Roller Coaster

See that?

Thats what 4tabling 10nl deep looks like. Know what else? Thats what erasing a 20bb/200bb suckout looks like and then some.

I cant believe this. Its not even like i ran great. I sucked out zero times as far as i could tell. Just solid hands and winning pots without showdowns and picking up good hands at good times, which i guess is the key to poker and part of the luck aspect as well. There were a couple really nice spots. I got one guy to put in 70bbs with AcKd on a 753 ccc flop. I had top set and it held.

Another hand was me putting in 2 streets of strong betting with AJ no clubs on a x8JAx board where turn river completed the flush draw. Villain had been calling me down with q8 no clubs.

I was reading an old trip report by Foucalt, from the WSOP main event....and he talks about how if one card falls differntly, He doesnt win a particular race, then he doesnt win 190k. He ended up busting ot in ~40th on day 6. he mentions how eerie it feels to know that one card could change your fortunes.

Well, Foucalt was talking about life changing money, he was playing for 9million and im really only talking about cheeseburgers but still its kind of creepy just how swingy poker can be. if that 9 doesnt fall in 25nl i could be on my way to an epic day. If one of my hands at 10nl goes the other way im still stuck. Im starting to ramble but i hope you understand what im saying.

Back to poker:

Why did i leave 10nl? Damn. If i can win close to 370bbs in 200 hands 4tabling, then this is clearly a pretty profitable game to play. I was expecting to have to grind for a while to make up this mornings disaster and i really only had to play for less than an hour to get to where i was last night.

On to the Full Tilt Software update.

The pros:

I like the new look of the cards when your tables are small (4tabling or more). they look like the card mods i used to use, sort of. I might switch back to my mods but i def like this look better than the old full tilt look.

The idk:

Im not sure if the software is any more reliable or faster but they say it is so i guess ill take their word for it. One thing that i really hope doesnt happen is bugs tho. People were saying that we should play Full Tilt Beta a week ago and now this si a brand new system, i guess. All i know is that when i used to play MTG online and a new system would come out it would be buggy for a while until they caught all of them. Also the Beta was designed as a bug catcher, people would play and report bugs before the general release. That was all well and good for a game where no money was on the line but in poker...I really dont want some glitch in the system to cause me to lose a bunch of money.

The Bad:

The new hand replayer looks pretty cool. Def reminds me of Stars. Problem is it doesnt work. I couldnt get a single replay out of it and had to go digging around in my hand history text files which sucks while 4tabling. I also had a hand that went checkcheck on the river (i was in position) and i showed AJ and he mucked. I just realizd that that might be becuase i acted first on the turn (not sure if that actually happened tho) and i couldnt see his cards.

Also, in the past it was real easy to just click on a table, enter a bet amount and hit enter. That was the quickest way to bet, for me at least. Clicking on the table would highlight the bet amount, entering ".35" would take 3 keystokes and then enter is a 4th and were done. now, the bet amounts seem to be always highlighted and clicking on a table does not necessarily select its bet meter.

BEWARE cbet

I have twice now misclicked where i meant to table 4 and ended up opening table 3 to 2 bucks. Not fun. make sure you actually bet on the correct table I also had close calls in 2 cases where i realized what happened and was able to fix it.

Back to grinding, perhaps, idk getting back to even feels so great right now i might just take a break

Good luck all

fuck me

this story always starts the same. Im feeling pretty good about my game so lets try to take a shot. Lets fire up a 25nl table. Ill balance it out with a couple 25nl cap tables. This isnt really that much of a step up beaus at 10nl deep i sit with 20bucks on the table and here its only 25. Hell, a 7.5 dollar capped pot at 25cap is less than the standard stacking at 10nl.

Im playing allright hovering when this hand happens. This was actually the first hand that i played at the uncapped table. And to make matters worse, i thought my bet slider was selected on this table when i cbet the 5 bucks but apparently i randomly opened to 5 bucks on a differnet table with J2. Obv a misclick and obv it happens when i lose the biggest cash pot of my life simultaneously. But nevermind heres the hand:

Im kind of in shock right now which is lame. I know that 25 bills isnt that much money. But goddamn, this was my biggest online lost pot to date. fucking, Would have sent my roll back over the 400marker but nope, back down to 350. Id really like to be able to play 25nl...theres a lot of money to be won there. But for now i guess im going to wait for this to wear off and go back down to 10nl deep. God. bad bankroll decisions are always so magnified when you run bad. If i run good there, go on a heater and win some big pots....my roll fucking skyrockets and this is a completely differnet post.

close

ended up finishing a dissapointing 32nd in EDA for 25 bucks

Swings suck

Clearly the superturbo was a bad idea. but it was fun. Its hard to not get supersticious when immediately following that i had Aces get cracked twice, and kings cracked twice. Kind of brutal. This hand sums it up even thought its for a pretty small pot.

So.....I started the day at 395 had it up to 403 but now im at 375. Not too terrible. Just kind of dissapointing given the nice start. i think im still going to play the double in 10 min. I really want to run deep in it.

Updates later.

Up and Down

Played a sng, mtt, and some cash today. The cash managed to pay for the rest of the day with these 2 hands that happened back to back.

I had 50 dollars, good for 500 big blinds on the table. I meant to take a screenshot but as i was writing this i flopped top boat with 88 vs 33 on a 833 board. We get it in on the turn 8339 he has k9. River is 9. Well, there goes the profit.

I think i might play the early double in a hour or so. We will see.

EDIT: Im bad at bankroll management. Just decided that a 15 dollar superturbo would be a good idea. Too bad i didnt win a 60/60. Now to grind back up to 400.

Hope everyone had a good 4th

Little Heater

Not to be results oriented but rolls at 360.

:)

(after shipping 31 to some friends)

Started off with some more cash. Abused this one villain who i have some history with. Made some potentially spewy/awful plays but he showed a propensity for floating and folding later streets and 3/4betting real light (4 bet qj otb) So idk. They worked out this time. I was gonna go over the hands but im out of time right now. Maybe i will next time i get a chance.

Oh, also came in 2nd in a superturbo. Forgot what it felt like to win 1/2 of my races and 2/3 of my 60/40s. Feels mad good. Made a really bad call hu i had 9k and q9ss he jammed 3k in and i thought he was pretty wide so i called, he had qj. next hand he jams in 6k and i call with k3. He had just jammed qj and i really thought he was jamming wide. he woke up with k7.

I thin the second hand is very defensible but the first one.....i had a 3 to 1 lead. I think i could have let it go and waited for a better spot.

Nevertheless im out

Good luck/happy 4th

Cash can still be juicy

So im kinda of pissed at mtts right now. Decided to mess around with LHE yesterday, didnt really work out so i went back to a game i had been playing a little while back, 10nl deep.

Mind you, im at work and my boss just came down and interrupted my seshion so i had to quit after 30 hands but ill be back on and off today. Theres just one hand i want to share. I spose it looks like a standard cooler but to me, any sign of money entering my account instead of leaving it right now is beautiful.

One other thing....At eff stacks of 170bbs i really dont know how standard this hand actually is. Im thinking i might have played it kinda poorly by jamming the turn. The only history i had w/ villain is that he pot bet flop adn turn w/ top pair and was pretty passive w/o a good hand. Now, KK obv is better than top pair here but he was playing so aggressive i def thought he could have had a set. On second thought, although he could have a set due to the cold call preflop i doubt a set would want to c/r->lead when im clearly showing interest. That seems like a line designed to get me to fold.

Now, i dont know if im ever getting away from kings here, i might just be over analyzing this hand but...170bbs deep its scary to play one pair for stacks. Especially when villain is showing so much agression. If anyone has any thoughts about this hand please share them in the comments. Id really appreciate it.

30 hands at 585 bb/100. Hehe, ridiculously inflated but ill take it!