I'm over half way done with the 20k cash hand goal for the month. With the half way point in October coming up in the next few days, I'm happy where I am. What's been helping me get my hands in this month; has been the Iron Man program on FT. I haven't decided what is better to do yet, the Freeroll, or the medals--but for now I chose the medals. I'm on pace to get Gold status through 100 points a day.
One of the biggest losing plays for me has been playing the short stacks too much. I havent figured out a real good way to play hands like AK against them. Take this hand for instance...
Seat 3: Villain ($10.70)
Seat 1: trixter23 ($26.95)
Dealt to trixter23 [Ah Kh]
Villain raises to $0.85
Villain is in 2nd position here. He has less than a half stack. So whats your play with AK here?
trixter23 raises to $2.95
I decided to make a healthy 3 bet.
Villain calls $2.10
*** FLOP *** [Jd 6h Ts]
Ok well now what. We completely missed the flop, but have a gutshot, 2 overs, and backdoor flush draw. Are we going to miss value by not 3 betting pre flop? I think you are. If you cold call, check/fold the flop, I think thats just too weak. Back to the flop. We're in kind of a pickel. There is a chance we bet this flop and take it down there. What if we get raised all in? There is 6 bucks in the pot, combined with our c-bet; there will be too much money in the pot to fold. What do you do here?
trixter23 bets $3
Villain raises to $7.75, and is all-in
trixter23 calls $4.75
Villain shows [9s 9h]
trixter23 shows [Ah Kh]
So as you can see, we put the c-bet out there and had to call his all-in. Granted a competent player is probably folding 9's here, remember we're playing 25NL against someone who doesnt buy in for the max; less half a stack.
*** TURN *** [Jd 6h Ts] [Th]
*** RIVER *** [Jd 6h Ts Th] [5d]
As you can see, we had a substantial amount of outs and didnt hit. I'm a firm believer in aggression in poker, and I stick with it. I try not to be results oriented, but after this happens numerous times, you start to 2nd guess yourself. Especially considering when you look at my stats for AK. So far this month I've had AKs 28 times for a 60% win ratio and -$37.70 overall. I'm not sure whether this is a leak or what. I'm interested to see how others play these types of hands, not just AK.
While cash hasn't been going great this month, I've been able to stay afloat thanks to tournaments. I haven't been playing that many but have been getting some good results. I played the daily double on Saturday Night. In the A tournament I went out 263rd, with 216 cashing, but in the B tournament I made it deep for 15th and a $135 dollar cash. Today on PokerStars they had the WBCOOP(World Bloggers Championship of Online Poker). I decided to look at the structure expecting to see the standard $1500 chip 15 min level tournament. Surprisingly it was the Sunday Million structure with 10k in chips.
There were some really good prizes being offered. First being a PCA package worth $12k, 2nd being a 50" plasma tv and so on. You can see the other prizes through the link above. I was running pretty good while not getting dealt too much. My puff on PXF for the tourney was 26. It wasn't too tough to accumulate chips as players were playing with their cards face up for the most part. Here's a shot of me getting my squeeze on late in the tournament.
I misplayed a hand quite bad and found myself with 92k at 5k/10k level. It was our favorite time in the tournament, that being push/fold poker. I shoved KJ from the hijack and got insta called by AT and I didnt get there. The tournament paid out through the 81st spot and I did get paid. Unfortunately it was the worst payout. I'll be receiving the Elusive PokerStars duffle bag and Plastic Cards(Which I'm sure the home game nuts will be happy about). I couldn't hold off another 9 spots to get an Ipod though could I Lee?
College Football this week was of course another Upset Saturday. Both #1 and #2 teams losing for the first time in a while. I'd love to see everytime lose and leave us with about 10 teams all with 1 loss so the BCS fails miserably. In a clash of unbeatens in the NFL, New England stuck it to the Cowboys. The Patriots just play freakishly well. If they beat the Colts, I wouldnt be surprised if they 1) stayed healthy and 2) didnt rest people at the end of the season. The GGGGGGGGGGG-Men play tomorrow night in the Dirty Dirty aka Atlanta. I'm tired of people saying this is a trap game for the Giants. Ok, for one you have to be a good team to have trap games. While I believe we are a decent team, we aren't 5-1. Also you have to have a big game coming up. Considering we play the 49ers next week, we don't have that going for us. Now if we run the table and go 6-2 going into the bye week, we'll be in good shape.
The last thing I wanted to speak about is the supposed Absolute Poker Scandal that is being talked about on Pocket 5's and 2+2. To save yourselves some time. For a while it was thought that a certain group of players could see everyone's hole cards. TheWacoKidd(Jared Hamby) got a hold of the HH from the tournament which AP gave him. It was a full excell file with ip's and ALL whole cards exposed. Some pretty solid and concrete evidence has been brought forth proving what everyone has thought all along. I strongly urge everyone to read one of those threads and immediately withdraw all your funds from there.
I think thats about it for now, see ya at the tables.
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