Mike's Poker Blog

Guess it's time for an update....

2011-01-27T15:56:00.002+01:00

It's been a while since I updated my blog.
Not because I stopped playing poker, although I didn't play much the last couple weeks, but just because I didn't had much inspiration to write something.
But it seems that at least some people like to read it, so I decided to give it a shot again.

I've been playing full-time poker now for exactly 4 years and the games have changed a lot since I started. The last 1,5 year it got much tougher, mostly because the ratio between regs and donks has gotten a lot worser. So i'm quite proud that I managed to have only one losing month out of 50.

Since the beginning of this year I'm not playing full-time anymore.
The last couple months I had been thinking about doing something besides poker, because playing 5/6 days a week can be very 'empty'.

So I was lucky to get a nice offer to work for a friend of mine for 2 days a week.
It's an internetcompany (www.studentmobiel.nl) which he started 10 years ago with 2 friends and which is now one of the largest dutch online telecom shops.
I will be doing some financial analytical things there which suits perfectly with my education.

By working 2 days I can still enjoy my freedom (one of the main reasons I started playing full-time), but I also have the challenge of a job again, with colleagues and all the other normal stuff I missed while working alone.

I will still be playing poker on those other days and I might play some live tournaments as well, although I don't know which one yet.

Let's see if I can update this blog more regularly as well....

Good start of the month

2010-09-08T01:45:00.011+02:00

I started the month off good (except for Full Tilt, where I keep running terrible).
Games really seem to be getting better the past week after it was really quit the past 3 months.
Im trying to play a lot of hands this month and I might even give some WCOOP (World Championship of Online Poker) tournaments a try.
Lifetime I probably played around 100 big tournaments ($100+ buy-in) and I believe I only cashed in 3 off them.....(all min cashes) so a big score is soon to be mine ;-)

Here's are the tournaments I might play in:

Event 3 : $215 ($2M guaranteed) -> 3684/12066 (first prize $336k)

Event 12: $215 HU ($200K guaranteed) -> 2035/2307 (first prize $78k)

Event 14: $265 6max knockout ($400k guaranteed) -> 333 (ITM)/3325 (first prize $104k)

Event 14: $134 (2nd chance) -> 20 (ITM) /1324 (first prize $22k)

Event 22: $530 ($3M guaranteed) -> 4659/5799 (first prize $469k)

Event 23: $215 4max ($700k guaranteed) -> 290/2915 (ITM) (first prize $104k)

Event 32: $320 6max ($300k guaranteed) -> 1328/1957 (first prize $ 92k)

Event 50: $215 big antes ($600k guaranteed) -> 11/2933 (ITM) (first pize $94k)

As for my running bad on Full Tilt, it keeps going on. Ive played 300k hands there now and Im still losing with all my premiums except AA @ preflop allins.
Here's the updated graph again:

This is how it could be when you run hot like I do on Everest....

The bleeding has stopped

2010-08-27T17:43:00.005+02:00

Finally it seems Im running somewhat better on Full Tilt.
It also takes a lot of time getting to know all the regulars and try to find a way to beat/exploit them. Running a little better offcourse helps, but I also have the feeling that im getting to know them and that my change in gameplan helped to improve my game and results.
So far this month (just 2 weeks for me) Im up 30 buyins which is ok.

I also found out that this is my 50th month as 'winning' poker player. In those 50 months I only lost money in cashgames in one month, so im quite happy with those results, hope I can do a little better in the next 50 ;-)

Here's the updated graph with preflop allins:

Back to work

2010-08-22T15:16:00.003+02:00

Its just been a week since im back from holiday.
As always after a period without poker it gives me a fresh look on my game.
So I tried to adjust some small things about my game again.
The things I changed are mostly about position, which offcourse is one of the most important aspects in poker, but also a lot of players are just terrible at it, although they probably know how important it is, they just don't use it good enough.

As Im playing mostly rushpoker now on FT I think it's even more important as gameflow isn't a factor at these tables it's all about using position to you're best.

To give some examples of regulars who don't use their position I'll give some examples:

1. A FT red pro who plays a ton, his position stats are like this:
UTG: 19/19
EP : 15/14
CO : 16/13
BTN: 16/12
SB : 14/8
BB: 13/4

2. Another random regular who is playing a lot...
UTG: 23/23
EP : 25/22
CO : 24/17
BTN: 23/17
SB : 30/17
BB : 31/7

3. A laggy dutch regular
UTG: 27/27
EP: 32/32
CO: 33/31
BTN: 39/33
SB: 27/23
BB: 23/10

Well you don't have to be a genius to see that thats absolutely terrible.
On first sight these players might look ok to you, but when you study there game for a little bit they just have huge leaks in just their pre-flop game....
To give an idea about my game, I play around 15/15 UTG and 45/40 on the BTN.

Results for this first week have been ok, although im still running bad (especially on those preflop-allins). After 200k hands of rush im still losing money on preflop allins with KK/QQ and AK (KK should obv be a big winner, QQ a small winner and AK is pbb a 0-5bb loser normally). Here's the updated graph and let's hope that it will turn around soon....

You know when you're running bad....

2010-07-28T13:58:00.002+02:00

....when you start a session and see hands like this.
Hope it turns around after my holiday, cause this is getting really sick.

***** Hand History for Game 22650361982 ***** (Full Tilt)
$200.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, July 28, 07:13:11 ET 2010
Table Swiftly Tilting (6 max) (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: yoda70 ( $192.75 USD )
Seat 2: Fons von Luba ( $213.30 USD )
Seat 3: maurice1979 ( $299.50 USD )
Seat 4: clerk66 ( $280.35 USD )
Seat 5: yogurt61 ( $615.85 USD )
Seat 6: DaviBoy337 ( $359.25 USD )
yoda70 posts small blind [$1.00 USD].
Fons von Luba posts big blind [$2.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to maurice1979 [ Ah Ad ]
maurice1979 raises [$7.00 USD]
clerk66 folds
yogurt61 calls [$7.00 USD]
DaviBoy337 folds
yoda70 raises [$23.00 USD]
Fons von Luba raises [$84.00 USD]
maurice1979 raises [$292.50 USD]
yogurt61 folds
yoda70 calls [$168.75 USD]
Fons von Luba calls [$127.30 USD]
maurice1979 shows [Ah, Ad ]
yoda70 shows [Ac, Qc ]
Fons von Luba shows [As, Kh ]
maurice1979 wins $86.20 USD
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6c, 9c, Tc ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2h ]
** Dealing River ** [ 4d ]
maurice1979 wins $41.10 USD from main pot
yoda70 wins $582.25 USD from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 22649740549 ***** (Full Tilt)
$200.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, July 28, 06:17:51 ET 2010
Table Swiftly Tilting (6 max) (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 1: maurice1979 ( $244.05 USD )
Seat 2: Balzs ( $163.95 USD )
Seat 3: Sank Yu Sir ( $210.90 USD )
Seat 4: CuteIsWhatIAim4 ( $825.55 USD )
Seat 5: R-Quaresma ( $437.65 USD )
Seat 6: BULENT_D ( $167.00 USD )
BULENT_D posts small blind [$1.00 USD].
maurice1979 posts big blind [$2.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to maurice1979 [ Kd Ks ]
Balzs raises [$6.00 USD]
Sank Yu Sir folds
CuteIsWhatIAim4 folds
R-Quaresma calls [$6.00 USD]
BULENT_D calls [$5.00 USD]
maurice1979 raises [$28.00 USD]
Balzs raises [$62.00 USD]
R-Quaresma folds
BULENT_D folds
maurice1979 raises [$214.05 USD]
Balzs calls [$95.95 USD]
maurice1979 shows [Kd, Ks ]
Balzs shows [Ac, Ad ]
maurice1979 wins $80.10 USD
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ah, Qc, 3s ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6s ]
** Dealing River ** [ 2h ]
Balzs wins $336.90 USD from main pot

Still no luck....

2010-07-27T14:26:00.004+02:00

Somehow I still cant get it going on FT. Played over 160k hands now and despite the good games I still don't win what I should be able to win.

Here's my preflop all-in graph with QQ/KK/AK

And this one shows it all...my preflop all-in graph with KK, if you're EV line is down all the time with KK, you know you're getting a lot of coolers....

Time for a nice vacation trip to Italy I guess....back in 3 weeks!

Way back....

2010-07-23T15:53:00.002+02:00

Seems that me previous post helped me, cause today I'm on my way back up.
I also did some research is my old database and with a huge sample it seems that +3bb per allin seems like a normal amount to win in those situations on average.
So instead of being down 4500 big blinds, I should have been up around 600.
Lets see how this will develop...

And it goes on and on....

2010-07-23T02:23:00.002+02:00

I played a lot of hands today again.
And just as my previous sessions on FT it was the same story, I just cant win allins with QQ/KK and AK. With all 3 hands Im a loser in preflop allin situations over a sample of 150k hands. I hope I reached my lowpoint now, so from now on I will be posting this updated graph after every day.
Lets see if I can turn it around!

They forgot to transfer my luckbox....

2010-07-21T11:52:00.003+02:00

Somehow when playing at a 'new' site I always seem to run bad at the beginning.
With FT its nothing else....
So far I played a lot of rushpoker (almost 150k hands) and somehow I run absolutely terrible when it comes to preflop allin situations (could be my worst streak ever with this).
Currently im down 40 buyins with QQ/KK and AK (preflop allins). Even with KK alone im losing money. It's not that I get a lot of bad beats its just that everytime I have KK I run into AA (15 times already) and when I have QQ im up against KK.
The funny thing is that Im actually up with JJ/TT in preflop allins, so this shows me thats its just variance here otherwise I might consider only playing AA for stacks ;-)

Here's my graph of preflop allins with QQ+/AK:

Time for an update

2010-07-17T17:35:00.003+02:00

Since im back from vegas I played a lot of hands (165k).
As Everest traffic is really slowing down lately, mainly because of the French players leaving I had to play another site as well.
It amazes me BTW that Everest seems to do nothing about it and just stands aside as they see all there high volume players leaving.

As I told in my previous post I really like rushpoker. For my style of play its probably ideal. I now also can play over 1300 hands an hour, by playing 4 tables of rush and what's left on Everest NL200+ tables.
The only disadvantage about a new (and large room) is that it takes a lot of time to know all the regulars players and eventually take advantage of their weak spots.

My results since Vegas (5 weeks) have been very good. So good that I bought a new car :-)

Back from Vegas

2010-06-24T16:12:00.002+02:00

Vegas

Ive been back from Vegas for 10 days now.
It was really nice to play 2 WSOP tournaments, although I didnt make a cash in either one and both times I played ~10 hours to finish just outside of the money.
It's just really important to make an early (first 2 levels) double up in those tournaments, as they start with 90bb and without a double youre playing a 15-30bb stack (my favorite).
At least I didnt make any mistakes in the tournament although I'm still not sure about my bustout hand in my second WSOP tourney, I openshoved J8s on the button with about 16bb and got called by ATo in the BB. In retrospect I think I should have opened to 2.5x and fold to a shove.

Before Vegas I hardly played any live poker at all and I was a little scary that I might give away a lot of tells, but after playing a few hours (especially with cash) I noticed that I had nothing to be afraid of.
Especially in the cash games it was really easy to put people on hands, they played their hands completely face up and as Ive never seen anybody valuebet 'lightly' they just were always polarized in bluffs or monsters.

I had to say though, that the level of play in the WSOP tournaments was higher then expected. Offcourse I had some good tables as well, but especially my last table in the $1500 was pretty good (if you see no limping at all and an average age of 25 you know its not the best table availabe).

The cash tables I played on the other hand were very, very soft (I played 2/5).
One of the funniest hands I saw was a japanse guy vs the most competent player at the table, they were playing around $1700 effective stack.
He called a preflop reraise in position with KQo and they saw a flop HU (pot was ~$200). Flop was 9TJr and the japanese guy, who was sitting next to me bet $200 and got called by him, he clearly wasnt happy with the flop and even showed me his cards! On the 6 turn he made a $200 bet again and the other guy went allin pretty fast. The Japanse guy was complaining out loud and showed the whole table his cards and after the clock was called on him he called off the rest of his stack. $3500 pot it is...

Online grinding

After playing live for 10 days it was nice to play online again and be able to play 1000 hands an hour again. As there wasnt much action on Everest I played some rushpoker again on Full Tilt. In total I played around 65k hands already (40k on FT and 25k on EVP).
After a few weeks without playing online Im playing really good again. A break does miracles for my game most of the time. It also helps that Im finally running good again. Im beiung up ~55 buyins now (10 above EV).

Im also curious to see what happens with Everest when the French are not allowed to play anymore there (end of june). It cant be good for the games.

That was my update for now, gonna watch some tennis and football now!

Ouch...

2010-05-20T02:23:00.003+02:00

As usual after a good day, I just had one of the worst hours ever. In a period of 875 hands I lost 8 buyins and won one pot above 20bb (40bb). All pots I lost were just coolers/beats, just nothing I could do about. Thats poker as well....

Best day ever and the fish factor

2010-05-19T16:01:00.002+02:00

I'm back from 2 weeks holiday and a fresh start is always good for my game, so I had my best poker day ever yesterday, winning close to 20 buy-ins. Really happy with the timing of that day.
The bad news is that I probably have to cancel my Vegas trip due to some problems with the health of the father of my friend who's travelling with me.

Something else I was looking at was a way to find out how good the tables have been over a period of time and how this develops over time, some kind of fish factor.
What I did was looking at 3 things during a month:
1. How much hands did the fish play at my games (VPIP 32+)?
2. How much unique fish players were there during the month?
3. How much did they loose?

The first thing I noticed is that those players keep losing at a steady rate of 30bb/100. That doesn't change much over time, so in other words, the bad players don't get any better.

And for every hand that I play, I play around 0,6 hands with a fish at the table. So that means of I'm playing 12 tables there only around 7 to 8 bad players on those tables (out of 60 players in total). The bad thing is that this seems to be declining. Where I had around 0.7 at the end of 2009 it's was 0,4 in april.

This last conclusion also shows up when you look at unique players. Where I had over 1000 at my tables in September, I had just 500 in April.
The amount they play (80 hands per person) and lose ($100 per person per month) doesnt change much though.
The data I studied is only since september (older data is on my old computer), so it might just be normal seasonal effects (they play more in the winter then in the spring), but I try to keep an eye on this and see how it develops.

Another conclusion you can take from this data, is that if 5,4 players are battling for 0,6 players who are losing 30bb/100, the average winning player will win around 3bb/100. So if you win less then 3bb/100 you're probably not winning from other regulars.

One last other thing, since I'm back from holiday I noticed that Holdem Manager imported some duplicate hands. Somebody else ever had this? It destroys the reliability of my data so I hope I can fix this.

The difference between a good handreader and just an average player...

2010-04-23T12:37:00.006+02:00

A warning first, do NOT try this at home.

This is a hand I played yesterday. Villian is a regular who I played over 11k hands with and seems like a decent player. He opens to 2.5bb from every position and his opening range here is around 20%. He is pretty aggro postflop on every street (AF >3 on every street), so he barrels a lot probably.

On to the hand (no special gameflow going on)

***** Hand History for Game 5769693638 ***** (Everest)
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, April 23, 12:11:44 ET 2010
Table Bamako2 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Seat 1: 2cheap ( $80.00 USD )
Seat 2: jatekos ( $364.50 USD ) -> 20/17/4
Seat 3: Mr.Gaston ( $113.10 USD )
Seat 4: BldZwtTrn ( $406.00 USD )
Seat 5: MONAZ ( $410.50 USD )
Seat 6: overedge ( $673.90 USD )
MONAZ posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
overedge posts big blind [$4.00 USD].

Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Qs Kd ]

-> Pre-flop I could call or 3bet here, but as he folds a lot vs 3bets (70%) and 4bets a lot (so doesnt call much here OOP) I decide to call here.

** Dealing down cards **
2cheap folds
jatekos raises [$10.00 USD]
Mr.Gaston folds
BldZwtTrn calls [$10.00 USD]
MONAZ folds
overedge folds

** Dealing Flop ** [ 7h, 2s, 3d ] -> pot=$26

-> This is a really dry flop on which he cbets probably close to 100% (his cbet% is 71%). Offourse I missed this flop completely but as he barrels a lot and probably always keeps barreling on K/Q turns I decide to call (as I would with a set here) and bluff good turns (4 to 9 and probably an A and call K/Q turns).
So the only turns Im definitely folding are 2,3,T,J cause they narrow my range of good value hands a lot instead of improving them.

jatekos bets [$14.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$14.00 USD]

** Dealing Turn ** [ 5c ] -> pot= $54

As told on the flop this is a good turn for my range. A4s/55/22/33/77 are all in my range on this turn so I decide to raise here. I should have raised a litte bit smaller though (to $100), so that I would have had one potsize bet left on the river (this probably gives me a little bit more fold equity on the river).

When I raise here, I'm probably shoving any river except a 2 and 3, although I don't think that makes a lot of difference.

FWIW my bluffing range on this turn is very, very small, because there are just not much (bluff) hands in my range here, besides the random-lets-turn K high-into-a-bluff-one-time hands. Hands like 44/76/88/99 I'm calling way more often here then turning them into a (semi) bluff.

jatekos bets [$38.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$112.00 USD]
jatekos calls [$74.00 USD]

** Dealing River ** [ 5s ] -> pot= $274

Not the best river for me, I'd rather seen a 6 or a 8, but still I pull through with my bluff, cause his hand is complete face up for me as TT-AA and I expected he was good enough to make this fold, but I was wrong.....

jatekos checks
BldZwtTrn bets [$270.00 USD]
jatekos calls [$228.50 USD]
BldZwtTrn wins $41.50 USD
BldZwtTrn shows [Qs, Kd ]
jatekos shows [Qc, Qh ]
jatekos wins $732.00 USD from main pot

Offcourse some will see this as spew, but with a clean image this should just be a very easy fold for him on the turn/river. I'm probably turning up here with a bluff in less then 1 out of 25 times or something....

A hand that looks a lot like mine is this hand below. The only difference is that I believe that the K3s call from rubenrtv is probably a lot better (his hand is good a lot higher % of the time, then the QQ call from villian above....)

That might look strange because and overpair is the nuts, compared to bottom pair, but that's the big difference between a very good handreader and just an average player who only looks at his absolute hand strength, instead of his relative one.

PokerStars Game #43026364990: Hold'em No Limit ($25/$50 USD) - 2010/04/22 15:42:28 CET [2010/04/22 9:42:28 ET]
Table 'Bruwer IV' 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: KingBoromir ($5000 in chips)
Seat 2: diBasio ($5100 in chips)
Seat 3: damiii ($5540 in chips)
Seat 4: pistons87 ($5447 in chips)
Seat 5: adtina22 ($5000 in chips)
Seat 6: rubenrtv ($7619 in chips)
rubenrtv: posts small blind $25
KingBoromir: posts big blind $50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
diBasio: folds
damiii: folds
pistons87: folds
adtina22: folds
rubenrtv: raises $125 to $175
KingBoromir: calls $125
*** FLOP *** [ 10s, 3c, 4c ] -> pot= $350
rubenrtv: bets $250
KingBoromir: calls $250
*** TURN *** [ 4s ] -> pot= $850
rubenrtv: bets $625
KingBoromir: raises $1025 to $1650
rubenrtv: calls $1025
*** RIVER *** [ Jh ] -> pot= $4150
rubenrtv: checks
KingBoromir: bets $2925 and is all-in
rubenrtv: calls $2925
*** SHOW DOWN ***
KingBoromir: shows [6d, 5d ] (a pair of Fours)
rubenrtv: shows [Kh , 3h ] (two pair, Fours and Threes)
rubenrtv collected $9997 from pot

I should have known....

2010-04-22T13:58:00.002+02:00

....that posting about running good is asking for some bad luck.
After my upswing of 40k hands, I had a period of 40k hands were I lost 20 buy-ins.

I don't know if it sounds familiar, but if I have been running hot for a while, like I did in the beginning of the month, I'm almost scared to play again, knowing that luck will probably turn into bad luck any time soon.
On the other hand, when I have a period of running not so good, I have the tendency to play more then normal just to get out of the downswing as fast as possible.

But when I think rationally, I know that the past has no impact on future hands, so when I have for example 20 buyins of luck (I know it's hard to decifer the exact luck factor) or bad luck over a period of time it doesn't mean that it will happen the other way around in the next period....

Am I the only who thinks like this?

New top10 and running hot

2010-04-08T19:24:00.004+02:00

As promised before I will post a new top10 of EVP midstakes (400/600) regulars.
This time I only looked at players I played more then 2500 hands with since march 1st (~ 50 players).
So again, some good players might be missing, but that's just cause they haven't played much vs me. I just like to give some idea of which players are improving or which are not.

10. PperPazzo

This player has the highest VPIP of all regulars (he plays 32/26). I do think he has some leaks (especially preflop), but I also think he adjusts good to the pre-flop style he is playing.

9. lolpancake

See previous time, not much changed, hate the fact that he's always curing and complaining.

8. toaster

He plays a lot of NL200 as well, but I think he's a really decent player. Never understand why he plays NL200 most of the time.

7. -MJP-

Very solid player, has a very solid pre-flop game and never see him do any weird stuff.

6. Jflamm

See last month, not much changed, just can't win against him

5. hotze

Still thinks he's a decent player, but I probably overestimated him a little.

4. burn1emAc

He really improved his game the last months, he's a lot more aggro pre-flop and still very solid postflop.

3. JVVD

See last month.

2. Chappolini

Haven't played a lot with him (3.5k hands), but he always seems very solid and tricky.

1. groengras

If you see this little Taksi drinking men in real life you won't expect he's this good. But he's just a very good and tricky player. His hand reading is very good and he knows how to put players in though spots.

Upswing!!

Recovering

2010-04-06T14:41:00.002+02:00

I found my way up after one of my worst downswings so far. Happy to be back at my all time high again so fast.
I always believe it's one of the most difficults things in poker to stay focused (not tilting) and keep playing you're A-game when things are not going you're way.

Biggest downswing ever

2010-03-29T22:28:00.003+02:00

I just found out that my recent period (I'm already halfway back) of running not so good, has been my worst downswing ever. From top to bottom I lost 33 buy-ins in 25k hands and as far as I know my previous record was around 25 buy-ins.
It doesn't feel as bad though as a year ago when I didn't lose as much as now, but just played break-even for 250k hands...
Im just very happy and proud of myself that in a month when I run quite bad, I'm still able to win over 20 buy-ins, having over $10K profit and ending this first quarter as my third best ever.

Getting some cards again...

2010-03-25T13:28:00.004+01:00

Yesterday I had one of the strangest sessions in a while.
In the first 20 minutes I got premiums all over the place.
Had KK 6 times in 20 minutes, QQ 3 times and one time AA. But the funny thing was I lost ALL ten pots and was down ~6 buy-ins in 20 minutes.
After that period I had a nice comeback, mainly because I kept getting premiums and it looked like I was playing superaggro, but I just got some hands.

Here's how the graph looked like:

And these are the most important hands:

First one:

This one is a little thin and I'm not totally sure if I played it ok, but since his range is so small preflop I don't mind it that much.
Villian is quite an ABC player (19/16, 6% 3bet). When he calls pre-flop he basically has AQ/88-JJ a lot of the time. My flop c-bet is kind of standard I guess and when the turn brings another flushdraw and pairs the board, I know only AQ beats me...probably could have gone for a C/C as well, but meh...

***** Hand History for Game 5681173163 ***** (Everest)
$200.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, March 24, 02:37:07 ET 2010
Table Suva11 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Seat 1: jarno114 ( $270.82 USD )
Seat 2: DerickDevil ( $200.00 USD )
Seat 3: Renzz ( $198.00 USD )
Seat 4: BldZwtTrn ( $200.00 USD )
Seat 5: -MarcusAS- ( $200.00 USD )
Seat 6: DamesRoses ( $219.83 USD )
Renzz posts small blind [$1.00 USD].
BldZwtTrn posts big blind [$2.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Ks Kc ]
** Dealing down cards **
-MarcusAS- folds
DamesRoses raises [$7.00 USD]
jarno114 calls [$7.00 USD]
DerickDevil folds
Renzz folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$29.00 USD]
DamesRoses folds
jarno114 calls [$24.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2s, 8d, Ad ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$33.00 USD]
jarno114 calls [$33.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 8s ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$136.00 USD]
jarno114 calls [$136.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn shows [Ks, Kc ]
jarno114 shows [Qs, As ]
** Dealing River ** [ Ts ]
jarno114 wins $405.00 USD from main pot

Second hand:

I probably should have check folded or bet folded the river here, not too happy with it. Don't know villian very well, but looks like a standard regular.

***** Hand History for Game 5681189654 ***** (Everest)
$200.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, March 24, 02:44:00 ET 2010
Table Zaysan2 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: -MarcusAS- ( $192.00 USD )
Seat 2: Ze-Marmetta ( $194.00 USD )
Seat 3: Optimus59 ( $165.95 USD )
Seat 4: BldZwtTrn ( $279.00 USD )
Seat 5: zetero ( $200.00 USD )
Seat 6: Renzz ( $236.45 USD )
-MarcusAS- posts small blind [$1.00 USD].
Ze-Marmetta posts big blind [$2.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Qd Qs ]
** Dealing down cards **
Optimus59 folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$7.00 USD]
zetero calls [$7.00 USD]
Renzz calls [$7.00 USD]
-MarcusAS- folds
Ze-Marmetta folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8h, 2c, 5s ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$17.00 USD]
zetero folds
Renzz calls [$17.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3s ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$39.00 USD]
Renzz calls [$39.00 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ 8s ]
BldZwtTrn checks
Renzz bets [$88.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$88.00 USD]
Renzz shows [8d, Ad ]
BldZwtTrn doesn't show [Qd, Qs ]
Renzz wins $309.00 USD from main pot

Third one:

Standard

***** Hand History for Game 5681190901 ***** (Everest)
$200.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, March 24, 02:44:30 ET 2010
Table Kariba2 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ( $179.00 USD )
Seat 2: Jazzys ( $114.15 USD )
Seat 3: CallMeYaFool ( $280.00 USD )
Seat 4: zetero ( $223.00 USD )
Seat 5: -MarcusAS- ( $228.00 USD )
Seat 6: Renzz ( $199.00 USD )
BldZwtTrn posts small blind [$1.00 USD].
Jazzys posts big blind [$2.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Kh Ks ]
** Dealing down cards **
CallMeYaFool raises [$7.00 USD]
zetero raises [$24.00 USD]
-MarcusAS- folds
Renzz folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$50.00 USD]
Jazzys folds
CallMeYaFool folds
zetero raises [$199.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$128.00 USD]
zetero wins $44.00 USD
BldZwtTrn shows [Kh, Ks ]
zetero shows [Ac, Ad ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2s, 7d, 5c ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9d ]
** Dealing River ** [ 4c ]
zetero wins $364.00 USD from main pot

4:

Standard again

***** Hand History for Game 5681206175 ***** (Everest)
$200.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, March 24, 02:50:41 ET 2010
Table Suva12 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Seat 2: dr-gonzo ( $216.20 USD )
Seat 4: Wolfman75 ( $183.00 USD )
Seat 5: BldZwtTrn ( $191.00 USD )
BldZwtTrn posts small blind [$1.00 USD].
dr-gonzo posts big blind [$2.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Ah Ad ]
** Dealing down cards **
Wolfman75 folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$5.00 USD]
dr-gonzo raises [$16.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$42.00 USD]
dr-gonzo raises [$126.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$143.00 USD]
dr-gonzo calls [$47.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn shows [Ah, Ad ]
dr-gonzo shows [Ac, Kc ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ks, Kh, 6s ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5c ]
** Dealing River ** [ 5h ]
dr-gonzo wins $381.00 USD from main pot

5:

Villian is very over-aggro regular, so I like to CR this flops vs this kind of players a lot. Not only with QQ+, but also AQ+, especially when there is a flushdraw as well.

***** Hand History for Game 5681215499 ***** (Everest)
$200.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, March 24, 02:54:31 ET 2010
Table Suva0 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 4: BldZwtTrn ( $221.00 USD )
Seat 6: dr-gonzo ( $551.00 USD )
dr-gonzo posts small blind [$1.00 USD].
BldZwtTrn posts big blind [$2.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Kc Kh ]
** Dealing down cards **
dr-gonzo raises [$5.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$18.00 USD]
dr-gonzo calls [$14.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5s, 6c, 8h ]
BldZwtTrn checks
dr-gonzo bets [$20.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$55.00 USD]
dr-gonzo raises [$185.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$146.00 USD]
dr-gonzo wins $4.00 USD
BldZwtTrn shows [Kc, Kh ]
dr-gonzo shows [9s, As ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 7c ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7h ]
dr-gonzo wins $441.00 USD from main pot

6:

Standard again

***** Hand History for Game 5681312908 ***** (Everest)
$200.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, March 24, 03:32:54 ET 2010
Table Suva12 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: DerickDevil ( $244.95 USD )
Seat 2: dr-gonzo ( $369.80 USD )
Seat 3: Fabian_pl ( $217.00 USD )
Seat 4: Wolfman75 ( $318.70 USD )
Seat 5: BldZwtTrn ( $326.10 USD )
Seat 6: zetero ( $189.00 USD )
DerickDevil posts small blind [$1.00 USD].
dr-gonzo posts big blind [$2.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Kd Kc ]
** Dealing down cards **
Fabian_pl raises [$7.00 USD]
Wolfman75 calls [$7.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$31.00 USD]
zetero folds
DerickDevil folds
dr-gonzo folds
Fabian_pl raises [$53.00 USD]
Wolfman75 folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$295.10 USD]
Fabian_pl calls [$157.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn wins $109.10 USD
Fabian_pl shows [Ad, As ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Kd, Kc ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ac, 9d, 6s ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3d ]
** Dealing River ** [ Qh ]
Fabian_pl wins $441.00 USD from main pot

7:

Standard

***** Hand History for Game 5681215646 ***** (Everest)
$200.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, March 24, 02:54:35 ET 2010
Table Kariba2 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ( $191.00 USD )
Seat 2: Jazzys ( $69.85 USD )
Seat 3: CallMeYaFool ( $116.00 USD )
Seat 4: zetero ( $523.90 USD )
Seat 5: -MarcusAS- ( $419.00 USD )
Seat 6: Renzz ( $198.00 USD )
Renzz posts small blind [$1.00 USD].
BldZwtTrn posts big blind [$2.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Kd Kc ]
** Dealing down cards **
Jazzys raises [$7.00 USD]
CallMeYaFool folds
zetero calls [$7.00 USD]
-MarcusAS- folds
Renzz folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$30.00 USD]
Jazzys calls [$25.00 USD]
zetero folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3s, Ah, 3d ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$72.00 USD]
Jazzys calls [$37.85 USD]
BldZwtTrn wins $34.15 USD
BldZwtTrn shows [Kd, Kc ]
Jazzys shows [3c, As ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6s ]
** Dealing River ** [ 9h ]
Jazzys wins $144.70 USD from main pot

8:

At least I didnt lost a big one here...

***** Hand History for Game 5681179599 ***** (Everest)
$200.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, March 24, 02:39:50 ET 2010
Table Suva15 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Seat 1: DamesRoses ( $200.00 USD )
Seat 2: JonyPoka ( $291.35 USD )
Seat 3: BldZwtTrn ( $197.00 USD )
Seat 4: kevinPG ( $130.70 USD )
Seat 5: dr-gonzo ( $424.40 USD )
Seat 6: 0num ( $43.00 USD )
dr-gonzo posts small blind [$1.00 USD].
0num posts big blind [$2.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Qh Qs ]
** Dealing down cards **
DamesRoses folds
JonyPoka folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$7.00 USD]
kevinPG folds
dr-gonzo raises [$22.00 USD]
0num folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$42.00 USD]
dr-gonzo calls [$26.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ah, 6c, Kd ]
dr-gonzo checks
BldZwtTrn checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ 8d ]
dr-gonzo checks
BldZwtTrn checks
** Dealing River ** [ 7c ]
dr-gonzo bets [$375.40 USD]
BldZwtTrn folds
dr-gonzo wins $375.40 USD
dr-gonzo wins $97.00 USD from main pot

9:

Standard and another small loss

***** Hand History for Game 5681201685 ***** (Everest)
$200.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, March 24, 02:48:53 ET 2010
Table Suva5 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 1: --darupi-- ( $250.25 USD )
Seat 2: BldZwtTrn ( $200.00 USD )
Seat 3: zetero ( $219.35 USD )
Seat 4: High_Tide ( $87.20 USD )
Seat 5: blurrrr ( $195.00 USD )
Seat 6: CallMeYaFool ( $298.90 USD )
CallMeYaFool posts small blind [$1.00 USD].
--darupi-- posts big blind [$2.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Kc Ks ]
** Dealing down cards **
BldZwtTrn raises [$7.00 USD]
zetero folds
High_Tide folds
blurrrr folds
CallMeYaFool folds
--darupi-- calls [$5.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Js, 2c, Ad ]
--darupi-- checks
BldZwtTrn checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6h ]
--darupi-- bets [$2.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$2.00 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ 9c ]
--darupi-- bets [$19.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$19.00 USD]
--darupi-- shows [Jd, Jh ]
BldZwtTrn doesn't show [Kc, Ks ]
--darupi-- wins $54.15 USD from main pot

After these period of 'kings are not so good', I finally won some pots and kept getting hands:

***** Hand History for Game 5681292171 ***** (Everest)
$200.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, March 24, 03:25:04 ET 2010
Table Suva0 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Seat 1: nikoETP ( $363.00 USD )
Seat 2: Djerende ( $211.00 USD )
Seat 3: zetero ( $301.95 USD )
Seat 4: BldZwtTrn ( $266.00 USD )
Seat 5: the_1337 ( $200.00 USD )
Seat 6: dr-gonzo ( $592.70 USD )
zetero posts small blind [$1.00 USD].
BldZwtTrn posts big blind [$2.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Ac Kh ]
** Dealing down cards **
dr-gonzo raises [$7.00 USD]
nikoETP folds
Djerende folds
zetero folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$22.00 USD]
dr-gonzo calls [$17.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qh, 6d, 2d ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$30.00 USD]
dr-gonzo calls [$30.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ah ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$55.00 USD]
dr-gonzo raises [$274.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$157.00 USD]
dr-gonzo wins $62.00 USD
BldZwtTrn shows [Ac, Kh ]
dr-gonzo shows [5d, 7d ]
** Dealing River ** [ 2c ]
BldZwtTrn wins $531.00 USD from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 5681277765 ***** (Everest)
$200.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, March 24, 03:19:33 ET 2010
Table Suva4 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: --darupi-- ( $202.50 USD )
Seat 2: DerickDevil ( $349.20 USD )
Seat 3: blurrrr ( $208.15 USD )
Seat 4: High_Tide ( $402.30 USD )
Seat 5: Fabian_pl ( $217.75 USD )
Seat 6: BldZwtTrn ( $262.00 USD )
--darupi-- posts small blind [$1.00 USD].
DerickDevil posts big blind [$2.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Ac Ah ]
** Dealing down cards **
blurrrr folds
High_Tide folds
Fabian_pl raises [$6.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$21.00 USD]
--darupi-- folds
DerickDevil folds
Fabian_pl calls [$15.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4s, Kc, 2s ]
Fabian_pl checks
BldZwtTrn bets [$30.00 USD]
Fabian_pl raises [$111.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$211.00 USD]
Fabian_pl calls [$85.75 USD]
BldZwtTrn wins $44.25 USD
Fabian_pl shows [Ad, Ks ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Ac, Ah ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 8c ]
** Dealing River ** [ 3s ]
BldZwtTrn wins $435.50 USD from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 5681315337 ***** (Everest)
$200.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, March 24, 03:33:51 ET 2010
Table Suva0 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 1: nikoETP ( $363.00 USD )
Seat 2: Djerende ( $197.00 USD )
Seat 4: BldZwtTrn ( $568.35 USD )
Seat 5: the_1337 ( $196.00 USD )
Seat 6: dr-gonzo ( $349.70 USD )
dr-gonzo posts small blind [$1.00 USD].
nikoETP posts big blind [$2.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Ad Kh ]
** Dealing down cards **
Djerende raises [$7.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$24.00 USD]
the_1337 folds
dr-gonzo folds
nikoETP folds
Djerende raises [$190.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$544.35 USD]
BldZwtTrn wins $371.35 USD
Djerende shows [Ah, Js ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Ad, Kh ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qd, Qc, 3c ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4d ]
** Dealing River ** [ 5c ]
BldZwtTrn wins $395.00 USD from main pot

I even made a suckout!

***** Hand History for Game 5681469576 ***** (Everest)
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, March 24, 04:28:48 ET 2010
Table Bamako1 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 1: nkeyno ( $720.00 USD )
Seat 2: JVVD ( $406.00 USD )
Seat 3: ovcke_papu ( $589.30 USD )
Seat 4: JFLamm ( $394.30 USD )
Seat 5: Papanato ( $249.40 USD )
Seat 6: BldZwtTrn ( $469.00 USD )
BldZwtTrn posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
nkeyno posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ As Ts ]
** Dealing down cards **
JVVD raises [$14.00 USD]
ovcke_papu folds
JFLamm folds
Papanato folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$44.00 USD]
nkeyno folds
JVVD calls [$32.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Th, 2c, 9h ]
BldZwtTrn checks
JVVD bets [$54.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$54.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5s ]
BldZwtTrn checks
JVVD bets [$107.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$369.00 USD]
JVVD calls [$199.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn wins $63.00 USD
BldZwtTrn shows [As, Ts ]
JVVD shows [Qs, Qd ]
** Dealing River ** [ Td ]
BldZwtTrn wins $813.00 USD from main pot

But my last one, was a beat again, unfortunately.....

***** Hand History for Game 5681612157 ***** (Everest)
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, March 24, 05:14:26 ET 2010
Table Bamako0 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Seat 1: nkeyno ( $591.00 USD )
Seat 2: burn1emAc ( $388.50 USD )
Seat 3: DjBiO- ( $540.00 USD )
Seat 4: Papanato ( $78.00 USD )
Seat 5: BldZwtTrn ( $449.00 USD )
Seat 6: galley ( $744.30 USD )
BldZwtTrn posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
galley posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Ac As ]
** Dealing down cards **
nkeyno folds
burn1emAc folds
DjBiO- raises [$14.00 USD]
Papanato folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$44.00 USD]
galley folds
DjBiO- raises [$128.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$403.00 USD]
DjBiO- calls [$307.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn shows [Ac, As ]
DjBiO- shows [Kh, Ks ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9c, 3c, Kc ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4c ]
** Dealing River ** [ 3h ]
DjBiO- wins $899.00 USD from main pot

Worst session ever

2010-03-19T03:05:00.002+01:00

Just finished my worst session ever.
Played 3k hands and managed to lose 11 buy-ins.
Had position on one of the biggest donks in a while but lost 6 buyins on that table and when I finally won a pot over 25bb....he left with $3k.
I only won 3 pots over 50bb over the this whole session.....
Hope this guy is having some fun with my money

***** Hand History for Game 5664172012 ***** (Everest)
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, March 19, 01:33:31 ET 2010
Table Bamako7 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: muxulus ( $632.90 USD )
Seat 2: Mist3rJ ( $428.00 USD )
Seat 3: NICORSINOU ( $400.00 USD )
Seat 4: Bolltoll ( $2261.60 USD )
Seat 5: BldZwtTrn ( $386.00 USD )
Seat 6: PperPazzo ( $1938.70 USD )
muxulus posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
Mist3rJ posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Js Qc ]
** Dealing down cards **
Bolltoll calls [$4.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$18.00 USD]
PperPazzo folds
muxulus calls [$16.00 USD]
Mist3rJ calls [$14.00 USD]
Bolltoll calls [$14.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8d, Jd, 3h ]
muxulus checks
Mist3rJ checks
Bolltoll bets [$72.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$72.00 USD]
muxulus folds
Mist3rJ folds
** Dealing Turn ** [ Kh ]
Bolltoll bets [$216.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$296.00 USD]
Bolltoll calls [$80.00 USD]
Bolltoll shows [6s, Jh ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Js, Qc ]
** Dealing River ** [ 6c ]
Bolltoll wins $806.00 USD from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 5664145593 ***** (Everest)
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, March 19, 01:15:18 ET 2010
Table Bamako7 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: muxulus ( $524.80 USD )
Seat 2: Mist3rJ ( $421.30 USD )
Seat 3: Niwle ( $578.00 USD )
Seat 4: Bolltoll ( $1745.40 USD )
Seat 5: BldZwtTrn ( $380.00 USD )
Seat 6: PperPazzo ( $1676.30 USD )
muxulus posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
Mist3rJ posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Qc Ad ]
** Dealing down cards **
Niwle folds
Bolltoll raises [$14.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$48.00 USD]
PperPazzo folds
muxulus folds
Mist3rJ folds
Bolltoll calls [$34.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5c, Ac, 3s ]
Bolltoll checks
BldZwtTrn bets [$62.00 USD]
Bolltoll calls [$62.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5h ]
Bolltoll checks
BldZwtTrn bets [$150.00 USD]
Bolltoll raises [$676.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$120.00 USD]
Bolltoll wins $406.00 USD
Bolltoll shows [5s, 4d ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Qc, Ad ]
** Dealing River ** [ 9h ]
Bolltoll wins $763.00 USD from main pot

The other hands were just cooler after cooler (KK vs AA, QQ vs AA, AK vs AA, QQ vs KK, QQ vs AK, set over set, set vs straight and a combodraw I missed obv).

Really can't do much about it, but it shows again how brutal variance can be.

Time for some sleep now.

Where's my luckbox?

2010-03-17T03:15:00.003+01:00

Just finished one of my unluckiest sessions ever. Played really good, so that's even more frustrating. Finished 10 buyins under EV. Highlight of this session was a period of 15 minutes were I lost AA vs AK twice and AK vs AK once.

200k hands

2010-03-15T15:22:00.005+01:00

Still on schedule for 1 million hands and 5bb/100+ so far.
Also quite happy that this year has been quite steady so far. Had some swingy days but nothing compared to last year. Last days I even had my luckbox back!

Tourneys are still terrible BTW. I might have set the record for longest streak of out of the money finishes. I think I'm now around 30-40 sunday majors on a row out of the money. I probably just suck at tourney poker though.
Maybe I just save my luck for the WSOP, because I'm gonna be playing 2-3 tournaments in the first 2 weeks of june there. Hope to get lucky one time!

Coolers....

2010-03-09T16:53:00.002+01:00

Just finished a very sick session, played almost 6k hands and don't think I got coolered as much as I did today.
Just to show you how ugly variance can be....

***** Hand History for Game 5632407263 ***** (Everest)
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, March 09, 12:22:18 ET 2010
Table Bamako4 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Seat 1: 0sca1919 ( $394.00 USD )
Seat 2: ismaelpsx ( $400.00 USD )
Seat 3: DerMeisters ( $450.00 USD )
Seat 4: BldZwtTrn ( $488.00 USD )
Seat 5: groengras ( $442.00 USD )
Seat 6: Bomme_Bomme ( $398.00 USD )
BldZwtTrn posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
groengras posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ 8c 8s ]
** Dealing down cards **
Bomme_Bomme folds
0sca1919 folds
ismaelpsx folds
DerMeisters raises [$14.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$12.00 USD]
groengras folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ad, 8d, 4h ]
BldZwtTrn checks
DerMeisters bets [$24.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$75.00 USD]
DerMeisters raises [$170.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$399.00 USD]
DerMeisters calls [$242.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn wins $38.00 USD
BldZwtTrn shows [8c, 8s ]
DerMeisters shows [Ah, Ac ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jh ]
** Dealing River ** [ 5c ]
DerMeisters wins $901.00 USD from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 5632398136 ***** (Everest)
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, March 09, 12:18:08 ET 2010
Table Bamako2 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Seat 1: 0sca1919 ( $400.00 USD )
Seat 2: BldZwtTrn ( $913.70 USD )
Seat 3: zoub34 ( $72.40 USD )
Seat 4: ismaelpsx ( $410.80 USD )
Seat 5: Bomme_Bomme ( $396.00 USD )
Seat 6: podium71 ( $120.00 USD )
Bomme_Bomme posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
podium71 posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ 4c 4s ]
** Dealing down cards **
BldZwtTrn raises [$14.00 USD]
zoub34 folds
ismaelpsx calls [$14.00 USD]
Bomme_Bomme calls [$12.00 USD]
podium71 folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4h, Td, Jd ]
Bomme_Bomme checks
BldZwtTrn bets [$30.00 USD]
ismaelpsx raises [$88.00 USD]
Bomme_Bomme raises [$382.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$869.70 USD]
ismaelpsx calls [$308.80 USD]
BldZwtTrn wins $502.90 USD
Bomme_Bomme shows [Jc, Js ]
BldZwtTrn shows [4c, 4s ]
ismaelpsx shows [9d, 8d ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6h ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7d ]
ismaelpsx wins $1190.04 USD from main pot
ismaelpsx wins $29.56 USD from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 5632818103 ***** (Everest)
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, March 09, 03:01:39 ET 2010
Table Bamako2 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 1: Ekzism126 ( $400.00 USD )
Seat 2: BldZwtTrn ( $402.10 USD )
Seat 3: fabe34 ( $188.00 USD )
Seat 4: Brutik ( $615.15 USD )
Seat 5: daniel864 ( $117.10 USD )
Seat 6: po2nutella ( $502.73 USD )
po2nutella posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
Ekzism126 posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Js Jd ]
** Dealing down cards **
BldZwtTrn raises [$14.00 USD]
fabe34 calls [$14.00 USD]
Brutik calls [$14.00 USD]
daniel864 folds
po2nutella calls [$12.00 USD]
Ekzism126 folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ Kc, Jc, 4c ]
po2nutella bets [$60.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$160.00 USD]
fabe34 folds
Brutik folds
po2nutella raises [$200.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$228.10 USD]
po2nutella raises [$228.73 USD]
po2nutella wins $100.63 USD
po2nutella shows [Ac, 2c ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Js, Jd ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5c ]
** Dealing River ** [ 8h ]
po2nutella wins $833.20 USD from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 5632479308 ***** (Everest)
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, March 09, 12:54:03 ET 2010
Table Ikimba2 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Seat 2: 0sca1919 ( $861.60 USD )
Seat 3: FortuneTell ( $95.20 USD )
Seat 4: ismaelpsx ( $1075.40 USD )
Seat 5: BldZwtTrn ( $390.40 USD )
Seat 6: gestuel ( $432.70 USD )
ismaelpsx posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
BldZwtTrn posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Jh Kh ]
** Dealing down cards **
gestuel raises [$10.00 USD]
0sca1919 folds
FortuneTell folds
ismaelpsx folds
BldZwtTrn calls [$6.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ad, Th, Ah ]
BldZwtTrn checks
gestuel bets [$10.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$10.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qd ]
BldZwtTrn checks
gestuel bets [$24.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$75.00 USD]
gestuel calls [$51.00 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ 5h ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$140.00 USD]
gestuel raises [$337.70 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$155.40 USD]
gestuel wins $42.30 USD
gestuel shows [As, Qc ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Jh, Kh ]
gestuel wins $780.80 USD from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 5632322245 ***** (Everest)
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, March 09, 11:41:26 ET 2010
Table Bamako0 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: toaster ( $700.85 USD )
Seat 2: holrules ( $642.70 USD )
Seat 3: pistoletloue ( $1011.10 USD )
Seat 4: Valvegas ( $406.70 USD )
Seat 5: kceler ( $483.80 USD )
Seat 6: BldZwtTrn ( $386.00 USD )
toaster posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
holrules posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Kh Qc ]
** Dealing down cards **
pistoletloue raises [$9.00 USD]
Valvegas calls [$9.00 USD]
kceler folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$44.00 USD]
toaster folds
holrules calls [$40.00 USD]
pistoletloue folds
Valvegas folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9c, 5h, Jd ]
holrules bets [$32.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$32.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9h ]
holrules checks
BldZwtTrn checks
** Dealing River ** [ Td ]
holrules bets [$75.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$310.00 USD]
holrules raises [$491.70 USD]
holrules wins $256.70 USD
holrules shows [Jc, Js ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Kh, Qc ]
holrules wins $789.00 USD from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 5632287377 ***** (Everest)
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, March 09, 11:23:20 ET 2010
Table Bamako4 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Seat 1: Truukjah ( $771.40 USD )
Seat 2: MissClick08 ( $376.00 USD )
Seat 3: Centurion01 ( $132.80 USD )
Seat 4: BldZwtTrn ( $510.00 USD )
Seat 5: tobestar11 ( $406.00 USD )
Seat 6: jerem_vegas ( $469.20 USD )
Centurion01 posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
BldZwtTrn posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Qh Ah ]
** Dealing down cards **
tobestar11 folds
jerem_vegas folds
Truukjah folds
MissClick08 raises [$14.00 USD]
Centurion01 folds
BldZwtTrn calls [$10.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Jh, 7h, As ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$18.00 USD]
MissClick08 calls [$18.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 7d ]
BldZwtTrn checks
MissClick08 checks
** Dealing River ** [ 8h ]
BldZwtTrn checks
MissClick08 bets [$52.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$148.00 USD]
MissClick08 raises [$292.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$196.00 USD]
MissClick08 shows [Th, 9h ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Qh, Ah ]
MissClick08 wins $751.00 USD from main pot

These were the fun ones, had some standard pre-flop allins as well....hope I got my luckbox back soon ;-)

Variance

2010-03-06T15:39:00.002+01:00

Variance is something I talked a lot about in my blog.
It's because it's so important to be aware of in poker and I believe that most players underestimate it tremendously.
Even some of the top players do so, for example Brian Townsend in his blog on cardrunners.

I've never played him, but from what I've heard and seen he's a good player, but when you're playing the biggest games on the internet and also mostly Omaha (which has a lot higher variance then holdem) you should be expect some massive swings.
And when I'm talking about massive I don't mean absolute $$, but just buyins and periods of hands when you're losing or playing break even.
If you see that on those stakes, most players probably don't play more then 10k - 20k hands a month, it's really easy to have a losing year.

If I look at myself I've had a period of 250k hands where I didn't win and I can say that I probably have a greater edge then any player in a nosebleed game where expected winrates are probably 3bb/100 at best. My play is also not that high variance (my stdev is around 75-80 bb/100) compared to well over 100 for Omaha I guess.

So if you take those things together (100+ st dev, 3bb expected winrate, 20k hands a month) then at the end of the year out of the 10 highstakes players who expect to win 3bb/100, 1 is losing money over this 250k hands....
The thing is that probably no player can't stand losing that long (timewise) so they move down. In the end it probably just means that the most lucky/brave/rich players will keep playing nosebleeds.

And players like Brian Townsend should just be very happy with himself that they runned so hot when taking their first shots, because without that it's probably impossible to play that stakes for longer then a month.

Ok so that's it for now. Need to post some hands again, that's a lot easier :-)
Ok just one then...really wanted to fold after he 17th bet me, but hey, I have AK!

***** Hand History for Game 5595205184 ***** (Everest)
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, February 26, 01:58:12 ET 2010
Table Bamako10 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Seat 1: 2cheap ( $72.00 USD )
Seat 2: Gerjandeman ( $363.00 USD )
Seat 3: BldZwtTrn ( $380.00 USD )
Seat 4: U_R_MY_GIMP ( $1004.00 USD )
Seat 5: Quesedilla87 ( $675.00 USD )
Seat 6: ismaelpsx ( $375.00 USD )
BldZwtTrn posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
U_R_MY_GIMP posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Ah Kd ]
** Dealing down cards **
Quesedilla87 folds
ismaelpsx folds
2cheap folds
Gerjandeman folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$10.00 USD]
U_R_MY_GIMP raises [$16.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$16.00 USD]
U_R_MY_GIMP raises [$16.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$16.00 USD]
U_R_MY_GIMP raises [$16.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$16.00 USD]
U_R_MY_GIMP raises [$16.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$16.00 USD]
U_R_MY_GIMP raises [$16.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$16.00 USD]
U_R_MY_GIMP raises [$16.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$16.00 USD]
U_R_MY_GIMP raises [$16.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$16.00 USD]
U_R_MY_GIMP raises [$16.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$16.00 USD]
U_R_MY_GIMP raises [$16.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$16.00 USD]
U_R_MY_GIMP raises [$16.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$16.00 USD]
U_R_MY_GIMP raises [$16.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$16.00 USD]
U_R_MY_GIMP raises [$16.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$16.00 USD]
U_R_MY_GIMP raises [$16.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$16.00 USD]
U_R_MY_GIMP raises [$16.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$16.00 USD]
U_R_MY_GIMP raises [$16.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$16.00 USD]
U_R_MY_GIMP raises [$16.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$16.00 USD]
U_R_MY_GIMP raises [$16.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$16.00 USD]
U_R_MY_GIMP raises [$16.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$16.00 USD]
U_R_MY_GIMP raises [$16.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$16.00 USD]
U_R_MY_GIMP raises [$16.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$16.00 USD]
U_R_MY_GIMP raises [$16.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$16.00 USD]
U_R_MY_GIMP raises [$16.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$16.00 USD]
U_R_MY_GIMP raises [$16.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$16.00 USD]
U_R_MY_GIMP raises [$16.00 USD]
U_R_MY_GIMP wins $8.00 USD
BldZwtTrn shows [Ah, Kd ]
U_R_MY_GIMP shows [Jd, 5c ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9h, Qs, Ts ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9d ]
** Dealing River ** [ Js ]
BldZwtTrn wins $757.00 USD from main pot

2010 so far

2010-03-03T15:57:00.007+01:00

The results so far this year are quite good.
I played 175k hands this year and I'm still winning over 6bb/100.

Lately there has been some discussion on 2+2 on some softplaying/colluding of 'team Sweden'. I heard they got banned and thinks it's a good thing, especially if u read the comments on 2+2 from 'team Sweden'.

Link to 2+2 topic:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/56/medium-stakes-pl-nl/official-everest-msnl-thread-272684/index35.html

But now they start accusing the dutch players of softplaying as well and since I'm dutch I don't like this at all. Yes it's true that there are a lot of dutch players on EVP and most of time are above average players and play a lot with each other, but Ive never seen suspicious plays between dutch guys. Or like the swedes, players who just don't play a big pot against each other ever.
I just have respect for good players (no matter where they from), but I play against a dutch player just like I would play against a swedish player.

Top 10

I've got some funny reactions on this top10 I posted last month. Quite funny that people actually really believed that NICORINSOU is the best midstakes player on EVP.
There is only 1 guy who believes that and that is Nico himself...just read the comments by that post from him and you'll understand me :-)

First 100k hands of 2010

2010-02-08T17:21:00.003+01:00

Just played my first 100k hands of 2010 and I'm quite happy with the results, especially since im not even running hot (EV wise).

Here's my graph over this 100k hands:

Im also playing some Rushpoker on Full Tilt and I really like it so far. Because of it's structure stacks are really deep (average is 200b after 1 hour of playing) and there are just no shortstacks at all.
Because youre constantly changing tables there's no such thing as table dynamic, so just basic handreading becomes very important and I think I have a big advantage there, because I played so much hands and just have a better feeling then most players where I am in a hand.

I might post some interesting hands in my next update.

Top10 Midstakes players on EVP

2010-02-03T13:57:00.002+01:00

I decided to come up with something new.
As most people always like lists I decided to start with a monthly top 10 of best midstakes players on EVP (NL400 and NL600)
This list will be picked out of the players who I've played at least 5000 hands over the past 3 months with and I will make a new update with a new top10 at the beginning of every month.
Criteria for the list are basically 3 things, first pre-flop play, second postflop play and probably most importantly tilt control.

Offcourse this list is very subjective, cause its just from my experience vs the players.
Some players, who for example are very lucky against me are probably higer in the list then players who run very bad against me, cause it may look like someone is running over me, but he might just run superhot against me or the other way around offcourse.

Ok so here it is, starting with number 10.

10. pocketjoe (played 19k hands with him)

Very solid player, but not a problem to have on your left. On the tight side preflop and kind of ABC postflop. Never seen him tilt though.

9. fjutsie (21k hands)

Same story as pocketjoe although he is a little more agressive postflop.
I might be biased here a little bit as it seems Im running quite hot vs him and he is down quite a bit in my database, so he might just be running very bad at my tables.

8. lolpancake (24k hands)

This is a guy who always looks for spots to outplay u postflop. Sometimes he overdoes it a little, but it makes him more difficult to play then some of the guys who just try to stay out of the way. Pre-flop he's quite standard likte the rest. His downside is probably that he lets his emotions take over some of the time.

7. h00l1gan (16k hands)

This is a relatively new player (playing since december I think), but so far he seems quite a good player, really like his positional preflop play. Postflop he's one of the more agressive players, but mostly in a smart way. Havent seen him make any tilt plays either.

6. JVVD (12k hands)

This is a regular with the highest VPIP in the top10 (~ 30%). A guy u rather dont have on your left. Really agressive preflop (especially on the button), although I think he's too loose in EP, he seems to get away with it against most players.
Postflop he's not that agressive though. Not sure if he can handle tilt.

5. Jflamm (28k hands)

Played the most hands vs him. He's just like jvvd a pain in the ass to have on your left. Really likes to 3bet the button. Postflop he can really be overagressive sometimes. It's really important vs him to mix up your game and trap him in spots where your hand seems face up. He could tilt quite a bit though.

4. Niwle (12k hands)

Very solid player pre-flop and postflop. He's not that irritating to have on your table like number 5 & 6, but I just don't see him make much big mistakes. Just very solid and agressive when he has to.

3. Ekzism126 (11k hands)

Very good handreader postflop. Good and very solid pre-flop and capable of some creative moves postflop. Never seems to tilt.

2. Hotze (20k hands)

I like his style a lot. Plays a very good positional game pre-flop and is very agressive postflop, but in a good way and not just in the standard spots. Always seems to put me in a though position. I might be biased here again a little as he could be running hot vs me, but his stats suggest at least he knows very well what he's doing.

1. NICORSINOU (19k hands)

Without a doubt the best player on the midstakes on EVP. No clue why he still does play some NL200 and not NL1000+. Seems like he always knows exactly what u have and never makes any mistake. Tilting is something he never does, when he gets a bad beat, he doesn't blink and goes on to the next hand.

Ok so this was my first top10, next month another one. Just let me know if u miss some players in here or if some players don't belong in here.

Back from holiday

2010-01-26T15:30:00.002+01:00

After a week of holiday in Austria Im back to playing some poker again.
So far 2010 is going as ok for me. Played 70k hands so far and won close to 7bb/100.
My goal for this year is to play 1 million hands and keep my winrate above 5bb/100.
I know it's difficult to set winrate goals, cause im still dependant of the variance that could treat me bad, but with such a big sample it should be evened out at the end for the most part.

I'll keep this update short, but Id like some input on some topics I can talk about next time. It can be about strategy or anything poker related. Just let me know in the comments and I'll pick an interesting one to talk about next time.

Some hands to finish this update:

1. Hands like this are so much fun:

***** Hand History for Game 5479596104 ***** (Everest)
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, January 25, 09:05:38 ET 2010
Table Bamako2 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Seat 1: Negored ( $715.60 USD )
Seat 2: donkey321 ( $439.46 USD )
Seat 3: das6699 ( $654.90 USD )
Seat 4: Brutik ( $698.40 USD )
Seat 5: BldZwtTrn ( $400.00 USD )
Seat 6: Attilator ( $477.00 USD )
das6699 posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
BldZwtTrn posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Negored posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Negored posts big blind [$2.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ 4c 7c ]
** Dealing down cards **
Attilator folds
Negored checks
donkey321 folds
das6699 calls [$2.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn checks
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4d, 7d, Qc ]
das6699 bets [$11.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$38.00 USD]
Negored calls [$38.00 USD]
das6699 folds
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6s ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$74.00 USD]
Negored raises [$671.60 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$284.00 USD]
Negored wins $313.60 USD
BldZwtTrn shows [4c, 7c ]
Negored shows [Ks, Kd ]
** Dealing River ** [ 8c ]
BldZwtTrn wins $815.00 USD from main pot

2. He snapcalled, so it suprised me some to see I was such a big favorite

***** Hand History for Game 5479620615 ***** (Everest)
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, January 25, 09:25:36 ET 2010
Table Tengiz2 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Seat 1: Attilator ( $935.00 USD )
Seat 4: overedge ( $981.40 USD )
Seat 5: BldZwtTrn ( $395.00 USD )
Seat 6: FoolishDonk ( $400.00 USD )
BldZwtTrn posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
FoolishDonk posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Ts Th ]
** Dealing down cards **
Attilator folds
overedge raises [$14.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$44.00 USD]
FoolishDonk folds
overedge calls [$32.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3d, Jd, 8c ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$54.00 USD]
overedge raises [$138.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$295.00 USD]
overedge calls [$211.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn shows [Ts, Th ]
overedge shows [8h, 9s ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4d ]
** Dealing River ** [ As ]
BldZwtTrn wins $792.00 USD from main pot

Happy new year

2010-01-13T15:01:00.002+01:00

Im so lazy when it comes to blogging.
Everytime I tell me self I should update more frequently, but somehow im just too lazy for it. While with poker im not lazy at all and probably played close to 1 millions hands in 2009.

It was my 'worst' year as pokerpro so far (3rd year now), but I still made a nice profit, but just not what I expected it to be.
It is always difficult to tell why it wasn't so good, but a few reasons are that the tables where pretty bad between march and june and I run pretty terrible as well during that period and probably my game was affected by that.
I also had some computer issues as well. But after holidays in August I recovered quite well. Replaced my harddisk which was broken and bought a 30 inch monitor(played with 2 24 inch before).

Suddenly everything was going smooth again, tables were great, I was running good and made over 100 buyins in 100k hands.
I also played my first live tournament ever (yes I'm a tourney donkey) on Gran Canaria (SPT final). It was a complete failure as I become 60th (out of 97).
I'm just not suited for playing 20 hands an hour, I even could go to the toilet with good timing between 2 hands without missing a hand....

Although pokerwise it sucked, it was very nice to meet a lot of guys I'm playing everyday, so I might visit some other tournaments as well this year, not sure if Im playing though.

Last thing, I found out Twitter (yeah finally) and think it's an easier way to post short updates on poker and other things in life, so guess Im gonna use that (my username is Bldzwttrn, as my screenname on EVP)
It also works really nice on my new Blackberry 9700 with Ubertwitter.
So if you want to add me, please do so.

It's been a while

2009-10-27T16:15:00.002+01:00

Its been 3 months since my last update.
I had a very tough stretch of hands between april and july, where I didn't win anything for about 250k hands. I've never had anything like that before, so obviously it really hurt my confidence in my game.
It was clear that I was running very bad in a lot of ways, but still 250k hands seems amazing and I never thought it was possible.

In august I went on holiday and when I came back in September I replaced my harddisk (which was broken during the time I moved in with my girlfriend) and after that I could start grinding again.
EVP had some nice promotions in September (alpine cash race and a hand race), so my plan was to play over 100k hands to qualify myself for this alpine package in this hotel:
(http://hotel-alpine-palace.com/nl/alpine-palace/het-luxehotel-in-saalbach)

At the end of september I played around 120k hands and qualified myself easily.
Lucky for me I also run good again. It's really amazing how big variance can be as I made over 100 buyins within 100k hands during this period.
Before I always thought 100k hands was a big enough sample to be able to tell something about your winrate, but after the last half year I doubt it.
I've had a 200k hand stretche with a winrate of close to 0, but also one with a winrate around 10bb/100.So yeah variance is sick.

I'll post some hand later on.

Some hands

2009-07-24T17:07:00.003+02:00

Here´s another update update with some interesting hands against a fairly aggressive opponent I played yesterday.

First hand against him. He was really getting out of line by now and 3betting around 15%-20% from the blinds I guess. I'm still not sure of I made the right decision here on the river, but he's river bet was fairly instant so my guess is, that he had me beat.

***** Hand History for Game 4856828776 ***** (Everest)
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, July 23, 09:43:27 ET 2009
Table Bamako0 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: XXX ( $735.80 USD )
Seat 2: -OSFC- ( $517.40 USD )
Seat 3: tomazino91 ( $266.00 USD )
Seat 4: WitteCondor ( $404.80 USD )
Seat 5: p0kerf1st ( $400.00 USD )
Seat 6: BldZwtTrn ( $727.50 USD )
XXX posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
-OSFC- posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ As Qd ]
** Dealing down cards **
tomazino91 folds
WitteCondor folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$10.00 USD]
XXX raises [$32.00 USD]
-OSFC- folds
BldZwtTrn calls [$24.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qs, 2d, Kd ]
XXX bets [$65.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$65.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 7d ]
XXX bets [$155.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$155.00 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ 4c ]
XXX bets [$481.80 USD]
BldZwtTrn folds
XXX wins $481.80 USD
XXX wins $510.00 USD from main pot

Second hand is another hand against this guy. Don´t think I can play it any different.

***** Hand History for Game 4856880480 ***** (Everest)
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, July 23, 09:57:10 ET 2009
Table Bamako3 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Seat 1: Niwle ( $1272.90 USD )
Seat 2: YELLOP777 ( $495.00 USD )
Seat 3: XXX ( $398.00 USD )
Seat 4: p0kerf1st ( $396.00 USD )
Seat 5: BldZwtTrn ( $915.30 USD )
Seat 6: dreamer_ ( $68.00 USD )
p0kerf1st posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
BldZwtTrn posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ As Jd ]
** Dealing down cards **
dreamer_ folds
YELLOP777 folds
XXX raises [$14.00 USD]
p0kerf1st folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$40.00 USD]
XXX calls [$30.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9d, 4c, 3s ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$56.00 USD]
XXX calls [$56.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Js ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$125.00 USD]
XXX raises [$298.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$173.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn shows [As, Jd ]
XXX shows [9c, 8c ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7c ]
BldZwtTrn wins $796.00 USD from main pot

Third hand against him. He was really getting out of line with 3bets from the blinds by now (15%-20%). Not the best river, cause my thought on the turn was that het had complete air here, but this river could have helped him with some of his air hands, but his timing made me call this river.

***** Hand History for Game 4856997007 ***** (Everest)
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, July 23, 10:30:51 ET 2009
Table Bamako0 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: XXX ( $682.20 USD )
Seat 2: -OSFC- ( $724.80 USD )
Seat 3: tomazino91 ( $915.40 USD )
Seat 4: sirpaul ( $382.00 USD )
Seat 5: p0kerf1st ( $416.70 USD )
Seat 6: BldZwtTrn ( $511.40 USD )
XXX posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
-OSFC- posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ 6c 6s ]
** Dealing down cards **
tomazino91 calls [$4.00 USD]
sirpaul folds
p0kerf1st folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$18.00 USD]
XXX raises [$48.00 USD]
-OSFC- folds
tomazino91 folds
BldZwtTrn calls [$32.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5s, 7s, 7c ]
XXX bets [$80.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$80.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2d ]
XXX bets [$150.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$150.00 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ Kc ]
XXX bets [$402.20 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$231.40 USD]
XXX wins $170.80 USD
XXX shows [Tc, 9h ]
BldZwtTrn shows [6c, 6s ]
BldZwtTrn wins $1027.80 USD from main pot

In the fourth hand, my initial thought/read was good, but I should have changed that read when he instant raised the river. This guy had what u call a huge timing tell, because he always thought about bluffs and made valuebets/raises instant....
But I was stupid to stick with my plan and snapcalled his river raise.....big mistake.

***** Hand History for Game 4857057693 ***** (Everest)
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, July 23, 10:50:37 ET 2009
Table Bamako3 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: Niwle ( $883.40 USD )
Seat 2: FuckMountain ( $396.00 USD )
Seat 3: tobestar11 ( $408.90 USD )
Seat 4: p0kerf1st ( $592.00 USD )
Seat 5: BldZwtTrn ( $966.60 USD )
Seat 6: XXX ( $947.60 USD )
FuckMountain posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
tobestar11 posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Ac Jc ]
** Dealing down cards **
p0kerf1st folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$14.00 USD]
XXX calls [$14.00 USD]
Niwle folds
FuckMountain folds
tobestar11 folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ Js, 6c, 4s ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$24.00 USD]
XXX raises [$88.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$64.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qd ]
BldZwtTrn checks
XXX checks
** Dealing River ** [ 6h ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$40.00 USD]
XXX raises [$300.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$260.00 USD]
XXX shows [6s, 5s ]
BldZwtTrn doesn't show [Ac, Jc ]
XXX wins $807.00 USD from main pot

Other EVP players who want to know his name, just PM me, as far as I know he's not dutch (hungarian it says in his profile...)

Cruel game

2009-07-17T11:52:00.002+02:00

It's been a while since I updated this blog. Yesterday after another unfortunate session I noticed that my latest blog update was about a huge upswing I had during the end of 2008.
Usually I'm not that superstitious, but by posting all those beats I gave away I probably triggered some sort of doomswith.
So hopefully this post will turn it around again :-)

As you can understand I'm going through a very though stretch of hands. During those 2,5 years I played poker I always had periods of weeks (50k-70K hands) where I run bad, just as I had periods where I run superhot.
The last 3,5 months though are the worst I ever had. I'm playing around break-even now for around 200K hands, which is far more then I ever thought was possible in the games I play.

People always ask the reason behind this long stretch. Is it the financial crisis that is affecting the poker games? Has my luck run out? Are other players adjusting better to my game? Am I playing worse? Or is it just bad luck.....

It's difficult to answer those questions because it's obviously very easy to blame it all to badluck, but it's probably a mix from a lot of things.
Games are tougher then a year ago thats for sure, but especially the last 6 weeks I had tons of very good tables and lots of fish.
One problem is that there are just less (good) games running above NL600 and so you see a lot of good players moving down in stakes.
It's not that players have become so much better, it's more that there are more of them in comparison with the bad players.

Offcourse when I'm running this bad for so long, I'm not always playing my best game anymore, but I think I'm doing quite ok here, at least not tilting buy-ins away, but just some not so good calls and some missed value bets, but nothing spectacular.
Where I had a period of like 30 winning days in a row at the end of 2008, I now haven't won more then 3 days in a row for like 4 months.

Even though I played so much hands already I still underestimated how big variance can be in poker, so I'm quite happy I always had a very strict bankroll management, because I don't have to worry about going broke or having to move down in stakes.

I'm not going to post any hands or graphs, because it speaks for itselfs.

All I want to say is, don't ever underestimate how bad u can run, because it can always get worse.

See ya at the tables!

Warning: do not read if you run bad

2009-01-08T14:36:00.002+01:00

In one of my previous posts I said that I didn't give any bad beats away....well this has changed :-). Its ridiculous how hot I'm running the past 6 weeks.
After the last downswing of 60K hands I have the feeling that im now in an upswing for over 100K hands.
One of the sickest things is that during the last 27 days I played I didn't lose on one single day and in this 6 weeks period I had only 1 losing day...

I'm still playing 400/600 most of the time because it's very easy and low variance to 10-12 table those and I can get a pretty decent hourly there.
But I should definately play more 1000, because a lot of the time the tables there are not that tougher as you can see in the hand below....

Against the tablefish...

***** Hand History for Game 4143839645 *****
$1000.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, January 08, 12:44:59 ET 2009
Table Harare0 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Seat 1: TheKometer ( $1020.00 USD )
Seat 2: Unceasing ( $1743.00 USD )
Seat 3: LordRos2 ( $1362.25 USD )
Seat 4: jullius ( $1214.00 USD )
Seat 5: BldZwtTrn ( $1637.25 USD )
Seat 6: Biloboy ( $2072.00 USD )
jullius posts small blind [$5.00 USD].
BldZwtTrn posts big blind [$10.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ 8d Ah ]
** Dealing down cards **
Biloboy folds
TheKometer folds
Unceasing folds
LordRos2 calls [$10.00 USD]
jullius folds
BldZwtTrn checks
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6c, Kh, 8h ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$15.00 USD]
LordRos2 calls [$15.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ As ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$44.00 USD]
LordRos2 raises [$88.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$256.00 USD]
LordRos2 raises [$867.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$1312.25 USD]
LordRos2 calls [$382.25 USD]
BldZwtTrn wins $275.00 USD
BldZwtTrn shows [8d, Ah ]
LordRos2 shows [Ad, 6s ]
** Dealing River ** [ 2d ]
BldZwtTrn wins $2726.50 USD from main pot

Special for Jules, who asked me to post this hand to show how hot Im running.

***** Hand History for Game 4139754406 *****
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, January 07, 01:19:19 ET 2009
Table Bamako14 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: Niwle ( $714.99 USD )
Seat 2: tbevirus ( $40.00 USD )
Seat 3: BldZwtTrn ( $402.00 USD )
Seat 4: HavingFun42 ( $87.00 USD )
Seat 5: _C3P0_ ( $308.90 USD )
Seat 6: jullius ( $539.50 USD )
Niwle posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
tbevirus posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ 9c 8c ]
** Dealing down cards **
BldZwtTrn raises [$14.00 USD]
HavingFun42 folds
_C3P0_ folds
jullius calls [$14.00 USD]
Niwle folds
tbevirus folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7c, Jc, 2s ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$26.00 USD]
jullius calls [$26.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6c ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$50.00 USD]
jullius calls [$50.00 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ 5c ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$118.00 USD]
jullius raises [$449.50 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$194.00 USD]
jullius wins $137.50 USD
jullius shows [Kh, Ac ]
BldZwtTrn shows [9c, 8c ]
BldZwtTrn wins $807.00 USD from main pot

For people who are running bad and can't see and bad beats, stop reading here

***** Hand History for Game 4143700343 *****
$1000.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, January 08, 11:54:15 ET 2009
Table Harare0 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Seat 1: TheKometer ( $1075.00 USD )
Seat 2: crazy_macho ( $950.00 USD )
Seat 3: LordRos2 ( $785.00 USD )
Seat 4: leshpaniol ( $461.25 USD )
Seat 5: BldZwtTrn ( $990.00 USD )
Seat 6: Biloboy ( $1000.00 USD )
BldZwtTrn posts small blind [$5.00 USD].
Biloboy posts big blind [$10.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Ks Ad ]
** Dealing down cards **
TheKometer folds
crazy_macho folds
LordRos2 calls [$10.00 USD]
leshpaniol raises [$45.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$150.00 USD]
Biloboy folds
LordRos2 calls [$145.00 USD]
leshpaniol raises [$416.25 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$835.00 USD]
LordRos2 folds
BldZwtTrn wins $528.75 USD
BldZwtTrn shows [Ks, Ad ]
leshpaniol shows [Ah, As ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Jd, Qc, 7d ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Th ]
** Dealing River ** [ 4d ]
BldZwtTrn wins $1084.50 USD from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 4139994255 *****
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, January 07, 02:27:50 ET 2009
Table Bamako7 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 1: camboli999 ( $347.60 USD )
Seat 2: Gl._ ( $40.00 USD )
Seat 3: cybeledolly ( $164.40 USD )
Seat 4: L4IZeR_WeeD ( $264.10 USD )
Seat 5: BldZwtTrn ( $472.00 USD )
Seat 6: Wildbunny ( $365.03 USD )
Wildbunny posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
camboli999 posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Kc Kh ]
** Dealing down cards **
Gl._ folds
cybeledolly folds
L4IZeR_WeeD folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$14.00 USD]
Wildbunny raises [$44.00 USD]
camboli999 folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$99.00 USD]
Wildbunny raises [$319.03 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$359.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn wins $106.97 USD
Wildbunny shows [As, Ad ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Kc, Kh ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3h, 8c, Kd ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3s ]
** Dealing River ** [ 6c ]
BldZwtTrn wins $731.06 USD from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 4138357828 *****
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, January 06, 11:28:41 ET 2009
Table Bamako6 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ( $474.00 USD )
Seat 2: Gl._ ( $40.00 USD )
Seat 3: Uhlfeister ( $48.00 USD )
Seat 4: PlzDoMe ( $251.90 USD )
Seat 5: JVVD ( $617.00 USD )
Seat 6: euroglot ( $46.00 USD )
Uhlfeister posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
PlzDoMe posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Ac Qs ]
** Dealing down cards **
JVVD raises [$14.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$48.00 USD]
Uhlfeister folds
PlzDoMe folds
JVVD raises [$94.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$426.00 USD]
JVVD raises [$509.00 USD]
JVVD wins $143.00 USD
JVVD shows [Ah, Kh ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Ac, Qs ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2c, Jc, 7c ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4h ]
** Dealing River ** [ Qh ]
BldZwtTrn wins $952.00 USD from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 4138232212 *****
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, January 06, 10:58:29 ET 2009
Table Tengiz7 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: Togozner ( $36.00 USD )
Seat 2: BldZwtTrn ( $400.00 USD )
Seat 3: mufffur ( $408.00 USD )
Seat 4: TOTO57070 ( $400.00 USD )
Seat 5: dreamer_ ( $47.40 USD )
Seat 6: alexxx82 ( $542.70 USD )
Togozner posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
BldZwtTrn posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Td Ts ]
** Dealing down cards **
mufffur raises [$9.00 USD]
dreamer_ folds
alexxx82 folds
Togozner folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$28.00 USD]
mufffur raises [$75.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$368.00 USD]
mufffur calls [$316.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn shows [Td, Ts ]
mufffur shows [Qc, Qd ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ad, 8c, Js ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9c ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7d ]
BldZwtTrn wins $800.00 USD from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 4134536696 *****
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, January 06, 01:39:06 ET 2009
Table Bamako5 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ( $600.20 USD )
Seat 2: Common ( $414.60 USD )
Seat 3: Ace_lover ( $29.80 USD )
Seat 4: Purreltoch ( $843.00 USD )
Seat 5: yasamin123 ( $519.02 USD )
Seat 6: dreamer_ ( $44.00 USD )
BldZwtTrn posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
Common posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Ac Kc ]
** Dealing down cards **
Ace_lover folds
Purreltoch raises [$14.00 USD]
yasamin123 calls [$14.00 USD]
dreamer_ folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$58.00 USD]
Common folds
Purreltoch raises [$136.00 USD]
yasamin123 folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$540.20 USD]
Purreltoch calls [$450.20 USD]
BldZwtTrn shows [Ac, Kc ]
Purreltoch shows [Ad, Ah ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9c, As, Jc ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Kh ]
** Dealing River ** [ 4c ]
BldZwtTrn wins $1215.40 USD from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 4134409265 *****
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, January 06, 12:48:00 ET 2009
Table Ikimba5 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Seat 1: Coorain ( $411.70 USD )
Seat 2: euroglot ( $41.50 USD )
Seat 3: n@a ( $357.05 USD )
Seat 4: BigNick82 ( $1028.33 USD )
Seat 5: dreamer_ ( $46.00 USD )
Seat 6: BldZwtTrn ( $466.95 USD )
BigNick82 posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
dreamer_ posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Kc Ks ]
** Dealing down cards **
BldZwtTrn raises [$14.00 USD]
Coorain folds
euroglot folds
n@a folds
BigNick82 raises [$44.00 USD]
dreamer_ folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$99.00 USD]
BigNick82 raises [$297.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$353.95 USD]
BigNick82 calls [$123.95 USD]
BigNick82 shows [Ah, As ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Kc, Ks ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3d, 5d, Jc ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Kh ]
** Dealing River ** [ 9d ]
BldZwtTrn wins $934.90 USD from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 4134183402 *****
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, January 05, 11:41:03 ET 2009
Table Bamako11 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: Ace_lover ( $1308.10 USD )
Seat 3: nuggeth ( $40.00 USD )
Seat 4: BldZwtTrn ( $473.60 USD )
Seat 5: tbevirus ( $52.00 USD )
Seat 6: Brutik ( $388.00 USD )
Ace_lover posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
nuggeth posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Kc Kd ]
** Dealing down cards **
BldZwtTrn raises [$14.00 USD]
tbevirus folds
Brutik raises [$48.00 USD]
Ace_lover folds
nuggeth folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$99.00 USD]
Brutik raises [$340.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$360.60 USD]
BldZwtTrn wins $85.60 USD
BldZwtTrn shows [Kc, Kd ]
Brutik shows [Ah, As ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qd, 7s, 2s ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ks ]
** Dealing River ** [ Th ]
BldZwtTrn wins $780.00 USD from main pot

Maybe cards do have a memory...

2008-11-30T21:22:00.002+01:00

November is almost over and it has been the month where I played the most hands ever (97K). During this period I had my biggest downswing and break-even swing ever. This downswing was about 23 buy-ins and the break-even swing lasted for almost 60K hands.
During my time as a pro I've had this periods (although a little bit shorter) more then once and it always ended with a huge upswing and it was the same this time, because I ended this month with my best week ever.

Suddenly al my draws seems to hit, flips are are coming my way and donks donate there money to me instead of me donating to them and then seeing some other reg going away with it. During this week I won more then 40 buy-ins, with 7 straight win days in a row all of them with more then 5 buyins...So in the end November ended quite good with a little more then 60 buyins profit. All in all my second best month ever.

A nice hand to show that there is still hope for people trying to move up...

***** Hand History for Game 3976418868 *****
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, November 27, 01:07:37 ET 2008
Table Bamako10 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: qug ( $753.90 USD )
Seat 2: Maartz ( $382.00 USD )
Seat 3: fotballer ( $461.00 USD )
Seat 4: JUNKlaDONK ( $400.00 USD )
Seat 5: Valo ( $470.80 USD )
Seat 6: BldZwtTrn ( $962.20 USD )
qug posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
Maartz posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Jc Ks ]
** Dealing down cards **
fotballer folds
JUNKlaDONK raises [$14.00 USD]
Valo calls [$14.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$14.00 USD]
qug calls [$12.00 USD]
Maartz folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ Js, 6s, Td ]
qug bets [$60.00 USD]
JUNKlaDONK folds
Valo folds
BldZwtTrn calls [$60.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Kd ]
qug bets [$180.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$444.00 USD]
qug calls [$264.00 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ 2d ]
qug bets [$235.90 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$235.90 USD]
qug shows [5s, Ah ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Jc, Ks ]
BldZwtTrn wins $1536.80 USD from main pot

Grinding....

2008-11-20T13:47:00.002+01:00

Sorry for the lack of updates recently , but I've been playing a lot this month.
For november I had a goal to play around 80K-100K hands and so far I'm on track with already 65K hands. But the results are very disappointing so far.
I lost another $2500 pot (flush over flush) on NL400 last week against a terrible player (who managed to run $40 into $4000!! within 2,5 hours).

It's always easy to blame disappointing results to variance, offcourse some part is variance as I'm running way below EV and another funny thing I noticed is that I didn't give any bad beats (all-in with less then 35% equity for at least 75BB) for the past 28K hands...but I've also the feeling that I'm not playing my best game the past 100K hands. I just need to learn to fold more in spots where I just know I'm beat, if it was possible to see ones hand even when you folded it would save me (and a lot of other players) so much money.

Im back

2008-10-31T18:07:00.002+01:00

It's been a while since I updated my blog and watching the comments, some people actually read it, so finally another update.
October has been a busy month, Ive been visiting a friend in Calgary and some maintenance to my house has been done. So not much poker this month.
For those who wondered about my september results, I did make a profit in september but it was not more then 10 buy-ins. October has been my 31st winning month in a row, but again results weren't really satisfying. They were a lot better then September, but I keep running (and playing sometimes) bad.

Today I was playing really good, but I still had the feeling the resulst could (and should) have been a lot better.

The 7 hands below were the only hands were I lost more then 90BB (in a 3K hands session) and I'm happy about 90% of my actions here, only the JJ call is probably not that good.

First hand is against a pretty bad player, who plays 32/17 and well not much I can do here....

***** Hand History for Game 3870318556 *****
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, October 31, 02:01:28 ET 2008
Table Bamako5 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ( $852.50 USD )
Seat 2: OneM@nShow ( $414.50 USD )
Seat 3: zander86 ( $676.00 USD )
Seat 4: Pfuzzy ( $498.70 USD )
Seat 5: Roelfs ( $415.40 USD )
Seat 6: denise86_ ( $463.00 USD )
denise86_ posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
BldZwtTrn posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ 9s 8s ]
** Dealing down cards **
OneM@nShow folds
zander86 folds
Pfuzzy raises [$14.00 USD]
Roelfs folds
denise86_ folds
BldZwtTrn calls [$10.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Js, 5s, 6s ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$20.00 USD]
Pfuzzy calls [$20.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4c ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$55.00 USD]
Pfuzzy raises [$110.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$240.00 USD]
Pfuzzy raises [$354.70 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$169.70 USD]
BldZwtTrn shows [9s, 8s ]
Pfuzzy shows [As, Ts ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7h ]
Pfuzzy wins $996.40 USD from main pot

Second one is against another bad regular, who just doesnt like to fold pre-flop (he plays 27/18 or something).

***** Hand History for Game 3870578304 *****
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, October 31, 03:13:54 ET 2008
Table Bamako5 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ( $813.70 USD )
Seat 2: peter_AA100 ( $461.50 USD )
Seat 3: Brutik ( $379.00 USD )
Seat 4: Pfuzzy ( $375.20 USD )
Seat 5: jordan54 ( $396.00 USD )
Seat 6: plusbeau ( $336.20 USD )
jordan54 posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
plusbeau posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Ah Ad ]
** Dealing down cards **
BldZwtTrn raises [$14.00 USD]
peter_AA100 raises [$48.00 USD]
Brutik folds
Pfuzzy folds
jordan54 folds
plusbeau folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$111.00 USD]
peter_AA100 calls [$77.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3d, Kd, Td ]
BldZwtTrn checks
peter_AA100 bets [$111.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$589.00 USD]
peter_AA100 calls [$225.50 USD]
BldZwtTrn wins $252.50 USD
BldZwtTrn shows [Ah, Ad ]
peter_AA100 shows [Kc, Qd ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qh ]
** Dealing River ** [ 6s ]
peter_AA100 wins $926.00 USD from main pot

This third one is against a complete fish (72/4/1) and again, standard.

***** Hand History for Game 3870751685 *****
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, October 31, 03:59:12 ET 2008
Table Ikimba0 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Seat 1: Puzo ( $380.00 USD )
Seat 2: marco..90 ( $419.60 USD )
Seat 3: FRUGALFISH ( $40.00 USD )
Seat 4: sukhumvit ( $515.90 USD )
Seat 5: BldZwtTrn ( $573.90 USD )
Seat 6: peter_AA100 ( $553.80 USD )
sukhumvit posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
BldZwtTrn posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Qh Ac ]
** Dealing down cards **
peter_AA100 raises [$14.00 USD]
Puzo folds
marco..90 calls [$14.00 USD]
sukhumvit folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$56.00 USD]
peter_AA100 folds
marco..90 calls [$46.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9d, 9c, Ah ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$100.00 USD]
marco..90 raises [$200.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$413.90 USD]
marco..90 calls [$159.60 USD]
BldZwtTrn wins $154.30 USD
BldZwtTrn shows [Qh, Ac ]
marco..90 shows [Ks, As ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5d ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7s ]
marco..90 wins $853.20 USD from main pot

This was probably a bad river call (with the shorty in it), but the guy was a complete idiot and I'll have to be good only about 35% of the time.

***** Hand History for Game 3870532129 *****
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, October 31, 03:01:26 ET 2008
Table Ikimba1 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: fidell1979 ( $42.00 USD )
Seat 2: busdriver ( $40.00 USD )
Seat 4: falk2008 ( $379.40 USD )
Seat 6: BldZwtTrn ( $407.00 USD )
falk2008 posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
BldZwtTrn posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Js Jh ]
** Dealing down cards **
fidell1979 raises [$14.00 USD]
falk2008 raises [$44.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$109.00 USD]
fidell1979 calls [$28.00 USD]
falk2008 calls [$67.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6d, Kd, 8s ]
falk2008 checks
BldZwtTrn checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ 7h ]
falk2008 checks
BldZwtTrn checks
** Dealing River ** [ 2c ]
falk2008 bets [$266.40 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$266.40 USD]
falk2008 shows [Jd, Kh ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Js, Jh ]
fidell1979 shows [Ks, Ah ]
fidell1979 wins $126.00 USD from main pot
falk2008 wins $673.80 USD from main pot

And again, this guy just doesnt like to fold pre-flop....what can I do.

***** Hand History for Game 3870561642 *****
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, October 31, 03:09:25 ET 2008
Table Bamako4 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Seat 2: BldZwtTrn ( $1524.00 USD )
Seat 3: peter_AA100 ( $374.90 USD )
Seat 4: marconi09 ( $524.10 USD )
Seat 5: tanop ( $84.00 USD )
Seat 6: -toto50- ( $123.00 USD )
marconi09 posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
tanop posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Jc Jh ]
** Dealing down cards **
-toto50- folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$12.00 USD]
peter_AA100 raises [$42.00 USD]
marconi09 folds
tanop folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$96.00 USD]
peter_AA100 calls [$66.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4h, 2c, 5s ]
BldZwtTrn checks
peter_AA100 bets [$55.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$1416.00 USD]
peter_AA100 calls [$211.90 USD]
BldZwtTrn wins $1149.10 USD
BldZwtTrn shows [Jc, Jh ]
peter_AA100 shows [As, 3d ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2s ]
** Dealing River ** [ 5d ]
peter_AA100 wins $753.80 USD from main pot

This one is against a regular....

***** Hand History for Game 3870615710 *****
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, October 31, 03:23:57 ET 2008
Table Tengiz0 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: Pfuzzy ( $683.40 USD )
Seat 2: vban ( $163.20 USD )
Seat 3: GUS-KILLER ( $224.60 USD )
Seat 4: Heiko ( $399.50 USD )
Seat 5: Regius ( $398.00 USD )
Seat 6: BldZwtTrn ( $360.00 USD )
Pfuzzy posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
vban posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Ac Kd ]
** Dealing down cards **
GUS-KILLER folds
Heiko folds
Regius raises [$14.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$48.00 USD]
Pfuzzy folds
vban folds
Regius raises [$96.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$312.00 USD]
Regius calls [$250.00 USD]
Regius shows [Ks, Jd ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Ac, Kd ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2h, 7s, Qs ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ad ]
** Dealing River ** [ Th ]
Regius wins $723.00 USD from main pot

To finish this update....whatch this flop call....

***** Hand History for Game 3870124846 *****
$600.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, October 31, 01:02:22 ET 2008
Table Nassau2 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ( $597.00 USD )
Seat 2: MadSickoHead ( $1080.90 USD )
Seat 3: xav__13 ( $720.00 USD )
Seat 4: im_allin_bro ( $48.00 USD )
Seat 5: OneM@nShow ( $600.00 USD )
Seat 6: phillebelge ( $1905.80 USD )
xav__13 posts small blind [$3.00 USD].
im_allin_bro posts big blind [$6.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Qc Kc ]
** Dealing down cards **
OneM@nShow folds
phillebelge calls [$6.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$30.00 USD]
MadSickoHead folds
xav__13 folds
im_allin_bro folds
phillebelge calls [$24.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9h, Js, Ks ]
phillebelge bets [$69.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$225.00 USD]
phillebelge calls [$156.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6h ]
phillebelge checks
BldZwtTrn bets [$342.00 USD]
phillebelge calls [$342.00 USD]
phillebelge shows [6c, 4c ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Qc, Kc ]
** Dealing River ** [ 3h ]
BldZwtTrn wins $1200.00 USD from main pot

Worst month ever

2008-09-29T22:18:00.002+02:00

September has been terrible for me. Played a lot of hours (most of 2008), but unless I'll have a very good last day it will be my worst month since being a pro.
I don't like to whine about bad beats and running bad, because all players know it's a part of the game. So I just have to hope that October will threat me a little bit better.
I'll finish this update with the biggest pot I ever played on NL400. It was against a terrible player, who was running insane hot at this moment, but as usual managed to lose it all only to the other regs at the table....lucky me.

***** Hand History for Game 3733296916 *****
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, September 26, 12:22:34 ET 2008
Table Ikimba4 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: robang ( $1452.10 USD )
Seat 2: Aasisdebaas ( $400.00 USD )
Seat 3: RiggedMFSHIT ( $400.00 USD )
Seat 4: BldZwtTrn ( $1386.20 USD )
Seat 5: KIRILECLOWN ( $991.65 USD )
Seat 6: JUNKlaDONK ( $776.50 USD )
robang posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
Aasisdebaas posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Ks Ac ]
** Dealing down cards **
RiggedMFSHIT folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$14.00 USD]
KIRILECLOWN calls [$14.00 USD]
JUNKlaDONK folds
robang raises [$58.00 USD]
Aasisdebaas folds
BldZwtTrn calls [$46.00 USD]
KIRILECLOWN folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ad, 2c, As ]
robang bets [$138.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$138.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6c ]
robang bets [$414.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$414.00 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ Ts ]
robang bets [$840.10 USD]
BldZwtTrn calls [$774.20 USD]
robang wins $65.90 USD
robang shows [Th, Ah ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Ks, Ac ]
robang wins $2787.40 USD from main pot

Bad start of the month

2008-09-05T20:55:00.002+02:00

I've had a bad start of the month so far. Running pretty bad and losing with hands that used to be my moneymakers (KK, QQ, JJ, AK).
Had some troubles with my computer as well (could only play one screen) and I'm still waiting on delivery of my new computer.
When my new setup is ready with 3 monitors, I hope to be playing 10 tables again (instead of 6 right now).

It's strange how a bad run can get into your mind even though I've played over a million hands and should have enough confidence to know I'm a winning player for sure, still I'm doubting myself and my game during such a bad run.
It's probably a good thing, because during those times I'm always eager to play more and study my game again and again, but it shows how difficult it is to handle variance in poker and not let it influence your game.

But the games are definately getting thougher, so it gets more and more important to study your own (and other regs) game so you can stay one step ahead.
As mentioned in my earlier post, I tried to play a little bit on iPoker, but I'm quite sure that my hourly rate will be lower there (and with more variance).
Games are just packed full with regs and if I look at my datamined statistics, a winrate of about 2 - 3.5 seems reasonable there. On everest I'm still around 5 this year (300K+ hands).

I finish this post with a hand which I think I played fine, although I got it in with only 4.7% equity....
The guy in the blinds (who wakes-up with aces) was a complete donk on tilt, so I called the UTG raise hoping for a squeeze by him....eveything worked out as planned, only there hands were a little bit better then expected.

***** Hand History for Game 3645448035 *****
$600.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, September 01, 12:27:30 ET 2008
Table Nassau0 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 1: borotje ( $196.00 USD )
Seat 2: dadou887 ( $261.90 USD )
Seat 3: Lebr0nJames ( $600.00 USD )
Seat 4: Parmenido ( $523.00 USD )
Seat 5: BldZwtTrn ( $693.71 USD )
borotje posts small blind [$3.00 USD].
dadou887 posts big blind [$6.00 USD].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Kc Ah ]
** Dealing down cards **
Lebr0nJames raises [$21.00 USD]
Parmenido folds
BldZwtTrn calls [$21.00 USD]
borotje folds
dadou887 raises [$81.00 USD]
Lebr0nJames raises [$132.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn raises [$672.71 USD]
dadou887 calls [$174.90 USD]
Lebr0nJames calls [$447.00 USD]
BldZwtTrn wins $93.71 USD
dadou887 shows [Ac, Ad ]
Lebr0nJames shows [Kd, Ks ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Kc, Ah ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6h, Jd, 2c ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qs ]
** Dealing River ** [ 5c ]
dadou887 wins $788.70 USD from main pot
Lebr0nJames wins $674.20 USD from main pot

First impression of iPoker

2008-08-26T17:50:00.003+02:00

As I mentioned in my previous post, I'm playing on iPoker this week mostly.
Just want to see if the rakeback/faster tables/more tables/better bonuses make up for the tougher games.
After 10K hands I can say for sure that the games are definately thougher, mostly because there are lot more multitabling regs and not so much complete donks.
On some tables the only 'fish' are the 30/10, 17/5 type of players.

So am still not sure on which site my $/hour will be the highest.
If I have to guess I think my winrate @ iPoker will be at least 2 ptbb lower then on Everest.
When playing on iPoker it helps alot to install iPokerbolide ($39) it let you change the tables and cards and that's really helpful.

I also bought 500K hands (NL400/NL600) on HHdealer.com (thanx for the tip in the comments) and this is really a very big advantage when playing on a new site.
Besides that I now already have huge samples of almost all my opponents it's also nice to do some analyzing on the winners/losers in the games....

Some interesting things I noticed:

* From the 10 players that play the most hands (20K+), 7 are losing over this sample.
* During a month on NL600 and 10 days of NL400, fishy players (get fish list in HM) donated $155K to the games, which is around $350 per fish.
* The average grinder (10K+ hands) plays a 20/16/3.4 game.

Some nice hands:

This hand was against a decent player, my image was pretty tight here so I didn't like 4betting here that much.

***** Hand History for Game 1133246594 *****
$600.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, August 25, 12:19:51 ET 2008
Table Ribeira (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: Motommy ( $771.00 USD )
Seat 3: thedeise ( $344.15 USD )
Seat 5: bucuster ( $615.59 USD )
Seat 6: Tweeeek ( $861.30 USD )
Seat 10: bldzwttrn ( $1212.00 USD )
bldzwttrn posts small blind [$3.00 USD].
Motommy posts big blind [$6.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to bldzwttrn [ Qs Qd ]
thedeise calls [$6.00 USD]
bucuster calls [$6.00 USD]
Tweeeek folds
bldzwttrn raises [$27.00 USD]
Motommy raises [$84.00 USD]
thedeise folds
bucuster folds
bldzwttrn calls [$60.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4d, 7h, 6c ]
bldzwttrn checks
Motommy bets [$96.00 USD]
bldzwttrn calls [$96.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qc ]
bldzwttrn checks
Motommy bets [$585.00 USD]
bldzwttrn calls [$585.00 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ 6s ]
bldzwttrn wins $1551.00 USD from main pot
Motommy shows [Ks, Kh ]

This player is an ubergrinder, don't know what happened with him here....he left right after this hand.

***** Hand History for Game 1133256970 *****
$600.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, August 25, 12:28:35 ET 2008
Table Ovalle (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the button
Seat 1: Tweeeek ( $600.00 USD )
Seat 3: bldzwttrn ( $605.25 USD )
Seat 6: SantaFe04 ( $627.45 USD )
Seat 8: bucuster ( $923.15 USD )
Seat 10: tusendrakar ( $556.44 USD )
tusendrakar posts small blind [$3.00 USD].
Tweeeek posts big blind [$6.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to bldzwttrn [ 8h 8d ]
bldzwttrn raises [$21.00 USD]
SantaFe04 calls [$21.00 USD]
bucuster folds
tusendrakar calls [$18.00 USD]
Tweeeek folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6d, 8s, 2h ]
tusendrakar bets [$34.50 USD]
bldzwttrn calls [$34.50 USD]
SantaFe04 raises [$186.00 USD]
tusendrakar folds
bldzwttrn calls [$151.50 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ac ]
bldzwttrn checks
SantaFe04 bets [$420.45 USD]
bldzwttrn calls [$398.25 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ Ad ]
bldzwttrn wins $1269.00 USD from main pot
SantaFe04 wins $22.20 USD from main pot
SantaFe04 shows [Qs, Ks ]

Slowplaying can be fun....

***** Hand History for Game 1134667669 *****
$600.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, August 25, 10:52:14 ET 2008
Table TURBO Kanyu (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: wasson8 ( $881.00 USD )
Seat 3: bucuster ( $621.90 USD )
Seat 5: black117 ( $111.00 USD )
Seat 6: time25 ( $777.40 USD )
Seat 8: Unclefvcker ( $650.55 USD )
Seat 10: bldzwttrn ( $597.00 USD )
Unclefvcker posts small blind [$3.00 USD].
bldzwttrn posts big blind [$6.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to bldzwttrn [ Qs Qh ]
wasson8 folds
bucuster raises [$18.00 USD]
black117 folds
time25 folds
Unclefvcker folds
bldzwttrn raises [$52.00 USD]
bucuster calls [$40.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qc, 4d, 9d ]
bldzwttrn checks
bucuster checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3c ]
bldzwttrn bets [$80.00 USD]
bucuster raises [$160.00 USD]
bldzwttrn calls [$80.00 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ Qd ]
bldzwttrn checks
bucuster bets [$403.90 USD]
bldzwttrn calls [$379.00 USD]
bucuster wins $24.90 USD from main pot
bldzwttrn wins $1194.00 USD from main pot
bucuster shows [Ad, Ks ]

This guy was really overagressive spewy.

***** Hand History for Game 1133877261 *****
$600.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, August 25, 03:11:17 ET 2008
Table TURBO GreveStrand (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: Meta1Gear1 ( $1353.95 USD )
Seat 3: gogoplex ( $951.00 USD )
Seat 5: bldzwttrn ( $537.00 USD )
Seat 6: BiancaConti ( $908.90 USD )
Seat 8: iibmuz ( $606.00 USD )
Seat 10: crazygirl100 ( $594.00 USD )
iibmuz posts small blind [$3.00 USD].
crazygirl100 posts big blind [$6.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to bldzwttrn [ Ts Th ]
Meta1Gear1 raises [$18.00 USD]
gogoplex folds
bldzwttrn raises [$63.00 USD]
BiancaConti folds
iibmuz folds
crazygirl100 folds
Meta1Gear1 raises [$210.00 USD]
bldzwttrn raises [$474.00 USD]
Meta1Gear1 calls [$309.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9s, 5c, 3s ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qh ]
** Dealing River ** [ Kh ]
bldzwttrn wins $1080.00 USD from main pot
Meta1Gear1 shows [4h, 6h ]

I like the way I played this hand, although the river is pretty thin:

***** Hand History for Game 1135271195 *****
$600.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, August 26, 12:41:13 ET 2008
Table Adria (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Seat 1: alfiesdad99 ( $547.30 USD )
Seat 3: FabMab ( $542.33 USD )
Seat 5: Gohansan ( $594.00 USD )
Seat 6: hestkewken ( $1194.00 USD )
Seat 8: bldzwttrn ( $639.55 USD )
Seat 10: crazygirl100 ( $600.00 USD )
Gohansan posts small blind [$3.00 USD].
hestkewken posts big blind [$6.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to bldzwttrn [ As Qh ]
bldzwttrn raises [$21.00 USD]
crazygirl100 folds
alfiesdad99 folds
FabMab calls [$21.00 USD]
Gohansan folds
hestkewken folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8h, 6s, 4d ]
bldzwttrn bets [$39.00 USD]
FabMab calls [$39.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Kh ]
bldzwttrn bets [$88.00 USD]
FabMab calls [$88.00 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ Qs ]
bldzwttrn bets [$190.00 USD]
FabMab calls [$190.00 USD]
FabMab wins $682.00 USD from main pot
FabMab shows [Kd, 8d ]

Setup vs huge fish (the other player folded 6d4d):

***** Hand History for Game 1133024223 *****
$600.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, August 24, 09:46:51 ET 2008
Table Ostia (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 1: mypot147 ( $793.49 USD )
Seat 3: bldzwttrn ( $1116.00 USD )
Seat 5: Gohansan ( $894.00 USD )
Seat 6: Kriskator ( $619.35 USD )
Seat 8: ThinkB4UAct ( $734.85 USD )
Seat 10: bucuster ( $871.40 USD )
Kriskator posts small blind [$3.00 USD].
ThinkB4UAct posts big blind [$6.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to bldzwttrn [ 9d 8d ]
bucuster folds
mypot147 raises [$12.00 USD]
bldzwttrn calls [$12.00 USD]
Gohansan folds
Kriskator folds
ThinkB4UAct calls [$6.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Kd, Qd, 5d ]
ThinkB4UAct checks
mypot147 checks
bldzwttrn bets [$30.00 USD]
ThinkB4UAct calls [$30.00 USD]
mypot147 raises [$60.00 USD]
bldzwttrn raises [$150.00 USD]
ThinkB4UAct folds
mypot147 raises [$721.49 USD]
bldzwttrn calls [$601.49 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 8h ]
** Dealing River ** [ Qc ]
mypot147 wins $1628.98 USD from main pot
mypot147 shows [Ad, Jd ]

Back to the grinding

2008-08-24T21:20:00.003+02:00

Holidays are over so it's time to play some hands again.
Haven't really played much the past 7 weeks, but I'm planning on playing a lot again starting tommorrow. Had some troubles with my computer, which was getting way too slow. Couldn't get 8 tabels open with a HUD. When I have my new computer I will try to play 8-10 tables again.
Really hope to play at least 75K hands until the end of September.

I'm also planning on playing some more hands on iPoker as I have a very nice deal over there, but I just hate the software. Hope that installing iPokerbolide will make it a better site to play on, so far it seems a lot better. Now I just have to see how the competition is over there.
It's always difficult to start on a new site, because the advantage to know every player on a site is so valuable.

So far August has been very unlucky. On NL400 I'm just above 0, but running 20 buy-ins below equity. Lucky for me I run a little bit above expectation on NL600+ (2 buy-ins), so still making an average profit of $0,40 per hand.

As I'm planning on playing more, I also hope to post some more hands here.
Just wish me luck.

Back from holiday

2008-08-11T21:35:00.003+02:00

I just arrived back home from my holiday in Greece.
Had a very nice time with a lot of sun and relaxing.
Had time to read a lot of books and as I'm planning to start investing some money, I read some books about it.
One very nice and interesting book was Liar's poker (no it's not about poker...).
It's about a bond trader in London during the mid 80's. It's amazing to read how easy it was to make money in the bond market during that period.
It's really fun to read how much poker is like trading bonds/stocks, it's all about taking calcaluted risks, so no suprise I'm thinking about a future job in that area.
For the moment I will go back playing poker, but never know when the time is right to look for a 'real' job...

Not easy to start grinding again after days on places like this...

Not much poker

2008-07-30T11:44:00.002+02:00

Havent been playing much poker lately.
Taking some time off and enjoying holiday.
Only played around 15K hands in July, but still made a nice profit of close to $1 per hand. It's my 28th winning month in a row and I'm quite happy with it.
I playing some more HU and Omaha lately and I like it a lot as it is a lot less boring then 8-tabling 6max.
That's it for now, hope to have some more updates after my trip to Greece.

Half year reflection

2008-06-30T19:15:00.002+02:00

2008 is half way so a nice time to do some reflections.
So far things are going really well. June was by far my best month ever and for 2008 I'm right on schedule with my winnings still between 40 en 50 cent per hand.

At the moment I'm still playing NL400 and NL600 most of the time and I probably will be doing this the coming period, because I'm quite sure that my hourly rate is slighty higher on NL400/600 then on NL1000 and with the lower variance added on NL400, I see no reason yet to play NL1000 only.

Some facts for this first half year:

Top10 most profitable hands (not really exciting...):

1. AA
2. KK
3. QQ
4. JJ
5. AKo
6. TT
7. AJs
8. KQs
9. 99
10. AQs

I also looked into my worst hands and the funny thing is that the worst hands are those which I never play (VPIP 0%), so this basically means I'm playing all my hands at least +EV at the moment (I would lose more if I would them all the time).

Most dealt PP: AA: 1435 times (1400 expected)....running hot
Less dealt PP: 88: 1323 times

To finish this update, here are the 2 biggest pots for June:

Biggest win:

***** Hand History for Game 3372670346 *****
$600.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, June 16, 10:53:03 2008
Table Satpara2 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 3: Purreltoch ( $985.63 )
Seat 4: firstmaster ( $727.37 )
Seat 5: BldZwtTrn ( $657.00 )
Seat 6: tobestar11 ( $713.00 )
Purreltoch posts the small blind [$3.00].
firstmaster posts the big blind [$6.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Qc Tc ]
** Dealing down cards **
BldZwtTrn raises [$21.00]
tobestar11 calls [$21.00]
Purreltoch folds
firstmaster calls [$15.00]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ts, Qs, 7c ]
firstmaster checks
BldZwtTrn bets [$50.00]
tobestar11 calls [$50.00]
firstmaster raises [$706.37]
BldZwtTrn calls [$586.00]
tobestar11 calls [$642.00]
firstmaster wins $14.37
firstmaster shows [Ad Qd ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Qc Tc ]
tobestar11 shows [9h 8h ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2c ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7d ]
BldZwtTrn wins $1974.00 from main pot
firstmaster wins $110.00 from main pot"

Biggest loss:

***** Hand History for Game 3376848283 *****
$1000.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, June 18, 01:42:21 2008
Table Kainji0 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ( $1486.00 )
Seat 2: -anomaly- ( $1911.52 )
BldZwtTrn posts the small blind [$5.00].
-anomaly- posts the big blind [$10.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ 9s Kc ]
** Dealing down cards **
BldZwtTrn raises [$25.00]
-anomaly- raises [$90.00]
BldZwtTrn raises [$230.00]
-anomaly- calls [$160.00]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6d, 9h, Kd ]
-anomaly- checks
BldZwtTrn bets [$370.00]
-anomaly- raises [$777.00]
BldZwtTrn raises [$856.00]
-anomaly- raises [$874.52]
-anomaly- wins $425.52
-anomaly- shows [Ad Ah ]
BldZwtTrn shows [9s Kc ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6c ]
** Dealing River ** [ 3c ]
-anomaly- wins $2971.00 from main pot

I will not play much in July and August due to some trips/summer, so probably not much updates coming weeks.

1988 - 2008.....

2008-06-14T19:14:00.002+02:00

Not much poker this weekend, but euro2008 is great so far.
Against the Italians the Dutch team probably played their best game since at least 8 years (quarter final Euro2000 against Yugoslavia).
Winning with 7-1 againt the best 2 teams in the world is just amazing...still enjoying it....

Best month and week ever

2008-06-09T04:44:00.004+02:00

Just a short update for now. Just finished a nice sunday night session to end my best week ever. Played a lot the past week (18K hands) and I won close to 1$ per hand.
As May was my best month ever, I expect June to be even better.
Games are really good lately and Im also playing better then ever. Also had some very sweet HU opponents, here are some examples of hands against them...

***** Hand History for Game 3342066237 *****
$600.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, June 09, 02:34:57 2008
Table Nakuru6 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ( $1780.80 )
Seat 2: Niky007 ( $806.90 )
BldZwtTrn posts the small blind [$3.00].
Niky007 posts the big blind [$6.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ 4s 8s ]
** Dealing down cards **
BldZwtTrn raises [$15.00]
Niky007 raises [$24.00]
BldZwtTrn calls [$12.00]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8c, 8d, Jd ]
Niky007 checks
BldZwtTrn bets [$44.00]
Niky007 raises [$88.00]
BldZwtTrn calls [$44.00]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3s ]
Niky007 bets [$236.00]
BldZwtTrn calls [$236.00]
** Dealing River ** [ 9s ]
Niky007 bets [$452.90]
BldZwtTrn calls [$452.90]
Niky007 shows [Js Th ]
BldZwtTrn shows [4s 8s ]
BldZwtTrn wins $1612.80 from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 3328735457 *****
$600.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, June 05, 07:39:13 2008
Table Nakuru2 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ( $947.00 )
Seat 2: supernics ( $530.60 )
supernics posts the small blind [$3.00].
BldZwtTrn posts the big blind [$6.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Ah 8c ]
** Dealing down cards **
supernics raises [$15.00]
BldZwtTrn calls [$12.00]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Td, 8s, Ts ]
BldZwtTrn checks
supernics bets [$36.00]
BldZwtTrn calls [$36.00]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6h ]
BldZwtTrn checks
supernics bets [$108.00]
BldZwtTrn calls [$108.00]
** Dealing River ** [ 2c ]
BldZwtTrn checks
supernics bets [$324.00]
BldZwtTrn calls [$324.00]
supernics shows [Jd 9s ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Ah 8c ]
BldZwtTrn wins $971.00 from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 3328770191 *****
$600.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, June 05, 07:46:20 2008
Table Nakuru2 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ( $1348.00 )
Seat 2: supernics ( $675.40 )
supernics posts the small blind [$3.00].
BldZwtTrn posts the big blind [$6.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Ad Qc ]
** Dealing down cards **
supernics raises [$15.00]
BldZwtTrn raises [$52.00]
supernics calls [$40.00]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ah, 4s, Jh ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$77.00]
supernics calls [$77.00]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Kh ]
BldZwtTrn checks
supernics checks
** Dealing River ** [ 3s ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$213.00]
supernics raises [$540.40]
BldZwtTrn calls [$327.40]
supernics shows [Js Qs ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Ad Qc ]
BldZwtTrn wins $1349.80 from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 3328843858 *****
$600.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, June 05, 08:01:24 2008
Table Nakuru2 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ( $2147.80 )
Seat 2: supernics ( $962.80 )
supernics posts the small blind [$3.00].
BldZwtTrn posts the big blind [$6.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ 7c 7h ]
** Dealing down cards **
supernics raises [$15.00]
BldZwtTrn raises [$50.00]
supernics calls [$38.00]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7s, 9d, Qh ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$80.00]
supernics raises [$160.00]
BldZwtTrn raises [$160.00]
supernics raises [$672.00]
BldZwtTrn raises [$1851.80]
supernics calls [$74.80]
BldZwtTrn wins $1185.00
BldZwtTrn shows [7c 7h ]
supernics shows [Tc 2s ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6h ]
** Dealing River ** [ Qc ]
BldZwtTrn wins $1924.60 from main pot

Graph since May 1st:

On track for best month ever

2008-05-22T13:24:00.002+02:00

Things are still going well, on track for my best month ever, without playing that much (30K hands so far). From what I hear, people like to see some hands, so here they are, but first a very sexy graph of this month...and the fun thing is that I'm running exactly around expectation.

How to play aces....

***** Hand History for Game 3269433629 *****
$400.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, May 22, 10:46:02 2008
Table Ikimba5 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Seat 1: bergumer ( $400.00 )
Seat 2: Mr_Tanou ( $427.70 )
Seat 3: Tessaya ( $792.90 )
Seat 4: BldZwtTrn ( $671.73 )
Seat 5: c4t4nia ( $188.40 )
Seat 6: Luigy ( $402.50 )
c4t4nia posts the small blind [$2.00].
Luigy posts the big blind [$4.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ 2s 5s ]
** Dealing down cards **
bergumer calls [$4.00]
Mr_Tanou folds
Tessaya folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$18.00]
c4t4nia folds
Luigy folds
bergumer calls [$14.00]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2c, 5c, Jh ]
bergumer checks
BldZwtTrn bets [$35.00]
bergumer raises [$70.00]
BldZwtTrn raises [$125.00]
bergumer calls [$90.00]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4c ]
bergumer bets [$222.00]
BldZwtTrn calls [$222.00]
bergumer shows [Ah Ac ]
BldZwtTrn shows [2s 5s ]
** Dealing River ** [ Jd ]
bergumer wins $803.00 from main pot

The 3 hands below happened on the same table within 10 minutes....

***** Hand History for Game 3269174391 *****
$400.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, May 22, 08:49:10 2008
Table Tengiz2 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ( $386.90 )
Seat 2: Drainlife ( $394.50 )
Seat 3: julien00 ( $65.00 )
Seat 4: Gambler1969 ( $159.90 )
Seat 5: Kaffedopp ( $400.00 )
Seat 6: mr.lambada ( $158.00 )
Drainlife posts the small blind [$2.00].
julien00 posts the big blind [$4.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ 3d As ]
** Dealing down cards **
Gambler1969 raises [$14.00]
Kaffedopp calls [$14.00]
mr.lambada folds
BldZwtTrn folds
Drainlife folds
julien00 folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qc, Th, Qd ]
Gambler1969 checks
Kaffedopp checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ 7c ]
Gambler1969 bets [$34.00]
Kaffedopp raises [$386.00]
Gambler1969 calls [$111.90]
Kaffedopp wins $240.10
Gambler1969 shows [8s 8h ]
Kaffedopp shows [Qh Kc ]
** Dealing River ** [ 8d ]
Gambler1969 wins $322.80 from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 3269182807 *****
$400.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, May 22, 08:53:41 2008
Table Tengiz2 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ( $380.90 )
Seat 2: Drainlife ( $398.00 )
Seat 3: julien00 ( $51.00 )
Seat 4: Gambler1969 ( $289.80 )
Seat 5: Kaffedopp ( $440.80 )
Seat 6: mr.lambada ( $151.10 )
Drainlife posts the small blind [$2.00].
julien00 posts the big blind [$4.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Ad Jd ]
** Dealing down cards **
Gambler1969 raises [$14.00]
Kaffedopp folds
mr.lambada folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$48.00]
Drainlife folds
julien00 calls [$44.00]
Gambler1969 calls [$34.00]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Kc, Kd, 7d ]
julien00 checks
Gambler1969 checks
BldZwtTrn checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4d ]
julien00 bets [$3.00]
Gambler1969 raises [$155.00]
BldZwtTrn raises [$332.90]
Gambler1969 calls [$86.80]
BldZwtTrn wins $91.10
julien00 shows [As 8s ]
Gambler1969 shows [3c 3s ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Ad Jd ]
** Dealing River ** [ 3h ]
Gambler1969 wins $155.00 from main pot
Gambler1969 wins $474.60 from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 3269194394 *****
$400.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, May 22, 08:59:45 2008
Table Tengiz2 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ( $386.00 )
Seat 2: Drainlife ( $416.00 )
Seat 3: julien00 ( $104.80 )
Seat 4: Gambler1969 ( $635.10 )
Seat 5: Kaffedopp ( $440.00 )
Seat 6: mr.lambada ( $131.10 )
mr.lambada posts the small blind [$2.00].
BldZwtTrn posts the big blind [$4.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ As Ac ]
** Dealing down cards **
Drainlife folds
julien00 folds
Gambler1969 calls [$4.00]
Kaffedopp raises [$18.00]
mr.lambada calls [$16.00]
BldZwtTrn raises [$71.00]
Gambler1969 folds
Kaffedopp calls [$57.00]
mr.lambada folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3s, 9h, Tc ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$99.00]
Kaffedopp raises [$365.00]
BldZwtTrn calls [$212.00]
Kaffedopp wins $54.00
BldZwtTrn shows [As Ac ]
Kaffedopp shows [7h 7d ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Kc ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7s ]
Kaffedopp wins $791.00 from main pot

Nice flop :-)

***** Hand History for Game 3269214081 *****
$600.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, May 22, 09:09:49 2008
Table Nassau3 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ( $985.70 )
Seat 3: yarzurf ( $726.20 )
Seat 4: th0rns ( $566.75 )
Seat 5: cRaZyahm3D ( $596.40 )
cRaZyahm3D posts the small blind [$3.00].
BldZwtTrn posts the big blind [$6.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Ts 9s ]
** Dealing down cards **
yarzurf folds
th0rns raises [$24.00]
cRaZyahm3D folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$69.00]
th0rns calls [$51.00]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Tc, Th, Ac ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$99.00]
th0rns calls [$99.00]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Td ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$150.00]
th0rns calls [$150.00]
** Dealing River ** [ Kh ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$651.00]
th0rns calls [$242.75]
BldZwtTrn wins $408.25
BldZwtTrn shows [Ts 9s ]
th0rns shows [As 8s ]
BldZwtTrn wins $1134.50 from main pot

Finally 2 lucky rivers for me

***** Hand History for Game 3269152611 *****
$600.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, May 22, 08:37:05 2008
Table Nassau3 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ( $645.00 )
Seat 2: BadHabbitz ( $708.20 )
Seat 3: yarzurf ( $615.00 )
Seat 4: th0rns ( $884.70 )
Seat 5: kceler ( $613.00 )
Seat 6: muster94 ( $745.40 )
yarzurf posts the small blind [$3.00].
th0rns posts the big blind [$6.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ 5h 3h ]
** Dealing down cards **
kceler folds
muster94 raises [$21.00]
BldZwtTrn calls [$21.00]
BadHabbitz folds
yarzurf folds
th0rns folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8d, Js, 5d ]
muster94 bets [$21.00]
BldZwtTrn raises [$55.00]
muster94 calls [$34.00]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qd ]
muster94 checks
BldZwtTrn bets [$120.00]
muster94 calls [$120.00]
** Dealing River ** [ 3c ]
muster94 checks
BldZwtTrn bets [$222.00]
muster94 calls [$222.00]
BldZwtTrn shows [5h 3h ]
muster94 doesn't show [Ks Kh ]
BldZwtTrn wins $842.00 from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 3269362247 *****
$400.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, May 22, 10:17:37 2008
Table Bamako1 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: yarzurf ( $394.00 )
Seat 2: BldZwtTrn ( $1113.90 )
Seat 4: bergumer ( $400.00 )
Seat 5: Soepie ( $219.20 )
Seat 6: sitDOGOsit ( $551.10 )
BldZwtTrn posts the small blind [$2.00].
bergumer posts the big blind [$4.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ 7h 5h ]
** Dealing down cards **
Soepie folds
sitDOGOsit raises [$14.00]
yarzurf folds
BldZwtTrn calls [$12.00]
bergumer folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9d, 2d, 7c ]
BldZwtTrn checks
sitDOGOsit bets [$22.00]
BldZwtTrn raises [$60.00]
sitDOGOsit calls [$38.00]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 8s ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$111.00]
sitDOGOsit calls [$111.00]
** Dealing River ** [ 6s ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$222.00]
sitDOGOsit calls [$222.00]
BldZwtTrn shows [7h 5h ]
sitDOGOsit doesn't show [Js Jc ]
BldZwtTrn wins $816.00 from main pot

A very nice one, to finish this post

***** Hand History for Game 3265663157 *****
$400.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, May 21, 12:15:38 2008
Table Bamako15 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: driss78 ( $632.40 )
Seat 2: -GOLDF1SH- ( $553.80 )
Seat 3: burningspear ( $450.50 )
Seat 4: BldZwtTrn ( $1157.45 )
Seat 5: CptFranklin ( $203.48 )
Seat 6: Luigy ( $534.30 )
-GOLDF1SH- posts the small blind [$2.00].
burningspear posts the big blind [$4.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Ah As ]
** Dealing down cards **
BldZwtTrn raises [$14.00]
CptFranklin folds
Luigy folds
driss78 calls [$14.00]
-GOLDF1SH- raises [$56.00]
burningspear folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$118.00]
driss78 folds
-GOLDF1SH- raises [$495.80]
BldZwtTrn calls [$421.80]
-GOLDF1SH- shows [Ad Ac ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Ah As ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4h, Kh, 3h ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2s ]
** Dealing River ** [ 6h ]
BldZwtTrn wins $1122.60 from main pot

Some nice new gadgets

2008-05-12T15:37:00.003+02:00

Finally an update again, but not too much poker this time, because the weather is just too good for poker. One of the advantages of being a pokerpro is that I can decide to take a day/week off when I wake up or whenever I want to. My only goal is basically to make around 100 hours a month or more like 1250 a year.

I also bought some nice new gadgets the last month. Finally bought a flat TV with a nice 2.1 surround set (I hate all those cables for normal sets) and finally a new phone (nokia N82). This Nokia really is a great phone. Especially the combination of GPS (with google maps) and a great internet browser is very useful when you're looking for nice restaurants for example.

Then a little bit of poker....only played 10K hands this month, but I'm up close to 1 cent per hand, so resulst so far are good. For 2008 I'm a little below schedule (My goal was around 0,40-0,50 cent per hand) with 225K hands for around 37 cents per hand.

Finally one tricky hand I played today. Not sure about my river call. Villian in this hand was about 21/15/3 over about 330 hands.

***** Hand History for Game 3227897730 *****
$1000.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, May 12, 12:51:26 2008
Table Kwania4 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 1: soFly- ( $1052.00 )
Seat 2: Parmenido ( $1308.50 )
Seat 3: Tevje ( $1415.00 )
Seat 5: BldZwtTrn ( $1877.00 )
Seat 6: crazy_macho ( $1313.75 )
crazy_macho posts the small blind [$5.00].
soFly- posts the big blind [$10.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ As Ac ]
** Dealing down cards **
Parmenido folds
Tevje raises [$35.00]
BldZwtTrn calls [$35.00]
crazy_macho calls [$30.00]
soFly- folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7h, 2s, 4c ]
crazy_macho checks
Tevje checks
BldZwtTrn bets [$80.00]
crazy_macho raises [$195.00]
Tevje folds
BldZwtTrn calls [$115.00]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2c ]
crazy_macho bets [$317.00]
BldZwtTrn calls [$317.00]
** Dealing River ** [ 8h ]
crazy_macho bets [$588.00]
BldZwtTrn calls [$588.00]

Sharp LC-32X20E (full HD)

Onkyo LS-V501 (2.1 surround set)

Nokia N82

Finally an update again

2008-04-11T13:56:00.002+02:00

I've been kind of lazy lately with my blog. But I got a lot of request to update it again. So here it is. Poker is still going good. After my downswing of about 65K hands I had my biggest upswing ever, winning about 1$ per hand for over 30K hands.

After a hand (bluff) that I happened against a pretty bad player (38/10/2) I was thinking about how easy it is to put people on hands (it's really not that difficult most of the time), but on the other hand how difficult it is to guess if they are able to fold a hand.
A lot of the time I see players who clearly seem to know that someone is weak, but the problem is that they overestimate (or need I say underestimate..) bad players. They seem to think that those players are actually thinking about what kind of hand you are repping, but in fact they just look at their own hand.
Kind of standard offcoure but against first-level thinkers its just not necessary to rep some kind of hand, cause they're not thinking about your hand.

So here are some hands which probably are good against second-level thinkers at least, but not against the players in the particular hands.

***** Hand History for Game 3089056959 *****
$400.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, April 10, 10:03:47 2008
Table Tengiz0 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Seat 1: daniela29 ( $645.00 )
Seat 2: BldZwtTrn ( $406.00 )
Seat 3: smokingpaper ( $1465.78 )
Seat 4: Sham4n ( $400.00 )
Seat 5: werky365 ( $355.60 )
Seat 6: Spevel81 ( $370.50 ) > 38/10/2
werky365 posts the small blind [$2.00].
Spevel81 posts the big blind [$4.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ 7s 9s ]
** Dealing down cards **
daniela29 folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$14.00]
smokingpaper calls [$14.00]
Sham4n folds
werky365 folds
Spevel81 calls [$10.00]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2s, 4c, Qc ]
Spevel81 checks
BldZwtTrn bets [$33.00]
smokingpaper folds
Spevel81 calls [$33.00]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Js ]
Spevel81 checks
BldZwtTrn bets [$80.00]
Spevel81 calls [$80.00]
** Dealing River ** [ 4h ]
Spevel81 checks

On this river I'm pretty sure he has KQ at best, but there's also a chance he has a missed draw here (flush/53/A3ss), so I overbet the pot here to rep AQ or better. But offcourse he calls with a hand that is nothing more then a bluff catcher. Bluffing calling stations is just not a very smart move....

BldZwtTrn bets [$279.00]
Spevel81 calls [$243.50]
BldZwtTrn wins $35.50
BldZwtTrn shows [7s 9s ]
Spevel81 shows [Qs Ts ]
Spevel81 wins $754.00 from main pot

The bluff in this hand below, probably is a little better. This player is a little better, although still not very good. When he calls the turn, I put him on AQ at best here. The river completes the backdoor flush, but misses mine, but I still decide to pull the last barrel.

***** Hand History for Game 3092440682 *****
$800.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, April 10, 10:51:40 2008
Table Thimphu3 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 1: abagado ( $86.60 )
Seat 2: peperuiz ( $807.60 )
Seat 3: Puzo ( $699.50 ) -> 21/12/2
Seat 4: 4wards ( $1270.60 )
Seat 5: Montherlant ( $1352.80 )
Seat 6: BldZwtTrn ( $950.30 )
BldZwtTrn posts the small blind [$4.00].
abagado posts the big blind [$8.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Ks Js ]
** Dealing down cards **
peperuiz folds
Puzo raises [$26.00]
4wards folds
Montherlant folds
BldZwtTrn calls [$22.00]
abagado folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ Kh, 3s, 4h ]
BldZwtTrn checks
Puzo bets [$42.00]
BldZwtTrn calls [$42.00]
** Dealing Turn ** [ As ]
BldZwtTrn checks
Puzo bets [$92.00]
BldZwtTrn raises [$226.00]
Puzo calls [$134.00]
** Dealing River ** [ 7h ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$420.00]
Puzo calls [$405.50]
BldZwtTrn wins $14.50
BldZwtTrn shows [Ks Js ]
Puzo shows [Ad Td ]
Puzo wins $1404.00 from main pot

I finish this update with the biggest pot (BB wise) in a while. It was against a complete idiot, who managed to sponser me $1900 in about an hour.

***** Hand History for Game 3013517013 *****
$400.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, March 24, 10:31:24 2008
Table Ikimba10 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: Balg ( $360.00 )
Seat 2: beatrice777 ( $1205.65 )
Seat 3: BldZwtTrn ( $1039.00 )
Seat 4: Maartz ( $576.30 )
Seat 5: koelitski ( $412.30 )
Seat 6: MStyz ( $398.00 )
Balg posts the small blind [$2.00].
beatrice777 posts the big blind [$4.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ As Ad ]
** Dealing down cards **
BldZwtTrn raises [$14.00]
Maartz folds
koelitski calls [$14.00]
MStyz folds
Balg folds
beatrice777 calls [$10.00]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6c, Jd, 5h ]
beatrice777 bets [$44.00]
BldZwtTrn raises [$140.00]
koelitski folds
beatrice777 calls [$96.00]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 8d ]
beatrice777 bets [$324.00]
BldZwtTrn calls [$324.00]
** Dealing River ** [ 6d ]
beatrice777 checks
BldZwtTrn bets [$561.00]
beatrice777 calls [$561.00]
BldZwtTrn shows [As Ad ]
beatrice777 shows [Js 7c ]
BldZwtTrn wins $2091.00 from main pot

Some hands

2008-03-19T14:03:00.002+01:00

Just posting some hands to show how hot I'm running lately. I've won about 40 buy-ins during the last 6 working days.
The games are extremely good these period and some of the hands below clearly shows why....

Always nice to have the nuts in a 400BB+ pot...

***** Hand History for Game 2976329771 *****
$400.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, March 17, 10:26:35 2008
Table Nassau4 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 1: Charlotte83 ( $409.90 )
Seat 2: Chriss1506 ( $949.55 )
Seat 3: BldZwtTrn ( $717.90 )
Seat 4: JopieMan ( $518.05 )
Seat 5: Akim100 ( $545.10 )
Seat 6: threeFingers ( $398.70 )
threeFingers posts the small blind [$2.00].
Charlotte83 posts the big blind [$4.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Qs Qh ]
** Dealing down cards **
Chriss1506 calls [$4.00]
BldZwtTrn raises [$18.00]
JopieMan folds
Akim100 calls [$18.00]
threeFingers folds
Charlotte83 folds
Chriss1506 calls [$14.00]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ts, Qd, 6c ]
Chriss1506 checks
BldZwtTrn bets [$40.00]
Akim100 calls [$40.00]
Chriss1506 calls [$40.00]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6h ]
Chriss1506 checks
BldZwtTrn bets [$99.00]
Akim100 raises [$198.00]
Chriss1506 calls [$198.00]
BldZwtTrn calls [$99.00]
** Dealing River ** [ 9s ]
Chriss1506 checks
BldZwtTrn bets [$461.90]
Akim100 folds
Chriss1506 calls [$461.90]
BldZwtTrn shows [Qs Qh ]
Chriss1506 shows [Tc Jh ]
BldZwtTrn wins $1694.80 from main pot

Top pair is the nuts, part 1

***** Hand History for Game 2976471285 *****
$600.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, March 17, 11:21:30 2008
Table Nassau4 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 3: Okovanga ( $1068.00 )
Seat 4: Cha1nsaw ( $606.00 )
Seat 5: JopieMan ( $837.80 )
Seat 6: BldZwtTrn ( $822.56 )
BldZwtTrn posts the small blind [$3.00].
Okovanga posts the big blind [$6.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Ks Kh ]
** Dealing down cards **
Cha1nsaw folds
JopieMan raises [$21.00]
BldZwtTrn raises [$67.00]
Okovanga raises [$153.00]
JopieMan folds
BldZwtTrn calls [$89.00]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Jc, 7c, 3h ]
BldZwtTrn checks
Okovanga bets [$90.00]
BldZwtTrn raises [$300.00]
Okovanga raises [$819.00]
BldZwtTrn calls [$363.56]
Okovanga wins $245.44
BldZwtTrn shows [Ks Kh ]
Okovanga shows [Ah Jh ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qd ]
** Dealing River ** [ 3c ]
BldZwtTrn wins $1664.12 from main pot

Top pair is the nuts part 2

***** Hand History for Game 2985926328 *****
$600.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, March 19, 11:18:25 2008
Table Bamako1 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Seat 1: ofasa ( $609.00 )
Seat 2: TechniqueS ( $732.00 )
Seat 3: Bjoernberlin ( $893.85 )
Seat 4: merwin ( $636.00 )
Seat 5: BldZwtTrn ( $705.90 )
Seat 6: MartijnP ( $600.00 )
merwin posts the small blind [$3.00].
BldZwtTrn posts the big blind [$6.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Ac As ]
** Dealing down cards **
MartijnP folds
ofasa folds
TechniqueS folds
Bjoernberlin calls [$6.00]
merwin folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$18.00]
Bjoernberlin calls [$18.00]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2d, 4c, Tc ]
BldZwtTrn checks
Bjoernberlin bets [$51.00]
BldZwtTrn raises [$160.00]
Bjoernberlin calls [$109.00]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4s ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$250.00]
Bjoernberlin calls [$250.00]
** Dealing River ** [ 7h ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$271.90]
Bjoernberlin calls [$271.90]
BldZwtTrn shows [Ac As ]
Bjoernberlin shows [Ts 5h ]
BldZwtTrn wins $1411.80 from main pot

Top pair is the nuts part 3

***** Hand History for Game 2975543322 *****
$400.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, March 17, 12:29:07 2008
Table Ikimba8 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: chris77240 ( $276.10 )
Seat 2: Purreltoch ( $421.80 )
Seat 3: BldZwtTrn ( $836.60 )
Seat 4: Garuda72 ( $785.80 )
Seat 5: pepsifred ( $869.60 )
Seat 6: PopHerCherry ( $531.00 )
Purreltoch posts the small blind [$2.00].
BldZwtTrn posts the big blind [$4.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Ah Qs ]
** Dealing down cards **
Garuda72 folds
pepsifred folds
PopHerCherry raises [$14.00]
chris77240 calls [$14.00]
Purreltoch folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$56.00]
PopHerCherry calls [$46.00]
chris77240 calls [$46.00]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ac, 3c, 9d ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$125.00]
PopHerCherry raises [$471.00]
chris77240 folds
BldZwtTrn calls [$346.00]
BldZwtTrn shows [Ah Qs ]
PopHerCherry shows [As Ts ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6c ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7s ]
BldZwtTrn wins $1121.00 from main pot

Soooooted cards are the nuts part 1

***** Hand History for Game 2970176504 *****
$600.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, March 15, 11:18:35 2008
Table Nassau0 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Seat 1: lqomar ( $121.00 )
Seat 2: BldZwtTrn ( $705.00 )
Seat 3: Tooren ( $1833.00 )
Seat 4: Valo ( $600.00 )
Seat 5: doualaedo ( $483.20 )
Seat 6: gerard-klein ( $548.00 )
doualaedo posts the small blind [$3.00].
gerard-klein posts the big blind [$6.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Qc Ah ]
** Dealing down cards **
lqomar folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$21.00]
Tooren calls [$21.00]
doualaedo raises [$87.00]
gerard-klein calls [$84.00]
BldZwtTrn raises [$684.00]
Tooren folds
doualaedo calls [$393.20]
gerard-klein folds
BldZwtTrn wins $221.80
doualaedo shows [Ks 5s ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Qc Ah ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6c, Qd, Jd ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3c ]
** Dealing River ** [ 2d ]
BldZwtTrn wins $1075.40 from main pot

Two pair is the nuts :-)

***** Hand History for Game 2977351140 *****
$400.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, March 17, 03:26:38 2008
Table Tengiz5 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ( $382.00 )
Seat 2: denise86_ ( $386.00 )
Seat 3: dben ( $155.43 )
Seat 4: hoipipiloi ( $892.30 )
Seat 5: rr55 ( $1239.00 )
Seat 6: DerBesen ( $406.80 )
BldZwtTrn posts the small blind [$2.00].
denise86_ posts the big blind [$4.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ 7c Ac ]
** Dealing down cards **
dben calls [$4.00]
hoipipiloi raises [$18.00]
rr55 calls [$18.00]
DerBesen folds
BldZwtTrn calls [$16.00]
denise86_ folds
dben calls [$14.00]
** Dealing Flop ** [ As, Kh, Ad ]
BldZwtTrn checks
dben checks
hoipipiloi checks
rr55 bets [$12.00]
BldZwtTrn calls [$12.00]
dben calls [$12.00]
hoipipiloi calls [$12.00]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 7d ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$88.00]
dben folds
hoipipiloi folds
rr55 calls [$88.00]
** Dealing River ** [ 4c ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$264.00]
rr55 calls [$264.00]
BldZwtTrn shows [7c Ac ]
rr55 shows [Kc Td ]
BldZwtTrn wins $825.00 from main pot

A little bit too thin valuebet, but how should I put him on just KT...

***** Hand History for Game 2976507469 *****
$600.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, March 17, 11:34:38 2008
Table Nassau4 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: Mr.Edison ( $264.05 )
Seat 2: Ze_Gnome ( $600.00 )
Seat 3: Okovanga ( $570.00 )
Seat 4: Cha1nsaw ( $531.60 )
Seat 6: BldZwtTrn ( $1611.12 )
Mr.Edison posts the small blind [$3.00].
Ze_Gnome posts the big blind [$6.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Qs Qh ]
** Dealing down cards **
Okovanga raises [$18.00]
Cha1nsaw folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$63.00]
Mr.Edison folds
Ze_Gnome folds
Okovanga calls [$45.00]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7s, 4h, 7d ]
Okovanga checks
BldZwtTrn bets [$99.00]
Okovanga calls [$99.00]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Tc ]
Okovanga checks
BldZwtTrn bets [$150.00]
Okovanga calls [$150.00]
** Dealing River ** [ Kd ]
Okovanga checks
BldZwtTrn bets [$258.00]
Okovanga calls [$258.00]
BldZwtTrn shows [Qs Qh ]
Okovanga shows [Ts Ks ]
Okovanga wins $1147.00 from main pot

He put me on.....AK...no wait...aaah whatever...

***** Hand History for Game 2975559877 *****
$400.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, March 17, 12:34:48 2008
Table Ikimba8 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Seat 1: PopHerCherry ( $408.50 )
Seat 2: zhezhe ( $145.80 )
Seat 3: BldZwtTrn ( $909.00 )
Seat 4: Garuda72 ( $396.00 )
Seat 6: hochhoch ( $308.20 )
hochhoch posts the small blind [$2.00].
PopHerCherry posts the big blind [$4.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Kh Kd ]
** Dealing down cards **
zhezhe folds
BldZwtTrn raises [$14.00]
Garuda72 folds
hochhoch folds
PopHerCherry raises [$50.00]
BldZwtTrn raises [$106.00]
PopHerCherry calls [$66.00]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2s, 8c, 2d ]
PopHerCherry checks
BldZwtTrn bets [$789.00]
PopHerCherry calls [$288.50]
BldZwtTrn wins $500.50
PopHerCherry shows [Qd As ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Kh Kd ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ah ]
** Dealing River ** [ Qs ]
PopHerCherry wins $817.00 from main pot

Running extremely good again.

2008-03-17T16:58:00.002+01:00

After running break-even for about 65K hands I'm finally back at my all time high.
The last week has been really good, with today being one of the best ever. I just won every single flip, and got paid off with big hands almost always. Won about 13 buy-ins in 3000 hands.

Here's my march graph:

I will post some hands later on.

Poker sucks

2008-03-07T16:57:00.002+01:00

The last 2 weeks have been really terrible. I just can't seem to win anymore. Played almost 18K hands in March alone and I'm still around break even. This break even stretch is now over a record of 50K hands....
Against one (new) player I managed to lose $2,4K in March alone....this guy managed to win 6 buy-ins of me (just normal 6max games) and I didn't win one single pot bigger then 20BB against him.
The funny thing is that he's pretty bad overall, but he's running so extremely hot against me that I will ship anyone who postst the sickest cooler or bad beat against him $25. I will decide which one deserves to won obvious, just post it in the comment.

Here are some of the big pots against him (alexsasha 22/14/4):

Cooler number 1 (we just ended HU, but it was 6max before):

EverestPoker Game #2925223290: Table Bamako-1 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 11:11:55 - 2008/03/06
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ($1,231.39)
Seat 3: alexsasha ($429.80)
BldZwtTrn posts the small blind of $2.00
alexsasha posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[5s 5d]
BldZwtTrn raises to $12.00
alexsasha calls $8.00
*** FLOP *** [2c 6c 5h]
alexsasha checks
BldZwtTrn bets $20.00
alexsasha calls $20.00
*** TURN *** [2c 6c 5h] [Ah]
alexsasha checks
BldZwtTrn bets $50.00
alexsasha raises to $140.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $484.00
alexsasha calls $257.80 and is all-in
Uncalled bet of $86.20 returned to BldZwtTrn
*** SHOW DOWN ***
alexsasha shows [3h 4h]
BldZwtTrn shows [5s 5d]
*** RIVER *** [2c 6c 5h Ah] [Qc]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [2c 6c 5h Ah Qc]
alexsasha collects $858.60

He doesn't like to fold 4-bets preflop:

EverestPoker Game #2926781564: Table Bamako-16 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 17:28:07 - 2008/03/06
Seat 1: alexsasha ($414.00)
Seat 2: laurent-59 ($384.00)
Seat 3: JackAdi ($501.80)
Seat 4: Kobayasi ($72.02)
Seat 5: BldZwtTrn ($521.40)
Seat 6: cerilloin ($465.50)
cerilloin posts the small blind of $2.00
alexsasha posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Ad Ac]
laurent-59 folds
JackAdi folds
Kobayasi folds
BldZwtTrn raises to $14.00
cerilloin folds
alexsasha raises to $44.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $110.00
alexsasha calls $66.00
*** FLOP *** [9s 5h 7c]
alexsasha checks
BldZwtTrn bets $140.00
alexsasha calls $140.00
*** TURN *** [9s 5h 7c] [6h]
alexsasha checks
BldZwtTrn bets $271.40 and is all-in
alexsasha calls $164.00 and is all-in
Uncalled bet of $107.40 returned to BldZwtTrn
*** SHOW DOWN ***
alexsasha shows [8h 9c]
BldZwtTrn shows [Ad Ac]
*** RIVER *** [9s 5h 7c 6h] [Td]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [9s 5h 7c 6h Td]
alexsasha collects $827.00

As said, he doesn't fold to 4-bets because he will hit anyhow against me...

EverestPoker Game #2920755700: Table Bamako-11 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 13:37:21 - 2008/03/05
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ($392.00)
Seat 2: TonySE ($410.00)
Seat 3: alexsasha ($733.70)
TonySE posts the small blind of $2.00
alexsasha posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[As Kc]
BldZwtTrn raises to $14.00
TonySE folds
alexsasha raises to $44.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $110.00
alexsasha calls $66.00
*** FLOP *** [Js Jd 7h]
alexsasha checks
BldZwtTrn bets $166.00
alexsasha raises to $332.00
BldZwtTrn calls $116.00 and is all-in
Uncalled bet of $50.00 returned to alexsasha
*** SHOW DOWN ***
alexsasha shows [7c 7d]
BldZwtTrn shows [As Kc]
*** TURN *** [Js Jd 7h] [5c]
*** RIVER *** [Js Jd 7h 5c] [Kd]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [Js Jd 7h 5c Kd]
alexsasha collects $785.00

This rivershove is pretty thin and he obviously has the nuts and needs to run his timebank down before calling....

EverestPoker Game #2915927039: Table Bamako-13 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 14:25:46 - 2008/03/04
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ($404.00)
Seat 3: Crovax83 ($46.00)
Seat 4: teamen ($448.00)
Seat 5: StR_Soli ($496.70)
Seat 6: alexsasha ($384.00)
alexsasha posts the small blind of $2.00
BldZwtTrn posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Tc Qh]
Crovax83 folds
teamen folds
StR_Soli folds
alexsasha raises to $8.00
BldZwtTrn calls $4.00
*** FLOP *** [Jh 8c As]
alexsasha bets $10.00
BldZwtTrn calls $10.00
*** TURN *** [Jh 8c As] [9s]
alexsasha bets $18.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $69.00
alexsasha calls $51.00
*** RIVER *** [Jh 8c As 9s] [5s]
alexsasha bets $108.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $317.00 and is all-in
alexsasha calls $189.00 and is all-in
Uncalled bet of $20.00 returned to BldZwtTrn
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn shows [Tc Qh]
alexsasha shows [Ks 3s]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [Jh 8c As 9s 5s]
alexsasha collects $766.00

So $25 to someone who can post a nice 1 outer or something against him in the comments :-)

Quick update

2008-02-22T13:33:00.002+01:00

It's 2 weeks since my last update, so time for a new one.
Not much happened though, still on target for my goal of 40 to 50 cent per hand this year (I'm on 42 cent so far this year).

Want to post one hand, which I played perfect given my read.
Key in this hand is that I know he donks mediocre hands and no draws as far as I know, so I can 'safely' check behind on the turn (he is drawing to 5 outs most likely) en valuebet the river.

EverestPoker Game #2857888444: Table Nassau-1 - $3.00/$6.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 11:11:49 - 2008/02/22
Seat 1: morpheo ($600.00)>> 25/17/3 (not a very good player, note: donks TPWK hands and calls raise)Seat 2: galley ($631.60)
Seat 3: DronpaUK ($912.27)
Seat 4: BRILLORM ($677.30)
Seat 5: BldZwtTrn ($948.11)
Seat 6: TAITAITAI ($116.10)
TAITAITAI posts the small blind of $3.00
morpheo posts the big blind of $6.00
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Qc Qh]
galley folds
DronpaUK folds
BRILLORM folds
BldZwtTrn raises to $21.00
TAITAITAI folds
morpheo calls $15.00
*** FLOP *** [3d 9h Th]
morpheo bets $30.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $99.00
morpheo calls $69.00
*** TURN *** [3d 9h Th] [Kd]
morpheo checks
BldZwtTrn checks
*** RIVER *** [3d 9h Th Kd] [3s]
morpheo checks
BldZwtTrn bets $160.00
morpheo calls $160.00
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn shows [Qc Qh]
morpheo mucks
UNKNOWN ACTION - GAME #2857888444 - Jd, 10d
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [3d 9h Th Kd 3s]
BldZwtTrn collects $560.00

Best midstakes players on Everest

2008-02-08T01:23:00.000+01:00

In the comments someone asked me the following question:

"Could you make a top 10 list over the most solid players fra N400-NL1000 at everest. Should include players that have been there for 4 months+
That could be super cool!"

As I like to make lists I'm gonna try to make a top5 of the players who I think are the most solid NL400/NL600 players (don't play NL1000 enough to rate those players).
When looking through my database of the last two months I noticed that there were only about 60 players with who I played more then 1000 hands....
And even with 1000 hands on somebody it's still very difficult to tell how good someone is. I also noticed that a lot of good players haven't been around the last two months as much as before.

So I'll select my top5 by the ~60 players I played the most the last two months.
So when you're not in the list it could mean two things...you're not good enough or you're avoiding me at the tables ;-)

1. Bigspender80 (24/21/6): Very tricky player, can mix his game very well and is not easy to read and very agressive. Haven't seen him for a while, but last month he seems to play more.

2. Sebboss (24/21/3): Good agressive player. Have seen him make some sick calls/plays, not easy to play against for sure.

3. cRaZyahm3D (20/17/6): Played the most hands by far against him the last two months. Maybe a bit too agressive, but definitely not nice to have him left of you.

4. Ze_Gnome (20/16/3): Plays a shitload of hands every month (100K+) and while he's not one of the best, he still is a lot better then most guys who play so much hands and he surely is one of the three biggest winners on NL400 ($$-wise).

5. Niwle (21/17/3): Another player with who've I played a lot of hands. Around for a very long time on NL400 and from what I've seen he's very decent and one of the very few players who I've never seen on tilt and thats a quality as well.

Kickstart

2008-02-04T14:00:00.000+01:00

February is starting great. Only played for 5 hours but I'm up over 10 buy-ins.

Posting one kind of interesting hand. It's probably a very standard hand, but the key point is that raising the flop here is not the best option. By calling this flop I'm repping JT+, 99+ and he has a hand like 44-88 (+bluff) almost always here.
The turn is a good card, not because I hit a pair, but because the chance of him having 44 is very small and when he checks I'm obviously bluffing him off his 66 or something. But he knows I'm playing AJ+/QQ+ exactly the same.

EverestPoker Game #2764878697: Table Nassau-0 - $3.00/$6.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 12:12:49 - 2008/02/04
Seat 1: merwin ($600.00)
Seat 2: koelitski ($594.00)
Seat 3: BldZwtTrn ($1,038.60)
Seat 5: Walkinwild ($1,665.65)
Seat 6: bifffeno ($663.00) -> 23/14/3 (5000 hands)
bifffeno posts the small blind of $3.00
koelitski posts the big blind of $6.00
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Ad 4d]
BldZwtTrn raises to $21.00
Walkinwild folds
bifffeno calls $18.00
koelitski folds
*** FLOP *** [Jh 3s 3c]
bifffeno checks
BldZwtTrn bets $39.00
bifffeno raises to $96.00
BldZwtTrn calls $57.00
*** TURN *** [Jh 3s 3c] [4h]
bifffeno checks
BldZwtTrn bets $160.00
bifffeno folds
Uncalled bet of $160.00 returned to BldZwtTrn
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn mucks
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [Jh 3s 3c 4h ]
BldZwtTrn collects $238.00

Still running good

2008-01-28T13:46:00.000+01:00

The past 10 days have been very good. I'm obviously running good but also playing and (important) table selecting good at the NL1000 tables.

I also had a nice discussion with Kaby (oo_kaby on Everest) on pokernews about my w$wsf percentage (which is around 42-43 usually). He pointed me on the fact that a w$wsf this low (he thinks 45+ is optimal) is a decent leak.
I'm aware of the fact that it could be higher with me and that I might miss a few +EV spots now and then, but I'm still not sure it's that easy to tell.
For instance, my Went to SD and Won $ At SD are pretty high (28 and 53 respectively).

Usually people with higher w$wsf percentages have lower Won at SD percentages (between 48-50). And one important thing that they might miss, is that pots at showdown are usually bigger then pots that don't go to showdown.
Offcourse it's very difficult to say what's optimal here, but having a w$wsf too high could mean that you don't give villian's the opportunity to bluff enough.

I would like to hear some other opinions (especially from Everest players NL400+) on this discussion. For those who missed the discussion....this is the link: http://nl.pokernews.com/poker-forum/topic46313/

Still runnig good (400/600/1000):

For all the PokerEV-lovers, here a game analysis graph for January. It's easy to see my downswing (red-line way above blue) and the following upswing.

Best weekend ever

2008-01-21T15:27:00.000+01:00

After a terrible week, I decided to play some during the weekend, especially during the night. It worked out pretty well and if games are always like this I might do it more. Just finished my first session of the day and I probably had the sickest run of cards in a long time. I won about 8 buy-ins in less then an hour.
Got aces 5 times and always there was action, no bad beats (maybe one) and so on.
Anyhow it's nice to recover from my biggest downswing in just 3 days.

Below a nice overview of the difference between running bad (5 weekdays) and running good (last 3 days).

Worst week ever.

2008-01-20T14:30:00.000+01:00

This week was by far my worst poker week ever, results wise.
I lost every single day, which is probaly also a record (losing 5 days in a row).
In total I lost 15 buy-ins (mostly on NL600). I also managed to lose money with QQ/KK/AA and AKs.....quite an accomplishment I would say.
The fun thing was that I lost most of my money to terrible players.

Hands like the one below are a good example. Villian is a terrible (but passive!!! player). I'm perfectly happy with how I played the hand, but I should fold to his river raise.

EverestPoker Game #2670357043: Table Harare-11 - $5.00/$10.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 12:01:04 - 2008/01/17
Seat 1: Djegum ($1,008.50)
Seat 2: BldZwtTrn ($1,282.00)
Seat 3: I_Destroy_U ($1,000.00)
Seat 4: rafael70 ($1,259.75)
Seat 5: Memorax ($1,604.00)
Seat 6: Noroc2U ($1,336.00)
Noroc2U posts the small blind of $5.00
Djegum posts the big blind of $10.00
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Js Ts]
BldZwtTrn raises to $35.00
I_Destroy_U folds
rafael70 calls $35.00
Memorax calls $35.00
Noroc2U folds
Djegum folds
*** FLOP *** [Jd Kh Tc]
BldZwtTrn bets $90.00
rafael70 calls $90.00
Memorax folds
*** TURN *** [Jd Kh Tc] [2c]
BldZwtTrn bets $256.00
rafael70 calls $256.00
*** RIVER *** [Jd Kh Tc 2c] [3h]
BldZwtTrn bets $450.00
rafael70 raises to $878.75 and is all-in
BldZwtTrn calls $428.75
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn shows [Js Ts]
rafael70 shows [Qs Ah]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [Jd Kh Tc 2c 3h]
rafael70 collects $2,566.50

This hand is almost the same as the hand before, and again it is against a calling station and I should fold to his river raise. Again betting for value on 3 streets is perfectly standard against those players, but I need to fold when they raise me on the river.

EverestPoker Game #2670676002: Table Harare-2 - $5.00/$10.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 13:28:57 - 2008/01/17
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ($1,030.00)
Seat 2: I_Destroy_U ($1,091.00)
Seat 3: salut_mec ($1,037.00)
Seat 4: merwin ($1,327.00)
Seat 5: tontondadou ($3,886.75)
Seat 6: ballegrep99 ($2,315.50)
ballegrep99 posts the small blind of $5.00
BldZwtTrn posts the big blind of $10.00
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Ah Kh]
I_Destroy_U folds
salut_mec folds
merwin folds
tontondadou calls $10.00
ballegrep99 folds
BldZwtTrn raises to $35.00
tontondadou calls $25.00
*** FLOP *** [Ad 6h 6s]
BldZwtTrn bets $60.00
tontondadou calls $60.00
*** TURN *** [Ad 6h 6s] [Qc]
BldZwtTrn bets $150.00
tontondadou calls $150.00
*** RIVER *** [Ad 6h 6s Qc] [2s]
BldZwtTrn bets $325.00
tontondadou raises to $650.00
BldZwtTrn calls $325.00
*** SHOW DOWN ***
tontondadou shows [Qh Ac]
BldZwtTrn mucks
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [Ad 6h 6s Qc 2s]
tontondadou collects $1,792.00

This is how you end up losing with AA....

EverestPoker Game #2664249613: Table Nassau-6 - $3.00/$6.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 01:13:05 - 2008/01/16
Seat 1: smokingjoep ($1,117.32)
Seat 2: ---DIO--- ($786.00)
Seat 3: BldZwtTrn ($970.95)
Seat 4: oo_kaby ($765.00)
Seat 5: MONAZ ($1,518.72)
Seat 6: minot ($730.26)
---DIO--- posts the small blind of $3.00
BldZwtTrn posts the big blind of $6.00
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[As Ac]
oo_kaby folds
MONAZ folds
minot folds
smokingjoep folds
---DIO--- raises to $18.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $60.00
---DIO--- raises to $180.00
BldZwtTrn calls $120.00
*** FLOP *** [5d 4c Ts]
---DIO--- bets $280.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $790.95 and is all-in
---DIO--- calls $326.00 and is all-in
Uncalled bet of $184.95 returned to BldZwtTrn
*** SHOW DOWN ***
---DIO--- shows [8h 6h]
BldZwtTrn shows [As Ac]
*** TURN *** [5d 4c Ts] [7s]
*** RIVER *** [5d 4c Ts 7s] [3d]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [5d 4c Ts 7s 3d]
---DIO--- collects $1,569.00

To recover a bit from my losses I decided to play some in the weekend and it was a good decision. I won about 11 buy-ins yesterday on NL400, so Im on my way back.

Stats freak

2008-01-11T11:59:00.000+01:00

I'm probably a bit of a stats freak, but as a poker player thats probably a good thing. Once in a while I look into my PT database and try to look at all my stats over a big sample. Which hands are losing, how do specific hands do it from the blinds? By looking at this I can see if I'm overplaying some hands, or maybe opening to much hands.
My last database currently consist of 141K hands (almost 3 months). I think it's still not enough, but it gives some idea of hands that are winning/losing.

Some facts from this database:

Pocket pairs:
- Winning with all of them (AA 5,85 BB/hand)/KK/TT/QQ/JJ most profitable in that order)
- Most dealt (EV=~642 times) JJ -> 698 times
- Less dealt AA -> 565 times (as you can see there is still a huge difference here)

Suited connectors:
- Winning all playable hands 65s+ (AKs, KQs, JTs, 98s most profitable)
- Most dealt 54s(EV=~427 times) -> 441 times
- Less dealt KQs -> 398 times

Broadway hands not suited (JT+):
- Only losing with QTo (-0,01 BB hand), so not really losing, because it's better then nog playing the hand at all.
- Most profitable are AKo (1,22 BB/hand), AQo and AJo
- Most dealt (EV=~1298) KTo -> 1,373 times
- Less dealt KQo -> 1,251

Broadway hands suited:
- Losing with AJs (-0,08 BB/hand) and ATs (-0,11 BB/hand)
- Most profitable AKs (1,90 BB/hand), AQs and KJs
- Most dealt ATs -> 450 times
- Less dealt AQs -> 391 times

Suited aces:
- Losing with AJs,ATs and A7s (-0,18 BB/hand)

All hands:

When you look at how much you win/lose with hands it's not necesseraly bad when losing with a hand. Because when not playing the hand at all, you also lose a certain amount. For example 72o lost 0,15 BB per hand. So basically when I lose more then that I'm playing that hand unprofitabla for sure.

So which hands them I'm playing regularly (> 25% VPIP) are losing more then 0,15 BB/Hand....

K7s -0,16 BB/hand -> VPIP 25%
A7s -0,18 BB/hand -> VPIP 74%
J8s -0,18 BB/hand -> VPIP 35%
K8s -0,28 BB/hand -> VPIP 27%
86s -0,29 BB/hand -> VPIP 45%
J9s -0,38 BB/hand -> VPIP 57%
64s -0,39 BB/hand -> VPIP 35%
97s -0,48 BB/hand -> VPIP 69%

So as a conclusion I can say that I'm probably overplaying 97s (my favorite hand lol) and J9s a litte bit too much. But overall I'm pretty happy with those stats, as there are no real big losers.

This month:
Already played 20K hands which is good and I'm playing really well and I'm up almost $0,60 cent a hand and I'm aiming for $0,40 - $0,50 this year so running above expectation so far.

Ace high baby

2008-01-08T14:13:00.000+01:00

Hands like the one showed below always feel nice, but especially when it's the very first hand at the table. So I didn't know the player and could only use my pattern mapper and timing tells (instant pot bet the river for example).
Offcourse this board texture is probably the best possible to make a call like this and as I have the Ace of hearts its very unlikely he has a bigger ace.

EverestPoker Game #2619097835: Table Nassau-1 - $3.00/$6.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 15:42:57 - 2008/01/07
Seat 1: blackschole ($494.38)
Seat 2: tygKen ($552.90)
Seat 3: StAr-K ($414.10)
Seat 5: BldZwtTrn ($600.00)
Seat 6: I_Destroy_U ($901.40)
StAr-K posts the small blind of $3.00
BldZwtTrn posts the big blind of $6.00
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[7h Ah]
I_Destroy_U folds
blackschole folds
tygKen folds
StAr-K calls $3.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $18.00
StAr-K calls $12.00
*** FLOP *** [6h 9h 6d]
StAr-K checks
BldZwtTrn bets $27.00
StAr-K calls $27.00
*** TURN *** [6h 9h 6d] [Qd]
StAr-K checks
BldZwtTrn bets $60.00
StAr-K calls $60.00
*** RIVER *** [6h 9h 6d Qd] [3c]
StAr-K bets $210.00
BldZwtTrn calls $210.00
*** SHOW DOWN ***
StAr-K shows [Th Kd]
BldZwtTrn shows [7h Ah]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [6h 9h 6d Qd 3c]
BldZwtTrn collects $628.00

Thinking about your game

2008-01-05T16:39:00.000+01:00

To improve as a poker player it's important to look critical your game from time to time.
It helps to read articles and watch video's from other players, who may have an other view on certain situations.
When playing as much as I do, I notice that I'm sometimes playing as a machine. The positive side of this is that I never tilt, but the downside is that I play some hands/situations the same too often.

A few days ago a read an article on 2+2 (could not find it back), but one thing in this article was about 'upfront' and 'backdoor' agression. It really opened my eyes a little, because a lot of the good players (including me) know how to use upfront agression (continuation betting, double barrel, triple barrel and so on), but using backdoor agression in a good way is a lot more difficult, but makes you so much tougher to play against.

Backdoor agression is about check-raising flops/turn/river when you are the pre-flop agressor. It's also about leading into the raiser (AKA donk betting). I think when your capable of balancing this agression into your game with strong/mediocre and (semi)- bluff hands it really makes you a bigger winner in most games and also a lot tougher to play against.

Triple barrel gone wrong

Finally I like to show a triple barrel that went wrong in a HU game against a pretty good player (his stats were 49/40/3 or something like that) and he views me as a good, but tight player (my HU stats are 38/34/3).

This hand made me think about 3-barreling ranges. On the river I'm about 100% sure that his best possible hand on this board is QT (AT would have been re-raised pre-flop and 2-pair+ would have bet the river/turn).
On the other hand he knows that the king on the turn is a perfect second barrel card for me and when I bet the river he probably knows I have 2pair+ or nothing here, because a lot of the time a hand like AK would check behind on turn or river.

I'm not sure if I like his call here so much, because I could be bluffing with better hands here, but it made me think of why it's so important to value bet thin against players like this. It not only makes you tougher to play, but it also makes your range a lot wider then just top2 or nothing when betting 3 streets.

EverestPoker Game #2604287733: Table Luanda-1 - $3.00/$6.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 19:58:05 - 2008/01/04
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ($1,706.00)
Seat 2: tagomaga ($881.00)
BldZwtTrn posts the small blind of $3.00
tagomaga posts the big blind of $6.00
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Qh Jd]
BldZwtTrn raises to $18.00
tagomaga calls $12.00
*** FLOP *** [Ts 2d 6c]
tagomaga checks
BldZwtTrn bets $27.00
tagomaga calls $27.00
*** TURN *** [Ts 2d 6c] [Kc]
tagomaga checks
BldZwtTrn bets $69.00
tagomaga calls $69.00
*** RIVER *** [Ts 2d 6c Kc] [8s]
tagomaga checks
BldZwtTrn bets $164.00
tagomaga calls $164.00
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn shows [Qh Jd]
tagomaga shows [6h 5c]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [Ts 2d 6c Kc 8s]
tagomaga collects $555.00

Final 2007 update

2007-12-31T14:05:00.000+01:00

First of all, sorry for the lack of updates recently, but I hope to compensate it with this somewhat longer then normal update.
I was kind of poker tired, so I just spend my poker time into effective playing hours.

2007
In 2007 I managed to put in 1314 poker hours, which is about 110 hours a month. I know it doesnt sound much (normal job here is about 168 hours a month), but I found out that it's not good for my game and health to play 8 hours every day.

So looking back at my goals in the beginning of the year I did not manage to play 1 million hands (my guess is around 750K hands), but I managed to reach my earned money goal with a very wide margin (goal was $120,000).

The best thing about this year was that my monthly income was very stable, better then I ever would have expected. All my months were $12K+ and my worst month was exactly half of my best month....so do some calculations and you know the 2007 results. I know people would like to see a year graph, but I have 5 PT databases so making one graph would cost me some photoshop time and it's probably a very boring (but nice) upwards sloping line.

2008

I would love to put some goals here for 2008, but I'll have to say that I'm not exactly sure what they will be. I don't know if I'm capable of putting another 100 hours a month of grinding NL400/NL600/NL1000. I'm now at a point were I could take the step from medium stakes to the higer stakes (NL1000+), but it's not just a small change in games. I should change my schedule for example, or play on different sites.
I know a lot of players get a kick from competing with the best and are action junkies, but I'm different in that.
Offcourse I like to play with good/better players some of the time, because it makes the game so much more interesting, but I'm not really an 'ego' player who always wants be the best and outplay others.

This was it for now, hope to update my blog more recently in the new year.
Finally I want to thank everybody for reading and wish everyone a happy new year.

Playing a flushdraw againt a donk.....

EverestPoker Game #2564351381: Table Bamako-0 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 15:36:06 - 2007/12/27
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ($440.10)
Seat 2: luckystrike1 ($1,475.54)
Seat 3: I_Destroy_U ($374.00)
Seat 4: Garuda72 ($607.80)
Seat 5: tristan217 ($240.00)
Seat 6: kaminari ($459.90)
kaminari posts the small blind of $2.00
BldZwtTrn posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[9c Ac]
luckystrike1 raises to $8.00
I_Destroy_U folds
Garuda72 folds
kaminari folds
BldZwtTrn calls $4.00
*** FLOP *** [Th 7c Kc]
BldZwtTrn bets $12.00
luckystrike1 raises to $24.00
BldZwtTrn calls $12.00
*** TURN *** [Th 7c Kc] [9d]
BldZwtTrn bets $14.00
luckystrike1 raises to $28.00
BldZwtTrn calls $14.00
*** RIVER *** [Th 7c Kc 9d] [2c]
BldZwtTrn bets $380.10 and is all-in
luckystrike1 calls $380.10
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn shows [9c Ac]
luckystrike1 shows [Kd Td]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [Th 7c Kc 9d 2c]
BldZwtTrn collects $880.20

Time for a break....

2007-12-14T09:26:00.000+01:00

I have been playing 4 months now without any significant break.
So it's time for a short one, below a graph of my last 2 months of playing, can't complain.

LOL

2007-12-07T16:35:00.000+01:00

Hands like this make me laugh, because guys like this pay my food/car/house at the end of the day ;-)

EverestPoker Game #2473889818: Table Bamako-0 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 10:18:04 - 2007/12/07
Seat 1: Common ($455.95)
Seat 2: BldZwtTrn ($473.00)
Seat 3: COCOWAGRAM ($1,211.30)
Seat 5: Mux100 ($305.90)
Seat 6: Fifty_outzz ($1,016.80)
Mux100 posts the small blind of $2.00
Common posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Qd Ah]
BldZwtTrn raises to $14.00
COCOWAGRAM calls $14.00
Mux100 folds
Common folds
*** FLOP *** [6c As Ad]
BldZwtTrn bets $24.00
COCOWAGRAM raises to $106.00
BldZwtTrn calls $82.00
*** TURN *** [6c As Ad] [7d]
BldZwtTrn checks
COCOWAGRAM bets $246.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $353.00 and is all-in
COCOWAGRAM calls $107.00
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn shows [Qd Ah]
COCOWAGRAM shows [9h Th]
*** RIVER *** [6c As Ad 7d] [8c]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [6c As Ad 7d 8c]
COCOWAGRAM collects $950.00

Swingy start of the month

2007-12-06T12:31:00.000+01:00

December has started kind of swingy. Had one session where I lost over 7 buy-ins in less then 2 hours. During this period I didn't win one single pot bigger then 75BB and lost money with all my big pairs.... Im still up over $5K so not much to worry.
Don't have time for to analyse hands, so I'm just posting some fun ones.

Hand against a regular who has a tilt problem...

EverestPoker Game #2464817165: Table Bamako-13 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 10:21:51 - 2007/12/05
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ($472.75)
Seat 2: 12345mat ($21.20)
Seat 3: Drainlife ($419.45)
Seat 4: marc067 ($449.00)
Seat 5: morpheo ($524.60)
Seat 6: auxerrebest ($346.45)
BldZwtTrn posts the small blind of $2.00
12345mat posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Ah Qh]
Drainlife folds
marc067 folds
morpheo raises to $14.00
auxerrebest folds
BldZwtTrn raises to $46.00
12345mat folds
morpheo calls $32.00
*** FLOP *** [7d 4d Jh]
BldZwtTrn bets $70.00
morpheo calls $70.00
*** TURN *** [7d 4d Jh] [Ac]
BldZwtTrn checks
morpheo bets $94.00
BldZwtTrn calls $94.00
*** RIVER *** [7d 4d Jh Ac] [8c]
BldZwtTrn checks
morpheo bets $314.60 and is all-in
BldZwtTrn calls $262.75 and is all-in
Uncalled bet of $51.85 returned to morpheo
*** SHOW DOWN ***
morpheo shows [5s 3s]
BldZwtTrn shows [Ah Qh]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [7d 4d Jh Ac 8c]
BldZwtTrn collects $946.50

He snapcalled my raise on the turn...

EverestPoker Game #2469267163: Table Bamako-2 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 09:10:15 - 2007/12/06
Seat 2: BldZwtTrn ($758.30)
Seat 3: rico92200 ($264.70)
Seat 4: 81blackcat81 ($212.00)
Seat 5: Bandarjudi ($99.40)
Bandarjudi posts the small blind of $2.00
BldZwtTrn posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[4c 5c]
rico92200 raises to $14.00
81blackcat81 calls $14.00
Bandarjudi folds
BldZwtTrn calls $10.00
*** FLOP *** [Kc 7d 6h]
BldZwtTrn checks
rico92200 bets $34.00
81blackcat81 calls $34.00
BldZwtTrn calls $34.00
*** TURN *** [Kc 7d 6h] [Qc]
BldZwtTrn checks
rico92200 checks
81blackcat81 bets $50.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $200.00
rico92200 folds
81blackcat81 calls $114.00 and is all-in
Uncalled bet of $36.00 returned to BldZwtTrn
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn shows [4c 5c]
81blackcat81 shows [5h 4h]
*** RIVER *** [Kc 7d 6h Qc] [As]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [Kc 7d 6h Qc As]
BldZwtTrn collects $236.00
81blackcat81 collects $236.00

Nice flop call with....

EverestPoker Game #2469263630: Table Bamako-3 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 09:07:53 - 2007/12/06
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ($653.80)
Seat 2: jaketkeine ($90.00)
Seat 3: PALKO ($460.60)
Seat 5: johnlaw ($410.00)
Seat 6: teo1970 ($74.00)
BldZwtTrn posts the small blind of $2.00
jaketkeine posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Kc Ks]
PALKO folds
johnlaw calls $4.00
teo1970 folds
BldZwtTrn raises to $16.00
jaketkeine folds
johnlaw calls $12.00
*** FLOP *** [2c 5s Ts]
BldZwtTrn bets $26.00
johnlaw calls $26.00
*** TURN *** [2c 5s Ts] [8d]
BldZwtTrn bets $75.00
johnlaw calls $75.00
*** RIVER *** [2c 5s Ts 8d] [Qd]
BldZwtTrn checks
johnlaw bets $238.00
BldZwtTrn calls $238.00
*** SHOW DOWN ***
johnlaw shows [Qc 8c]
BldZwtTrn mucks
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [2c 5s Ts 8d Qd]
johnlaw collects $712.00

Monthly salary in 5 minutes....

2007-11-30T12:37:00.000+01:00

....thanks to some donk on tilt....
Just finished a nice session with 2 NL1000 tables. On both tables 2 incredible donks were sitting, who probably had been quite lucky, cause one of them build his stack up to $5K. But as usual when this happens, the table fills up with regulars.
So we were sitting with 4 tough players, 1 shortstack and the donk (70/13/2). Luckily I had position on all regulars and had the donk to my left.

The hands below are his last 3 pots, which took place in less then 5 minutes....
Obviously AQs in the last hand is the nuts at that moment with a donk on complete tilt.

EverestPoker Game #2441525890: Table Harare-4 - $5.00/$10.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 11:27:41 - 2007/11/30
Seat 1: BigSpender80 ($1,000.00)
Seat 2: Lebr0nJames ($2,760.50)
Seat 3: BldZwtTrn ($1,807.00)
Seat 4: flolap1 ($3,505.50) -> 70/12/2
Seat 5: antoniodlc ($86.00)
Seat 6: erikzamboer ($1,492.00)
erikzamboer posts the small blind of $5.00
BigSpender80 posts the big blind of $10.00
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Kc Kd]
Lebr0nJames raises to $35.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $120.00
flolap1 calls $120.00
antoniodlc calls $86.00 and is all-in
erikzamboer folds
BigSpender80 folds
Lebr0nJames calls $85.00
*** FLOP *** [9s Ts 6d]
Lebr0nJames checks
BldZwtTrn bets $380.00
flolap1 calls $380.00
Lebr0nJames folds
*** TURN *** [9s Ts 6d] [4c]
BldZwtTrn bets $1,000.00
flolap1 raises to $3,005.50 and is all-in
BldZwtTrn calls $307.00 and is all-in
Uncalled bet of $1,698.50 returned to flolap1
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn shows [Kc Kd]
flolap1 shows [Jh Tc]
antoniodlc shows [Qd Ad]
*** RIVER *** [9s Ts 6d 4c] [8c]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [9s Ts 6d 4c 8c]
BldZwtTrn collects $359.00
BldZwtTrn collects $3,473.00

EverestPoker Game #2441531380: Table Harare-4 - $5.00/$10.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 11:29:48 - 2007/11/30
Seat 1: BigSpender80 ($985.00)
Seat 2: Lebr0nJames ($2,640.50)
Seat 3: BldZwtTrn ($3,752.00)
Seat 4: flolap1 ($1,780.50)
Seat 5: antoniodlc ($100.00)
Seat 6: erikzamboer ($1,487.00)
BldZwtTrn posts the small blind of $5.00
flolap1 posts the big blind of $10.00
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[9s Qs]
antoniodlc folds
erikzamboer folds
BigSpender80 raises to $35.00
Lebr0nJames folds
BldZwtTrn calls $30.00
flolap1 raises to $140.00
BigSpender80 calls $105.00
BldZwtTrn folds
*** FLOP *** [Kd 7d Qc]
flolap1 bets $315.00
BigSpender80 raises to $845.00 and is all-in
flolap1 raises to $1,640.50 and is all-in
Uncalled bet of $795.50 returned to flolap1
*** SHOW DOWN ***
flolap1 shows [Kc Ah]
BigSpender80 shows [7h 7s]
*** TURN *** [Kd 7d Qc] [As]
*** RIVER *** [Kd 7d Qc As] [Js]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [Kd 7d Qc As Js]
BigSpender80 collects $2,002.00

EverestPoker Game #2441535592: Table Harare-4 - $5.00/$10.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 11:31:24 - 2007/11/30
Seat 1: BigSpender80 ($1,967.00)
Seat 2: Lebr0nJames ($2,640.50)
Seat 3: BldZwtTrn ($3,717.00)
Seat 4: flolap1 ($861.50)
Seat 5: Aasisdebaas ($1,000.00)
Seat 6: erikzamboer ($1,452.00)
BigSpender80 posts the small blind of $5.00
Lebr0nJames posts the big blind of $10.00
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Qd Ad]
BldZwtTrn raises to $35.00
flolap1 raises to $120.00
erikzamboer folds
BigSpender80 folds
Lebr0nJames folds
BldZwtTrn raises to $375.00
flolap1 raises to $861.50 and is all-in
BldZwtTrn calls $486.50
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn shows [Qd Ad]
flolap1 shows [5h 4c]
*** FLOP *** [Js Td Qh]
*** TURN *** [Js Td Qh] [2c]
*** RIVER *** [Js Td Qh 2c] [2s]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [Js Td Qh 2c 2s]
BldZwtTrn collects $1,736.00

Results + I'm a nit part 2

2007-11-29T22:07:00.000+01:00

First the the results of the previous hand.
One of the reasons I folded was because of the player left after me, but after thinking it through he probably never checks turn and river with a better hand then mine. As far as raminator goes I put him on JJ/QQ or a missed draw and as he's not that agressive normally, folding isn't that bad.

BldZwtTrn folds
ChiocCiola1 folds
Uncalled bet of $445.00 returned to raminator
*** SHOW DOWN ***
raminator shows [Qs As]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [Tc 8c 2s 5s 6d]
raminator collects $444.00

This is a hand I played today. Somehow I had a feeling after his check on the flop (timing of his check) that he hit this flop hard. Normally I would never fold here against a player like him, but somehow I almost folded without much thought and showed my aces and he was kind enough to show his set of sevens...

EverestPoker Game #2437413145: Table Bamako-10 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 13:49:48 - 2007/11/29
Seat 1: Spirit4me ($36.00)
Seat 2: Aasisdebaas ($518.81)
Seat 3: ugaztu ($168.95)
Seat 4: BldZwtTrn ($576.50)
Seat 5: tikitpapourl ($494.10)
Seat 6: Superuser363 ($656.00)-> 26/23/3
Superuser363 posts the small blind of $2.00
Spirit4me posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[As Ah]
Aasisdebaas folds
ugaztu calls $4.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $18.00
tikitpapourl folds
Superuser363 calls $16.00
Spirit4me folds
ugaztu calls $14.00
*** FLOP *** [6d Tc 7d]
Superuser363 checks
ugaztu checks
BldZwtTrn bets $44.00
Superuser363 raises to $155.00
ugaztu folds
BldZwtTrn folds
Uncalled bet of $111.00 returned to Superuser363
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Superuser363 shows [7c 7h]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [6d Tc 7d ]
Superuser363 collects $143.00

November update

2007-11-27T14:06:00.000+01:00

I havent been playing so much this month (about 43K hands so far), but the results are a little bit above average. Even though my MT-ratio dropped below 6 (had it around 7 for a while), my hourly rate increased to about $175 the last 3 months. So I'm happy with that.
On to an interesting hand, I'm curious if people would call here on the river...

EverestPoker Game #2426229946: Table Nassau-3 - $3.00/$6.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:21:07 - 2007/11/26
Seat 1: lolalola ($573.00)
Seat 2: BldZwtTrn ($1,277.05)
Seat 3: ChiocCiola1 ($1,824.20) -> 22/16/2
Seat 4: W.BLAKE ($491.15)
Seat 5: raminator ($591.00) -> 20/15/2.5
Seat 6: MADSAM ($604.35)
MADSAM posts the small blind of $3.00
lolalola posts the big blind of $6.00
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Td Ad]
BldZwtTrn raises to $21.00
ChiocCiola1 raises to $47.00
W.BLAKE folds
raminator calls $47.00
MADSAM folds
lolalola folds
BldZwtTrn calls $26.00
*** FLOP *** [Tc 8c 2s]
BldZwtTrn checks
ChiocCiola1 checks
raminator checks
*** TURN *** [Tc 8c 2s] [5s]
BldZwtTrn bets $99.00
ChiocCiola1 calls $99.00
raminator calls $99.00
*** RIVER *** [Tc 8c 2s 5s] [6d]
BldZwtTrn checks
ChiocCiola1 checks
raminator bets $445.00 and is all-in
BldZwtTrn ???

I'm a nit...

2007-11-22T09:35:00.000+01:00

In the hand below I almost folded the flop with top 2. But I decided to call and see a turn (I had 4 outs at least...). It also clearly shows why it's wrong to play like he does. His range is so small here, that it's very easy to put him on 22.
For example if he raises pre-flop and I decide to call here in the BB with AJo (which is not a very good play, by the way) I'm probably stacking off here like 90% of the time.
So I folded the turn and showed and from his chat afterwards, I think I was right here, although you never can be sure offcourse.

EverestPoker Game #2394802854: Table Bamako-12 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 15:17:31 - 2007/11/20
Seat 1: cmaarten ($513.20) >> 16/8/2 (170 hands)
Seat 2: NellyAachen ($522.50)
Seat 3: fjutsie ($394.00)
Seat 4: jatekos ($74.40)
Seat 5: BldZwtTrn ($400.00)
Seat 6: merwin ($580.40)
jatekos posts the small blind of $2.00
BldZwtTrn posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Ac Jd]
merwin folds
cmaarten calls $4.00
NellyAachen folds
fjutsie folds
jatekos calls $2.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $16.00
cmaarten calls $12.00
jatekos folds
*** FLOP *** [Jc 2s As]
BldZwtTrn bets $27.00
cmaarten raises to $72.00
BldZwtTrn calls $45.00
*** TURN *** [Jc 2s As] [9d]
BldZwtTrn checks
cmaarten bets $140.00
BldZwtTrn folds
Uncalled bet of $140.00 returned to cmaarten
*** SHOW DOWN ***
cmaarten mucks
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [Jc 2s As 9d ]
cmaarten collects $177.00

Strange HU hand

2007-11-19T18:45:00.000+01:00

This hand I played against a very agressive and crazy swede.
He's not a donk, but takes some very weird lines all the time and is capable of big bluffs and calls. He also likes to take down every (big) pot, especially HU.
For example, he will always bluff the river when he has no showdown value.

EverestPoker Game #2372955075: Table Nassau-6 - $3.00/$6.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:54:49 - 2007/11/15
Seat 5: BldZwtTrn ($661.90)
Seat 6: Cheeseman87 ($600.00)
BldZwtTrn posts the small blind of $3.00
Cheeseman87 posts the big blind of $6.00
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Ks Jh]
BldZwtTrn raises to $18.00
Cheeseman87 raises to $60.00
BldZwtTrn calls $42.00

He is very agressive pre-flop (close to 55/46/3 or something, HU offcourse), so folding KJo with position is not really an option. He re-raises worse kings/jacks here.

*** FLOP *** [4d 5c Jc]
Cheeseman87 checks
BldZwtTrn checks

His check on this flop suprised me a little, because he likes to c-bet a lot of flops. I've seen him do this before with a mediocre hand, so I'm checking behind, he bets a draw/strong hand/air almost always here.

*** TURN *** [4d 5c Jc] [9c]
Cheeseman87 bets $90.00
BldZwtTrn calls $90.00

Im not sure if I played this turn correct here. Because raising is a good option as well here, especially since he is capable of calling a raise with worse then my hand.

*** RIVER *** [4d 5c Jc 9c] [As]
Cheeseman87 bets $145.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $511.90 and is all-in
Cheeseman87 calls $305.00 and is all-in

It didn't suprise me that he was betting this river. But it looked like a bluff or value bet with an ace to me, so I decided to push him off his one pair hand.
I was pretty sure he didn't have a flush/trips, but something like AT at best.

*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn shows [Ks Jh]
Cheeseman87 shows [Tc Ts]

Offcourse I was kind of suprised by his call here, but in retrospect, he probably thinks/knows that I never have a flush/trips here and that I'm probaly calling with my TP/2pair hands and not turn them into a bluff on the river, so then it must be a bluff to him (KcQx for example).

*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [4d 5c Jc 9c As]
BldZwtTrn collects $1,199.00

I know some other players played against this guy as well and like to hear some opinions on turn/river play.

Ouch....

2007-11-15T18:53:00.000+01:00

EverestPoker Game #2369901016: Table Bamako-0 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 14:22:43 - 2007/11/15
Seat 1: OBups ($1,427.28)
Seat 3: ducleboss ($720.40)
Seat 4: BldZwtTrn ($548.40)
Seat 5: Djegum ($404.00)
Seat 6: Sacre94 ($400.00)
OBups posts the small blind of $2.00
ducleboss posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Kc Kd]
BldZwtTrn raises to $14.00
Djegum folds
Sacre94 raises to $48.00
OBups calls $46.00
ducleboss folds
BldZwtTrn raises to $160.00
Sacre94 calls $112.00
OBups folds
*** FLOP *** [Ts Th Qs]
BldZwtTrn checks
Sacre94 checks
*** TURN *** [Ts Th Qs] [Kh]
BldZwtTrn checks
Sacre94 bets $120.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $388.40 and is all-in
Sacre94 calls $120.00 and is all-in
Uncalled bet of $148.40 returned to BldZwtTrn
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn shows [Kc Kd]
Sacre94 shows [Td Tc]
*** RIVER *** [Ts Th Qs Kh] [5c]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [Ts Th Qs Kh 5c]
Sacre94 collects $850.00

FPS-machines

2007-11-12T17:51:00.000+01:00

Lately there a lot more players who try to play a more LAGgy style instead of the standard 20/17/3 TAG style. Some can do this profitable, but most are just not good enough and would make a lot more just by playing kind of straight forward.
But I love those FPS machines with stats of 29/28/6 who try to outplay you every hand and call down way to light.

One example is the player in the hands below, his stats are close to 31/30/6 and he is a player who doesn't want to give up easily and calls down way too light.

Doesn't want a split pot here...
EverestPoker Game #2356052464: Table Bamako-16 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 16:03:06 - 2007/11/12
Seat 2: HELVILD ($386.10)
Seat 3: Roelfs ($511.60)
Seat 4: BldZwtTrn ($559.60)
BldZwtTrn posts the small blind of $2.00
HELVILD posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Td Kd]
Roelfs raises to $14.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $48.00
HELVILD folds
Roelfs calls $34.00
*** FLOP *** [3h 9c 4c]
BldZwtTrn bets $74.00
Roelfs calls $74.00
*** TURN *** [3h 9c 4c] [Ah]
BldZwtTrn bets $160.00
Roelfs raises to $389.60 and is all-in
BldZwtTrn folds
Uncalled bet of $229.60 returned to Roelfs
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Roelfs shows [Kh Ts]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [3h 9c 4c Ah ]
Roelfs collects $567.00

Put me on a pure bluff obviously....
EverestPoker Game #2356177375: Table Bamako-16 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 16:28:11 - 2007/11/12
Seat 1: Adventurer ($443.00)
Seat 2: HELVILD ($317.10)
Seat 3: Roelfs ($588.30)
Seat 4: BldZwtTrn ($476.50)
Seat 5: HeatBlood ($398.00)
Seat 6: dag1981 ($40.00)
Adventurer posts the small blind of $2.00
HELVILD posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[3s 3c]
Roelfs raises to $14.00
BldZwtTrn calls $14.00
HeatBlood calls $14.00
dag1981 folds
Adventurer folds
HELVILD folds
*** FLOP *** [3h Jc As]
Roelfs bets $48.00
BldZwtTrn calls $48.00
HeatBlood folds
*** TURN *** [3h Jc As] [Kh]
Roelfs checks
BldZwtTrn bets $90.00
Roelfs calls $90.00
*** RIVER *** [3h Jc As Kh] [Qc]
Roelfs checks
BldZwtTrn bets $324.50 and is all-in
Roelfs calls $324.50
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn shows [3s 3c]
Roelfs shows [Ac Jd]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [3h Jc As Kh Qc]
BldZwtTrn collects $970.00

Standard?!
EverestPoker Game #2356185601: Table Bamako-15 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 16:29:45 - 2007/11/12
Seat 4: BldZwtTrn ($557.60)
Seat 6: Roelfs ($593.50)
Roelfs posts the small blind of $2.00
BldZwtTrn posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Ac Qh]
Roelfs raises to $12.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $40.00
Roelfs raises to $120.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $557.60 and is all-in
Roelfs calls $437.60
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn shows [Ac Qh]
Roelfs shows [As Jd]
*** FLOP *** [6h 9c 8d]
*** TURN *** [6h 9c 8d] [7c]
*** RIVER *** [6h 9c 8d 7c] [Qc]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [6h 9c 8d 7c Qc]
BldZwtTrn collects $1,114.20

Haven't played that much in November, but the hours I played were very good.

Monsterdraw 200BB+ deep

2007-11-09T18:05:00.000+01:00

This a hand against a player with which I played the most hands the last few months. We've played somewhere around 15K hands against each other in 2 months.
When making a bluff it's very important to know your opponent (and that your opponent knows you!) and take a line that you would take with strong hands as well.
The hand below is a good example:

EverestPoker Game #2334824004: Table Bamako-2 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 12:07:10 - 2007/11/08
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ($1,556.90)
Seat 2: RiverRider ($818.95)
Seat 3: JopieMan ($866.15) -> 19/15/3.5 (10K+ hands)
Seat 4: KvGalen ($433.00)
Seat 5: pokerude ($401.90)
Seat 6: alterwirt ($439.50)
BldZwtTrn posts the small blind of $2.00
RiverRider posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[8s 7s]
JopieMan raises to $14.00
KvGalen folds
pokerude calls $14.00
alterwirt folds
BldZwtTrn calls $12.00

Calling and raising are both good options here. I decided to call.

RiverRider calls $10.00
*** FLOP *** [4s 5s 7d]
BldZwtTrn bets $40.00

This is offcourse a monster flop for me. And I'm happy to get in on this flop. I decide to bet out. Check-raising is an option here as well, but I don't think he is stacking off here for 200BB with an overpair, so I think there is more value in betting then CRing.

RiverRider folds
JopieMan calls $40.00

He just calls, so I'm pretty sure he has a one pair hand, most likely 88-AA. With AA/KK a little bit more unlikely cause he would raise them a lot of the time.

pokerude folds
*** TURN *** [4s 5s 7d] [2h]
BldZwtTrn bets $90.00

As I'm very sure that my hand is not the best here, I have to bet again. I'm basically repping a set now.

JopieMan calls $90.00

He calls again and I now think his range is probably a lit bit more skewed towards TT-QQ.

*** RIVER *** [4s 5s 7d 2h] [Qh]
BldZwtTrn bets $200.00

This is a perfect river card for me. When betting here, I expect him to fold everything in his range except QQ offcourse, because I'm pretty sure he's putting me on a set here.

JopieMan folds

After a while he folds, asking me if I had 44 telling me he had AA.

Uncalled bet of $200.00 returned to BldZwtTrn
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn mucks
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [4s 5s 7d 2h Qh]
BldZwtTrn collects $313.00

Overagressive HU donkey

2007-11-03T18:18:00.000+01:00

Today I played a HU game on NL600 against a complete donkey (74/61/3), but an agressive one.
He raised every hand on the button and almost never folded to re-raises. This is offcourse very expoitable, but when you're complety card dead and never get big hands pre-flop it can be very frustrating to play against. We played for about an hour and I won about $1000 off him, but it was a rollercoaster ride to get it.

The final 2 hands:

EverestPoker Game #2311229879: Table Luanda-1 - $3.00/$6.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 17:17:08 - 2007/11/03
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ($1,223.00)
Seat 2: siciliano75 ($1,550.90)
BldZwtTrn posts the small blind of $3.00
siciliano75 posts the big blind of $6.00
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Td Kd]
BldZwtTrn raises to $18.00
siciliano75 raises to $54.00
BldZwtTrn calls $36.00
*** FLOP *** [Tc 8c Th]
siciliano75 checks
BldZwtTrn bets $70.00
siciliano75 raises to $318.00
BldZwtTrn calls $248.00
*** TURN *** [Tc 8c Th] [9d]
siciliano75 bets $744.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $851.00 and is all-in
siciliano75 calls $107.00
*** SHOW DOWN ***
siciliano75 shows [8s As]
BldZwtTrn shows [Td Kd]
*** RIVER *** [Tc 8c Th 9d] [8h]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [Tc 8c Th 9d 8h]
BldZwtTrn collects $2,445.00

EverestPoker Game #2311233349: Table Luanda-1 - $3.00/$6.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 17:17:46 - 2007/11/03
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ($2,445.00)
Seat 2: siciliano75 ($327.90)
siciliano75 posts the small blind of $3.00
BldZwtTrn posts the big blind of $6.00
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[5h Kh]
siciliano75 raises to $18.00
BldZwtTrn calls $12.00
*** FLOP *** [8s Th 4h]
BldZwtTrn checks
siciliano75 bets $36.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $125.00
siciliano75 calls $89.00
*** TURN *** [8s Th 4h] [Kd]
BldZwtTrn checks
siciliano75 bets $184.90 and is all-in
BldZwtTrn calls $184.90
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn shows [5h Kh]
siciliano75 shows [Ac 9d]
*** RIVER *** [8s Th 4h Kd] [2d]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [8s Th 4h Kd 2d]
BldZwtTrn collects $654.80

Looks like a tough call, but was a snapcall vs him.

EverestPoker Game #2311075353: Table Luanda-1 - $3.00/$6.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 16:48:19 - 2007/11/03
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ($808.00)
Seat 2: siciliano75 ($1,080.90)
siciliano75 posts the small blind of $3.00
BldZwtTrn posts the big blind of $6.00
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Th Tc]
siciliano75 raises to $18.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $60.00
siciliano75 calls $42.00
*** FLOP *** [4c Qd 5c]
BldZwtTrn bets $80.00
siciliano75 calls $80.00
*** TURN *** [4c Qd 5c] [Qs]
BldZwtTrn checks
siciliano75 bets $200.00
BldZwtTrn calls $200.00
*** RIVER *** [4c Qd 5c Qs] [9s]
BldZwtTrn checks
siciliano75 bets $740.90 and is all-in
BldZwtTrn calls $468.00 and is all-in
Uncalled bet of $272.90 returned to siciliano75
*** SHOW DOWN ***
siciliano75 shows [6c 2c]
BldZwtTrn shows [Th Tc]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [4c Qd 5c Qs 9s]
BldZwtTrn collects $1,615.00

One of his retarded bluffs...

EverestPoker Game #2311223661: Table Luanda-1 - $3.00/$6.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 17:15:58 - 2007/11/03
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ($642.00)
Seat 2: siciliano75 ($2,133.90)
siciliano75 posts the small blind of $3.00
BldZwtTrn posts the big blind of $6.00
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Ah Jc]
siciliano75 raises to $18.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $60.00
siciliano75 calls $42.00
*** FLOP *** [6s 2h 7d]
BldZwtTrn bets $80.00
siciliano75 calls $80.00
*** TURN *** [6s 2h 7d] [Ac]
BldZwtTrn checks
siciliano75 bets $280.00
BldZwtTrn calls $280.00
*** RIVER *** [6s 2h 7d Ac] [3d]
BldZwtTrn checks
siciliano75 bets $840.00
BldZwtTrn calls $222.00 and is all-in
Uncalled bet of $618.00 returned to siciliano75
*** SHOW DOWN ***
siciliano75 shows [Tc 8s]
BldZwtTrn shows [Ah Jc]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [6s 2h 7d Ac 3d]
BldZwtTrn collects $1,283.00

Sometimes he really has a hand....

EverestPoker Game #2311213274: Table Luanda-1 - $3.00/$6.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 17:14:02 - 2007/11/03
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ($872.00)
Seat 2: siciliano75 ($1,306.90)
BldZwtTrn posts the small blind of $3.00
siciliano75 posts the big blind of $6.00
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[9c 9h]
BldZwtTrn raises to $18.00
siciliano75 raises to $54.00
BldZwtTrn calls $36.00
*** FLOP *** [7c 3d 5h]
siciliano75 bets $108.00
BldZwtTrn calls $108.00
*** TURN *** [7c 3d 5h] [Jc]
siciliano75 bets $324.00
BldZwtTrn calls $324.00
*** RIVER *** [7c 3d 5h Jc] [5s]
siciliano75 bets $820.90 and is all-in
BldZwtTrn calls $386.00 and is all-in
Uncalled bet of $434.90 returned to siciliano75
*** SHOW DOWN ***
siciliano75 shows [Jh Ah]
BldZwtTrn shows [9c 9h]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [7c 3d 5h Jc 5s]
siciliano75 collects $1,743.00

HU hand

2007-10-30T15:13:00.000+01:00

Posting one hand from a nice HU session yesterday. I was playing a regular who's is pretty bad and thinks I'm a donk (which is always nice). He's the guy who takes a HU session as a personal fight and I always love those games, cause it's very easy to get them on tilt just by saying some things in the chat.

Played him for about an hour on 2 tables and won a little more then 5 buy-ins off him. During this hand he still was playing kind of normal (never ever folding for re-raises pre-flop).

EverestPoker Game #2287999568: Table Athens-14 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 00:21:50 - 2007/10/30
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ($519.20)
Seat 2: BISMARCK18 ($905.06)
BISMARCK18 posts the small blind of $2.00
BldZwtTrn posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Tc Th]
BISMARCK18 raises to $12.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $40.00
BISMARCK18 calls $28.00
*** FLOP *** [9h 6h 8d]
BldZwtTrn bets $60.00
BISMARCK18 calls $60.00
*** TURN *** [9h 6h 8d] [4d]
BldZwtTrn checks
BISMARCK18 bets $200.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $419.20 and is all-in
BISMARCK18 raises to $805.06 and is all-in
Uncalled bet of $385.86 returned to BISMARCK18
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn shows [Tc Th]
BISMARCK18 shows [9d Qd]
*** RIVER *** [9h 6h 8d 4d] [Jc]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [9h 6h 8d 4d Jc]
BldZwtTrn collects $1,037.40

Fun experiment

2007-10-27T18:46:00.000+02:00

Inspired by CTS cardrunners video I did a little experiment yesterday on NL100.
To improve my game and experience a little with LAG play I started with raising every hand that was folded to me on the CO and BTN and when there was a full stack limper in UTG or UTG+1.
Somehow my stealing still was only 80% but this was probably due to some times I forget to raise when it was 4-handed (was playing some normal higher stake tables as well).

The other players on the tabel didn't seem to notice it at all, I think I got repopped from the blinds 2 or 3 times.
Offcourse this works best against full stack/tight players. By doing this you're overall stats are very laggy (close to 35/28/3) as well and people also think you're playing crazy postflop and OOP, which offcourse is not true.

Bad players also try to trap you in the wrong way (slowplaying big pairs), the next hand is a good example:

EverestPoker Game #2271348815: Table Dili-17 - $0.50/$1 - No Limit Hold'em - 19:08:56 - 2007/10/26
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ($119.60)
Seat 2: @georgios@ ($59.88)
Seat 3: Helguson ($100.00)
Seat 4: The_Fear ($194.40)
Seat 5: mtoby ($98.95)
Seat 6: Loc0Loc0 ($100.00)
@georgios@ posts the small blind of $0.50
Helguson posts the big blind of $1.00
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[5h Qc]
The_Fear folds
mtoby folds
Loc0Loc0 folds
BldZwtTrn raises to $3.50
@georgios@ calls $3.00
Helguson calls $2.50
*** FLOP *** [5c 5d 4d]
@georgios@ checks
Helguson checks
BldZwtTrn bets $7.00
@georgios@ folds
Helguson calls $7.00
*** TURN *** [5c 5d 4d] [Qh]
Helguson checks
BldZwtTrn bets $16.00
Helguson raises to $40.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $109.10 and is all-in
Helguson calls $49.50 and is all-in
Uncalled bet of $19.60 returned to BldZwtTrn
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Helguson shows [Kh Kd]
BldZwtTrn shows [5h Qc]
*** RIVER *** [5c 5d 4d Qh] [2s]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [5c 5d 4d Qh 2s]
BldZwtTrn collects $200.50

Stats from this session

TPTK is the nuts...

2007-10-26T16:23:00.000+02:00

EverestPoker Game #2268713242: Table Bamako-5 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 08:44:38 - 2007/10/26
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ($414.40)
Seat 3: uitvreter ($490.90)
Seat 4: straightjs ($400.00)
Seat 5: Aasisdebaas ($411.20)
Seat 6: Terkish ($59.10)
uitvreter posts the small blind of $2.00
straightjs posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[7h As]
Aasisdebaas folds
Terkish folds
BldZwtTrn raises to $14.00
uitvreter folds
straightjs calls $10.00
*** FLOP *** [6s 7d 2s]
straightjs checks
BldZwtTrn bets $24.00
straightjs raises to $48.00
BldZwtTrn calls $24.00
*** TURN *** [6s 7d 2s] [6c]
straightjs bets $80.00
BldZwtTrn calls $80.00
*** RIVER *** [6s 7d 2s 6c] [3h]
straightjs bets $258.00 and is all-in
BldZwtTrn calls $258.00
*** SHOW DOWN ***
straightjs shows [5s 8s]
BldZwtTrn shows [7h As]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [6s 7d 2s 6c 3h]
BldZwtTrn collects $800.00

Results previous hand

2007-10-25T09:30:00.000+02:00

Funny october graph...

Thanks for all the input. Still think I misplayed this hand, and should have bet the turn, but luckily for me the result was good.

*** SHOW DOWN ***
WalterSob shows [7h 8d]
BldZwtTrn shows [6d 5d]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [5s 2c 6s Kc Th]
BldZwtTrn collects $1,297.00

2-pair deepstacked

2007-10-24T11:06:00.000+02:00

The hand below was a difficult hand to play. Especially on the turn there are a lot of lines possible and I'm not sure if I like mine. Feel free to comment. Villian is a decent regular.

EverestPoker Game #2259050884: Table Bamako-0 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 07:34:15 - 2007/10/24
Seat 3: BldZwtTrn ($831.80)
Seat 4: WalterSob ($1,054.80) -> 20/14/2
Seat 5: Repentino ($209.22)
Repentino posts the small blind of $2.00
BldZwtTrn posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[6d 5d]
WalterSob raises to $14.00
Repentino folds
BldZwtTrn calls $10.00

Standard call this deep, could also raise here.

*** FLOP *** [5s 2c 6s]
BldZwtTrn checks
WalterSob bets $30.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $94.00
WalterSob calls $64.00

I want to build a pot with top two here, so I checkraise him.
He almost instant calls my raise. This looked to me like a 88-JJ hand or some sort of draw. As we're playing 200BB deep he could easily be calling here with draws.

*** TURN *** [5s 2c 6s] [Kc]
BldZwtTrn checks
WalterSob bets $160.00
BldZwtTrn calls $160.00

I didn't like this King on the turn. It kills my action versus a lot of his hands.
I really was in doubt here between betting and check/calling. With 100BB CRing would be an option, but I don't like it here with 200BB, because he isn't calling with draws anymore then.
Betting is good to let draws pay, but folds out hands like JJ probably.
In retrospect, I think betting is better here and probably calling a shove by him, cause there is just one hand that I'm afraid of (KK) and he could be pushing some (combo)draws on this turn.

*** RIVER *** [5s 2c 6s Kc] [Th]
BldZwtTrn checks
WalterSob bets $380.00
BldZwtTrn calls $380.00

All draws have missed on the river and I don't expect him to call a bet with JJ/QQ. I only lose value to some weird Kx hand that might call me. So I decide to check/call here.

*** SHOW DOWN ***
WalterSob shows [Xx Xx]
BldZwtTrn shows [6d 5d]

Like to hear some opinions on this hand, cause I really feel I could have played it different/better. Results will follow later.

Hand against Nederbelg

2007-10-23T00:13:00.000+02:00

Another upswing...

The last few days I've been playing some big pots against nederbelg (Marc Naalden as far as I know). He plays a really loose agressive style (32/25/3). It always takes some time to adapt to those players, but when you have a feeling of how they're playing and how they value their hands it can be really profitable to have them at your table. A good example is the hand below.

EverestPoker Game #2253146088: Table Bamako-7 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 21:46:27 - 2007/10/22
Seat 1: maxxll1 ($410.20)
Seat 2: BldZwtTrn ($943.00)
Seat 3: KvGalen ($817.00)
Seat 4: Schwachie ($216.00)
Seat 5: nederbelg ($400.00)
Seat 6: Mr.Ovechkin ($213.35)
Schwachie posts the small blind of $2.00
nederbelg posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[As Kd]
Mr.Ovechkin folds
maxxll1 calls $4.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $18.00
KvGalen folds
Schwachie calls $16.00
nederbelg calls $14.00
maxxll1 calls $14.00
*** FLOP *** [2s 4h Ks]
Schwachie checks
nederbelg bets $72.00
maxxll1 folds
BldZwtTrn calls $72.00
Schwachie folds

This is offcourse a good flop for my hand. Nederbelg is donking a lot of flops and I've seen him doing this with mediocre hands and drawing hands. His bet here was almost instant and my read was that a mediocre hand (Kx) was far more likely then 22/44. So I decided to call instead of raise, because he would probably fold a lot of hands to a raise/push (Kx, non-nutflushdraws).

*** TURN *** [2s 4h Ks] [6h]
nederbelg checks
BldZwtTrn bets $150.00
nederbelg calls $150.00

When he checks this turn, I'll have to bet here (2 flushdraws on board), the size doesn't really matter, because I'm going nowhere here. I decide to make it 150 to give hem some chance to push a flushdraw, although he doesn't have fold equity here, pushing a draw always feels better then calling an all-in (he has 310 left in total, pot is ~220)

*** RIVER *** [2s 4h Ks 6h] [2d]
nederbelg checks
BldZwtTrn bets $160.00
nederbelg calls $160.00 and is all-in

This is a perfect river card for me and when he checks, I'm close to 100% sure that I've the best hand, so I push the last $160 and he feels committed to call with his K5s.

*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn shows [As Kd]
nederbelg shows [Kh 5h]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [2s 4h Ks 6h 2d]
BldZwtTrn collects $833.00

A good triple barrel and end of break even swing?

2007-10-18T08:05:00.000+02:00

Hopefully my break-even/down swing has ended with a nice session yesterday. It probably looks like I took a shot at NL2000 but it was a 4-tabling session with 2 NL600 tables and 2 NL400 tables. I was just running and playing insane hot and won like 8 buy-ins in less then 2 hours.

The hand below is the perfect example of a situation were triple barreling works a lot of the time. The board and opponent are perfect for this.

He calls my CO raise from the BB and when a pre-flop agressive player does this, it's a small PP a lot of the time. As far as queens go, the only possibilities are KQ/QJ and as I have one king and he is also re-raising KQ some percentage of the time the chance on KQ is a lot smaller.

EverestPoker Game #2227084743: Table Bamako-14 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 15:14:33 - 2007/10/17
Seat 1: NeverLast ($413.20)
Seat 2: BldZwtTrn ($625.50)
Seat 3: M.Jam ($394.60)
Seat 4: Mickey__Knox ($515.50) >> 25/23/2
Seat 5: mb1973 ($160.60)
Seat 6: hanibusss ($410.20)
M.Jam posts the small blind of $2.00
Mickey__Knox posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Ad Kh]
mb1973 folds
hanibusss folds
NeverLast folds
BldZwtTrn raises to $14.00
M.Jam folds
Mickey__Knox calls $10.00
*** FLOP *** [2s Qh 2c]
Mickey__Knox checks
BldZwtTrn bets $20.00
Mickey__Knox calls $20.00

Just like the hand from yesterday this is a board where I expect a call from every PP on my c-bet and therefore I'm probably firing about any turn.
His range for C/C this flop is probably 33-88 (99+ re-raise pre-flop) and QJ/KQ (AQ+ re-raise pre-flop)

*** TURN *** [2s Qh 2c] [4s]
Mickey__Knox checks
BldZwtTrn bets $48.00
Mickey__Knox calls $48.00

This 4 doesn't change the board at all. It only helps one hand in his range (44) and I expect him to fold a lot of his hands when I bet here.
When he calls I think his range is 55-88 and KQ/QJ.

*** RIVER *** [2s Qh 2c 4s] [Th]
Mickey__Knox checks
BldZwtTrn bets $122.00
Mickey__Knox folds

This is a great river card to make a triple barrel. It is a card that probably never helps him (QT is a very small chance) and he knows that when I'm betting 3 streets for value here the worst hand I will be doing this with is probably AQ/KQ. So when I bet here, he only beats a bluff.
And his problem is that his cards are pretty much face-up, because on this board and with checking 3 streets out of position he never has a better hand then KQ here.

Uncalled bet of $122.00 returned to BldZwtTrn
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn mucks
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [2s Qh 2c 4s Th]
BldZwtTrn collects $163.00

A triple barrel gone wrong...

2007-10-17T12:55:00.000+02:00

The hand below is a hand that probably makes me look like a donkey, but for me it felt like a good board to triple barrel. Villian in the hand is a player that I play a lot with and who also is a pro.

EverestPoker Game #2225730388: Table Bamako-0 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 08:36:34 - 2007/10/17
Seat 1: hampolito ($464.15) -> 17/14/3 (3K+ hands)
Seat 2: BldZwtTrn ($568.97)
Seat 6: FLiST ($945.30)
hampolito posts the small blind of $2.00
BldZwtTrn posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Js Qs]
FLiST folds
hampolito raises to $12.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $36.00

Calling here pre-flop is also an option, but it was 3-handed and I have position. No problem to re-raise this some of the time.

hampolito calls $24.00
*** FLOP *** [9s 5h 5c]
hampolito checks
BldZwtTrn bets $55.00
hampolito calls $55.00

When I bet this flop, I'm pretty sure I will get called here with almost any pair, so I'm firing a lot of turns when I bet this flop.

*** TURN *** [9s 5h 5c] [Ad]
hampolito checks
BldZwtTrn bets $130.00
hampolito calls $130.00

The turn brings an ace. I don't think he has an ace here very often, maybe A9, but more likely 66-88 or TT-JJ. I could offcourse have an ace here, but I'm not sure if he thinks I'm betting an ace here a lot of the time. The problem for him is that I could be representing the ace with a better hand then his pair. So that's why I'm still betting here.

*** RIVER *** [9s 5h 5c Ad] [Kh]
hampolito checks
BldZwtTrn bets $250.00
hampolito calls $243.15 and is all-in
Uncalled bet of $6.85 returned to BldZwtTrn

When he checks the river again I'm very sure that he doesn't have a big hand here. I put him on A9 at best and he still has a difficult call, cause I could have AK/AA/KK/99 here and he basically only beats a bluff, because I'm not shoving AQo for value here probably.

*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn shows [Js Qs]
hampolito shows [Ac 8c]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [9s 5h 5c Ad Kh]
hampolito collects $927.30

But he did call with A8s and I was quite confused here. Seems like a very thin call against my range here. I also don't like his flop play at all, but he made a good call and made me look like the donkey here.

Just a fun hand

2007-10-16T08:26:00.000+02:00

I was playing some NL200 again yesterday because there were not enough tables of 400/600 available and again I wasn't very lucky.
I will try to find some interesting hands to post later on, but it's always difficult to find some, for now just a standard beat.

EverestPoker Game #2216196056: Table Suva-3 - $1.00/$2.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 07:34:47 - 2007/10/15
Seat 1: oktay.culfaz ($444.93) -> 74/30/3 or something like that
Seat 2: BadHabbitz ($198.00)
Seat 3: julien4934 ($34.20)
Seat 4: M.Jam ($287.60)
Seat 5: kemsaya ($99.00)
Seat 6: BldZwtTrn ($217.08)
BadHabbitz posts the small blind of $1.00
julien4934 posts the big blind of $2.00
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[As Kc]
M.Jam raises to $7.00
kemsaya folds
BldZwtTrn raises to $24.00
oktay.culfaz calls $24.00
BadHabbitz folds
julien4934 folds
M.Jam folds
*** FLOP *** [3s 3h 2h]
BldZwtTrn checks
oktay.culfaz bets $58.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $193.08 and is all-in
oktay.culfaz calls $135.08
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn shows [As Kc]
oktay.culfaz shows [Ac Qs]
*** TURN *** [3s 3h 2h] [5h]
*** RIVER *** [3s 3h 2h 5h] [Qc]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [3s 3h 2h 5h Qc]
oktay.culfaz collects $441.16

What did I do wrong to the ladies?

2007-10-09T13:49:00.001+02:00

First of all sorry for the lack of updates recently.
October so far has been pretty bad. I'm running so bad lately....probably as bad as I was running hot 2 weeks ago. Today for example I really played very well, but I managed to end 2K down after being up 3,5K!
I lost 5 pre-flop all-ins in 30 minutes in which I was a favorite in all situations.

Probably did something wrong to the ladies, because it's really sick how unlucky I run with those. 3 times I lost with QQ vs AK pre-flop allin. 1 time I lost with topset vs flush and one time with QQ vs AA. Also lost with AA vs KK pre-flop all-in.
Obviously I didn't win one single big pot with the big pairs.

So enough whining for today. The hand below is an example of a hand where a lot of the players probably miss value by checking behind on the river. Betting here on the river, especially against a somewhat LAGgy player, should be standard, because it disguises your hand more and makes you tougher to play. Villian probably had something like JT and thought I had a K or a hand without showdown value.

EverestPoker Game #2188817089: Table Harare-7 - $5.00/$10.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 07:33:43 - 2007/10/09
Seat 1: PokerRuler ($2,616.85)
Seat 2: pandora28 ($556.00)
Seat 4: Pocc3r ($1,069.16)
Seat 5: BldZwtTrn ($2,606.30)
Seat 6: Goldfish5 ($2,087.50) >> 39/20/2
Goldfish5 posts the small blind of $5.00
PokerRuler posts the big blind of $10.00
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Ah Jd]
pandora28 folds
Pocc3r folds
BldZwtTrn raises to $35.00
Goldfish5 calls $30.00
PokerRuler folds
*** FLOP *** [6c Jh 6s]
Goldfish5 bets $80.00
BldZwtTrn calls $80.00
*** TURN *** [6c Jh 6s] [Kd]
Goldfish5 checks
BldZwtTrn checks
*** RIVER *** [6c Jh 6s Kd] [8d]
Goldfish5 checks
BldZwtTrn bets $140.00
Goldfish5 calls $140.00
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn shows [Ah Jd]
Goldfish5 mucks
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [6c Jh 6s Kd 8d]
BldZwtTrn collects $518.00

How to play a flushdraw...

2007-09-28T10:02:00.000+02:00

The guy in the hand below obviously knows how to play a spade draw....
Luckily his father is a millionaire and we should all be jealous about it, especially the people who need to work/grind for there money....

EverestPoker Game #2137778904: Table Nassau-3 - $3.00/$6.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 07:17:15 - 2007/09/28
Seat 1: Kimbre ($664.45)
Seat 2: BldZwtTrn ($929.30)
Seat 3: FuRinKaZan ($615.15)
Seat 4: HUMan666 ($585.00)
Seat 5: BigSpender80 ($712.00)
Seat 6: boelie ($1,778.65)
HUMan666 posts the small blind of $3.00
BigSpender80 posts the big blind of $6.00
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[9c 9s]
boelie raises to $21.00
Kimbre folds
BldZwtTrn raises to $72.00
FuRinKaZan folds
HUMan666 folds
BigSpender80 folds
boelie calls $51.00
*** FLOP *** [Ks Jh 3s]
boelie checks
BldZwtTrn bets $115.00
boelie calls $115.00
*** TURN *** [Ks Jh 3s] [7c]
boelie bets $6.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $275.00
boelie calls $269.00
*** RIVER *** [Ks Jh 3s 7c] [2c]
boelie checks
BldZwtTrn checks
*** SHOW DOWN ***
boelie shows [As 4s]
BldZwtTrn shows [9c 9s]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [Ks Jh 3s 7c 2c]
BldZwtTrn collects $930.00

EverestPoker Game #2137816285: Table Nassau-3 - $3.00/$6.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 07:44:41 - 2007/09/28
Seat 1: Kimbre ($775.20)
Seat 2: BldZwtTrn ($2,107.35)
Seat 4: HUMan666 ($641.00)
Seat 5: BigSpender80 ($591.00)
Seat 6: boelie ($1,126.25)
boelie posts the small blind of $3.00
Kimbre posts the big blind of $6.00
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Jh Jd]
BldZwtTrn raises to $21.00
HUMan666 folds
BigSpender80 folds
boelie raises to $69.00
Kimbre folds
BldZwtTrn calls $48.00
*** FLOP *** [5d Qs Js]
boelie checks
BldZwtTrn bets $110.00
boelie calls $110.00
*** TURN *** [5d Qs Js] [6h]
boelie checks
BldZwtTrn bets $290.00
boelie calls $290.00
*** RIVER *** [5d Qs Js 6h] [2d]
boelie bets $657.25 and is all-in
BldZwtTrn calls $657.25
*** SHOW DOWN ***
boelie shows [9s As]
BldZwtTrn shows [Jh Jd]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [5d Qs Js 6h 2d]
BldZwtTrn collects $2,256.50

Running insane hot....

2007-09-26T11:37:00.000+02:00

After my last post where I had one table where I got pretty cold decked, I had the exact opposite today. Was running insanely hot at one NL600 table. I build my stack up from $600 to around $4100 in just 95 hands. During this hands I made two suckouts when I won with AKs vs KK pre-flop all-in for 100BB and versus a complete donk (he played every single hand) where I rivered a boat versus his flush.
Ended the session up $4,5K which is my best session ever (2,5 hours).

One hand that I like to analyze is an AA hand versus a decent opponent.

EverestPoker Game #2128614755: Table Bamako-1 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 09:02:44 - 2007/09/26
Seat 1: BigSpender80 ($414.00)
Seat 2: JopieMan ($719.00) -> 19/14/3
Seat 3: FuRinKaZan ($600.30)
Seat 4: Zaratoustr ($471.00)
Seat 5: Disbon ($424.40)
Seat 6: BldZwtTrn ($445.90)
JopieMan posts the small blind of $2.00
FuRinKaZan posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Ah As]
Zaratoustr folds
Disbon calls $4.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $18.00
BigSpender80 folds
JopieMan calls $16.00
FuRinKaZan folds
Disbon calls $14.00

Pre-flop play is standard and I get two calls from tight players.

*** FLOP *** [Th 5c 6s]
JopieMan checks
Disbon checks
BldZwtTrn bets $43.00
JopieMan calls $43.00
Disbon folds

Again flop is standard and I get one call from a decent TAG out of the blinds.
The most likely holding I put him on is some mediocre hand like Tx/77/67.
The only draw hand he could have is 87, but I expect him to be more agressive with it most of the time, just like he would be with 66/55/65.

*** TURN *** [Th 5c 6s] [2s]
JopieMan checks
BldZwtTrn checks

Most players would probably fire again here. But after his check here I think that 66/55/65 are very unlikely, so I'm pretty sure he's having some mediocre one pair hand and decide to check behind, because the chance that he will call a river bet with his mediocre hand is probably bigger then a turn bet.

*** RIVER *** [Th 5c 6s 2s] [Js]
JopieMan bets $94.00
BldZwtTrn calls $94.00

This looked a lot like JT to me, but after checking the turn I have to call the river here, raising has no value at all.

*** SHOW DOWN ***
JopieMan shows [Td 9d]
BldZwtTrn shows [Ah As]

Turned out he had T9 and I was kind of suprised by his riverbet, I think it's a very strange bet. If it's a value bet, it's a very very thin one, cause he's only representing 87 and hoping for a call by 99/88/77. If it's a bluff, I don't get it either, cause what kind of better hands I'm a folding here (QT/KT maybe).
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [Th 5c 6s 2s Js]
BldZwtTrn collects $329.00

Getting cold decked....

2007-09-24T11:50:00.000+02:00

Had a strange session this morning. Was up on 7 out of 8 tables but on one table I really hit the coldest deck ever. Lost 4 buy-ins 30 minutes there without playing bad. Don't think I ever had something before. Here are the hands:

Hand 1: against an ubernit, almost folded my kings here....

EverestPoker Game #2119174454: Table Bamako-5 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 09:01:31 - 2007/09/24
Seat 1: FuRinKaZan ($486.80)
Seat 2: BldZwtTrn ($403.60)
Seat 3: Zaratoustr ($1,342.70)
Seat 4: czyU ($420.00)
Seat 5: LuckyJessy ($415.60)
Seat 6: morpheo ($561.60)
BldZwtTrn posts the small blind of $2.00
Zaratoustr posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Kd Kh]
czyU raises to $14.00
LuckyJessy folds
morpheo folds
FuRinKaZan folds
BldZwtTrn raises to $48.00
Zaratoustr folds
czyU raises to $148.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $403.60 and is all-in
czyU raises to $420.00 and is all-in
Uncalled bet of $16.40 returned to czyU
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn shows [Kd Kh]
czyU shows [As Ad]
*** FLOP *** [3h 7c 7h]
*** TURN *** [3h 7c 7h] [9c]
*** RIVER *** [3h 7c 7h 9c] [Jd]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [3h 7c 7h 9c Jd]
czyU collects $808.20

Hand 2: 3 minutes later, I'm bad at coinflips....

EverestPoker Game #2119180837: Table Bamako-5 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 09:04:44 - 2007/09/24
Seat 1: FuRinKaZan ($486.80)
Seat 2: BldZwtTrn ($400.00)
Seat 3: Zaratoustr ($1,324.70)
Seat 4: czyU ($812.60)
Seat 5: LuckyJessy ($409.60)
Seat 6: morpheo ($590.40)
morpheo posts the small blind of $2.00
FuRinKaZan posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Qd Qc]
BldZwtTrn raises to $14.00
Zaratoustr calls $14.00
czyU calls $14.00
LuckyJessy raises to $76.00
morpheo folds
FuRinKaZan folds
BldZwtTrn raises to $400.00 and is all-in
Zaratoustr folds
czyU folds
LuckyJessy calls $324.00
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn shows [Qd Qc]
LuckyJessy shows [Ks Ac]
*** FLOP *** [7c 7h 9h]
*** TURN *** [7c 7h 9h] [2s]
*** RIVER *** [7c 7h 9h 2s] [Kh]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [7c 7h 9h 2s Kh]
LuckyJessy collects $831.00

Hand 3: No comment

EverestPoker Game #2119235870: Table Bamako-5 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 09:30:53 - 2007/09/24
Seat 1: _Cash_Flow_ ($102.00)
Seat 2: BldZwtTrn ($388.00)
Seat 3: Zaratoustr ($1,395.30)
Seat 4: czyU ($783.60)
Seat 5: LuckyJessy ($874.60)
Seat 6: morpheo ($659.90)
czyU posts the small blind of $2.00
LuckyJessy posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Qc Kc]
morpheo folds
_Cash_Flow_ folds
BldZwtTrn raises to $14.00
Zaratoustr calls $14.00
czyU folds
LuckyJessy folds
*** FLOP *** [5c 7c 2c]
BldZwtTrn bets $24.00
Zaratoustr raises to $72.00
BldZwtTrn calls $48.00
*** TURN *** [5c 7c 2c] [Ac]
BldZwtTrn checks
Zaratoustr bets $100.00
BldZwtTrn calls $100.00
*** RIVER *** [5c 7c 2c Ac] [Ad]
BldZwtTrn checks
Zaratoustr bets $1,209.30 and is all-in
BldZwtTrn calls $202.00 and is all-in
Uncalled bet of $1,007.30 returned to Zaratoustr
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Zaratoustr shows [3c 4c]
BldZwtTrn shows [Qc Kc]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [5c 7c 2c Ac Ad]
Zaratoustr collects $779.00

Very next hand again....and again I almost folded my set against this ubernit, but I'm bad at making big laydowns...

EverestPoker Game #2119238838: Table Bamako-5 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 09:32:17 - 2007/09/24
Seat 1: _Cash_Flow_ ($102.00)
Seat 2: BldZwtTrn ($400.00)
Seat 3: Zaratoustr ($1,786.30)
Seat 4: czyU ($781.60)
Seat 5: LuckyJessy ($870.60)
Seat 6: morpheo ($659.90)
LuckyJessy posts the small blind of $2.00
morpheo posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[2c 2d]
_Cash_Flow_ calls $4.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $18.00
Zaratoustr folds
czyU calls $18.00
LuckyJessy folds
morpheo calls $14.00
_Cash_Flow_ folds
*** FLOP *** [2h 4c 3s]
morpheo checks
BldZwtTrn bets $44.00
czyU calls $44.00
morpheo calls $44.00
*** TURN *** [2h 4c 3s] [9c]
morpheo checks
BldZwtTrn bets $111.00
czyU raises to $719.60 and is all-in
morpheo folds
BldZwtTrn calls $227.00 and is all-in
Uncalled bet of $381.60 returned to czyU
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn shows [2c 2d]
czyU shows [4s 4d]
*** RIVER *** [2h 4c 3s 9c] [9h]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [2h 4c 3s 9c 9h]
czyU collects $865.00

Bluffing in HU

2007-09-19T10:17:00.000+02:00

As I told yesterdag bluffing is a lot more important in HU then in any other game. I even think that in FR it's possible to get away as a winning player without much bluffing at all (so called set-mining).
One example of a bluff in a HU game against a decent player is the following hand:

My hand is not important at all here, it's the board that counts here.
This flop is so dry that it's very difficult to hit something here.
The only hands that he could have hit hard here are 22/33 and that's about it. Sometimes maybe a very tricky AA. It's also very likely that 22/33 will slowplay the flop on this board, so then a CR here looks even more fishy, cause there are now draws.
So I think his most likely hand is something like(44-77/A3/A2/A4/54/air) or a Jx hand. But I doubt he will CR here with Jx.

So I decide to make a healthy re-raise and represent AJ or better. This way it's very hard for him to continue with any hand besides 22/33 offcourse and he folds.

EverestPoker Game #2075193610: Table Athens-2 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 14:30:51 - 2007/09/14
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ($412.00)
Seat 2: karadas ($987.00)
BldZwtTrn posts the small blind of $2.00
karadas posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[4s 7s]
BldZwtTrn raises to $12.00
karadas calls $8.00
*** FLOP *** [2s Jc 3d]
karadas checks
BldZwtTrn bets $15.00
karadas raises to $44.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $130.00
karadas folds
Uncalled bet of $86.00 returned to BldZwtTrn
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn mucks
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [2s Jc 3d ]
BldZwtTrn collects $111.00

Tough HU call against unknown

2007-09-18T18:50:00.000+02:00

I'm playing more HU lately. I think it's very good training for a normal 6max game. It's very good for your bluffing skills and hand reading. In HU you can't get away with just waiting for boards that fits your cards. You have to make some big bluffs/call downs. I also like it as it's not so mechanical as 8-tabling the NL400 6 max game.
On to the hand I played today against a total unknown who bought in for full (doesn't happen a lot). This is probably the fourth hand at the table, so I have no reads at all.

EverestPoker Game #2093484171: Table Athens-1 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 15:22:03 - 2007/09/18
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ($510.60)
Seat 2: zioaldo ($407.00)
BldZwtTrn posts the small blind of $2.00
zioaldo posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[9s 9c]
BldZwtTrn raises to $12.00
zioaldo raises to $20.00

This mini-raise pre-flop tells me he's not a good player. So I now assume that he's here to gamble.

BldZwtTrn calls $8.00
*** FLOP *** [5h 4s 7d]
zioaldo bets $4.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $35.00
zioaldo calls $31.00

When he min-bets and calls my raise I don't think he is very strong and most likely drawing to something.

*** TURN *** [5h 4s 7d] [5s]
zioaldo checks
BldZwtTrn bets $70.00
zioaldo calls $70.00

This 5 is a pretty good card for me and I feel quite confident that I have the best hand here so I bet 3/4 of the pot.

*** RIVER *** [5h 4s 7d 5s] [Th]
zioaldo bets $282.00 and is all-in
BldZwtTrn calls $282.00

His shove here is instant. Most of the time this means a bluff or a very strong hand (55/TT). But by how the hand played out I think he is weak here more of the time then very strong, so I called.

*** SHOW DOWN ***
zioaldo shows [Js 8c]
BldZwtTrn shows [9s 9c]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [5h 4s 7d 5s Th]
BldZwtTrn collects $813.00

Time for a graph again

2007-09-16T16:54:00.000+02:00

Haven't post a graph with resulst for a while, so I thought it was time to show one of this summer. It's a hell of a grind as you can see, but I'm still on schedule for my 18th winning month in a row and also the 9th 10K+ winning month in a row.

Flop-a-set-ometer

2007-09-13T12:31:00.000+02:00

Flop-a-set-ometer is a program to see how lucky your are with flopping sets and set vs set situations (www.pokerluckometer.com). I really like it and especially when running good/bad it really gives you a good impression of how good you run.
In september I'm running not so good, although I flopped more sets then expected.
But I'm runnig very unlucky in big pots. For example when flopping a set with AA or 88 (which happened 8 times for both) I actually LOST money with it.

I also got dealt aces 62 times this month (expected 82) and got into a overpair vs set situation 8 times versus 2 times set vs overpair.
Over to the hand of the day:

This AA situation is really a good example of when to fold aces.
Villian in this hand is pretty tight and not really agressive, at least nothing out of line. He runs about 21/12/2.

EverestPoker Game #2069714860: Table Bamako-25 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 09:01:34 - 2007/09/13
Seat 2: BldZwtTrn ($409.20)
Seat 3: mimogrande ($606.00)
Seat 4: pandora28 ($405.40)
Seat 6: nicmouk ($468.65)
BldZwtTrn posts the small blind of $2.00
mimogrande posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Ah Ac]
pandora28 calls $4.00
nicmouk folds
BldZwtTrn raises to $16.00
mimogrande folds
pandora28 calls $12.00
*** FLOP *** [6d 7s 3c]
BldZwtTrn bets $27.00
pandora28 calls $27.00
*** TURN *** [6d 7s 3c] [9c]
BldZwtTrn checks

I check here because I think this opponent isn't calling with a lot of worse hands here when I bet. The only hand that I can get value from is 98/88 probably.

pandora28 bets $34.00
BldZwtTrn calls $34.00

He bets kind of small which makes me think he is either trapping or has a weak 7x/88/98 hand.

*** RIVER *** [6d 7s 3c 9c] [Qd]
BldZwtTrn checks

I'm not really sure if I like my check/call here. Against this opponent bet/folding is probably better, because he's never blufraising me here and I also think he will check all his mediocre hands behind but might call with it. Check/folding is also an option because I can't see much bluff hands here for him (most of them have some showdown equity and will check behind).

pandora28 bets $92.00
BldZwtTrn calls $92.00
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pandora28 shows [7c 7d]
BldZwtTrn mucks
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [6d 7s 3c 9c Qd]
pandora28 collects $340.00

Taking shots at NL1000

2007-09-12T14:42:00.000+02:00

As some of you might know I sometimes play NL1000 as well. On those levels table selection is even more important then at lower stakes and yesterday I found a very good table. But again things didn't go very well.

My note on the player below was: Top pair is the nuts!....enough said.

EverestPoker Game #2064016511: Table Harare-0 - $5.00/$10.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 21:10:29 - 2007/09/11
Seat 1: sybs23 ($1,434.00)
Seat 2: BldZwtTrn ($970.00)
Seat 3: gonzal63 ($1,000.00)
Seat 4: North ($955.00)
Seat 5: NUMISOLI ($2,141.50)
Seat 6: I_NEED_IT ($2,873.75)
North posts the small blind of $5.00
NUMISOLI posts the big blind of $10.00
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Qh Qc]
I_NEED_IT folds
sybs23 folds
BldZwtTrn raises to $35.00
gonzal63 folds
North calls $30.00
NUMISOLI folds
*** FLOP *** [6c Jh 3h]
North bets $80.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $240.00
North raises to $800.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $935.00 and is all-in
North calls $120.00 and is all-in
Uncalled bet of $15.00 returned to BldZwtTrn
*** SHOW DOWN ***
North shows [Ad Jd]
BldZwtTrn shows [Qh Qc]
*** TURN *** [6c Jh 3h] [As]
*** RIVER *** [6c Jh 3h As] [5d]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [6c Jh 3h As 5d]
North collects $1,917.00

High stakes poker style

2007-09-11T07:50:00.000+02:00

Hand of today is a hand from a live homegame I played yesterday.
We are playing 0,10/0,20 with 200BB buy-ins.
Just like in HSP we have a rule that if you win with 72o/72s you will get 2BB from every player.

So on to the hand.
It's 8-handed and I'm in MP with 72o (the ten of clubs is burned). 2 limpers in front of me and I make it 1,20 to go. I get 2 callers in the blinds and the limpers join the club. So 5-way to the flop.
Flop is TdTs6d and one guy from the blinds (40 behind) makes it 3 to go.
He plays quite agressive and is someone who bets/raises his draws.
2 limpers fold and I decide to call here, because raising here doesn't make much sense with a strong hand, so if I want to bluff, I'll have to do that on the turn like I would do with a strong hand.

Turn is another 6 and he now bets 7 into a pot of 12. He has about 30 behind after this bet and I cover. The hands I put him on are some PP (most likely 77-99)/diamond draw or maybe a 6. I think he never has a ten here. I also think he will fold everything besides the 6 offcourse, because by raising I'm basically saying that I have at least JJ, so after long consideration I say all-in.

No instacall by him so I'm probably good here. Turns out he had a flushdraw and because were playing deepstacked he didt get the odds to call here (only if he knew I had 72o offcourse), but he put me on KK/QQ.
So he makes the fold and I show 72o and feel like Phil Hellmuth bluffing Mike Matusow off KK for a second with the only difference that this was a $20 pot instead of $50K.

Staking, new site and bad week

2007-09-07T20:46:00.000+02:00

Last week was not a great week for me, pokerwise and personally.
Those things happen and I'm happy that I still made a profit even though I didn't play my A game at all.

I also finished a staking deal with a pokerfriend of mine. I think this is something I might do more in the future. It turned out to be a positive thing for both of us.
He was able to play his normal NL100 game instead of grinding his way up and I made a nice profit on my stake investment.

Secondly I started playing at a new site as well. Got a very nice deal to play there.
By playing there I generate a nice income just by playing. This way I'm able to lower my variance in my income and also have a chance of choosing between different sites when playing. I think this is becoming, more and more important as a good game selection can have a huge (positive) effect on your winrate.

No hand of the day for today but hope to start with it again next week.
Thanks for reading.

Worst day ever...

2007-09-06T14:53:00.000+02:00

Yesterday was my worst pokerday ever. I managed to loss about 9 buy-ins in 2K hands.
I was playing bad and running bad (most 'downswings' are a combination of that).
Seems like I made the wrong decision in every single big pot, could not win a single coinflip and got rivered a bazillion times.

The hand below shows what I mean, even though this guy was a complete (passive!!) donk I still should have folded the river, but this is what happens when you run bad and play bad.

EverestPoker Game #2034909497: Table Bamako-9 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 11:46:17 - 2007/09/05
Seat 1: fox34 ($509.40)
Seat 2: BldZwtTrn ($384.20)
Seat 3: MarcusAS ($382.00)
Seat 4: muli85 ($990.70)
Seat 5: fgfg2710 ($440.75)
Seat 6: veus ($466.70)
muli85 posts the small blind of $2.00
fgfg2710 posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Qs Qc]
veus folds
fox34 calls $4.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $18.00
MarcusAS folds
muli85 folds
fgfg2710 folds
fox34 calls $14.00
*** FLOP *** [2c 4s 8c]
fox34 checks
BldZwtTrn bets $36.00
fox34 calls $36.00
*** TURN *** [2c 4s 8c] [7d]
fox34 checks
BldZwtTrn bets $79.00
fox34 calls $79.00
*** RIVER *** [2c 4s 8c 7d] [6d]
fox34 bets $272.00
BldZwtTrn calls $251.20 and is all-in
Uncalled bet of $20.80 returned to fox34
*** SHOW DOWN ***
fox34 shows [8s 5s]
BldZwtTrn shows [Qs Qc]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [2c 4s 8c 7d 6d]
fox34 collects $771.40

The sexiest move in No limit poker....

2007-09-03T16:38:00.000+02:00

The massive overbet on the river....

EverestPoker Game #2025530974: Table Bamako-12 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 10:23:44 - 2007/09/03
Seat 1: uitvreter ($507.50)
Seat 3: BldZwtTrn ($469.00)
Seat 5: zin16 ($1,176.80) -> fish
Seat 6: ala456nic ($204.90)
BldZwtTrn posts the small blind of $2.00
zin16 posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Kh 6h]
ala456nic folds
uitvreter folds
BldZwtTrn raises to $12.00
zin16 calls $8.00
*** FLOP *** [Ks 4h Qc]
BldZwtTrn bets $16.00
zin16 calls $16.00
*** TURN *** [Ks 4h Qc] [5h]
BldZwtTrn bets $33.00
zin16 calls $33.00
*** RIVER *** [Ks 4h Qc 5h] [Th]
BldZwtTrn bets $408.00 and is all-in
zin16 calls $408.00
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn shows [Kh 6h]
zin16 shows [5s 4c]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [Ks 4h Qc 5h Th]
BldZwtTrn collects $936.00

Flopping quads is always fun....

2007-08-31T11:34:00.000+02:00

POKERSTARS GAME #11788249682: HOLD'EM NO LIMIT ($1/$2) - 2007/08/31 - 04:22:25 (ET)
Table 'Scheila II' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Kalidh ($200 in chips)
Seat 3: AKA_PSV ($215.90 in chips)
Seat 4: patriciorey ($166.45 in chips)
Seat 5: Hiltonian ($244 in chips)
Seat 6: Kingofclubz ($200 in chips)
Kalidh: posts small blind $1
AKA_PSV: posts big blind $2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to AKA_PSV [4c 5s]
patriciorey: calls $2
Hiltonian: folds
Kingofclubz: folds
Kalidh: calls $1
AKA_PSV: checks
*** FLOP *** [5c 5d 5h]
Kalidh: checks
AKA_PSV: checks
patriciorey: checks
*** TURN *** [5c 5d 5h] [Kd]
Kalidh: checks
AKA_PSV: checks
patriciorey: bets $4
Kalidh: calls $4
AKA_PSV: raises $10 to $14
patriciorey: folds
Kalidh: raises $40 to $54
AKA_PSV: calls $40
*** RIVER *** [5c 5d 5h Kd] [8h]
Kalidh: bets $144 and is all-in
AKA_PSV: calls $144
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Kalidh: shows [9c Ac] (three of a kind, Fives)
AKA_PSV: shows [4c 5s] (four of a kind, Fives)
AKA_PSV collected $404 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $406 | Rake $2
Board [5c 5d 5h Kd 8h]
Seat 1: Kalidh (small blind) showed [9c Ac] and lost with three of a kind, Fives
Seat 3: AKA_PSV (big blind) showed [4c 5s] and won ($404) with four of a kind, Fives
Seat 4: patriciorey folded on the Turn

Nut draw in a re-raised pot

2007-08-30T08:22:00.000+02:00

Yesterday I got an interesting call when I pushed the nutdraw in a re-raised pot.
I thin my play in the hand is totally standard, but I was kind of suprised about the call of my opponent who is a regular at this tables and with which I played a lot.

EverestPoker Game #2003266942: Table Bamako-7 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 10:49:24 - 2007/08/29
Seat 3: BldZwtTrn ($454.20)
Seat 4: Panettiere ($382.00)
Seat 5: Misbehave ($374.50)-> 19/15/2 (1000+ hands)
Seat 6: MARC49 ($426.50)
Panettiere posts the small blind of $2.00
Misbehave posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Qs As]
MARC49 folds
BldZwtTrn raises to $14.00
Panettiere folds
Misbehave raises to $44.00
BldZwtTrn calls $30.00
The pre-flop play here is standard, I open on the button and got re-raised by a regular who knows my range is quite big here. So I figure my AQs is good here (worse aces are in his range here) so I make the call.
*** FLOP *** [8s 5c Ks]
Misbehave bets $48.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $200.00
I flop the nut flush draw and make a raise here which obviously commits myself here.
Misbehave raises to $330.50 and is all-in
He makes the push after running his timebank down.
BldZwtTrn calls $130.50
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Misbehave shows [Kh Th]
BldZwtTrn shows [Qs As]
*** TURN *** [8s 5c Ks] [8h]
*** RIVER *** [8s 5c Ks 8h] [3h]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [8s 5c Ks 8h 3h]
Misbehave collects $749.00

So he made the call with KTs. Which is about as good as 99-QQ on this board. His explanation was that I never have a king here and although this is probably true 95% of the time it's still a bad call vs my range here.

So what is my range here....well I could offcourse have the nutflushdraw (AQs/AJs and maybe ATs), or have hit a nice combodraw with some small SC's (76s, 87s, 97s, 98s). But the most scary hands for him are offcourse AA/88 and 55 (less likely probably with <90BB stacks).

So hit pot-odds are $282/$750 (he knows I'm not folding there). So that's about 38% what he needs here vs my range to make this push +EV.

Lets see how this works out in pokerstove. I decided to let 55 out, as I'm not calling 100% here with small PP. Against this range he has about 32% which is not enough to make this call +EV or he has to think that I'm on a total bluff here a lot.

So although he thinks correctly that I probably don't have a king here this still doesn't make this a call, because he is basically flipping at best, because if have the nut draw, I have an extra ace as out and if I have a lower draw I very often have a pair here as well.

Board: Ks 8s 5c
Dead:
equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 32.591% 32.59% 00.00% 5485 0.00 { KhTh }
Hand 1: 67.409% 67.41% 00.00% 11345 0.00 { AA, 88, AsQs, AsJs, AsTs, QsJs, JsTs, Ts9s, 9s8s, 9s7s, 8s7s, 7s6s }

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16,830 games 0.005 secs 3,366,000 games/sec
Board: Ks 8s 5c
Dead:
equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 32.591% 32.59% 00.00% 5485 0.00 { KhTh }
Hand 1: 67.409% 67.41% 00.00% 11345 0.00 { AA, 88, AsQs, AsJs, AsTs, QsJs, JsTs, Ts9s, 9s8s, 9s7s, 8s7s, 7s6s }

Just a fun HU hand

2007-08-29T01:15:00.001+02:00

This hand brought my opponent on tilt. After this one he donked away 2 other buy-ins with KQo vs QQ preflop all-in and with 76 vs AJ on a AJ7 board (no flushdraw).

EverestPoker Game #1999506152: Table Athens-5 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 14:47:43 - 2007/08/28
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ($513.60)
Seat 2: BestEverest ($643.00)
BestEverest posts the small blind of $2.00
BldZwtTrn posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Th Qh]
BestEverest raises to $12.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $36.00
BestEverest calls $24.00
*** FLOP *** [Ts 4c 5h]
BldZwtTrn checks
BestEverest checks
*** TURN *** [Ts 4c 5h] [3h]
BldZwtTrn bets $54.00
BestEverest raises to $108.00
BldZwtTrn calls $54.00
*** RIVER *** [Ts 4c 5h 3h] [Jh]
BldZwtTrn checks
BestEverest bets $155.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $369.60 and is all-in
BestEverest calls $214.60
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn shows [Th Qh]
BestEverest shows [3c 3d]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [Ts 4c 5h 3h Jh]
BldZwtTrn collects $1,026.20

Cooler friday....

2007-08-24T22:04:00.000+02:00

The hand below just shows how I was running today....

EverestPoker Game #1980551793: Table Bamako-0 - $2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 07:09:05 - 2007/08/24
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ($474.30)
Seat 2: BigSpender80 ($461.00)
Seat 3: Y.K.YU ($154.40)
Seat 4: krushhead ($400.00)
Seat 5: Bilbao1 ($22.00)
Seat 6: elseignor ($347.20)
krushhead posts the small blind of $2.00
Bilbao1 posts the big blind of $4.00
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[As Ac]
elseignor raises to $8.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $30.00
BigSpender80 raises to $72.00
Y.K.YU folds
krushhead folds
Bilbao1 folds
elseignor folds
BldZwtTrn calls $42.00
*** FLOP *** [Kc 4s Qd]
BldZwtTrn checks
BigSpender80 bets $88.00
BldZwtTrn calls $88.00
*** TURN *** [Kc 4s Qd] [Qh]
BldZwtTrn checks
BigSpender80 checks
*** RIVER *** [Kc 4s Qd Qh] [Ad]
BldZwtTrn bets $314.30 and is all-in
BigSpender80 calls $301.00 and is all-in
Uncalled bet of $13.30 returned to BldZwtTrn
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn shows [As Ac]
BigSpender80 shows [Qs Qc]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [Kc 4s Qd Qh Ad]
BigSpender80 collects $933.00

King high baby!

2007-08-23T00:00:00.000+02:00

Just a fun hand for today.

EverestPoker Game #1974604107: Table Suva-19 - $1.00/$2.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 21:21:36 - 2007/08/22
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ($234.35)
Seat 2: cashonline ($42.35)
Seat 3: hampolito ($225.70)
Seat 4: Goalifant ($96.80)
Seat 5: targa8170 ($108.50)
Seat 6: garrincho54 ($451.95)
Goalifant posts the small blind of $1.00
targa8170 posts the big blind of $2.00
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Kc Tc]
garrincho54 folds
BldZwtTrn raises to $7.00
cashonline folds
hampolito folds
Goalifant calls $6.00
targa8170 folds
*** FLOP *** [4c Js Qc]
Goalifant bets $12.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $52.00
Goalifant calls $40.00
*** TURN *** [4c Js Qc] [7d]
Goalifant checks
BldZwtTrn bets $120.00
Goalifant calls $37.80 and is all-in
Uncalled bet of $82.20 returned to BldZwtTrn
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Goalifant shows [9c 8c]
BldZwtTrn shows [Kc Tc]
*** RIVER *** [4c Js Qc 7d] [5d]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [4c Js Qc 7d 5d]
BldZwtTrn collects $192.60