake 0
Board [7d 3h Td 5s 9h]
Seat 1: mortenbrenoe folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 2: sesil73 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 3: Igor_Himich folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 4: K4r4b4n4n4 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 5: elastix (button) folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 6: novik017 (small blind) showed [Ah Qc] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 7: *Le-Rapid* (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: 33teetwo33 showed [4h 4c] and won (58650) with a pair of Fours
Seat 9: Liebelein75 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on July 28, 2013, 19:09:44 PM
Restarted regging, might miss the MM main event though as not feel up for a session into the night. will continue to play the sitngos and see how I feel.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on July 28, 2013, 19:33:18 PM
I got such great skillz at the pokerz I can even play JJ like a boss

PokerStars Hand #102007256691: Tournament #766736415, $4.10+$0.40 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2013/07/28 19:26:26 WET [2013/07/28 14:26:26 ET]
Table "766736415 13" 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Aro2910 (2450 in chips)
Seat 2: ryecarr001 (1010 in chips)
Seat 3: MateuszXas (2180 in chips)
Seat 4: clauditza102 (710 in chips)
Seat 5: lenczewski (1360 in chips)
Seat 6: anger1986 (1530 in chips)
Seat 7: Servis24 (1130 in chips)
Seat 8: 33teetwo33 (1470 in chips)
Seat 9: SvartaNinjan (1660 in chips)
Servis24: posts small blind 10
33teetwo33: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to 33teetwo33 [Jc Jh]
SvartaNinjan: folds
Aro2910: calls 20
ryecarr001: folds
MateuszXas: folds
clauditza102: raises 60 to 80
lenczewski is connected
lenczewski: folds
anger1986: folds
Servis24: folds
33teetwo33: raises 160 to 240
Aro2910: folds
clauditza102: raises 470 to 710 and is all-in
33teetwo33: calls 470
*** FLOP *** [Jd Ts Qc]
*** TURN *** [Jd Ts Qc] [Qd]
*** RIVER *** [Jd Ts Qc Qd] [4d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
33teetwo33: shows [Jc Jh] (a full house, Jacks full of Queens)
clauditza102: shows [Ks Ah] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
33teetwo33 collected 1450 from pot
clauditza102 finished the tournament in 155th place
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1450 | Rake 0
Board [Jd Ts Qc Qd 4d]
Seat 1: Aro2910 folded before Flop
Seat 2: ryecarr001 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 3: MateuszXas folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 4: clauditza102 showed [Ks Ah] and lost with a straight, Ten to Ace
Seat 5: lenczewski folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 6: anger1986 (button) folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 7: Servis24 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: 33teetwo33 (big blind) showed [Jc Jh] and won (1450) with a full house, Jacks full of Queens
Seat 9: SvartaNinjan folded before Flop (didn"t bet)

And if there was any doubt, next hand

PokerStars Hand #102007326252: Tournament #766736415, $4.10+$0.40 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level II (15/30) - 2013/07/28 19:27:43 WET [2013/07/28 14:27:43 ET]
Table "766736415 13" 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: Aro2910 (2430 in chips)
Seat 2: ryecarr001 (1010 in chips)
Seat 3: MateuszXas (2180 in chips)
Seat 5: lenczewski (1360 in chips)
Seat 6: anger1986 (1530 in chips)
Seat 7: Servis24 (1120 in chips)
Seat 8: 33teetwo33 (2210 in chips)
Seat 9: SvartaNinjan (1660 in chips)
33teetwo33: posts small blind 15
SvartaNinjan: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to 33teetwo33 [Jh Js]
Aro2910: raises 30 to 60
ryecarr001: calls 60
MateuszXas: folds
lenczewski: calls 60
anger1986: folds
Servis24: folds
33teetwo33: raises 240 to 300
SvartaNinjan: folds
Aro2910: calls 240
ryecarr001: folds
lenczewski: calls 240
*** FLOP *** [As Tc 2c]
33teetwo33: checks
Aro2910: checks
lenczewski: checks
*** TURN *** [As Tc 2c] [Jc]
33teetwo33: bets 650
Aro2910: raises 1480 to 2130 and is all-in
lenczewski: folds
33teetwo33: calls 1260 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (220) returned to Aro2910
*** RIVER *** [As Tc 2c Jc] [Th]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
33teetwo33: shows [Jh Js] (a full house, Jacks full of Tens)
Aro2910: shows [7c 9c] (a flush, Jack high)
33teetwo33 collected 4810 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4810 | Rake 0
Board [As Tc 2c Jc Th]
Seat 1: Aro2910 showed [7c 9c] and lost with a flush, Jack high
Seat 2: ryecarr001 folded before Flop
Seat 3: MateuszXas folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 5: lenczewski folded on the Turn
Seat 6: anger1986 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 7: Servis24 (button) folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 8: 33teetwo33 (small blind) showed [Jh Js] and won (4810) with a full house, Jacks full of Tens
Seat 9: SvartaNinjan (big blind) folded before Flop
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on July 28, 2013, 20:38:15 PM
1/16 in one of my 180s after this

PokerStars Hand #102011121511: Tournament #766741173, $2.28+$0.22 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XV (1000/2000) - 2013/07/28 20:33:59 WET [2013/07/28 15:33:59 ET]
Table "766741173 16" 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: pacco84 (17484 in chips)
Seat 2: Black_Ratz (14548 in chips)
Seat 3: 33teetwo33 (13903 in chips)
Seat 4: Redbullet15 (15817 in chips)
Seat 5: 77fdr77 (17702 in chips)
Seat 6: Ivanka333 (18002 in chips)
Seat 9: duri95 (22082 in chips)
pacco84: posts the ante 200
Black_Ratz: posts the ante 200
33teetwo33: posts the ante 200
Redbullet15: posts the ante 200
77fdr77: posts the ante 200
Ivanka333: posts the ante 200
duri95: posts the ante 200
pacco84: posts small blind 1000
Black_Ratz: posts big blind 2000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to 33teetwo33 [Ts Ad]
33teetwo33: raises 11703 to 13703 and is all-in
Redbullet15: folds
77fdr77: folds
Ivanka333: folds
duri95: raises 8179 to 21882 and is all-in
pacco84: calls 16284 and is all-in
Black_Ratz: folds
Uncalled bet (4598) returned to duri95
*** FLOP *** [4s 8h Qc]
*** TURN *** [4s 8h Qc] [Qs]
*** RIVER *** [4s 8h Qc Qs] [Ah]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pacco84: shows [Tc Td] (two pair, Queens and Tens)
duri95: shows [9c 9h] (two pair, Queens and Nines)
pacco84 collected 7162 from side pot
33teetwo33: shows [Ts Ad] (two pair, Aces and Queens)
33teetwo33 collected 44509 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 51671 Main pot 44509. Side pot 7162. | Rake 0
Board [4s 8h Qc Qs Ah]
Seat 1: pacco84 (small blind) showed [Tc Td] and won (7162) with two pair, Queens and Tens
Seat 2: Black_Ratz (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: 33teetwo33 showed [Ts Ad] and won (44509) with two pair, Aces and Queens
Seat 4: Redbullet15 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 5: 77fdr77 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 6: Ivanka333 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 9: duri95 (button) showed [9c 9h] and lost with two pair, Queens and Nines

also 7/11 in another
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on July 28, 2013, 20:52:50 PM
Ended up 6th and 7th which is not too bad but could have been better. Got 3 left running

Two turbo games in fairly early stages and a standard game with 46 players left. I am below average but not in any trouble really.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on July 28, 2013, 21:24:53 PM
Glad I didn"t play any of the big games as feels like I have been playing too long already. 2/25 and 4/48 in the last two I am playing. One more deep finish would be nice.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on July 28, 2013, 21:46:22 PM
2/7 in one 13/15 in the other

Interesting ICM spot on the one table. I have more than twice as many chips as third but less than half of first
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on July 28, 2013, 21:51:09 PM
Heads up 2/1 down in chips

EDit: 2nd

One more to go 8/9 in that one
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on July 28, 2013, 22:15:59 PM
Ran Good today

Tournaments: 33
Total Profit: $168.90

Not good enough to turn the prop with Stu and Mark around, think Stu is still going to be ahead. Puts me up for the month by about $120.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 02, 2013, 11:44:34 AM
There is a little drink in Cardiff this evening, however the apaters all travel very slowly. I have been here for hours :-)

I guess a little 180 man session will keep me busy whilst I wait for the slow coaches.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 05, 2013, 14:06:01 PM
After a great apat/football weekend, where I didn"t play apat or football it mustr be time to actually play a session will stick with the 180"s as I like them at the moment on Stars. I also need to phone Harrahs and book my room.

More updates soon.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 05, 2013, 18:15:14 PM
That has not gone too well so far today, only played 19 but only managed one cash. Currently losing $45.61.

Had a couple of chances, lost KK vs AK for the chip lead in one with about 30 left. Was generally getting it good but lost a lot of races and 60/40"s. Some fun hands so

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5249949

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5250245

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5250247  <<<<< Not sure 100% how good my shove is here, likely to be fine
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 05, 2013, 18:59:20 PM
Got 4 running at the moment not really able to get going in anything.

One 13/74 with 5K against a 3.5 K average edit - gone

PokerStars Hand #102352271944: Tournament #770231058, $2.28+$0.22 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (150/300) - 2013/08/05 19:08:45 WET [2013/08/05 14:08:45 ET]
Table "770231058 19" 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: harty1989 (6370 in chips)
Seat 2: JMMaga (1369 in chips)
Seat 3: Nocco88 (4846 in chips)
Seat 4: Jc_Poker_Ace (2700 in chips)
Seat 5: bogdanradu13 (1430 in chips)
Seat 7: 33teetwo33 (4880 in chips)
Seat 8: sayakdes (2760 in chips)
Seat 9: fank113 (5758 in chips)
harty1989: posts the ante 25
JMMaga: posts the ante 25
Nocco88: posts the ante 25
Jc_Poker_Ace: posts the ante 25
bogdanradu13: posts the ante 25
33teetwo33: posts the ante 25
sayakdes: posts the ante 25
fank113: posts the ante 25
JMMaga: posts small blind 150
Nocco88: posts big blind 300
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to 33teetwo33 [Kd As]
Jc_Poker_Ace: folds
bogdanradu13: folds
33teetwo33: raises 4555 to 4855 and is all-in
sayakdes: folds
fank113: raises 878 to 5733 and is all-in
harty1989: folds
JMMaga: folds
Nocco88: folds
Uncalled bet (878) returned to fank113
*** FLOP *** [8h 5h 5d]
*** TURN *** [8h 5h 5d] [Qs]
*** RIVER *** [8h 5h 5d Qs] [Tc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
33teetwo33: shows [Kd As] (a pair of Fives)
fank113: shows [Ac Qd] (two pair, Queens and Fives)
fank113 collected 10360 from pot
33teetwo33 finished the tournament in 56th place
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 10360 | Rake 0
Board [8h 5h 5d Qs Tc]
Seat 1: harty1989 (button) folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 2: JMMaga (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: Nocco88 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: Jc_Poker_Ace folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 5: bogdanradu13 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 7: 33teetwo33 showed [Kd As] and lost with a pair of Fives
Seat 8: sayakdes folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 9: fank113 showed [Ac Qd] and won (10360) with two pair, Queens and Fives

One where I have a below average stack with 88 left - Edit and gone

PokerStars Hand #102352017487: Tournament #770231887, $2.28+$0.22 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level VII (125/250) - 2013/08/05 19:03:24 WET [2013/08/05 14:03:24 ET]
Table "770231887 3" 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: termo80 (1950 in chips)
Seat 3: sayakdes (3881 in chips)
Seat 4: sandre99 (5544 in chips)
Seat 5: 33teetwo33 (1890 in chips)
Seat 6: akv3ct()r (2605 in chips)
Seat 7: ladybug545 (2774 in chips)
Seat 8: w4ts (3420 in chips)
Seat 9: piscopat81 (4235 in chips)
termo80: posts the ante 25
sayakdes: posts the ante 25
sandre99: posts the ante 25
33teetwo33: posts the ante 25
akv3ct()r: posts the ante 25
ladybug545: posts the ante 25
w4ts: posts the ante 25
piscopat81: posts the ante 25
sayakdes: posts small blind 125
sandre99: posts big blind 250
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to 33teetwo33 [Ts Td]
33teetwo33: raises 1615 to 1865 and is all-in
akv3ct()r: folds
ladybug545: folds
w4ts: raises 1530 to 3395 and is all-in
piscopat81: folds
termo80: folds
sayakdes: folds
sandre99: folds
Uncalled bet (1530) returned to w4ts
*** FLOP *** [8h 2c 2h]
*** TURN *** [8h 2c 2h] [8c]
*** RIVER *** [8h 2c 2h 8c] [6c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
33teetwo33: shows [Ts Td] (two pair, Tens and Eights)
w4ts: shows [Kh Kd] (two pair, Kings and Eights)
w4ts collected 4305 from pot
33teetwo33 finished the tournament in 80th place
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4305 | Rake 0
Board [8h 2c 2h 8c 6c]
Seat 2: termo80 (button) folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 3: sayakdes (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: sandre99 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: 33teetwo33 showed [Ts Td] and lost with two pair, Tens and Eights
Seat 6: akv3ct()r folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 7: ladybug545 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 8: w4ts showed [Kh Kd] and won (4305) with two pair, Kings and Eights
Seat 9: piscopat81 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)


One With an average stack with 89 players left - edit gone

PokerStars Hand #102352119101: Tournament #770232615, $2.28+$0.22 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level VII (125/250) - 2013/08/05 19:05:34 WET [2013/08/05 14:05:34 ET]
Table "770232615 17" 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Spaceboy59 (4107 in chips)
Seat 2: jimmyblack8 (2275 in chips)
Seat 3: 33teetwo33 (3127 in chips)
Seat 4: GoldenJewKK (2340 in chips)
Seat 5: queensrace (1892 in chips)
Seat 6: an3k (2535 in chips)
Seat 7: fckthplc (5505 in chips)
Seat 8: Tikodasilva (2631 in chips)
Seat 9: Kovin1s (2570 in chips)
Spaceboy59: posts the ante 25
jimmyblack8: posts the ante 25
33teetwo33: posts the ante 25
GoldenJewKK: posts the ante 25
queensrace: posts the ante 25
an3k: posts the ante 25
fckthplc: posts the ante 25
Tikodasilva: posts the ante 25
Kovin1s: posts the ante 25
fckthplc: posts small blind 125
Tikodasilva: posts big blind 250
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to 33teetwo33 [Js Ts]
Kovin1s: folds
Spaceboy59: folds
jimmyblack8: folds
33teetwo33: raises 2852 to 3102 and is all-in
GoldenJewKK: folds
queensrace: folds
an3k: folds
fckthplc: calls 2977
Tikodasilva: calls 2356 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [2s 3d 8c]
*** TURN *** [2s 3d 8c] [Ks]
*** RIVER *** [2s 3d 8c Ks] [4h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
fckthplc: shows [Jh Ah] (high card Ace)
33teetwo33: shows [Js Ts] (high card King)
fckthplc collected 992 from side pot
Tikodasilva: shows [Ac Qs] (high card Ace - King+Queen kicker)
Tikodasilva collected 8043 from main pot
33teetwo33 finished the tournament in 74th place
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 9035 Main pot 8043. Side pot 992. | Rake 0
Board [2s 3d 8c Ks 4h]
Seat 1: Spaceboy59 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 2: jimmyblack8 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 3: 33teetwo33 showed [Js Ts] and lost with high card King
Seat 4: GoldenJewKK folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 5: queensrace folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 6: an3k (button) folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 7: fckthplc (small blind) showed [Jh Ah] and won (992) with high card Ace
Seat 8: Tikodasilva (big blind) showed [Ac Qs] and won (8043) with high card Ace
Seat 9: Kovin1s folded before Flop (didn"t bet)


One just started edit gone

PokerStars Hand #102352229474: Tournament #770242993, $2.28+$0.22 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level II (15/30) - 2013/08/05 19:07:52 WET [2013/08/05 14:07:52 ET]
Table "770242993 5" 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: FieDre (1530 in chips)
Seat 2: mastakur (1326 in chips)
Seat 3: 33teetwo33 (1465 in chips)
Seat 4: dementiy18 (1632 in chips)
Seat 5: IhaveNoClue1 (1530 in chips)
Seat 6: rick417 (1807 in chips)
Seat 7: nev18 (1250 in chips)
Seat 8: Antonio0077 (1475 in chips)
Seat 9: -M-Z-AAAA- (1485 in chips)
-M-Z-AAAA-: posts small blind 15
FieDre: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to 33teetwo33 [Qc Qd]
mastakur: folds
33teetwo33: raises 60 to 90
dementiy18: folds
IhaveNoClue1: folds
rick417: folds
nev18: folds
Antonio0077: folds
-M-Z-AAAA-: folds
FieDre: raises 180 to 270
33teetwo33: raises 1195 to 1465 and is all-in
FieDre: calls 1195
*** FLOP *** [9d 5s Ks]
*** TURN *** [9d 5s Ks] [3d]
*** RIVER *** [9d 5s Ks 3d] [Th]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
FieDre: shows [9c 9s] (three of a kind, Nines)
33teetwo33: shows [Qc Qd] (a pair of Queens)
FieDre collected 2945 from pot
33teetwo33 finished the tournament in 151st place
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2945 | Rake 0
Board [9d 5s Ks 3d Th]
Seat 1: FieDre (big blind) showed [9c 9s] and won (2945) with three of a kind, Nines
Seat 2: mastakur folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 3: 33teetwo33 showed [Qc Qd] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 4: dementiy18 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 5: IhaveNoClue1 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 6: rick417 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 7: nev18 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 8: Antonio0077 (button) folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 9: -M-Z-AAAA- (small blind) folded before Flop
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 05, 2013, 19:13:58 PM
Played this month: 30
Total Loss: $75.11
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 09, 2013, 23:33:15 PM
So anyway, played some PLO cash this morning before work to try and gain some FPP. Played 1300 hands and won $96 as you do. I ran like $70 about EV which is always nice, hit literally every flush draw, straight draw, filled up sets and whatever else I needed to hit and my opponents always managed to make the second best hand. Easy Game.

Seeing as I am apparently so good at poker again I will crush some 180 man turbos. I mean what could possibly go wrong :-)

Staring to reg now, 33teetwo33 if anybody fancies laughing at me trying to play these :-)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 10, 2013, 01:57:44 AM
Played a quick 17 games one table left, I am currently down $22.

11/29 in my last game (a $4.50)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 10, 2013, 02:14:30 AM
PokerStars Hand #102546124144: Tournament #772213493, $4.10+$0.40 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level IX (200/400) - 2013/08/10 2:11:35 WET [2013/08/09 21:11:35 ET]
Table "772213493 9" 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: karel2000 (14706 in chips)
Seat 2: HaTaIIIa123 (10016 in chips)
Seat 3: lucho022 (11276 in chips)
Seat 5: Phil GronSky (9987 in chips)
Seat 6: niezman (13092 in chips)
Seat 7: Alllbert (35850 in chips)
Seat 8: 33teetwo33 (11780 in chips)
Seat 9: pooltje12 (11321 in chips)
karel2000: posts the ante 50
HaTaIIIa123: posts the ante 50
lucho022: posts the ante 50
Phil GronSky: posts the ante 50
niezman: posts the ante 50
Alllbert: posts the ante 50
33teetwo33: posts the ante 50
pooltje12: posts the ante 50
Alllbert: posts small blind 200
33teetwo33: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to 33teetwo33 [5h 3h]
pooltje12: folds
karel2000: folds
HaTaIIIa123: folds
lucho022: folds
Phil GronSky: raises 600 to 1000
niezman: folds
Alllbert: folds
33teetwo33: calls 600
*** FLOP *** [4h Qh Ts]
33teetwo33: checks
Phil GronSky: bets 1200
33teetwo33: raises 9530 to 10730 and is all-in
Phil GronSky: calls 7737 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (1793) returned to 33teetwo33
*** TURN *** [4h Qh Ts] [6d]
*** RIVER *** [4h Qh Ts 6d] [7d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
33teetwo33: shows [5h 3h] (a straight, Three to Seven)
Phil GronSky: shows [Ac Qs] (a pair of Queens)
33teetwo33 collected 20474 from pot
Phil GronSky finished the tournament in 24th place and received $4.79.
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 20474 | Rake 0
Board [4h Qh Ts 6d 7d]
Seat 1: karel2000 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 2: HaTaIIIa123 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 3: lucho022 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 5: Phil GronSky showed [Ac Qs] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 6: niezman (button) folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 7: Alllbert (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: 33teetwo33 (big blind) showed [5h 3h] and won (20474) with a straight, Three to Seven
Seat 9: pooltje12 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)

2/21 Now
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 10, 2013, 02:28:48 AM
PokerStars Hand #102546490765: Tournament #772213493, $4.10+$0.40 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level X (300/600) - 2013/08/10 2:26:21 WET [2013/08/09 21:26:21 ET]
Table "772213493 9" 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: karel2000 (14232 in chips)
Seat 2: HaTaIIIa123 (13915 in chips)
Seat 3: xanadupoa (9315 in chips)
Seat 4: PedroCWB (13577 in chips)
Seat 5: RADJA175 (7118 in chips)
Seat 6: niezman (19788 in chips)
Seat 7: Alllbert (36200 in chips)
Seat 8: 33teetwo33 (19569 in chips)
Seat 9: pooltje12 (11345 in chips)
karel2000: posts the ante 50
HaTaIIIa123: posts the ante 50
xanadupoa: posts the ante 50
PedroCWB: posts the ante 50
RADJA175: posts the ante 50
niezman: posts the ante 50
Alllbert: posts the ante 50
33teetwo33: posts the ante 50
pooltje12: posts the ante 50
PedroCWB: posts small blind 300
RADJA175: posts big blind 600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to 33teetwo33 [Kd As]
niezman: folds
Alllbert: folds
33teetwo33: raises 699 to 1299
pooltje12: folds
karel2000 is disconnected
karel2000 has timed out while disconnected
karel2000: folds
karel2000 is sitting out
HaTaIIIa123: calls 1299
karel2000 has returned
xanadupoa: raises 1101 to 2400
PedroCWB: folds
RADJA175: folds
33teetwo33: raises 17119 to 19519 and is all-in
HaTaIIIa123: folds
xanadupoa: calls 6865 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (10254) returned to 33teetwo33
*** FLOP *** [4s 8s 5h]
*** TURN *** [4s 8s 5h] [Qc]
*** RIVER *** [4s 8s 5h Qc] [Tc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
33teetwo33: shows [Kd As] (high card Ace)
xanadupoa: shows [9h 9s] (a pair of Nines)
xanadupoa collected 21179 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 21179 | Rake 0
Board [4s 8s 5h Qc Tc]
Seat 1: karel2000 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 2: HaTaIIIa123 folded before Flop
Seat 3: xanadupoa (button) showed [9h 9s] and won (21179) with a pair of Nines
Seat 4: PedroCWB (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: RADJA175 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: niezman folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 7: Alllbert folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 8: 33teetwo33 showed [Kd As] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 9: pooltje12 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 10, 2013, 02:31:46 AM
Swing

PokerStars Hand #102546594519: Tournament #772213493, $4.10+$0.40 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XI (400/800) - 2013/08/10 2:30:43 WET [2013/08/09 21:30:43 ET]
Table "772213493 9" 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: karel2000 (16581 in chips)
Seat 2: HaTaIIIa123 (12266 in chips)
Seat 3: xanadupoa (20079 in chips)
Seat 4: PedroCWB (6859 in chips)
Seat 6: niezman (15739 in chips)
Seat 7: Alllbert (39524 in chips)
Seat 8: 33teetwo33 (10855 in chips)
Seat 9: pooltje12 (9795 in chips)
karel2000: posts the ante 75
HaTaIIIa123: posts the ante 75
xanadupoa: posts the ante 75
PedroCWB: posts the ante 75
niezman: posts the ante 75
Alllbert: posts the ante 75
33teetwo33: posts the ante 75
pooltje12: posts the ante 75
karel2000: posts small blind 400
HaTaIIIa123: posts big blind 800
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to 33teetwo33 [Jh Qc]
xanadupoa: folds
PedroCWB: folds
niezman: folds
Alllbert: folds
33teetwo33: raises 9980 to 10780 and is all-in
pooltje12: calls 9720 and is all-in
karel2000: folds
HaTaIIIa123: folds
Uncalled bet (1060) returned to 33teetwo33
*** FLOP *** [Jd Ts Ad]
*** TURN *** [Jd Ts Ad] [4d]
*** RIVER *** [Jd Ts Ad 4d] [Th]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
33teetwo33: shows [Jh Qc] (two pair, Jacks and Tens)
pooltje12: shows [5h 5d] (two pair, Tens and Fives)
33teetwo33 collected 21240 from pot
pooltje12 finished the tournament in 16th place and received $7.01.
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 21240 | Rake 0
Board [Jd Ts Ad 4d Th]
Seat 1: karel2000 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: HaTaIIIa123 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: xanadupoa folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 4: PedroCWB folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 6: niezman folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 7: Alllbert folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 8: 33teetwo33 showed [Jh Qc] and won (21240) with two pair, Jacks and Tens
Seat 9: pooltje12 (button) showed [5h 5d] and lost with two pair, Tens and Fives
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 10, 2013, 03:37:57 AM
Finished 5th for $42, $19.42 profit on the session.

Month to Date

Tournaments: 47
Total Loss: $55.28
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 10, 2013, 12:35:04 PM
Gonna play again today. Thinking I should set Table Ninja back up tbh and increase volume as I like the 180"s at the moment as they let you practiced playing different stack sizes. Think I am playing quite well at the moment still.

Check back for updates if you are interested.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 10, 2013, 21:30:33 PM
Gave up on the 180"s quite quickly and switched to playing cash on Sky. Won £110 doing that. Sky seems really good value would have thought those people whose goal is to make money at the game would play on a site like this, not sure why everybody seems to play stars which is silly hard.

Anyway I manged to cash in 2 tournaments today and that was for about $3 each.

Month to date:

Tournaments: 61
Total Loss: $84.50
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 18, 2013, 17:55:49 PM
Not having the best of months so far nut think I am playing fine.

Another little session of 180 manners tonight. Hopefully will get nicely warmed up for next weekend. Can"t wait to catch up with everybody again.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 18, 2013, 20:03:00 PM
Played 13 so far today, now one tabling with only one ninth place so far.

1/12 in the last one though with 58K which is double average. Can change so quick in these though

Edit 90K chips going into the final table Average is 30K and second has 44K, could do with a win here tbh.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 18, 2013, 20:11:32 PM
PokerStars Hand #102919772604: Tournament #776010982, $2.28+$0.22 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XV (1000/2000) - 2013/08/18 20:10:41 WET [2013/08/18 15:10:41 ET]
Table "776010982 15" 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: sune18 (12746 in chips)
Seat 2: Peffiprinz (26104 in chips)
Seat 3: patra87 (29220 in chips)
Seat 4: 33teetwo33 (102926 in chips)
Seat 5: Evilstorm (810 in chips)
Seat 7: ketan7581 (54520 in chips)
Seat 8: jakakintok (43674 in chips)
sune18: posts the ante 200
Peffiprinz: posts the ante 200
patra87: posts the ante 200
33teetwo33: posts the ante 200
Evilstorm: posts the ante 200
ketan7581: posts the ante 200
jakakintok: posts the ante 200
Evilstorm: posts small blind 610 and is all-in
ketan7581: posts big blind 2000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to 33teetwo33 [Ac Ks]
jakakintok: raises 41474 to 43474 and is all-in
sune18: folds
Peffiprinz: folds
patra87: folds
33teetwo33: raises 59252 to 102726 and is all-in
ketan7581: folds
Uncalled bet (59252) returned to 33teetwo33
*** FLOP *** [Ad Qd 9c]
*** TURN *** [Ad Qd 9c] [Qc]
*** RIVER *** [Ad Qd 9c Qc] [6s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
jakakintok: shows [Jc Js] (two pair, Queens and Jacks)
33teetwo33: shows [Ac Ks] (two pair, Aces and Queens)
33teetwo33 collected 87118 from side pot
Evilstorm: shows [Kc 5h] (a pair of Queens)
33teetwo33 collected 3840 from main pot
jakakintok finished the tournament in 6th place and received $17.64.
Evilstorm finished the tournament in 7th place and received $12.31.
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 90958 Main pot 3840. Side pot 87118. | Rake 0
Board [Ad Qd 9c Qc 6s]
Seat 1: sune18 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 2: Peffiprinz folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 3: patra87 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 4: 33teetwo33 (button) showed [Ac Ks] and won (90958) with two pair, Aces and Queens
Seat 5: Evilstorm (small blind) showed [Kc 5h] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 7: ketan7581 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: jakakintok showed [Jc Js] and lost with two pair, Queens and Jacks
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 18, 2013, 20:14:39 PM
Heads up.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 18, 2013, 20:28:33 PM
PokerStars Hand #102920432803: Tournament #776010982, $2.28+$0.22 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XVIII (2000/4000) - 2013/08/18 20:22:37 WET [2013/08/18 15:22:37 ET]
Table "776010982 15" 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 4: 33teetwo33 (162560 in chips)
Seat 7: ketan7581 (107440 in chips)
33teetwo33: posts the ante 400
ketan7581: posts the ante 400
33teetwo33: posts small blind 2000
ketan7581: posts big blind 4000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to 33teetwo33 [Jc 9s]
33teetwo33: raises 4000 to 8000
ketan7581: calls 4000
*** FLOP *** [Jh 6h 4h]
ketan7581: checks
33teetwo33: bets 8500
ketan7581: raises 17500 to 26000
33teetwo33: raises 128160 to 154160 and is all-in
ketan7581: calls 73040 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (55120) returned to 33teetwo33
*** TURN *** [Jh 6h 4h] [7d]
*** RIVER *** [Jh 6h 4h 7d] [Kc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
ketan7581: shows [Js 8d] (a pair of Jacks)
33teetwo33: shows [Jc 9s] (a pair of Jacks - King+Nine kicker)
33teetwo33 collected 214880 from pot
ketan7581 finished the tournament in 2nd place and received $82.08.
33teetwo33 wins the tournament and receives $123.31 - congratulations!
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 214880 | Rake 0
Board [Jh 6h 4h 7d Kc]
Seat 4: 33teetwo33 (button) (small blind) showed [Jc 9s] and won (214880) with a pair of Jacks
Seat 7: ketan7581 (big blind) showed [Js 8d] and lost with a pair of Jacks

That made the monthly figures look better

Month to Date

Tournaments: 89
Total Loss: $26.38
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 20, 2013, 23:08:07 PM
Just playing a very small session tonight, just 5 games. Down in one already with QQ < AK. Not much happening elsewhere yet.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 20, 2013, 23:57:35 PM
Out of 3

2/21 in one with 25K against an average of 13.5K
16/18 in another with 6K against an average of 15K

Got the chip leader to my left in the one I am 2nd in so not feeling overly confident here to be honest
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 21, 2013, 00:22:15 AM
finished 7th and 18th profit on the day I guess.

Tournaments this month: 101
Total Loss: $40.18
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 31, 2013, 19:05:05 PM
Been playing a little bit of cash this month and doing OK. Back to studying the 180 man games and other games tonight. Will be playing:-

The big $11
APAT UK Online main event
Some $2.50 180 manners
Some $4.50 180 manners

I am about $70 down in tournaments this month so a heroic escape would be good.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 31, 2013, 19:35:01 PM
Thats quite helpful

PokerStars Hand #103482265735: Tournament #820010496, $10+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (25/50) - 2013/08/31 19:32:12 WET [2013/08/31 14:32:12 ET]
Table "820010496 215" 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: DeeDee1717 (1820 in chips)
Seat 2: pappuh (4005 in chips)
Seat 3: villa777 (5550 in chips)
Seat 4: river8 (2530 in chips)
Seat 5: jayme1987 (4810 in chips)
Seat 6: 33teetwo33 (3715 in chips)
Seat 7: anriqui (2485 in chips)
Seat 8: Emp09 (3690 in chips)
Seat 9: brilleqwert (2820 in chips)
brilleqwert: posts small blind 25
DeeDee1717: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to 33teetwo33 [Ah Ac]
pappuh: raises 50 to 100
villa777: folds
river8: folds
jayme1987: calls 100
33teetwo33: raises 175 to 275
anriqui: raises 175 to 450
Emp09: folds
brilleqwert: raises 2370 to 2820 and is all-in
DeeDee1717: folds
pappuh: calls 2720
jayme1987: folds
33teetwo33: raises 895 to 3715 and is all-in
anriqui: calls 2035 and is all-in
pappuh: calls 895
*** FLOP *** [9s Qs Jc]
*** TURN *** [9s Qs Jc] [6d]
*** RIVER *** [9s Qs Jc 6d] [7d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pappuh: shows [td Th] (a pair of Tens)
33teetwo33: shows [Ah Ac] (a pair of Aces)
33teetwo33 collected 1790 from side pot-2
brilleqwert: shows [Tc Ts] (a pair of Tens)
33teetwo33 collected 1005 from side pot-1
anriqui: shows [Ad Kh] (high card Ace)
33teetwo33 collected 10090 from main pot
brilleqwert finished the tournament in 5093rd place
anriqui finished the tournament in 5094th place
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 12885 Main pot 10090. Side pot-1 1005. Side pot-2 1790. | Rake 0
Board [9s Qs Jc 6d 7d]
Seat 1: DeeDee1717 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: pappuh showed [td Th] and lost with a pair of Tens
Seat 3: villa777 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 4: river8 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 5: jayme1987 folded before Flop
Seat 6: 33teetwo33 showed [Ah Ac] and won (12885) with a pair of Aces
Seat 7: anriqui showed [Ad Kh] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 8: Emp09 (button) folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 9: brilleqwert (small blind) showed [Tc Ts] and lost with a pair of Tens
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 04, 2013, 09:47:12 AM
Thought I would update from last month which was very mixed for me. I played on a few different sites but mainly Stars.

I was down $120 in MTT"s on Pokerstars, don"t think I did too much wrong but just one of those things. They were mainly $2.50 and $4.50 180 manners but did include 1 shot using a Tournament Token at the Big $11.

I won £200 on Sky at cash playing 15p/30p nlhe. I broke even playing a small amount of cash on both Pokerstars and Poker.co.uk.

Reading Mikes new blog made me feel like getting back to the cash tables a bit. I played some cash on Pokerstars as I have focused too much on the 180 manners recently and just looking at the overall stats they look OK. I have only played one session this month.

Hands: 544
VP$IP: 32%
PFR: 28%
3-Bet: 13%
Fold to 3-bet: 51.61%
4-Bet: 9%
Total Profit: $25.47

Should have done better really but played this hand very badly

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5302502

Other than that pretty standard session. Will try to post some more cash hands this month but still going to play a fair few $2.50 180 manners as I still really want to be good at them.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 04, 2013, 11:56:57 AM
I just tried playing a quick session on the FR table. Only 300 Hands to see how that table played. Will have to do another one at some point as 300 hands is nowhere near enough to get a proper read on those tables. I will certainly stick with 6-max as my main game.

Hands: 300
VP$IP: 26.4%
PFR: 24.09%
3Bet: 7.34%
Fold to 3-bet after raise: 20%
4Bet: 0%
Att to Steal: 89.29%
Total Profit: $6.47

Not a lot really happened I lost $5 with QQ into AA and wonder if I can actually get away from this hand on these tables.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5302518

Preflop and flop are probably standard. I do wonder if I should be able to fold the river here, even though my hand is slightly under repped.

I also lost this hand and again wonder if in these games I can fold the flop (I am pretty sure this is standard actually)

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5302519
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Charlie44 on September 04, 2013, 11:57:24 AM


Hands: 544
VP$IP: 32%
PFR: 28%
3-Bet: 13%
Fold to 3-bet: 51.61%
4-Bet: 9%
Total Profit: $25.47

Should have done better really but played this hand very badly




Interesting to see someones elses stats. Even though it"s 6 max clearly more agressive than mine. I think big part of improvement comes from analysing hands so I"ll add my penneth for what"s its worth.

I think the problem with 3 bet calling with A7s here is if your behind your often dominated and you are playing oop. If villain stats are really agressive maybe it"s a 4 bet fold. Any stats on him ? He has a full stack so assume he is auto reloading and more likely to be reg. I would prefer a fold pre here but we"ve already identified I fold to 3 bets too often.

The flop  is fine, you have to call now the ace has come.

If you call the turn I think you have to be prepared to call the river unless a queen or possibly a diamond comes. You are only really beating a bluff here or possibly a raggier ace when its a chop. I think may be he is checking behind his big pairs. and any bluffs will tend to be semi bluffs like KJ, or 2 diamonds. So I think its a fold for me unless you have any read on him. But maybe I"m being results orientated and I"m not sure I"d do that in live game.

With the ace appearing to on the river it"s less likely he"s got an ace, and his pot bet is polarised especially in position. So he is betting for value -

most aces that beat you apart from say AJ. 13 combos .
straights 76 QJ (discount J7) 28 combos.
sets that just made full houses - 9 combos.

Assuming he has areasonable holding to be 3 betting pre then he may be bluffing her with -

missed flushes KJ, KT,QT,JT,T9,65 - 6 combos.
Jx - KJ,JT,J9 - 40 combos.

So to make it ev to call he needs to be bluffing 3 streets when he has these holdings 50/46x 5.53/14.62 = 41% of the time. Much too high its a fold for me.

Does that mrror your thoughts on the hand. Hope it helps anyway. Probably not but its helped me to practice hand anlaysis and hopefully make it more automatic and accurate in a live environment when I have much less time.


Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 04, 2013, 22:55:36 PM
I think you have got that pretty spot on Mike. The call pre is bad, I should have 4-bet or folded. Flop is OK, Turn is bad and it is too late on the river, although I most likely should be folding even there. I am only beating a bluff from the turn onwards and not many bluffs are betting all three streets.

I entirely agree with your point about trying to break down the hands it does indeed help at the tables as you learn what spots look like and become more inclined to do the right thing.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: TheSnapper on September 05, 2013, 00:16:19 AM
Flatting 3b"s light is something you should restrict to the ample opportunities you will have, in position
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 05, 2013, 23:42:46 PM
I played some more of the FR games as I said I would. Here is the overall results

Hands: 1000
VP$IP: 24.90%
PFR: 22.20%
3Bet: 9.51%
Fold to 3-bet: 71.49%
4Bet: 6.98%
Att to Steal: 84.76%%
Total Profit: $58.53

My observations of this game is that it is quite different to the 6-max games that I normally play. The first thing that I noticed is that stealing worked a lot better. At 6-max I get played back at a lot but in this game people were just folding. This could well be down to the regs in this game not knowing me and therefore being less inclinded to play back again a player who is known to be pretty aggressive. It did get to the point though where I was basically opening every unopened cut off, button and small blind. I also found c-betting was much more effective in this game, again I found people folded a lot more than the 6-max. Conversely firing on the turn after getting called on the flop was less effective, I assume this to be as you get less floats. Checks tended to be nothing so I was also betting a lot when checked too. The thing that surprised me a little bit is that 3-betting from the blinds and button worked just as well as it does in the 6-max games.

I will post some hands tomorrow.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Charlie44 on September 06, 2013, 09:51:04 AM
Wow - nice profit Steve   :o- is this 10NL ? If so 58bb/100. Very very crushing !!

Not to take anything away from the cracking result, believe you will find the regs playing back a lot more at you as they build their hand histories. 

Please keep us posted if you plan to continue your assault !!
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 06, 2013, 11:18:54 AM

Wow - nice profit Steve   :o- is this 10NL ? If so 58bb/100. Very very crushing !!

Not to take anything away from the cracking result, believe you will find the regs playing back a lot more at you as they build their hand histories. 

Please keep us posted if you plan to continue your assault !!

It is $10nl but obviously I ran very very well and this is not sustainable, not even close. Below shows that EV adjusted I was up about $38, which still means I was running hotter than hell over a small sample.

(http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a531/Steve_Roderick/1000_zps6dcf42ed.jpg)

The regs have start to play back at me but you just have to adjust to this. This hand is against a guy who seemed to like to 3-bet my opens pre (this was the third time I have seen him do it) and he has a 3-bet of 15%. He also seemed quite passive post flop and inclined to give up when he missed. I had already flatted him from the button and taken a 3-bet pot off him using position, there is also some history with him as he is also a 6-max player. In this hand I tried something different, flatting to take it away on the flop might be better vs this player though. Saying that playing 4-bet pots in position against passive opponents is probably never a bad thing.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5306802

I will post some more later and over the weekend.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 06, 2013, 23:16:23 PM
For later read over the weekend, gonna fire up some 180"s and see if I can do half as well as Stu (I seriously doubt it lol)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 06, 2013, 23:58:58 PM
Only fired up 5 and out of two already. I have three going though as follows

1) 6147 chips vs average of 4285 with 62 Left
2) 6865 chips vs average of 3417 with 79 Left
3) 1715 chips vs average of 3375 with 80 Left
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 07, 2013, 00:45:37 AM
Min cashed one and made the last two tables of another.

Played: 5
Loss: $5.95
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 07, 2013, 13:53:45 PM
Played some cash this morning, did not play that well but no massive damage, lost about $20 which is a pretty standard session which is going to happen sometimes.

I am going to play some 180"s, might do some MTT"s later depending on how I feel

Hands Today: 189
VPIP: 35.45%
PFR: 28.57%
3-Bet: 13.04%
Fold to 3bet: 68%
Loss: $23.56

I will get around to posting some hands in the PHA section soon. I have fired up 4x$2.50 and 1x$4.50 will keep regging for a while
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on September 07, 2013, 14:36:25 PM
Fancy playing some 180"s tonight?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 07, 2013, 15:00:57 PM

Fancy playing some 180"s tonight?

Not going anywhere today (was working earlier so could not make the football today - sigh).
Yeah likely to play some.

So far I have played 8 today, min cashed in 1, busted 3 and 4 are still running. I also have one $4.50 on the go which I have a good start in.

Will be playing for a while this afternoon then likely to take a break, get a curry and play evening session around 7pm, if I am feeling up for it may play the big $11 as I have some tokens for it.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 07, 2013, 16:31:50 PM
Played 14 and only min cashed in two for a loss of $31.

Will probably play some more later.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on September 07, 2013, 16:47:43 PM
I shall join you then :D Looking forward to a session tonight :)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 07, 2013, 18:11:54 PM

I shall join you then :D Looking forward to a session tonight :)

Will do for sure. I seemed to be running bad today for some unknown reason so I spoke to Pokerstars about this. Apparently the RNG was broken and generating random cards (rather than the specific ones I required). They assure me it is now fixed so I tried a quick Zoom session to see.

It seems to be working right again.

(http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a531/Steve_Roderick/zoooom_zpsead16535.jpg)

Hands: 251
VP$IP: 29%
PFR: 23%
3-Bet: 5.38%
Fold to 3-bet: 45%
Total Profit: $50.42
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 07, 2013, 22:57:03 PM
Pokerstar"s is working right again. Played some 180 manners tonight. PLayed 14 and cashed in 4 including a win.

Month to ate on them is

Games: 33
Profit: $68.77
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 08, 2013, 16:28:47 PM
I have so many posts I need to update on this forum at the moment. I was happy with how well I ran yesterday in both the cash games (the second session is a PLO session btw).

With this in mind I got up this morning quite happy with having the day free to watch the F1 and play some poker. I went for a walk to pick up some stuff from Greggs (Greggs > Subway) and from Tesco. Speaking on which I don"t get the price of Diet Coke. I today bought two two litre bottles from Tesco and it cost me £2 which was an offer, but the offer is always there. I then walked back to the Car Park and went past a Coke Machine. A much smaller 500ml bottle is £1.20. What"s up with that?

Anyway I played some more PLO to start with I was playing 6-max zoom, mainly because it gets me lots of FPP. I got lucky early on getting it in behind in a hand and sucking out in a standard spot.

I then played this hand against what seemed to to a weaker player.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5308669

I make a light 3-bet here, which is not the best play I have ever made but it worked out OK, it would have been fine if I had 3-bet this from the button). On the flop I think I am ahead most of the time and the same on the turn.

My stats for the PLO session were as follows

Hands: 428
VP$IP: 24.77%
PFR: 20.36%
3-Bet: 3.11%
Fold 3Bet: 50%
Profit: $23.98

So my overall profit on PLO this month so far is $74.

I then went onto the Holdem table and reengaged god mode.

This was my biggest loss, not a hand I played that great

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5308670

Here is my biggest win. It all started off as a plan to steal the blinds and then this happened.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5308671

I also won a big pot with AA vs AQ when it flopped queen high and turned an ace on a firly dry board and in it went.

Think I played well overall played very agressive on a passive table where people were folding. The stats for the session were

Hands: 264
VP$IP: 37.12%
PFR: 34.47%
3Bet: 15.91%
Fold 3Bet: 73.33%
Attempt to Steal: 72%
Profit: $41.88

Overall profit for today so far: $65.86

Will be playing some 180"s at least later, maybe the Storm and Bigger $11.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 09, 2013, 22:59:49 PM
Playing poker is hard work even when you are running as hot as I was over the weekend. I ended up playing a short 180 session - 4 games and no cashes and went to bed planning to watch the American Football (as everybody was on about it). I fell to sleep about 9pm and woke back up at 2am - turned TV and everything off and went back to sleep until 8am this morning. All I did on the weekend was play poker online but last night was much more tired than I am today having done a busy day in work. Why anybody would want to be a poker pro is beyond me, working is so much easier.

Or maybe I am just a wuss. Either way will be taking a break from the poker for a few days now, after I have finished my little 180 game today, will post more next weekend.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 11, 2013, 19:23:57 PM
Small 180 Man Session today

Games: 12
Loss: $26.11
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 13, 2013, 10:16:49 AM
Longer time readers may remember this not long after we returned from Vegas 2011.


Played some hands quite well and made a few mistakes as well. I don"t think you are ever going to play it perfect of course. At the end of one session I did play for about half an hour too long which is pretty poor and probably lost about $10 that I should not have lost. I also lost a stack with the 2nd nut straight when he had the nut straight so not much I can do about that.

OK played enough poker for today so I am now going to go and have a beer and watch El Classico (I have £10 on the draw). Stats for today were:-

Hands = 2016
VP$IP = 11
PFR = 8
3-Bet = 3

Todays Loss = $20.34

Bluffs on the river seem to be much harder to get through playing FR than 6-Max.


IT COMING BACK ITS COMING BACK VEGAS" COMING BACK. We will be drinking free drinks everywhere, Pai Gowing with the pro"s, doing Downtown, crushing the Ventian, binking at Caesars and a few other things too. Stu said something about wanting to go to the zoo to see hippos and get some polos or something like that. Spending a week in Vegas with some of the best people in the world = EPIC WINNING.

Just reading through this blog, at the time of the last Vegas trip, did I really use to be this much of a nit? The answer to that is yes.

This brings me to an interesting point about poker. Back at the end of 2011 I was quite convinced that playing this kind of style was the only way to play especially at this level. If somebody said different I just basically assumed they were wrong because I was indoctrinated to believe "tight is right" and all those bad laggy players who would insist on calling with hands like 87s just because they happened to be on the button would learn this soon enough. I would never dream of calling in such a spot and three betting and playing in position was a concept that did not even exist in my mind. I also gave far too little credit to how other players play and the regs at the level. I basically played robotically and believed that there was one way of playing against everybody at micro stakes.

It took some doing but I was able to deconstruct and reinvent my game to a stage where it is much stronger now. The other thing I have learned is that it is worth listening to advice and taking it seriously no matter who is giving it. Some of the people from the APAT community who have helped me with this are Brendan, Noble and Stu to name but a few. I started to understand the importance of various concepts that I had never considered before. It was like I had only been seeing part of the game. I knew about board texture and cbetting for example and used them pretty well but I was not good enough at considering stack size, profiling players and making notes on what certain bet sizes meant. My HUD which I thought was excellent at the time missed a lot of important info like how often a player was trying to steal the blinds and how ften they folded to a 3-bet from a stealing position. So I missed a lot of profitable opportunities that could have changed small losing sessions into small winning sessions. At the time I was almost scared to change though, not sure why but I struggled to put the trigger. 

I am also now a lot less concerned with being able to play 10 tables at once and play a few thousand hands per day, don"t need to be able to do that. The idea of poker is to beat the game not play as many hands as possible. This year I have only played about 20K cash hands at holdem and about 5K PLO but am up on both. Last year I was down across both games (on Pokerstars, I was up overall just), although a lot of that did have to do the fact I was trying to change my game at the time. I was almost scared to change the game to start with but slowly started to work in extra stuff, just opening up my play from the button taught me a lot about how important it is to steal the blinds and play in position, which helped with playing post flop. I learned when to c-bet the turn after getting floated on the flop against certain player types and board textures. I learned to play back at people who are opening light with 3-bets rather than calls and ending up playing post flop out of position. This was just the start of it and it never stops evolving, you never stop learning in this game. You have to to stay ahead of it.

I can honestly say that I am not only now better at the game but the game is more fun to play. I may well have lot"s of fun with this when I actually get to Vegas as I expect to need to tighten up a bit again there, but having these extra plays in the locker should help ensure another profitable trip. Hopefully before the next Vegas trip I can evolve the game some more and make it more interesting.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 14, 2013, 01:13:51 AM
Played some 180"s tonight

Games: 6
Profit: $69.74

Month to date on 180"s

Games: 58
Profit: $94.90

Came 2nd in one tonight, Lost a massive flip heads up with 99 vs AK which would have won it for me (nearly binked my way back into it but was not to be), had a great run of cards to get to second so can"t complain. Also had one other min cash. Playing these teach"s you plenty about swings don"t it :)

Put"s me about $315 up overall on Pokerstar"s at the moment, which can only be described as running like God, or as I like to put it, running like Rod. I did lose $45 (£28) on Sky due to trying to be clever during a Skype session when I was not even remotely concentrating on the game I was playing, put that one down to be a degenerate, it is gonna happen now and again, none of us is perfect.

Game is still in good shape which is good as we are on the road to Vegas.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Charlie44 on September 14, 2013, 01:51:56 AM

Longer time readers may remember this not long after we returned from Vegas 2011.


Played some hands quite well and made a few mistakes as well. I don"t think you are ever going to play it perfect of course. At the end of one session I did play for about half an hour too long which is pretty poor and probably lost about $10 that I should not have lost. I also lost a stack with the 2nd nut straight when he had the nut straight so not much I can do about that.

OK played enough poker for today so I am now going to go and have a beer and watch El Classico (I have £10 on the draw). Stats for today were:-

Hands = 2016
VP$IP = 11
PFR = 8
3-Bet = 3

Todays Loss = $20.34

Bluffs on the river seem to be much harder to get through playing FR than 6-Max.


IT COMING BACK ITS COMING BACK VEGAS" COMING BACK. We will be drinking free drinks everywhere, Pai Gowing with the pro"s, doing Downtown, crushing the Ventian, binking at Caesars and a few other things too. Stu said something about wanting to go to the zoo to see hippos and get some polos or something like that. Spending a week in Vegas with some of the best people in the world = EPIC WINNING.

Just reading through this blog, at the time of the last Vegas trip, did I really use to be this much of a nit? The answer to that is yes.

This brings me to an interesting point about poker. Back at the end of 2011 I was quite convinced that playing this kind of style was the only way to play especially at this level. If somebody said different I just basically assumed they were wrong because I was indoctrinated to believe "tight is right" and all those bad laggy players who would insist on calling with hands like 87s just because they happened to be on the button would learn this soon enough. I would never dream of calling in such a spot and three betting and playing in position was a concept that did not even exist in my mind. I also gave far too little credit to how other players play and the regs at the level. I basically played robotically and believed that there was one way of playing against everybody at micro stakes.

It took some doing but I was able to deconstruct and reinvent my game to a stage where it is much stronger now. The other thing I have learned is that it is worth listening to advice and taking it seriously no matter who is giving it. Some of the people from the APAT community who have helped me with this are Brendan, Noble and Stu to name but a few. I started to understand the importance of various concepts that I had never considered before. It was like I had only been seeing part of the game. I knew about board texture and cbetting for example and used them pretty well but I was not good enough at considering stack size, profiling players and making notes on what certain bet sizes meant. My HUD which I thought was excellent at the time missed a lot of important info like how often a player was trying to steal the blinds and how ften they folded to a 3-bet from a stealing position. So I missed a lot of profitable opportunities that could have changed small losing sessions into small winning sessions. At the time I was almost scared to change though, not sure why but I struggled to put the trigger. 

I am also now a lot less concerned with being able to play 10 tables at once and play a few thousand hands per day, don"t need to be able to do that. The idea of poker is to beat the game not play as many hands as possible. This year I have only played about 20K cash hands at holdem and about 5K PLO but am up on both. Last year I was down across both games (on Pokerstars, I was up overall just), although a lot of that did have to do the fact I was trying to change my game at the time. I was almost scared to change the game to start with but slowly started to work in extra stuff, just opening up my play from the button taught me a lot about how important it is to steal the blinds and play in position, which helped with playing post flop. I learned when to c-bet the turn after getting floated on the flop against certain player types and board textures. I learned to play back at people who are opening light with 3-bets rather than calls and ending up playing post flop out of position. This was just the start of it and it never stops evolving, you never stop learning in this game. You have to to stay ahead of it.

I can honestly say that I am not only now better at the game but the game is more fun to play. I may well have lot"s of fun with this when I actually get to Vegas as I expect to need to tighten up a bit again there, but having these extra plays in the locker should help ensure another profitable trip. Hopefully before the next Vegas trip I can evolve the game some more and make it more interesting.


Interesting read Steve. Good luck at Vegas - wish I was going too ! We"ll have to organise that Team Viewer session at some point soon.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 14, 2013, 11:55:15 AM


Longer time readers may remember this not long after we returned from Vegas 2011.


Played some hands quite well and made a few mistakes as well. I don"t think you are ever going to play it perfect of course. At the end of one session I did play for about half an hour too long which is pretty poor and probably lost about $10 that I should not have lost. I also lost a stack with the 2nd nut straight when he had the nut straight so not much I can do about that.

OK played enough poker for today so I am now going to go and have a beer and watch El Classico (I have £10 on the draw). Stats for today were:-

Hands = 2016
VP$IP = 11
PFR = 8
3-Bet = 3

Todays Loss = $20.34

Bluffs on the river seem to be much harder to get through playing FR than 6-Max.


IT COMING BACK ITS COMING BACK VEGAS" COMING BACK. We will be drinking free drinks everywhere, Pai Gowing with the pro"s, doing Downtown, crushing the Ventian, binking at Caesars and a few other things too. Stu said something about wanting to go to the zoo to see hippos and get some polos or something like that. Spending a week in Vegas with some of the best people in the world = EPIC WINNING.

Just reading through this blog, at the time of the last Vegas trip, did I really use to be this much of a nit? The answer to that is yes.

This brings me to an interesting point about poker. Back at the end of 2011 I was quite convinced that playing this kind of style was the only way to play especially at this level. If somebody said different I just basically assumed they were wrong because I was indoctrinated to believe "tight is right" and all those bad laggy players who would insist on calling with hands like 87s just because they happened to be on the button would learn this soon enough. I would never dream of calling in such a spot and three betting and playing in position was a concept that did not even exist in my mind. I also gave far too little credit to how other players play and the regs at the level. I basically played robotically and believed that there was one way of playing against everybody at micro stakes.

It took some doing but I was able to deconstruct and reinvent my game to a stage where it is much stronger now. The other thing I have learned is that it is worth listening to advice and taking it seriously no matter who is giving it. Some of the people from the APAT community who have helped me with this are Brendan, Noble and Stu to name but a few. I started to understand the importance of various concepts that I had never considered before. It was like I had only been seeing part of the game. I knew about board texture and cbetting for example and used them pretty well but I was not good enough at considering stack size, profiling players and making notes on what certain bet sizes meant. My HUD which I thought was excellent at the time missed a lot of important info like how often a player was trying to steal the blinds and how ften they folded to a 3-bet from a stealing position. So I missed a lot of profitable opportunities that could have changed small losing sessions into small winning sessions. At the time I was almost scared to change though, not sure why but I struggled to put the trigger. 

I am also now a lot less concerned with being able to play 10 tables at once and play a few thousand hands per day, don"t need to be able to do that. The idea of poker is to beat the game not play as many hands as possible. This year I have only played about 20K cash hands at holdem and about 5K PLO but am up on both. Last year I was down across both games (on Pokerstars, I was up overall just), although a lot of that did have to do the fact I was trying to change my game at the time. I was almost scared to change the game to start with but slowly started to work in extra stuff, just opening up my play from the button taught me a lot about how important it is to steal the blinds and play in position, which helped with playing post flop. I learned when to c-bet the turn after getting floated on the flop against certain player types and board textures. I learned to play back at people who are opening light with 3-bets rather than calls and ending up playing post flop out of position. This was just the start of it and it never stops evolving, you never stop learning in this game. You have to to stay ahead of it.

I can honestly say that I am not only now better at the game but the game is more fun to play. I may well have lot"s of fun with this when I actually get to Vegas as I expect to need to tighten up a bit again there, but having these extra plays in the locker should help ensure another profitable trip. Hopefully before the next Vegas trip I can evolve the game some more and make it more interesting.


Interesting read Steve. Good luck at Vegas - wish I was going too ! We"ll have to organise that Team Viewer session at some point soon.

Yeah for sure, if you like I can also record a session of me playing if you think it will be of any use. I would not really consider myself a great player but think if anybody who is currently playing tight wants to gain an understanding of how to open up their game a bit and become even more profitable then I might be able to help a little bit in some areas.

I would also strongly recommend asking Brendan"s opinions on it (I am always pleased to have his contributions on this thread and any Strategy threads I post) and very much Nobles when he is around (one of my favorite strategy posters on any forum make you really think about many concepts of the game). A lot of other good players around here of course as well. My advice fwiw is keep doing what you are doing at the moment and you can"t really fail to improve and win. You are also far more prepared to listen to advice than I was when I started playing these games so will be able to make the adjustments and improvements you decide are need much more quickly and effectively.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on September 14, 2013, 13:28:01 PM
I would be very interested with doing sessions with anyone interested.

Omaha cash or 180 man tournies are my areas at the minute
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 15, 2013, 09:14:07 AM
Played a small cash session yesterday of only 432 hands before going to the football (what a great idea that was).

Tried the $10nl Full Ring table again as I wanted to try another 1K hands to see if I could maintain a good winning run. I had played some hands last Sunday and Tuesday and was $4.45 down over 439 hands so far.

I started the session yesterday quite quietly a few blind steals and c-bets kept the session about break even as I did not find any hands to play bigger pots with. I manage to pick up a few pots like the one below that nobody else wanted. Two checks from two tight players was enough of an incentive to try to steal as I don"t think they will call me with just ace high here.

PokerStars Zoom No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (9 handed) - PokerStars Converter Tool from http://poker-tools.flopturnriver.com/Hand-Converter.php

Button ($15.69)
SB ($12.47)
BB ($17.02)
UTG ($5.23)
UTG+1 ($11.14)
Hero (MP1) ($14.24)
MP2 ($7.31)
MP3 ($10)
CO ($2.89)

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with 8(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/heart.gif), 9(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/heart.gif)
2 folds, Hero raises to $0.30, 4 folds, SB calls $0.25, BB raises to $1.20, Hero calls $0.90, SB calls $0.90

Flop: ($3.60) 6(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/club.gif), 10(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/diamond.gif), 6(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/spade.gif) (3 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($3.60) 10(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/club.gif) (3 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets $2, 2 folds

Total pot: $3.60 | Rake: $0.16

Results below: [spoiler]
Hero didn"t show 8(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/heart.gif), 9(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/heart.gif).[/spoiler]

This helps get into profit for the session. Nothing really happens for a while after this. I keep stealing blinds and picking up these kinds of pot I make a set of jacks in a 3-bet pot on an ace high board and c-bet but get no action.

I then lose this hand, I think this is standard but interestingly I think others may disagree.

PokerStars Zoom No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (9 handed) - PokerStars Converter Tool from http://www.flopturnriver.com/

Button ($4.72)
SB ($9.73)
BB ($6.87)
UTG ($9.47)
UTG+1 ($8.74)
MP1 ($11.71)
MP2 ($5.20)
MP3 ($11.21)
Hero (CO) ($14.39)

Preflop: Hero is CO with A(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/heart.gif), K(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/diamond.gif)
2 folds, MP1 raises to $0.30, 2 folds, Hero raises to $1.10, 2 folds, BB calls $1, MP1 raises to $3, Hero raises to $14.39 (All-In), BB calls $5.77 (All-In), MP1 calls $8.71 (All-In)

Flop: ($30.34) 8(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/heart.gif), 3(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/club.gif), 8(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/club.gif) (3 players, 3 all-in)

Turn: ($30.34) Q(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/diamond.gif) (3 players, 3 all-in)

River: ($30.34) J(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/club.gif) (3 players, 3 all-in)

Total pot: $30.34 | Rake: $1.37

Results below: [spoiler]
BB had 10(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/club.gif), K(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/club.gif) (flush, King high).
MP1 had A(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/club.gif), A(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/diamond.gif) (two pair, Aces and eights).
Hero didn"t show A(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/heart.gif), K(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/diamond.gif) (one pair, eights).
Outcome: BB won $19.73, MP1 won $9.24[/spoiler]

So I was then about $5 down for the session. I get this back when I raise A9s in position and call a 3-bet (which is a bit of a questionable play looking back). I make a FH on the turn anyway and get back to about even with that pot.

I win a nice pot with a set of nines. I then win a big standard race with AK vs JJ all in pre flop. I finish off the thousand hands winning a few small pots to come up with the following stats for the 1000 hands:-

Hands: 1000
VP$IP: 23.3%
PFR: 20.8%
3-bet: 10.2%
Fold to 3-bet: 68.75%
Attempt to Steal: 81.48%
Profit: $10.23


I would be very interested with doing sessions with anyone interested.

Omaha cash or 180 man tournies are my areas at the minute

I would not mind watching you on 180s at some point and obviously happy to have you watch NLHE cash or PLO cash at anytime you want and happy to watch you on these if you like as well.

I could also do with your help with PLO tournaments to be honest, I really want to be good at them and it annoys me I am not.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Charlie44 on September 15, 2013, 11:51:58 AM


I then lose this hand, I think this is standard but interestingly I think others may disagree.

PokerStars Zoom No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (9 handed) - PokerStars Converter Tool from http://www.flopturnriver.com/

Button ($4.72)
SB ($9.73)
BB ($6.87)
UTG ($9.47)
UTG+1 ($8.74)
MP1 ($11.71)
MP2 ($5.20)
MP3 ($11.21)
Hero (CO) ($14.39)

Preflop: Hero is CO with A(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/heart.gif), K(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/diamond.gif)
2 folds, MP1 raises to $0.30, 2 folds, Hero raises to $1.10, 2 folds, BB calls $1, MP1 raises to $3, Hero raises to $14.39 (All-In), BB calls $5.77 (All-In), MP1 calls $8.71 (All-In)

Flop: ($30.34) 8(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/heart.gif), 3(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/club.gif), 8(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/club.gif) (3 players, 3 all-in)

Turn: ($30.34) Q(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/diamond.gif) (3 players, 3 all-in)

River: ($30.34) J(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/club.gif) (3 players, 3 all-in)

Total pot: $30.34 | Rake: $1.37

Results below: [spoiler]
BB had 10(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/club.gif), K(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/club.gif) (flush, King high).
MP1 had A(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/club.gif), A(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/diamond.gif) (two pair, Aces and eights).
Hero didn"t show A(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/heart.gif), K(http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerforum/images/smilies/diamond.gif) (one pair, eights).
Outcome: BB won $19.73, MP1 won $9.24[/spoiler]




As you say Steve getting it with AK seems standard. Might be worth doing some maths.

If everybody folds to your 3 bet you win $2.45.

Initially to make it easier lets assume to the non agressor will always fold. Consider agressor"s all-in calling range. Lets assume initially AA-99, AK.

The pot will be $(11.71 x 2)+1+.15 = $24.57, and you are putting extra 10.61 after initial raise.

According to Poker Stove our expectation to win is 41%. (taking into account split pots)

So our ev if we get called is (24.57*41%) - 10.61 = -$0.54.

So we need villain to be folding 0.54/(2.45+0.54) = 18% of time for this move to be +ev. Clearly his folding range is likely to be bigger that this.

Even if we reduce villains calling range to AA-QQ,AK we get ev for calling of (24.57*38%) - 10.61 = -$1.27. and we get required folding range of just 1.27/(2.45+1.27) of 34%.

Just calling the 3 bet seems hideous to me, and pushing is ev+. So all-in seems right to me.







Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: hi_am_chris on September 15, 2013, 13:12:36 PM
I think the problem at these stakes is if he is 4 betting for value after you 3 bet is he doing that with anything that you are beating. Could be wrong but i think he probably peels with AQ and most pairs especially full ring zoom. Also comes down to how many times he"s going to raise fold (again speculating but not sure he will be 4 betting folding a lot at all).
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 15, 2013, 13:20:01 PM

I think the problem at these stakes is if he is 4 betting for value after you 3 bet is he doing that with anything that you are beating. Could be wrong but i think he probably peels with AQ and most pairs especially full ring zoom. Also comes down to how many times he"s going to raise fold (again speculating but not sure he will be 4 betting folding a lot at all).

Pretty sure he is almost never 4-bet folding really. OK it might happen maybe 5% of the time tops but it is not happening often enough to even take into consideration. His range is likely to be AK and JJ+. There will also be a small percentage of silly hands as well. The size of the raise does suggest AA or KK in this spot to be fair but unless I have a note on the player I usually don"t put too much faith in that read.

With the money already in the pot I think it is OK to get it in.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Charlie44 on September 15, 2013, 15:27:19 PM


Pretty sure he is almost never 4-bet folding really. OK it might happen maybe 5% of the time tops but it is not happening often enough to even take into consideration. His range is likely to be AK and JJ+. There will also be a small percentage of silly hands as well. 


IMO if you preceive villains range to be that tight, ev if you are called is (24.57x 40%) - 10.61 = -$0.78.

So you would need villain to be folding "silly hands" 0.78/(2,45+.78) = 25% of the time for move to be +ev.

So IMO Steve if your assumptions are correct  when villain calls you will loose more money on average than compared to folding, and villain will not be folding often enough to cover this -ev.

So if you believe his range to be AK,JJ+ 95% of time then IMO it should be a fold.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: TheSnapper on September 15, 2013, 16:48:16 PM

I think the problem at these stakes is if he is 4 betting for value after you 3 bet is he doing that with anything that you are beating. Could be wrong but i think he probably peels with AQ and most pairs especially full ring zoom. Also comes down to how many times he"s going to raise fold (again speculating but not sure he will be 4 betting folding a lot at all).


We need to take 3b / 4b as a game within a game, as a health check, it is very worthwhile to filter results for hands where we 3b or face a 3b, often ( if we are not faring too well ) it will be instantly profitable to revert to a tight pure value 3b range.

AK is the dilemma hand in 3b ranges and while likely marginally +EV in the long term, AK does add to our variance a lot. If however, this variance has a detrimental knock on effect to the rest of your game, you will definitely profit by not getting 100 bb"s in preflop with AK. From a quick look at a 60k 10nl database I suspect that most of my AK profit is derived when we do not see a showdown and adding the all-in preflop filter turns a 500bb"s/100 profit into a 1000+ loss :o but that"s not the whole picture, we get considerably more value with QQ+ because! AK and worse are in our 3b range.

All that said, we can only improve our 3b / 4b game by getting involved in these tough spots. I would think that we should take on this tough step when we are comfortable small winners and feel we have the capacity to step it up a notch.

Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Charlie44 on September 15, 2013, 21:04:23 PM

we get considerably more value with QQ+ because! AK and worse are in our 3b range.





Its for these little gems that makes reading the forum so worthwhile and educational.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 16, 2013, 10:29:15 AM
The above is interesting, I will get around to posting the AK hand to PHA. I can certainly see the point Mike is making that shoving over the top of the 4-bet might well be a -EV play. I ran through my tracker looking at hands where people are making that type of 4-bet raise size at least 100BB effective and out of 30 hands, 28 were AA, KK, QQ, JJ or AK. This does suggest that assuming that people are never folding these hands that the shove is -EV here.

I also played a few other games yesterday. I played some 180 manner games but never really got going in any of them.

Games: 6
Loss: $15

I also played a bit of a PLO session which was just playing quite crazy with everybody calling everything, ended up having to nit it right up.

Hands: 639
VP$IP: 10.8%
PFR: 6.73%
3-Bet: 0.94%
Att to Steal: 24%
Total Profit: $11.32

Last night I was going to play a holdem session but could not get into it so came off quite quickly. Only played 75 hands and won $7.35. I actually left 24 cents on the table when I misclicked a raise that should have been allin with a set against and overpair. Played one hand pretty badly, I should most likely fold here on the river.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5334386

Due to having plenty of points so far this month and really only needing to get to Silverstar I will be taking a break from playing poker until next weekend. Will try and post some hands in the strategy section.

Seven weeks on Thursday is VEGAS.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 20, 2013, 12:38:21 PM
New video I made earlier this week but have not had a chance to post yet. To be honest it is probbaly not as good as the one I posted in the strategy section earlier this week but has some interesting hands in it. If you want to comment on one of the hands I am interested in how you think I played the second hand on the video, do I miss some value?

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZBvE5RBWNU&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]

Will do a better one tomorrow that will be a bit longer and will not be Zoom so will have better spots for playing situations and thinking about things other than our cards as we try to get reads on players.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 21, 2013, 14:45:24 PM
Played a session this morning, just one table stats are below.

Hands: 160
VP$IP: 35.63%
PFR: 31.25%
3-bet: 12.12%
Att To Steal: 64.15%
Total Profit: $30.16

I did try to record this session and post it on You Tube, the problem is the quality has not come out that great. Currently trying to improve on this as you can"t really see the HUD very well in it when you put it in full screen mode. I am kind of hoping iot will be interesting anyway but will see if I can improve it, it plays out fine locally but not great when you look at it on youtube

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUqU-bJMTRA[/youtube]
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: hi_am_chris on September 21, 2013, 15:11:48 PM
Any advice for getting hud to work with zoom :\

Mine seems to be importing hands but not showing up
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: hi_am_chris on September 21, 2013, 15:17:51 PM
Ignore me , probably helps if you have "enable zoom hud" ticked ;)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 21, 2013, 15:28:24 PM

Any advice for getting hud to work with zoom :\

Mine seems to be importing hands but not showing up

It is not that great at Zoom to be honest. I am going to upgrade to PT4. The only thing I would say is make sure that the HUD for Zoom is turned on. With PT3 it is in the Import Tab, where you go to turn on the auo import and configure Stars.

If you Click on Pokerstars, then on the right where you have "Preferences" and "Pokerstars Configuration" click onto "Pokerstars Configuration" and scroll down to the bottom. Make sure the "Enable Zoom HUD" check box is selected. See the screenshot below

(http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a531/Steve_Roderick/Pokertracker_zps4a17af1d.jpg)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Charlie44 on September 21, 2013, 15:45:13 PM
I"ve seem somewhere as well that you should turn the " Enable Memory grabber"  off as well when using zoom. I did that when I used PT3 and it seemed to work ok for me.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 21, 2013, 23:24:26 PM
Play a couple of session this afternoon/Evening

Played a smallish PLO cah session

Hands: 411
VP$IP: 21.9%
PFR: 15.9%
3-Bet: 5.25%
Total Loss: $10.56

And a more successful 180 game session

Game: 12
Profit: $73.88

I only need to gain  another 83 VPP to get Silverstar to convert my FPP into tournament tickets.

I am running about $100 about EV in cash games this month which is very nice. However I think I am starting to suff with positive tilt so will be pulling back a bit next month and just playing some 180 man sessions and leave cash until I get back from Vegas as I don"t want to burn myself out before I get there.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 22, 2013, 12:39:38 PM
Little session this morning which resulted in a profit which is always good, not sure how well I played it though. Made a good start when I 3-bet with A4s preflop and got called. Flopped a flush draw, inside straight draw and overcard. I cbet, got raised and shoved. My opponent called, I missed everything but my ace high was good :-)

I then played a bit and tried to stay aggressive but probably pushed it too far. I got involved in this hand

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5354279

Opponent is playing 21/13 over 152 hands. I am playng 39/38 for the session with a 3-bet at that point of 12%. I also have quite a few notes on my opponent in the hand.

*****

Button raise to 30c, called 3-bet from SB to $1, then made a big raise of c-bet on wet flop with AA
Raised 55 UTG to 30c
Hit set and checked called flop and checked raised turn
Flat called my raise to 30c with ATs - checkd it down when missed
Called on flop with 2nd pair then checked it down
Played the over pair strongly on flop and turn with bets of about 2/3 pot

*****

Pre is standard. Flop is standard, I was actually going to check/fold the turn to a decent sized bet, as played should I fold on the river?

Anyway overall for the session was:-

Hands: 179
VP$IP: 39.11% (This is too high)
PFR: 38.55% (Also too high)
3-bet: 15.69%
Fold to 3-bet: 78.57%
Att to Steal: 73.44%
Total Profit: $9.94

Will probably do a 180 session later, not going to play any of the Sunday games though today.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 23, 2013, 11:47:11 AM
Played a little bit more yesterday afternoon but finally managed to run bad in a session. I have contacted Pokerstars about his to advise them that their RNG is broken again and appears to be dealing cards randomly again.

Seriously I played some PLO Zoom and whilst I did lose a couple of stacks in standard spots I did not play very well anyway.

Tried playing a little 180 session after this and did not do that well in that either, think I played eight without a cash. I don"t have the exact stats for the sessions as I have broken Poker Tracker by installing PT4 somehow I am going to need to convert everything into PT4 at some point.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 29, 2013, 14:51:10 PM
Poker has kinda fizzled out at the end of the month. I lost $36 playing cash last night. Was playing the $25nl for the first time for a while and didn"t play well. Think I will try to work some kind of bankroll challenge out for online next year, start with $500 on Stars and see where I end up at the end of the year. My Monthly figures look like this

Holdem cash: +131.93
PLO Cash: +$42.06
180 man sitngo: +$105.13

I must have run really well, it doesn"t actually feel like I did but I must have tbh.

I wonder if I can find my live poker mojo again as well. It kind of got taken away by Vegas on 2011 (even though I did very well out there). Since then I just have not been able to get the desire to play live poker back and aside from APAT events I think I have played 5 sessions since then and never really felt like I wanted to go back to playing it again. Maybe what is taken away by Vegas can only be returned by Vegas so that might be good.

Speaking of which Vegas is now less than 6 weeks away and going out there with some of the greats of the APAT crew is somethign I am look forward to immensely. I have a check list that looks like this:-

[X] - Flight booked and paid for
[X] - Hotel Booked and paid for
[X] - Passport renewed
[X] - ESTA done
[ ] - Travel/medical Insurance sorted
[ ] - Travel to and from Gatwick
[ ] - Hotel at Gatwick for the night before
[ ] - Access to data in Vegas

The main things are sorted it is just the smaller things now. Gutted to miss out on Dublin this month but work has to come first and getting tomorrow off was not possible as it turned out (I could have done it but it would have caused a major headache).

Will try and keep this up to date next month again. Take care guy"s
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 02, 2013, 11:53:33 AM
Will try and keep this updated for this month and during the lead up to Vegas.

Don"t know if it is due to the approach of Vegas (I suspect it probably is) but I actually feel like a game of live poker again. Even though I have played a few non apat sessions since I last came back from Vegas it has been almost never I have felt like playing poker just for the reason I wanted to play poker. It would be good if I can actually re-capture the desire to play again, I know it is unlikely and I will probably play in Vegas then come back and not want to play any more but might be good if I can start to get some live games in from next month onward. If Vegas goes well, even though I am not even sure if I will spend much time playing poker I will hopefully start playing live again soon after. Pretty sure I will do well as long as I actually want to play. Need something to motivate me though, any suggestions?

Played a small amount of poker this month so far, still working on getting use to PT4.

Cash (Zoom)

Hands: 500
VP$IP: 31.07%
PFR: 27.57%
3-Bet: 11.73%
Profit: $42.23

180 manners

Games: 3
Total Loss: $4.83

Hopefully have a good month to get good confidence leading up to Vegas.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: KarmaDope on October 02, 2013, 18:23:40 PM

Will try and keep this updated for this month and during the lead up to Vegas.

Don"t know if it is due to the approach of Vegas (I suspect it probably is) but I actually feel like a game of live poker again. Even though I have played a few non apat sessions since I last came back from Vegas it has been almost never I have felt like playing poker just for the reason I wanted to play poker. It would be good if I can actually re-capture the desire to play again, I know it is unlikely and I will probably play in Vegas then come back and not want to play any more but might be good if I can start to get some live games in from next month onward. If Vegas goes well, even though I am not even sure if I will spend much time playing poker I will hopefully start playing live again soon after. Pretty sure I will do well as long as I actually want to play. Need something to motivate me though, any suggestions?

Hopefully have a good month to get good confidence leading up to Vegas.


More $$$ for Vegas not a motivation?

Actually, I"ve got one. Try and win enough for the $600 2 day 1"s Venetian Deepstack event with $150k gtd prize pool that runs just after we land!
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 02, 2013, 23:03:32 PM


Will try and keep this updated for this month and during the lead up to Vegas.

Don"t know if it is due to the approach of Vegas (I suspect it probably is) but I actually feel like a game of live poker again. Even though I have played a few non apat sessions since I last came back from Vegas it has been almost never I have felt like playing poker just for the reason I wanted to play poker. It would be good if I can actually re-capture the desire to play again, I know it is unlikely and I will probably play in Vegas then come back and not want to play any more but might be good if I can start to get some live games in from next month onward. If Vegas goes well, even though I am not even sure if I will spend much time playing poker I will hopefully start playing live again soon after. Pretty sure I will do well as long as I actually want to play. Need something to motivate me though, any suggestions?

Hopefully have a good month to get good confidence leading up to Vegas.


More $$$ for Vegas not a motivation?

Actually, I"ve got one. Try and win enough for the $600 2 day 1"s Venetian Deepstack event with $150k gtd prize pool that runs just after we land!

Good point but no not really. I already have my dollars and everything I need for Vegas and it is all paid for already, except for the nights hotel at Gatwick the night before. Money has never been a major motivation to me as I am not really into "things" that much and I have what I need kind of thing and am lucky enough to have no money worries of any kind.

The motivation issue will be when I get back from Vegas, being bothered to walk to Swansea G on a Saturday/Sunday night or bothering to get in my Car and drive 40 minutes to Les Croupiers (which is the best games). There are people in APAT in love poker enough to be able to do this all the time. I used to be able to do this, think it would be good to get it back. Feels closer than it has done for a while, certainly before I went to Vegas last time. Guess I will see what happens trying to motivate myself to do something seems silly I can just do it if I want too if I don"t I can go to the pub. watch football or play online poker.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on October 03, 2013, 11:43:26 AM
Last time, you went and sat and forced yourself to play poker for hours and hours on end.

Can i suggest that this time, we play a few tournies here and there, but also just play alot of paigow and generally get drunk and enjoy ourselves. Im sure this will help the overall mindset.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 03, 2013, 11:50:04 AM

Last time, you went and sat and forced yourself to play poker for hours and hours on end.

Can i suggest that this time, we play a few tournies here and there, but also just play alot of paigow and generally get drunk and enjoy ourselves. Im sure this will help the overall mindset.

If Carlsberg did suggestions - they would probably be like this one.

I will play a couple of small cash sessions as well but basically that is the plan this time. Definitely want to go and play Pai Gow in The Quad as one of the first thing we do.

If you find me playing too much poker feel free to kick me in the balls.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: KarmaDope on October 03, 2013, 19:09:01 PM


Last time, you went and sat and forced yourself to play poker for hours and hours on end.

Can i suggest that this time, we play a few tournies here and there, but also just play alot of paigow and generally get drunk and enjoy ourselves. Im sure this will help the overall mindset.

If Carlsberg did suggestions - they would probably be like this one.

I will play a couple of small cash sessions as well but basically that is the plan this time. Definitely want to go and play Pai Gow in The Quad as one of the first thing we do.

If you find me playing too much poker feel free to kick me in the balls.


Will do. No 30+ hr sessions this time plz Mr Roderick.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 05, 2013, 19:27:58 PM
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 06, 2013, 13:52:06 PM
Didn"t cash in the APAT's last night (was not playing anywhere near my best to be honest) and also bricked some more 180"s ended the day Down $39.06 on them, not a concern ran badly again. I don"t think I should be playing them at the same time as a tournament like an APAT though as it messes with your ranges as the ranges in both types of event are pretty different.

Turned the 180s around this morning with a small session. Played 5 and managed to bink one to change the month from a $40 loss to a $70 positive on them. Obviously this is going to happen and I will swing a lot more for the rest of the month in these things. Still pleased with my game at the moment in general. Seem to be playing well most of the time.

Month to date is:-

Games: 33
Profit: $78.33

Have not played any more cash yet so the figures for that are as they were yesterday.

Checked the prop bet I have with Mark and David going into the final quarter of the year.

AAroddersAA: 701 Games and 3% ROI
mporter23: 380 Games and -17% ROI
forththistle: 813 Games and -20% ROI

Surprised to be leading to be honest but I know both Mark and David have had some run bad this year and there is actually a long way to go and one great event can easily turn this on its head. My ROI should go up when this weekends results go on though, and I am also missing one 180 man tournament I won from the results which I am trying to get added on (don"t think I will though).

So verall running good - Vegas checklist

[X] Flight
[X] Hotel
[X] Passport renewed
[X] ESTA Done
[X] Travel and Medical insurance sorted
[X] Dollats sorted
[ ] Hotel for Gatwick on 06/11 booked
[ ] Travel to and from Gatwick arranged
[ ] Packed
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 06, 2013, 17:22:43 PM
Video of 180 from this morning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2tkZSjjUZI&feature=youtu.be
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 14, 2013, 23:15:29 PM
So played a bit over the last couple of days. Have to be pretty honest and say I have not played very well.

Played some holdem, not a massive amount but did not play very well. Some examples here.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5404182

Preflop is a very simple raise fold here. The way I play the hand is nothing but fancy play syndrome. I only had 6 hands on the BB and therefore the standard play is raise/fold preflop. I guess I don"t HATE my preflop call but on that flop I should just fold anyway as his range contains a lot of pairs which he is never folding. Once he calls me on the flop the turn bet is terrible.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5404183

This one is bad again. I have 100 hands on my opponents he is playing 19/14 and has folded to two out of four cbets on the flop. He has not folded a cbet on the turn (only faced one).

Preflop is obviously fine. Betting the flop is OK, after that with the the info I have I should give up. The jack is not really a scare card, when he calls again there are basically no draws in his range. The only draw at all in his range is 56 (and he almost never has this). It hits the river anyway and this makes my call of his small bet awful.

Stats for Holdem were:-

Hands: 300
VP$IP: 30.28%
PFR: 27.82%
3-bet: 10%
Fold to 3-bet: 54.55%
Attempt to Steal: 69.7%
Total Loss: $10.50

I also tried playing a little bit of PLO. This hand should provide some amusement :)

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5404186

Overall I did not play it very well. The above hand is an extreme example but I made lot"s of small mistakes like calling OOP which can be very expensive in PLO cash.

Hands: 126
VP$IP: 36.8%
PFR: 17.6%
3-bet: 3.92%
Fold to 3-bet: 0%
Att to Steal: 71.43%
Total Loss: $8.03

Also played some 180"s

Games: 18
Loss: $35.60

Total Overall Loss: $54.13

To be fair I have been running well lately so was very much due to have a poor few days. No worries still well up for the month obviously.

Going to tone down the playing between now and Vegas as I want to be ready for it over there. Really looking forward to it. Only 24 days until we go now and only 16 working days.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 20, 2013, 12:46:36 PM
So not played any poker at all over the last week, just been getting very excited about going to Vegas. Some of the heros attending are Ger, Stu, Curly, Matt, Paulie, Adam, Glen, Don, Brian. Have been planning a bit of a poker schedule for the trip, playing poker is not going to be the main focus of the trip but there will be a bit involved. Planned schedule is something like.

08/11/13 Binnions          2pm      $80
09/11/13 C palace          2pm.     $135 (Apat) (2 day)
11/11/13 Aria.             1pm      $125 http://www.allvegaspoker.com/tourn_detail_293.html
12/11/13 Bellagio          2pm      $125 http://www.bellagio.com/files/casino/DailyPokerTournament.pdf
13/11/13 C Palace.         12pm     $110 http://www.caesarspalace.com/content/dam/clv/Gaming/Tournaments/Caesars-Palace-LV-Daily-Tournaments-1.pdf

Had a look at the structures and they look good and the total buy in is $575. The start times should leave prety of time in the evening to do various other things, like playing Pai Gow and eating and drinking.

Not being the worlds most organised person I did not get around to booking into the hotel for Gatwick yet and needless to say it is now fully booked (d"oh) I can book the Premier Inn down the road though and will still be fine to meet the rest the night before so that will be cool.

17 more days until it all kicks off, fair to say can"t wait.

[X] Flight
[X] Hotel
[X] Passport renewed
[X] ESTA Done
[X] Travel and Medical insurance sorted
[X] Dollats sorted
[X] Hotel for Gatwick on 06/11 booked
[X] Travel to and from Gatwick arranged
[ ] Packed
[ ] All info printed out and ready to be taken to airport
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 21, 2013, 12:28:19 PM
Planning to get back on the poker horse a bit in the new year - from a live point of view. For the last couple of years I have been playing around a bit just playing online and not really keeping any proper records. I just ran back through how I have done over this time period.

Poker Tracker says I am up about $1.1K since the start of 2012 across all sites with both cash games and tournaments. Not sure if this is right, I would have guessed I was slightly up but close to break even.

I have not played live much at all, about 6 non apat sessions, but counting a couple of small cashes at Les Croupiers, an APAT final table in Coventry this year and 3rd place is Glasgow at the end of last year I am up in live play also.

I think I should be able to do well in local games so will be looking at a tournament schedule and the best times to play live cash when I return from Vegas.

Good to feel up for playing poker again, hope it lasts but only time will tell on that one. How I do in Vegas might well be the deciding factor on that *lol*
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 02, 2013, 20:50:55 PM
Had not played a lot for the last part of November. The final scores on the doors were as follows:-

Cash Games - PLO

Hands: 454
VP$IP: 32.06%
PFR: 18.61%
3-bet: 2.22%
Profit: $0.89

Cash Games - NLHE

Hands: 1433
VP$IP: 30.25%
PFR: 26.90%
3-Bet: 10.93%
Fold to 3-bet: 52.94%
Att to Steal: 65%
Profit: $74.45

Tournament

Played: 58
Profit: $27.32

Got to a high point of being about $85 up in the 180 manners but then did not get any final tables still had a decent ROI though.

Played a small amount today. As well, ran well cashed in 3 out of 5 180 manners including a win so win $117.36 on that and played a small amount of cash winning $12.18 over 79 hands.

I am now all ready for Vegas and can"t wait until Wednesday when I will be meeting up with the best of the best people in the world and getting ready for Vegas.

More updates due when I return and I am also likely to play some of the micromillions events.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 09, 2013, 13:11:07 PM
5am and can"t sleep time to go find a cash game.
Vegas totally awesome so far not sure I will play the tournament today as cash games look good. Debating extending this trip
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: KarmaDope on November 09, 2013, 13:53:58 PM
WTF are you doing up (says the man who also cant sleep).

Ring me - 1-702-910-6160
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 17, 2013, 16:31:52 PM
Vegas report will be incoming soon. For now having slept the trip off may as well play some online poker. Tonight will include:-

The Bigger $8.80
The Sunday Storm
The Bigger $11
$11 Sunday Million Sat

Some 180 manners anything else I choose to play. I will update this post with that info.

Ger / Stu if you are reading this taking your advice this evening chaps :)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: duke3016 on November 17, 2013, 22:33:29 PM

Ger / Stu if you are reading this taking your advice this evening chaps :)


Just fecking do it
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on November 18, 2013, 01:33:43 AM


Ger / Stu if you are reading this taking your advice this evening chaps :)


Just fecking do it


+1

how has it gone mate?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 18, 2013, 01:49:16 AM



Ger / Stu if you are reading this taking your advice this evening chaps :)


Just fecking do it


+1

how has it gone mate?


Reshoving into aces is bad. I don"t learn though, did it in the Storm then a couple of hands later did it in the Big $11.

Note to self: Must do better :-)

Also pushed AK into JJ in Sat and lost. Happens obv, no issue with any of that.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 21, 2013, 13:32:05 PM
OK Back from Vegas and finally caught up on sleep and back to normal. Or as normal as I get.

Vegas was awesome totally awesome. Poker was a disaster and means this year will be the first losing year for me since 2008 (I think). That is fine though as the time we had over there was worth it. A week with such heros as Ger, Stu, Adam, Matt Bird, "Sneaky" Joe Ball, Curly, Paulie, Glen, Don, Matt Ward, Brian, Phil Fryer the list goes on and on every day was an expereince and it was a pleasure to spend the week in the company of these fine gentlemen.

Pokerwise I was probably not in the best state to play poker, pretty much constant drinking and very little sleep does not help you make the best decisions at a poker table. I played a tournament down Binions which was going OK, I had Stu on my left which was funny and of the about 30 people in the tournament half were from APAT. I was doing quite well until I decided it was a good idea to reshove AJ over an EP raiser who had AK.

Skipped the APAT and played cash at Harrahs all night on the Saturday and managed to lose $100 doing that mainly due to tryig to bluff bad spots. I then played the Venitian DeepStack I think I played that one OK but did trouble the scorers. Next day did another $200 on the cash table. Played an Aria and had Ger to my right so thought I may as well give him all my chips as he seemed in good form.

So yeah poker, not the best. The rest of teh trip though was amazing. Some of the highlights were:-

Hitting a Royal Flush at Pai Gow for $500

The Casino Tour with Ger, Stu, Joe and Matt. Loved Orleans

The Rugby with Dan, Rudders and David and meeting some valley boys, one of whom was a little bit drunk.

Watching the American Football at the Venitian and cheering random stuff

The bar guys at The Venitian were awesome as well

Overall it was an amazing tour which ended with a great meal at Toby Keiths with Ger, Stu and Paulie which Ger insisted on paying for. It has been said before and it will be said again - top bloke that Ger.

We will be going back to Vegas I am sure and I would strongly recommend that anybody who is thinking about it come on the next trip it was different league.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 22, 2013, 00:06:39 AM
Came back from Vegas and decided to jump straight into playing poker. This may not have been the greatest idea ever. Couple of sessions that were predictable car crashes.

I managed to burn through $53.33 on cash games, played some pretty bad poker to be honest.

I also tried a tournament session as above and wasted $40.80 on those without a single cash. Probably not the best time to be playing poker to be honest.

I still look OK across the year in 2013 online being in profit on both cash and 180 manners ($2.50 and $4.50). I am slightly down at MTT"s but up over £300 on Pokerstars in 2013 which is nothing to write home about but happy to still be able to beat that site as it is seem as the toughest out there. Going to take a bit of a break and do some work on my cash game for the next week or so as I am not actually playing that well. Getting too many of those spots where you know you are doing it wrong but do it anyway.

Aiming for a good year in 2014 think I am going to start with a $500 on Pokerstars and £1000 live and see what I can turn them into at the end of the year. Should be profitable I think and want to start taking the game a bit more seriously again. These last couple of year I really have not. Not happy with the negative year. The money is not a concern as we are always talking pretty small amounts really but I want to be able to beat this game, not been good enough overall this year especially in Vegas. Got some great advice from somebody who I rate very highly as a player though which I am taking and expect next year to make a vast improvement.

Online prop bet offer to any apat forum regs for 2014 same as this year. Pokerstars only, highest ROI across all games on OPR at the end of 2014 anything up to $50/person.

Wondering if I should move off Pokerstars onto ipoker in some ways for cash games but I doubt it as I believe Pokerstars keeps you really sharp as the games on there are tougher.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: mporter123 on November 22, 2013, 09:42:29 AM
2013 ROI

Rod = 8%
Mark = -20%
Dave = -29%

Its not over untill the fat lady sings.

In for $50 for next year too.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 22, 2013, 12:19:16 PM

2013 ROI

Rod = 8%
Mark = -20%
Dave = -29%

Its not over untill the fat lady sings.

In for $50 for next year too.

6 weeks is a long time in poker. A mini heater or a bink for either of you turns it around. If I was you I would try mixing some $4.50 180 games into your schedule. They are softer than the $2.50 turbos and give you a decent return when you win one so a couple of results in those bring you right back into it. Just imo though.

Think the scores will be much better next year as well. I quite like your chances of turning this around this Sunday as it is the Micromillions final so real potential there glgl.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 28, 2013, 23:16:43 PM
Played again for the first time in a while today. Only played 2 and got 5th in one. Below are some of the decisions I had to make  and what my shoving and calling ranges were. Thought this might be of interest to some.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143407_7EAAB33379

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143367_CF71F2F268

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143371_9F7662BCE6

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143379_826FFA49F8

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143401_07064005BE

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143407_7EAAB33379

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143433_58C8B46CA4

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143474_CE45C8295A

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143515_6CFF69A9B8

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143573_FD68C863D8

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143586_1E038730F0

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143622_2609167522

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143631_6D35B91B27

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143679_A4611E4B35

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143692_4E49C195A1

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143708_F65E5766BA

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143752_B3EF19D502

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143755_B35A1E594E

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143928_2F5466EE54
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: amcgrath1uk on November 29, 2013, 00:13:50 AM

Played again for the first time in a while today. Only played 2 and got 5th in one. Below are some of the decisions I had to make  and what my shoving and calling ranges were. Thought this might be of interest to some.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143407_7EAAB33379 - in early position, easy fold

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143367_CF71F2F268 - great fold, I may have struggled folding

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143371_9F7662BCE6

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143379_826FFA49F8 -I think I JUST find a fold here, but only just.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143401_07064005BE - dependant on how aggro sb is, like it though

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143407_7EAAB33379 - as before

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143433_58C8B46CA4 - I"d have called to see a flop/shoved pre depending on stack sizes/opponents

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143474_CE45C8295A - nice bink, never folding there

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143515_6CFF69A9B8 - toughest decision so far, I either fold/shove

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143573_FD68C863D8 - standard UTG fold

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143586_1E038730F0 - I had one of them on the 3, another on a pp. Bad play by them both imo. Never limping with their hands. I"m also not doing anything different with 2 limpers.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143622_2609167522 - standard spot, bottom of my range here

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143631_6D35B91B27 - again pretty standard, with 8bbs I"m never calling. Shove/fold depending on opposition

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143679_A4611E4B35 - nice flop, shame no more action

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143692_4E49C195A1 - fold spot on, nothing to gain in that position by calling/shoving

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143708_F65E5766BA - pretty standard & never folding

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143752_B3EF19D502 - again pretty standard spot, they"re looking to ladder/need a hand to double

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143755_B35A1E594E - again standard, unsure if I"m raising/shoving with your stack size though

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143928_2F5466EE54 - if you fold here, give up playing ;)

Loving the hands fella, am off work 2moro so will have a go at something similar
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 30, 2013, 14:15:48 PM


Played again for the first time in a while today. Only played 2 and got 5th in one. Below are some of the decisions I had to make  and what my shoving and calling ranges were. Thought this might be of interest to some.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143407_7EAAB33379 - in early position, easy fold

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143367_CF71F2F268 - great fold, I may have struggled folding

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143371_9F7662BCE6

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143379_826FFA49F8 -I think I JUST find a fold here, but only just.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143401_07064005BE - dependant on how aggro sb is, like it though

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143407_7EAAB33379 - as before

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143433_58C8B46CA4 - I"d have called to see a flop/shoved pre depending on stack sizes/opponents

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143474_CE45C8295A - nice bink, never folding there

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143515_6CFF69A9B8 - toughest decision so far, I either fold/shove

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143573_FD68C863D8 - standard UTG fold

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143586_1E038730F0 - I had one of them on the 3, another on a pp. Bad play by them both imo. Never limping with their hands. I"m also not doing anything different with 2 limpers.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143622_2609167522 - standard spot, bottom of my range here

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143631_6D35B91B27 - again pretty standard, with 8bbs I"m never calling. Shove/fold depending on opposition

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143679_A4611E4B35 - nice flop, shame no more action

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143692_4E49C195A1 - fold spot on, nothing to gain in that position by calling/shoving

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143708_F65E5766BA - pretty standard & never folding

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143752_B3EF19D502 - again pretty standard spot, they"re looking to ladder/need a hand to double

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143755_B35A1E594E - again standard, unsure if I"m raising/shoving with your stack size though

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6143928_2F5466EE54 - if you fold here, give up playing ;)

Loving the hands fella, am off work 2moro so will have a go at something similar


Will try and do some more today, just regging some now.

Why do you fold the AJ OTB against an 11BB shove from the cut off btw. Calling looks very standard, maybe we should be more worried about the blinds though. I think AJ is a call there though.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 05, 2013, 11:21:47 AM
Well November was a car crash in poker terms. A good start makes the month not look so bad but I was just awful after returning from Vegas. Was basically playing before I was fully recovered from jetlag etc when I probably should not have been if I am taking it seriously. Never know if I am or not though.

Cash games

Hands: 905
VP$IP: 30.08%
PFR: 24.69%
3-bet: 9.54%
Net Loss: $64.82

Tournaments

Games: 22
Net Profit: $58.86

So yeah overall not so terrible but feels like I should have been MUCH better due to the amount of silly mistakes I made.

Hopefully will sort it out now in December. So far I have only played a couple of small 180 man sessions and am slightly in profit. Off work tomorrow so planning a session then also off work next Tuesday and Wednesday so will be getting the games up then.

Gutted not to be in Prague but by the time I got around to trying to book the hotel was sold out and decided I did not fancy trying to get too and from the venue from potentially a little bit away in freezing tempratures.

Peoples thoughts on the hand below. The EP limper is playing 32/0 over a small sample (32 hands).

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6258654_9BAFA83A08
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on December 05, 2013, 11:56:19 AM
Dont know the maths side of it, but i have no problem at all with that. He is limping every time he gets involved, so its very hard to put him on a monster hand, so... yeah, would probably have done the same. Its eitehr that or complete and give up on the flop, very much depends on your mood IMO.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 06, 2013, 12:07:18 PM
Just played a little 180 session - only cashed in 1 out of 5, came 4th for around $30. Played OK but not great some hands below that might be interesting.

Doing OK so far for the month.

Games: 13
Profit: $44.64

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6274802_78583AF451
Think this fold is OK but a call would be OK too, think fold is slightly better

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6274810_6F97FB6F3C
Reshove is good here Vs a cut off open

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6274822_FF5EAE0419
Unsure how good this is think it is probably a bit thin after the limper even if he is playing 32/6

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6274855_AE5628CC51 (OR playing 3/3 over 30 hands??)

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6274855_AE5628CC51
Not entirely confident of this spot very close between shove and fold

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6274898_D281AE3AF1
Don"t think I mind the call here at all

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6275325_263D55FB18
This is standard

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6275235_442B9468F2
Standard?

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6275247_E65B417D0C
Would have got this in before the turn card too thin after that though?

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6274941_D3FAD3BF88
Dunno about this one. I play OK vs the shover range but too many players still to act

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6274952_FCB5565BE1
Think this is a bad shove by me, was playing a hand on another table and did not think about it properly

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6275102_F87E40A330
Think calling is better here, not much in it

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6275126_82C03B5194
Final table bubble here vs player who was agressive OTB. OK I think.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6275145_AD72FCCDD2
Still final table bubble - feels OK again

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6275201_BA8F722EDC
I flop good sometimes

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6275208_E590C2E2E5
This one also feels OK late on

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6275039_35B7A8F5E4
Pretty Standard

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6275051_9133C44B07
Totally standard
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 06, 2013, 17:46:31 PM
Just played two more and came 9th in one of them. Probably could have done better in a few spots. Have posted key hands below some below

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6276277_D7E0B92D61
Always nice to get off to a good start

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6276541_E84CB1C386
Pretty easy reshove here

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6276587_A666497AA8
Easy shove from SB really

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6276591_FC1CC684F6
As above

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6276615_6A2642F955
Wonder if there might be value in shoving here

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6276647_6C19B3993E
Not sure I just should not

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6276691_29984BC1E2
Made a mess of this one

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6276742_39FDB78EE8
Lightish call not a surprise here, not sure about the shove with the bubble approaching, probably fine tbh.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6276980_96861C2AEE
This move should be fine again a 24/19

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6277016_C31074A447
Never folding to any player even though the button had been tight

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6277031_CF90DC4120
A close one, probably should call it off Vs a 25/20

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6277058_5F4CEC6C2C
Think this is likely to be OK again
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 07, 2013, 15:09:44 PM
Played 3 games this morning nothing interesting and did not trouble the scorers.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6289269_9CB25DC3A7
Player has raised 8/14 hands so this is OK

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6289338_4CC979A23E

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6289395_02E4B830F2
Player playing 38/20 - maybe I should shove here and take my chances

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6289494_DB667C90FA

Just thinking about firing up some more at the moment catching up on happening in Prague first though.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 07, 2013, 21:52:33 PM
Just played another 4 without any success earlier today. Not sure if I played badly or got unlucky, bit of both most likely as is usually the way.

The first two ended pretty quickly.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6291740_1A01232DDC

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6291782_0931609AF0

Both of those are fine this early on AK plays OK as people will play AQ like this (incorrectly) and a few smaller hands.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6291894_AC1AEC8CCB

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6291918_E81CC31A0F

Couple of nice hands in the wrong position on the tbale. Anybody do anything different with these?

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6291946_836DC7B5C4
Player has already shoved 3 hands out of 16 still not 100% sure about calling here but I can be dominating a good part of his range

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6292029_8BBDF347EB
The SB is short stacked here and lost a big one last hand an I expect him to move all-in with any two really which will give me the chance to maybe pick up some extra dead money - unsure what people will think of that one.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 08, 2013, 16:24:14 PM
Poor day yesterday, 10 games without a cash. Firing up some more today now.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 08, 2013, 17:21:30 PM
Played 6 cashed none. On a bit of a run without a cash but only 18 have gone like 70 without one before.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 15, 2013, 19:42:14 PM
So this month has still not seen poker really going to plan.

Even though I am up overall in cash games I have played some hands really badly. Here are some examples for people to generally laugh at.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5554095

Really hate my play in this one. Preflop is OK but I should really raise more on the flop as he is only conyinuing with an ace or draw so I could then bet the turn bigger. As played the river is a simple bet/fold. 62BB that I did not need to lose lost there.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5554097

This one is even worse. I know this player 3-bets a bit from the blinds and c-bets most flops so I was trying to exploit this. I should have just raised the flop not caused a massively complicated situation for no reason at all.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5554181

I am wondering if I can fold the flop here. People just don"t play draws this way. Do I actually beat anything? Pretty sure I should at worst be folding the turn.

My Stats for the month so far:-

VP$IP: 30.82%
PFR: 23.89% (that is a massive gap I only just noticed)
3-bet: 8.94% (Thats too small too)
Fold to 3-bet: 54.26%
Attempt to Steal: 50.6% (wtf)
Total Profit: $17.78 (@9.45BB / 100)

Not sure how but somehow or another I am still beating the game for over 9BB/100 this month. Not happy with my play though.

My MTT/180 manner game is also off by a lot this month. I have been playing the $2.50 and the $4.50 which has not gone that great at all.

Games this month: 66
Total Loss: $56.06

Had a couple of blow ups in these too. One from yesterday that I can"t decide if it is just a cooler or bad play is below.

Tournament is a $4.50 with 15 min blinds. Average stack at this point is about 15500. 17 players remain. Chip leader is on about 40K.

BB is playing 24/22/4 over 59 hands.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5554403

So overall down about $40 this month on Pokerstars.

I did win some on Sky and lose some on APAT. Played the ECOAP online last night but did not trouble the scorers at all. I don"t seem to run that well online in these, even though I have run like god live. The annoying thing is it is ages since I really tried to do well in a live APAT but have picked up results here and there anyway. I do want to do well online but don"t seem to be able to put all the pieces together. Maybe it will happen next year. For now it"s waiting to see if I get selected to represent Blonde again for the Team Championship in Stoke. Asa is captain and has my application so I will wait and see, will be going either way and have booked my hotel already.Team Championship is a good event so will look forward to that one.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 17, 2013, 11:35:24 AM
Yay, in the Blonde Poker team for Stoke representing Blonde for a 4th time. The team is very strong as you would expect from Blonde, it is made up of some Blonde regs who are ridiculously good players and some of the Blonde APAT regs but we have a habit of managing to not win these things and bombing early. I am confident this year will be different though. I will be travelling to Stoke on the Saturday morning as I am intending to give the poker game my full attention and not doing the same thing as last year and ending up with a really bad hangover on the morning of the event.

Played a little bit of cash and won a little bit, did have an interesting hand here on the PLO table. I know there are some good PLO players on here (much better than me at least) so any comments are welcome.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?board=24.0
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AMRN on December 17, 2013, 11:45:56 AM


Played a little bit of cash and won a little bit, did have an interesting hand here on the PLO table. I know there are some good PLO players on here (much better than me at least) so any comments are welcome.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?board=24.0


AAxx with no suits and no connectivity is a pretty **** hand, and you do well to just play it passively pre, and not go mad with it - I see so many players, particularly in Zoom PLO, that see AAxx and can"t get their stack in fast enough preflop. It"s little more than a set or fold opportunity. 

I also don"t mind the continued passive play on flop and turn.... calling is fine, whilst raising will only fold out worse, or get stung by better. The 3 on the turn is irrelevant - if the other guy has a Q, you"re still losing, and if he doesn"t have a Q, then your AA was ahead anyway.  Once he"s jammed the river, I can"t see that you"re ever going to be ahead - you have two pair on a double paired, flushed board, and his line suggests he could easily have KKxx.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on December 17, 2013, 12:05:12 PM
Yeah, just see a flop here and unless you flop a set or flush then you are done.

I would probably call the turn and then insta fold the river as he wins roughly 164% of the time.

Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 17, 2013, 12:25:11 PM
What would you have done with the hand if the OR had repotted over the top of the 3-bet and you are left having to either shove or fold? I am guessing it is a fold? I can"t see what range of hands shoving would be profitable against in a spot such as this.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AMRN on December 17, 2013, 12:36:19 PM

Yeah, just see a flop here and unless you flop a set or flush then you are done.

I would probably call the turn and then insta fold the river as he wins roughly 164% of the time.




gonna be tough to flop a flush with [Ah 3s  7c ad1 ]  ;)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AMRN on December 17, 2013, 12:38:37 PM

What would you have done with the hand if the OR had repotted over the top of the 3-bet and you are left having to either shove or fold? I am guessing it is a fold? I can"t see what range of hands shoving would be profitable against in a spot such as this.


If you think it"s likely to go to the flop headsup, then it"s not a massive mistake to get it in with a marginal hand, and hope to miss whatever draws he ends up with, but if it"s likely to go three way, then it"s a simple fold.

Ask yourself this though - how many times do you get to showdown in PLO and see a single pair hand win? Given the action, it"s highly likely that there are other Aces in play, which may mean your hand is destined to only ever be a one pair hand.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 17, 2013, 22:58:39 PM
Surprised by the responses on Blonde. The general opinion was 3-bet and try to get it in. Still find it surprising how many levels of poker there are that I do not understand.

Below post from Blonde Poker


I wouldn"t fold no pre-flop. I would pretty much always just 3bet the opener here, they"ve opened UTG so usually have a pretty high card heavy/big pair range themselves and we do pretty well (even with terrible AA) vs that, we"ll very likely get it HU (although deeper stacks mean there is a little more chance of getting over-called PF) and we"re deep stacked, IP and the hand won"t be difficult to play for us really, 2 NF blockers, some connectiveity (A 3 7) and the hand which is often one of the better bluff catchers for later streets.

The other option to 3betting would be to play how you played and just set-mine with it, there is a lot of value to set-over-set people and obviously if you have AA you will never be on the wrong side of a set-over-set, so taking some rubbish AA multi-way is often quite good.

Once you been 4bet behind you can pot to $4.60 I think, which is what I would do now the action is back on me, pot will be like $14 OTF and stacks only a bit deeper than that - I think you"ll get calls pre-flop from hands that should really fold AKQ* and KK** etc which is a really good spot for you.

3betting defo the best option here though IMO, Iknow your AA is really bad but you are a good equity favorite over UTG right now and you have to hammer home that advantage, we can"t just wait to be dealt AA78ds every time before we start moving our chips about.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: Fatcatstu on December 17, 2013, 23:14:33 PM

Surprised by the responses on Blonde. The general opinion was 3-bet and try to get it in. Still find it surprising how many levels of poker there are that I do not understand.

Below post from Blonde Poker


I wouldn"t fold no pre-flop. I would pretty much always just 3bet the opener here, they"ve opened UTG so usually have a pretty high card heavy/big pair range themselves and we do pretty well (even with terrible AA) vs that, we"ll very likely get it HU (although deeper stacks mean there is a little more chance of getting over-called PF) and we"re deep stacked, IP and the hand won"t be difficult to play for us really, 2 NF blockers, some connectiveity (A 3 7) and the hand which is often one of the better bluff catchers for later streets.

The other option to 3betting would be to play how you played and just set-mine with it, there is a lot of value to set-over-set people and obviously if you have AA you will never be on the wrong side of a set-over-set, so taking some rubbish AA multi-way is often quite good.

Once you been 4bet behind you can pot to $4.60 I think, which is what I would do now the action is back on me, pot will be like $14 OTF and stacks only a bit deeper than that - I think you"ll get calls pre-flop from hands that should really fold AKQ* and KK** etc which is a really good spot for you.

3betting defo the best option here though IMO, Iknow your AA is really bad but you are a good equity favorite over UTG right now and you have to hammer home that advantage, we can"t just wait to be dealt AA78ds every time before we start moving our chips about.



He is mind bogglingly good. If i ever try and play like him i will be busto in an hour.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 22, 2013, 21:07:02 PM
Bit of an upswing in results this week which is always good. Back in the black for the month which is good for confidence etc.

Cash games were not that interesting I went up and came back down a bit went up a bit and came down a bit. Overall I won at holdem slightly more than I lost at PLO. The PLO hands were pretty much unavoidable getting it in good with made hands and losing to big draws, I was not a massive favorite in either of the hands so can"t complain. Still prefectly happy with my PLO cash game, I suck at PLO tournaments though (I really should do something about that at some point).

PLO Month to date

Hands: 617
VPIP: 18%
PFR: 12%
3-bet: 7%
Total Loss: $21.56

Hold "em was pretty standard all week. I will start to up my volume again soon but have just been keeping my eye in for now the MTD results are

Hands: 3004
VPIP: 29.05%
PFR: 23.2%
3-bet: 8.5%
Fold to 3-bet: 61%
Att to Steal: 47.3% (don"t know why that is so low this month need to look at it though)
Total profit: $41.32

Also played some of the 180 manners, managed to get a 2nd to recover a lot. Lost a massive flip that would probably have won me the whole think with AK < JJ.

Games: 89
Total Loss: $8.86

Dec Overall Profit: $10.90 (up is up and all that)

I have actually also made about £100 at cash on Sky but wasted about half of that trying to qualify for their silly UKPC. Lost a small amount of APAT poker but got it back by winning one of the FPP sats for a free National Championship seat.

Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 28, 2013, 12:48:53 PM
Think this one is a pretty easy fold tbh :)

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6626986_F7017BCCEE
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: MintTrav on December 28, 2013, 13:01:45 PM

Think this one is a pretty easy fold tbh :)

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6626986_F7017BCCEE


Nice swerve. If you don"t get out at that point, you can"t avoid doubling him up by the end of the hand after he flops well.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 28, 2013, 13:20:50 PM


Think this one is a pretty easy fold tbh :)

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6626986_F7017BCCEE


Nice swerve. If you don"t get out at that point, you can"t avoid doubling him up by the end of the hand after he flops well.

Yeah sucks to have to fold AA in that spot but my gut was telling me that something was not right. He likely had a very strong hand himself also if I shove the chances of him calling are extremely high and then he will win.

I am happy with how I played it. Some people will say I should have shoved but I think you need to take the whole situation into account.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 29, 2013, 21:05:52 PM
So December and 2013 are coming to an end. 2013 is offically for the first time in at least 6 years a losing year.Mainly due to the car crash (in poker terms) Vegas was but hey that"s Vegas what am I going to do, stay home? LOL. 2012 and 2013 have been fairly quiet for me in terms of poker. I became complacent and my game fell behind the curve, I was trying to do the same thing that I did in 2008 / 2009 and it was not working people have moved their games on a lot and it really is tougher now.

Plan is to turn it back up now in 2014. I have worked really hard in a lot of things this year and spent hours sat in front of poker tracker gaining a better understanding of many spots and learning the way you really do have to think more deeply about the game now, played many many hands of $10nl Zoom poker, annoyed lot"s of good players on Skype with questions and in general got my cash game back to the point where I am again very confident against the field on Pokerstar"s. I have over complicated some things recently as well but Ger gave me some excellent advice not long ago which seems to have helped a lot with that.

Plan for next year is to play $25nl Zoom and the 180 man games (both the $2.50 turbo and the $4.50 non turbos).

As I have not played high volume at all this year I thought I would try and turn it up a but this weekend and see how I did. Here are the results for cash:-

Hands: 4097
VP$IP: 24.01%
PFR: 19.1%
3-bet: 5.36%
Fold to 3-bet: 41%
Att to Steal: 44.1% (hmm)
Total Profit: $147.63 @ 14.41BB/100

There were some interesting hands but I have posted some of them in PHA and on here already.

Tournaments also went well

Tournaments: 15
Total Profit: $84.24

So month to date is:-

Tournament

Games: 118
Profit: $41.84

Cash

Hands: 8154
Profit: 156.64 (@ 8BB/100)

Total Profit Dec: $198.48

Next year is going to be good. I have some targets for myself for Jan. Trying to make it easy on myself to start with but these should be doable.

1) 4 live tournaments

2) 5000 hands of $25nl (I just played 4K in two days so not very hard)

3) 100 180 man games

4) Player review on the top 3 players (cash) I play the most hands again in each session

5) 5 PHA posts

6) Respond to all holdem posts (cash and tournament) on The Strategy board

The live games are the ones that are going to eat up the time but the local lice games are so soft that if I am specifically trying to make a profit then I have to play them.

Let"s see how it goes. Happy new year to you all.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 30, 2013, 11:39:14 AM
Just made a big call against a reg whose play I reviewed last night from PT. I spent some time last night making notes on some of the regs from hands in PT. Never really tank but took over a minute to make this call, still unsure if it is right.  My notes on the player are below:-

Raised AK and fired three times on dry ace high flop
3-bet preflop with TT
Slow played set on ace high flop - (ie called flop raised turn)
Made massive overshove with flush draw and got there
Cold called 3-bet with AQ and called down on queen high board


http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5586114

Still not sure if it is a good call or not I have added to the notes he probably now has me noted as a massive fish :)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on December 30, 2013, 14:39:29 PM
So played a cash session this morning. A couple of hands I played I am questioning are below:-

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5587061

Not entirely sure what the best line would have been here. don"t think I can fold pre  to a simple 3-bet but it is large and alarm bells did go off. Calling is probably the best play but then the flop becomes hard. 4-betting should result in everything I beat folding but maybe my flop play does that anyway? Check the flop planning to call turn and river maybe. Hard to see TT or JJ checking the flop here. Once he shoves I doubt there is not any of his value range that does not absolutely crush me.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5587062

This one is more interesting than one I am not sure about. 5-betting pre seems pointless as it lets QQ and AK get away cheap and the only hand I get it in against is AA. The flop is a bit crap for me. I lose to QQ and JJ now, still lose to AA and AK will just fold anyway so betting feels like it achieves nothing and only gets me action when I am beat. I suppose somebody could have AQ but they shouldn"t. The turn now means I am beat by everything so I just have to fold.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5587064

This one is pretty standard up until the river. Think I have to call the turn due to pot odds but should be an easy fold on the river.

Overall the session went well though, made some good calls and laydowns and seem to be playing well at the moment. Wonder how long it is going to last.

Session Stats

Hands: 1000
VPIP: 22.35%
PFR: 17.51%
3-bet: 4.41%
Fold to 3-bet: 66%
Att to Steal: 40.79% (Seems i am not stealing enough from the cut off atm)
Total Profit: $67.66

was going to be the last day playing of the year but noticed that I am 90 FPP away from getting a $50 bonus which make it very +EV to play tomorrow so will play 1000 hands and some 180 mans just until I get enough points.

Of to Vinny Tan panto land for a few beers now.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 01, 2014, 11:12:41 AM


Does anybody fancy a small prop bet in 2013. Say $50 (or less if people prefer) on Pokerstars? It can be more than two people but the rules are:-

1) You have to play at least 200 tournaments on Pokerstars in 2013 (any stake), if you play less you lose automatically
2) The winner is the person who OPR says has the highest ROI on Pokerstars at 6pm on 31st Dec 2013

This would help keep us focused during 2013

We could try to do something with cash games but that would have to be done with the use of tracking software as there are no reliable 3rd party trackers, and posting up screenshots which becomes really complicated.

Anybody up for this?


Yup, tournaments, in for $50.




Does anybody fancy a small prop bet in 2013. Say $50 (or less if people prefer) on Pokerstars? It can be more than two people but the rules are:-

1) You have to play at least 200 tournaments on Pokerstars in 2013 (any stake), if you play less you lose automatically
2) The winner is the person who OPR says has the highest ROI on Pokerstars at 6pm on 31st Dec 2013

This would help keep us focused during 2013

We could try to do something with cash games but that would have to be done with the use of tracking software as there are no reliable 3rd party trackers, and posting up screenshots which becomes really complicated.

Anybody up for this?


In for bet.


Hi Mark/Dave

Having just checked OPR pretty sure I win this one. Please ship $50 to 33teetwo33 when you get the chance.

Me and Mark certainly up for it again this year, Dave you want in?
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 01, 2014, 17:45:49 PM
Played cash today and got through 1700 hands. Lost $18 in the process. Pretty poor should have been up but had one hand where I should have folded and didn"t, that basically cost me $23. Didn"t run that well either though I don"t think, can be hard to tell.

Zoom Cash Hands: 1780
Cash Loss: $18.66
BB/100 = -4.2
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 01, 2014, 22:59:10 PM
Played more hands later turned it around to break even more than less for the day

Hands Played: 2500
Profit: $3.35 @ 0.5BB/100

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Final figures for 2013 on Pokerstars were

Cash Hands Played: 32,617 (poor volume really)
Total profit: $319.67 @ 11BB/100

Tournaments Played: 919
Total Profit: $345.79

Overall Profit: $665.46

Not that wonderful but at least it was a profit.

I won about £200 on Sky Poker across the year but dropped most of that on the APAT site. I was basically break even across those two sites.

Live poker did not go well though., with only one small cash in an apat.

I played 4 apat events 2xdtd, Coventry and Luton which was a total buyin of £377 and cashed for £220 so was down £157 plus £165 for international team events so was down about £322 for poker in the UK.

The year rested on Vegas which was a car crash. Think I lost about $800 at poker out there so the year was pretty poor. Not that it really matters as I was not trying as hard as I should have been.

If this year goes to plan it should be much better.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 03, 2014, 10:10:11 AM
From Yesterday

Hands Today: 500
Profit Today: $12.46 @ 10BB/100

Hands MTD: 3000
Profit MTD: $15.81 @ 2.08BB/100

$2.50 180 manners

Games: 4
Cashes: 0
Loss: $10

MTD

Games: 4
Cashes: 0
Loss: $10

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6698443_C4B8540E9B
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 03, 2014, 21:24:24 PM
Had a pretty bad day at the tables today. Did 10 buyins most of which were totally my own fault (I should have stopped playing).
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: TheSnapper on January 03, 2014, 22:33:12 PM

Had a pretty bad day at the tables today. Did 10 buyins most of which were totally my own fault (I should have stopped playing).


Bugger, had those days myself, hard to take but we move on. Feel free to call if and when you feel like reviewing.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 03, 2014, 23:24:37 PM


Had a pretty bad day at the tables today. Did 10 buyins most of which were totally my own fault (I should have stopped playing).


Bugger, had those days myself, hard to take but we move on. Feel free to call if and when you feel like reviewing.

Cheers mate - do need to review some stuff at some time soon. Probably don"t today though, not the last couple of hours anyway :-)
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 12, 2014, 14:38:35 PM
Just got back from an awesome weekend in Luton with some of APAT's finest. A big shout to Richard Baker for organising it all oh and for winning the event. I played two events but did not cash in either. However this did not matter as it was another chance to spend the weekend with some of the worlds very best people. Arrived at 7pm on Friday and in the Bar I found Curly, Asa, Delboy, JP, Pables and Karen. I think that was everybody, I immediately knocked a bottle over but ran good as it was empty *lol*. At the casino we met up with some others including Don Roberts and Michelle.

Played the £35 tournament did not win but gave my chips to Karen which was better than just donating them to a random. I joined the growing group in the bar and a few of us got taken unexpected drunk. I think I left about 2:30am leaving Asa and Delboy as the last two Standard at the bar and Ian as the last man standing in the tourny, which he chopped - yay.

I woke up on Saturday, went back to sleep then woke up again. Eventually met JP, Ian, Asa and Del in the bar and ordered food which helped a lot with the hangover. Paulie also joined us and soon Carl and Emma arrived and so did Ken and Branda. Ensured to mix some water in with the beer to begin with but soon got that sorted. Off to the casino and met up with lot"s of legends and heros.

Did not do too well in the tournament again, I think I probably made a bad reshove for the exit hand (shoved KJ on a fairly active player who has raised from ealier position - he had AQ)looking back it was marginal. I lost one massive flip earlier (AK
The evening was great as the people dropped out of the tournament they joined us and a good night was had by all. Hope we all do this again sometime as it was a lot of fun and a bit different to the APAT events which is always nice.

Very much looking forward to Stoke now.
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 13, 2014, 23:07:40 PM
Will do a write up on how the month is going at the moment soon. I have recorded this little session if people are interested

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTeD0KMCypc&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on January 21, 2014, 19:01:28 PM
Still not doing too well in the pokers this year so far. My cash game has sprung more leaks than a dodgy plumber. Still losing 8 buyins so far on the month in Cash. 180 Mans I have cashed once out of 15 games and the two live events I have played have both been blanks.

Still gotta just keep going and keep the faith I can turn it around. I have been misplaying little pairs for a while so will put that right ans creating too many complex situations (this is an ongoing theme to my game).

Will still have crushed it by the end of the year I am informed (not sure about crushing it myself but will hopefully be in profit).
Title: Re: Rodder's Boring Blog about Poker and Random stuff
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 15, 2014, 19:40:07 PM
Hi Again

Technically should update this thread as I am really bad at it. Seem to be OK at it when I am doing well but useless when I play badly (which happens lots). Basically I played like a total idiot in Jan and lose like $300 (12 buyins). Not the end of the world but still pretty annoying. Won most of it back in Feb but lost like $100 playing $5 PLO - wonderful (also lost prop bet with Stu due to this). Also losing playing 180 games. My laptop died the other week and took my poker tracker database with it so not sure how I am now doing over all. This month I am winning like $250 over 16K hands. Should get Goldstar back by the end of the month pretty easily enough. Think that is as high as I can realistically get as I am just a $25 Zoom nl player. I am somehow or another winning online across the year anyway and the Stella Rewards help push the bottom line up too (I have collect $100 in those so far).

Live poker is still REALLY REALLY boring though, I have officially given up on it again after about 2 session. Played a couple of tournaments that I didn"t cash in and destroyed a local cash game (won just over £250 in 2 hours but think I would rather stick needles in my eyes) why the hell would anybody (trying to take poker seriously as opposed to playing for fun) play 25 hands per hour when you can play 500 without every leaving your house. Still that one session means I am currently up live for the year, unlikely to play much more though.

I have been collecting FPP points at a rate of knots which is fun. I managed to turn them into various tournament tickets which will be useful next Sunday as I have tickets for:-

Micro Millions Main Event $22
Bigger $22
Bigger $11
Hotter $11
Sunday Storm $11

So $77 worth of tickets for free (or at the cost of 4900 FPP). All helps the bottom line. I have next Monday off so will do a decent session on that Sunday will add the Bigger $8.80 and some 180"s to the schedule.

Here are some hands for general amusement, feel free to abuse/ridicule as you see fit:-

Not sure how I am ever good here but burning money is fun:-

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5809568

This is how not to play ace high, don"t try this at home:-

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5809572

Whose afraid of the big bad ace, the big bad ace, the big bad ace. Whose afraid of the big bad ace, tra la la not me:-

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5809574

Hmm what am I up too here? Answers on a postcard please:-

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5809575

This is pretty much as bad as it is possible to be too how to get it wrong at every point in the hand:-

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5809576
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 06, 2015, 09:40:10 AM
Didn"t know it was so long since I updated this thread.

In Coventry a couple of people asked me why I had stopped writing on here. The main reason was that I did not think it was very interesting and from a poker point of view I always seem to do worse when I am reporting results anywhere. Mind you over the last few months that would not have made much difference lol. Thought I would stick a post on here just to remind everybody I am still here haha.

Life is still pretty good really. I pretty do what I want when I want without needing to check with anybody or really consider anybody else, I am sure some people would not enjoy that but it works well for me *lol*. The football season has ended and looking back over my programme collection from this year I attended 14 games which is not a massive amount to be honest. 12 home games (so only about half) and two away games, the two away games were at Cheltenham (who unfortunately have been relegated as that is always a good day) and Plymouth. The Plymouth game was an awesome day as it was the final day of the 6 nations as well so before the game we were in the pub to watch the Wales game and again after the game (which was a 0-0 bore draw *lol*) to see the England game. The game itself was a good laugh as shown below with this video. Next season must try to get to more away games (and home games for that matter). I will certainly try to go to Plymouth again as I have to say the place itself is awesome, the harbour side with all the pubs and restaurants is worth the trip on its own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFsRcrPCfXk

Over the second half of this year I have a few poker and non poker related trips planned. In a few weeks time I am heading up to the Kingdom of Stockton and Yarm to visit the great Stockton Massive and play in their charity event, followed by a couple of days sat in the beer garden of The Black Bull on Yarm High Street (great pub - just be careful of your wallet, but if you lose it be sure to abuse whoever finds it and keeps it save for you -  ;)). In August we will welcome APAT to Wales for the Welsh Championship in Cardiff. As the weather is likely to be warm (it will rain but it will be warm) I am going to suggest a trip down Cardiff Bay on Friday.

Then it will be Belgium in September before Dublin in October. There is also a weekend in Manchester (Asa and Adam country) in between them. Then in November I will be joining some of APAT's finest people in Portugal to visit the mythical O"sheas.

As for today, will play a little bit online (180 manners I think) and possibly go and watch the Champions league final later. Evening qualifying for the GP of course as well - Let"s go Vettel and Kimi :-)

Oh I also need a new name for this thread, any ideas *lol*

Will post more soon (maybe *lol*)
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: Paulie_D on June 06, 2015, 09:44:46 AM
So I assume Portugal in June isn"t happening then?*

Oh well, it will be just me "n" Ger trying to drink the place dry.

It"s a dirty job but someone"s gotta do it.....

<*quitter/>
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 06, 2015, 10:46:41 AM

So I assume Portugal in June isn"t happening then?*

Oh well, it will be just me "n" Ger trying to drink the place dry.

It"s a dirty job but someone"s gotta do it.....

<*quitter/>

To be fair I think it is two good men to have on the job. I reckon Ger Jnr will help though.

Just awaiting on something next week before saying a definite no but I have to be honest and say it is quite unlikely.
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 06, 2015, 18:41:10 PM
Playing really badly at the moment by the way. Just went out of the Omaina just inside the money with the average stack of just under 30k I start the hand with 48k with a good shot of hitting the final table. I call a raise with 4 cards, the flop comes down 8-8-9r he cheats, I raise. He then 3 bets my raise so I should fold and still have an above average stack. I don"t fold I call with no good reason and no plan. He shoves the turn so I call for no reason knowing there is no way I can win gg lol.
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: Bigfella42 on June 07, 2015, 10:33:12 AM

Playing really badly at the moment by the way. Just went out of the Omaina just inside the money with the average stack of just under 30k I start the hand with 48k with a good shot of hitting the final table. I call a raise with 4 cards, the flop comes down 8-8-9r he cheats, I raise. He then 3 bets my raise so I should fold and still have an above average stack. I don"t fold I call with no good reason and no plan. He shoves the turn so I call for no reason knowing there is no way I can win gg lol.


No wonder you lost the hand  :D :D :D
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 07, 2015, 18:42:28 PM


Playing really badly at the moment by the way. Just went out of the Omaina just inside the money with the average stack of just under 30k I start the hand with 48k with a good shot of hitting the final table. I call a raise with 4 cards, the flop comes down 8-8-9r he cheats, I raise. He then 3 bets my raise so I should fold and still have an above average stack. I don"t fold I call with no good reason and no plan. He shoves the turn so I call for no reason knowing there is no way I can win gg lol.


No wonder you lost the hand  :D :D :D

Stupid ipad predictive text or whatever it is called lol. Speaking of which I need a new Andriod tablet, can anybody recommend something good? Anyway was crap due to being bored whilst playing.

Watched the Champions League final last night and have to say I think this Barcalona team might be the best Barca team ever. Probably the greatest front line ever with Messi, Neymar and Suarez. We are lucky to be able to watch them in the era, pretty sure they would tear the premier league a new one, head and shoulders above.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gApaq-QyTJs

Playing online tonight, not a very successful day yesterday only played a few tournament games and lost about $25 playing little games. Should have done better really. Got the APAT games tonight and will play a little bit on Stars and FTP as well whilst having the Grand Prix on the the background. Hope Ferrari win but somehow doubt it.

Edit: Just did exactly the same thing as last night in the APAT main event, making two very bad bets on the turn and the river with basically nothing in a spot where it was never getting through. If I could stop doing that I would be doing a lot better at the moment lol
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 11, 2015, 13:05:50 PM
Fun week so far this week. Work has been busy and I have just found out about a nice new job within the company working from home dealing with our partnership sites in India with a couple of trips out there each year. It fits in with what I do perfectly so am busily improving my CV by tailoring it to that role and speaking to people who work within that team to try and get in. Likely to have over 100 applicants, but you gotta be in it to win it. Delhi and Pune are strange places, last time I was in Delhi I as in what was basically a 5 Star hotel but around the corner there was a shanty town, just reminds you that the phrase "first world problems" is a very real one.

I have a week off work (actually a week and two days) and planning a bit of a poker schedule for that along with some other stuff including the trip to Yarm. Want to write up a good schedule before hand though. I will likely play a local live game the first Sunday I am off and try and fit another one in before heading up to Stockton Massive land. I am pretty famlar with the games on Pokerstars and FTP but are there any good online games that people recommend on any other sites? I don"t want to just spend loads of time playing cash games. Anything in the £5 to £25 range really for week days/evenings.

Played a $11 Tournament online the other night on Stars and got down to the last 100 out of 2300 with a top 10 stack before getting it all in pre with KK against a bigger stack, he had AA but thats a really standard spot anyway. Not in work today as working Saturday so will try and play a few this afternoon I think.
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 14, 2015, 11:08:55 AM
I am not a massive fan of the Wales football team, I was though very impressed by the performance on Friday evening in the game with Belgium. Every player did his job and their work rate was excellent. The win was an amazing result and means that there is a good chance of Wales actually making Euro 2016. If they do I will be making the trip to France next year I am sure. Might even have to buy a jersey, never owed a Welsh football shirt. Other good events this weekend include Le Mans 24 hour race.

Played a few online poker tournaments this week for a small loss ran deep in a couple and played OK. Played a bit of Zoom cash last night managed to nick a little profit of just over a buyin in the 10c/25c game, getting AA vs AK on a King high flop helped. That game is getting really tough lately so many regs in the pool. Quite ridiculous at that level, so much harder than any 50//£1 live game you would find anyway in this country.

Going to flick in some poker online today, only small ones.

11:30 The Hotter $3.30
12:30 The Hotter $4.40
12:35 PL Omaha $4.40
12:45 NL Holdem 1K Gtd $4.40
14:00 The Bigger $5.50
14:45 2.5K Gtd $3.30
15:05 Omania $5.50

Will probably add in a few 180 manners as well. Outside chance I will decide to go and play the 6pm at Grovsnor in Swansea depending on how I feel later.
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 19, 2015, 19:25:52 PM
Football Fixtures are out for the new season.

Newport County start their season away to Cambridge, this is not an easy start to the season at all and given that we are currently a club without a chairman, an academy manager, any back room staff and.... well a team to actually play the games, we may not have the best of starst again this year. Fair play to Terry Butcher who I think has been put in a difficult position however if you offered us 22nd in League Two this year I think most of us would take it. If we can survive the season I think things will improve vastly going forward but ready for a tough season. The pick of the Premiership Fixtures on the opening weekend are Chelsea Vs Swansea and Man Utd Vs Tottenham. The season is still 2 months away which will fly by I am sure.

Pokerwise I have played a little bit online mostly around the $5 level. Won a small one today the hand that really put me on my way is below (this is called making the wrong move at the right time)

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/14832395_4A046E02BE
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: pokerpops on June 21, 2015, 22:54:57 PM
NH, wp  :)  :)

Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 26, 2015, 21:38:30 PM

NH, wp  :)  :)



Thought I played it well. Bet sizing was perfect to win the max innit
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 27, 2015, 13:04:33 PM
Today is the first day of 11 days off work for me (yippee). I have a few things planned including and important trip to the Kingdom on Stockton-on-Tees to catch up with some legends including Ger Smyth, Stu Ward, Matt Ward, Phil Fryer, Brian Harland and with a big of luck the APAT legend that is Phil_TC. There is a tournament there at some time on Thursday night but seeing as I get into Yarm station at around 2pm and meeting up with Stu and Ger pretty much straight away the chance of us turning up sober are.... well non existent. Looking forward to drinks in the Eagle and the Black Bull. I know some other people including Carl are coming up for the poker game so should be good

On Tuesday I have to go to Cardiff in the morning so will be visiting Cardiff Bay that afternoon/evening and doing some reconnaissance for the APAT trip at the end of October. Should really book the Friday night in the Hotel for that one. Might try out the casino tomorrow night to see if it has improved at all since we last used it a couple of years ago. Never been a fan but got to give it a chance  suppose.

Will be playing some online as well whilst I am off although I am thinking that the weather is too nice to be sitting on playing poker every day. No matter will get on it today.
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 28, 2015, 15:11:31 PM
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 29, 2015, 08:34:34 AM
lol

So last night was going OK. I cashed in the Omania and the first ipoker one and had some OK stacks in the Storm and the deep stack. Managed to get up to about 200K in chips in the deep stack with the average about 50K, thought I was running nicely. Then my Internet disconnects, I reboot the modem which does not come back online. Great. I send a text message and find out my area of Swansea has gone down. Great timing, the first time it drops offline in 5 years. I set my phone to be a wireless hotspot and my laptop refuses to connect. I turn on my desktop and try that, still won"t connect. Ipad and Hudl also fail. The only think in my house that actually has an Internet connection is my phone itself...... Which is a Windows phone so I can"t put the Pokerstars app on it.

I give up and go to sleep, checked this morning I cashed for about $30 in the deep stack but could have been a lot better, needless to say Internet connection and phone are now working fine.. I can"t even complain to my ISP or mobile provider *lol*
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on June 29, 2015, 22:24:25 PM
Couple of deep runs tonight but came to basically nothing. Came about 80th in the Big $8.80 and about 60th in the $11 Deep Stack. Small profit but pretty happy with how I played for the most part, a couple of hands I played badly but I suppose there will always be some.
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on July 03, 2015, 08:40:39 AM
So had an interesting couple of days if you can all it that *lol* I had to nip into work to compete a presentation for a project I want to be involved in which didn"t go that great but was probably ok enough. I then nipped off to Cardiff Bay as the sun was out and some mates were down there drinking. It was really hot and humid and I noticed not feeling that great as I got there but assumed I would feel better once I got to the pub. Now I should have had something to eat but basically just drank two bottles of cider in about 10 minutes with ice. Didn"t cool me down and made me feel sick. I decided the answer here was to have a pink of Guinness the upshot of this was that I decided to go home as I did not want to feel ill going to Yarm the next day. That didn"t work and I spent the rest of the afternoon and evening being quite ill. Could not sleep but to be fair to me I made an attempt to get up and get ready for Yarm, I gave up shortly and texted the lad to say I would be unable to make the game this evening. I eventually fall to sleep for 8 hours wake up, grab some food and have magically got better. It is now 4pm though. I check flights to Newcastle to see if I can get to Stockton quickly enough to make it worthwhile no flights. I check trains but they take forever and it will take about 7 hours to drive. I abandon plans to hit Yarm yesterday.

The good news is I am writing this on the train on my way to Yarm planned ETA of 2pm. Gutted to miss Carl and Emma who were there last night but can catch up with the locals including the Ward brothers and Phil Fryer and with a bit of luck Mr TC!!! With a bit of luck Ger will make it too.

Good luck to Carl, Tom, Bamber, Grant, Duffy and Ross and anybody else I know who is playing the APAT this weekend as well.
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on July 16, 2015, 22:23:54 PM
A nice lady I work with in Swansea has made National news today due to trying to help her mother.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brave-daughters-raising-money-pay-6070702

I have known about this for a while but was surprised it got picked up by the national press. Is it really such a big thing that somebody with a terminal disease wishes to end their life with dignity and without having their family watch them suffering before death. I think it is very brave of them to support their mum with this. They had even arranged a "ladies night" this coming weekend to help with the fund raising. All good and I made a donation on the fund raising page but not something that had really caught my interest until today.

Due to some people poking in their nose where they are not required they have had to cancel the fund raiser because they have been warned by the police that if they go ahead with this they could be prosecuted and face up to 14 years in prison and also had to put up with other people who have no involvement sticking in their two cents because they don"t approve???? Really - I mean wtf, this is beyond crazy. Surely people who wish to end their own life should be allowed to do so. That is all.

Not going to say anything poker related this week.
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on July 19, 2015, 12:47:51 PM
Think the Micro Millions gotta be worth a punt on Stars today. Will have a look at that, played the PLO on it yesterday and got a cash of $6.60 (yeah - go me!!). I like the look of the 3-stack game (Event 29)

Will also play some of the Deep stack events as I seem to be OK at those at the moment for some reason.

In other news I think 8/1 On Middlesbrough to win the Championship is quite good so have gone a £25 for my season long football bet despite Stu"s advice. Should get a good run at it. Newport County beat Torquay 3-1 away yesterday and played quite well for a brand new team, getting more confident of a solid mid table finish even though it will still be a tough first few months.

Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on July 26, 2015, 17:38:51 PM
Won a few few quid on the GP today backing Vettel for the win and Alonso to finish in the points. Would have done even better if Rosberg had not got a puncture as I had him each way but had a nice little result. Might start posting bets on here to see how I do (won"t automatically mean I have put money on myself).

Anyway not done that great or that badly at online poker this month but have not had time to play cash games really as I like to put in decent sessions on those so have mainly been playing MTT"s. They are definitely ore fun than cash games online but I am not as good at them, down about $100 this month I think. Playing a little session on Pokerstars and FTP tonight including the Micro Millions Main Event.

See how we go :-)
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on July 30, 2015, 12:32:45 PM
I don"t want to spend too much time on here talking about the actual strategy of poker but I was playing this morning and played two hands at the same time on two tables that sum up two typical spots where a bit of money can still be made in poker. The first one is a 3-bet pot and I have looked at the hand below as this relatively simple spot is the cause of a lot of mistakes in poker. So here is a hand of the day from me:-

I am playing this hand about 125BB deep against a semi reg who I would rate as competent but not good as such. His stats over about 150 hands are 21/12 with a fold to 3-bet after raise of 75% (but only 4 examples). Anyway he has made a standard raise UTG and I have 3-bet my KK, he calls. All very standard so far. I flop perfect with the nuts on a fairly wet board. He checks to me as you would expect and I now have to bet. I bet $3 into $4.63 and he calls (this should probably be $3.50 btw). When he calls I know he has something in this pot and it would be hard to get him to fold. At this point in this pot bluffing would be very unprofitable but it is the perfect spot to try and get lot"s of money in the middle as it will work so often and I expect him to call a bit lighter than normal on the turn (this is true of the population in this kind of game). The turn is a great card for me as I still have the nut"s the board did not get any scarier to convince him to fold. Here I can value bet pretty damn big and get paid a lot. I know there is a decent chance he folds the river when I shove but I get paid on the turn a lot. I therefore push my sizing up to near full pot. The river card makes me quads (which is nice). I shove and he calls quickly with JJ. If the river does not pair the king I probably don"t get paid on the river, so got lucky there but all too often in these spots you see people trying to bluff people off in bad spots. 3-bet pots play out quite honestly. A c-bet on the flop is fine but if that gets called the correct thing to do a lot of the time is to let it go but people don"t seem to like doing that.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/15363227_B46222E133
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: TheSnapper on July 31, 2015, 14:57:50 PM
Been a while but here goes....

Firstly, 21/12 over 150 hands is a passive player and anything but competent imo.

It"s unlikely villains perception of your 3bet range is a factor here, it should absolutely be the major consideration for villain.

What possible hand can we have that villain can beat?




Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on August 08, 2015, 10:53:17 AM
Good response Brendan mate, had not seen it before today, agree with your statements. I am pretty confident the way I played the hand is the most profitable way against the population of this game (and most other low limit games) though.  You are right my 3-bet range should be his primary concern, it almost never is though.

Anyway the football season begins today. I have entered a prediction league against some of my colleagues in work that I will hopefully be winning. You have to correctly predict results and score in the EPL. Chelsea to win the prem from Arsenal I think with Man City in 3rd and Liverpool in 4th. I would have said Man Utd in 4th but they look certain to lose their keeper now which I think will be a major loss and will allow Liverpool to nick the last champions league spot. Actually the English teams do need a good season in Europe otherwise 4th won"t be the last spot for much longer.

I fear for Newport County today away to Cambridge with a new team against possibly the best team in League 2 imo a draw would be a really good result. Won"t be too concerned if we lose heavily today.

Final thought - Cricket is a very weird game !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 05, 2015, 10:54:55 AM
OK most certainly time to update this thread. I am not sure where the time goes sometimes lol

Since the last update I have played two live a pats and been lucky enough to run very good and get a 4th place and a 10th this past weekend. I also final tabled the Welsh online event, more about that later.

This past weekend was great even though it was missing some of the regs including Tom and Curly, this was off set by the return of Ger and Stu. Friday night had a bit of a feeling of old apats back in the day meeting up in the pub on Friday with Ger, Paulie, Asa, Scottish Tom, James, Adam , Dave , Stu, Lucy and Warren was awesome as you would expect. We went to the casino Ger and Stu wanted to play 3 card poker (which I am bad at) so I ended up wandering back to the hotel getting a kebab and playing online.

Saturday saw a surprise appearance from the genuine APAT legend that is Paul McGuniess, very possibly the most respected man on the tour and certainly one of the best players. I had a really tough starting table with Matt Carter to my left and Craig Dawson to my right, Shirley was also on the table so it was live steamed which was not a surprise. I started fairly slowly and was down to 10k by the first break following some questionable plays.

Not long after Simon Brooke joined the table so it certainly wasn"t getting any easier. I managed to get up to about 25k by just playing pots and winning a race with AQ against 88. I went up to 50k and back down to 25k by playing some pots well and some not so well. As the day came to a close I needed to try and make something happened so basically ended up shoving with 84 BvB and getting called, he somehow has 33 and I win the race.... How lucky was that !!!

I then had over 50k again which seemed playable for day two. The final hand comes and I get Kings, this is good. I end up winning 75k in that pot to be up to 125k and right in the mix for day two. I leave the poker and go to the bar with Stu, who will provide his own update I am sure but sounds like he played very good poker this weekend.

Day two came down to a few hands. I start off well getting KK again and stacking Steve from the LPPL. Next hand I get AK, Bill Sheppard correctly shoves from LP and I call but lose a flip still on about 209k at that point though so not really concerned. I get moved about a bit and blinded down slightly. I know I lost a race with AQ against 88. We end up on the final table bubble and I am short stacked but still have fold equity on a reshove. I find a good spot to do just that but basically run into aces and finish 10th which is a good follow up to last months 4th and takes me to the top on the rankings I think.

Decided to miss the PLO and go and have a beer with Tom and James and discuss betting and football. Generally spend the rest of the night in the bar with stu, Asa, Adam and Julie. Good night, great weekend, great job by Des and Lucy.

Something I have thought for a while but never really thought worth mentioning is how strange poker players are, having run deep in the last two live events as well as the last online event (and getting my fair share of luck along the way to let this happen) quite a few people have said that I must have been gutted or that I have run bad. Well firstly neither are true, I have run well in the last 3 APAT games and cashed them all, you don"t do that when you are getting unlucky. This game is all about the long term, in season 8 I had a bit of a bad run which was really down to not playing so well. This happens sometimes however it is important to recognise it. After you bust out losing with AK to TT you can"t just put that down to bad luck thee was a whole tournament not just one hand. When you go out of a tournament and somebody asked what happened I always try to be honest, I it was as I didn"t play well enough I tend to just say that. I do always want to laugh when people are sat deep in a deep stacked event complaining of how badly they have run, it is almost impossible they have really run that badly. If at the start of the season you had offered me my results up to now I would have taken it as should anybody else offered the same set of results. in my opinion don"t take the tournaments too seriously play them to enjoy them and treat the weekends as a mini holiday if you happen to do well great, if you don"t well that"s great too as you will have a good weekend.

Will try to update a bit more too, until the next time may all your cards be live and all your flops be monsters.
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: Scousebill on October 05, 2015, 11:23:41 AM
Thanks for the hand mention, and unfortunately it didn"t kick start my recovery and a repeat of last Eurpoean was not to happen. I think being down to 2 blinds twice in the same tourney recovering for a third time is a bit too much to ask for.

Great weekend and well played yourself...
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: Zozzy on October 13, 2015, 23:54:22 PM
Good to read your blog Rodders. It is a refreshing  change to hear a player say that he could have played a particular hand better, or he had a slice of luck.
But I think you are being modest because you are one of the best and most consistent players on the Apat circuit.
With eighteen players left, l for one was pleased when you got moved to the other table.
Nice meeting up with you again.
Best of luck in your future games especially in your quest to be leading points scorer on the Apat Tour this season.
Title: Online Poker, Matched Betting and Degenerate Gambling
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 15, 2015, 22:28:06 PM
So finally renamed the thread as it needs a name really. I think everybody in APAT knows I spend rather a lot of time playing online cash poker which has been pretty profitable to the tune of about $1000 this year if I go by poker tracker. I am losing in tournaments but still up overall so am pretty happy with that.

I also do a bit of online betting on the exchanges (usually lay betting trying to get matches at profitable prices) but have never taken that really seriously but been about break even which I was happy with. The sports I focus on were mainly Formula 1, Darts with a small amount of football thrown in. Recently I started trying to take advantage of the sign up offers that are currently all over the place and various other offers, I have done this for a while in a non serious way and was surprised to find out it has a name called matched betting. So this month I put together a spreadsheet and went and checked out some online bookies offers, I was surprised to win a really easy £200 without really trying. Problem is strictly speaking it is not allowed but there are ways around most things. I am going to try and make £500 matched betting in November and am probably going to be logging it here. I think it should be OK to do that as I doubt the bookies are reading this *lol*.

Might play some poker as well it seems to be the done thing. Hope to see people in Ireland at the end of next week.
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 25, 2015, 12:03:05 PM
Welcome to Dublin.

The Regency hotel is full of poker players with the IPO in full swing. I only got here yesterday so didn"t play it. I flew in at around midday and met Rich Baker at the airport. We had a couple of pints but had to tell a bar maid off for spilling our Guniness, she took it well.....

We get to the hotel eventually. I find Karen in the bar (surprise) I think Dave Pilkington joined us as well. Debbie definitely turned up at some point, we headed off to town and have a couple of beers. The rest are going for food but I was feeling knackered to decide to let them head off for good and go back to the hotel. I head into the bar and find Dave however don"t feel like a pint and have an early night (I am so bad at travelling lol).

I wake up at about 8am and head off for breakfast. Had a quick chat with all the LPPL guys and go for a walk to wake up. The IPO day two has just kicked off and I am sat in reception in what is quite a nice hotel. More updates to follow, I should rally buy into the APAT.

Glen is arriving at 13:30 as well.
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 25, 2015, 16:01:03 PM
OK we are seate and ready to go. APAT contingent might be slightly the worse for wear already though. Let"s see how it goes.
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 25, 2015, 21:28:06 PM
According to irritating bloke, Karen, Deb and Lucy
I am out. My demise has been grossly exaggerated although it will likely be accurate in an hour
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 26, 2015, 15:04:22 PM
So I got knocked out by Glen last night, he had QJ and raised in late position. It folds to me and I shove Glen works out in about half a second that he is ahead of my range and calls which is correct by about, hmm, 100%
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 27, 2015, 16:38:37 PM
Right back home from Ireland and have to say that it was another great weekend even with the lack of regs in attendance. Playing APAT as a side event to a big game like the IPO is a great idea. Next year I must plan it a bit better and get to Dublin in time to play the IPO. Overall really good weekend rounded off yesterday by a day in the bar. I did play cash for a couple of hours and managed to stack myself first hand when I bet my flush draw on the flop and turn then turn it into a bluff on the river and get called down, oh dear. I pull back up and spin it back up and leave about 250 euros up so that was ok in the end. Was in the bar with Curly, Glen, Deb and Karen for a while. We were also joined by Brian Yates and some of the BCPC. Eventually people drifted away and I had an early flight so went to say goodbye to Tom and Lucy before leaving. I meeting the entire LPPL people and say introduce myself, but of banter about LPPL and APAT follows and I end up staying for a couple more pints. I did then have to leave or would have been to tired this morning. Woke up fine at 7am and head to the airport.

Poker question for the week. It is the first level of an APAT event. Stacks are all around 15k. The table is made up of regs and locals, a local player who seems fairly solid makes an EP raise to 150 (blinds are 25/50) it folds to Stu Ward who is in the cut off and he 3-bets to 425. You are on the button and look at AK what is your play here and why?

Best answer wins a pint from me at a future APAT event.
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: Fatcatstu on October 27, 2015, 20:52:48 PM
Fold, he always has Aces.
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: pokerpops on October 27, 2015, 21:42:14 PM
Raise obviously, although AK is at the top of my range for raising in this spot. Two cards of the same colour at the bottom end.

What happens next?
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: pables on October 31, 2015, 12:26:52 PM
Fold imo it"s ace high and you love Stu  :-*
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: KarmaDope on November 01, 2015, 16:10:16 PM
I like a flat. You have position and a cold 4! this early kinda weights your range to AK and the big three. Your hand crushes most of Stu"s 3! range as well and a flat probably gets the local to call as he will have odds.
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 10, 2015, 12:51:48 PM
Some interesting opinions on the above hand, I will post my thoughts when I turn from Portugal if I am still alive.

Currently on my way to get a flight out as luck would have it it is the same one Ger is on, what could possibly go wrong? Then later we are meeting up with Stu and Matt and Phil, nope can"t see any potential issues here. Tomorrow sees the arrival of Curly and JP and Karen and Deb and Sue along with Benda and Ken. Yeah should be a nice quiet week by the looks. Stu, Matt and Phil are already in the pub, on this thread it is even money with a max bet of a tenner they all makt it through to our arrival in 8 hours.

Please post bets winnings to be paid at an APAT event.
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: Paulie_D on November 10, 2015, 15:51:50 PM

Some interesting opinions on the above hand, I will post my thoughts when I turn from Portugal if I am still alive.

Currently on my way to get a flight out as luck would have it it is the same one Ger is on, what could possibly go wrong? Then later we are meeting up with Stu and Matt and Phil, nope can"t see any potential issues here. Tomorrow sees the arrival of Curly and JP and Karen and Deb and Sue along with Benda and Ken. Yeah should be a nice quiet week by the looks. Stu, Matt and Phil are already in the pub, on this thread it is even money with a max bet of a tenner they all makt it through to our arrival in 8 hours.

Please post bets winnings to be paid at an APAT event.


Ahem!  You seem to have missed someone...
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: Fatcatstu on November 10, 2015, 18:34:17 PM

Some interesting opinions on the above hand, I will post my thoughts when I turn from Portugal if I am still alive.

Currently on my way to get a flight out as luck would have it it is the same one Ger is on, what could possibly go wrong? Then later we are meeting up with Stu and Matt and Phil, nope can"t see any potential issues here. Tomorrow sees the arrival of Curly and JP and Karen and Deb and Sue along with Benda and Ken. Yeah should be a nice quiet week by the looks. Stu, Matt and Phil are already in the pub, on this thread it is even money with a max bet of a tenner they all makt it through to our arrival in 8 hours.

Please post bets winnings to be paid at an APAT event.


10 please
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: Fatcatstu on November 10, 2015, 18:35:53 PM


Some interesting opinions on the above hand, I will post my thoughts when I turn from Portugal if I am still alive.

Currently on my way to get a flight out as luck would have it it is the same one Ger is on, what could possibly go wrong? Then later we are meeting up with Stu and Matt and Phil, nope can"t see any potential issues here. Tomorrow sees the arrival of Curly and JP and Karen and Deb and Sue along with Benda and Ken. Yeah should be a nice quiet week by the looks. Stu, Matt and Phil are already in the pub, on this thread it is even money with a max bet of a tenner they all makt it through to our arrival in 8 hours.

Please post bets winnings to be paid at an APAT event.


10 please


10 for Matty too.
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: Fatcatstu on November 10, 2015, 18:37:44 PM



Some interesting opinions on the above hand, I will post my thoughts when I turn from Portugal if I am still alive.

Currently on my way to get a flight out as luck would have it it is the same one Ger is on, what could possibly go wrong? Then later we are meeting up with Stu and Matt and Phil, nope can"t see any potential issues here. Tomorrow sees the arrival of Curly and JP and Karen and Deb and Sue along with Benda and Ken. Yeah should be a nice quiet week by the looks. Stu, Matt and Phil are already in the pub, on this thread it is even money with a max bet of a tenner they all makt it through to our arrival in 8 hours.

Please post bets winnings to be paid at an APAT event.


10 please


10 for Matty too.


And 10 for Phill too
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: Laxie on November 10, 2015, 18:52:15 PM




Some interesting opinions on the above hand, I will post my thoughts when I turn from Portugal if I am still alive.

Currently on my way to get a flight out as luck would have it it is the same one Ger is on, what could possibly go wrong? Then later we are meeting up with Stu and Matt and Phil, nope can"t see any potential issues here. Tomorrow sees the arrival of Curly and JP and Karen and Deb and Sue along with Benda and Ken. Yeah should be a nice quiet week by the looks. Stu, Matt and Phil are already in the pub, on this thread it is even money with a max bet of a tenner they all makt it through to our arrival in 8 hours.

Please post bets winnings to be paid at an APAT event.


10 please


10 for Matty too.


And 10 for Phill too


FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE MONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY!!!!  Put Jack and I down for a tenner each, k tnx.  ;D xx
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: karen on November 10, 2015, 19:01:53 PM
10 please
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: PantsMan on November 10, 2015, 19:30:32 PM
Cheers Rodders,

Tenner please.  ;D
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: LombBomb on November 10, 2015, 19:35:17 PM
10 please!
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: Fatcatstu on November 10, 2015, 19:47:12 PM
Update.

Myself, Matty and Phill both sat at the bar, Phill has switched to franjellico, I soon vodka redbull and Matty still on Malibu and milk.

Going strong. Get in on this while you can!!
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: Ant1966 on November 10, 2015, 20:08:30 PM
Ten english pounds for me too.
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: Fatcatstu on November 10, 2015, 20:12:33 PM

Ten english pounds for me too.


Oh rodders.
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: Fatcatstu on November 10, 2015, 20:42:37 PM


Ten english pounds for me too.


Oh rodders.


They land in 30 mins, in the bar in 1HR20. We are still sat at the bar fighting the good fight. We won"t let you down.

Hopefully
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: fandango on November 10, 2015, 22:40:13 PM
Go on then put me down for 10.. But give you a double or quits if another prop bet regarding Stu arises.
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 11, 2015, 11:34:44 AM
Just to confirm, I decided not to go to O Sheas last night, long journey and all was knackered. Stu left at about 1am before I ever got there, everybody loses, I will collect the cash at an APAT event soon.
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 12, 2015, 11:45:40 AM
So it seems we have survived Portugal to day two. Yesterday was a great day, we left our hotel and checked into the villa, we have a heated swimming pool, which I doubt many of us will use and a great games room.

Anyway yesterday myself, Ger, Stu, Matt, Phillip the Fryer,  Ger  jnr, , AsaKen, Brenda, Scott and Scott"s wife Lisa all went to a fine pub called Grogans. We all ordered food but Asa and Stu got the most win here with their Sausage and Mash, if we go back today I will be getting that. We ordered some cider and sat in the sun and the ciders just kept following for the next few hours. Eventually we all headed off to Osheas and drank a bit more cider and watched the darts. Met up with Curky, JP, Paulie and everybody else. We didn"t say very late though and ended up back at the villa in our games rooms playing pool. I think Asa came out of top but me and Ger were handicapped due to having drunk a few too many beers lol.

Stu has declared himself on top form today and ready to go for it. Villamoura has considered itself on notice.
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: mousebob on November 12, 2015, 19:25:55 PM
Grogans, cider, pool, darts & sausage & mash.
Are you sure you"re in Portugal??
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 16, 2015, 23:14:02 PM

Go on then put me down for 10.. But give you a double or quits if another prop bet regarding Stu arises.

Although strictly speaking after timing I have decided to allow this, I am sure Carl was in theory as unaware of the outcome as everybody else in this. Forgetting to close the bet before getting on the plane was an expensive mistake lol

Jack and Dawn, not sure how am going to pay you guys, guess you will have to come to Vegas next year to collect, as I said Newcastle / Luton for the rest of them or I will send on Stars (let me know if this is preferred) as I count it I owe a tenner to the following people

Stu
Matt
Phil
Jack
Dawn
Andy
Karen
Tom
Ant1966 (I don"t know who this is)
Carl

Let me know if I have missed anybody.
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: Fatcatstu on November 17, 2015, 02:56:19 AM
will take mine on stars mate :)
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: pokerpops on November 17, 2015, 06:25:33 AM
Stewards Enquiry needed here, and should be followed up with a dope test and an investigation by one of Dick Francis" heroes into the betting patterns here.

Stu definitely fails the dopey test.

Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 17, 2015, 09:33:44 AM

will take mine on stars mate :)


Shall I send Matty and Phils as well to you as I may not see them at poker events in the near future?
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: Fatcatstu on November 17, 2015, 10:36:34 AM
They both owe me a tenner for the taxi to the airport anyway, so yeah might as well!
Title: Re: Thread needs a new name
Post by: pokerpops on November 17, 2015, 22:58:48 PM


will take mine on stars mate :)


Shall I send Matty and Phils as well to you as I may not see them at poker events in the near future?


Are you not coming to Newcastle?
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 01, 2016, 14:59:51 PM
Clicked onto this topic and realised I still owe a number of people from that silly bet. I think the following people are unpaid but can pick ten new pounds at the following times:-

Jaxie - To be sorted in Vegas :-)

Tom - WCOAP

Karen - WCOAP

Carl - WCOAP

Ant1966 - I now know this is Anthony Williams but honestly can"t put a face to the name, are you at WCOAP?
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 01, 2016, 16:27:18 PM
Whenever I write about poker in this thread I start playing like a prize donkey (no change there). No matter for the month of March at least this blog is back from today (St David"s Day) to the end of WCOAP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TBid5bCS2Q

When I started this blog I thought I was pretty good at poker, I have now worked that this is not the case which at least should mean I am better than I was when I first posted here in 2011. PMSL I had just completed my first full year of playing APAT and was pretty convinced I was one if the best players in the community. I had won player of the year and two silver medals in my first year, I was also going to be captain of the APAT team in Bolton. I was hoping I could make this blog really interesting about playing online and live. Real life obviously got in the way which would have been disappointing back then but I am pretty happy about now. I still never really play live now as it bores me whenever I think it"s worth starting again I immediately stop enjoying it. Still much prefer playing online.

Since returning from Portugal in November, between online poker and matched betting I have easily covered my travel, accommodation, buyins and spending money for WCOAP and already have the travel and accommodation for Vegas in November covered. Now working on the spending money, that could take a while but, hey it"s Vegas.

So what is the point of this why the post. Well for the first time for ages I am really looking forward to a poker event. Now I do always look forward to APAT weekends but it is a lot more about the people and the social side than the poker. Recently though I have been enjoying the games a bit more, the fact I have been doing OK probably helps. I also really like the location of Stratford. I am sure those of us who are there will try out some of the establishments in the World Food Court and have a few pints in the pub. The casino is also excellent with constant cash games running so I will be trying those out (yeah I knows it"s live poker but WCOAP and all that). The whole point of going to Stratford though is to play poker cash games and tournaments not to get drunk at the bar or find the nearest decent pub. The WCOAP is just that bit different to any other event it has a "big game feel" and feels like a proper game. It will have an even greater feel if Leigh and the team are there doing the live streams.

So my Goal in March is one post a day to this thread in the lead up to the WCOAP just updating what I am doing online with a "hand of the day". I play almost exclusively $25 Six-Max Zoom and $4.50 180 MTT"s with some Sunday Deepstack games often thrown in. Then try and update it with some posts of interest from WCOAP.

So made a start today, played around 1000 hands and won $93. This is my highest volume day for a while, certainly since the start of the year. For your comic enjoyment here is how not to play PLO

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18117548_C04EC0D041

Right I am off to make some accumulators to try and drag some profit out of mid week football.
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: Chipaccrual on March 01, 2016, 17:43:54 PM
 ;D
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: Des on March 01, 2016, 18:35:57 PM

;D


Look at the grin on that....  ;)
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 02, 2016, 20:11:32 PM
Comments from Des and Leigh  :o I am extremely honoured

So I have got as far as day two on the blog. I think I was always a favourite to get this far, will I make it to the end of March? It is 10/11 that I will make it as far as the WCOAP but getting through doing updates each day will be the proper test.

Today was pretty normal by my standards. I went to work which was nice and had a pretty normal day. I am lucky enough to work for a great company with some absolutely amazing people who I really love working with have to be honest and say I am looking forward to getting my two weeks off in a few weeks.

So I came home and went through my usual routine and played some poker. The normal $25nl Zoom game, only about 200 hands which is a decent enough amount to play each day to ensure you are really sharp and on it for any upcoming event I tend to think. Here are some hands from spots I think I kind of interesting, not everybody will agree of course. I think these are the kind of spots where mistakes get made which can turn a potential winning player into a break-even / small losing player.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18134146_6B8713A9B4

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18134559_AFCEE80A99

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18134588_B517C7D4ED

Fairly standard spots but it this type of spot it is important to get right. I won $29.22 which was nicely ahead of EV.

So with the WCOAP less than 3 weeks away it seems my game is in OK shape and I will be playing well in Stratford. Gonna need to be better than OK though as the competition will be fierce. I am however going to risk going on record and predict who will win the WCOAP player of the series - it will be tough and I think players like John Murray and Brian Yates will do very well if they play the entire thing.  However my shout for the winner this year though - Chris Webber anybody else want to go on record and try and do better. Stay tuned for lots more predictions including my thoughts on who will final table the main event.

Last night I made up two matched Accumulators (One on Will Hill and one of BetVictor) and won the first leg of both. The two of them have a common third leg in Man Utd this evening. A Man Utd win would be useful as it would increase the winnings at the end. A profit is guaranteed but it is just a case of how much. I have also bet on Man City to beat Liverpool on Betsafe and laid this on Smarkets for a loss of £1.37. I will get a £10 risk free bet from that which will mean that profit on the game is ensured again it is just following the markets and trying to maximise it.

Song of the day, with a London theme, is as follows:-

[youtube=425,350]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmopSVOMSsU[/youtube]
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: pables on March 02, 2016, 23:04:14 PM
Keep it going Rodders
I just got match catcher btw  ;D
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: pables on March 02, 2016, 23:10:22 PM
10 10 hand ok
q q hand for sure if I have qs the 7 comes more likely heart  :D
aq nice value
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 03, 2016, 19:05:18 PM
Proper post is on it way but Adrian Lewis is 3.5 to beat Phil Taylor tonight on Betfair. I will be getting on that for sure, this will be the first of Rodder"s WCOAP tips.

Will be posting a full update shortly.
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 03, 2016, 19:37:29 PM
Not the best of first tips that haha. I think I might have to make Taylor second favourite for this at the moment him vs MVG in Glasgow will a one hell of a battle.

Day 3 of The Mission in March then and so far I have not veered off course. Let"s see how long that lasts *lol*. Firstly let me say thanks to Ian for the comments, I will discuss with you I am sure in Stratford.

It is Thursday Night and, as mentioned above, that means Premier League Darts at the moment, I do really enjoy this competition seeing the best players meeting each other every week. I find it hard to see past MVG to win the league portion but in the knockout anything can happen. Although MVG has won pretty much everything lately he has not exactly dominated the majors. Still expect Gary Anderson to do well if he gets into the top 4. Will check his odds at that point.

Played some poker tonight but did not play very well ending up about $13 down after 200 hands tbh should have been more down but got a bit lucky when I had AQ > KK AIPF for a pot of about $15 Vs a short stack. The Ace from space arrived on the river. Still happy enough with the game at the moment and expect to be competitive in Stratford, hopefully do a bit more than just that as well. The main aims are obvious firstly try and go top of the rankings for season nine. This will not be so easy as the man currently sat at the top is two time APAT Champion Brian Yates. I would make Brian a decent sized favourite due to his obvious edge over me in mixed games and his slight advantage in the points. Needless to say it is not a two horse race and other players are likely to come into play at some point. Jason Kemp and Don Roberts are two people I would say are in with a shot of making a comeback run at it. The second aim on the Championship is to try and extend my advantage in the all time rankings over the great John Murray, again a very tough ask.

Will be looking to keep up my volume in matched betting as well with an accumulator going on with Paddy Power later and hopefully Ladbrokes tomorrow as I do like to have 4/5 running at all times. Tonight I need Barcelona to win to continue to increase the profit margin on the ones I already have going. They are on my William Hill accumulator if they win I will be assured a profit of £10 on that one then need to wait for the weekend for the next legs.

Rodder"s song of the day is for everybody who is heading to the WCOAP and playing the main event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCy7lLQwToI

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCy7lLQwToI[/youtube]
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 04, 2016, 19:57:45 PM
OK this is getting to be a habit 4 days out of 4 in March with updates (I get a pass for the next two days as the forum is offline - yay). It is Friday night but I am sadly working on Saturday so won"t be able to go to the football however I am looking forward to the Newport County Vs Bristol Rovers derby game just a day before I travel to WCOAP. I could have had a ticket to see Swansea as well this week, I have not been to many games this year due to work, poker and things I have seen just 4 Newport County games (and one Swansea game).

Anyway I have played a few hands today and done OK being up about $80. Here are some fun hands.

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This is me on the right side of a 50/50 (although the the flop is played terribly by my opponent)

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18161855_8274469F4C


This is me getting pretty lucky

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18162144_599D0AAE4F


This is a very rare piece of footage - this is me playing a hand well (I am way ahead or way behind on the turn he is completely polarized)

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18162100_D49B6D9BB8

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Still generally happy with how I am playing at the moment still seem to be winning more than I lose (not sure how, the luckbox must be doing it"s job *lol*). I need to do a little work on my PLO game before going to Stratford I know. I did just realise that by this time in two weeks I will have completed work and will probably be making preparations for WCOAP. Tomorrow I will present the essential guide to spending a week away playing poker and how travelling away from home has changed from when I was kid. I have mentioned this before but this is definitely different to a standard APAT thinking about it I am thinking about the correct strategy for various tournaments. Normally when heading to an APAT weekend it is who is going what time is everybody gettingthere and is there a good pub to go too on the Friday night. Whilst I have no doubt we will do some of that stuff in Stratford this one is about poker first and foremost and is the only event I say that about.

Setup a matched Accumulator on Ladbrokes today so I now have 4 running ideal result in tonight"s game is a Middlesbrough win which would advance my position in two of them. EV of them all together at the moment is about £25 which is OK for a quick 15 minutes after work each day. Love matching accumulators it has a strategy all of its own knowing when to lay each leg off and know the EV of the situation at that time and setting them up to get the max bang from the insurance, it"s not as complex as poker but still holds a lot of interest for me. BTW if people don"t have a clue what I am on about in this section and want too ask me at some point when you see me :-)

A Song for today - this is one I often listen too before playing a day two at APAT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OvpzForHyU

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OvpzForHyU[/youtube]
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 05, 2016, 08:09:09 AM
Can"t do a proper update today due to forum being offline later so will give you this to ponder.

A very interesting spot Vs a reg in an early morning session, a tough spot. Against many players who 3-bet here the hand is an easy fold. Pretty sure my 4-bet gets enough folds to be profitable though against this specific player obviously never folding after making the 4-bet though if he has AK so be it.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18169124_2C05354F8D

Nicked about $20 from the game over 200 hands this morning
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 06, 2016, 11:53:17 AM
Maintaining my record of a post every day so far. I am so good at this *lol*. Smart money says I manage to get all the way at least as far as the 20th as working next weekend however I arrive in Stratford on 20th so anything could happen from there.

I was in work yesterday and somebody asked me if it was possible to get the big screens changed to show the darts. I did not even know the UK Open was on but today is the last day. I don"t think it is possible to bet against MVG but Taylor looks in great form at the moment. MVG is on another planet though and right now would almost certainly have beaten Taylor in his prime. My only doubt is that last season MVG won everything accept the Premier League and the Worlds. I think this year he needs to deliver in the big tournaments although I am sure he will. I was again not able to go to Newport to watch the game yesterday but Scott Boden delivered yet again for County as they beat a good Wycombe side, should be pretty much safe now. If we can maintain our current squad through the summer and add a few I honestly think we could push for the play offs next season.

Two weeks today I will be travelling by train to the WCOAP. I leave Swansea at 8:30am and arrive in London at 12:36, long journey due to the engineering works.

Travelling in 2016 is very different to how it was a few years ago and the things you take away have changed a lot. I remember going to Scotland to watch a rugby international in I think 1999. We went by coach to London and then flew to Edinburgh, I took a book with me to pass the time on the journey and we took some cards too. We did have mobile phones at that point (not all of us but some of us) however all we could do was phone and text so had to make plans for meeting up and where we were going to be ect. These day I will be travelling to WCOAP with an iPhone that has a data connection that runs faster than anything that was available at home in 1999. We certainly did not have internet connections on the move. I will take my iPad and Laptop, the ipad is for use on the journey and at the casino to keep in touch with the rest of the world and find out what is going on and where everybody is. The laptop is for playing online poker/betting. I will also take a Chromecast to connect to the TV so I can watch things like Netflix. I also have full access to Sky Sports and various TV shows on my Laptop if needed. Facebook will make it easy to stay in touch with the rest of the world so everybody will know how to event is going. This has all changed completely in under 20 years, I do wonder what will happen in the next 20 years.

Poker Update - Here are some hands I have played today


http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18182115_AD6F64FAD9

This is a play that I can"t decide is it is profitable or not, raising the donk bet. I am currently having a lot of success with it but has previously stopped using it entirely due to it working so rarely. A close one.


http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18182183_B5FDD6A214

Always nice to be on the right side of a cooler but he really causes this problem himself by calling the 3-bet pre. I like how I play this hand and never go broke in his seat.


http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18182199_732C56A6D9

This is quite a straightforward fold unless you have a really good reason to call. However I have seen a lot of people want to get it in here for all sorts of reasons, his line is so strong though that one pair is just not good here. I really like the fold. There are some arguements that can be made for calling (or shoving) I don"t think they are good ones though.


http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18182158_2AB61923EC

Looking at this one I again like my play but wonder if I should be more on the river, pretty sure I should, I had him on the Jack tbh but if he is calling $3 he is probably calling $5 as well, over-betting might have been the best way to go on the river here.


http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18182209_2E5BEAA2DF

Again I like how I play this one. Once the set hits I need to follow the best line to get the money all in. I think the call is OK against his entire range on the flop and the shove on the turn is good as it forces draws to call me and there are a lot of scare cards on the river which results in me not getting paid.


Profit this morning was about $45 over 300 hands.

My Matched Accumulators are looking good. I had a losing leg on my Bet Victor one yesterday (Chelsea) so the EV on that one is going to be +£5 about. Today the first game I want to win is Feyenoord (also need Barcelona to win on my William Hill) at 3:45 today after that I need a Napoli win (although their odds drifting has reduced profit a little). It will be a good profit either way. Will see how much I am up on Accumulators and general betting later today. Has certainly been a good week though.

Will probably play a few more hands later and might jump in a few tournaments this evening whilst watching the darts.

Song for the day is one with a Welsh theme and is aimed at the team event at the WCOAP, although I won"t be playing for Wales I will definitely be supporting them, if they don"t win hopefully one of the other home nations do. The England team will take some beating imo.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRtnWVvDX6k[/youtube]
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 07, 2016, 20:16:51 PM
Well I have single figures working days until WCOAP now. Considering taking a break for a week from playing next week to go in fresh which I think may be a good idea. In work today we were discussing who will win the Premier League this season and with 9 games to go I have almost no idea. I think I would pick Tottenham if forced but would love to see Leicester win it, would it be the biggest upset of our life times? I suspect it would given they were 5000/1 at the start of the season. I wonder what they were to make Champions League as that may well be up there as well.

Played a very boring session of poker today, was down by £14. This is the only interesting hand I play it poorly as the river bet is awful (fine up till that point). I rep nothing and he always has something and is almost always going to call based on how the hand has gone.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18204678_AEC26D28AF

So WCOAP prediction time. This is where I try to pick the final table, nine names, how many will I get right? Anybody fancy posting their shot at it? Today"s prediction is quite a simple one and likely to be the most tipped person of all the reg"s to run deep and possibly final. He is without a doubt one of the best players of all the apat regulars and in my opinion the very best by a reasonable distance. The only player I definitely feel out-classed by when he is at my table (there are plenty is is a good battle with but only one I don"t feel I have a realistic chance against long term). This guy can read the game better than anybody, I once spent a whole day playing on his table and we played several hands together, every time I didn"t have it he called (or raised) every time I did have it he folded. I still made the final table of that event but he went on to win and and then won the next one as well. He is a 4 time final tabler and a two time APAT Champion. My first prediction for the final table of the main event in Stratford is the Captain of Team Wales - Warren Jones.

Away from poker I completed two of my matched accumulators making £18 from my William Hill one and £5 from my Ladbrokes one. I messed up the Paddy Power and Bet Victor ones by including a game from next week (Barcelona Vs Arsenal) but that is OK it will just delay it a bit, I can still setup a new William Hill and they allow larger bets anyway on the insurance. Bet365 are doing a £50 Free Bet offer on Wednesday so expecting to make about £30 off that as well. Will also convert some other free bets I have this week. Love matched betting. Not because it makes much money (it does not really) but the fact you have to pick your games and figure out which games are not likely to drift too much on the exchanges I find it very enjoyable.

Here is today"s song. Just because I like it at the moment, no other reason

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISvTjW0NrJY[/youtube]
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: s4ooter on March 08, 2016, 12:44:50 PM
Main is a minefield so VBOL with predictions on that!

Would rather see some 8game predictions, that"s the true test! It"s the APAT version of the Chip Reese comp!!

I think that is the bracelet the hardcore wanna win!!
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AMRN on March 08, 2016, 12:53:24 PM

Main is a minefield so VBOL with predictions on that!

Would rather see some 8game predictions, that"s the true test! It"s the APAT version of the Chip Reese comp!!

I think that is the bracelet the hardcore wanna win!!


Definitely agree, and I love the fact that it is priced at the same level as the Main, and ahead of some other sides. I had a choice of which weekend to play, and it was tough to avoid the Main and PLO events, but couldn"t miss the chance for a Mixed Game event like this.


@Rodders - loving reading your daily updates.... keep it going mate.
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 08, 2016, 19:44:03 PM
It is a great honour to see posts from more legends of APAT. I have to agree Dann and Steve here, although the 8 game is not something I am that bothered about playing (I am just a holdem fish you know) I think it has been very well recieved and in general people seem to be well up for playing it so vwp to APAT on that one of course. Think it will attract some new players as well which can only be good. I have mixed thoughts about it being the same price as the main event, it gives it prestige for sure but may make it less likely some people will play. Either way love the concept.

I am not entirely sure who is playing it and who is not but here are some predictions for the final table just for Dann.

Carl Pilgirm, Steve Redfern, Matt Carter and John MUrray

I think the range of games is excellent and consider myself lucky to be able to go to the whole event (near enough).

So anyway in honour of Dann and Steve I switched the game to PLO today, somehow ended up ahead £43.49 from around 200 hands. This hand helped


http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18217815_6F3F53BF85

Personally I think he should be the flop here. Just to say I am a LOT less confident of my reads on this game than the NLHE version. If he raises the flop it is quite hard, probably a fold if he raises the turn.


http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18217745_B4E7C00D3B

Maybe I miss a bet on the river here but I don"t think so, not sure what I should do if he pots the irver, probably fold.


Won a big hand 3 handed which I lost where I get it in on the flop with a massive draw Vs two made hands and win. Luckboxing FTW.

Placed a £5 Free Bet on 2-1 to Real Madrod tonight, looking to Lay for some in play profit (will try and lay after the first goal as I expect there to be a few. Also done a price boost on Middlesboro, Real and Woldburg, laid on Betfair to make risk free but will make about £13 if it comes in. New accumulators go on tomorrow.

Tomorrow find out my thoughts on the New F1 season which starts the weekedn after next. Right off to watchthe football now.

A Topical Video on You Tube many of you will enjoy

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py-0RvwPgKY[/youtube]


Main is a minefield so VBOL with predictions on that!

Would rather see some 8game predictions, that"s the true test! It"s the APAT version of the Chip Reese comp!!

I think that is the bracelet the hardcore wanna win!!

imo that is the cash Championship
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: Sugar_Free on March 09, 2016, 11:46:45 AM

Carl Pilgirm, Steve Redfern, Matt Carter and John MUrray


Save your money Rodders!! It"s the same day as my birthday party, I"ve tried to get out of it but SWMBO is having none of it.
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: s4ooter on March 09, 2016, 12:34:42 PM
Think the cash champs has lost some appeal. I know that Chris, Simon, Dwayne and I are all playing 8G over cash now.

Gonna be fun!!
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 09, 2016, 17:55:25 PM

Think the cash champs has lost some appeal. I know that Chris, Simon, Dwayne and I are all playing 8G over cash now.

Gonna be fun!!

It is in the wrong place (although I entirely understand why it is there. I will just pick all of you for the final table of the 8 game, I have to hit somebody from that list surely? Who are your shouts? Are you all there for the entire festival?
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 09, 2016, 17:58:36 PM


Carl Pilgirm, Steve Redfern, Matt Carter and John MUrray


Save your money Rodders!! It"s the same day as my birthday party, I"ve tried to get out of it but SWMBO is having none of it.


Fair play Matt, Night on the beer FTW it is then. No doubt we will see you later in the festival.

Well it is now ten more sleeps until the WCOAP begins. Right now it is almost certainly the thing I am looking forward to the second most of 2016. Although if I do the IPO in Dublin that could rival it.

As some people my know I am a big fan of Formula One and the new season starts on the same day as the WCOAP (qualifying session at least). Testing is complete and Mercedes, as expected, remain the benchmark it. Sadly McHonda still seem a long way away, expect this season to be Jenson Buttons last. Hopefully Alonso will go on for a few more seasons and have the chance to gain some success with the team. Red Bull look nowhere but Torro Rosso look half decent, we will see if they remain there throughout the season. I see a decent battle between Toro Rosso, Williams and maybe Force Inida behind Merecedes and Ferarri. I expect Hamilton to win the title unless Ferrari are much better than expected as even if they are on par I would expect Hamilton to get the better of Vettel. Rosberg could be involved if he makes a good start which may advantage Vettel as Merc could have two drivers fighting for the title against only one from Ferrari. My top three are 1) Hamilton 1) Rosberg 3) Vettel (not really ground breaking)

Did a very decent session of Poker today 1000 hands (was off work due to being in this weekend). Pleased with my session today, I won $122 and played well most of the time, one or two hands that could have been better but that is always the case. Right now I am running really good but really happy with my form going into the WCOAP over $1000 up already this year on the Stars Hydra ($25 6-max) Zoom after today in what is a pretty tough game. This suggests my basic play is good and looking back through I am playing the main reg"s well if I maintain this level through the WCOAP I have a chance of over taking Brian in the POTY race, gonna be really hard but have a chance. Here are a good few hands form today. By the way Friday will be the last poker update as my game is where I need it and will be taking a break before Stratford to be on top form before the start.


This is a stange hand and is all about the King hitting the turn that is what makes the triple barrell possible after he checks to me 3 times

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18225878_B102BB5AD4


This next hand might well not be played perfectly but when he raise a draw heavy flop I know his range is largely draws

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18225887_D55735FB3D


It"s easy to miss a value bet on the river in this hand but he has a pair that he is calling with too often to do that

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18225907_D360227029


Bit of a mis-step here but BvB is a strange dynamic. OOP I should not call the small 3-bet though reverse implied odds are too big

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18226072_CFB5FE8D48


Hard one to read this one, after he bet the turn the river does not help him and he should check most hands, he CAN have a monster but would expect bigger bets.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18226364_2111F339BD


This is a mistake, not sure what I am doing preflop here, he was quite a tight player but don"t have the odds for that call. Not a hand to be pleased with.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18226398_4BD2333B47


Really like my play here though against a super aggro

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18227353_34FFFD115F


Need to remember to make these folds, they are very easy by now tbh.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18229427_C61FF248CA


Getting full value from AA here. I have my opponent marked as a good player so not sure what he is doing here.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18229353_47A69F2347


So there you have it, not perfect but confident of being able to out perform most people in this game.

Time to pick the second final tablist in the main event then. This man is an APAT LEGEND. A great poker player and one of the most respected men on the APAT tour as both a poker player and general APAT guy. He is active on the forum and is reliable for sharing any APAT updates on Facebook. He is also somebody who will always try to make new comers to APAT welcome, and somebody who a lot of us could learn something from in this way. Although he is more of an Omaha player than a Holdem player this has not stopped him winning two live golds and WCOAP Bracelet and most impressively top the APAT money list. The Season 6 UK and Eorpean Champion and my second selection for the final table at the 2016 WCOAP, the man himself, Mr. Carl Pilgrim

To be honest the first two obviously pick themselves, its gets harder after this. Today"s song is partly aimed at the first two selections and what winning this event could mean to them.

For all you people who have Bet365 accounts they are doing a £50 free Bet on the Chelsea game tonight, you have to bet £50 pre match to get a risk free in play £50 Bet. I will be completing it as a matched bet so will make about £30 off this offer. This will put me just over £100 up on Matched betting this month, should be more but locked money up for a week due to getting the last leg of two accumulators wrong. Will have to wait until Friday to create new accumulators though nothing worth doing at the moment.

Song for the day is one for everybody travelling to the WCOAP and what this event can mean

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jukv9Q1eR2g[/youtube]
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: s4ooter on March 10, 2016, 12:59:28 PM
Hard to say when it comes to the 8game, but there are some that are well versed, and others that pick up the games so naturally.

Dave H would have been my first pick but he isn"t at the worlds, and as you said JM and SR are deffo well versed in all games.

I would be disappointed to not see at least 1 representative of Team Gotham to be there, that being said it"ll probably be Webber!!!
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AMRN on March 10, 2016, 13:46:19 PM
I"ve seen Dann crush mixed games.... def my pick for FT.
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: s4ooter on March 10, 2016, 14:00:54 PM

I"ve seen Dann crush mixed games.... def my pick for FT.


Still sore?!
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AMRN on March 10, 2016, 20:46:08 PM


I"ve seen Dann crush mixed games.... def my pick for FT.


Still sore?!


Haha - those mixed game battles in your ITM league were awesome.
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: s4ooter on March 11, 2016, 11:42:16 AM
They were indeed.....now i just wish the WCOAP had a 27TD and 5CD single events!!!
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: fandango on March 11, 2016, 20:51:10 PM
Just picked up on this thread...

Thanks Rodders for the lovely words, esp from the GOAT himself.

Im really looking forward to 8 game has some of my fav games, Stud, PLO8, Stud h/l and PLO.. mixed with my weakest RAZZ!..

Predictions for possible ME FT..

Tristan Chaplin.. former Champ and a helluva of player

Warren obv..

The GOAT himself feels at home on the 2nd day

Chris Webber.. always runs deep


8 game possibles..

John M

Mark Lassman

Steve Redfern

Dann as he will moan his way there x

Looking forward to more predictions and looking forward even more meeting you all for what will be a superb festival

Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: PokerRoyalFlush9 on March 11, 2016, 21:04:24 PM

Just picked up on this thread...

Thanks Rodders for the lovely words, esp from the GOAT himself.

Im really looking forward to 8 game has some of my fav games, Stud, PLO8, Stud h/l and PLO.. mixed with my weakest RAZZ!..

Predictions for possible ME FT..

Tristan Chaplin.. former Champ and a helluva of player

Warren obv..

The GOAT himself feels at home on the 2nd day

Chris Webber.. always runs deep


8 game possibles..

John M

Mark Lassman

Steve Redfern

Dann as he will moan his way there x

Looking forward to more predictions and looking forward even more meeting you all for what will be a superb festival




Not sure Mark is playing the 8 game unless he is making the trip down on the weekend before - we are down from 23rd - 28th

Plus I think he doesn"t know 2-7 trip draw
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: CW86 on March 11, 2016, 21:46:22 PM
Fancy my chances in the 8 game more than the main...interesting to see how many runners it gets
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: PokerRoyalFlush9 on March 11, 2016, 21:49:14 PM

Fancy my chances in the 8 game more than the main...interesting to see how many runners it gets


i say it gets 134 runners
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: CW86 on March 11, 2016, 21:56:58 PM


Fancy my chances in the 8 game more than the main...interesting to see how many runners it gets


i say it gets 134 runners


Il take the under for a pint
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: fandango on March 11, 2016, 21:59:35 PM

Fancy my chances in the 8 game more than the main...interesting to see how many runners it gets


We are all doomed then!
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 12, 2016, 07:33:42 AM
Sorry for the lack of updates for the last couple of days will sort later had a chest infection but seems much better now.
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AMRN on March 12, 2016, 09:29:30 AM

Fancy my chances in the 8 game more than the main...interesting to see how many runners it gets


I"ll be surprised if it fills 4 tables, which would be a shame.
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: Des on March 12, 2016, 10:58:52 AM


Fancy my chances in the 8 game more than the main...interesting to see how many runners it gets


I"ll be surprised if it fills 4 tables, which would be a shame.


I think that would be great, actually.  Firstly, very few players would have the confidence to take on an 8 game live and secondly, it should guarantee a high quality field with a sensible pace to it.
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: PokerRoyalFlush9 on March 12, 2016, 11:13:01 AM



Fancy my chances in the 8 game more than the main...interesting to see how many runners it gets


i say it gets 134 runners


Il take the under for a pint


Sure but only if you coach me to crush it Webber style ....
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: s4ooter on March 12, 2016, 12:01:31 PM



Fancy my chances in the 8 game more than the main...interesting to see how many runners it gets


I"ll be surprised if it fills 4 tables, which would be a shame.


I think that would be great, actually.  Firstly, very few players would have the confidence to take on an 8 game live and secondly, it should guarantee a high quality field with a sensible pace to it.


This should be the toughest bracelet to win imo
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AMRN on March 12, 2016, 16:01:20 PM


This should be the toughest bracelet to win imo


^^This.  Nowhere to hide, and luck will be far less of a factor than the rest of the events.... super-tough event to play, and even tougher to win it.   Looking forward to this more than anything I"ve played for a long time. Not sure I fancy my chances in a tiny field though - too many top notch mixed game players.... not gonna be much dead money, other than my stack of course.
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: CW86 on March 12, 2016, 16:04:06 PM
Agreed, gonna be my highlight too. Going to be interested seeing players come alive in certain games and go dark in others...
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: s4ooter on March 12, 2016, 16:20:31 PM
No one is gonna play NLH vs Chris
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: CW86 on March 12, 2016, 16:47:00 PM

No one is gonna play NLH vs Chris


Lol, everyone will play nlh! cant wait for the 2-7 and Omaha variants in particular
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AMRN on March 12, 2016, 16:51:27 PM


No one is gonna play NLH vs Chris


Lol, everyone will play nlh! cant wait for the 2-7 and Omaha variants in particular


think you might be surprised.... can"t imagine anyone"s gonna fancy grinding 6 levels of limit to just lose the lot in a one hand cooler playing NLHE or PLO.    2-7 and Razz for me, but O8 is a great game.
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 12, 2016, 18:39:48 PM
Oh can I post something in this thread :-)

OK firstly thanks for all the responses in the thread and the opinions on the upcoming WCOAP keep them coming and don"t forget this time next week it will all have kicked off and that 8 game will be underway. I will be watching the local derby Newport County Vs Bristol Rovers but will be following the action on my phone for sure. I will the be coming to Statford on Sunday and very likely railing the final table of this event. Was in work today but County won 3-0 away to Portsmouth which is a great result for us against a team chasing automatic promotion. Should now be well safe from the drop 13 points clear with 9 games to go. I will be a bit sad if York drop though as I like them, met some of their fans at the FA Trophy final 2012 and they were a good bunch.

Have not played poker or done any betting at all over the last couple of days as was feeling a bit ill but seem to be most of the way to being back to normal now. Still will be taking a break from poker until the WCOAP now the excitment is certainly going to start to build up this week. Hope to get some hands from the WCOAP in this thread.

Anyway let"s get on with mail event final table predictions:-

This man is one of APAT's best without any question. When you look at the list of people running deep in an event you are never surprised to see this man"s name right up there. He has done well at APAT events in general but the WCOAP is like home advantage for him, he is a two time bracelet winner and multiple medalist. One to the many stars of the great Team Gotham my third pick for the main event final table is Chris Webber. So we have three of our finalists.

Here is a song for today (not sure why I can"t embed these right I have tried but just get a big blank space). This is not a WCOAP song but a song for the Friday night of your average APAT weekend. Or any night where Ger Smyth is present.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqBNw4WSBQU[/youtube]
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: pables on March 12, 2016, 21:30:08 PM
Love that track  :)
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AMRN on March 12, 2016, 22:09:39 PM
All Steve needs to do now is learn how to post youtube clips in his thread properly ;)
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: Chipaccrual on March 13, 2016, 07:18:30 AM

All Steve needs to do now is learn how to post youtube clips in his thread properly ;)


I"m editing as it goes ;)
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: Des on March 13, 2016, 11:15:40 AM
Really looking forward to seeing how Paresh Doshi does this WCOAP.  I have it on good authority he"s planning a big schedule, starting with the 8 Game in.....less than a week!

Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: CW86 on March 13, 2016, 13:02:34 PM

Really looking forward to seeing how Paresh Doshi does this WCOAP.  I have it on good authority he"s planning a big schedule, starting with the 8 Game in.....less than a week!




I think the smart money will certainly be on him being a front runner for player of the series...
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 13, 2016, 19:03:46 PM
This time next week I will have arrived in Stratford. My plans for the day remain pretty uncertain with a online session probably the favourite although I will certainly head to the casino to say hello to everybody first at least. I expect to arrive at around 2pm so will have a few hours before having to sit down to play online if that is what I do.

Facebook is full of posts about some game that involves running around chasing an egg. It looks like England won something but nobody really cares. I should know what it is called, but just can"t remember. I am pretty sure we watched it in Wales before we started playing proper sport. Speaking of which, in news that people seemed to care much more Man Utd and West Ham drew 1-1 in the FA Cup. It would be awesome to see West Ham win the FA Cup and nick 4th place off Man City or Arsenal just to complete a totally weird season. The standard of the current Premier League must be disappointing. Tottenham seem to be a team likely to win it this season to me but were easily beaten by the second best side in Germany in Dortmund. Dortmund are good but I would expect them to have a hard time against teams like Athletico Madrid, Real Madrid and PSG. They would have a decent chance but the games would be very competitive, you could probably just about fit Bayern Munich into that little group too although tbh they would very clearly be the strongest. Thing is at the moment none of the teams in the premiership fit in this group which can"t really be acceptable.

Back to the old betting business, after messing up last weeks accumulator bets I completed one yesterday which cost me £7.19 and generated me a free bet of £25, good result that. Now I just need to lay Barcelona against Arsenal, not doing it yet though as the current price of 1.25 should come in. I can then get back to setting stuff up as I have missed doing it on the weekend due to being not too good. Cheltenham offers a massive chance to make decent money with price boosts and free bet offers but I am in work due to being off for the next two weeks after next week so won"t be jumping onto as much as I would ideally like. Will update as I go.

Picking finalist for the main is now getting harder and harder. Fight your way through the field all the way to the final of the main event is one tough task, it is not just another APAT, and my next pick is somebody who is well aware of what it takes to do just that. He is a guy who has cashed at 7 apat events including multiple WCOAP cashes. His game is unconventional and he mixes it with entertaining but smart table talk making him a tough opponent. He was involved in one of the toughest battles I can remember at a poker table in a four way fight at the final table of the WCOAP 2010. He may have bubbled the medals on that day but that was not the last we saw of him. Indeed he was at the final table of the last apat event in Luton with a 6th place finish. Accompanied by his trusted sidekick The Penguin who always takes care of his chips when they go in he is my fourth pick for the Final table - Mark Lassman.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztypys1wF40[/youtube]
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 15, 2016, 18:36:17 PM
There are less than 100 hours until the WCOAP begins

The opinions in this thread are indicating that people are liking the mixed game at the start of the WCOAP. I would be interested in hearing if anybody has a different opinion on this one. I think, in one way, a two day event is not required for a game that is likely to attract less than 40 players. I am more playing Devils advocate here (Devils advocate - that phrase makes no sense) but I think there is an argument that a one day event would have attracted more people to the mixed game and not taken anything away from it. I am also inclined to say that a £55 or £82.50 entrance would have been fine. I may well have flicked in £55 and spent a day playing it. On Saturday I am going to watch the football but if the opening event had been a two day PLO I would have at least considered going to Stratford instead. Would APAT have benefited more from a large 6-max NLHE event given that passing trade for this game is very unlikely. The people playing it will argue that is a good thing but would a bigger event not have been better for APAT?

Onto the main event, I still need to pick FIVE final tablers and I still don"t know who they all are. My next player is an APATer in every way. He can be seen out and about on almost every APAT weekend usually with a pint of cider in hand. He has cashed 8 times at APAT events with 3 final tables to his name, a Glasgow Rangers fan and Captain of Team Scotland it is Tom Clark.

A new game

To celebrate the WCOAP today is the start of my new game - guess the apater. The first person to correctly guess the apater wins $10 on Stars at the start of the WCOAP. Basically post your guess (only your first guess will count). Anyway here is the first clue. After today there will be two tomorrow, two on Thursday and two on Friday.

This apater has won an APAT gold medal.
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: Chipaccrual on March 15, 2016, 18:50:59 PM
Kinboshi :)
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: MintTrav on March 15, 2016, 22:20:59 PM
Steve Roderick
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: PokerRoyalFlush9 on March 16, 2016, 06:37:19 AM
J P round
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 16, 2016, 06:41:28 AM
Clue number two

This apater is an England International
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: s4ooter on March 16, 2016, 08:03:26 AM
Me
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: dwh103 on March 16, 2016, 09:26:18 AM
The Don (Roberts, obv)
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: s4ooter on March 16, 2016, 09:28:00 AM
(http://media.insidepulse.com/zones/insidepulse/uploads/2011/03/Michael-Gough-Batman-Alfred.jpg)

The Don (Roberts, obv)
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: Des on March 16, 2016, 14:02:59 PM

There are less than 100 hours until the WCOAP begins

The opinions in this thread are indicating that people are liking the mixed game at the start of the WCOAP. I would be interested in hearing if anybody has a different opinion on this one. I think, in one way, a two day event is not required for a game that is likely to attract less than 40 players. I am more playing Devils advocate here (Devils advocate - that phrase makes no sense) but I think there is an argument that a one day event would have attracted more people to the mixed game and not taken anything away from it. I am also inclined to say that a £55 or £82.50 entrance would have been fine. I may well have flicked in £55 and spent a day playing it. On Saturday I am going to watch the football but if the opening event had been a two day PLO I would have at least considered going to Stratford instead. Would APAT have benefited more from a large 6-max NLHE event given that passing trade for this game is very unlikely. The people playing it will argue that is a good thing but would a bigger event not have been better for APAT?

Onto the main event, I still need to pick FIVE final tablers and I still don"t know who they all are. My next player is an APATer in every way. He can be seen out and about on almost every APAT weekend usually with a pint of cider in hand. He has cashed 8 times at APAT events with 3 final tables to his name, a Glasgow Rangers fan and Captain of Team Scotland it is Tom Clark.

A new game

To celebrate the WCOAP today is the start of my new game - guess the apater. The first person to correctly guess the apater wins $10 on Stars at the start of the WCOAP. Basically post your guess (only your first guess will count). Anyway here is the first clue. After today there will be two tomorrow, two on Thursday and two on Friday.

This apater has won an APAT gold medal.


Very interesting on the scheduling.  We do open on the Saturday with a one day NLHE side, with the 8 game starting a couple of hours later - but as always, we"ll learn from the event and take it from there.

Contrary from this, I dream that we might keep the same schedule for the 2017 WCOAP, so that we can effectively sign everything off quickly and put all of the details up on the site nine months before the event starts.  It"ll never happen.
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: fandango on March 17, 2016, 14:01:02 PM
Stuart Ward
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: Fatcatstu on March 17, 2016, 18:57:50 PM
me!
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: fandango on March 17, 2016, 22:02:24 PM

me!


Or Asa? Or Steve? Tony has a bronze in stud.. And I guess we carried him to a gold in the Team event?
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 18, 2016, 06:24:17 AM
So busy getting everything wrapped up in work for my TWO WEEKS OFF LOL I missed some clues. Nobody has guesse correctly yet

Here is another one

This player made his first national final table in season 3
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: PokerRoyalFlush9 on March 18, 2016, 07:37:32 AM

So busy getting everything wrapped up in work for my TWO WEEKS OFF LOL I missed some clues. Nobody has guesse correctly yet

Here is another one

This player made his first national final table in season 3


Matt Carter
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AMRN on March 18, 2016, 09:23:19 AM
Brian Martin
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: Sugar_Free on March 18, 2016, 09:25:03 AM
Paulie
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: KarmaDope on March 18, 2016, 11:45:11 AM
Tod Wood.
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 18, 2016, 16:38:07 PM
How has nobody got it yet?

This APATer drinks Guniness, a lot of Guniness.
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: fandango on March 18, 2016, 16:45:46 PM

How has nobody got it yet?

This APATer drinks Guniness, a lot of Guniness.


Phil TC?
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: PokerRoyalFlush9 on March 18, 2016, 17:47:45 PM

How has nobody got it yet?

This APATer drinks Guniness, a lot of Guniness.
. But can he fall off a chair and have a pint in his hand and not spill a drop....
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: MintTrav on March 18, 2016, 19:24:32 PM
I"ve got it!

It"s the man who leads others to exciting poker destinations like Vegas, Portugal, Dublin and Luton.

Richard Baker.

My go now?

Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 19, 2016, 00:25:08 AM

I"ve got it!

It"s the man who leads others to exciting poker destinations like Vegas, Portugal, Dublin and Luton.

Richard Baker.

My go now?



Richard Baker is the correct answer.

Richard has represented England at WCOAP and has won Online and Team gold medals. His first APAT final table was Luton in Season 3. John wins $10 run good monies that will be delivered on Pokerstars.
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 20, 2016, 10:08:51 AM
On the train on my way to WCOAP not that impressed though my seat USB ports don"t work and the useless train staff tried to tell me I am not allowed to move to a very unreserved seat which had ones that did work.

Anyway let"s get this championship under way. Not going to be playing in it today but will get over to catch some of the mixed game final table. I think APAT can consider the mixed game a great success and am guessing that the event has been very well received with a far better field than I was expecting.

Went to the football yesterday, County were one up after two minutes but went on to lose 4-1, hopefully that is my run bad for the week over lol.

Will most likely be playing online tonight after getting to the hotel and getting everything setup, unless anybody in Stratford wants to grab a beer or some food of course in which case might decide to do that, do have a midday start tomorrow though so playing online might be the way to go.

Might just play a few hands of cash whilst on my way to sharpen the old game back up preparation has been good, confidence is high.
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 21, 2016, 10:47:32 AM
Welcome to London Stratford :-)

This is the first post from the WCOAP. Got here yesterday and quickly said hello to everybody but decided to play online rather than at the casno following a long journey. I did not trouble the scorers put it that way lol.

Great start to WCOAP for lots of the regs. Ady taking down the 8-Game, with Dai coming third, is a great result and The Mix-Max result woth Tom, Simon and Dawn winning the medals is awesome news. However it"s time to start this challenge for the bracelet. I am pre regged for the Turbo today but am tempted to change to antes only as it means if I am out I can play the OFC due to the earlier start time.

Played a little bit of online cash this morning which did not go so well:-

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18399954_6972010E57

Lost a buyin on the above hand, don"t think there is much I can do there. Also a hand I did not save saw me 3-barrell is a spot that might have been OK, but might not have been. Lost a buyin as he backdoored a flush to call my river shove, don"t think he could have called had he not hit the flush so again might have been OK.

I was down about $35 which is not too terrible considering those two hands are where I lost it really.

Good luck to everybody playing in the WCOAP this week and I will try and keep updates coming although signal is not that great at the casino. I will be heading over at about 11am - really looking forward to getting this underway.


[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lotkzHsIuoA[/youtube]
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 21, 2016, 16:54:46 PM
Report for today, played like an idiot. Failure to improve over the next couple of days could lead to an early end to this festival as I am certainly not here to make the numbers up and playing like that it is all I am going to be doing.

Hopefully will be on much better form tomorrow as cannot justify playing that badly again.
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: pokerpops on March 22, 2016, 10:09:59 AM

Report for today, played like an idiot. Failure to improve over the next couple of days could lead to an early end to this festival as I am certainly not here to make the numbers up and playing like that it is all I am going to be doing.

Hopefully will be on much better form tomorrow as cannot justify playing that badly again.



I know that feeling, not so much from poker, but from golf. A trip having been organised to somewhere a little special, the days leading up to the event are full of anticipation and then, a missed putt or a sliced tee shot just destroys the day. In poker I guess it can show itself as a run of unplayable cards, a touch of being outdrawn, seeing other people make massive hands and get paid, even the least tilt inclined can slip over the edge.

Relax, exude patience and enjoy the atmosphere and company Steve.
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 22, 2016, 11:27:06 AM
Cheers  David, very well said, wise words, the weather here is good enough for golf at the moment  :). Hopefully will do a lot better today but like I said yesterday really do need to up the game a lot on yesterday. I was not playing very well to start with but did make a set against two pair which got me a  decent stack. I then basically kept my stack level for a few hours then got a hand with KK which was just weird. I play the hand OK and he tries to bluff raise me on the river. I had no idea how he could have anything so called even though there was a flush out I just could not see how he could have it. He turns over a bluff and I then go to muck my hand as for some reason I see a flush. I realize before mucking my hand and turn it over. The dealer awards the pot to the other player, floor gets called and I win the pot. There are no complaints from anybody but for some reason it annoys me more than it should. I am up to 35K and get dealt JJ. There is a raise and a call so I make a really badly sized 3-bet and end up getting 25K in preflop against QQ. Overall just terrible. I got out when I make a reshove with J9 and am called by KK. Overall cards wise I easily ran well enough to make the final. Chris Webber took it down I watched a bit of the final table and he did deserve it. Three individual bracelets is pretty impressive in anybody"s terms.

Went of the TGI after the game and had a really good meal. Warren recommended some really nice milkshakes. That is one of the best things about this location is the great food and drink places so close to the venue.

So today is a brand new day of course will soon be time to head over to the casino for a 2pm start to the ROE game. Feel pretty good and no reason why I can"t play well in this game today. Just need to try and get my mental game in the right place.

Did play a little bit online this morning 500 Hands of $25nl Cash. This is a hand I find quite interesting as I was unsure what to do on the turn

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18413623_1E60E281C6

I do have position in this hand and when he raises the turn I am obviously miles ahead of his range. If he does have the ace I might have convinced him to make a hero fold whereas I could have called and allowed him to shove on the river.

This is another hand I might have misplayed. I am wondering if I can fold the river, probably should do, one pair is almost never good there.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18413674_8E8FB54C54

I won $18.73 in the session so not too bad. OK Let"s try and get this on today. Good luck to all players LEGGO.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCCPaaJrKlE[/youtube]
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: pokerpops on March 22, 2016, 17:40:44 PM
Run good.

The KK hand. I don"t think you should be folding to this bet size, KK is the best hand here often enough.

NB I am officially not very good at cash games, nor online.
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 22, 2016, 18:15:04 PM

Run good.

The KK hand. I don"t think you should be folding to this bet size, KK is the best hand here often enough.

NB I am officially not very good at cash games, nor online.

KK is a very bad hand confirmed today lol

Will post tomorrow but yeah see what you are saying re bet size but given how he played it one pair may be a fold, not entirely sure still tbh
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AlbusFawkes on March 23, 2016, 07:43:05 AM
Only been reading this blog for a week or so, great to see how much you think about your game and your mental approach. Trust in your skills, we all have days when things don"t go to plan but you will click back into your game.

With the KK hand it is a horrible board but you lost the minimum. I think call/fold river here is 50/50.

The 55 hand, you are always getting paid if he has an A, so flatting the turn raise is the only way to get more if he doesn"t have it. Let him shove to try and steal it, if he checks make small value bet $7.

Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 23, 2016, 11:02:10 AM
Cheers for the posts guys. Vince, great performance from you so far this week hope ya keep it going mate.

Yesterday was funny, I managed to lose my entire stack in level one. Not to be out done, Tom Clark does the same. We had a last longer with Karen who won it in level one. Me and Tom go to The Cow to wait for other people to be knocked out. I then go to try and find some food so wander to the hotel and order burger and chips in the bar, which takes forever to arrive so I get my iPad and watch Netflix whilst I am waiting. Have food then can"t be bothered to walk back to casino.

Played online this morning, not so good was down a buyin will post a bit about it at some point. PLO8 at 3pm today, hopefully do ok but not really my game so will see how it goes.
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AMRN on March 24, 2016, 09:14:55 AM

PLO8 at 3pm today, hopefully do ok but not really my game so will see how it goes.


LOL, just LOL. I see what you did there....
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: pokerpops on March 24, 2016, 12:14:46 PM


PLO8 at 3pm today, hopefully do ok but not really my game so will see how it goes.


LOL, just LOL. I see what you did there....


Clever stuff.
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 25, 2016, 09:47:51 AM
OK this post is probably a day late but yesterday I was not fully awake for the whole day *lol*. I am very happy to have won the PLO8 game on Wednesday to take my first live individual APAT gold medal and WCOAP title. It also lifts me back to the top of the POTY rankings for now although I know for sure Brian will not be giving up and expect to have to score more points between now and the end of the online events if I am going to be POTY. That for the future though.

Wednesdays PLO event started quite quietly for me. I was sat next to Tom Clark again and we wonder if we can both get past the end of the first level today after failing to do so on Tuesday *lol*. The game starts and I actually end up allin with my tournament life on the line before the end of the first level. I had top set (the nuts) on a flop with no low draw and got in against the nut flush draw, my hand held and gave me some chips which was very important. I was playing quite a simple game as I am not as good at this game as some. However some of the best players were missing from the field. Most notably Chris Webber (Defending Champ and 3-time world champion), Carl Pilgrim (great PLO8 PLayer) and Steve Redfern (excellent all round Omaha player). These are just examples that spring to mind but the field could have been even stronger than it was. I was doing OK and generally running up my stack. A player joined the table with lots of chips and he seemed quite well known in the casino. He is running good taking a big pot off Tom by rivering him, I get in a pot with him where I bet the flop and turn but miss my draw on the river. There is a heart flush though and I have the ace of hearts. I check it to him and he bets. Here I can fold and still have an above average stack but this spot was just perfect and I move allin. He quickly folds and this gives me a great boost to my stack and gives me the chance to final table, which I eventually do.

Tom went out just before the final table after playing very well all day. I run good on the final and end up three handed, I keep raising and they do not play back. I have a big chip lead and they fold down to where I basically have to call when somebody shoves. I win and end up heads up with a 6-1 chip lead. My heads up record in apat is err.. BAD. I tried very hard to lose this one as well (although I did get the chips in good twice and lose). He eventually takes the chip lead and actually end up allin and thought I had lost until the dealer points out I have the low. Don"t remember what happened at the end but we were even on chips and the blinds are so big we are basically playing shove/fold. He raises I see  A-5-9-9 and know that is plenty good enough. He has A-4-7-K so actually has a slightly better hand but I win by making a full house and no low.

I expected the game to finish at about midnight but it was 3am by the time we were done. I collect the Bracelet and Medal I was pretty much done and ready to head back to the hotel. I honestly had in my head there was something I should do first but didn"t know what it was. I say goodbye to Lucy and leave as I go to exit the casino it clicks you actually get prize money for winning. I already have the medal and bracelet but decide to go back and get the money anyway. I then try to leave again but this time leave my iPad in the card room on Lucy"s desk. I eventually get back to the hotel at 4am get a few messages and texts which I reply too. I was not really able to sleep so just read on my iPad.

Was really pleased to get the win as there has been that bit of pressure having never got the win. It is also a real pleasure to get a bracelet and they do make these events feel special. Want to get this done now, not been playing yesterday as was watching the team event and playing, today will likely be watching the team event, maybe a bit of cash and catching up with everybody.

Yesterday railed the team event for a while and was able to cash in the 6-max (came 11th out of 145 but was basically on auto play for most of it though, played OK but was not at my best). Got back to hotel before midnight I think and had a good nights sleep. Today will be railing team event and having a day off before playing the main event tomorrow.

Happy Easter Weekend Everybody. Have a great Bank Holiday.
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on March 30, 2016, 10:34:50 AM
So the WCOAP is over. Would have posted sooner but had a few issues since returning.

It was an excellent festival which I think everybody enjoyed. As you all know by now I was lucky enough to win a bracelet in the PLO8 event. I also cashed in the six-max. The WCOAP successfully has a different feel to the rest of APAT it is very much about the poker rather than the social side of it, although this does make it a bit intense at times. I am always really impressed by the people who can play multiple live events a day. I just can"t do it and event 5 in 6 days was a bit of a grind at the end. I would certainly take the results though and I THINK this cash takes me past Dave Garden into the Number 2 spot in the APAT cash list on Hendon Mob. Carl also cashed so will be about $1600 behind him. One mission in Season 10 will be to take that spot, that will be hard but I will be doing my best. I think the result will also take me into the top 4 all time WCOAP players behind Chris Webber, Dave Howard and Paresh Doshi. This has been a very good month for me Poker Wise I am just over $400 up in online cash and the WCOAP result tops it off.

Some shout outs from WCOAP, first to Chris Webber for his third bracelet in three years which is an amazing achievement. Obviously Matt Carter for his 5th place in the Main Event and to Simon Brooke for one of the best performances in WCOAP history this week winning POTS (I assume the online events do not count towards this). Last, but most certainly not least to Ian Thompson who maintained his run for cashing every year since season 3 and made it 7 seasons in a row with a cash, breaking the record. Then the obvious ones for Tom, Leigh, Des, Lucy and John for another excellently run event.

It"s not all over yet as we have to Player of the Year to think about. I managed to move into top spot for that and was looking good until Brian hit back taking 4 points in the team event to cut the gap to just 2 points. Matt Carter and Simon Brooke are also right in there with a chance when the season comes to an end this week with the online WCOAP games. I would like to see APAT make a bit more of the Player of the Year. They offer an amazing prize for this but it did not seem to get mentioned much this season. There are still 29 points to be won so although it is very likely the winner will be myself or Brian it is by no means certain. Whoever wins will need to score more points that is for sure.

I will this week be booking myself up for Vegas in November with Stu, Ger, Curly, Matt Ward, Phil The Fryer and Scottish Tom among others which should be to say the least - epic.

Have been back online this week playing 500 hands since Monday winning $44.23 a few hands of interest are below some. Feel free to make comments, I am pretty confident on my reads in this game and my thoughts are likely to be fairly accurate to how the game plays but I can still get it wrong sometimes.

This is a strange one. My thoughts were basically he either has a king or he doesn"t so might as well try and build a big pot, expected to see AK, KQ or KJ once he calls my raise on the flop so am basically trying to play and size bets to get my whole stack in the middle.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18509421_494046949E

This hand is also interesting given the board and the interesting card on the turn (which should usually be a blank I think). The way he has played the hand is a VERY strong line but there is so much money in the pot I don"t have to be good that often and 3-bet pots are starting to play a little less honest than they use to in this game. There are a good few draws out there. His shove is actually bad as he only gets called when beaten. If he is going to put all his money in he would be better calling the turn then calling any river as this at least would weaken my range a bit.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18509521_894AB03EE9

This hand is also worth thinking about. Our opponent would be perceived as less experienced he was playing 50% of hands over a small sample size and a less than full stack. The flop is pretty good and his weakish bet does not suggest a Queen really, when the SB folds I am happy to call. The river shove is interesting as this 100% COULD be a queen but my read on the flop was that he does not have a queen which probably makes this a call. Not 100% sure to be honest, he can have some kind of monster as well but would expect a smaller bet in that case. I tend to think the call is likely ok/good here.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18523123_5B98DEB45E

This hand is for entertainment purposes only. There is not much logical thought process to it haha (there was a thought process at the time just not a logical one)

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/18509542_FB4AB83E89

So those are some of the cash hands I am playing. I am going to keep this going until the end of the Online WCOAP to see who wins the player of the year. After that the blog will likely go on a break until I would assume Season 10 kicks off. Hopefully will do some updates from Vegas in November this year.
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: jayteejack on March 30, 2016, 12:09:28 PM
Very well done in Stratford. Good luck for the Player of the year
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on April 03, 2016, 10:21:57 AM
Last day of Season 9 today, 5 people can still win player of the year. They are Myself, Brian Yates, Simon Brook, Matt Carter and The current World and UK Champ Andy Dodson. Unfortunately I don"t know Andy, so not sure if he is playing tonight but the other 4 will be and it is likely to be a close finish. After tonight it will be time for a break from poker for a short time and will be looking forward to the Season 10 announcement.

April is matched betting month on my blog. A few people in Stratford asked me about this and how it works. I know I am not the only one who does this and there are a few people within APAT who are probably better at it than me so if anybody else wants to get involved please do so. The idea of matched betting is we make a Guaranteed profit from whatever bets we do, this is done using free bets and exchanges, the easiest thing to do is start with a simple example. I am going to select a betting site I do not yet have an account with and do a sign up offer. Looking to make at least £30 from this offer by the end of the week. The site I am going to use is 188bet. I have signed up an account and deposited with them this morning.

We need to place 5 £50 bets to access the £50 signup bonus so we will try and start today. We can"t use horses for this offer. Minimum odds must be 1.75. The sport we are going to be using is football. After we have placed the 5 bets £50 will be credited to our account.

I have deposited into the site this morning and placed my first bet £50 on Roma to beat Lazio at 2.16. I have then gone onto the exchange (smarkets) and layed Roma for £49.54. If Roma win I will win my bet in the bookie, if Roma do not win I will win on the exchange. Whatever the outcome of this bet I will lose £1.45. The plan is obviously to do this 5 times to generate the bonus money of £50. If I lose around £1.50 per bet doing this will cost me £7.50 and I will get the £50 bonus money making a profit of £42.50 Simple - Lets see how it goes.

188bet
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Game One - Lazio Vs Roma (Lose £1.45)


In the future I might also do something on Betfair Trading which is something else I do at very small stakes.
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: pables on April 03, 2016, 10:47:58 AM
 :o :o :oRodders OMG what are you doing!!!
I cannot believe you are giving this information out freely
Give them your link  :o  :o
Title: Re: A March Mission - WCOAP 2016 Edition
Post by: AAroddersAA on April 03, 2016, 11:34:07 AM

:o :o :oRodders OMG what are you doing!!!
I cannot believe you are giving this information out freely
Give them your link  :o  :o

But this is nothing I had not figured out for myself anyway. The things I had not seen (or even thought about until you told me) are what we discussed in Stratford and I won"t be mentioning here, the spreadsheets are also well worth having as they allow access to offers you could not otherwise do. Basic matched betting however (signup offers and basic football reload offers is not actually worth paying for).

They are all available for free here also:-

https://www.facebook.com/groups/984422048283444/

Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 29, 2016, 15:23:53 PM
Welcome to Autumn.

As the WCOAP finished months ago I was intending to write up some things that we interesting that happened throughout the year. Some of the big things for this year included Yarm Invasion and APAT Belgium. Sadly I seem to have missed them all.

But what a great year it has been, we had the WCOAP at the amazing London Stratford casino. Will be honest and say that I will miss it next year (Stratford, not the event) however I understand why we can"t go back. Yarm Invasion 2016 was a massive success with OFC in the pub being one of the main activities. I was lucky enough to be in Belgium for an amazing team event  run by the Belgian crew. Even though I did not play well (let the team down a bit to be honest) it was a great event with the excellent company of Simon Brooke, JP Round, Claire Duffy, Ross Fullarton and Tod Wood. The beer over there is confirmed as a bit strong. Me booking the wrong hotel dates at Cardiff was pretty too funny in the end. To be fair the best part was everybody was really helpful with Several offers of room shares and to stay at various peoples houses, wasn"t needed in the end but says enough about our APAT people again. Had a great day in Cardiff Bay on the Saturday. A fine way to end the summer. Villamoura is missing from the calendar this year though which is sad I suppose we must have messed that up there are not really many better places I know.

So now the leaves are turning Golden and the farmers are gathering their crops. Before too much longer we will start to see Christmas decorations (yes I KNOW it is still September but trust me it will happen). Hopefully we will get past Halloween and bonfire night before that though. The problem with this time of year is it tends to get a bit cold. It"s a bit of a shame there is nowhere nice and warm we can go but where could that be? - maybe Manchester has possibilities ???

Poker has been a bit poor of late and I have become aware I really need to put some time to work on my game as I have been not playing well enough at all. I plan to put this right though and will start posting a little bit about it here. Probably won"t be able to play any more APAT's until next year now as am sadly missing Ireland. No Ireland, no Villamoura - really don"t know what is happening this year.

Away from poker been doing pretty well on the old "matched betting". There are some excellent opportunities on the Ryder Cup this week and using an advantage play on Accumulators with insurance is an excellent way of doing things. We also have 888 goals mean more promo and Ladbrokes in play offers. Coral are also doing some excellent stuff. Gonna do some recommendations on this.

Today"s recommendation is an offer on Skybet where you place a bet on a player to be top points scorer and get a £5 free bet every time your player wins a game.

Here is the Market on Skybet

https://www.skybet.com/golf/ryder-cup-2016/event/19755945

Here is the Market on Betfair

https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/#/golf/market/1.127221983

(I assume I can post these links if not let me know and I will remove)

So you just put a £10 Bet on Rory McIlroy to be the top overall points scorer at 7/1 (8.0) on Skybet and lay £8.04 at 10.0 on Betfair. So whatever the result we will lose £2.36 on that bet. The profit comes from the fact we get a £5 free bet every time McIlroy wins a game. As long as he wins one we will be up. We gain more profit every time he wins extra games. We will use matched betting to turn our £5 free bets into about £3.80 at least. Obviously you need to cash in your Betfair account to cover the lay which is about £75. Long term this is going to be massively profitable.

Anyway I will go and try and find something exciting that is happening pretty soon that I can write about the build up too and maybe even the event itself, Hmmm what could it be?
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on September 30, 2016, 18:56:00 PM
OK Day two of the new updates. It"s Friday night but I am working tomorrow so gonna watch Only Fools and Horses on Netflix. I think my favourite episode is the one where they go on the Jolly Boys outing and get stuck in Margate. Gonna watch that one. One of my favourite programmes but think it was ruined by making the last three episodes as I think the original ending was perfect. What the the favourite shows of other apaters?

In other news Tyson Fury (still a great name) has been stripped on the World Heavyweight title after testing positive for cocaine. Sadly I am not surprised, I don"t expect him to fight again and expect to see Anthony Joshua win the belts pretty soon. Think he would have lost to Klitchco but that must have cost him a fair bit of money.

So anyway played a bit of poker after getting back from work today:-

Have a look at this hand. I don"t really like my play too much (it"s OK) but hate his a lot

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/20903842_BA62AE0595

So my button raise is obviously fine and the c-bet on the flop is also OK. I don"t really like his call with that hand (3-bet would be better or just fold). My C-bet is OK, don"t dislike his call too much as I can double barrell a fair bit here although on that turn I have to give up a lot as well. I also pick up a draw so I want a cheap showdown now and quite like the check. Don"t really like his bet on the river as it is a bad spot to bluff I think (he is bluffing but not sure he knows that) I am not a massive fan of my call either given that he should not be bluffing there but I got lucky and he was (I think). The bet is pretty small so the call might just about be OK.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/20903747_D8B4D659BA

Not entirely sure about this one, it could be OK but so many made hands and draws on that flop maybe I should just give it up

Played 102 hands winning $1.77 so basically another break even session (I am good at those currently). Need to keep working on it to get my game back in good shape before November - November is a good month to have your game in shape see.

My Matched betting tip for today is on Ladbrokes place an in play £20 Bet on mobile on the Everton game today (min odds of 1.5) to get a free £10 in play bet on the Liverpool game tomorrow. Back and lay Everton in play for a loss of £2 or less and job done. This should make us about £5 whatever the results. Come back later as I might well put an accumulator up to use  will edit the post:-

Acca suggestion for this week (you don"t need to lay these if you don"t want too it will be +EV as long as you can turn the £25 free bet you get for one game letting you down into £20 real money)

12pm 1st October - Swansea Vs Liverpool - Liverpool (Liverpool)
3pm 1st October - Bayern Munich Vs Cologne (Bayern)
12pm 2nd October - Man Utd Vs Stoke (Man Utd)
3pm 2nd October - Real Madrid Vs Eibar (Real Madrid)
7:45pm 2nd October - Celta Vigo Vs Barcelona (Barcelona)

Odds are around 7/2 - This is only +EV when used in conjunction with an Acca insurance offer with matched betting used to turn the free £25 you get for one leg letting you down into £20 real money. As a standard bet it is a long term loser

Oh one more thing about that cold spell in poker...........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVO8sUrs-Pw
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 02, 2016, 12:55:23 PM
Another day so another post (missed yesterday). I am planning to play a bit of the new APAT League that is coming soon but October is looking like a quiet month for me although a good mate on mine is getting married on The 15th October so that is going to be a good weekend no doubt. We have the reception in an "interesting" area of Newport but it will be cheap beer so that"s good, I think there will be food but not worrying about that too much. The thing I am pretty gutted about is not being able to make the APAT Dublin which is one of my favourites and last year having it as part of the IPO was brilliant. I will be following online instead.

I see that the government are getting around to triggering article 50. I wonder if that will have any effect on us realistically I certainly put the price up of something I had to buy this week. I will be surprised if it actually has too much effect on the life of the average person though. I would also like to say well done to Tesco who have decided to get rid of their 24 hour opening in Swansea and quite a few other parts of Wales. I went into town this morning and everything was open. I am very much of the opinion that at the moment the whole country is too focused on consumers and this is causing unrealistic expectations on people who work in that industry. I would actually like to see supermarkets close on Sunday (or whatever day we choose as the weekly day off) as well as a number of other services that are currently open. I don"t believe that is provides much benefit to society as a whole and might well be of detriment due to the high number of people who are currently working almost every weekend. How you make that work with things that have to run 24/7 I am not sure though, obviously 999 needs to be staffed at all times and hospitals and A&E departments need to keep running. The first thing that comes to mind is better rewards for people in those areas of work but that might be easier said than done maybe.

Good day of sport today with the football and the darts. Very happy with the result of the Grand Prix this morning, not a big fan of Rosberg but he is slightly preferable to Hamilton. Hopefully next season Red Bull will be able to mount a proper challenge.

Here is a bit of a poker update today. Played 300 hands or so and won around $30 which is OK. Have spent some time doing some work on Pokertracker and starting to find some leaks and slowly plug them. Here are some hands from today.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/20922235_D0EF9F6962

The first hand is pretty straight forward and I only really post it to show the way it compares to another one later. Min raise could mean anything and I think 3-betting Jacks here is OK, when he 4-bets though my Jacks are not good enough to continue, pretty easy fold.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/20922233_2EACAE77AE

Not entirely sure how much I like how I play ths hand. Not too much maybe. I don"t mind my 3-bet in position although it might not be the best hand to do it with. The cold call from the SB is a bit weird and teh flat call from the raiser means the flop is pretty good for me in that it is unlikely to have hit either of them. I think it is a good spot to c-bet a 3-bet pot even 3 way. I get a caller and the turn completes the flush. I am not sure if the turn should be another bet or not. I go for it and get it through. Probably pretty close but not sure how well this hand is actually played by me.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/20922172_CC4D0219A3

OK this hand is a bit easier really. We have JJ in position and 3-bet the raiser who shoves. I think this makes AA and KK a lot less common in his range as people don"t shove these hands in this spot. AK is certainly possible as are some lower pairs. I doubt it is AQ and the only hand that MIGHT do this which I don"t like is QQ. This is a strange spot where I can call the shove but folded to the smaller bet in a similar situation in hand one. Pretty happy with this as I think JJ plays better against a shoving range than against a standard 4-bet range in this spot.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/20922073_4D277BF73F

I like me plan for this hand and how I play it. Preflop is standard and I hit top pair on the flop. I think that I can be up against a pair a lot and given his stack size I can check the flop. I consider this player a bit weaker based on his stack size this is normally a fairly accurate assumption. His stack size is such that I can get his stack in on the turn and the river and be called down by a weaker hand than would call the flop and turn as my hand looks weaker. I think his call on the turn is OK but don"t like his call on the river much, but I can see how that mistake gets made, personally I think I get away from the hand on the river in his seat but do like how I played it in mine.

Finally bit of a matched betting update. We are doing pretty well with our Rory McIlroy bet as we have already netted £10 worth of free bets so should be nicely in profit from that one. Our accumulator bet had one leg lose yesterday, annoyingly it was one of our banker legs (Bayern) so that does not look so good now. Today I am going to recommend betting on Man City on Coral where you get double winnings of Man City Win both half"s. It is an easy one to do, you just place a bet on Man City on Coral:-

Bet £50 on Man City on Coral at odds of 2.4
Lay £48.78 on Smarkets at odds of 2.48 - your liability for this bet is £72.19

As a result of this you will lose £2.19 whatever the result. If Man City win both half though you will pick up bonus winnings of £70 so a really good offer to do if you know about matched betting. If you don"t want to risk any money you can lay Man City to win both half on Betfair for £2.50 on Betfair at odds of 10.5. If Man City fail to win both halfs you will win £2.37 which will wipe out the £2.19 Qualifying loss. If Man City DO win both halfs you will lose £26.25 on Betfair so your total profit after your £70 bonus win would be around £43 without any risk.

These are the links to the markets you need to do it

http://sports.coral.co.uk/football/england/premier-league/tottenham-v-man-city-4504984.html (Back Man City)
https://smarkets.com/sport/football/premier-league/2016/10/02/tottenham-vs-man-city (Lay Off Man City)
https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/#/football/market/1.127023581 (Lay Man City to win both halfs - Yes)

We do need a Man Utd, Man City and Barcelona win today for our Acca to give us our money back.

Anyway here is a video for today as we look forward to the Irish Amateur Championship at the end of next month. I wonder who will win ????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ufcQe5D27s
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 03, 2016, 21:22:52 PM
Winter is most certainly coming, the heating has not gone on yet but might well be time to think about it in a few weeks.

So APAT Ireland will include such great APATers as Glenn Laming and JP Round. These two gentlemen are my tips for final table and medal glory. Before people accuse me of just picking my friends as predictions I have recently been fortunate to discuss some hands with these gents (ask me and Glenn to tell you about the AK discussion at some time). Anyway both of these guys have games which is much better than their results suggest (unless you count side events *lol*).

Here are some poker hands:-

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/20944896_8C3FF7FEC6

I do like this hand. preflop is pretty standard so no need to talk about that.

Then the flop is quite good for me lot"s of hands can hit the queen and flush draws are going to continue. The only hand that should be drawing at a straight is 67. Seems like a very simple bet on the flop. I can bet quite big here compared to the size of the pot as most queens will call and I need to charge the draws. The turn really changes nothing, the pot is still 3 way so I am guessing Queen, Draw or some kind of set/monster. I think only a monster will raise on the turn usually here so my bet gives me both value and as a bonus, info. When I get the call I am pretty sure it is either a draw or a queen and more likely a draw. The river misses most drawing hands so I check intending to call and hope AQ type hands decide to bet when checked too. He shoves and I snap as was my plan, I think I play this hand quite well, he should probably raise the flop and try and snap it off when I shove. I don"t have to have a massive hand there and he might get some weaker hands QJ, TT type hands to incorrectly fold. He never really gives me the chance to make a mistake.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/20944716_222B1C8783

This hand is not played great but thought it might be funny

Had a long day in work today so will leave this as a short post, will be back soon

PS - FIVE WEEKS PEOPLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 04, 2016, 21:14:48 PM
This is me winning a big pot with and eight and a three

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/20957940_727D1D3734

Better to be lucky than good that"s what I always say
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: duke3016 on October 04, 2016, 23:09:20 PM

This is me winning a big pot with and eight and a three

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/20957940_727D1D3734

Better to be lucky than good that"s what I always say


LEGEND
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: Des on October 05, 2016, 17:05:33 PM

This is me winning a big pot with and eight and a three

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/20957940_727D1D3734

Better to be lucky than good that"s what I always say


Boom!
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 05, 2016, 21:05:06 PM
Hello worlds greatest people did you know it is only one month until Fireworks Night. YAY

So at the start of October Swansea is still quite warm and it"s all good. I have come up with some ways of keeping warm when the winter hit"s though:-

1) Put the heating on (boring)
2) Run around a lot (wtf)
3) Go to the desert (interesting)
4) Light a fire (bit dangerous)

I will work out what to do I am sure. I am good at that sort of thing.

So all three Welsh Clubs have sacked their managers in the last week. Bit surprised about Swansea who have had a very tough start. Cardiff needed to make a change but have to admit to being very concerned about Newport County. Work commitments mean I have only seen them twice this season and the team looks just not good enough. We need to get a manager in asap and come up with a plan. The best plan might be to plan for life in the Conference and how the club will survive in that spot. The pitch is not helping and having had two matched called off already due to this is not acceptable. Hopefully Wales can make it a bit brighter this week although Ramsey is a big loss.

I also played a bit of poker and found some interestings hands:-

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/20970450_4064C95B41

This is a hand I am not sure how I played. Preflop my 3-bet is standard after UTG raises with one caller. Problem is he then bounces back with a 4-bet. So he can probably have AA, QQ or AK, I block AK so that hand is a bit less likely. QQ often just calls my 3-bet as well. I still think a call is good as if I shove I let QQ and AK have the chance to get away and AA just snaps me off. I decide calling the 4-bet is best but honestly not entirely sure.

The flop is good for me and he checks to me. I can bet here and get paid by QQ and lose to AA. I think it is AA more than QQ though so check intending to call a standard turn bet and assess on the river. The turn is an ace which is the worst card for me. It goes check/check and his river bet just feels like a value bet and I don"t really beat anything now so make a simple enough fold. Not sure about this one :-)

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/20970532_F1477B2FD6

Very standard BvB hand here. Maybe 3-betting pre is better as I don"t fold much to a 3x BB Vs SB. I see this as a straight forward call down no sense in raising and against these bet sizings folding is probably pretty bad.

I am break even over the last couple of days but had one hand where I lost a stack with KK Vs AA in a spot that was OK to do so.

Not done any bets over the last few days as focusing on the poker a bit more. Will be some coming up soon though.
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: MintTrav on October 05, 2016, 23:59:58 PM

Hello worlds greatest people


Hello
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: Des on October 06, 2016, 13:54:42 PM


Hello worlds greatest people


Hello


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Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: Fatcatstu on October 10, 2016, 16:34:33 PM
Can we just hurry up and talk about Vegas please?
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 11, 2016, 13:22:15 PM
Just for Stu..............

Right is is definately getting colder here in Wales. I have therefore decided that a trip to the desert is in order next month so will be heading off to the fabulous Las Vegas. It is in fact 4 weeks today that I will be making the journey, jumping on a train to Wimslow at around 11am before arriving at Manchester airport. I have booked into the Raddison Blu for the night and am planning to have a nice quite evening having a quick drink with some fine people such as Ger Smyth, Ger Smyth, The Ward Brothers, "Sneaky" Joe Ball, Phil Fryer. It is an excellent hotel so should be a good night. Unlikely to go crazy though as it will be and early start on Wednesday. Want to be at the airport and through security as early as possible really, then hopefully have time to grab some Breakfast before getting on board for the LONG flight to Sin City. I expect there will be a bit of open face chinese played on the plane and some food and drink served. We then land in Vegas at 12:15 local time. THe adrenaline usually kicks in when you hit Vegas so we should be good go for quite a while. Ger has already sorted transport to Harrahs for us all and after a quick check in and dropping bags off in rooms we should be good to hit Vegas. I would expect a drink in Harrahs maybe followed by a trip to a nearby casino such as the Linq or possibly even Venitian would not expect us to be going too far away from the hotel on the first night then again, it is Vegas. For all the build up and excitement stay tuned.

Just the one Poker hand today

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/21002544_09EFA6D389

I cannot decide if I have played this hand well or not. I raise under the gun with what is basically the bottom of my range for doing this. When the flop comes down it does not look like it has hit me and can hit a caller. He checks to me as expected and I check behind as I don"t think a bet is that great. My hand currently looks like what it is and I can get bluff raised and other silly things can happen so I thubk the flop is a check. Turn puts 3 spades out but does not really change my range. When he checks to me it basically now looks like he has nothing so I can now bet profitable I think. I expect to get quite a few calls but I can often win with another bet on the river. The river is an ace which should hit me more than him. However he COULD certainly have called the turn with the ace of spades. Then he bets out a strange amount (haf the pot) this seems weird to me to start with as an ace should check call in this hand I THINK (does not mean it will). I can"t really call with King high here as I don"t even beat many bluffs. His range feels really weak although above what I am actually holding. The bluff raise river is not an easy play to get right but this spot felt good at the tme reviewing it I am not so sure as the ace of spades may well be in his range. The thing is I also think he canm fold that as my hand suddenly looks very strong although he should be wondering why I did not bet the flop. My hand should reallly be a flush or nothing. Really not sure about this one. I suspect my river play is actually bad, and this kind of spot is why reviewing hands is important as I may well have got rewarded for bd play here which without looking back and working that out might lead to the mistake being repeated time and time again as you feel like what you are doing is good when it is actually bad.

Online cash games have been profitable again this month and my poker brain is clicking back into gear I am confident of that by the time I go to Vegas I will have my game in decent enough shape to at least have a chance of a score, obviously there are also other factors to consider.

This one has been posted a few times in the past but one of my favourites during a Vegas build up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-19RJslTtho
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 11, 2016, 13:25:37 PM


Hello worlds greatest people


Hello

Hello, it is an honor to have the greatest APATer of them all in my thread, as I have said to you at the events congrats on the massive run at the start of the year and retaking the top spot in the all time rankings, it is probably the right result (for now haha). That reminds me I still owe you $10 on Pokerstars too. :-)

Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 13, 2016, 19:25:07 PM
For those of you who do not know, Stu has started his thread again, although it is obviously not as good as mine it is well worth a read. He tends to cost me £100 every November of course, last November there was the case of forgetting to close a bet on here. There is some rumour of him falling off the Stratosphere or something if he can raise some amount of money, pretty sure he should have set the bar higher.

http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php/topic,6748.630.html

So it is less than 4 weeks until Vegas now and the list of legends is just amazing. Apart from the afore mentioned we have Curly, Debbie Kimm, Tom Clark, Ian Thompson, Ken McBride and Family ect I have probably left some people out so sorry. ON the Friday no poker will be played as the plan it to watch the England Vs Scotland game somewhere. I am putting forward the case for The Crown and Anchor, then we are meeting up for a trip to get photos at the famous Las Vegas sign (we have hired a large Limo for this). We will do that then there are a few beers to be had and maybe cocktails at Frankies Tiki Bar and that could easily end in carnage. One think is for sure getting everybody together in Vegas will be a very good thing.

Brexit has interfered in this trip though as the price of the pound falls like a stone and Tesco are now only $1.19 per pound. I have already got my dollars but it is making the trip cost go up. Best thing is I was going to buy dollars before the vote but decided to wait as I was sure the price would be better after remain won. Glad we are going to the USA. Jaxie told me there was the Americans would make such a silly mistake in a vote, doubt that any vote of that type is happening any time soon there.

Right about the game with cards that is not Open Face Chinese

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/21075895_8500C1D886

Not sure how much of a fan I am off this hand. I do like my 3-bet against the buttons open although I can just call. I win it there often enough and can hit a set in a 3-bet pot. THe flop is OK for me. I bet hoping to take it down but I can get called with a worse hand often enough as well. I am not a fan of the call from him but I think I am ahead often enough at this point. The ten does not really hit him so I can call his bet on the turn but the King is a horrible card for me. I am pretty sure he should shove the river when I check, very lucky for me he makes a pretty bad error and checks behind and I take the pot. I should never have AK on the river there which should be the hand he is scared of.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/21075878_E5653AE812

Think I am a bit too deep here to want to get it in and also not a fan of calling to try and hit as I don"t see that as being very profitable at all. Standard fold I think but happy that this kind of thing is now almost automatic. Obviously shorter stacked it would be an easy get it in.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/21075794_09056BB466

Got lucky here but we are meant too sometimes, don"t mind how I played it.

The game is coming together nicely to be honest hopefully I will be OK to play in Vegas and not too drunk/tired most of the time. I am planning a nice little schedule so really looking forward to it. It is not the main focus of the trip though. Saturday is UFC 205 but might well play the Deep Stack at Aria anyway as Friday is a poker free day and Sunday is also likely to be due to watching the NFL. I will play some of the All Star games by the way just a bit busy with work and working on the basics of my game for Vegas at the moment.

So here is an audio book I listened to recently I read it years ago but thought it worth looking at again very enjoyable:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl4REOWdJSE


Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: pables on October 15, 2016, 22:09:41 PM
So looking forward to my last day in Vegas and particularly with you guys in Franks Tiki bar,
If I remember it, things will have gone slightly awry ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 16, 2016, 09:53:57 AM

So looking forward to my last day in Vegas and particularly with you guys in Franks Tiki bar,
If I remember it, things will have gone slightly awry ;D ;D ;D

Will be good to catch up mate, not had a beer with you for a while I don"t think.
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 16, 2016, 11:13:48 AM
Just a short update for today

With Vegas less than 4 weeks away it is hard not to think about it a lot now, just 3 more weeks in work. As I have said really looking forward to meeting up with everybody for the first time in Manchester. Then landing in Vegas and the journey to Harrahs. Its kind of in that time where it is sort of close but not close enough to be considered properly close, time will soon go by and it will get here though. I have a list of things that I have to do most of which are sorted:-

Hotel is booked and paid for
Flight is booked and paid for
Dollars are bought
Insurance is sorted
The night before the trip is sorted as are train tickets to  and from Manchester
I still have to do my ESTA
Everything needs to be printed and placed into a folder
Packing will be done the day before going

Played some poker today, lost a buyin doing a triple barrel in what I thought was a good spot but may not have been, I also lost the replay of the hand, he basically flopped a full house against me and check called all three streets in a 3-bet pot. The flop and turn bets are OK but I should really not shove the river in that spot I don"t think given the texture of the board. Although I am playing OK not sure I am that close to where my game needs to be. Not too sure exactly what is wrong but confidence for Vegas a bit lower than it was. I know I have the game but can"t seem to access it at the moment.
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 19, 2016, 18:07:59 PM
Right first thing to address is to congratulate Warren on a great run at the recent Grand Prix event at DTD. Most people know that Warren is, in my personal opinion, the best player (Holdem) of all the APAT regulars (and there are some VERY good players amongst them so that is no mean feat). I am sure this is not the last big score Warren will have in the near future and it just backs up how tough of a player he is. There are honestly not many players I think I really struggle against when I sit at an APAT table but Warren is one of them, he always seems to make the correct decision against me. Texts to try and convince Warren to use some of his winnings to join us in Vegas have already been sent. Very Well Done Warren - as usual.

Starting to run out of things to say about Vegas. I might have to start planning the June trip just to keep the vibe going *lol*. It is three weeks today that we fly to bright light city. In fact this time in 3 weeks we will be in the air playing OFC or whatever we do. List of things I am looking forward too:-

1) Going to Manchester - planning on staying in Newport overnight so will be getting a Wetherspoons Breakfast before jumping on the 11:04 train to Wimslow to hopefully make my connection to Manchester Airport. I only have a 10 minute window so I have researched nearby pubs as I don"t fancy waiting in the cold for an hour if I miss it, won"t be a problem either way as I am planning to arrive nice and early.

2) Meeting up in the bar of Radisson Blu. Certainly not going to be having a late one (no really it is NOT happening) sometimes it is really good to have a relaxed evening with a bit of food and a few beers and this sounds like one of those times - the flight to Vegas is LONG but it will be an enjoyable night whatever.

3) Then going to the airport going through security and having a drink and breakfast before getting on board the plan. The anticipation is always at it"s greatest at this point

4) Walking into Vegas for the first time - seeing the slot machines at Mccarren and knowing that we are FINALLY in Vegas - it"s gonna be a LONG 3 weeks

It will almost be like having a holiday before the holiday - keep an eye on social media if you want to know what is going on. It will be reported. What I do need to something to watch on the plane, I am accepting recommendations - what are good films to download to watch ona  flight to Vegas???

Poker is up and down, some days I think I am doing pretty well, some days I am not too confident and keep making pretty silly mistakes. Overall think I will do OK in Vegas. I have done pretty well there in the past but the last trip was pretty bad so want to put that right. Not doing any betting or matched betting now all my gambling time is being put into working on poker to get ready for Vegas so here are some hands I have played lately that I have reviewed

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/21129887_8B606A900A

Really unsure if I like how I played this hand. Can"t decide if 4-betting pre with QQ here is better, problem is when you get shoved on QQ is never in great shape and is strong enough to play a flop with and pick up extra bets. I think I have to call the flop but the turn call might be questionable (maybe it is likely OK) but I should fold the river here. This line is actually very rarely a bluff and it is all I beat here.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/21151597_308A77D26E

This hand MIGHT be close to standard although I almost folded the turn, not sure that is the right play though. I have to call the flop with the overpair especially with the bet size.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/21151576_99A6854CC3

That is aces beating Kings. I quite like this line. I know that he has KK a lot there ut I don"t want to 6-bet shove as it really turns my hand face up and I may let him get away the times he has 5-bet with QQ or AK or some other silly hand. Obviously all those hands should be betting the flop so I can let him commit himself. THink this is OK.

Will keep working on my game am making some notes trying to get the leaks to a minimum and putting together a schedule for Vegas. I am definately playing the 11am Aria Deepstack on November 12th and most likely the Binions or Golden Nuggett game on November 10th.

The Offical Countdown will begin soon
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: pokerpops on October 19, 2016, 19:51:18 PM
Will you STFU about Vegas!  

;D
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 20, 2016, 06:51:21 AM

Will you STFU about Vegas!  

;D

Probably on November 16th until June at least.
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: pokerpops on October 21, 2016, 06:14:57 AM


Will you STFU about Vegas!  

;D

Probably on November 16th until June at least.


GeRnEvEyN

Looking forward to the trip reports.
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 21, 2016, 08:08:55 AM
I have noticed there is nothing like a trip abroad to get the forum buzzing again. Noticed Ger, Stu and Curly are all back nice to see these people posting again and look forward to reading there threads again, Ger"s last post might end up being POTY. Shame that Ger and the Chezger guy"s are not going to be in Manchester on the 8th but they live pretty close so I guess there is no point in them booking a hotel room.

I went to a wedding last Saturday, it was a small affair at a registry office in Newport. After the wedding we went to a pub and basically all sat around and drank beer, ate a buffet and did some toasts to the bride and groom, then some of us went on into Newport after. It was not exactly a traditional wedding but I have to say it was far more enjoyable than the church weddings followed by sit down meals and speeches (which I really don"t like going too) everybody seemed to agree as well.

I finished work at about 5pm yesterday and drove home and decided to go for a walk around Swansea. It is quite nice at this time of year as it starts to get dark, went for about an hours walk and then got some food and played poker for a bit. Only played 150 hands this was the biggest pot

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/21170776_1A778D1190

Quite happy with how I am playing MOST of the time but do make too many little mistakes that can be costly. I am up about 2 buyins this month which is not awful but a couple of really poor sessions (which should not have been poor) are making the difference. I still believe that beating the $25nl Zoom game is a good indication you are doing OK.

Bit of a boring post today I suppose I have not really done anything interesting this week and the poker is not exactly thrilling either. One thing I am looking forward too is railing the Irish APAT. Normally I would be there but can"t be this year however lots of heros are playing and travelling over. I have named JP Round as my pick for the final table based on how well he played in Belgium. I suspect there will be some GREAT days over there with that group of hero"s, there is not much that would merit missing it but we can all only have so much time away from work each year. Hopefully they will be keeping us up to date on social media so we can catch a bit of the atmosphere.

Off work today as working tomorrow so going to be doing some work on the poker game and will do an update on here with some hand reviews.

PAI GOW
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 21, 2016, 15:05:52 PM
Trying to do 120 hand sessions at the moment as that is likely to be the length of most Vegas cash sessions (about 30 minutes on Zoom but between 3 and 4 hours in Vegas)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW8GgG5Ygwg&feature=youtu.be

Here are a couple of hands from that session and another

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/21179704_4D2953B6B9

Happy enough with this hand. My raise pre flop is clearly standard and I get two callers. The early position player leads into me. He is not playing a full stack and has ber about a third of the pot. I therefore suspect that he is pretty weak and has a worse King or a flush draw of some kind. I quite like my raise here. The third player folds and we get a call from the early position player which backs up my thoughts of flush draw or King. I think I would have folded out most smaller pairs there. When the turn is then a seven I am not concerned he could be holding a seven. His check backs up my thoughts he could be on a King or a flush draw. It is therefore an easy bet for me hoping to get a call with his poor odds. If he has a set of threes I expect to here about it about now. My bet size of about half pot seems OK here. The river hits the flush draw. I hope he checks so that I can check behind but when he bets half pot I think I have to get away. I doubt he has suddenly lead out with a King and he has played it like a flush draw that got there. That seems like a routine fold tbh. Need to be making it though.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/21179751_D1F7EF99CC

This hand is very similar except I am out of position which makes the hand much harder to play. Again I make a normal raise preflop. This time I get a call from the button I hit top pair and top kicker on a wet flop. I have to bet the flop and he calls. I was a bit worried about a raise with all the draws out there as it would have been a tough spot but I have to bet. The turn is a blank and I bet again and he calls I am now pretty sure he is on a draw. The river is probably the worst card in the desk for me as it completes almost every draw and even KQ now beats me. The only problem is the check looks weak and invites a bet but not a lot I can do about that. It looks like I am beaten.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/21179636_20D6408544

This is a nice BvB hand, pretty straight forward this one probably plays itself but I think he should fold to my 4-bet so think his shove is a mistake - that"s what poker is about making less mistakes than your opponents I guess.

I think I am starting to feel quite good about my poker game now. Have an online APAT to play before Vegas so will have a chance to do something in that too. Will keep working on it.

Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: Fatcatstu on October 27, 2016, 10:34:27 AM
Hand 1 - agree looks like a FD all day really, he got there, good fold.

Hand 2 - I watched it without reading your notes. My first thought was KQ got there, he was calling with the draw, hit his Q and decided that was probably good too.

Hand 3 - Lol.

12 days to go :)
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 27, 2016, 12:40:40 PM
Wow doesn"t time fly I have not updated this for nearly a week, thought it was a few days. The forum really seems to have picked up lately lots of blogs getting updated again. Good to see of course and this weekedn I am looking forward to following the IPO and APAT Ireland. Hopefully the traffic stays up for this.

APAT Ireland is one of my favourites and being along side the IPO is a great idea and last year was one of the best tournaments that I played. I will be mostly supporting JP Round and Glenn Laming along with whatever other regs are travelling. I like the idea of having the game in the same place as we are staying, especially as there is a very nice bar for food and beer at The Regency. Didn"t have enough holiday time left from work to make this weekend as well as having two weeks off later this month and a week next month (our holiday year goes from Jan - Dec). The APAT / Degens tours are taking up a lot of time lol I looked at what I want to do next year and it is worse than this year. Will make do with following Ireland online. Then playing the online version the following week.

I went to the football on Tuesday, not been able to get to many game this year which is a bit of a shame as the team is obviously struggling badly. It will be a big surprise if we stay in the football league. The team looks happy to fight for every point to be fair but is just not good enough. We were playing Barnet on Tuesday and it would not surprise me to see them also hit the drop, although Leyton Orient are surprisingly bad as well, I actually had them down for promotion this year. An additional concern with winter coming is the state of the pitch we have already had two games postponed and there are likely to be more in January / February time. Maybe the transfer window will help but at the moment relegation from the league seems more likely than not.

So with Vegas less than two weeks away we are ready to go but still getting the poker game in place.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/21256491_42DDD7D3BE

This is a kind of interesting hand against a player who has 4-bet a few times from the button. I quite like my light 5 bet shove in this spot. I was surprised he called but it is a good call by him I THINK. I was happy enough with the hand he had as it was just a flip anyway. It is this kind of spot you have to be careful with, it is usually right to just fold to the 4-bet but after you get a few right you can get over confident. I will be trying to aviod that of course. Not as good of a move in tournaments as in cash anyway.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/21206446_B6D355AED9

Interesting hand this one. Preflop is standard. I 3-bet with AK and get called in two spots. The flop is very good as I have flopped the nut flush draw and two overcards. I bet $6 into two players the pot is $8.16. I think I get a good few folds here but then the player shows on me for the rest of my stack which was $33.13. So about 132BB. So it is $33.13 to win $86.38. I think I can be ahead here as he can have a flush draw or a staight draw. I am well ahead of hands like TT or JJ, sets don"t usually shove here (although it is possible). I think a lot of the time my Ace and King are good for outs. The hand he has is not ideal as it removes some of my outs but is the kind of hand I would expect. I think this is played OK by me, his shove is OK as well, he does not mind winning the pot there and has good equity against the overpairs that are certainly in my range and he can get some folds as well.

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/21206349_E87C131766

This should be quite a standard hand I think. My hand is pretty standard preflop. I make the raise in position and I get called in two spots. I hit top pair and get bet into. I COULD raise here due to the draws thjat are out but I can then get put in a really tough spot where I don"t know where I am if he 3-bets his draw and I have to fold so I am happy to call there. THe turn is a good card for me I don"t put him on a 7 that often and his bet size still looks weaker so I think I can call again. Every draw misses on thE river and again I think it is a pretty easy call. Quite happy with how I read that one as well.

So happy enough with the above. Time to start playing some tournaments in the build up now get in the right mindset for that.

Can"t wait to be in the limo travelling to the strip now. Having the Mandalay Bay and the amazing MGM Grand coming into view. Going past and seeing New York New York with the Statue of Liberty. Then seeing the Monte Carlo and Planet Hollywood before passing all of them and seeing Paris, then Las Vegas really comes into view as you see the Bellagio possibly with the fountains going and Ceasars Palace. Not long after that we will see Mirage and I get my first look at Linq. Then we will be delivered to Harrahs. A quick check in, drop stuff in room, get a replacement players card (it 3 years since I have been to Vegas and I have lost mine) and then it will be TO THE BAR where will will be meeting Tom (the Scottish version) and with a bit of luck Curly, Debbie, Ian and anybody else who is out there, UK time this is likely to be around 10pm. It will still be before 2pm Vegas time I am sure that the sensible heads that will have preveiled the previous night will be well and truely removed and mayhem will commence.

The competition is which of these will actually happen before midnight:-

1)  Curly will have a beer
2)  Deb will be excited that everybody has arrived
3)  Ger will play 3-card poker
4)  Sneaky Joe will tell somebody to "fornicate under consent of the king" off in a loud voice (abbreviations also count)
5)  Tom will predict a win for Scotland against England on Friday and get laughed at
6)  Ian turn up and will drink a cocktail or a short
7)  Rodders will fall to sleep (leaving before midnight counts as falling to sleep)
8)  Matt (Stu"s Brother) will have a bet in the sportsbook
9)  Stu will play at least one hand of poker (cash or tournament not a table game)
10) JP Round or Glen Laming will arrive in Vegas

You have to declare how many will happen before midnight Vegas time on the day we arrive. Do you know your apaters?

I am saying 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZXGqclG58U
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: Curlarge on October 27, 2016, 13:29:05 PM
7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7,
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: Fatcatstu on October 27, 2016, 14:22:32 PM
I very much doubt I will play any poker that day!!!
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on October 27, 2016, 14:39:49 PM

I very much doubt I will play any poker that day!!!

See that you don"t however you have a track record of suddenly entering tournaments late on during the first day, although you did nearly win the last one to be fair.
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: Quasar on October 30, 2016, 11:06:37 AM


Love your blog Rodders. Suffice to say that I am already unbelievably excited!

Can"t wait to come and meet you all on Wednesday. I should hopefully be on Vegas time by then, as I"m normally a 11pm - 7am kinda girl UK time!

To answer your question, I"m going with 1,2,3,6,7,8,9

See you a week on Wednesday. I actually cannot wait for this  ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: Curlarge on October 30, 2016, 12:54:16 PM



Love your blog Rodders. Suffice to say that I am already unbelievably excited!

Can"t wait to come and meet you all on Wednesday. I should hopefully be on Vegas time by then, as I"m normally a 11pm - 7am kinda girl UK time!

To answer your question, I"m going with 1,2,3,6,7,8,9

See you a week on Wednesday. I actually cannot wait for this  ;D ;D ;D ;D


Thats good to know  :-*
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: Fatcatstu on October 31, 2016, 08:42:33 AM
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Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 03, 2016, 07:58:46 AM
The Vegas trip is now dominating thoughts. This trip was arranged ages ago, back in February I think. It was something that was a long long way off. Almost not real yet. We were counting the time in months, it was almost a full year off and so many cool things were happening this year, and they have delivered. We went through things like WCOAP, Yarm Invasion, Belgium and various other things loosely related to poker. I remember in May commenting it was six months until Vegas. Summer came and went again and the months turned into weeks. I spoke to Stu and Matt Ward a while ago and commented that it was five weeks until Vegas and that it would be a looooong five weeks but as I sit here now it is just five DAYS away. Before long the countdown will be in hours. For some people it is even less as Curly, Deb, Tom and Ian all head out on Saturday, I seriously considered doing something similar (going on Monday) however I decided that the holiday was best extended by meeting up with the Stockton lads in Manchester on Tuesday. Once you have met up the holiday is under way. I have two more days in work of course before (if I do say so myself) a well earned 17 days off. Everything is getting shut down, laptop is not coming with me phone is staying in work and email is not getting forwarded.

I am going to try something quite ambitious as well and post some video updates from Vegas here. I will just upload them onto youtube and link them here. You will get to see such things as:-

1) The pre-show. Clips from Manchester the night before Vegas

2) The pre flight beer

3) The arrival in Vegas

4) Clips from the Friday (Epic day planned)

5) Stu falling off the Stratosphere

6) Some random poker stuff

Plus whatever else I am sober/awake enough to post.

Here is a song that to be honest probably does not usually sum up many APATers - however for the next couple of weeks might just do, love the chorus and I can"t help but think of the Vegas gang when listening to it:-

So hand me one more
That"s what I"m here for
I"m built for having a ball
I love the nightlife
I love my Bud lite
I like "em cold and tall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShMNIWSsf8k
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: duke3016 on November 03, 2016, 08:03:24 AM
 ;D ;D ;D That is all  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: Fatcatstu on November 03, 2016, 08:29:32 AM
5 days?!?!
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: Fatcatstu on November 03, 2016, 08:36:08 AM
Oh, and falling off the Stratosphere you say? Thats got to be worth a few quid of peoples money!!!

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/StuartWard (https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/StuartWard)
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 05, 2016, 10:28:17 AM
VIVA LAS VEGAS VIVA LAS VEGAS

We have sent an advance party consisting of Curly, Deb and UKTom to Vegas.

Rumor has it that JP Round won some package to go over in June as well. Massive congrats to JP on this of course, can"t wait to head over in June as well as on Wednesday. JP is indeed a man of many talents including poker and sports betting, he also as a brilliant imagination one day I will tell you about the song he made up, something about balloons I think. He keeps telling me his song go to number one in the eighties, this can"t be the case though I remember the eighties and would have heard of it. However ignoring this strange fact really well done to JP on his win (he crushes side events harder than anybody I know) and I look forward to having a few beers with him in Vegas..... Yeah I mean that has always worked out well for me in the past :-)

Right the goal today is to make enough cash to buy into some events tomorrow the APAT main and side event should be realistic targets how about also going for a seat in the Destination Vegas Qualifier good luck us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2zxHuze_Gw



Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 05, 2016, 10:49:02 AM
POTENTIALLY BORING POST TLDR UNLESS YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HOW SIMPLE MATCHED BETTING WORKS

OK guy"s the goal here is to make £35 to play the APAT games tomorrow night. This will be done with simple offers that anybody can do. I can also explain some far more complex stuff if people are interested (up to and including finding and using each way arbs) anyway. Lets go with our bets and see how we do. I will edit this post as I go with the bets I do. The goal is not to gamble but to win money whatever the result using bookie free bet offers and price boosts.

1) Offer One - Coral 1:50pm at Doncaster - Bet £20 get £10 to use on UK Racing today

   £20 Back Withernsea on Coral £20 @ 10.0
   £17.41 Placed on Smarkets Exchange @ 12 Layed Withersea
      Either way this bet will lose £3.64 and gain a £10 Free bet on any result

1b) Coral 6:10 at Chelmsford
      £10 free bet backed watersmeet @ 7.0
      £7.33 layed Watersmeet on Smarkets
         Profit = £7.18

2) Offer Two - Ladbrokes Bet £20 in play on Chelsea Vs Everton (Min odds 1.5) get £10 free to use on Arsenal Vs Tottenham
(must be done on mobile)
    Backed draw @ 4.33 for £20
    Layed draw @ 4.7 for £18.50 either way this bet will lose -£1.86

3) Bet365 (get free bet equal to Stake if your horse wins) 3pm Doncaster
    £50 Entsar - Placed on Bet365 @ 5.5 - Backed Entsar to win
    £49.28 - Place on Smarkets exchange @ 5.6 Layed Entsar
        Either way this bet will lose £1.70 but if the horse wins I will gain a £50 free bet

4) Bet365 (get free bet equal to Stake if your horse wins) 2:10 Wincaton
    £50 Zubayr - Placed on Bet365 @ 5.0 - Backed Zubayr-1.50 to win
    £48.26 - Place on Smarkets exchange @ 5.6 Layed Zubayr
        Either way this bet will lose £2.70 but if the horse wins I will gain a £50 free bet

5) SkyBet (Get Free Bet equal to stake if horse comes 2nd 3rd or 4th) 13:50 Doncaster
    £25 Boy in the Bar - Placed on SkyBet @ 11.0 - Back Boy in the Bar to win
    £23.95 - Placed on Smarkets Exchange @ 11.5 - Layed Boy in the bar
        Either way this bet will lose £1.50 but if horse comes 2nd 3rd or 4th I will gain a £25 Free Bet

Target £35
Current Profit -£4.22
Current Free bet Balance £10

Might have t do some clever stuff tomorrow - smarkets going down and stopping me using C4 racing did not help and none of the bets hit. Should be about £3 up by the time I have done the £10 free bet tomorrow hoped to do a bit more today though. Still some good chances tomorrow though.
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: duke3016 on November 05, 2016, 13:02:02 PM

POTENTIALLY BORING POST TLDR UNLESS YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HOW SIMPLE MATCHED BETTING WORKS

OK guy"s the goal here is to make £33 to play the APAT games tomorrow night. This will be done with simple offers that anybody can do. I can also explain some far more complex stuff if people are interested (up to and including finding and using each way arbs) anyway. Lets go with our bets and see how we do. I will edit this post as I go with the bets I do. The goal is not to gamble but to win money whatever the result using bookie free bet offers and price boosts.

1) Offer One - Coral 1:50pm at Doncaster - Bet £20 get £10 to use on UK Racing today

    £20 Back Withernsea on Coral £20 @ 10.0
    £17.41 Placed on Smarkets Exchange @ 11.5 Layed Withersea
       Either way this bet will lose £2.92 and gain a £10 Free bet

2) Offer Two - Ladbrokes Bet £20 in play on Chelsea Vs Everton (Min odds 1.5) get £10 free to use on Arsenal Vs Tottenham
(must be done on mobile)

3) Bet365 (get free bet equal to Stake if your horse wins) 3pm Doncaster
    £50 Entsar - Placed on Bet365 @ 5.5 - Backed Entsar to win
    £49.28 - Place on Smarkets exchange @ 5.6 Layed Entsar
        Either way this bet will lose £1.70 but if the horse wins I will gain a £50 free bet

4) Bet365 (get free bet equal to Stake if your horse wins) 2:10 Wincaton
    £50 Zubayr - Placed on Bet365 @ 5.0 - Backed Zubayr to win
    £48.26 - Place on Smarkets exchange @ 5.6 Layed Zubayr
        Either way this bet will lose £2.70 but if the horse wins I will gain a £50 free bet

Target £33
Current Profit £0


I have absolutely no idea what that man just said  ??? ??? ???
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 05, 2016, 14:05:40 PM


POTENTIALLY BORING POST TLDR UNLESS YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HOW SIMPLE MATCHED BETTING WORKS

OK guy"s the goal here is to make £33 to play the APAT games tomorrow night. This will be done with simple offers that anybody can do. I can also explain some far more complex stuff if people are interested (up to and including finding and using each way arbs) anyway. Lets go with our bets and see how we do. I will edit this post as I go with the bets I do. The goal is not to gamble but to win money whatever the result using bookie free bet offers and price boosts.

1) Offer One - Coral 1:50pm at Doncaster - Bet £20 get £10 to use on UK Racing today

    £20 Back Withernsea on Coral £20 @ 10.0
    £17.41 Placed on Smarkets Exchange @ 11.5 Layed Withersea
       Either way this bet will lose £2.92 and gain a £10 Free bet

2) Offer Two - Ladbrokes Bet £20 in play on Chelsea Vs Everton (Min odds 1.5) get £10 free to use on Arsenal Vs Tottenham
(must be done on mobile)

3) Bet365 (get free bet equal to Stake if your horse wins) 3pm Doncaster
    £50 Entsar - Placed on Bet365 @ 5.5 - Backed Entsar to win
    £49.28 - Place on Smarkets exchange @ 5.6 Layed Entsar
        Either way this bet will lose £1.70 but if the horse wins I will gain a £50 free bet

4) Bet365 (get free bet equal to Stake if your horse wins) 2:10 Wincaton
    £50 Zubayr - Placed on Bet365 @ 5.0 - Backed Zubayr to win
    £48.26 - Place on Smarkets exchange @ 5.6 Layed Zubayr
        Either way this bet will lose £2.70 but if the horse wins I will gain a £50 free bet

Target £33
Current Profit £0


I have absolutely no idea what that man just said  ??? ??? ???

Exchange has crashed anyway FFS *lol*
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 07, 2016, 10:48:14 AM
Played the apat games yesterday and did not trouble the scorers.

Never mind because the Vegas holiday starts tomorrow. I will be getting on the train from Newport at 11:04am. Wimslow change and off to Manchester Airport getting there around 2pm. Hopefully find somewhere to print off the boarding pass, check into the hotel and to the bar to meet Stu and Matt for food and a few beers.

Early start is planned on Wednesday, quickly check bags in before a beer and breakfast. This is acceptable at 7:30am as we are going to Vegas.

Long flight before meeting up with Curly, Deb, Tom and Pables. From there anything can happen.
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: Scousebill on November 07, 2016, 13:20:31 PM
Machines in the airport that do your boarding passes. Saves with possible dodgy wi-fi connection.
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 08, 2016, 11:19:16 AM
Cheers Bill. I have just put it on my phone in the end though.

Well we are off. Stu, Matt and Phil are heading down from Stockton way whilst I head up from Wales we will meeting in the middle at Manchester. My first mission is to make the connection at Wimslow this might be a problem but I am sure I can cope whatever. Long on train ride but who cares we are going to Vegas.

The advance party are certainly having a great time already but it will be even better when we get there. Hopefully we will have a video update from the bar later.
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 10, 2016, 14:31:00 PM
Just woke up wondered where I was then realised it was Vegas - result.

The last 48 hours have been great, we all met up and were sensible in Manchester. Yesterday me and the Stockton boys met The Gers, Joe and some of their mates from their club in Liverpool. We had an early morning pint and then flew to Vegas, flight was ok got through check in ok and everything. Well we nearly lost one but that is another story.

Then we are in Vegas we get in the Limo Ger had organised (cheers Ger) and get to Harrahs which was awesome. We immediately meet Deb and Curly, then Ian arrives and Tom and Colin and the whole thing goes crazy. There were quite a number of Coors lite turning up from all directions. Wer mentioning going to Casino Royale but it never happens. Some of the group go to play poker then come back.

Anyway the plan for today is to play the Golden Nuggett I think looking forward to playing some poker in Vegas.
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: Paulie_D on November 10, 2016, 18:25:31 PM
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Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on November 11, 2016, 02:49:37 AM

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Vegas not as good without you mate please come inJune
Title: Living through the Lock Down
Post by: AAroddersAA on April 11, 2020, 07:36:18 AM
Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen

Never thought I would update this again but times are strange. COVID19 has resulted in normality being put on hold for a little while. Hopefully everybody out there is doing their bit and staying home to prevent the spread.

In recent years I have stepped away from Poker, I have still played the odd APAT and had the odd run but my last live cash was Belgium in 2017, I have only played about 5 since though which I have not taken seriously. I have been doing a lot more sports betting and matched betting than poker. However, the competition element is not there for this like it is with poker. There have been a few half-hearted attempts at comebacks but these have usually involved me playing for a month or so (usually still doing OK to be fair) but then getting bored and giving up for a few months due to the lure of the sports betting markets. Some nights a literally dream about numbers on betting exchanges lol. My main issue with poker is motivation to actually play. Towards the end of last year for example I started playing, had some OK results at $10nl and was up about £100 then had a weekend where I lost £40 and completely lost motivation and since then the only games I have played (before the lockdown started) were a couple of Christmas and the APAT Team Event at DTD. Posting here again is hopefully going to help with that as back in the day I use to like keeping this up to date.

With no sport to bet or even watch this seems like a good opportunity to try and play some useful poker and with the lockdown there are really no distractions, I am still working full time from home but really don't have much else to do. We can expect this to go on for a few months yet I have decided to make another half decent effort at poker. This has been partly inspired by some mates picking the game up again and partly by the fact the games seem to have got better.

I have played a few and my first observations are my cash game is still OK, as I really expected it to be but I am well out of my depth in the tougher tournaments at the moment. The good thing is this is much easier to fix than the other way around. I am starting very small of course, even though my bankroll is very healthy I am sure I would get smashed up in the games I was previously playing although maybe not based on the way the game is playing at the moment.

So there will be videos and updates posted. The goal being to move towards a decent performance at this years WCOAP. It's not until August so has a good chance of going ahead, I hope and I (currently) fully intend to go for the first time since 2016. Maybe Malta will also be a thing again this year. I am also targeting the Summer Sizzler as an option to play some good live poker. Will I actually do any of this. I would say it's below 2.0 on Betfair I go to the WCOAP this year and about even money I play the Sizzler. A lot depends on what happens when life returns to normal and if I can maintain motivation for poker.

For now, though, we will give it a go and see what happens. We have some fairly modest goals for the next week. We are going to start focusing on NLHE cash at low limit so we will just be going with $10nl on Stars.

Saturday - 1500 Hands
Sunday - 1500 Hands
Monday - 1000 Hands
Tuesday - 200 Hands
Wednesday - 200 Hands
Thursday - 200 Hands
Friday - 200 Hands

This will create a small sample of 5000 hands to see how we are doing. Whilst doing this I might flick in for a few APAT games (probably going to play the game tonight for fun not expecting to do that well) and also a few home games setup by one of the members.

Updates of course will follow. So Until then, Stay safe, stay at home, protect the NHS and run golden.
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: duke3016 on April 11, 2020, 10:14:41 AM
Watched your couple of videos last night and to be fair you give a nice commentary and it was interesting. Stu also gives entertaining interactive commentary on Twitch - maybe you should try that and we can abuse you in the commentary box  ;D
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on April 11, 2020, 16:54:00 PM
The first day back ends in a profit on the cash games. The games are certainly playing differently to how they normally do in the last year or so. I think that we might have a lot of players coming back into the pools just because they are in the house with not a lot to do. The results was:

Hands: 1500
Profit: $33.64
All-in EV: $17.81 (better to be lucky than good)
VPIP: 22.27
PFR: 17.83
3Bet: 8.39
Fold to 3bet: 80.46

I do think I maintained focus quite well and played most of my spots OK, although being rusty from months of inactivity did mean that some decisions were not as good as they really should be. Here are some interesting hands. This was the biggest pot of the day.

https://www.boomplayer.com/32868655_847101DC0D

I think this is an interesting hand even though I think it is fairly standard. I obviously get lucky but quite like how I play it. Pre flop is quite easy. We get a raise from EP and then a 3bet from the button. I have to 4bet my AA there and choose the sizing to try and get to a point where I can shove the flop. I maybe should make it more like $4 as we are very slightly deep. Playing 130 BB rather than 100. It's OK though. He makes the call and the flop is 6s - Jc - Jd

This flop feels OK as one of the hands he can have here is definitely JJ and two jacks on the flop makes that a lot less likely. I think he can have QQ, KK and even some lower pairs here. He can also have a AK and maybe AQ. I don't feel he has a jack all that often. I have got AA, KK and QQ all in my range here as well as AK and maybe some other random hands that decided to 4bet. Feels like a much better flop for me than him, even though he does have slightly more jacks than me, and I only have just over a pot sized bet behind. I can bet small and hope he does something crazy with AK or I can shove and maybe get called by a KK or QQ type hand maybe even a stubborn AK or a smaller pair that is a non-believer.

So I shove it in, he makes the call and shows up with the TJ suited which surprises me, however we bink the river. I am not sure how much I like his call of my 4bet but I suppose it can't be that bad as he will flop enough equity to continue often enough and can sometimes get me off my AK there or maybe even QQ if the flop contains an Ace. I guess this is a pretty standard hand.

https://www.boomplayer.com/32868648_3D83F2C3F7

This hand is a spot where a few decisions could be good or bad. I have AQs in the BB. The button raises just slightly over min and I 3bet and get called by the button. The flop is not too good for me and also brings a flush draw I choose to make a half pot sized bet which gets called. The turn brings a queen giving me TPTK and also complete the club flush draw. I bet half the pot to protect my hand against hands that have a single club and again get called. The river could be a bet/fold or a check/call I go with the bet fold option betting $2 as a bit of a blocker bet. Unfortunately, I get shoved on and have to fold. Not 100 sure how well I played this spot. Should the river be a check/call maybe?

https://www.boomplayer.com/32868460_5FBCDA145C

Not much to say about this hand as it is an obvious cooler that went my way. I choose not to shove the flop in case he has like a bad 10 or a pair that he can fold and to keep some bluffs in his range. I could just call the tune a suppose but it makes the monster a bit obvious. This was quite early in the session (yes, I have now turned on the auto top-up in case anybody was wondering why I start the hand with $9.60).

https://www.boomplayer.com/32869400_65445D5049

Another pair of Jacks this time in the small blind. I raise and get 3bet by the BB. I choose to call as Jacks don't really love 4betting and getting 5bet of even getting called when they 4bet as they tend to end up playing against a range which is heavy with QQ and AK. We get a great flop about as good as we can get without having a Jack on the board and we check call intending to assess the turn and try and get it in on lots of safe turns. Then a Jack hits the turn, as we no longer need protection, I just call to keep bluffs in his range. The river I a blank and I decide to shove. I really don't know why as all through the hand I felt his range was wide and I should keep it like that so the correct play is check raise. I just decided I did not want his AA or KK hands to check behind however when I shove they can sometimes fold anyway. Don't like how I play the river here we win the hand but might have lost money.

I did record some live stuff as it is easy to just pick out big hands and not give a real idea of how I am playing most of the spots I come across and how I try to think about them. The session is in two parts and it is my thoughts during the games. Hopefully it adds some interest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG8YjWBg9aQ - Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77S86CmxIzA  Part 2

So, at the end of the day we are very happy with the result of course. Ran good so it is important to remember that on days where I run bad. I aimed to get the sessions and update done by 5pm to be able to take a break before seeing f I feel like playing tonight. That is the most hands I have played in a day for a while so we will see how I feel later and if I jump in or not.

Want to try and do the same kind of thing tomorrow hopefully won't give all the profit back. Swing 3 buy-ins in a day is easy either way.

OK ladies and gents stay at home, stay safe, protect the NHS and run golden.
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on April 12, 2020, 14:42:49 PM
Good Afternoon

Day two is in the books and the results read a bit different from yesterday:
Hands: 1509
Profit: -$0.84
All-in EV: $17.96 (repaying yesterday's run good)
VPIP: 23.27
PFR: 19.66
3Bet: 7.11
Fold to 3be: 85.37t
The fold to 3bet is probably too high but it is unlikely to be a massive issue in this game. Will try to adjust that though. The session went OK I am happy enough with how I played it.

This hand did some damage (I was not able to get it on Boom as when the money went in my opponent cashed out which stops the Boom player from showing it seems). The hand plays itself though

PokerStars - $0.10 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

BTN: 161.2 BB
SB: 100 BB
BB: 147.1 BB
Hero (UTG): 154.2 BB
MP: 101.5 BB
CO: 231.3 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Ah As
Hero raises to 3 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, BB raises to 6 BB, Hero raises to 30 BB, BB raises to 147.1 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 117.1 BB
Flop : (294.7 BB, 2 players) 3c Ks 6d
Turn : (294.7 BB, 2 players) 6h
River : (294.7 BB, 2 players) 3d
BB cashed out 52.3 BB for a fee of 0.5 BB
BB shows Kd Kc (Full House, Kings full of Sixes)
 (Pre 19%, Flop 91%, Turn 95%)
Hero shows Ah As (Two Pair, Aces and Sixes)
 (Pre 81%, Flop 9%, Turn 5%)

My tracker says he cashed out for 52.3BB which is $5.23. Given that the pot was $29.47 before rake and $28.14 after rake and he has 19% equity which is $5.34 cashing out is going to be -EV. This is pretty much always the case long term it makes more sense to just click resume hand.

https://www.boomplayer.com/32879830_26CB07EF2F
Not sure if I like how I play this hand or not. Preflop and the flop are fine. When we hit the ace on the turn we have to feel like we have the best hand. We bet half the pot which is OK. Maybe we can go bigger, the space draw completes on the river and we check/call a half pot bet. I think we should either check/fold or bet/fold here as he has a lot of flush draws, probably a mistake there.

https://www.boomplayer.com/32879848_9C91AF0FDC
I win this hand but think I should raise his flop lead with the over pair. QQ beats his range well enough so it should be an easy raise I think. The turn shuts down the action although I didn't think he had a King that often unless it is KJ there did not seem to be much value in a river bet. Think I lose some money in this hand.

https://www.boomplayer.com/32879945_52EA277018

This hand is a bit of a session saver but is I think an interesting one. We start the hand really deep 280BB effective. AK is a raise and he makes the call with QJ. The flop is A-K-3 with 2 clubs. I have top two pair making it hard for him to have anything, although there are some draws so I want to bet. I bet about 40% of the pot hoping to get some value from worse aces and maybe a king. He calls and the turn is a ten which is his gin card. I dislike the ten as I know that he can have QJ here but there are lots of other hands he can have here like flush draws. I decide I need to charge the flush draws which it feels like he can have so I bet just over half pot. He calls. I think his call here is quite a big mistake. When we are this deep and you have the nuts you have to build the pot. In position he was clearly intending to raise the river but I raise would have put me in a tough spot. I would probably have had to call and check/call the river unless he really takes off. As it is I could have just bet/folded the river and got away quite cheap. The river card is really bad for him though. It is literally the worst card in the deck for his hand. The flush got there and any 2 pair ace hand or set just got there. I now have the nuts and therefore bet out almost the full part thinking I can get a call from a flush. He clicks it back which is just bad with his hand. It is so small that I am going to have to call with the flush. I actually now think he might have flopped a set of threes or just be overplaying the flush. I got all-in to try and make him make a big mistake with a flush or set. He call off with the straight. Here I think he has basically got married to his hand on the turn and just refuses to believe the river has killed his hand. I suppose we all do it sometimes.
Basically, a break-even session. I actually got a chest that I opened and it gave me $1 so that takes me into profit for the session (woohoo).

I have enjoyed the last couple of days and hope I maintain the games, my games still seems to be OK for holdem cash. Played the PLO mini games last night on Party but did not cash, think I played OK though but it was really just standard spots. Will probably play again tonight in the 8pm game. Not sure I want to play the main games quite yet as I really need to do some work on the tournament game. Going to just get through the hands for this week first and see if we end up in profit then go from there.

Watched your couple of videos last night and to be fair you give a nice commentary and it was interesting. Stu also gives entertaining interactive commentary on Twitch - maybe you should try that and we can abuse you in the commentary box  ;D

Thing is Stu is very good at that. I don't think I really have his ability to keep it interesting unless people are really interested in poker theory. The youtube videos are helpful to watch back and I might do some longer ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_uYsl9ZEYc&feature=youtu.be  Part 1 today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1ve9qjuu-Y Part2 today

I will leave it there, stay safe all.
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: duke3016 on April 13, 2020, 11:03:06 AM
Nice one Steve, great read (if I understood the maths I would be dangerous). Watched the APAT live commentary last night and have decided to play all the squad games this week as an individual for the craic  8)
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on April 13, 2020, 18:59:12 PM
Nice one Steve, great read (if I understood the maths I would be dangerous). Watched the APAT live commentary last night and have decided to play all the squad games this week as an individual for the craic  8)
I will also be playing the squad games for Raise for Jack with a percentage of our winnings (lol winnings  like that is gonna happen) going to the charity. So will see you at the table I am sure.

Played a smallish session today of only 1000 hands. Went OK winning a little bit over a buyin.

Hands: 1000
Total Profit: $13.72
Allin EV: $11.89
VPIP: 20.82%
PFR: 17.44%
3bet: 9.70%
Fold to 3bet: 81.36%

Happy enough with how I am playing and will just finish off the planned 5K hands for the rest of the week then see where to go from there. I think that should be enough to get some of the rust out of my Holdem game. I still do feel a bit lost in certain situations which I really shouldn't and probably need to run some examples through come solvers. The games are still fairly soft at least in part due to it being Easter weekend and nobody can go out. I have obviously run good as well.

Mind you I might still have some work to do on my game as it comes to something when you can't even successfully bluff the nut low off a pot.

https://www.boomplayer.com/32895255_E960E5FE8E

Not sure it is the best play I have ever made, he can easily call me there with a Jack and it doesn't look like I have an Ace. I thought he could fold some hands that beat me, it would appear I was wrong.

https://www.boomplayer.com/32895258_FB35B98AE8

This is a nice flop. The hand kind of plays itself though. Maybe there is an argument for shoving the turn but with the stack sizes and his remaining stack I will be able to shove the river and it keeps bluffs in his range. He should probably check/fold the river but I think by calling rather than raising the turn we give him the chance to make the mistake.

https://www.boomplayer.com/32895076_17016A0447

This was the first time I have felt confident to 4bet light in a situation. I have the ace blocker and can flop good equity. People also play quite straight forward in 4bet pots so the cbet works a lot.

https://www.boomplayer.com/32895056_0F72A011BE

Don't like how I play this hand. Maybe I should be 4betting pre but I think the call Is OK. I should just fold the flop though once I have taken that line. This is one of those spots where I am still not 100% confident.

So we are 4K hands through the 5K I said I would play. I am currently winning overall by $46.52 which is about 11.5BB/100. It really doesn't give an accurate picture though. I have run good and that win rate is obviously not sustainable. My biggest loss was $14.71 when I lost with AA to KK, apart from that I have only lost one hand for 100BB (when I flopped a set against a player who flopped a straight). All that being said I think I would still e a winning player at this stake. The game is playing softer though. I always sad that this game is tougher than 90% of live 50p/£1 games around the UK. I am not sure how true that is at the moment. It is probably still slightly tougher. I am confident in still saying if you can beat this game long term then you would be a winner at the lowest stakes of live poker. If you can beat the $25 Zoom game (which plays harder than the $10 Zoom Game) then you should crush live games up to £1/£2. That's my theory anyway, I could be talking rubbish as I have not played any worthwhile volume of live cash for a few years. Whenever I do though it seems to play the same as always.

Back to work tomorrow - if you can call it that as going to work involves going from my bedroom. Having a shower ect making coffee and sitting down in my living room at my laptop. I have tended to go for a short walk after work just around by my house as it's fairly quiet and its easy enough to avoid other people out walking so I have managed to maintain a routine up to a point. I have been reading a couple of threads on two plus two which are entertaining (even if I don't believe they are 100% real.

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/174/poker-goals-amp-challenges/return-6bet-me-1762207/
I read the previous thread to this one too, it is well written and entertaining although it is quite clearly a parody with some elements of truth in it.

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/174/poker-goals-amp-challenges/biggest-loser-online-poker-history-wants-grind-16k-1738987/?highlight=
Not sure how close to the truth this one is. The player and the games exist and the graph looks genuine. Still struggle to believe it can be fully factual though.

Until tomorrow, stay safe everybody.
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on April 14, 2020, 19:55:07 PM
Good Evening

Nobody (except me and Ger) is posting on the thread but it is getting views so I assume people are reading.

Played two mini sessions since my last post. The first one was last night and the results were:-

Hands: 198
Profit -$3.47
Allin EV: -$3.47

The second one was this evening

Hands: 205
Profit: $14.18
Allin EV: $14.18
VPIP: 20.5%
PFR: 16%
3bet: 7.23%
Fold to 3bet: 81.82% (this is too high)

This was a big swing hand. I didn't get it on the replayer

PokerStars - $0.10 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN (BTN): 94.7 BB
SB (SB): 99.8 BB
Hero (BB): 121.3 BB
UTG (UTG): 107.8 BB
MP (MP): 224.8 BB
CO (CO): 100 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Dealt to Hero:
 

fold, MP raises to 3 BB, fold, BTN calls 3 BB, fold, Hero raises to 14 BB, MP calls 11 BB, BTN calls 11 BB

Flop (42.5 BB, 3 players):
   
Hero bets 15 BB, MP calls 15 BB, BTN calls 15 BB

Turn (87.5 BB, 3 players):
 
Hero bets 28 BB, MP calls 28 BB, fold

River (143.5 BB, 2 players):
 
Hero bets 64.3 BB and is all-in, MP calls 64.3 BB

Hero shows:
 
(Flush, Ace High)
(Pre 43%, Flop 28%, Turn 30%)

MP shows:
 
(Flush, Queen High)
(Pre 57%, Flop 72%, Turn 70%)

Hero wins 259.9 BB

Not sure how much I like how I play it to be honest, it's most likely OK. I don't dislike my 3bet preflop at all but calling would be OK as well. The c-bet on the flop is marginal but OK. Once he calls I think he has a lot of JJ and QQ type hands which called the 3bet preflop. I still have all the over-pairs including AA with the Ad so I think betting the turn as I also have some equity is OK as well I hit the nut flush on the river and it's an easy shove. I would also have shoved an Ace or Queen here by the way but it is easier to get called when the flush hits as he can easily have a hand like he did. There is also the small chance he hit a set of queens and although that hand should fold sometimes it doesn't

I played the squads game last night and scrapped a min cash. I was doing OK until I checked the BB against a button limper with 82 and the flop came A-8-2. We were both sat on about 35BB and so I bet 3.4BB into a 3.5BB pot he then raises I think he has a lot of aces here that my two pair beats but my hand is very vulnerable and needs protection. I shove my stack and he makes the call with A6. The turn and the river were both 9's and he takes a massive pot to go chip leader with 750K (second place at that time had about 550K).  I am not exactly a massive Favorited in the hand but I guess I want the call there. I still manage to hold on a cash. Hopefully will make a better run in the PLO8 tonight.
I also have a quandary. I am currently working from home as are most people I am sure. I get 35 days holiday a year (Jan - Dec) and have so far used 4. I tend to not use holidays much in the first half of the year only really using holidays for the Team Event (I only used one day for that) and Cheltenham  for which I used 3 days (I had some time owed to me so just finished early enough on the Tuesday to run around several bookies mainly William Hill). I have a week booked off in May. We will still be in lockdown by the looks of it so do I cancel it? I can't take any time in June as our team is already got too many people off not like Royal Ascot is gonna happen anyway. However, I then get to July and can take a week off every month or a good few long weekend for Poker / Racing Festivals / Race days / Dogs. It will mean however that I only take 4 days annual leave in the first 6 months of the year. I would be able to carry over anything I don't use. I think I would rather take the time when I can actually do something with it as opposed to just sitting at home, if I am here then I may as well open the laptop and work as opposed to open a different laptop and play poker.
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on April 18, 2020, 10:28:59 AM
I played the last 600 hands of the 5000 I said I would play this week and made a profit in doing so. So overall the results were:

Hands: 5000
Total Profit: $84.06
Total All-in EV:  $74.37
VPIP: 22.13%
PFR: 18.32%
3bet: 7.91%
Fold to 3bet: 82.14%
BB/100: 16.81

Don't think that really says much. The win rate is not sustainable even at these stakes although I am confident I can beat this game still, my win rate would be nowhere near this. As expected my cash game is in much better shape than my tournament game. I have only played APAT games (the squad's games) and for the first time I can remember since I stared playing APAT games I don't think I would be a winning player in that field. Enough time to do something about that before I need to play anything near serious though but I will skip the bigger weekend events for now. That's for the future though. Don't think I am at playing well enough to start focusing on MTT's as yet.

I have decided I want to increase the sample size I have here so want to add another 2.K hands to it this weekend. That's only 1250 hands each day so should not be too hard. I do think my VPIP and PFR are too far apart although 22.18 is not terrible it should be about one percent closer. More updates to come. Here are some interesting hands from the last few days:

https://www.boomplayer.com/32930200_087E6F8CA0

https://www.boomplayer.com/32930189_9C4E15185A

https://www.boomplayer.com/32930147_5C4CC94BB3
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on April 18, 2020, 16:37:25 PM
Was going to post about some stuff other than poker today but had a very interesting session. Here are todays stats:-

Hands: 1500
Total Profit: $39.90
Allin EV: $34.30
VPIP: 18.23%
PFR: 15.16%
3Bet: 6.79%
Fold to 3bet: 87.14

It started well when I 3bet AQ against a raise from Seat 2 and flop top pair. Seat 2 shoved $7.89 into a pot of $3.10 and I hold against a flush draw. Then I win $6 about when I get it in preflop with AK against tens and win the race. So things go my way in general and I am winning about $25 at one point. I then flop a set and get it in for an $18 pot against a flush draw which hits. That and a few other things going wrong cut my profit to about $10. Still doing OK 750 hands into a planned 1250. I decide to record 15 mins which is posted below it is not the most interesting session. This takes me down to near break even. I then drop to just below break even when I 3bet Tens from the big blind. The Flop comes ace high and the SB donk's into me I call the flop and a small turn bet. The river completes a flush draw and he bets big so I have to fold.

So I was down small after 1250 hands and was going to call it a day. However I decide this is a good chance to see if I can maintain good standards of play whilst running a bit bad. I wasn't running too bad obviously but had just drooped 3 buyins from my peak so it was going to be harder to play good poker than when you are winning  in theory at least. I actually didn't feel on tilt or that bothered and didn't have that annoyed feeling you sometimes get after a loosing session. I tend to get more annoyed at myself making bad plays but didn't think that was really the case. Anyway I decide to play another 250 hands so I can review them and see if I am happy with how I play during loosing sessions. I started with this hand which might be OK or might be bad I need to look at it in more details.

https://www.boomplayer.com/32950209_82D78E3ADA

The first 3 streets are going to be fine but I might not need to shove the river.

So at that point I was down $11. The got some hands that moved me in the right direction

https://www.boomplayer.com/32950252_1ADA753196
https://www.boomplayer.com/32950281_555776A9F9

Both of these hands are standard from my perspective. The first hand has a few small discussion points such as should I call with 44 in that position but I tend to think it is fine and he can probably fold the river (I think folding the turn would be a mistake from his side of things). In the second hand he does not need to shove the flop but from our side it's an easy call as we are almost never behind.

Then I got this hand which I thought was the weirdest hand, as in probably the hand where the Villain plays most badly.

https://www.boomplayer.com/32950299_9379DCC4ED

Preflop is fairly standard. I could 4bet but I like playing my hand in position and keeping his range wide as if I do 4bet I have to fold if he bets. I hit top set which is the effective nut's T8 is in theory possible but unlikely he has all the overpairs. When he checks I may as well bet we are so deep that it makes sense to start trying to build a pot, if he has nothing I am not going to get much anyway. So the money ends up going in. I considered just calling his raise but the board is wet so would rather get as much money in as possible. But getting 267BB into a pot that started as a 22BB pot with one pair just seems like it is never going to end well. Pokerstar's offered me a cash out of $48. It crossed my mind but don't think I could look my myself in the mirror if I did that. The set holds and the session swings massively. I win some other small pots and the session comes to an end. Again think I played well, need to see how I do when I get an extended period of run bad. At the moment I have run pretty well.

Going to play some small MTT's tonight. Will play the APAT squads game  which I seem terrible at and I have a power fest ticket and some points on Pokerstars that I can turn into some small tickets.

Away from poker we are of course in lockdown for at least another 3 weeks and I think there is a decent chance it extends beyond that. I am hopeful that things might start returning to normal by the summer although of course pubs and casinos will be the last thing to reopen. I think there is a hope that we may be only 3 months away from that (maybe a bit optimistic but there is a chance). The silver lining of all of this is that currently there is no point in taking any time off work, if I am sat in the house anyway I may as well work and you save loads of money (although not being able to sports bet doesn't help on that one). Racing will be back as well, The Grand National was missed and Royal Ascot won't happen I don't think but Glorious Goodwood has a chance then you have the autumn with the St Leger and the Ebor. Hopefully some people can be convinced to head to a racing trip.

However there is a chance of an epic reopening come midsummer. Hopefully as this happens the premier league will restart and the champions league will also start back up. I see opportunities here. So may plans for the second half of the year currently would be:-

July - Yarm to Visit the Stockton gang hopefully with Ger, Ger, Glenn, Paulie and whoever else turns up to it. Realistically this one might get delayed but I am sure it will happen at some point.

August - WCOAP

Day at the Races - Not sure when but I am sure this is going to happen

Night at the dogs - ldo

Trip away - Some of us were meant to go to Portugal, as it happens I would not have been able to go anyway as I had to go for a day surgery to fix a faulty bowel *lol* but sadly what would have been an epic trip was cancelled for most people. It's possible this gets rescheduled for later in the year or maybe we will just go to Malta. Or maybe we should just go somewhere better than Portugal or Malta? ……..

Anyway things to look forward too to keep us upbeat during the lockdown.

Everybody Stay Safe, Help the NHS and run Golden.
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on April 19, 2020, 14:04:46 PM
Hello Everybody

Nothing very interesting today t be honest some hands below that were fairly standard. I had AA against KK twice allin pre flop and held both times which accounted for a good bit of the profit.

Couple of interesting hands where I might make mistakes are here

https://www.boomplayer.com/32960098_2F1119D78B 

So here I raise UTG with pocket threes which may not be the best of plays but I still think it's OK. UTG+1 min raises (wtf) and there are two callers. I therefore have good odds to call.

The flop is 3-4-5 all clubs. I could bet here but into 3 players I am not sure how much I love bottom set. So it checks around. The turn is an off suit jack so nothing that was not already there gets there. The Small blinds make a 2/3 pot bet and I call and UTG1 calls. The river is a blank and the SB makes a good bet of 2/3 of pot again, this feels strong and I think bottom set is not going to play ell so I fold.
https://www.boomplayer.com/32960104_F3574B5F92 

This one is OK I think maybe I should fold the river.

Hands: 999
VPIP: 20.35
PFR: 17.58
3Bet: 6.8
Fold to 3bet: 82.98
Total Profit: $28.25
Allin EV: $16.38

So still doing OK, overall I am about 2. Buy-in's ahead of EV so owe a little bit back. I think I will finish off playing 10K hands and see what happens from there 10K hands is obviously no where near enough to properly know if I can beat the game but at the moment, I think I can. Once I have completed that it really depends on if I want to try and play some PLO or put some focus on MTT's. I kind of want to start getting ready for the WCOAP possible return s should try to play some MTT's. I have done really badly in the couple I have played recently but am not sure what I am doing wrong (not convinced I am actually doing much wrong tbh) I played 4 last night as I had a $4.40 and a $3.30 ticket on Stars a $5.50 Ticket on Party and also played the APAT squads on Party. Felt like I was getting in decent spots but couldn't hold which is fine. I would have been in a good position in the Powerfest but lost AA to QQ all in preflop for a massive pot which could have given me a deep run, I would have had a good stack in the $4.40 on Stars as well but lost a three way with AK again AT and Q8. That's pretty standard and if I can keep finding the spots, I should get results. Might play some pf the small MicroMillions that are on as well.
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on April 23, 2020, 21:03:28 PM
Hey all

Just thought I would post an update on here, managed to get my sample size up to over 10K hands on the cash games but not been playing so well. The final total after those hands was:

Hands: 10252
VP$IP: 21.08%
PFR: 17.71%
Profit: $110.70
Allin EV: $94.08
BB/100: 10.8

Overall that is still not a bad result but I seem to be going through my normal sequence I seem to get when trying to make a comeback to poker. I was doing OK and quite enjoying the game. Seem to play quite well and am happy enough working on my game. Then I run a little bit badly and it doesn't affect my level of play too much but I completely lose interest. I have also been playing the APAT Squad games in which I have to say I have run terribly. I have cashed a couple anyway but the last three games have been crazy. Going through one of those spells where you cannot win a 70/30 (I know everybody gets them). I have played about 15 of them and min cashed in 2

Need to really make an effort to keep playing at the moment as I am find it hard to maintain interest. This is the problem I get. My choices are to try and play through it and see what happens or try to play some other game variety (which realistically is either PLO or MTT's) - we will see what happens this weekend. Still want to work towards a good performance at the WCOAP. Then maybe a grand finale in Vegas June 2021 before retiring from poker (although it's unlikely I would never play again to be honest, does any poker player ever do that). That's a long way away though. I also notice the Goliath got cancelled this year which makes it unlikely the WCOAP is going to happen in August, hopefully it just gets delayed

So going to watch some video's to try and make sure my fundamentals remain good and run back through my hands to check for any glaring mistakes. On Saturday might just play some Micro Millions and see how that goes. I do have some points to use and have a couple of tickets that popped out of those chest things.

Going to try and keep it going and do a bit of work on the game tomorrow and next week rather than playing with some games on the weekend thrown in. I do need to try start getting some non holdem games in there as well not feeling over confident of that at the moment so we will have to wait and see what happens. If I end up playing a full schedule as I would like to, just turn up for the main event or end up not playing at all. Any of those could happen I think I will be there though.

Stay Safe all, Help the NHS and all carers in any way you can and run Golden whilst at the tables.
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: AAroddersAA on April 26, 2020, 13:19:48 PM
Moved from Pokerstars to Party Poker this weekend to see if that helped. I did find it quite helpful and was up abut £35.67 at the cash games which is just over 4 buyings meaning I was back in profit after a losing week on Stars last week. The problem with Party is that it does not allow Trackers, I don't mind the HUD not being there as that is the same for everybody but I do like being back to track my results. I can copy and paste the history into excel and reformat it to give me the profit but I can't see other stats.

The London Marathon should have been today but has been cancelled of course. I see that they are now planning to restart the Premier League in June with games behind closed doors. The games might be televised on free to air channels which would be good for the game, hopefully this will result in some smaller clubs getting some assistance as I know a few League One and League two clubs are struggling. I am stilll not 100% sure it will happen of course but it would be good to start to get some sport back, although the darts has been good.

I still expect that we may start to move towards a return to normality in June (visiting family will probably be OK again and I think we will be able to go back to work instead of having to work from home. Some sport might return and shops may start to reopen. I am really wanting to know when we will get back to being able to go to the pub and meet up for weekends again. Still reckon that will happen before next year. It would be great if we could do some stuff whilst all the sport starts catching up. Might be optimistic, don't know.

Might not play as much poker next week, maybe just play some of the APAT Squad games hopefully if sport does return soon we can get back in on the betting game again.
Title: Re: Keeping Warm in Winter
Post by: Ronan1001 on December 07, 2022, 15:47:24 PM
So here I raise UTG with pocket threes which may not be the best of plays but I still think it's OK. UTG+1 min raises (wtf) and there are two callers. I therefore have good odds to call.

The flop is 3-4-5 all clubs. I could bet here but into 3 players I am not sure how much I love bottom set. So it checks around. The turn is an off suit jack so nothing that was not already there gets there. The Small blinds make a 2/3 pot bet and I call and UTG1 calls. The river is a blank and the SB makes a good bet of 2/3 of pot again, this feels strong and I think bottom set is not going to play ell so I fold.
https://www.boomplayer.com/32960104_F3574B5F92 

This (https://sloteire.com) one is OK I think maybe I should fold the river.

Hands: 999
VPIP: 20.35
PFR: 17.58
3Bet: 6.8
Fold to 3bet: 82.98
Total Profit: $28.25
Allin EV: $16.38

I'd drop a set of threes, too. I don't like such small sets. There are chances, of course, but this hand is more likely to lose if the flop is the same suit.