So I played a decent amount yesterday and then went out. Bought me a 40oz of Camo Ice and went to a house party then made it to the bars. A bunch of my roommates old high school friends came in and it was a good time. I tried my best trying to get a bunch of random UofM students to kick the MSU guy with us in the nuts but no one would take me up my offer to defend them from any retaliation. Overall, pretty good times.
Hands played: 1404
Net: +$210
Sorry if my blog is becoming extremely monotonous. I will try and be more upbeat and interesting next month. Saw the simpsons movie and it was great. Best movie I’ve seen in awhile. Other than that all I did was play poker all day. So much fun! not.
Hands played: 2470
Net: $963
This puts my monthly totals about a buyin short of $5k for the month which I’m quite happy about. My prop bet is pretty close at this point. Should I run bad for the rest of the month I could most definitely lose. Hopefully I can grind another 10k ands in the next couple days, we’ll see. Best of luck at the tables.
So I had a test today in my summer class and afterwards my friends invited me out for drinks so I had to oblige them of course. I did manage to get almost an hour of play in though and I’m happy I did.
Hands played: 535
Net: +$788
Sorry no youtube vids or anything today, but I’m going to see the new simpsons movie tomorrow and if you are near any recently 7-11 converts to kwikemarts you NEED to go to one. I only wish I would have gone to one in chicago a few weeks ago when I was there. Now I’ll never get to try a duff beer 
Hands played: 4379
Net: +$1383
So I found out I can 6 table pretty effectively. It prevents me from bluffing as much, but it also puts me on autopilot at times and makes me make some really bad calldowns. I’m noticing I have a ton of leaks in my game right now, but I’m still winning at a pretty good rate so its kinda like whatever if I don’t play perfectly I still play better than the donkeys and profit :). Pretty exhausted right now, this is the most hands I’ve ever played in one day. Hopefully tomorrow I can have another just as successful day.
Still hurts though. It wouldn’t be so bad if it was just bad beats or something but I’m just playing really poorly right now. Lots of hands like these:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1298260
I really need to stop these huge river bluffs I am losing SO much money on these it is hideous.
Hands played: 2277
Net: -$773
Hands played: 1671
Net: +$31
Today was pretty uneventful. Was down $333 at one point and up $452 at another point. In general I don’t think my play was very good, definitely took some rough beats but Monday games just aren’t very good. I would have played more tonight but every table seemed to have 2-3 other regulars and I was just too tired to deal with that. I did actually play about 200 hands of .25/.50 PLO and won $30 or so (more than I won in 200NL holdem today lol). Pretty tired right now and I’m off to bed.
Sweet sweet vid this guy is awesome!
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1764773
Today was kinda scary as you can see from the graph. In about 100 hands or about 15 mins of play today I was down almost a grand. If I had lost another buyin at that point I would have actually quit because I like my 5 buyin stoploss. I just don’t play well after losing 5. Fortunately for me the KK vs AA, QQ vs AA, AK less than JT and bad bluffs turned into AA vs KK and other fortunate events and I turned it around to a pretty good day. I hope tomorrow is equally as successful.
Cuz I know all of my readers are eagerly awaiting my return LOL. Anyways here’s my stats from the past two days
Hands played: 523
Net: +$224
Stats from today
Hands played: 1932
Net: +$591
I would have liked to play more today, but one of my friends is turning 21 tonight so I have to go celebrate with him. I’m really hoping I can get in some serious hands this month, but only time will tell. Pz, GL at the tables.
Lack of playing ensues. So far this month I’ve played a total of 3000 hands all at 200NL for a profit of about $700 or so. First my internet got disconnected for about two days. I was very upset at my ISP about this and have a lot of hate for Comcast in general. Then I went to Chicago to visit a friend for his 22nd birthday – had a blast. Got back and had a migraine for the past day and a half or so. Now I am off to Colorado and Seattle to visit some family/friends. Be sure to check back starting about a week from now, I plan to play 2000-3000 hands per day with the remaining 11 days of the month I’ll have left and I’ll try to update daily with my progress.
A hilarious pre-wedding morning. The dad’s reaction is especially priceless.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1726911/
One thing I think is definitely underutilized by low limit players is the river checkraise or even the river check call. It’s important to realize when you have a hand that, if you bet, no worse hand will call you, but you can definitely catch some bluffs with it or get worse hands to try and value bet into you. Here is a hand that illustrates that nicely
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1229530
Most players would just bet the river but hardly any hand is going to call and you get much more value from check calling
Another situation that arises is that you have a very strong hand and you know your opponent also has a very strong but not as good of a hand. Most players just bet the pot or something but a much better move is to checkraise the river here because you know that the villain is not going to let the hand get checked through. For example
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1229533
It takes balls to check that river, but I’m 90% sure here that someone has trips
Of course sometimes the river check can backfire and you miss a lot of value on hands like here, so you need to mix up your play.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1229536
Finally the river checkraise bluff.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1190964
It is VERY seldom used by low stakes players and the situation has to be just right to use it. In this hand I have top pair medium kicker. The ideal situation is that you could conceivably have the nuts but your opponent cannot and is probably making a thin value bet on the river. On this hand villain raises utg+1 making it extremely unlikely he has JT. I call on the flop because I have top pair okay kicker. He bets the turn and I think to myself that’s weird, there’s no way he has JT but it’s conceivable that I could, why is he betting, I call. On the river I was hoping to get a cheap showdown, but he bets again. At this point he either has a bluff, or is making a thin value bet with AK, AA, maybe 2pair or a set. You might say, oh you have top pair why not just call, you might be good if he’s bluffing. Well because if I raise I can represent JT and get all one pair hands to fold and give all sets and 2pair hands a difficult, but probably very thin call. It also has the added benefits of preventing villain from trying to make thin river value bets on me in the future for fear of being checkraised all in and possibly more action with the nuts later if he decides to look me up here.
I hope this was helpful/usefull to someone. Comments are welcome!