I can taste it, clowns to my left maniacs to my right the waters are teeming with action. Two guys out of 5 at each of my two tables are absolute maniacs (no faciacs need apply!)
Here is the first one:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1092675
This guy pushes all in every hand:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1092691
Finally one goes my way (this action is sick!):
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1092712
"Pay the felter"
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1092720
but of course I hadnt reloaded yet... grrrr
Bad Felter - SUCK OUT! (not sure how to play a guy with 14$ in my defense
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1092746
Chewing up poker points in record time in this frenzy... tough to give the play by play but 100 poker points in.... 24 minutes WOW. Oh one of the tables is a turbo table lol .. are they always this crazy?
Phew the guy that thinks I am uber timmid, (and frankly I am by his standards I am) has left the table. Everyone stand for the departing LAG, hats off to you sir... May my notes pay off next time. For now go in peace...
Okay tally is down 20$ after those nasty beats and hitting hands when I was short stacked... out of breath....
Bullets bring me back to even...
And bullets giveth again about four hands later...
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1092797
then I waste 15$ against a short stack when I have JJ and the flop comes Q high, I bet out he thinks loooong then pushes ten more dollars at me ... easy fold right? No I pay off Q 10 ... smooth move Ex-Lax :)
Grinding and continuation betting gets the 15$ back and I close a CRAZY one hour session 25$ up lol
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Short Sun AM session, I have no right to be at a 1$ table bank roll wise, but I thought I would celebrate getting my 150$ back after some sick hands and chance $50 at an agressive 1$ table
For table selection I chose a table with at least 3/5 short stacks. Not sure why i guess if you are buying in short stacked you may want to go to a table where everybody is deep and more likely to play loosely against you. Anyway this way I got to play at my favorite level 1$ with a little less bullying from the peanut gallery.
Nice to beat a lag in a race once in a while - this same guy took half my stack QQ 7 x blind bet he calls to hit two pair J 3... hello chips nice to have you back
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1090845
hovered 10 bucks or down for a half hour nothing worthy of note.
Table fell apart.. too bad had some good book on these guys, pretty standard play was looking forward to a juicy hand. Before I could leave new players reloaded so same table new game...
Ridiculous hand against a clown that is trying to give money away and can't do it:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1090917
so of course a hand like that is why you can't step up. The same clown took my last 15$ my AK suited vs his AQ o - with a Q on the river. Then he leaves the table with his quadruple up to 50$ .... I'm a little tea pot short a stout.... when I get all steamed up.....
well so much for my treat. I will try to find more positive to post next time
For table selection I chose a table with at least 3/5 short stacks. Not sure why i guess if you are buying in short stacked you may want to go to a table where everybody is deep and more likely to play loosely against you. Anyway this way I got to play at my favorite level 1$ with a little less bullying from the peanut gallery.
Nice to beat a lag in a race once in a while - this same guy took half my stack QQ 7 x blind bet he calls to hit two pair J 3... hello chips nice to have you back
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1090845
hovered 10 bucks or down for a half hour nothing worthy of note.
Table fell apart.. too bad had some good book on these guys, pretty standard play was looking forward to a juicy hand. Before I could leave new players reloaded so same table new game...
Ridiculous hand against a clown that is trying to give money away and can't do it:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1090917
so of course a hand like that is why you can't step up. The same clown took my last 15$ my AK suited vs his AQ o - with a Q on the river. Then he leaves the table with his quadruple up to 50$ .... I'm a little tea pot short a stout.... when I get all steamed up.....
well so much for my treat. I will try to find more positive to post next time
Saturday, May 12, 2007
never mind...
Never mind... just had a $150 negative session leaving me at $125. Oh am I angry right now. The 50$ down that I mentioned below turned into the $150 down.
I feel raped and pilaged!
Here is what did it:
Very agressive table and villan menioned here in all cases is very agressive.
I have pocket 33, he makes it 6x I called to try to hit set. he checks flop, I bet pot he calls. Turn hit my 3... I pot commit myself wanting the call he puts me all in, the three hit his belly buster on the turn... river nothing.
I have AA pop it up a bunch, villan calls flop all spades I have A spades.. I check as I know he will bet, turn blank low card, he bets big again... I call knowing he will fire again.... river red J... and his gut shot. I read the hand exaclty right he had f all... DAMN
Next hand I limp K10 suited mid pos. he makes it 5x, I call. flop four hearts 449, he bets out pot, I am a little tilty and decide to make a bad call, but I know when I hit I will get his stack. Turn 8h I flush... he makes bigger bet I push he calls with 88 in the pocket... ouch
All in about 10 minutes!
I feel raped and pilaged!
Here is what did it:
Very agressive table and villan menioned here in all cases is very agressive.
I have pocket 33, he makes it 6x I called to try to hit set. he checks flop, I bet pot he calls. Turn hit my 3... I pot commit myself wanting the call he puts me all in, the three hit his belly buster on the turn... river nothing.
I have AA pop it up a bunch, villan calls flop all spades I have A spades.. I check as I know he will bet, turn blank low card, he bets big again... I call knowing he will fire again.... river red J... and his gut shot. I read the hand exaclty right he had f all... DAMN
Next hand I limp K10 suited mid pos. he makes it 5x, I call. flop four hearts 449, he bets out pot, I am a little tilty and decide to make a bad call, but I know when I hit I will get his stack. Turn 8h I flush... he makes bigger bet I push he calls with 88 in the pocket... ouch
All in about 10 minutes!
Bank Roll - Update
my live bank roll at Ongame has a little life in it now. As I posted recently, I busted out again and decided to invest more time in reading and learning and cut back on the play. Actually I had decided to take a rest from playing and study the game before going at it again, but Travis encouraged me to continue with the playing education if at all possible.
I took 2nd in a poker points entry tourney for 25$ then playing cash got it up to $325 this week. My lovely wife reminded me I owed her poker account 50$ from past transgressions so that took it down to $275... and in short session this AM I took a 50$ hit so $225 (what is it about Sat and Sun am session where I never seem to close positive? I had no distractions... no one is awake yet in the house, no reason to always seem to be negative Sat and Sun AM... wonder if anyone else notices that?)
Anyway so I am hopeful that the time I invested in 2+2, the reduction in but continuing with playing time, and of course the excellent discussion and support at pegcityhustling.com is paying off. I am almost getting some hope that I can hit my goal of a starting bank roll of 2K.
In fact let's put a deadline on that there goal... By August 31st I will have played micro limits to sharpen my skills and create a "starting" bank roll of $2000 USD. Then Phase III of my career will start.
Here's to Phase III
--Felter
I took 2nd in a poker points entry tourney for 25$ then playing cash got it up to $325 this week. My lovely wife reminded me I owed her poker account 50$ from past transgressions so that took it down to $275... and in short session this AM I took a 50$ hit so $225 (what is it about Sat and Sun am session where I never seem to close positive? I had no distractions... no one is awake yet in the house, no reason to always seem to be negative Sat and Sun AM... wonder if anyone else notices that?)
Anyway so I am hopeful that the time I invested in 2+2, the reduction in but continuing with playing time, and of course the excellent discussion and support at pegcityhustling.com is paying off. I am almost getting some hope that I can hit my goal of a starting bank roll of 2K.
In fact let's put a deadline on that there goal... By August 31st I will have played micro limits to sharpen my skills and create a "starting" bank roll of $2000 USD. Then Phase III of my career will start.
Here's to Phase III
--Felter
Friday, May 11, 2007
Something else I have tried
Over this past week I have tried something else new. When I am going to have a session where I am going to concentrate and set up the sharps for the best possible session, I will step up to the limits I like. For the times that I am playing for fun or distraction, or have a table open while I am doing something else I am stepping back down in limit.
So kids running around..... 25 cent table
everyone in bed asleep and I am awake and alert and ready to play ...... 50 cent or 1$ table
Same goes for short handed vs full ring. Later tonight when I sit down for a real session 1$ or 50 cent short handed. Right now while I blog, cook dinner for the kids, and chat on the phone with my laptop on the kitchen counter... 25 cent full ring game.
That, and overall I am playing less poker than I have for a long time so don't mistake this for a way for me to play MORE. But the simple fact is that every online player cant help but play sessions in non ideal environments. I will put it under advisement to follow this rule when I am going to play and I am not at my sharpest for whatever reason.
-- Felter
So kids running around..... 25 cent table
everyone in bed asleep and I am awake and alert and ready to play ...... 50 cent or 1$ table
Same goes for short handed vs full ring. Later tonight when I sit down for a real session 1$ or 50 cent short handed. Right now while I blog, cook dinner for the kids, and chat on the phone with my laptop on the kitchen counter... 25 cent full ring game.
That, and overall I am playing less poker than I have for a long time so don't mistake this for a way for me to play MORE. But the simple fact is that every online player cant help but play sessions in non ideal environments. I will put it under advisement to follow this rule when I am going to play and I am not at my sharpest for whatever reason.
-- Felter
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Heads up Cash coming along
It was a great opportunity for me to look at poker through different eyes after reading that I shouldn't be afraid of short handed and heads up play. Loosely phrased it said "In heads up there are generally fewer miracle cards, and to a very large extent the best player will win the day" and it struck a chord.
The key to what makes my game, my game is an ability to read marginal situations very well. The down side to that is that I tend to know I am good now... and put too much on that. It was very, very common for me to put someone on a draw early in the hand and hammer that pot. The pro here is it made for a bad call, the con here is that it made players that are used to deep stack play, salivate. Couple that with playing above my limits and bam, recipe for "the best break even poker player on the net" (meant in jest of course).
The math I had not done before now showed me the simple truth that hands tend to hold up much better short handed and heads up. Now, with fewer bad beats (or what I used to think as as a bad beat: anyone who called against odds on me and hit) I am more able to play my marginal game and come out ahead.
As I write this I am sitting at a full ring game table where I was outplayed on two hands nicely and was down 25% of my stack (50 cent table, so not big dollars mind you). As the table disintegrated around me, I realized I was in an optimal situation. The remaining four players, two of which were up nicely and just didn't want to leave the nice session they were having, were, I could suppose not short handed players. For the most part short handed players are a different crew and rarely will you see the same faces at full ring games.
Having realized this I put my game face on, and went to work. Shortly after the two players that were up nicely were even and I was up nicely. They left to be replaced by two more, and it kept on going. Interestingly enough I found that the full table guys, even some that I respect, were out of their element.
I am sitting there alone now. The last five players that sat down with me (short stack buyins mostly) have all gone home empty handed, and some of them with two or three re-loads.
There is a lot here to think about for my table selection, but I have had a fantastic session. All of the wins have come from the marginal hands. I have had, 0 full houses, 1 set, 1 flush, 1 two pair, and better yet no miracle rivers going either way. I have made 1 bad call for 4$ not a huge deal so my reads have been bang on.
Well I better get on my flight. The friendly West Jet agent just paged me as "the guy playing poker in front of me it's time to get on the flight :)"
I better take my quadruple up table and close it down... but I will thinking about this session the whole way on my flight.
--Felter
The key to what makes my game, my game is an ability to read marginal situations very well. The down side to that is that I tend to know I am good now... and put too much on that. It was very, very common for me to put someone on a draw early in the hand and hammer that pot. The pro here is it made for a bad call, the con here is that it made players that are used to deep stack play, salivate. Couple that with playing above my limits and bam, recipe for "the best break even poker player on the net" (meant in jest of course).
The math I had not done before now showed me the simple truth that hands tend to hold up much better short handed and heads up. Now, with fewer bad beats (or what I used to think as as a bad beat: anyone who called against odds on me and hit) I am more able to play my marginal game and come out ahead.
As I write this I am sitting at a full ring game table where I was outplayed on two hands nicely and was down 25% of my stack (50 cent table, so not big dollars mind you). As the table disintegrated around me, I realized I was in an optimal situation. The remaining four players, two of which were up nicely and just didn't want to leave the nice session they were having, were, I could suppose not short handed players. For the most part short handed players are a different crew and rarely will you see the same faces at full ring games.
Having realized this I put my game face on, and went to work. Shortly after the two players that were up nicely were even and I was up nicely. They left to be replaced by two more, and it kept on going. Interestingly enough I found that the full table guys, even some that I respect, were out of their element.
I am sitting there alone now. The last five players that sat down with me (short stack buyins mostly) have all gone home empty handed, and some of them with two or three re-loads.
There is a lot here to think about for my table selection, but I have had a fantastic session. All of the wins have come from the marginal hands. I have had, 0 full houses, 1 set, 1 flush, 1 two pair, and better yet no miracle rivers going either way. I have made 1 bad call for 4$ not a huge deal so my reads have been bang on.
Well I better get on my flight. The friendly West Jet agent just paged me as "the guy playing poker in front of me it's time to get on the flight :)"
I better take my quadruple up table and close it down... but I will thinking about this session the whole way on my flight.
--Felter
Saturday, May 5, 2007
Cash Session
Had a nice cash session last night. Doubled my Ongame money at 10 cent and 25 cent tables. Now I am back up to just over 100$ from nothing.
Once I noticed my head was bobbing, even though I was at a table I liked, I took off auto post and went to bed.
(I finished 2nd out of 35 for a 25$ cash and played at 10 cent and 25 cent to quadruple that up over the past few days)
I will take it.
Not a really note worthy session other than to state the environment.
Sharps: (Sharps are the things that made my session more likely to be successful, as opposed to flats like being exhausted or not caring or having my kids running around to distract me)
Fairly alert / awake (played from 10:00 PM until just after 1 AM)
Two tables (enough action to keep my attention, yet few enough tables to develop better reads on the players)
TV was on (really a flat not a sharp) but I wasn't watching it as I focused securely on the play
NO Poker Tracker or Poker Ace hud: I un-installed this recently as a part of a computer back up and repair and haven't reinstalled it yet. Interestingly enough I might have done better this session without replying on the read that HUD has on the playing style but instead making my decision based on my reads... and better yet... made a few folds saying... "I would love to bet here, but I have zero read on this guy... so I will play this one fairly tight". Made a few tough folds based on my own memory recall vs a player (even my notes are backed up to an external hard drive and not re-installed yet). I think it was good for me to go back to a more "live" version without technology cuing me. Players better than me don't need to do this, and don't need to sharpen their game like I do, but perhaps for us mid range 1.5 year freshman, this makes sense once in a while.
Nearly no slow play: Not a problem of mine anyway, but sometimes when I am struggling I want to ease up on a pot to get more action... (a bad pattern after some beats you will see me drag pots). Even though it cost me some action early it paid off later when they couldnt fold to me anymore.
No show of cards: I don't show anyway, but as a record of my history of play worthy to note
I will take it.
Not a really note worthy session other than to state the environment.
Sharps: (Sharps are the things that made my session more likely to be successful, as opposed to flats like being exhausted or not caring or having my kids running around to distract me)
Fairly alert / awake (played from 10:00 PM until just after 1 AM)
Two tables (enough action to keep my attention, yet few enough tables to develop better reads on the players)
TV was on (really a flat not a sharp) but I wasn't watching it as I focused securely on the play
NO Poker Tracker or Poker Ace hud: I un-installed this recently as a part of a computer back up and repair and haven't reinstalled it yet. Interestingly enough I might have done better this session without replying on the read that HUD has on the playing style but instead making my decision based on my reads... and better yet... made a few folds saying... "I would love to bet here, but I have zero read on this guy... so I will play this one fairly tight". Made a few tough folds based on my own memory recall vs a player (even my notes are backed up to an external hard drive and not re-installed yet). I think it was good for me to go back to a more "live" version without technology cuing me. Players better than me don't need to do this, and don't need to sharpen their game like I do, but perhaps for us mid range 1.5 year freshman, this makes sense once in a while.
Nearly no slow play: Not a problem of mine anyway, but sometimes when I am struggling I want to ease up on a pot to get more action... (a bad pattern after some beats you will see me drag pots). Even though it cost me some action early it paid off later when they couldnt fold to me anymore.
No show of cards: I don't show anyway, but as a record of my history of play worthy to note
Changed tables. I stayed at the first table I opened for the whole session but as I was grinding back to even I decided to open a second table and look for more action there and just to sit back and wait at my first table (lurk in the weeds..). Worked out well as I closed both tables of 25 cent one doubled up and one tripled up (from 16$ short stack buy in).
Once I noticed my head was bobbing, even though I was at a table I liked, I took off auto post and went to bed.
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