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PsychicSykes wrote:I think you may have a problem.

I have 99 problems but the poker ain't one! Hit me!

In other words, I had a few cents spare, fancied trying some stud poker, and rolled it up.

EDIT - And I will be playing less. Trust me. More concentration on live poker.

DML wrote:I think I'm weak willed.

Seat 1: Goudvis_90 ($6.75 in chips)
Seat 2: falquisiño ($9.15 in chips)
Seat 6: lizzimba ($9.05 in chips)
falquisiño: posts small blind $0.05
lizzimba: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to lizzimba [Kd Kh]
Goudvis_90: folds
falquisiño: calls $0.05
lizzimba: checks
*** FLOP *** [7h 3h 6s]
falquisiño: bets $0.30
lizzimba: raises $0.40 to $0.70
falquisiño: calls $0.40
*** TURN *** [7h 3h 6s] [7c]
falquisiño: checks
lizzimba: bets $1
falquisiño: calls $1
*** RIVER *** [7h 3h 6s 7c] [Jd]
falquisiño: bets $1.60
lizzimba: raises $1.90 to $3.50
falquisiño: raises $3.50 to $7
lizzimba: raises $0.25 to $7.25 and is all-in
falquisiño: folds
Uncalled bet ($0.25) returned to lizzimba
lizzimba collected $16.75 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $17.60 | Rake $0.85
Board [7h 3h 6s 7c Jd]
Seat 1: Goudvis_90 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: falquisiño (small blind) folded on the River
Seat 6: lizzimba (big blind) collected ($16.75)

That's such a bizarre hand, did they press the wrong button or something? :lol:

satriales wrote:
DML wrote:I think I'm weak willed.

Seat 1: Goudvis_90 ($6.75 in chips)
Seat 2: falquisiño ($9.15 in chips)
Seat 6: lizzimba ($9.05 in chips)
falquisiño: posts small blind $0.05
lizzimba: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to lizzimba [Kd Kh]
Goudvis_90: folds
falquisiño: calls $0.05
lizzimba: checks
*** FLOP *** [7h 3h 6s]
falquisiño: bets $0.30
lizzimba: raises $0.40 to $0.70
falquisiño: calls $0.40
*** TURN *** [7h 3h 6s] [7c]
falquisiño: checks
lizzimba: bets $1
falquisiño: calls $1
*** RIVER *** [7h 3h 6s 7c] [Jd]
falquisiño: bets $1.60
lizzimba: raises $1.90 to $3.50
falquisiño: raises $3.50 to $7
lizzimba: raises $0.25 to $7.25 and is all-in
falquisiño: folds
Uncalled bet ($0.25) returned to lizzimba
lizzimba collected $16.75 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $17.60 | Rake $0.85
Board [7h 3h 6s 7c Jd]
Seat 1: Goudvis_90 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: falquisiño (small blind) folded on the River
Seat 6: lizzimba (big blind) collected ($16.75)

That's such a bizarre hand, did they press the wrong button or something?

That's what I was wondering the way they fold to a 25c re-raise after raising to $7.

PsychicSykes wrote:Apologies Jebus. The stats you'll often see me post are the percentage of hands they play/the percentage of times they are the first to raise before the flop/ their overall aggression. And yeah, I'm on the button. I'll see if anybody else has anything to add before I reveal what I did tommorow.

Ah ok, do you have HEM as well or is there another way of getting these stats up on Pokerstars?

Nova in losing a hand shocker! :lol:

Jebus great news. I hope play is going well. I'm personally under EV again today buy a buyin. 8-)

I did however get £41 in rakeback lol.

Sykes I just don't like cbetting enough with hands like that. I find I lose money.

Also your hand isn't this like the most obv raise? AA,KK,QQ,AK are the top hands in poker. Why on earth are you not wanting to get some more moneys in preflop and isolate? I raise a tonne of things there that are significantly worse than AK to get it HU and so they check the flop and I have control from there on.

Made £6 at pokersoc today playing random limit cash games. Razz, stud hi/low etc.

DML wrote:EDIT - And I will be playing less. Trust me. More concentration on live poker.

Y'gonna build yourself a miniroll? You could easily build it up from $16.

PsychicSykes wrote:Now, I'm going to post a hand I just played and I want you guys to help me figure out the right way to play it and we can compare it to how I actually did.

RAISE it up like tuff_fish. Probs to around $1.40. I want to be getting as much money in as possible with such a strong hand.

Here's my video from the other day:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DF4ZOG96

Good to see that Drummy, downloading it now.

For any of you who use Twitter, here's a page with links to players who are twittering (Tweeting?) through the WSOP.

As for the hand, obviously it was a raise, I was just checking whether you guys were actually paying attention.

I went with the large raise because 1) I wanted to get heads-up where my hand strength is magnified and 2) I want to get more money in the pot.

PokerStars Game #28878501200: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2009/06/01 22:31:12 WET [2009/06/01 17:31:12 ET]
Table 'Rosalia V' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: bialko07 ($11.05 in chips)
Seat 3: thorstent ($6.30 in chips)
Seat 4: AlexTeslin ($14.40 in chips)
Seat 5: Ken Jude ($56.05 in chips)
Seat 6: PsychicSykes ($16.90 in chips)
bialko07: posts small blind $0.05
thorstent: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PsychicSykes [Kc As]
yapa6eu joins the table at seat #2
AlexTeslin: raises $0.30 to $0.40
Ken Jude: calls $0.40
PsychicSykes: raises $1.60 to $2
bialko07: folds
thorstent: folds
AlexTeslin: folds
Ken Jude: calls $1.60
*** FLOP *** [Qd 8d 9c]
Ken Jude: checks
PsychicSykes: ????

Interesting. So guys, what now?

Should we check behind or bet? If we're betting how much and why?

PsychicSykes wrote:Good to see that Drummy, downloading it now.

For any of you who use Twitter, here's a page with links to players who are twittering (Tweeting?) through the WSOP.

As for the hand, obviously it was a raise, I was just checking whether you guys were actually paying attention. I went with the large raise because 1) I wanted to get heads-up where my hand strength is magnified and 2) I want to get more money in the pot.

PokerStars Game #28878501200: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2009/06/01 22:31:12 WET [2009/06/01 17:31:12 ET]
Table 'Rosalia V' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: bialko07 ($11.05 in chips)
Seat 3: thorstent ($6.30 in chips)
Seat 4: AlexTeslin ($14.40 in chips)
Seat 5: Ken Jude ($56.05 in chips)
Seat 6: PsychicSykes ($16.90 in chips)
bialko07: posts small blind $0.05
thorstent: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PsychicSykes [Kc As]
yapa6eu joins the table at seat #2
AlexTeslin: raises $0.30 to $0.40
Ken Jude: calls $0.40
PsychicSykes: raises $1.60 to $2
bialko07: folds
thorstent: folds
AlexTeslin: folds
Ken Jude: calls $1.60
*** FLOP *** [Qd 8d 9c]
Ken Jude: checks
PsychicSykes: ????

Interesting. So guys, what now?

Should we check behind or bet? If we're betting how much and why?

Well, this fella isn't overly aggressive, looking at what stats you said he had, and he was limp calling quite a lot. Quite how he made such a huge stack is a mystery to me, if you play like that, unless you catch actual monsters.

Anyway, you'd have to bet here. You have position and you've told the man you have a monster hand. A continuation bet is a pretty standard move here, for me. I'd lead out with about $2.50 to $3. I think maybe you pumped the pot too much preflop, there's no need to bet 5x his bet, as normally you'd get the same result for 3/4 times and your cont bet could be smaller.

Flush draws do not like me.

Ideally you want to win all hands that go to showdown at the minute I'm winning 1 in 2 hands that go to showdown I'm wondering how that compares to everyone else?

Slayerx wrote:Ideally you want to win all hands that go to showdown at the minute I'm winning 1 in 2 hands that go to showdown I'm wondering how that compares to everyone else?

Do you have a graph? I'm not sure what mine is, but I am winning most of my showdowns at the moment, but that tends to be because I have the lock (or very close to it) hand when I commit.

Turned rough start to the week around to tiny $5 profit after the total 3 hours of play, after making $48 in 40 minutes 8-)

Made a couple of delicious check-raises, but best hand was this one:

I had him on that sort of hand, and he'd been betting/raising me all the way down, so an all in is the right thing to do there, right?

5 dollars became 68 dollars tonight on 0.05/0.10 cash!

:mrgreen:

I went for a wee from my six max table, and whilst I was gone everyone chose to leave!

:lol:

Also, fourth in the first game of the new LPPL season. Good day. I've taken most of my roll out, but kept twenty dollars so I can see if I can roll up again!

5 dollars became 68 dollars tonight on 0.05/0.10 cash!

:mrgreen:

I went for a wee from my six max table, and whilst I was gone everyone chose to leave!

:lol:

Also, fourth in the first game of the new LPPL season. Good day. I've taken most of my roll out, but kept twenty dollars so I can see if I can roll up again!

Could I have made more from this?

I didn't like the flush draw, to be honest, but should I have raised him on the flop?

Seems fine Nova, I don't really like raising the flop there because it let's him play perfectly every time. Might have stopped off at value town on the river but all in all looks good.

Drummy Video:

Downloading vid now.

Sykes cbet 2/3.

Also you lose loads of showdown hands where someone limps your BB and you check it down. My win % atm is only 32 but I have been running pretty bad atm. I think you have to remember you can lose small pots at the showdown fine as long as you win bigger ones. So I win 1 in 3 apparently.

Finished my exams, so going to watch all the videos tomorrow.

I decided to play a couple of tourneys tonight after an unsuccessful cash session. Played really badly in a 5$ Rebuy (I'm useless at rebuy tourneys), but won a 27-man $11, helping me squeeze past 1300$

Too tired to actually comment much, but I'm pretty sure that I said during the shaky five minutes I have from 20 onwards I was on the phone and it's difficult when hands are hitting you at just the wrong time so keep that in mind.

Oh, and I flopped the FH.

Apologies. I was looking at went to showdown % slayer. I win 52% @ showdown but point still stands. As long as you lose small pots but win big ones there is nothing wrong.

Well, I feel physically ill. I'd just lost AA to 88 for a big pot against this idiot, who calls all three bets (earlier 3 bet me with A7 and won the pot against my AK), and then I get Queens:

Feel pretty sick after losing $61 in 20 minutes...

Roll still at $1250, but that's unbelievable.

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