weekly update #19

19 May - 25 May:
2,295 hands (100nl)
$800.00 (weird, huh?)
17.43 ptbb/100

Pretty happy that I got in this volume of hands even though I only played Monday - Thursday. Spent the weekend at home with the family, which was good. Also learned that one of my old neighborhood friends is now a 6'6 350 pound Guitar Hero savant -- I watched the kid get 92% on Dragonforce on Expert mode. Never seen fat fingers move so fast... but I digress.

As far as poker is concerned, I'm quickly approaching the $7k bankroll milestone and really would like to improve my game more by signing up for Greg's SSNL course. However, something like 5 emails and 3 forum posts have gone unanswered in the past month, and I'm starting to think this isn't going to happen. Maybe I should just spend the $750 on Bobbo's book instead. Thoughts? Also, quick shoutout to Ian for the heads up on hhSmithey's new PokerStars datamining service. Even though it isn't even close to all-inclusive, 200k hands per week at 100nl should be a good place to start fish hunting and I'll be moving a good portion of my play back to that site in the near future.

A few big hands from the week:

Hand 1: Villain is a 22/18 regular who is capable of floating both streets with any pocket pair. I don't really like my river check since I'm not getting a bet from a lot of the hands I want value from (99, TT, JJ, JQ). In retrospect, I think I should lead out again since the only hands that will raise me are the ones that have me beat (AQ,55,66,88).

Hand 2: Villain is a 42/10 donk (typical AP) and is just generally god awful, so I'm pretty sure this is just a standard stackoff. Limp KQo ftw.

Hand 3: I'm not so good at the maths, but I'm thinking that I'm priced in to call here. I'm not loving it though. Sidenote: the reason I'm calling the PFR is that I wanted to play any hand I could with the UTG villain (terrible donk who was on tilt and would definitely pay me off). Also, who here hates the flop raise... show of hands?

Hand 4 and Hand 5: Sometimes I flop big and people like to give me $$$.

Hand 6: And sometimes I get lucky (although I'm pretty sure I need to make this play against a donk who could easily have A2, Ax, or a draw...)

Posted byM0NIKER at 10:43 AM  

2 comments:

Unknown said... May 27, 2008 at 12:42 PM  

Very nice week m0niker!

The only comment I will say is about calling with the 88 preflop deep. At this level, I don't think it is too big of a deal, because villains can't lay down overpairs deep, but in higher levels, I think calling there with 88 is probably a mistake OOP. But this really isn't relevant at the moment, just for future games at higher limits where the opposition gets better.

You already pretty much summed up my thoughts on your hands in your descriptions. As for the math involved with your FD. If you think you have 9 outs, it is an instant stackoff. If you think you have 8, being up against a set, then I still think it is a stackoff. Of course, if you think you have less, than it sucks and you don't have the equity. However, I don't think you can assume only 7 outs, I think most of the time you can count on having 8 outs, so I think your call of the all in is correct. I also don't much care for the raise, because preflop aggressor still has to act and I don't know why he is checking the flop. Is he checking the flop to be tricky or because he missed and is OOP in a 3-way pot? I think it is probably read dependent. If you think he is check/folding, then I don't mind the raise. I think you just have to be pretty sure he is going to C/F to raise the flop.

Hope you continue your success man! You thinking about moving up to $200NL anytime soon? Splashing in the occasional games?

M0NIKER said... May 27, 2008 at 1:37 PM  

Hey Brian, thanks for the comments. To respond to your questions:

1. Called with 88 there because of our 150BB effective stacks and (mainly) because the raise was only 3x. Had he raised to the more standard $16 I think I would have leaned towards a fold. I like being able to set mine on the cheap.

2. Not really looking to take shots at 200nl at the moment. Would really like to get some sort of additional training (SSNL or Bobbo's book) before making that step up. Also, I think I'd like to get in about 10-15k more hands at 100nl so I can review a set of 50k (I'm currently at like 37k for the year at this level).

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