And it all begins in 48 hours. What a hectic week it's been getting ready for this year's World Series. My mom's wedding is tomorrow and will be the week's culmination but perhaps the most difficult part came today. I owe whatever I have in a poker sense to a number of people but the biggest nod must go to my Grandpa Al, who played the first 7stud8/better hand with me when I was 12. I saw him today and we joked about those games and he had a bunch of questions about this year's Series, he even remembered what position I placed in last year's omaha8 event. Whatever good I have in me I owe to my Grandpa Al. He played was a huge part of my childhood so it was a great to finally see him today and a great reminder that I've got a bunch of people who would like to see me do well and who have supported this unorthodox use of my time.
I played SMALL last night as one of my closest friends from home wanted to go to the Great Blue Heron 'the tent' for a 5-10 limit hold'em session. I think we both won about $120 over 4-5 hours. That's a bit above what I'd expect in that game (~1.4 BB/hour) but it was action packed for the most boring form of poker. It's probably the worst poker pit in the world but with the old regulars there, it felt like a reunion (Soo-Ping says hi JG, cheque's in the mail). I did my best to focus though as it's been a year since I've played live. I had a chance to get a couple of hundred hands in tonight. The action on PartyPoker was fantastic and I ended up winner in 2-4 + 5-10 FR NLHE and some 2-4 PLO but I had a really LAG maniac right behind me so I was playing 2-4-18 everytime I wanted to take a flop. Here are some of the highlight hands....
The first one is a PLO hand I get stacked off in for $400. I limp with AAxx. The maniac pots behind me and the whole world calls, I try to wrap preflop to ~$160 but still get three callers. The flop is bad for me but I had a note on this guy saying he makes 'powerplays in multiway preflop-raised pots" so I went with the note, jammed to push out the preflop maniac (this flop doesn't hit a large part of his range anyways and even if it does and he calls the over jam, I'll still be getting 3-1 with an overpair, gut shot J and backdoor club draw.) The hand I think I'm most likely up against is a flush draw, which, if that's all, im still a favourite against. Anyways, long story, he's got about what I thought, flush draw +pair of JJ. Preflop, he's a 2.2-1 dog approx. and on the flop it's a dead flip (51-49). So he wins the $800 coin flip with a turn spade.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2689684
This 2-4 full-ring, no-limit hold'em hand is interesting because I take a really really odd line with the nuts. For no other reason than a gambler's desire to play a big pot with AA, I decide to flat call an early position open to $14, then after 4 or so other's do the same, the SB decides a squeeze is in order and makes it $100 to go. The only thing that's more fun than flat calling the first time is doing it a second time so I flat the 3bet and so does two others. Q high flop, I come out of the weeds and jam the flop.. the AA hold and scoop a $900+ pot. I think the flat of the 3bet might be -EV because it allowed 3 people to get to the flop with me but in this instance it worked out okay. If I were any deeper than the original 100BB I would never play my hand like this.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2689709
My laptop is not getting along very well with my family's wireless router so I have lost the two hand histories for the big pots I won tonight. First was with AhKh vs. a guy's 2-3o that he tried to run a huge bluff on me with. It was a creative float on the flop with bottom pair, floated my turn bet when I made the nut flush, then he jammed vs. my value bet on the river. I held the nuts so his triple float bluff went south. I've never seen such an elaborate deep stack play online before so I was sort of shocked.
The last was a guy pulled my move, 2-4$ full ring, he opened utg+2 with AJo for 77$ dollars, i tanked then min-raised with AA. He called oop (out of position) and then led a 339 flop, i flatted, turn was a 2, he jammed, I called. Pretty straight forward.
Cut the session sort of 2k hands as I played a pot pretty poorly at 5-10 full ring and I can't stomach it enough to continue.
So I fly out sunday night at around 9pm. My friend Caroline who I used to play LHE with in Brantford is a vegas resident now so I guess I'll see her sunday night for dinner and a little mixed game session at the Wynn. I'll be posting much more often once I get down there.
Best wishes, talk to you soon.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Sunday, May 25, 2008
short and sweet.
Today didn't see much in way of poker volume, but what their was went very well. I spent most of the day with my basketball team. The season's ending and one of our player's parents had us over for sort of a year end barbecue as I'm heading out soon. As long as this season's been and as much of a grind it was with it being the first year of the program, I'm really going to miss the players and relationships that basketball, especially with these guys, created. Assistant coaches, no matter at what level, and this being one of the highest, either have a massive impact or none.....and as far as a bittersweet ending goes, I'll never know whether or not I had one with any of them, young men don't exactly exercise catharsis, but I'm going to remember this season, and them, for a long time. It'll be very exciting to see what basketball has in store for these youngins', I guess I'll have to wait.... thankfully, for some of them it'll be ESPN that will cover it.
Onto poker.
Unfortunately, I can't replay any of the 34 hands of heads up 10-20 PLO I played during the Celtics' / Pistons' game but it was a great outcome for me. A player I didn't recognize was sitting short ($400) in a 6max 10-20 plo game (max buy-in being $2000, and way above my online roll as I think you need roughly 100k+ for that, especially HU) but I sat with him, also shortstacked because..... 1. If I had seen him before, he wasn't a regular and 2. If he was sitting shortstacked to start a game, he wasn't an exceptional player. So based on #2, I thought that despite not being in the mood for $400 flips, If I could push him around a bit early and he was worried about the money, than this was a good spot for me. I ended up stacking him off numerous times over 34 hands and I think he put the last of his roll on the table because once the odd-figured last buy in was done, he quit. I think I raised 32 /34 hands and CB only 10 flops or so.... the only times he felted a hand, he was behind and I held. Bottom line, I had the cheat code on and ran like a god.... he was un-lucky as this is an extremely rare occassion for a HU game (but he was an extremely rare opponent).
The next hand is from $2-4 PLO 8/better Hi-Lo split. 6max. I have mentioned this game before, and it's very complex but essentially it's PLOmaha but the pot is split between the high hand and the low hand. Obviously you want to win both sides.....If you can find a good game with inexperienced players, stacks grow in this game faster than any, cause it's so hard to escape with half facing large, pot sized bets. Anyways, here's a nice pot illustrating the importance of going both ways. I ended up scooping this pot as my opponent was trying to escape with an A6 for low and no high. I make the nut low with A3 and have KK for an overpair to the board which held up for high.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2660946
I decided on not posting any no limit hands for today as they're all pretty much of the same ilk. Guys play passively vs. aggression and allow cards to come off that they shouldn't. It's taken me a long time to understand how to apply this loose-aggression as prescribed by my poker friends who've had a great deal more success than I have, but if today's any example, when you're running good, or when you get caught, this style pays for itself multiple times over. I got lucky in a bunch of hands today but like I said, passivity allows cards to come off that shouldn't in a no limit game, players get mad and then they play poorly against you AND, perhaps most importantly, there's a ton of fold equity when you're firing so much at pots. It's hard to call big bets with suspect hands vs. an aggressive opponent. It's a wonderful style but very difficult to time perfectly, which I'm nowhere near.
The cards are felting well right now and I really don't have any real coolers or bad beats to show thankfully. I hope it continues for me and friends over the next few weeks. Hope everything's well.
Onto poker.
Unfortunately, I can't replay any of the 34 hands of heads up 10-20 PLO I played during the Celtics' / Pistons' game but it was a great outcome for me. A player I didn't recognize was sitting short ($400) in a 6max 10-20 plo game (max buy-in being $2000, and way above my online roll as I think you need roughly 100k+ for that, especially HU) but I sat with him, also shortstacked because..... 1. If I had seen him before, he wasn't a regular and 2. If he was sitting shortstacked to start a game, he wasn't an exceptional player. So based on #2, I thought that despite not being in the mood for $400 flips, If I could push him around a bit early and he was worried about the money, than this was a good spot for me. I ended up stacking him off numerous times over 34 hands and I think he put the last of his roll on the table because once the odd-figured last buy in was done, he quit. I think I raised 32 /34 hands and CB only 10 flops or so.... the only times he felted a hand, he was behind and I held. Bottom line, I had the cheat code on and ran like a god.... he was un-lucky as this is an extremely rare occassion for a HU game (but he was an extremely rare opponent).
The next hand is from $2-4 PLO 8/better Hi-Lo split. 6max. I have mentioned this game before, and it's very complex but essentially it's PLOmaha but the pot is split between the high hand and the low hand. Obviously you want to win both sides.....If you can find a good game with inexperienced players, stacks grow in this game faster than any, cause it's so hard to escape with half facing large, pot sized bets. Anyways, here's a nice pot illustrating the importance of going both ways. I ended up scooping this pot as my opponent was trying to escape with an A6 for low and no high. I make the nut low with A3 and have KK for an overpair to the board which held up for high.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2660946
I decided on not posting any no limit hands for today as they're all pretty much of the same ilk. Guys play passively vs. aggression and allow cards to come off that they shouldn't. It's taken me a long time to understand how to apply this loose-aggression as prescribed by my poker friends who've had a great deal more success than I have, but if today's any example, when you're running good, or when you get caught, this style pays for itself multiple times over. I got lucky in a bunch of hands today but like I said, passivity allows cards to come off that shouldn't in a no limit game, players get mad and then they play poorly against you AND, perhaps most importantly, there's a ton of fold equity when you're firing so much at pots. It's hard to call big bets with suspect hands vs. an aggressive opponent. It's a wonderful style but very difficult to time perfectly, which I'm nowhere near.
The cards are felting well right now and I really don't have any real coolers or bad beats to show thankfully. I hope it continues for me and friends over the next few weeks. Hope everything's well.
Friday, May 23, 2008
work ethic.
poker's often compared to sports. the reason for this is simple, advertisement. i personally disagree, it's nothing like sports but there are two aspects that if we were to run with the analogy, are of paramount importance to poker success; competitiveness and work ethic. competitiveness, and I've often described myself as un-attractively competitive, is a benefit in poker only if you're enabled to use it in the right way (study hands, search for equity overlays and the expected value of decisions, understand fundamental poker theorems and strategy, etc.) and you're equipped with a strong and internally driven work ethic.
some superusers have god mode permanently switched on, but if you're not one of them, chances are, you're grinding out a very small edge and calculation is simple, you want to increase your earn, increase the amount of hands you apply that edge to.
long story short, i just finished up a day that saw me play almost 6500 no limit hold'em hands and almost 1500 PLO/PLO8 hands. I had finished with a solid win but lost over the NLHE hands. I finished up when my AA got run down by 77 playing 2-4 6max. There was a raise to $12 utg, i made it $47 on the puck, the SB called my 3bet with $280 in his stack.... you know the rest. Thought that'd be a good times to stop today's session. PokerEV has me running pretty cold (-$1000+ in all-in equity) in NLHE but I think I played a lot worse than I should have.
Anyways, a few highlight hands.
This was a sick hand only cause he thought he could 4bet squeeze my squeeze with KQo... i suspected such a strange play so I lost the flip...this is indicative of the extremely aggressive nature of 6max now, 4bet squeezing with KQo.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2651895
Um, I ran poorly today, river spike for this dude. I liked the way he played it I guess, what doesn't make sense is from an EV standpoint, if he flatted me with JJ preflop, then wants to get it in on a low board, suggesting he can beat my hand (if he didn't want to flip against AQ or AK) than what does he think I'm laying down here, QQ, KK, AA? He got married to JJ and turned the deceptive play of flatting mid-table into a -EV spot.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2651897
Ok, big pot for the good guy this time. Top two in a deep stack situation blind vs. blind up against my nut straight... we had been battling a lot and I had been taking weird lines with him so I guess he just let anger takeover and didn't want to pitch two pair. What probably factored in the most in his decision was that I 4 betted him earlier with 88 and flipped for 3/4 stacks so he probably thought my loose play was going to continue. No matter his thought process, this was a nice pot for me.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2651902
Onto PLO.
I've really changed my style up in PLO. I've tried to think on different lines and switch up some of my tactics...the main one is how I am manipulating pot size... good example here against an aggressive player who took control of the hand preflop, check call the flop, check jam the river. A major leak in the PLO games is aggressive players not knowing when to pull back on the reigns. Here he stacks off with at the most 4 outs.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2651906
This is a massive pot. Three way all in for full stacks in 2-4 6max PLO. I think I'm roughly 35% to win this hand... maybe a tad less. Looking back on the hand I don't really like that I got it in preflop but it wasn't really -EV, it was just a pure gamble stack off. What it did do was get me paid off a whole lot as the game progressed, which I guess is well worth taking a break even equity coin flip for $1200.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2651919
Lastly, the example how my gamble on the last hand I put up, paid me back. Here, against the same player, I raised preflop, checked the flop, made trips with the top card TEN on the turn, potted it, representing a full house, got called by the same guy, then the board double paired and I made a bluffing continuation bet on the river, hoping he'd be convinced and throw his hand away for the $150 pot sized bet I threw out. I hoped he would fold because three tens are like NEVER good in this spot (if I had to guess, less than 10% of the time) but I was shocked, he called and they shipped it quick, this guy's way. I guess it does pay to flip for stacks sometimes:)
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2651927
That's it, sorry for all the hand replays but it was a long and action-filled session. Word on the WSOP is that my friend's Derek, Andrew and Wes, whom I'm staying with, all arrive on the 4th approx. and that's when we get the house. I'll be staying in the hotels until then as I'm looking to get there on the 1st. The first event I have my eye on is the $1500 Omaha8/b event. I cashed shallowly in it last year, hope to improve. There's a fantastic mixed event on Wed. June 3rd but it's 10k... way too high for me right now. Guess my work ethic needed to be better during the year.
some superusers have god mode permanently switched on, but if you're not one of them, chances are, you're grinding out a very small edge and calculation is simple, you want to increase your earn, increase the amount of hands you apply that edge to.
long story short, i just finished up a day that saw me play almost 6500 no limit hold'em hands and almost 1500 PLO/PLO8 hands. I had finished with a solid win but lost over the NLHE hands. I finished up when my AA got run down by 77 playing 2-4 6max. There was a raise to $12 utg, i made it $47 on the puck, the SB called my 3bet with $280 in his stack.... you know the rest. Thought that'd be a good times to stop today's session. PokerEV has me running pretty cold (-$1000+ in all-in equity) in NLHE but I think I played a lot worse than I should have.
Anyways, a few highlight hands.
This was a sick hand only cause he thought he could 4bet squeeze my squeeze with KQo... i suspected such a strange play so I lost the flip...this is indicative of the extremely aggressive nature of 6max now, 4bet squeezing with KQo.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2651895
Um, I ran poorly today, river spike for this dude. I liked the way he played it I guess, what doesn't make sense is from an EV standpoint, if he flatted me with JJ preflop, then wants to get it in on a low board, suggesting he can beat my hand (if he didn't want to flip against AQ or AK) than what does he think I'm laying down here, QQ, KK, AA? He got married to JJ and turned the deceptive play of flatting mid-table into a -EV spot.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2651897
Ok, big pot for the good guy this time. Top two in a deep stack situation blind vs. blind up against my nut straight... we had been battling a lot and I had been taking weird lines with him so I guess he just let anger takeover and didn't want to pitch two pair. What probably factored in the most in his decision was that I 4 betted him earlier with 88 and flipped for 3/4 stacks so he probably thought my loose play was going to continue. No matter his thought process, this was a nice pot for me.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2651902
Onto PLO.
I've really changed my style up in PLO. I've tried to think on different lines and switch up some of my tactics...the main one is how I am manipulating pot size... good example here against an aggressive player who took control of the hand preflop, check call the flop, check jam the river. A major leak in the PLO games is aggressive players not knowing when to pull back on the reigns. Here he stacks off with at the most 4 outs.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2651906
This is a massive pot. Three way all in for full stacks in 2-4 6max PLO. I think I'm roughly 35% to win this hand... maybe a tad less. Looking back on the hand I don't really like that I got it in preflop but it wasn't really -EV, it was just a pure gamble stack off. What it did do was get me paid off a whole lot as the game progressed, which I guess is well worth taking a break even equity coin flip for $1200.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2651919
Lastly, the example how my gamble on the last hand I put up, paid me back. Here, against the same player, I raised preflop, checked the flop, made trips with the top card TEN on the turn, potted it, representing a full house, got called by the same guy, then the board double paired and I made a bluffing continuation bet on the river, hoping he'd be convinced and throw his hand away for the $150 pot sized bet I threw out. I hoped he would fold because three tens are like NEVER good in this spot (if I had to guess, less than 10% of the time) but I was shocked, he called and they shipped it quick, this guy's way. I guess it does pay to flip for stacks sometimes:)
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2651927
That's it, sorry for all the hand replays but it was a long and action-filled session. Word on the WSOP is that my friend's Derek, Andrew and Wes, whom I'm staying with, all arrive on the 4th approx. and that's when we get the house. I'll be staying in the hotels until then as I'm looking to get there on the 1st. The first event I have my eye on is the $1500 Omaha8/b event. I cashed shallowly in it last year, hope to improve. There's a fantastic mixed event on Wed. June 3rd but it's 10k... way too high for me right now. Guess my work ethic needed to be better during the year.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
strange session.
Total was a strange one. I booked a pretty big win at 2-4 no limit + pot limit and 1-2 no limit. I played horrible however and eventually just shut the session down. It's a funny game in that you can play perfect and lose, and then there are days like today when you play horribly and still scoop 'em all. Anyways, I've got a couple of hands that illustrate the session perfectly.
I tried this play, I don't know where this angle shoot came from, I think a discussion with a friend of mine, but in full ring 1-2 NLHE, i usually open for 3.5x the BB, so $7.... I pick up AA and make it $77 to go, trying to make it look like a mis-click and hopefully someone paying attention picks up a hand just strong enough to realize the accident and jam, and i get the 4.5-1 situation. Welcome to the result of my 'ingenuity'. What does it matter if I get it in as a 92% favourite right?
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2641539
I can't find the hand but I jammed QQ from the big blind vs. a button opener. Of course this donkey was up against AA, sucked out, scooped a big stack. I really think QQ is a fold to 80% of players in NLHE 6max....at least on this site. Problem was this guys is one of the 20% who is extremely aggressive and could have just as easily shown me AQ, which incidently, was another stack off I had (my AK vs. AQ) tonight, which thankfully, held up.
As far as the PLO session went, I was card dead and stuck in bad spots, couldn't continue with a bunch of hands cause of the betting situation and me being out of position on subsequent streets, anyways, I scooped this sizeable pot and left the PLO gambling for another day.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2641528
As full of it as it sounds, I don't know whether or not I hate losing money more than I hate playing bad.
I tried this play, I don't know where this angle shoot came from, I think a discussion with a friend of mine, but in full ring 1-2 NLHE, i usually open for 3.5x the BB, so $7.... I pick up AA and make it $77 to go, trying to make it look like a mis-click and hopefully someone paying attention picks up a hand just strong enough to realize the accident and jam, and i get the 4.5-1 situation. Welcome to the result of my 'ingenuity'. What does it matter if I get it in as a 92% favourite right?
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2641539
I can't find the hand but I jammed QQ from the big blind vs. a button opener. Of course this donkey was up against AA, sucked out, scooped a big stack. I really think QQ is a fold to 80% of players in NLHE 6max....at least on this site. Problem was this guys is one of the 20% who is extremely aggressive and could have just as easily shown me AQ, which incidently, was another stack off I had (my AK vs. AQ) tonight, which thankfully, held up.
As far as the PLO session went, I was card dead and stuck in bad spots, couldn't continue with a bunch of hands cause of the betting situation and me being out of position on subsequent streets, anyways, I scooped this sizeable pot and left the PLO gambling for another day.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2641528
As full of it as it sounds, I don't know whether or not I hate losing money more than I hate playing bad.
Monday, May 19, 2008
to love or hate cardrunners. 2+2 etc..
There's no doubt online poker has changed. I have only been playing consistently for 8 months now but you definitely notice the difference in how the game is being played. It is SO much more aggressive and so much harder to gauge where you're at, more so that it ever has been. I believe it's all of the instruction that is available. People like poker but were sick of loosing so they've turned to CR and the like, to learn how to learn less, or even win. SOOOOO, what do we do know... the styles have become ultra-Loose-Agressive, especially the PLO and NLHE 6max games. It's my belief that any game is beatable, you just need to know how to extract the most against the style of competition you're faced with. It is true however, the more aggressive the opponent is, the harder he is to deal with. I had a good day, booked a win across the board in PLO and NLHE. Here are some interesting hands...again, while looking at them, take in the action, it's so crazy nowadays.
My thought process was simple. Dude's been flatting me in position all day, so I thought I'd let him outplay me. The turn had me tank a bit but this dude's aggression is never indicative of his hand, his bet was too large and his line was that of air, not of value....or so I thought.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2630906
To illustrate the aggression at the higher limits (where the problem is even worse... or trend, not problem) here's a hand from a friend of mine. Yes, it actually happened.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2630866
Same principle, the new trend of extreme over-aggression in PLO, this time I've got him entirely dead when the stacks get in. We have a history though so I don't look at him like he's too crazy, I'd usually bet the flop and keep the lead, the check made him think he was live.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2630927
Anyways.... a few dandys from today, no need to post the coolers. We'll save them for later.
Looks like we finally locked a house up for the Vegas adventure, a few miles from the strip, pool, hot tub, a bunch of great stuff, it does need a Morasse and Pill mind you.
My thought process was simple. Dude's been flatting me in position all day, so I thought I'd let him outplay me. The turn had me tank a bit but this dude's aggression is never indicative of his hand, his bet was too large and his line was that of air, not of value....or so I thought.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2630906
To illustrate the aggression at the higher limits (where the problem is even worse... or trend, not problem) here's a hand from a friend of mine. Yes, it actually happened.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2630866
Same principle, the new trend of extreme over-aggression in PLO, this time I've got him entirely dead when the stacks get in. We have a history though so I don't look at him like he's too crazy, I'd usually bet the flop and keep the lead, the check made him think he was live.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2630927
Anyways.... a few dandys from today, no need to post the coolers. We'll save them for later.
Looks like we finally locked a house up for the Vegas adventure, a few miles from the strip, pool, hot tub, a bunch of great stuff, it does need a Morasse and Pill mind you.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
its a very thin line between love and hate.
It's a lot pressure trying to come up with the first paragraph in what is sure to be the least read blog in the online poker community so I'll dispense with an attempt at humor or some whitty poker poker bit and just say hi !! , my name's Matt. You can find me burning money in cash games on PartyPoker and spewing off in donkaments on Full Tilt. I haven't yet found a way to decrease my net worth on PokerStars yet but I'll keep you posted.
The reason for this blog is so I could keep some of my people up to date on whats going on with me, especially for the upcoming World Series, in which many of them can't make it down for. Let me preface all this with a disclaimer: I, in no way, feel like a niche of cyberspace should be dedicated to my gambling exploits, so in an attempt to make ammends for my wasting of it, I'll try to keep it as light and comical as possible. Hopefully it's entertaining, I can assure you it'll be candid (and possibly painful).
Anyways, I digress. Here are some Pot Limit Omaha hands from last night's session.
This hand is a really interesting one. I ended up having 32% equity when the 4 of us shipped it all in there, one of the strongest spots I've ever seen when a big multiway pot has sprung up.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2620830
This hand is a bit of a cooler. His hand is somewhat obvious on the river raise but by smooth calling preflop I practically locked myself into a showdown as I can't really be put on the overfull. Needless to say....ouch.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2621731
The last hand is from 1-2 NLHE 6max. The game is really small variance-wise compared to the limit of PLO im playing but I've run poorly this month and I'm trying out responsible bankroll management for once. The money's small but the call is sort of thin.... trust me there was some back story to this hand between Shammooo and I, he deserved getting looked up.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2621735
Talk to you soon, keep your sticks on the ice.
The reason for this blog is so I could keep some of my people up to date on whats going on with me, especially for the upcoming World Series, in which many of them can't make it down for. Let me preface all this with a disclaimer: I, in no way, feel like a niche of cyberspace should be dedicated to my gambling exploits, so in an attempt to make ammends for my wasting of it, I'll try to keep it as light and comical as possible. Hopefully it's entertaining, I can assure you it'll be candid (and possibly painful).
Anyways, I digress. Here are some Pot Limit Omaha hands from last night's session.
This hand is a really interesting one. I ended up having 32% equity when the 4 of us shipped it all in there, one of the strongest spots I've ever seen when a big multiway pot has sprung up.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2620830
This hand is a bit of a cooler. His hand is somewhat obvious on the river raise but by smooth calling preflop I practically locked myself into a showdown as I can't really be put on the overfull. Needless to say....ouch.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2621731
The last hand is from 1-2 NLHE 6max. The game is really small variance-wise compared to the limit of PLO im playing but I've run poorly this month and I'm trying out responsible bankroll management for once. The money's small but the call is sort of thin.... trust me there was some back story to this hand between Shammooo and I, he deserved getting looked up.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2621735
Talk to you soon, keep your sticks on the ice.
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