An Ape and a notebook, how long will it take?

[stato_1]

1 table imo, hard to make mistakes 1 tabling

predicted stats: 75/62/3b:24

[SuuPRlim]

Hello John 

for someone like yourself who is incredibly enthusiastic and ambitious (two of your strongesst attributes for sure) I know it's completely natural  to wanna race up, so when you got back to 25nl you really wanna just push forward and start heatering, it's fine, you wanna be able to go back to pleno and show him a graph where you've won $1k in the last 1400 hands an to post the graph on here. This is why you've done stuff like the AK flop re-jam because you've picked up a premium hand thought "yes this is it, time for me to start winning again!" then get tilted when the hand hasn't worked out so tried to force it - this is so stnd I still do it as well in spots but it's 100% an issue of focus and concentration and tbh honest I think this is defo an area you need to improve on before you're going to go above 25NL.

When I get back from Vegas we'll do a few sweats if you like, but in the meantime really focus your efforts onto the mental approach, we're not racing here, the goal isn't to post sick graphs and big wins, the object we're shooting for is to make optimal decisions at every point -  you're going to lose some days you should win, you're going to lose some pots you feel you should win, the test in these spots is to be able to keep the discipline/focus up to let these days/hands go and move on with a strong mentality. This is pretty hard and experience is the only way to develop it.

Pleno DOESN'T wanna see a 1600 hand graph where you win 43 buyins (although there are situations he'd like it ofc!) he wants to to show him 23 big hands where you play each one well, regardless of whether you've won $676 or lost $378. If you'd have won a few of those hands you played a your intial 25NL return it would have been bad for you.

Lets combine your natural poker ability and enthusiasm with a little bit of composure and then we'll be seeing some 23,000 hand 5bb/100 200nl graphs in no time!

gogogogogogo

Also defo listen to Pleno - just because you CAN play 25nl, doesn't mean you have too, one of my best poker friends is a huge online PLO winner, plays everything up to 100/200 and 200/400 but he often playes $2/$4 and $5/$5 on days where he felt like he didn't play too good the previous day or has had a few losing sessions, this amount of discipline is the reason why he has more money than god. If you're feeling shaky or a little off or anything just play 10nl there is nothing wrong with that.

[pleno1]

an example of this is im going to stars to play 5/5 and 2 Zoom and taking shots in "bigger" games depending what runs.

For the first few days I plan to do nothing but play 100nl zoom even though ive had a few good months and just want to get grinding on the site and understand zoom dynamics a little.

great post dave too.

[TL900]

great post dave too.

+1

[pleno1]

John jsut did a really nice piece of analysis that I asked him to do. Very nice mate <3

[jgcblack]

Welcome to post it mate... I'm proud too and obv glad its what you wanted...


It was an equity analysis and surprisingly I have more equity in almost every situation than I previously though... which is nice.  However I still can't be certain about peoples ranges and I didn't even include one bluff combo, which means I have EVEN more equity if they ever bluff.

Had a few decent sessions @ 25nl and we've settled in nicely.  Should've won in both my sessions yesterday but i made a bad 'reshove' close to the end for a monster pot.

http://wt.ag/LOCWdq

This is an example of a horrible in game decision.  I took a couple of seconds to consider:
- does he only have JJ, XXss or QQ/KK here?
- could it be a small raise to show massive strength because its multi-way and it will slow me down..?
- Can he ever have AJ here?
- how bad are we if he only has flushes?

Then i shoved anyways....

Silly john.

Range wise I think its just a
fold > call cf non spade turn > go have a cup of tea + shit > eat nails > reshove

But then I had a break shortly after that and played another session and won the lot! 35bb/100


But we're climbing up and doing well @ 25nl now.  The equity exercise for pat took a lot longer than I thought because working out exact hands in a range changes so much when you know you have a key card, or its on the flop.  Other than that, feeling good and confirmed official online grinder!

Few more weeks and we might even be a winnar... on this site.

[pleno1]

[jgcblack]

Not played much last couple of days, nothing special - might blog about it might not.

Going to kick off a session now, so glad that Murray made it through to the final!  I watched the Fed and the Murray matches after work so i was about 4 hours behind the rest of the world in finding out but meh, i gots my big screen and loved every second!

Might be going to The Vic to play some cash on sunday since I've gotta go back down to Southampton for a work course next Mon - wed.

Could be sweet, last time i was at the vic the game was incred soft and that was like 50k hands and a LOT of spew ago.

Played a little @ Aspers, Northampton last night where I took my brother for his first ever live tournament in a casino (he's played some pub games before) but we both bust out rather early.. I decided to jam  when an older strange looking guy limp raised HJ.. I was like "meh, fuck it, he can have pairs and I got a blocker!"

Obv he had  and we made top pair but did not win.

Then we played some cash and had some fun with the regular recreational players.. lost about £60 but played super fine and lost  vs 
on  ... sigh.

Other than that, we got floated for £20 pre and then bet when we checked on Qxx by ... wp sir.  (we had  obv)


Other than that, off for a session... need to sat into the GPS Stoke and the DTD events coming up. glme

[pleno1]

i have 3210293892 hands marked. holla when we both online

[jgcblack]

Played really solid over a 3 hour session and managed to win some money.


Ran a little bad in some smallish pots, one massive one (3way all in my  vs  vs    on  or something..) but won a couple of big flips aipf so apparently that makes the world fair.

Other than that caught a bluff or two which was nice, obviously paying attention enough.  Even trying to put some reg's i have a few hundred hands on now in some strange spots.  Seemed ok and worked, best one was when I cooler someone on K42r set over set.. and when this reg donk/ raises i know he has a set... so i kept min clicking until he just blew and shoved the lot in... snap and tyty no 1 outer!

won a respectable 14.76bb/100 which I'm happy with, only thing is that my red line got a little girly toward the end where I was just cbet/folding a LOT.... but on different tables, different boards vs diff opponents so i dont think there is anything wrong with it, just frustrating to have ALL of them not work for a few hundred hands.  But as we know, when they raise turn they just got it... whatever it is. (unless we catch a bluff and they get there on the river... sucked!)


Night all and good luck to everyone i know in Vegas who are between them winning a little piece of the world!

[jgcblack]

Got a lot of tables on the go, but crushing..... cmon!

[jgcblack]

experimented with 12 tables and had some good times... booked a nice 1bi win, shoulda won 2. meh....

didn't do anything silly and focussed! found that I like the Ibiza mix's on youtube and they always lead to more hour long mix's.





got some hands in and happy with some solid play, nothing too fancy, caught a bluff or two and folded to some strange lines ...... dont like folding.

Going out with my bro now for some tunage and drinks... gl us! He's a little monster!



Last weekend in Tallinn, he got so drunk on the first night that he was kicked out of the club within an hour and I was found to come to his rescue.  When I went outside to sort him out and bring him in the bouncers were really nice and said "sorry, but he is TOO drunk tonight..." so I had to take him back.  But before I did I wanted to just put him in a taxi and send him home.  So I asked him for his room key to the hotel and he gave me a condom....


        

So i ask him again... "No Alex, that's a condom.... where is your room key please?"

And he gives me another condom - well at least he's prepared!

 


And by this point the whole queue are watching and laughing their asses off and I'm like "no seriously Alex, where is your room key? you can't go home without it..."

He gives me....


wait for it


.....

seriously, wait....

errr


ANOTHER CONDOM..... wp genius!

 



So after routing through his pockets I find it and then TAKE him home and throw him into his room, then go back to the club.



So gl me tonight going out with him again.... lolz, he has a hickey on his neck due to some tart this week.... wp sir. super classy.



O to be young sometimes....

[jgcblack]

So we played a session live @ the vic on sunday after driving down in time to be there before the Murray vs Fed match.

I'm a big fan and wasn't bothered which way it went as they both achieve something insane either way, guess i woulda loved the hero-story of Murray winning vs Fed but also I don't know how many years @ the top Fed has left so i figure its probably better he takes this one.

The session @ the vic did not end up with us winning some money, but instead we played probably the best session of cash decisions wise EVER >>> so proud.

The following hands did not go in our favor:-

A2o BTN vs A4o BB on AA6Q

83 BB vs UTG limp passive fish 99 on 835 X

  vs  on 

99 vs AK aiotf 663r  (he 3bt pre OOP, check raise/ call flop)



Nevermind... next time I guess.  I only had one spot where I didn't barrell but wanted to.  I had already done so in a similar sized pot vs same villain an orbit or so earlier with AK on 98xr, ckback 6 and bomb  river.

Then I had  BTN vs his MP limp call pre (again) and this time he cc, cc, c    and I pussied out the river bet.. He tables  for a win. wp.


Other than that, first day in Southampton was good, course going well and know/ understand most of it, some is refreshing stuff and new regulations etc.  Got some homework, so off to do that first.  But have a sweet hotel room and after some complaining since I'd agreed internet with them, they went out and bought me a usb wireless dongle to use while I'm here... (brought the uber PC and one monitor and they've upgraded their wired connections to wireless only... sucksss)


So all good in the hood, got breakfast in bed ordered already (tried today for first time and its AMAZING!) so we're good to go. 


Homework then a short session me thinks.



peace

[jgcblack]

Well that sucks...

Got my work done and chuffed, then had TL900 come online and say 'mikogo meeee' so we did and i insta smash stop loss in like 200 hands.

Meh.. feel like i played fine, will check later and post hands in group but i feel like I played great... just didn't win much.

Had QQ vs AA aipf vs 87/20 over 20 hands, obv doesn't mean much but we've agreed a get in range of QQ+/ AK from UTG and 10+/AK/ sometimes AQ from later positions and I shouldn't be too far off.  I would obv adjust range if someone is 20/11/2 and playing 8 tables etc.


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http://weaktight.com/4833384
Other than that, this hand felt kinda puke in game and now I actually like it more.  Especially after the equity analysis, its just so hard for him to have a value hand that we dont crush except exactly 66/67 and 67 is now pretty tough.


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http://wt.ag/OSUg6h
pretty standard last orbit hand... meh.


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http://wt.ag/OSUs5l
This is the hand for debate imo.  We're hu and have been for a few hands, I said to Tom that I wouldn't stay long:
[1:13:18 AM] John Black: BOMBBBBS
[1:13:51 AM] John Black: tempted to cshove river
(discussing hand on other table)
[1:13:58 AM] John Black: but he doesnt bet A10o enough
[1:14:03 AM] John Black: no one does @ these stakes
[1:14:06 AM] John Black: xept me vs regs
(vs right regs i vbet pretty thin once ive seen them turn up with dominated hands enough and stop doing so if shown its bad)
[1:14:17 AM] John Black: 3 could bge fun                                                                         
(this is our bingo table, he's been aggro so far want to see if he is too aggro when hu.... common mistake ive seen @ this level)
[1:14:20 AM] John Black: wont stay long
(just flopped  )
[1:14:50 AM] John Black: hu h'es getting the barrells
(he raises my cbet, doesn't have many/ any value hands he hasn't reraised pre - dont expect him to raise A5-A10 here btw, plan is to checkshove turn get him to spazz call Kx/ random pairs 22-1010)
[1:15:46 AM] John Black: sick river
(post hand analysis, think I summed it up accurately and concisely)
[1:15:49 AM] John Black: bet to induce
[1:16:39 AM] John Black: hmmm doesnt like overbets
(next hand he cc cc cf 5673xr... seems bad)
[1:16:40 AM] John Black: could be fun


Left shortly after, couple of hands... as mentioned above I bet the river to induce raises and already had my mouse over the call button.  I knew that K10/ QJ were possible but vs this opponent who's shown that he can be aggressive full 6 max i expect him to read my river bet as weak @ best.  I guess in retrospect i might like $7/fold more.. but I think he may still bluff shove enough to make that a good call.  I have folded to most of his 3bt's before and he's won a few hands on the bounce vs me.  Maybe I'm expecting too much of him, really not sure.  Just PTR'd him and found this...

http://www.pokertableratings.com/party-player-search/mollyc0ddle

If you can't see it, its a graph of -$7k over 115k hands and a consistently downward one... I don't think this was a bad bet call with this additional information as he's clearly making fundamental mistakes consistently.  However I did just note on his hand analysis he's on the tighter more passive side, but this is going to be mostly 6max which neither matched what I saw over the 150 hands with me, nor takes into consideration HU and changes there.

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Other than that we lost this kinda insteresting/ kinda boring as f**k hand...
http://wt.ag/OSYVF7

Turns out he's also -$7k so I'll be keeping an eye out...  but he spread it about a bit... although he's a confirmed £1/2 winnar! gg sir.


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Small pat on back, think this is solid play and don't think I can play this any better when multi way to flop and turn... nice bluff sir, wp.
http://wt.ag/OSZfUy


off to bed now, good night all, best of luck to everyone i know in the ME 2012 and my 2% whatever Kourosh Radfar is doing with it!

Would love to see David Nicholson (lil'Dave on here) spin up his 30bb's on day 2 as he's been an absolutely amazing influence in my poker life in the last 6 months and I owe him a chunk.  I've heard his series hasn't been the best so I would love him to find a little green irish dude on his travels and dispossess him of his pot of gold!  I do hope he doesn't meet said fella in Rhino tho, as that might involve in over-excitement and likely finger loss or just death instead of a Virgin Atlantic first class ticket.

Best of luck mate.

really going to bed now, horrible to see C lying in bed sleeping and looking like an 'angel' (insert other nice, sleepy girl appropriate words here)


got breakfast being delivered @ 730 to look forward to.... BOOOOOM!

[pleno1]

experimented with 12 tables

what?

you were making misclicks and mistakes 4 tabling so why have you increased the amount of tables by 300%?