Is this serious?
The last week I've been playing a couple thousand hands a day and have been unable to keep my good run from April going in May. I saved some interesting hands from the past week, enjoy!
-My plan was to donk a ton of turns, hitting the nuts certainly helped. The river completes the flush and pairs the board but I still had a pretty easy shove for value imo.
-This guy made such a tiny 3bet and since we were almost 300bb deep I made the preflop call. I felt he was gearing up for a checkraise on the flop so I checked behind and hit gin on the turn. I made the small raise hoping he would come over the top with some kind of draw as there were plenty of them out there. The river is really nasty, Olli was behind me when I made the bet and I said clearly "I'm gonna puke if he shoves." Needless to say, he shoved, I tanked it and prayed, bleh.
-Same opponent, interesting hand. Relatively thin value shove.
-There was a pretty big fish playing NL5k and I flopped gold (or so I thought) against him. His check minraise was suspicious, but I had seen him playing overpairs the same way, so made the 3bet and got it in. The backdoor would have been nice, but it wasn't meant to be. He left the table with ~45k, props to him.
-His line was so full of shit, so I came over the top of his check minraise as I could still rep some nice made hands. I was literally laughing out loud when it came to showdown, I'd really love to hear his thought process when he pressed call.
-Slowplay goes well. I'm not going to go into my reasoning for my line, but I really like it. It's pretty risky, unless you river quads of course. He tanked and called me with a flush. Bad luck for him.
-NL5k continues to be so f***ing rigged and I can't explain it. Sigh.
-Triple barrel for 200bb. My tiny bet sizing and then the river over potsize shove look so incredibly strong. He thought so long and asked me to show, to which I kindly obliged. I'm pretty sure he folded a Ten, and I probably would have as well.
-So symbolic for my NL5k experience. Why not?
Anyone with basic math skills can figure out that I'm down quite a bit for May. My confidence is not down at all, though, as most of those big pots were just nasty set-ups. I'm definitely going to continue playing quite a bit this month because I want to get it as many hands as possible before Vegas.
By the way, thanks to all of you for the suggestions regarding my new laptop. I haven't decided yet, but I think I'm going to buy a new one while I'm in America. I won't forget the $50 reward if I end up taking one of the suggested laptops, I promise!


11 Comments:
it took me 55k hands in may to just break even, lol
swings are so nasty sometimes...
Can You name 3 best players on BM ?
lol, fishing for compliments? :)
I'd rather not name the players who I presume to be the best on the network.
Cheers,
Cort
lol, I'm not even playing that high
IMO:
Domcee, Big Gay Al, bob06xxxx
but I just watch
Domcee? LOL
some sick hands. good grinding sir.
These are some great hands to look at - thanks! Great to hear you're having a good run of things, I think that is the best time to play the most hands and rake in the most money.
Hmmm, sarcasm uk poker player?
railed u 2nite on 10k buyin. When did you turn into a total Ballllla!?
any chance of a link on ur blogroll sir? (http://pokerblog.ukgamblingforums.co.uk)
Gl on tables
nhggfu
Kopf hoch - geht auch bald wieder aufwärts.
You're too good a player.
der big boom bounce back cash kommt dann beim Main Event ;-)
Hey - thanks for you tip aboout slowplay. Can you expand a bit more of why it's going well, I always find it a difficult one to do well on and win cash...
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