FeARFaCTs Poker Blog

Ended up taking it light this past week. My motivation to play has been a bit down and I've been doing a few other things. Probably going to play pretty hard for the rest of this week since I have to work in teh guard this weekend. I might end up staying at 200nl for a bit longer than I planned. Considering cashing out some of my roll to make investments and what not as opposed to just pushing through the limits. I'll make a decision sometime next month. In the mean time here are some hands.

Wasn't totally aware here that I was against three players on the turn still. Again I'm just going above and beyond with my attention span at these tables. Either way the river worked out in my favor.

Not sure if he was tilting in this hand, but he definitly was there after. I probably ended up stacking him 2-3 more times, although I did pick up AA vs KK on the next rotation so I wouldn't say I outplayed him there. I do like how I ended up playing this with a smallish turn bet. I've played a lot of hands with this person and he knows how tight I play so I feel he can easily muck QQ in a spot like this. However I tried to bet smaller like I had AK and got him to shove. Who knows maybe he was shoving anyways but I think he more often folds if I take another line in this hand.

Just got back from Foxwoods this past weekend. Was a good trip even though it didn't go too well. I ended up losing a 4k pot with AK (my undoing hand in live games apparently). Either way I just played the hand poorly and didn't give my opponent enough respect. In the end he goded my into calling and the whole ordeal was rather pathetic. I'm almost glad I lost the pot because it's an invaluable lesson considering the factors at hand. For one I had been outplaying the table all morning and was starting to get a little wearly and hungry. My level of focus just dropped, yet I didn't want to take a break since I was running so well. When I play online I tend to trust my intuitions better and take a break when need be, but I was reluctant to live. If I had been playing better I would have taken the pot down preflop instead of playing the hand and stacking off.

I was suprised to see how weak live play actually was. I started off playing 2/5 nl and players at the table were talking about how it was easier to get a flush than a straight. I felt like I was losing brain cells by the second and ended up only playing this game for a few hours. The next day I played 5/10nl and this game played similar to 1/2nl online. The play was again very weak with lots of players open limping and just playing poorly. One guy looked like he was straight out of the Sopranos and was carrying at least 5k cash on him. He stacked off several times to other guys and was getting furious. I was almost scared of tangling with him b/c I didn't want him to whack me out back after the game or something lol.

Ended up taking a day off when I got back and actually fasted for 24 hours. I felt a cold coming on and by the end of the fast it was pretty much gone. I think a lot of people would be suprised by how much food u really need to eat to survive. The first time I fasted my stomach hurt a bit, but this time I was perfectly fine throughout. Each time I finish a fast I feel 100% rejuvinated and ready to go. It also really clears out toxins in my body which is evident by my cold going away overnight.

Small chance I go to Turning Stone this week. I do want to work on my live bank roll, although Foxwoods hurt me a bit. I ended up losing about 1350 which isn't bad considering I lost a 4k pot and a 1k pot soon there after. I do want to start playing more live games since the play is so weak, I feel it will also improve different dynamics of my game.

Haven't played nearly as many hands so far this month as I would have liked. I've earned about 30k vpp so far and I'm aiming for 90k a month. Probably going to just play every day for the rest of the month and see how I do. Still struggling keeping focus during winning sessions. Multiple times this month I've been up over 1k for the day and just lose motivation to keep going. On the flip side, days where I'm down 1k I just have a fire inside to push me forward. I've heard of people convincing themselves they were down for the day when they were really up to motivate themselves. Might try this out who knows lol.

Also been plowing through books lately, trying to read about 1 book a week. Really relaxes my mind after a long day playing online. Going to post some hands later today.

I keep getting one database error after another no matter how many times I try to fix the situation. I wish I could just keep one database but it looks like I might have to end up making new ones every month.

Poker has been going well and I have been mixing in more 2/4 boards. I played some PLO 6 max the other day and really got myself into trouble value betting. It's such a different game from NLHE at the limits I played at. On one hand you can value bet really light at NLHE and extract a lot of value, where as at PLO I kept running into weak tight players who had bigger hands than their actions portrayed. Maybe I'm just bad at life.

It's funny how the game plays out sometimes. This situation looks very similiar to the one in the previous hand, yet in acutallity it is far different. There is no reason for this player to assume I have less than Ax here and to try to bluff me off this hand. Where as the hand before I called figuring he was making a move on me and took it down on the turn; immediately after making this call I realized I was up against a strong hand and was ready to dump the turn. Obviously my nut card came and I won a huge pot, but otherwise this was a losing call for me.

This is funny because, I really don't know what hes trying to represent. His limp on the button may have been a misclick so I don't know, but his flop raise is lol. If he gives up on the turn as he did here, this is an easy spot for me to take the pot down.

Some sick action for my 12/10 stats.

Still be playing a lot, my system for making blog posts is somewhat tedious and I'm lazy so I don't update as much as I want. If I ever figure out PHP more I'll make a system which posts a bit easier for me.

So basically I decided for February that I want to end off the month with about 20k as a goal. This would be a substantial jump for me as I started the month off with a little over 7k. I've been playing and running better lately and this goal should be easily attainable if I can run at around 4bb/100 over 120k hands. I think I played something like 150k hands last month which is a ton and learned a lot here and there. I probably won't play as many this month but we'll see.

I started using two mods for Pokerstars which are just awesome. One is a bet pot mod which lets me quickly bet pot or 3/4 pot just by middle or right clicking my mouse. I don't have to even look at the pot size if I want to cbet now, I just right click and hit bet. Really saves me a ton of time when 20 boarding because 1-2 sec here and there really add up. The other thing I have is an auto reloader. Havn't gotten the auto part to work, but all I have to do is hit F1 at any table and it reloads my stack in half a second.

The links for these are here:

As for poker, I started running real well the other day. The last week of Jan I basically broke even. Feb kicked off great though and I'm well on my way to hitting my goal. I am still playing way tighter than I want to, however I think I'm playing each individual hand much better than I have been in the past.

Also, all my new hands will be posted on Liquidpoker.net instead of pokerhand.org. because I like the color yellow.

Villian was a total nut. I don't really care that I got bluffed on the river here. I think he shows up with a heart more often here than with nothing. I'm fairly pleased with how the hand played and oh well with the result.

The way the hand was played, I know for a fact my hand didn't look too strong. I just felt there was no way in hell he checked me a set on the river, especially making this big of a raise, or any hand that beat mine for that matter. Like I just said my hand looked pretty weak and there was no reason to put me on either the A or K, so any decent hand should be betting out this river. Also his raise was just huge and looked like he wanted me to fold.

Possibly results oriented but I don't think my shove on the river is good. The only hand I really beat here is 88, unless hes going crazy with a weird AA or 2pair. I could also be putting him on T9 if he had open limped it early, but other than that I had no solid reads. Kinda just went gung ho oh I have a set let me get it in. The bet on the river seems like either a total monster or a bluff, so I think maybe just calling was the best play.

Really no idea what he had to be honest. I felt like my cbets were getting no respect so I decided to mix it up on check raise the turn on a bluff. The way it was played does make me look strong as confirmed by his chat. Maybe not the best play but if I never defend a spot here or there I'll just get run over.

This spot came up right after a similar spot moments before. I had JJ in the same spot vs. the same player where I called his 3bet. He fired half pot on the flop and turn then shoved the river. With the small, small, big combo it seemed to me he was trying to get tricky with AA and I just tossed it. Here he comes out betting harder and then almost pots the turn. His turn bet was much bigger and seemed like he wanted me to fold more than he was trying to get value out of a big pair. I figure if he has JJ beat here oh well but it seemed like he was overplaying a hand and trying to make me fold.

I was going to post graphs charting how I did for the end of the month but my databases crapped out on me half way through and I had to make new ones. At the end of this month I'll probably put some graphs up. All in all January was good for me as I essentially doubled my bankroll and still cashed out a decent a mount of money. My win rate wasn't good by any means but I also wasn't playing great either. This month I am going to focus hard and try to run 3bb/100 over the entire month while playing 20 boards at once.

I've still been playing thousands of hands each day. I really opened up my game and the results have been showing. Right now I am playing around a 12/10 and I want to eventually be around 15/10. This is a big improvement from the 9/5 I was playing earlier, but either way its tough to cram extra hands in when on so many boards. At 100nl I got away with not playing as many hands since the games are so weak, but at 200nl I really have to step up and take down extra pots to keep up with the increased level of aggression.