Tits

I was up late and decided to put some hands in. It didnt go as well as I had hoped. I started playing some 25nl because I don’t have any money online right now, only 85 or so on FTP. I am waiting for the check from PS to clear so I can get my bankroll back online.

I decided I am going to be playing on UB. I am playing there because the games are some of the softest available and I get rake back and can use a HUD. Also, they are really quick with processing check withdrawals and general customer service. Other then the cheating scandal, they are a good company.

Well I am a bit tired so I think I am going to sleep until the person who is coming to get my van gets here. He said he would be here this afternoon, but he didn't give me any specific time. I guess I will just sleep till my phone rings, or I could go to 7-11 and get one of those five hour energy things. Actually, I am going to do that. I would like to be on a "normal" sleeping schedule again and it's hard to do when I cant get myself to go to sleep before 8am.


Poker for today: 600 hands -61.95. The big pots I lost where pretty standard.

Here are my biggest losers for the day.



http://www.pokerhand.org/?3548060

This guy was a big fish. He was playing super lose and being really erratic and aggressive. I thought that there was a good chance that he had a 4 and just as likely a chance that he had a J as well. With the amount of dead money I can’t fold with overs and the NFD. I get there on the river, but he gets there too.





http://www.pokerhand.org/?3548078



Here is another standard spot. I flop middle set, and do what I can to get the money in. He ends up having a larger set. Nothing I can do here.



http://www.pokerhand.org/?3548084



Here I get caught bluffing the river. I had been three betting the crap out of this player and I thought that he would start defending soon by calling my three bets with a wide range. I am okay with this because I get to play a bloated pot in position with initiative. Basically means that I will be printing money off of this guy. I didn’t think that he would be just calling with an A on this board. I was pretty sure that he would play all his Ax hand and flush draws aggressively so I put him on a hand like KQ, KJ. I think that he four bets AK and JJ+. He might flat with TT but I wouldn’t be surprised if he was four betting it for value vs me.



On the river this is exactly how I would play AK, AQ, AJ. I can’t be worried about him having a flush or an A because of how I thought he would play it and the river being a flush card makes it even harder for him to look me up with a bare K. Well, I shipped the river and he owned me with AQ. He did tank before he checked the river, and then tanked before calling. So if he is thinking of folding the top of his range here, this can’t be a terrible spot to bluff.



http://www.pokerhand.org/?3548103



This player and I had tangled in a previous hand which led to me make the river play here. He raised with A2s and I flatted out of position with AQ. The flop came A97 and I check called the flop, the turn checked through, and the river brought a Q. The board was A977Q I checked intending to check raise the river and he checked back with A2. This gave me a pretty good idea of what his river value betting range is. He isn’t betting to fold out chops or to try to milk semi-thin value out of his weaker top pair hands. So this means that I think that when he bet’s the river his hand is going to be more polarized between being a bluff the nuts. Also he knows that I can check a huge hand to him on the river.


Well with the my read on the player and the fact that I felt that he would bet the turn with his big Ax hand and I could fold, and that he would be checking down his marginal made hands including bigger PP on this board. So when the turn checks I discounted a big A from his range a lot of the time and felt that he was going to have a KQ type hand or a weak A here. When I check the river and he bets I know that he isn’t value betting thin. So that means that he only has bluffs and strong hands in his range and since I didn’t expect him to check big hands on the turn I decided to turn my hand into a bluff to try to fold his weak Ax hands.



This is kind of a weird spot because a lot of people will say that if he is bluffing most of the time, why turn a better hand into a bluff to catch a bluff? Well, good point. But I think that the reason that this can be a more profitable play then just calling is that we are always winning the pot when he is bluffing, but we can also pick up the pot a lot when he has a better hand that he is value betting thinly and we can make fold. My line looks really strong here and he knows that I am capable of checking big hands to him on the river. I was really surprised when he called with AK. It just reminded me of how weak and passive 25nl players really are. Can’t wait to get my money back online to start getting some hands in.



That’s it for now. I am going to head off to 7-11 and get some of that magic energy medicine and be wired as hell for the next 12 hours.



Lata