Archive for April, 2008

Adjusting against maniacs

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

I just cannot seem to fold a hand against a maniac, you know.

I get pushed around, raised of my FD, raised of my middle pairs, the guy is running like 55/37/4 and I am just thinking I have position on this idiot now all I need is a showdown hand.

Then you get it and I can never can fold it even if his line is different than usual and looks like I am beat

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Slow playing sucks

Friday, April 11th, 2008

I was counting his chips already, when the turn turned…

I was waiting all session to catch this guy and at the end he caught me :)

At least I saved some money.

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Tried Party Poker, they live up to their name

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Today for a first time I decided to seriously try playing on Party.

Shipped some money and played ~700 hands on 100NL and 200NL.

General impression: very soft.

I don’t know whether because it is Friday night or whatever, but for these hands I got 3bet four times and 4bet once. No crazy check raising, no thin betting. I didn’t even see players with stats like regulars, mostly nits, calling stations and maniacs. My biggest lost pots were bluffing calling stations and thin value betting nits (before I noted that he is a nit). I will keep playing, there is no rakeback and the rake is higher but the games seem good. I’ll write more when I have at least 10k hands there.

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Folding aces

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

The UTG player is taggish like 20/14/2. When this guy bet the turn I put him on TT+, so since we are 140bb deep I decided to represent a 7 or 22.

The stacks were good to try to bluff his range. Once he called I decided he could have put me on 99-KK also and then the K comes.

It seemed like the perfect card to bluff, because I expect him to fold 99-QQ here always. So the only hand he calls with are KK and sometimes AA.

I thought that even AA can fold, since at this point I am repping only 7 and 22, the stacks were good, the cards fell good, just that he didn’t fold ;)

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Embedded replayer

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

A saw this replayer from Andrew’s blog and decided to give it a try.

Villain is a good,loose very aggressive player running like 29/25/4. If I bet the turn I don’t expect to be called by worse, however by checking I still keep TT-QQ,KK and AJ,AK in my range. Which is why he cannot easily bluff this turn, but once he checks it I know he is not on AA,KK so I am WA/WB. Which is the reason to check the river and represent AK which he still needs to bluff. However against 99,AT,KJ a bet is better but I am not sure they are still in his range.

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