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[AJR14]

Had a really good session yesterday at 20nl. Felt i was running the tables and picking up a lot of pots. Almost all my losses were coolers, although i could prob have got away from one or two. Looking at them now the majority were over pairs v sets and one where i got KK in v a player i consider to be the best at this level and he binked trips on the flop.

However i ended up with a decent profit and felt good most of the session. I started to gift away some pots near the end so stopped earlier than i wanted to but all in all im happy. If the last couple of months has anything to go by it won’t continue, but i hope it does.


Not sure what i am going to play tonight. Will keep my eye on the 30nl tables and see if i think its worth it when not playing great. The standard at 20nl is really quite poor so may just stay there and add one or two 30nl.



Record of the Day: Iggy Pop – The passenger. Turn it up!!!

[celtic]

None of you are winning because I haven't played for 2 weeks. Back over the weekend tho, so get comfy.

Sigghhh, was hoping for better tables this weekend with the SPT on .

You ever play the SPTs? I saw the other week you have been getting some good MTT results. Which format you prefer between cash and MTTs?

Played 3 SPT's. 2 @ Luton, one at Stratford. You should try and get to one, good fun, and the Sky lot seem to be a decent bunch. Avoid Tikay tho, not worth meeting.

Was supposed to be playing the Birmingham one, but I'm going to a birthday party.

Had a decent run on Sky, just need to build on it now, and see where I can take it. I'm enjoying swapping between the two really, just depends how I feel on the day.

[AJR14]

I knew that it wouldn’t continue from the other day!! I will warn you now, this post will be a moaning/bad beat post so i wouldn’t read on if you really dislike these posts. Just be thankful i don’t post after sessions when these moaning posts would be a lot worse!

I started the session really well for the first hour. Was feeling good and picking up a lot of pots but then my discipline just went west and i gifted 2 or 3 stacks away in 10 minutes. The worst thing was in 2 of them my thought processes where ‘ok, no need to bluff him. i try anyway, when he calls the flop i know i cant make him  fold....i then ignore all that and bluff off a stack 5 seconds later’. TILT. 2 minutes later i have 99 on Ks8s68Js board and call down after getting  raised on flop for a stack. Thought process on river? ‘the flush has just come in so most of the hands i was beating i am not anymore so its a clear fold’...i call. No idea why i do it. My mouse hand does not do what my brain tells it. if i could stop the stupid calls my win rate would increase dramatically.

I shut down and had an hour break.

After the break was a totally different story. Think i played well but i got some pretty horrific run of cards. I have just scanned through the HH’s and i hit top top in a 3 bet pots 4 times only to come up against a set in every one. I come up against 2 other sets in 3bet pots, this time holding over pairs...more stacks gone. I managed to get it in good a few times at least, but i still lost. That is probably only half of it as well. The only lucky thing to happen in the session was poor regs letting me lose the minimum a lot.

So yeah, pretty horrid 2 hour session after the break. I’m not too fussed, it just means more time at 20nl but (unless i run like last night) i should be back at 30nl in the next week or 2 (hopefully).


I’m not going to be playing today. I am going to make the most of the weather before that decides its had enough of giving us some sun.


Record of the Day: Alabama 3 – Too sick to pray. Most people will know these because of the Sopranos theme track, unfortunately my Dad is like their groupie so i have been to see them way over 10 times with him because otherwise he would be going on his own. Good band though and always a good night.

[Katais]

Thought this hand history might make u laugh/give you a boost going into your next session AJ.

Not sure how to display a HH here, spose I'll have to type it out.

May be the worst I've ever played a hand in my life. bear in mind I'm the guy who hates folding in any circumstances.

I think I look soooo strong though especially on that turn card, it has to look like I have it already, and if not, I've just got there, so when you ship it's like wtfffffffff??

At least that was my thinking at the time.

30nl.

Unknown (suspect fish) opens hijack to 90pence playing £51.
AJ rockets flats cut off playing £31
Big fish DOHHHHHHH flats playing £39 with    
Shortstack in the big blind playing £10 squeezes to £1.20 total (lol)

Unknown, AJ and Doh all call. obvs.

Pot £6.15

Flop

     

Big blind shortstack donk leads full pot, £6.15 pretty much all in now.
Initial Opener folds.
AJ rockets calls.
Dohhhhhhh calls. (?) Shove here? I guess I can maybe get you off some stuff. But the times we get it in you're crusing me with sets/better draws.

Pot now £24.60

Turn

 

Big blind shortstack puts his last £1 in.

AJrockets moves all in for £24 total.

Dohhhhhhhhhh FOLDS


 

Is that some freaky sick level 3,238 stuff from you, turning your hand into a bluff or what?

I have to have your hand beat here! I just have tooooooooo.

I suppose u can ship sets. I should really have called.

The 1 time I find a fold, it's a bad one.

Anyway, even though the shorty had us both beat, that was £24 saved! lol.

Maybe cya on the tables/skype later if you wanna talk about any hands from that session!

gl if u play today.

[titaniumbean]

loooool @ doohhhhh

[Katais]

loooool @ doohhhhh

hahahahah quhfouasifcahouvhoufrh

Turning off stupid fin notifications.



Technically I was beaten.

£10 guy had   

FO

nh.

[titaniumbean]

loooool @ doohhhhh

hahahahah quhfouasifcahouvhoufrh

Turning off stupid fin notifications.



Technically I was beaten.

£10 guy had    

FO

nh.

why would reg villian snap jam a bigger flush only lol like lol we has 5 reds and they are all the same reddness, gogogo wagering chips

[Katais]

loooool @ doohhhhh

hahahahah quhfouasifcahouvhoufrh

Turning off stupid fin notifications.



Technically I was beaten.

£10 guy had   

FO

nh.

why would reg villian snap jam a bigger flush only lol like lol we has 5 reds and they are all the same reddness, gogogo wagering chips

Think he thinks my range here will have to be pretty fin strongggggggggg ?

Made hands otf are always 2p or better, or a draw, which has now got there. With the shorty involvement.

And he ships it??

What kinda hands do u think he has???

Sets and better flushes?

That's what I thought. Maybe more sets with the shove, but he will see me as abit/a lot of a station and I reckon he can ship flushes here. (v me).

[AJR14]

I completely forgot about this hand. Sigh. Looking at it I'm really not happy with how i played it at all, from the flop to the turn jam. It was at the time where i was throwing money around before i had to have the break. Really poor half hour or so.

Still pretty shocked you folded the flush though. There will def be a few hands i could decide to jam (whether right or wrongly) with the shorty splashing in the pot, as i did lol.

[BigHawk89]

I know when i moved to that table with the likes of tommyD and a few other good MTT players i feared the worse but i ended up playing better and picking up more pots. Final table was so strange saw some weird stuff going on 3 players went in about 15 minutes lol i was pretty happy though been short. Punted abit of the prize money back at nl20/30 though haha just cannot believe how bad im running i know its what everyone says but the amount of 80/20s ive lost is getting stupid. Out of all my sunday tourneys already and got coolered about 5 times in as many minutes on stars so stap logged off.

Hope things go better at nl20 you should hammer it very poor atm.

Let me know if your doing any of these sessions again need to work on my game the tilts just making me do stupid things.

[AJR14]

The last 2 sessions have been good. My hungover session on Sunday went well but i ended with 7 quid profit. I thought it was more before i turned off so was a bit gutted to see 7 quid but at least it was profit.

Yesterday was a lot better. I played a 5 hour session at 20nl and ran like god for the majority. Everywhere i looked i hit aces, sets, flushes. It was one of those sessions where you know everything the regs are doing and the reccys just hand you money.

I pulled out the old show a bluff move v one reg who is an obvious tilter/ego player, its not a move i usually make (in fact i have probably shown once in 2 years) but decided to give it a go after witnessing his tilting before. I wasn’t sure it worked until he spanked off a stack 5 minutes later in pretty obscene fashion and then decided to get me back by showing me a bluff in a 3 quid pot 2 minutes after handing me a stack. It is safe to say that showing early in his session worked a treat and more than half my win must have come from him.

I finished 15 Buyins up for the night and thats after i made quite a few value mistakes as well. I have been far to risk averse when it comes to thin value after my poor sessions recently and i have been missing a lot of value in the last couple of sessions. One or 2 of the value bets i have missed haven’t even been thin, they are clear value bets but i have been wary.


Im well rolled for 30nl, but 20nl is too good to move at the min so will stay there until weekend and then re assess. Both days this week have been profitable so I’m hoping that carries on for the rest of the week. I may add a couple of main events on Sky this week as well. It really is starting to irritate me that my record in these is so poor. I’m determined to take one down this year, something i can’t do if i don’t play them.



Record of the Day – Notorious B.I.G. – Hypnotize. I had a good session grinding to hip hop last night so decided to stick my favourite Hip Hop track on. I’m not a big fan of Biggie, i was more into 2pac in my youth but this has to be the greatest Hip Hop track.

[AJR14]

I know when i moved to that table with the likes of tommyD and a few other good MTT players i feared the worse but i ended up playing better and picking up more pots. Final table was so strange saw some weird stuff going on 3 players went in about 15 minutes lol i was pretty happy though been short. Punted abit of the prize money back at nl20/30 though haha just cannot believe how bad im running i know its what everyone says but the amount of 80/20s ive lost is getting stupid. Out of all my sunday tourneys already and got coolered about 5 times in as many minutes on stars so stap logged off.

Hope things go better at nl20 you should hammer it very poor atm.

Let me know if your doing any of these sessions again need to work on my game the tilts just making me do stupid things.

Yeh keep your eye on twitter. i will DM you when doing one.

Thats why im not the biggest tourney fan. The variance can be brutal and nothing worse than spending hours getting close to the cash before hitting a horrible beat. My temprement is well and truly tested!

Your right about 20nl. If you can avoid the outdraws you should make some decent money.

[Tal]

BIG >>>> 2Pac ainec. 2Pac undeniably cooler but Biggie's music was outstanding.

[AJR14]

BIG >>>> 2Pac ainec. 2Pac undeniably cooler but Biggie's music was outstanding.

I have to say i am liking his music a lot more than i used to. I didnt listen to him at all when growing up but recently discovered more of his stuff and am enjoying it.

Watched a good documentary other month about who killed Biggie and 2Pac which is worth a watch if your into that sort of stuff. I will put link in below rather than thye full 2 hour documentary. It's probably outdated now and the accusations may have been proven to be wrong but i havent took the time to see if it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x02bE_GzbJo

[AJR14]

 Normal service resumed after the decent win the other day. I told a mate the day after the 15 buy in win that i always have a bad session the day after. The trend continued.

Having a quick scan through and there are some pretty horrible beats, standard coolers and there are 3 or 4 hands that i have played joke bad. Also a couple of read based decisions that i am happy with but went the wrong way. Inconsiderate bastards changing their predictable ways !!

Results over the last 2 or 3 months have been so erratic that there HAS to be some pretty big issues with my game that i am not noticing. I have never been Ivey or anything but my results used to consistently be good at these lower levels where as now it has changed to being proper Inconsistent. It may be just the cards but i am starting to suspect it's not. I have done live sweats where i have lost money and people have said it has been standard, i have looked through HH’s and not noticed persistent mistakes (although i have spotted some pretty  big ones in individual hands) so it’s tough to put a finger on why results are so up and down. I may be playing far too many hands; i think i am going to fully NIT up for a week or 2 and see how that works out.

I would put more hands on here but i feel a lot of the losses are standard hands (hence why i cant find the suspected problems in my game) and there is nothing worse than a thread of a moaning bastard sticking a shed load of beats up. I have already filled the thread with one of the 2 so the hands can stay away

Not sure i am going to play over next couple of days. Couple of days away then return with a NIT mentality may just be what the doctor ordered



Record of the Day: The Cure - Inbetween Days. Been listening them this morning, had a hard time deciding which to stick on here. Plumped for this classic






Come across these yesterday after being pointed in their direction. Some unreal trick shots. Im not a big bowling fan, although i do enjoy the odd game, but there is no way you cant be impressed by some of the shots on Youtube. I love a good trick shot in any sport.