9 tables of $25nl FR. Still trying to convince myself to grind cash tables instead of playing Rush poker. This isn’t the best situation; 88, J62 two tone flop, called by two players behind and one in the blind. But I opt to c-bet. Blind has checked, I don’t have many hands on any players [...]

So for the first time since early June I played more than 200 hands on Stars. This is after a massive spew session playing Rush yesterday. I accumulated some frustrations playing too much at this always frustrating level and gave up about 3 buyins after being up early on. I can blame some spew on [...]

Haven’t played a lot lately but still hanging on with the 3-5 tables of $25nl combined with 1 table of $100nl. It certainly makes finding a table at $100nl much easier as now I’m only looking for one likely table. Sometimes just finding one is not all that easy. With the $25nl tables I don’t [...]

This guy has been sucking out on people and betting them off all night. He’s got stats of 58/17, with a 3 bet % of 18 and aggression of 7.8, so I figure KQ is good enough to 4 bet him. I get it in good, but … He’s another one of those people that [...]

I’ve started to become tired of the slow pace of playing 2-3 tables of $100nl and I don’t know if my game there is improving. Stats to date: 2,350 hands -$36.50, so I still haven’t lost my $100 or $200  “stake” but I have a +EV of $83.38. Largely this is still the one hand [...]

No poker yesterday due to busy-ness, and very little the night before because Stars and HEM are not working together since the change of the tables/hand history writing of Stars. I probably had an up session that night anyway due to a player calling my EP PFR with AQs, and then check/calling all three streets [...]

Another down session, but no stats or details as I’m at different computer than I use for poker. Lost about 80 bbs net. Hit a lot of sets, but didn’t get paid off for them. Flatted QQ behind a tight early position raise and gave up two small streets of value to KK Flatted QQ [...]

452 hands, 6 tables of $25nl, 15.1/11.7, 5.0 PfPA, minus 17.26 bb/100, breaking my streak of 6 consecutive up sessions. I could feel my groove dissipating during the last session even though that one was only 80 hands while playing in a tourney with some friends. I stacked a nit with the nut straight; he [...]

So here’s a project. This player was playing very oddly. Mostly loose and passive preflop, but aggressive postflop. So I’ve collected up the hands that he played, in sequence, to take a look at how he’s thinking. First hand, I think his first at the table, First activity, I think. Next hand, he’s completing in [...]

4th session in a row where I finish up 80 bbs or more. It’s nice when I start to get into a groove. 5-7 tables, 399 hands, 19.0/12.7, again some fishy players that I limp or call to get in hands with them or the 19.0 would be lower, 5.85 PfPA, 31.18 bb/100. First hand [...]

357 hands over mostly 6 tables. Had 7 for a couple of minutes, but a couple of them broke down quickly. 14.9/9.7, 5.5 PfPA and 22.35 bb/100. Again, a few instances of passive calling when bad players who I suspect won’t fold to isoraises or c-bets are in the hand which stretches the VPIP/PFR gap [...]

Runned pretty good; 425 hands on 6 tables, 18.2/10.9, PfPA of 9.54, plus 46 bb/100. Stats are a bit loose/passive, but on one table in particular there was a 79/10 fish that had a 300 bb stack when I sat down that I kept calling in position. Finally got some chips from them. I tend [...]

Who 3 bets 44 from the blinds, and then flats a 4 bet? I 4 bet light because I expect him to fold everything except AA/KK, which I expect him to shove. If he flats I expect mostly AK or some other big Ace hand that he can’t release, or QQ/JJ. On the flop AA/QQ [...]

Slowly getting comfortable with more tables again. Had 7 running for quite a while, with the 8th spot taken by the final table of a $2 tournament that a whole bunch of friends were playing in. Too bad I can never make these tournies. It’s interesting that I’m running much looser again than I was [...]

These things happen, I guess. Tried to play 8 tables of $25nl FR on Stars, but had a heck of a hard time finding decent tables. Usually when my intention is to play 8, I get on the waiting list for 10 or 11 tables and open then to watch the action, but this time [...]

Two sessions today, 8x25nl and then 6x25nl. I think I’m playing 8 too fast so 6 might be better for me. I don’t think that it’s 8 that is too fast right now, but it’s that with 8 I’m tending to not allot enough time with more important hands and making the decisions too fast. [...]

No happy about this one. 8x25nl, but I was frustrated at the onset as I had planned to play a full session but didn’t get time when I had originally planned, plus I had to fight trying to hang a mirror on the wall beforehand. Only 288 hands. 13.2/11.0 so those stats look good. But [...]

380 hands of 8x25nl, 13.2/9.4 (almost bang on my previous average stats), PfPA of 9.67, so nitting it up from early position again. I didn’t get a lot of hands, especially early on. Here a 29/7/8 flats and then re-raises when I 3 bet. Am I ahead of a 27/7 when he does this? It’s [...]

Second rough session, 8x25nl, 700 hands, 15.4/10.1/2.04, PFPA of 6.85, W$SD of 38.5, EV of -47. KK runs into AA, JJ runs into QQ for –135 bbs. but A8s in the BB vrs new SB raise, flop an Ace and call down, he has AQ. A8 is not good on an Ace high flop against [...]

8x25nl, 435 hands, 18.9/11.8/1.89, PPA of 5.77, but -32.92 bb/100. EV plus 8.20, largely due to these two hands, both on the same table: Not too much to be done about those, I think. Maybe the KK I didn’t need to shove but the AJ still would have called a flop bet with top pair, [...]

Well, Happy New Year. And I start out some grinding right away (after spending the first day traveling). Instead of moving back to $10nl to start up I had played about 45 min of 4x25nl during the holidays and felt comfortable enough to restart at 25nl again. 6x25nl, 372 hands, 13.7/10.4/6.5, though this is after [...]

So because I was a little pissed off, I decided to play $25nl anyway. Got up to 10 tables, then purged off the two that I was having the most difficulty with. This hand I’m after the guy who I’ve noted as unable to fold overpairs on the flop, so when I flop a straight [...]

Meh, still not sure what I want to do. Played one short session, up a few dollars, but somewhat unenthusiastically, of 25nl FR. Only 14bb(7BB)/100 or something. Basically I think the options are to make a full-ish move to 50nl FR, or to 25nl 6 max. A third option would be to donk for a [...]

First down session after 10 in a row up. Lost a full stack twice. Once in the small blind with 33, flopping a set in a limped pot, losing to a set of 7s. The other one hurt a bit more, flopping a set of 5s against AA, getting it all in on the flop, [...]

Thought I was finally going to have a down session. Had a hard time finding loose tables with decent stacks and not huge wait lists at both sites. First big hand at Stars was flatting a small 4 bet IP with QQ and getting it in on a KQx monotone board, only to find out [...]