Stake Phase II (Week 6).

Week 5 was one of my worst weeks of poker ever. I lost 5 out of the 6 days I played. Even the day I won was volatile and painful, I was down 1000, then up 1600 before ending up 1000. I posted 3 of the coolers in giant pots ($612, $760, $868) already in previous blog posts, but there is no point posting 20 of the more standard ones. My spirit is crushed a bit from the last one that just happened 20 minutes ago, I was trying to protect my hand and shoved for $400 and you think bottom set could fold on a monotone board, but I guess that's why fish are fish.

Phase 1 results: $3898.92 profit each, ~109k hands, ~113 hours.
Week 1 results: $617.25 profit each, 27408 hands, 27 hours.
Week 2 results: $2210.82 profit each, 35502 hands, 43 hours.
Week 3 results: $2153.80 profit each, 33679 hands, 45 hours.
Week 4 results: $695.65 profit each, 19058 hands, 24 hours.
Week 5 results: $2944.05 loss carryforward, 19381 hands, 24 hours.

Week 6
M 11/1: +$240.10, 1040 hands, 1.3 hours.
T 11/2: +$244.10, 1124 hands, 1.5 hours.
W 11/3: -$163.00, 5375 hands, 6.5 hours.
T 11/4: +$5.95, 3165 hands, 3.4 hours.
F 11/5: -$684.15, 3885 hands, 4.3 hours.
S 11/6: -$1283.60, 9736 hands, 11.7 hours.
S 11/7: +$6.75, 365 hands, 0.3 hours.

I knew it was coming!

The donkey got me again. I knew when I overshoved he was going to call with his set and hit. I also lost KKvAK twice in a 1 minute period. I am really not very positive about poker right now.

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $2.00 BB (9 handed) - Full-Tilt Hand Converter from HandHistoryConverter.com
Hero (BB) ($401.25)
UTG ($98.35)
UTG+1 ($554.60)
MP1 ($59.85)
MP2 ($291.70)
MP3 ($297.25)
CO ($200)
Button ($211.25)
SB ($1130.95)
Preflop: Hero is BB with 5, A
1 fold, UTG+1 bets $6, MP1 calls $6, 4 folds, SB calls $5, Hero calls $4
Flop: ($24) 8, 2, 6 (4 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, UTG+1 checks, MP1 bets $53.85 (All-In), SB calls $53.85, Hero raises to $395.25 (All-In), 1 fold, SB calls $341.40
Turn: ($868.35) 9 (3 players, 2 all-in)
River: ($868.35) 8 (3 players, 2 all-in)
Total pot: $868.35 Rake: $3

Why did I lose?

I am doing some reflection on why I lost the last 3 days, and had to get additional funds added to my stake. I am taking the day off today to regroup and for additional analysis, but here are some of the reasons I lost.

1) bad luck - allin EV. This is ok, unavoidable.
2) bad luck - coolers. This is ok, unavoidable.
3) bad image - regulars are adjusting to my loose aggressive play, I have to readjust.
4) bad plays - 2-3 preflop tilty shoves.
5) bad plays - 2-3 river tilty calls when I knew I was beat, but justified my bad calls on pot odds and the thought that I couldn't have gotten rivered or cold decked again.
6) tired - making suboptimal decisions due to being extremely tired.

The day off will allow additional reflection and to get my energy back up to crush.

$760 pot to fish, FUBlacksize.

Fish strategy lesson:
Preflop: call, call.
Flop: call, call, call allin.
Turn: suckout 8 outer.
River: fade the redraw.

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $2.00 BB (9 handed) - Full-Tilt Hand Converter from HandHistoryConverter.com
MP3 ($443.30)
Hero (CO) ($366.40)
Button ($254.20)
SB ($261.55)
BB ($103.75)
UTG ($325.05)
UTG+1 ($253.60)
MP1 ($71)
MP2 ($223.45)
Preflop: Hero is CO with 7, 7
UTG calls $2, 4 folds, Hero bets $4, Button calls $4, SB calls $3, BB calls $2, UTG calls $2
Flop: ($20) 7, 5, J (5 players)
SB checks, BB bets $8, UTG calls $8, Hero raises to $28, 2 folds, BB raises to $99.75 (All-In), UTG calls $91.75, Hero raises to $362.40 (All-In), UTG calls $221.30 (All-In)
Turn: ($761.85) K (3 players, 3 all-in)
River: ($761.85) 8 (3 players, 3 all-in)
Total pot: $761.85 Rake: $3
Results:
BB had 5, J (two pair, Jacks and fives).
UTG had A, 6 (flush, Ace high).
Hero had 7, 7 (three of a kind, sevens).
Outcome: UTG won $758.85

Another note, some regular Blacksize is a scumbag who stacked me 4 times. He got me full house vs straight and then won 3 allin preflops vs me for stacks, AKvJJ, AKsvQQ and 66vJJ. Clearly I was on tilt. Another scumbag is globodominate who seems to have AA everytime I get allin. Was only $600 below allin EV, but it felt like a lot more (cuz a couple hands didn't get allin until the river).

5% again for $612 ...

Getting smashed over and over again ...

SB posts small blind [$1]
BB posts big blind [$2]
Seat 9 (BTN) has the button.
Seat 1 : SB with $327.00.
Seat 2 : BB with $704.85.
Seat 3 : UTG with $86.80.
Seat 4 : UTG+1 with $177.75.
Seat 5 : MP1 with $221.00.
Seat 6 : MP2 with $221.70.
Seat 7 : Hero with $294.90.
Seat 8 : CO with $429.30.
Seat 9 : BTN with $536.50.

** Dealing hole cards **
Dealt to Hero :
UTG folds
UTG+1 folds
MP1 raises to $7
MP2 folds
Hero raises to $24
CO folds
BTN folds
SB calls [$23]
BB folds
MP1 calls [$17]
** Dealing Flop ** [Potsize: $74]
SB bets [$43]
MP1 has 15 seconds left to act
MP1 has timed out
MP1 folds
Hero calls [$43]
** Dealing Turn ** [Potsize: $160]
SB bets [$260, and is all in]
Hero has 15 seconds left to act
Hero calls [$227.90] [ all-in ]
SB shows :
Hero shows :
Uncalled bet of $32.10 returned to SB
** Dealing River ** [Potsize: $647.9]
SB shows three of a kind, Kings
Hero shows two pair, Aces and Kings
SB wins the pot ($612.80) with three of a kind, Kings
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $615.80 Rake $3
Board: [Kh 6d 7c 5c Ks]
Seat 1: SB (small blind) showed [As Kc] and won ($612.80) with three of a kind, Kings
Seat 2: BB (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 5: MP1 folded on the Flop
Seat 7: Hero showed [Ad Ah] and lost with two pair, Aces and Kings
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Stake Phase II (Week 5).

Week four was pretty good. I did play outside of the stake at lower limits some (I was feeling very unlucky, and guess what - I was). I lost ~$500 on PS and ~$400 on FTP outside of the stake. What's worse is I did not go to sleep on Friday night and only slept from 5am-7am, missed the gym and felt like crap most of Saturday. Volume will probably be lower the next couple of weeks due to work obligations. I was trying to win the rake race this month, but some high stakes PLO / high stakes superturbo guy is playing mad volume (even though he lost $400k) and there is no way for me to compete with him.

Phase 1 results: $3898.92 profit each, ~109k hands, ~113 hours.
Week 1 results: $617.25 profit each, 27408 hands, 27 hours.
Week 2 results: $2210.82 profit each, 35502 hands, 43 hours.
Week 3 results: $2153.80 profit each, 33679 hands, 45 hours.
Week 4 results: $695.65 profit each, 19058 hands, 24 hours.


Week 5
M 10/25: -$905.80, 1808 hands, 2.4 hours.
T 10/26: -$975.25, 4282 hands, 5.3 hours.
W 10/27: -$738.10, 851 hands, 1.1 hours.
T 10/28: day off to recover, however I got sick now, I was hoping to play alot this weekend, but we will see how I feel.
F 10/29: -$532.15, 2878 hands, 3.9 hours.
S 10/30: +$1011.35, 5854 hands, 7.2 hours.
S 10/31: -$804.10, 3708 hands, 3.5 hours.

I can't beat NL($0.50).

OMG, 2 days of NL($0.50)(9-max). Couldn't win showdowns, kept getting coolered 3 flush vs flush, 3 set under set ... and they would float two streets with overcards and would hit and I kept paying off like an ATM because their play made no sense.

Lost $666 at NL($0.50). (plus the $500 I lost at PS :()
Recovered $300 of it playing HU.

I am going back to the staking limits tomorrow (or at the bare minimum NL($1) where the players have brains). I don't seem to play as well vs. those horrific players because I can't read their hand (probably because they can't read it either).

amurophil is a cheater.

A player name amurophil is somehow cheating at FTP.
His name seems to be Vincent Rubianes.
He has stolen approximately $1000-$2000 from me with his cheating.
I don't know how he is doing it.

Have a look ... 4 times as a heavy favorite and one flip.

$480 A5v44 allin on 2348 ... 2

This one happened today and I suspected he was cheating, but I couldn't bring myself to fold as a 4-1 favorite.

$400 AAv88 AIPF ... K892T
$300 66vA6s AIPF ... AQTJ2
$240 AQsvJJ he wins a flip
$200 I flop a flush v 88 on Q82 . 5 . 5

He is net up on me $900, but I should be net up on him by that amount. THIS GUY IS A CLEAR CHEATER AND MAKES ME SO MAD!

Here is the scumbags EV graph $1500 over EV.

Lost $850 in 500 hands.

280 set over set.
200 KKvKQs AIPF.
140 QQvAA.
230 bluff 4-bet into KK preflop.

... lost another $350 in my next session to more beats and a bit of subpar play.

Another recovery!

This is probably the 5th time in 2 weeks I was getting majorly hammered and made a recovery.

I didn't make my money with my normal aggression, I made it today snapping off tons of bluffs to the tune of probably $400. I only lost one major pot -$272 when I turned an underset and stacked myself.

I had a major headache all day due to something I did yesterday ...

Super Turbos are really really stupid. I went 111-126. It felt like I was losing every single 60/40 and every single 40/60. Also, there is not much in life I am below average at, but I think super turbos are one of those things. I will not play them anymore.

.

I did sell half of my action for 4 tournaments.

FTOPS #4 THU 11/11 6pm $216 RUSH HORSE

FTOPS #7 FRI 11/12 6pm $216 Stud H/L

USACOOP #6 THU 11/25 2pm $320 HORSE

USACOOP #8 SAT 11/27 2pm $215 Stud H/L

Going to try to win one of these like a champ!

Got boned -$950.

Only lost 2 full stacks, AKvQQ and QQvAK. Short 1100 hand painful session.

The other $550 came as I missed every flop, and the flops I did hit, the opponent got there on the river. Simple example below - then multiply that by 15.

Seat 1: dobieatwar ($197)
Seat 2: Millza ($729.65)
Seat 3: eztoH ($433.95)
Seat 4: wtf_is_nemo ($240.25)
Seat 5: Kangpoong ($330.85)
Seat 6: PlanoQ ($321.30)
PlanoQ posts the small blind of $1
dobieatwar posts the big blind of $2
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to dobieatwar [Th Jd]
Millza folds
eztoH folds
wtf_is_nemo has 8 seconds left to act
wtf_is_nemo folds
Kangpoong folds
PlanoQ raises to $6
dobieatwar calls $4
*** FLOP *** [Jh As Js]
PlanoQ bets $12
dobieatwar raises to $32
PlanoQ calls $20
*** TURN *** [Jh As Js] [9d]
PlanoQ checks
dobieatwar has 15 seconds left to act
dobieatwar bets $48
PlanoQ calls $48
*** RIVER *** [Jh As Js 9d] [Ah]
PlanoQ bets $172
dobieatwar: wtf total bs
dobieatwar has 15 seconds left to act
dobieatwar folds
Uncalled bet of $172 returned to PlanoQ
PlanoQ mucks
PlanoQ wins the pot ($169)
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $172 Rake $3
Board: [Jh As Js 9d Ah]
Seat 1: dobieatwar (big blind) folded on the River
Seat 2: Millza didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: eztoH didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: wtf_is_nemo didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: Kangpoong (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: PlanoQ (small blind) collected ($169), mucked

Stake Phase II (Week 4).

Week three was great with heavy volume (45 hours, 34k hands). I probably won't have such high volume again (for real this time), I was resting from the gym again this week so that I could heal longer. I guess staking can be a good investment!

Phase 1 results: $3898.92 profit each, ~109k hands, ~113 hours.
Week 1 results: $617.25 profit each, 27408 hands, 27 hours.
Week 2 results: $2210.82 profit each, 35502 hands, 43 hours.
Week 3 results: $2153.80 profit each, 33679 hands, 45 hours.

* actually won $1 less than this screenshot

Week 4:
M 10/18: +$28.10, 3052 hands, 3.7 hours.
T 10/19: +$665.90, 4344 hands, 5.5 hours.
W 10/20: -$1216.10, 3760 hands, 4.7 hours.
T 10/21: +$1106.45, 2402 hands, 3.3 hours.
F 10/22: +$347.70, 1475 hands, 1.7 hours.
I have lost about $800 outside of the staking limits (lower limits) and it is making me mad.
S 10/23: did not play staking limits today.
S 10/24: +$459.25, 4025 hands, 5.3 hours.

Rough day so far.

Got allin preflop today with AKs, AK, AKs, and KK.
Was up against AA each time and lost. $1550 swing in a short time.

Here is the hand of the day. Reg. war gone wild.

Table Hermes - $1/$2 - No Limit Hold'em - 14:59:26 ET - 2010/10/17
Hero posts small blind [$1]BB posts big blind [$2]Seat 8 (BTN) has the button.eat 1 : BB with $200.00.Seat 2 : UTG with $231.05.Seat 3 : UTG+1 with $110.70.Seat 4 : MP1 with $306.90.Seat 5 : MP2 with $362.75.Seat 6 : MP3 with $221.45.Seat 7 : CO with $684.20.Seat 8 : BTN with $217.00.Seat 9 : Hero with $228.90.
Dealt to Hero :
UTG foldsUTG+1 foldsMP1 foldsMP2 foldsMP3 foldsCO raises to $5Hero raises to $17
BB foldsCO raises to $40Hero calls [$23]
** Dealing Flop ** [Potsize: $82]
Hero checks
CO bets [$52]
Hero raises to $188.90, and is all in
CO calls [$136.90]
Hero shows :
CO shows :
** Dealing Turn ** [Potsize: $459.8]
** Dealing River ** [Potsize: $459.8]
Hero shows three of a kind, Kings
CO shows three of a kind, Kings
Hero wins the pot ($456.80) with three of a kind, Kings
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $459.80 Rake $3
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