The Best In The Business

[pleno1]

Pretty sexy bluff

€2/€4  No Limit Holdem  
Prima  
6 Players  
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com  
  
Stacks:  
UTG  Player1 (€842.55) 211bb  
UTG+1  Player2 (€246.60) 62bb  
CO  pleno1 (€578) 145bb  
BTN  Player4 (€505) 126bb  
SB  Player5 (€765.96) 191bb  
BB  Player6 (€723.50) 181bb  
  
Pre-Flop: (€6, 6 players) pleno1 is CO   
Player1 raises to €12, 1 fold, pleno1 calls €10, 3 folds  
  
Flop:   (€26, 2 players)  
Player1 bets €21, pleno1 calls €21  
  
Turn: (€68, 2 players)  
Player1 bets €55, pleno1 calls €55  
  
River:  (€178, 2 players)  
Player1 bets €138, pleno1 raises to €490, Player1 folds  
  
Final Pot: €454  
  
pleno1 wins €1,159 (net +€583)  
  
Player1 collects €2 (net -€224)  

[Killerkilsby]

Pretty sexy bluff

€2/€4  No Limit Holdem  
Prima  
6 Players  
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com  
  
Stacks:  
UTG  Player1 (€842.55) 211bb  
UTG+1  Player2 (€246.60) 62bb  
CO  pleno1 (€578) 145bb  
BTN  Player4 (€505) 126bb  
SB  Player5 (€765.96) 191bb  
BB  Player6 (€723.50) 181bb  
  
Pre-Flop: (€6, 6 players) pleno1 is CO    
Player1 raises to €12, 1 fold, pleno1 calls €10, 3 folds  
  
Flop:   (€26, 2 players)  
Player1 bets €21, pleno1 calls €21  
  
Turn: (€68, 2 players)  
Player1 bets €55, pleno1 calls €55  
  
River:   (€178, 2 players)  
Player1 bets €138, pleno1 raises to €490, Player1 folds  
  
Final Pot: €454  
  
pleno1 wins €1,159 (net +€583)  
  
Player1 collects €2 (net -€224)  

Pretty thin value bet. Ul not to be cawled ;-)

[AlunB]

So, I haven't really been that active as far as playing goes recently. I haven't grinded properly for probably 2 months, I had a lot of things to sort out and the new role I took at work meant I was just generally v v busy and didn't have the time for poker. When I did have the time for poker, I was just absolutely shattered and would have fallen asleep really quickly/played terrible.

I used to have a lot of ambition, I wanted to be the "Best in the business" or "Make $100k in 12 months" or "Be the best reg in the world" now I am basically a recreational player. I play poker when I can, if I can't play for a couple of months then thats how it is, but generally I will play if and when I can. "Recreational" is the new word everybody in the industry is using to describe fish, they think that if they call them recreational then it isn't an insult, but it really is just a name they say so they don't think they are acting out of line. Hopefully I can put a different stance to the "recreational" term and don't lose all of my money, but for now, I'm happy to deposit, play, smile and enjoy. I think I play good, so hopefully more than not I will end up with more money in the account than what I started with, but if I don't then it's not the end of the world.

Continuing on the "recreational" route, I'll probably look to continue playing live tournaments around the world which help me 1) Get out and see places and 2) Play some fun live poker, which I do generally enjoy and get quite a lot out of it. As I've mentioned previously, its v v likely I'll be returning to England in April to play the Monte Carlo.

As far as online goes, I really have tried lots of sites, almost every site I've just never wanted to grind or enjoy playing that much, but when I play on Microgaming its like another world, the software is crazy good, the cards are super sexy and the players are action players. What do I mean? Well on sites say, ipoker the regs are incredibly nitty and games are slow, on Stars the fish are pretty nitty, likewise the regs, on Microgaming, the regs want to go to war and the fish aren't going to limp fold their money to you. On the 2p2 Microgaming Regs thread there is literally dozens of HU4ROLLZ arguments, everybody absolutely hates everybody and its every man for himself.

So like I said, I managed to get some volume in this weekend..

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Because I'm not playing as much and I'm a total degenerate, myself and ImFromSweden are staking quite a few guys, mainly playing 100-200nl. They are really improving super quick, 2 of the guys are 2 of the best/most well known guys on UK poker circuit, trying to get to grips with cash, one is a v v good German theoretical player who just needs a little guidance in the right direction and the other is a young UK guy who is fundamentally very good. V V confident in this group of players and trying to spend as much time as possible with them over the next few months and hopefully can guide them up the stakes, its a really fun challenge and will blog about the ups and downs of it without going into too much detail.

Do they all hate valentines day?

[Tal]

Hope you don't mind me biting, here...

What do you think villain had, here?

Do you put him on two small-mid diamonds (89?) or is it more a case of you saying "he doesn't have or so he can't ever take a raise"? I assume at your level, that is rarely a consideration, as people are good enough to decide your story doesn't check out.

Why can't he have   ?

[smashedagain]

Putting my John Black cap on. We have the QJ and Villan knows I am the schizzles so as I already have a Q and a J I'm repping the QQ or JJ  n I make him fold his  .

But in all honesty pads prob just had the best hand

[Tal]

Putting my John Black cap on. We have the QJ and Villan knows I am the schizzles so as I already have a Q and a J I'm repping the QQ or JJ  n I make him fold his  .

But in all honesty pads prob just had the best hand

Repping QQ or JJ? I'd think a big diamond is more likely than flopping a set and smoothing all the way down to the river. KK with I could maybe believe.

On occasions, I find hand analysis interesting. This play is so far outside my playbook, I'm keen to learn.

Obviously, the more I say on this, the more I demonstrate my ignorance, so I'll pipe down now.

[pleno1]

It was read specific in game vs a guy who has very certain tendencies and at the time thought I was a big station, i.e always calling diamonds otr and never shoving. I was pretty sure he had or potentially and would b/f.

At 400nl I don't really ever see people attacking these boards as a raise, they may stab initially to rep one diamond, but never re-raise a bet on the river and usually play v honest.

[Tal]

Very interesting. TYVM

[pleno1]

found my balls:

€2/€4  No Limit Holdem 
Prima 
6 Players 
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com 
 
Stacks: 
UTG  Player3 (€400) 100bb 
UTG+1  pleno1 (€930.70) 233bb 
CO  Player5 (€467.50) 117bb 
BTN  Player6 (€946.30) 237bb 
SB  Player1 (€487.01) 122bb 
BB  Player2 (€479.70) 120bb 
 
Pre-Flop: (€6, 6 players) pleno1 is UTG+1 
1 fold, pleno1 raises to €12, 1 fold, Player6 calls €12, 2 folds 
 
Flop:      (€30, 2 players) 
pleno1 bets €18, Player6 raises to €50, pleno1 calls €32 
 
Turn:  (€130, 2 players) 
pleno1 checks, Player6 bets €98, pleno1 raises to €312, Player6 calls €214 
 
River:  (€754, 2 players) 
pleno1 bets €556.70, Player6 folds 
 
Final Pot: €754 
 
pleno1 wins €1,864.40 (net +€933.70) 
 
Player6 lost €374 

[pleno1]

Did a live Seminar last night:

http://de.twitch.tv/pokerstrategy_english/b/374179159

Starts of interest at around 16:00

[GreekStein]

I have a v v good relationship with Phil and the other guys at runitonce.com

Weird. When he called me this morning and I mentioned this, he said he'd never heard of you!

[pleno1]

haha. The guy behind their site is Dan Quinn and does a very good job of keeping everything ticking over and there is a good mutual respect between the two companies.

[Tal]

Pleno, to me, that's quite a sick bet on the end. Are you putting villain on a King of some kind?

[pleno1]

No, 33 or TT/KTs

[Tal]

No, 33 or TT/KTs

And the check-raise on the turn reps AXcc, right?