Keeping Warm in Winter

[AAroddersAA]

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.

[AAroddersAA]

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

[AAroddersAA]

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.

[Santino67]

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

[AAroddersAA]

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.

[AAroddersAA]

Played a bit of poker this morning. I got up early to watch qualifying, had a tenner on Rosberg for pole and reckon it might have been good if he had not flat spotted his tyres.

Played a few games but the most interesting one is this heads up session. It invovles some hands between me and a pretty aggressive and not too bad heads up PLO player. It was a pretty tough game as he is not playing standard PLO, his is 3-betting a little bit too light though and semi bluffing a bit too often, he is not easy to take off a pot and not scared to get his money in the middle.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4171160

This hand pretty much played itself tbh, quite happy to 3-bet that hand pre and after I make the C-bet I have to get it in.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4171162

This one was slightly annoying but it happens in PLO, same hand near enoughbut I still manage to lose the pot.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4171164

Pretty standard again he has a nice hand on the flop but with what has gone in pre I have to get it in and was near enough a coin flip.

So I was pretty much getting beaten up pretty badly in this game so far. He was 3-betting REALLY wide (39% 3-bet preflop) and taking the agressive action at every point.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4171167

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4171168

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4171169

I like how I play this hand. We had both been three betting quite a bit so I did not have to have to be this strong preflop. He had not really started to 4-bet light though so I was not surprised when he flat called. The flop is quite good enough for me no big draws and not many combos that SHOULD make two pair (he can actually have two pair here but it is more likely he does not). I feel I am ahead and he will call a bet on the flop with lots i beat. I was fairly sure he would raise if I was behind so the bet gave me value and info, when he called I felt I was ahead and the turn did not change anything. After he called the turn I was still confident as he had not pulled the trigger on me. The river, I thought he would fold anything I beat if I bet, but that he might shove with worse, could not see much he could really bet for value on the river unless he made a silly inside str8 draw or set of nines which was possible but not likely. My plan worked - a nicely played hand I felt.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4171170

I shove on a semi bluff on the flop and am lucky to get there but I think I win the pot with the semi bluff often enough and I supposed to make my draws sometimes

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4171179

I 4-bet lightish here but still ahead of his 3-bet range. Was confident the flop was most likely a semi bluff and snap it off, this time he gets there.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4171180

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4171182

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4171185

This one is pretty thin but I wanted to keep the pressure on, he makes an easy call with KK, there are times you might have to think abou it with this kind of action but it was almost 100% to be good in this game.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4171186

when you are hot, you are hot

I make some mistakes here for sure but think I play him fairly well and make good adjustments to his game and understanding how to get the max out of him.

I won $125 on this game and also won $5 at Zoom Poker (should have been more but played very bad hand).

Lost $22 at 6-max PLO for a profit of $103 on the day.

Actually having a good month, although it all mixed up as my tracker does not track Zoom poker or PLO Hu. Like the games though as you make FPP at them at a great rate. Fairly sure the below is right:-

March
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PLO 6-Max (inc Zoom) = +$14 (great hourly)
PLO Heads up = +$220
Tournaments = +$95

Total profit = $329

[AAroddersAA]

Quick update to avoid a tl;dr post.

Finished last month in profit and somehow or another have been up at poker in each month this year, not sure how that happens as my plays has not been great at all. Started this month badly and was down $250 in cash games and tournaments. Ran like god last Sunday and won APAT league event to bounce back into profit. Then ran good a couple of evenings and this weekend including today to make back $200 in cash games. So having a good month even though I am down in cash AGAIN (although my EV line says I should be up $150). I will certainly take results to date this year overall as I think they are much better than I deserve. I really should be down.

That said I think I have added some new skills to my game after spending AGES looking at the stuff Noble1 sent me and reading the stuff about being better at exploiting people. I have had to cut it down to two tables for the time being but I think I am a lot better at doing this stuff now. Here are two quick hands for you.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4226172

Not sure how good of an example this is as I have flopped half decent anyway but I knew Glfin tended to c-bet almost all the time but give up when met with resistance, telemehani tended to raise the full pot if he had the goods. I therefore felt the Check raise had a great chance of getting through and I had some equity anyway with 6 clean outs to the nuts and a bunch of other cards that could give me the best hand with position.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4226173

This time I am against a loose player who seems to like to call down up to the river but gives up easily on the river. Having position is important as when the flush card came I felt fair;y confident he would be it most ofthe time. So thought I was safe to take the pot away on the river.

For those of you who like hand analysis this is an interesting one http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=57446.0

I have a week off work this week so might play some poker but have a tournament schedule for tonight anyway.

[AAroddersAA]

Off work tomorrow so tonight"s schedule

18:30 $11 - Sunday Storm 1st Anniversary [1M Gtd]
18:35 $3.30 - PL Omaha [1.5K Gtd]
18:45 $11 - Sunday Million Sat 100 Seats Gtd
19:00 $11 - Bigger $11 [150K Gtd]
19:00 $3.30 - NL Hold'em [5K Gtd]
19:00 $11 - APAT League
Sure went well

[cashman]

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  

[AAroddersAA]

Nice one Cashman :-)

To be fair I could not have run much worse tonight. Made a little bit playing cash whilst playing the tournaments though so not all bad (only about $25 but it all counts).

Annoyed to bust six tournaments in under two hours without really doing too much wrong but that"s the way it goes sometimes. Still about $50 up on the day.

EDIT: Make that $100 up for the day, found a fish playing PLO on the heads up so sat and made $50, should have made more, was more up but misplayed a few hands due to being morally obliged to drink the bottles of SA that were in my beer fridge. I will take a $100 day though back in profit on cash for the month now. I also played some FR hold "em cos Darren was on the table (not sure how that is a good thing) and a seat was free. Lost $23.87 doing that but it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Hopefully more updates tomorrow

[AAroddersAA]

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.

[pokerpops]

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.

[AAroddersAA]

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

[AAroddersAA]

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?

[Paulie_D]

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.