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would just like to say thanks to all of you who have left comments on my blog, thanks also for the support and encouragement!!

another sorry morning

$2 turbo, going ok bout 6 left i call a raise or limp not sure with 10J, flop comes 77J, chip leader goes all in, fold fold, so what now??? well at the time my thoughts were this:
i have 2 pair, he could be bluffing as he had push all in a few times on the flop and we all folded, so i figure this is a chance and call
he has........ A7 so i got 2 jacks to hit, which i dont and i out!

pretty poor i think


I also put $4 on a 6 max table 5c/10c
anyone got thoughts bout table choice? full or 6 max??
anyway few hands in i win a small pot doing ok, lots of calling going on even with raises of 3-5 xbb
so i limp in with Q9, flop comes J108!!!! i bet small like 20c i think, one call and then the big stack raises to $1.20 ish back to me.... i think for a while.... only for effect, i have only one thing in my mind.... PUSH!!

so i reraise all in, the guy calls in a flash....
he has: J10-2 pairs
i have the str8, so what am i worried about??.....yup as soon as i saw his cards i could feel it
TURN-...... 10 of course for his full house!!

i think i gota stick to tournys cos with under $20 now i just cant afford to play cash games!!

i also think i should only play 1 at a time, i admit i am an action junkie!! trying to squeeze in as much as possible b4 work, so must cut back to 1 at a time til i hopefully build my roll back up!!

also i think its time i actually started writing about some poker theory, all i do is comment on my plays each day, think i need to work on my basics so writing about them and getting your feed back should hopefully help me improve

so goals for time being are to plays less
work on my theory more, so that i can put into practice what i learn!!
and get roll going up!!

PK69

It doesn't rain, it pours!!!

well on to todays games

i played the $2 turbo, was doing ok, it up and down but was above average
not much to tell apart from the hand that ended it

i am in early maybe even BB, i have 22, few callers and no raises so i see the cheap flop.....
25j, with so many callers i check as i no one of them will bet, sure enough there is a bet by the chip leader which is called by 1 or 2 others not sure, so now i pop in the reraise bout 900-1k ish from his bet of 250ish.....
well the chip leader goes all in the others fold, i have to call here as this is what i was hoping for
he turns over 2 clubs for a flush draw!!
well you know what happens... turn a 6, so all i need is for the board to pair for my full house, or no clubs for his flush
river- ace of clubs!!

that was me out in 6th

right or wrong?? i had the set i was ahead when it all went in and about 2/1 fav i think??

oh well thats poker, anyway the account has been battered silly and is now at like $20!!
i need to turn this around quick or my roll will be gone!!

PK69

Table Bully!

Well on another day i started my usual $2 turbo and out in 4th. BUT, ..... there was a bully around who was so lucky!!

Very first hand this guy goes all in with AK, fair enough he gets called and wins, 2nd hand he's all in again no callers, 3rd hand all in again!! no callers 4th hand all in, gets a caller this time he has 10J, caller has A10.. flop nothing, turn a J river and its goodbye down to 7, he goes all in the next few hands and we all just fold!!

he then just calls, fishy!!, gets a caller and he slow plays aces on them to get them out, down to 6!!

he then folds a few times before the all in game continues, he has bout 4-5k now and we all just slipping further away

he goes all in as usual, gets a caller, caller has AQ he has 510suited, flop has a 5 turn a 10!!

5 left now, he now folds a few more and there is a little play between the rest of us.... cant remember much more but i know we got down to 4, he was up to 6k, one other player on 2k and me and other guy on bout 1100, i don't think i have played a hand at this point

well i get A10suited and figure this bout as good as i going to get, so i call sure enough he goes all in and i call
he has K10, yes!! flopxxx, turn K!! river crap and i am out

What the hell do you do when someone plays like that?? i know that he can't have good cards all the time, but if you gonna race you wanna have some half decent cards?

the thing was that every time he had worse cards he still managed to hit the flop or turn!!

Any advice??

PK69

Table Talk??

WEll i have played a few times since my last post, alas not much success to chat about a few interesting points though....

I played a $6turbo, was playing fairly tight, but i was getting cards and i was using them well i was chip leader with about 4k... then this

early position i get AQ suited so i raise 3xbb think i got 2 callers, the 2nd chip leader and a small stack
flop: Q!! 10 i think and a rag,think there were 2 clubs, i didn't have a club
so i think i doing ok here so i check hoping for a bet so i can reraise
well the 2nd chip leader bets big! like 3k or something, i can't remember exactly the amounts or if it happened spot on like this .. the small stack goes all in so i sit there thinking what to do
when the 2nd chip leader starts chatting in the box,
he says: i don't wanna mess with you poke, leave this one
now what am i to think from this??
could he be trying to bluff me out pot with chat??
i say: u got a flush draw?
he says: i got a monster
so the time starts ticking down and i decide to call
he has QQ small stack has crap, no help and i am as good as out the game!
i go all in shortly after but no luck and out in 5th when i was cruising to at least a 3rd!!

so what can i learn from this? does anyone else have any thoughts about people chatting??

my thoughts were why would he be trying get me out hand?? why such a big bet? surely over betting like that could be a bluff? now he trying talk me out hand which again could work with his bluff?
when he says he got a monster i think surely he want me in hand then to get my chips??
so with that in mind i called

so what do you think?
was he just being nice and trying to save me? was he using reverse psychology acting like he didn't want me in there? which i duely did!!

interestingly, had he not said anything or if i had ignored his chat, i have to say i prob would have figured his large bet as possible a bluff but too big to call and folded, he could have had 2 pair, a str8 draw a flush draw or some combination, all very scary

PK69

Blah blah

Ok, so if you been reading my blog you know that the cash tables have not been good to me recently, however my tourny form has been pretty good with mostly finishes in the top 3, i have now set up a spreadsheet records my tourny results showing no. entered, cost, place finished and winnings

i did bomb out this morning though! card dead, blinds going up so i raised with A8 missed the flop and pushed my last 500 in hoping was enough to put anyone off however was called by A10 and his 10 played and i was out.

If you remember a while ago i had some probs with Full Tilt, well i got an email saying that a few people had same prob and they gave us all $5, result!

So i put the $5 on a 5c/10c table few hands in i get QQ in mid/late position, i raise to 40c the button who has less then me reraises to $1.10....
i call, flop comes 9 high no flush, so i bet $1, button reraises all in for $2.50 ish i call..... so what we got???
i have QQ
he has........... A4 clubs???? no pair,no str8, and think maybe a runner runner flush possible!!

turn a 6 and pairs the board,
river......... can you guess??? ACE!!!!!
yup he shoves it in with junk and hits the river with one of the 3 aces he needed to win!!!

that left me with bout $1.30, i just didnt have the heart to carry on so i left after that!!

any thoughts??

the account now at bout $40 :( not going well

PK69

Feedback 2

many thanks to snoopy and united for their comments, certainly gives me more to think about, which is always good!!

PK69

Feedback

well there has been some debate about my Q9clubs hand, firstly thanks for the comments

ok so i did say that i didn't like my play, and yes i know when the money went in i was behind and i finished behind so not really a bad beat, i wasn't really saying it was more like just saying that the luck had turned in my favour and was looking good only for it to turn away the next card.

was this a bad play?? maybe, certainly not a good play!! now sometimes u have to gamble to win, was this that time? NO

however... pre flop he has AA, i have Q9 suited so clearly well behind, a flop of K9x with 2 clubs...
so he has overpair to the board with a runner runner flush possible, now i dont know the odds for that.... anyone no of a good free odds calculator you can use online without downloading??
now i have middle pair (not so good) and 4 to the flush draw and a runner runner str8 so if we count my flush cards i had 8 clubs (not counting the ace as looking back retrospectively) so 8/47 so about 17% to make my flush
on the turn i hit my flush, so now i am ahead.. but how much?? well i can now only lose to the higher flush, or better, of which the higher flush is the only possible hand, so now the other guy has 7 outs and everything else helps me so if i have this right on the turn i have 39/46= 84% of winning and he has 7/46= 15%

so yes a bad play but on the turn i am way ahead, of course we know what happened next

would like to hear any further feedback regarding my thoughts

PK69