Last nights move to 10NL

After a simply awful start to yesterday (two FHs under FHs as you can see below) I decided to swallow my pride and take a step down. Not for financial reasons, I still had over 25 buy ins, but because I realised I wasnt playing to the best of my ability. I was starting to play a little desperate trying to win back lost money. So I moved down to 10NL for the night and LOVED it. I was able to play 6 tables again, something I missed. I realised that I could really crush 10NL without much idfficulty, and im not trying to sound cocky or boastful. I plugged in 1.8K hands over 3 hours, one of my biggest sessions this month, and finished up 4 buy ins, so nearly covering my loses from 25nl. I think im going to stick at 10NL today, and move back up to 25nl tommorrow as its a new month and I want to get silverstar status.

So anyway on to yesterdays sessions, I picked some hands you'll like and some you might not :)

Hand 1: KK runs into AA. Yes i shove PF after a limp-raise but im not folding KK PF at this level. I had an inkling this guy had the rockets but hed been playing a bit weird and had done the exact same think with AK so i didnt mind getting my chips in when I did. This didnt get to me though, I just let it sliiiiide.



Hand 2: Im not sure how people will take this hand. Yes I know limping OOP with K10s isnt a great move but there was reason behind the madness. Id noticed the villian who raised tends to raise when theres alot of deadmoney in the middle, and then was willing to bet all three streets, btu he wouldnt get in a raised pot. Basically I was trying to isolate him without raising as he'd yet to call one of my PF raises. It worked out magically.




Hand 3: Haha right i know that IceMonkey isnt going to like this hand! But this is why sometimes aslong as the right condidions are met, ill call a standard raise with a less then great hand (conditions being the inital raiser has a full stack adn tightish stats). I do this for a couple reasons. 1. Youll either win a big pot, or lose a small as you wont commit more chips unless you improve drastically. 2. You hand is REALLY disguised as so far youve only shown down premium hands. 3. Good for your image and metagame. Anyway heres an example of it working



Hand 4: Quads get payed off by a absolutle moron. Did he realise that any 4 or 2 beat him? This is a great example of how NOT to slowplay.



Hand 5: Finally im on the RIGHT side of a set over set. I decided to flat the flop as the boards so dry a raise would have scared everyone off. I shove turn fairly confident I would get at least one caller, but both come and in the end im sitting 400bb deep on that table. Nice!

What a joke

This is how i run latley. Everyday starts the same stupid fucking way. I lose a shitload then maybe manage to win back half of it before I lose another shit load. Maybe I should back to fucking 10nl...

Anyway heres how glorious today started, fun fun fun

25NL - The Comeback

Well despite my rant yesterday (I was obivously tiliting more than a three legged table)I never acttually moved down to 10NL. Even at my lowest point ~$640 I still had over 25 buy ins at 25NL. I suppose thats the benefits of being overrolled when you move up. So i decided to battle through this swing, and stick at 25NL, refusing to admit defeat. Ive noticed a pattern with my play, im MOST likley to lose a load of $$ within the first 10 mins of playing. I dont know if thats becasue I tend to play looser in those first 10min as im settling in, or if its just bad luck but as i started my session today within the first 10mins I had dropped 2 whole buy ins. One of them ill show below, the other was calling down TPTK on a 60/10 who turned a straight. I dont think I played either hand terribly.

Im still settling into 25nl, and i need to stop stacking light against people without full stacks. Ill stack a $15 stack light just because he doesnt buy in for hte whole amount and in weird some way that makes me think he just isnt a good player. Kinda a smallish leak I need to plug. Ive also GOTTA start using my stats more. Sometimes ill still make decisions without looking at a players stats or stack, for example c-betting a super short stack who has a 20% fold to cbet and is shoving ATC. I think its just the rush of the new limit getting to me. Im finally tightening up, but still throwing some wacky hands out there to keep my fishies guessing (an example below). Anyway im actually UP $30 at the end of 500 hand session, so i actually managed to win back my two stacks and then a third. Not bad, heres some highlights

Hand 1: The villian is this hand has been playing a bit wildish 30/20 so not a SLAG but definetly not your standard TAG. The guy who flats behind me is a total donk, 70/40 and was the reason i was at the table. He had shoved with 34s before so i shove my hand hoping to catch two fishies, only one calls and he has me crushed, ah well. I kinda forgot my own rule 'The limp-shove is ONLY aces or kings'.



Hand 2: Unwilling to let go of KK on a paired board against a medium stack. His stats were 36/4 so i dont think i was ever laying it down, he could easilyt have JJ-99, AK, AJ which i think hed olay the same




Hand 3: Now for some winning hands. This is a kinda crazy hand but so be it. The guy on my right is a CCer 'Insolitude' and is playing a standard TAG game. In flat his raise with suited gap connectors (lol) hoping to catch a nice disguised flop and stack. A LAG flats behinf me so three tot he flop. A decide to lead out on the flop repping AK, KQ ect and the LAG play min raised. I HATE min raises, and hed been playing back at me alot so i flat him. Turn comes, and im golden. Rest is history.



Hand 4: This was my big money maker. I pump up the limpers expecting to take it down but get called. I hit my ace on a great board and decide to just lead out. The guy who min-raises me is a standard TAG 20/15 ish so i 100% certain hes not holding something like A3 ect, so the only hands im scared of are AA and 33. Ofcourse im shoving this, he makes a bad call and i take a nice pot.




Thats about it, as always feedback is welcome on all hands ect. GL all!

Fuck this

Well im done with 25nl. I can win a single fucking hand. Everytime i raise with a hand good like AJ or KQ i get 3 then 4 bet. Everytime i fucking isolate a donkey on my table he'll draw out on me. Everytime I raise with a good hand like AA the table all immediatly fold. Im tired of this shit, ive dropped shit loads of buy ins, its just not fun or exciting. everytime i see my money in the pot i can pretty much garuntee that money is lost. Im going back to fucking 10nl

YES! I HELP ANOTHER SS STACK! RENAME ME 'SS-ATM' PLS

PokerStars Game #19962037916: Hold'em No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2008/08/28 - 10:01:25 (ET)
Table 'Gemma III' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 2: Lonskar ($22.75 in chips)
Seat 3: sebixxx ($25 in chips)
Seat 5: mpeGroCkz ($4.90 in chips)
Seat 6: Jean serien ($29.10 in chips)
Seat 7: ajrobin1412 ($27.70 in chips)
Seat 8: yaz51 ($11.85 in chips)
Seat 9: plus5 ($6.40 in chips)
Jean serien: posts small blind $0.10
ajrobin1412: posts big blind $0.25
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ajrobin1412 [Qs Qd]
yaz51: calls $0.25
plus5: folds
Lonskar: folds
sebixxx: folds
mpeGroCkz: raises $1 to $1.25
Jean serien: folds
ajrobin1412: raises $2.25 to $3.50
yaz51: folds
mpeGroCkz: raises $1.40 to $4.90 and is all-in
ajrobin1412: calls $1.40
*** FLOP *** [5h Ts 8d]
*** TURN *** [5h Ts 8d] [4s]
*** RIVER *** [5h Ts 8d 4s] [4h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
ajrobin1412: shows [Qs Qd] (two pair, Queens and Fours)
mpeGroCkz: shows [As Ac] (two pair, Aces and Fours)
mpeGroCkz collected $9.65 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $10.15 | Rake $0.50
Board [5h Ts 8d 4s 4h]
Seat 2: Lonskar folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: sebixxx folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: mpeGroCkz (button) showed [As Ac] and won ($9.65) with two pair, Aces and Fours
Seat 6: Jean serien (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: ajrobin1412 (big blind) showed [Qs Qd] and lost with two pair, Queens and Fours
Seat 8: yaz51 folded before Flop
Seat 9: plus5 folded before Flop (didn't bet)


YES!!! ANOTHER AA GETS FUCK ALL!

PokerStars Game #19962088884: Hold'em No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2008/08/28 - 10:04:56 (ET)
Table 'Mabella' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: strdle_m0nqy ($15 in chips)
Seat 2: ajrobin1412 ($23.90 in chips)
Seat 3: k030101 ($29.85 in chips)
Seat 4: Virmos ($25.35 in chips)
Seat 5: asertivo ($20.65 in chips)
Seat 6: sebixxx ($22.55 in chips)
Seat 7: x-nine ($21.55 in chips)
Seat 8: dr_pero ($41.45 in chips)
Seat 9: Desgraciao ($4.90 in chips)
k030101: posts small blind $0.10
Virmos: posts big blind $0.25
strdle_m0nqy: posts big blind $0.25
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ajrobin1412 [Ac Ah]
asertivo: folds
sebixxx: folds
x-nine: folds
dr_pero: folds
Desgraciao: folds
strdle_m0nqy: checks
ajrobin1412: raises $1.25 to $1.25
k030101: folds
Virmos: folds
strdle_m0nqy: folds
Uncalled bet ($1.25) returned to ajrobin1412
ajrobin1412 collected $0.85 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $0.85 | Rake $0
Seat 1: strdle_m0nqy folded before Flop
Seat 2: ajrobin1412 (button) collected ($0.85)
Seat 3: k030101 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: Virmos (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: asertivo folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: sebixxx folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: x-nine folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: dr_pero folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: Desgraciao folded before Flop (didn't bet)

25NL - Downswing

Well obviously my first day at 25NL was a nice heater, alas I find that after a heater I always run into a cooler and that cooler came yesterday. I played like a total idiot. I knew i was playing like a complete spaz but I just couldnt stop myself. I was dropping buy ins like it was small change. Im utterly disgusted with my self. Needless to say I went on tilit, something ive not done in a LONG time. So the bee-all-and-end-all of it was I lost all my profit from the the first day. I know, just fucking awful. Im not qutie ready to review my play yet, as i know what i was doing, i was playing like a maniac post flop. I had VPIPs of 35+ on multiple tables, and i just kept shoving my money in. I dunno what it was, but i think the fact that i ran so well the first day made me feel like i could crush this limit without even trying. Obv not the case. So today ive had to REALLY slow down. Take myself back to my TAG game, and im slowly making back some of my loses. As IceMonkey said in a comment on my last post, if i just keep to my gameplan im sure that ill be able to make a nice profit at this limit. Just gotta cool it down, take my time. Im not going to be moving to 50NL tommorrow so theres no hurry!

Oh sorry i dont have any hands for you to laugh at, when im pissed i usually just close tables without getting the HHs. Let it be said though that ive seen better play at 2NL then what i was doing yesterday

The move to 25NL, serious profits!

Well ive been running pretty well for the second half of this month, and finally decided to take the plunge into 25NL yesterday with 27 buy ins, im such a BR nit. It went B-E-A-UTIFULLY. Everytime ive moved up in limits so far ive had a really poor run and dropped down, not this time! I think it was the combination of the confidence in my play and the large BR cushion I had built myself. As Sindri said in a post earlier im moving up much quicker then expected. Barley two months ago i deposited $50 onto PS, and now im brushing the $800 mark playing at stakes where AI pot represents my initial deposit. I can honestly say the reason ive managed to move up so quick is CC, without id probably still be scrounging around at 2NL thinking my 10-7 suited was a okay hand to call a 3bet.

Anyway onto some hands:

My first ever hand at 25NL could not have gone better!!!




Another stack, playing a bit LAGgy with raising OOP with SC's, but sometimes it pays off and this was one of those times:



Is A-high good enough? I dont think so....




Of course i didnt win everything. In fact this hand I played HORRIBLY. This was in the middle of my session and i think winning was getting to my head. I was feeling untouchable. The re-re-raise on the paired board is just awful. Ever heard of WA/WB Angus??? The river bet is even worse. I honestly wasnt concentrating at all as my sis had just come back from a years travelling and I literally just chatting to her, not really looking at the screen. Ah well, we live and learn. Laugh away!




So anyway all in all a very nice opening day at 25NL. I know im on a bit of a heater but even so I dont think 25NL presented that much trouble for me. 50NL in a week then??

I suck at blogging

Well I officially suck at da blog. Im pretty much not writing here for a while, when I feel i can be arsed to write again ill put the link back in my sig. Till then, expect to see me at 100NL FR in 2 months.!