So, the title is pretty self explanatory. Today was pretty atrocious, I ran into the top of peoples ranges everywhere. Set over set, AQ vs AK, trips into a boat. Ugh. I even picked off a few bluffs and the villains got there. I ran some filters in HEM last night to check things out. It's not too bad, a few coolers for stacks, but when you only play 4 tables for a couple hours a day it really accentuates things. I'm going to review my month tomorrow and see where I'm going wrong and see if I can fix it, or if I really am making good decisions/ranges and just being unlucky by running into the nuts every time.
Here's the month so far:
This hand villain was playing 8/3/0 over 59 hands. Obviously his range is pretty obvious here, so I decided to set-mine since he probably wasn't folding his big pair if I hit.
I think I could have found the fold button on this hand. Villain was 26/18/12 3b. I think my 4bet is fine since he can be 3betting/squeezing light here, but I think it's a fold to his 5b shove.
There's a few more hands but I'll go through those tomorrow. Hopefully I can turn things around.
So I played a short session today (a bit over 1hr) and it was pretty rough. I lost 3BIs in some trivial spots. I don't think there was a way to get away from them but maybe. I had QQ vs AA AIPF. Villain was in the BB when I Raised UTG+1 to 3x. The BTN and SB called and BB squeezed to 14.5BB. He was 15/12/5 over 53 hands so def seemed capable of making this play. I 4bet to 35BB and he jams. Rest is history.
Second hand I just reviewed and I think I can fold the turn. I beat like nothing he takes this line with.
The only 2 significant hands I won were when my QQ held vs AK and when I had AJ vs K9 when he spazzed out with a pair and FD.
Anyways that's enough bitching for now. Hopefully the next few days go well. Here's the graph so far of my paltry hands I've put in:
So after my SCOOP cash I withdrew the $50 that i put in to play and left myself with $55. I'm going to try to build up from that. I played 2NL and worked my way up to about $70. I made a good run in the Big $4.40 and boosted that up to $90, all in the last week of May. So my plan is to keep grinding 2NL for a while longer and move up the stakes. I'm only playing a few small buy-in tournies here and there. I cashed in the Big $4.40 again last night and was up to $95. So that's where it sits. I'm currently playing the Bigger $5.50 and will be playing the Sunday Storm. So we'll see how things go, but so far it's off to a good start.
PokerStars Tournament #806011346, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $4.00/$0.40 USD
6899 players
Total Prize Pool: $27596.00 USD
Tournament started 2013/05/25 18:30:00 AT [2013/05/25 17:30:00 ET]
Dear madman1701,
You finished the tournament in 128th place. A USD 21.80 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
PokerStars Tournament #807011346, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $4.00/$0.40 USD
7428 players
Total Prize Pool: $29712.00 USD
Tournament started 2013/06/01 18:30:00 AT [2013/06/01 17:30:00 ET]
Dear madman1701,
You finished the tournament in 308th place. A USD 12.18 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
Sorry for the lack of updates. I've been busy with life and just haven't had much time to play. I played in the 2 $27 NLHE SCOOP events on Sunday. I busted out of the first one about 2k from the money and the second one I finished in the money.
PokerStars Tournament #2013050221, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $24.55/$2.45 USD
25172 players
Total Prize Pool: $617972.60 USD
Tournament started 2013/05/19 15:30:00 AT [2013/05/19 14:30:00 ET]
Dear madman1701,
You finished the tournament in 1273rd place. A USD 105.05 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
I was only at 2 tables. The first one I chipped up consistently but the second table was different. There was a big winning reg on my direct left. And he/she was pwning me. Constantly raising me post flop and relentlessly 3-betting me pre-flop. Most of the time I was in the HJ or CO trying to steal blinds so I never had much to 4-bet with. I suppose I could have 4-bet bluffed but I pussied out. Bottom line. I'm very disappointed with how I played vs this opponent. Something I really need to work on. Still a good finish for me but it could have been so much more.
Life. Well the weather has been great here and the kids are really enjoying being outside and going to the park. My Fiance and I bought some rollerblades and use those to travel around since our apartment is right next to the paved walking trail that will take you anywhere you need to go. I also had my first epic wipe-out on them the other day when I smoked a pot-hole on the dirt/gravel road back into the apartment.
My job, well, we lost another big contract. Needless to say it's not looking to bright for a good season. So I have decided to check-raise life and contacted the company that currently has all the work. They have a few jobs starting up in the next few weeks/months and I hope I can get on with them. Shouldn't be a problem. Now hopefully life doesn't 3-bet/jam on me and I get coolered, because that would suck lol.
Well it's been a while again. My MM series ended with a cash in the Main Event. The only cash I had in the series. I made a fairly good run finishing 1875/68,081 for $95.31. It all came to an end when I shipped my 14bbs back into the Button opener, who had about 30bbs. I had A9 he tanked for a bit but finally called with AJ. I had a few more good finishes: 41/919 for $28, 184/11813, 176/7817, not really good $$ but decent runs none-the-less. Botched everything I played today and burned about $60, came close to the money a few times but fell short so that sucked.
On the work-front, nothing is on the books yet until July. I almost got sent to the states, which would have been good/bad. Good for the money and high possibility of being close to a casino, bad cuz of the online situation. Since I plan on playing a major live event this fall I would rather practice with my live play anyways so not super terrible.
Now for some hands:
This one was from the main event. I didn't want to blow V off the hand on the flop or turn by raising but I felt that if I checked again on the river he would check behind based on the smallish bets he was making.
This one was from today vs a 75/4 whale, otherwise I wouldn't have played it so strong.
This hand I got lucky. I figured I was ahead of most of his range here so I popped it up. The raise was pot-committing so I had to call. Still not too sure if this was the right move. He was 24/12 with a 67 cbet over 75 hands so it can't be terrible.
So I have failed to cash in any of the MM events I have played so far, which blows. In almost every event I play I manage to build up a great stack and I mean 200-300bb's early on then either go completely card dead or hit a huge cooler vs another big stack. It is really frustrating because the field is just so damn soft. It is soooo easy to chip up it's not even funny and I have consistently proven that. Now I have done my fair share of sucking out and maybe it's just Karma lol. For example today I have 56dd and open in LP to 300 (blinds 50/100) and the BTN makes it 700. I flat and flop comes 56K rainbow. I c/r blah blah gii on the flop and hold vs his AK. Anyways the common occurrence is just hitting a cooler like set over set for tourney life or a weirdly played pot by a fish who rivers me for half stack, shit like that. I thought I had it under control today but the same thing happened over a few hands. I'll post some in the re-player tomorrow cuz it's kinda late. Playing the Main Event for sure and hope to smash that. I know I can do it because I have been consistent so far.
I also joined tiltbook.com which seems okish. Once more people join I think it can go far. Check it out sometime. GL at the tables!
I played the Sunday Storm and the Bigger $11 yesterday. I busted out of the storm as per usual, but I was running like god in the Bigger $11. I was also super focused and making lots of good reads. It also helped that I had AA 4 times and they held each time. Then this hand happened. I stayed around 150bb's the whole tourney which is impressive in itself. I think I played the hand well. Everything went the way I wanted it to, I read his hand correctly it just didn't work out.
So that hand sucked and I couldn't get anything going. The table broke and the first 2 hands were disastrous at the new table. Pretty standard obv, but it still sucked. Was hoping for a really deep run. Here's the hand analysis post from 2+2
Then the very next hand:
If I can have a run like that in one of the Micro-Millions that would be awesome, minus the bad beats of course :P
