Thursday, 27 October 2011

Annoyance and clairvoyance

I've let myself go again. This isn't only true for my blog, I also haven't attended any lectures in about 2 weeks. But they're not important. This is.
I'll get straight to catching up. I played a session on the 23rd. It was unremarkable other than the frequency of donks making their ubiquitous calls on the river. In fact, they could have just been really good at reading me because they always split it with me, but they really shouldn't have been calling. Then, however, I made a hero call with bottom pair bottom kicker on a wet board. That was just a brilliant read from an inspirational player.
Up $0.40 from 104 hands.
Then I had a shit one the following day. I started off with aces. I got a walk. This may have been the only hand I won. A lot of the time I was just thrown by players with shit pocket pairs c-betting the random flops that came down. I often made even shittier pairs and thought they had ace high or something from their pre-flop play, and their shitty pairs held up. The reason why I'm saying shit a lot in this paragraph is that it was written a lot in my notes. Basically, the opposition were just shit and devoid of logic. I made one lucky fold that was ultimately irrelevant.

Poker Stars - $0.02/$0.04 Fixed Hold'em (6 players)
Poker Stars Hand Converter Tool from CardsChat.com

SB: $0.55
BB: $1.20
UTG: $1.70
MP Psychomobil: $0.80
CO: $0.63
BTN: $0.29

Pre-flop: ($0.03) Psychomobil is MP and dealt 7c 6d
UTG calls $0.02, Psychomobil calls $0.02, CO raises to $0.04, BTN calls $0.04, SB calls $0.03, BB calls $0.02, UTG calls $0.02, Psychomobil calls $0.02

Flop: ($0.24) 6s Tc Qs (6 players)
SB checks, BB checks, UTG checks, Psychomobil checks, CO bets $0.02, BTN calls $0.02, SB calls $0.02, BB calls $0.02, UTG folds

Turn: ($0.32) 6s Tc Qs 7h (4 players)
SB checks, BB checks, CO bets $0.04, BTN calls $0.04, SB calls $0.04, BB calls $0.04

River: ($0.48) 6s Tc Qs 7h 6c (4 players)
SB checks, BB checks, CO checks, BTN bets $0.04, 2 folds, CO calls $0.04

Showdown:
BTN shows Qd Qh (a full house, queens full of sixes)
Outcome: BTN wins $0.54

My thoughts are that I really should have called the flop as I was getting 16-1 and there was always the chance of getting a runner-runner boat. Of course that would have been no good. As I say though, it was ultimately irrelevant as I saved only $0.09, losing $2.71 in 220 hands.
As I've done before, I didn't play for a few days.
Today, I did. I thought I'd get a quick one in before Quants, which I intended to attend. It wasn't the poker that stopped me from going. It was single malt whisky. I didn't even have any, I was just thinking about it. Anyway, I made $0.20 from 143 hands.
After missing Quants, I thought I'd play again, and I thought I'd switch to full rings. I'm not really sure why I decided to play 6-max originally. Anyway, it seemed to be a good decision as I could understand people more. They were playing more simply and also more weakly. I'd usually say weaker, but this seems to be appropriate, although it's a marginal situation. The following hand was easy for me to know what was going on. I knew what BTN had and I knew how he'd play it.

Poker Stars - $0.02/$0.04 Fixed Hold'em (9 players)
Poker Stars Hand Converter Tool from CardsChat.com

SB: $0.86
BB: $0.60
UTG Psychomobil: $0.78
UTG+1: $0.55
MP: $0.58
MP+1: $0.27
MP+2: $0.78
CO: $1.05
BTN: $0.81

Pre-flop: ($0.03) Psychomobil is UTG and dealt 4c 4d
Psychomobil raises to $0.04, 5 folds, BTN raises to $0.06, 2 folds, Psychomobil calls $0.02

Flop: ($0.15) 2h 7c 3d (2 players)
Psychomobil checks, BTN bets $0.02, Psychomobil raises to $0.04, BTN calls $0.02

Turn: ($0.23) 2h 7c 3d 3h (2 players)
Psychomobil bets $0.04, BTN calls $0.04

River: ($0.31) 2h 7c 3d 3h Qd (2 players)
Psychomobil bets $0.04, BTN calls $0.04

Showdown:
Psychomobil shows 4c 4d (two pair, fours and threes)
Outcome: Psychomobil wins $0.38

There was one question that I asked myself. Should I have been more aggressive in this hand?
Poker Stars - $0.02/$0.04 Fixed Hold'em (10 players)
Poker Stars Hand Converter Tool from CardsChat.com

SB: $1.20
BB: $0.34
UTG: $0.96
UTG+1: $0.74
UTG+2: $0.86
MP: $1.10
MP+1 Psychomobil: $0.53
MP+2: $0.76
CO: $0.74
BTN: $1.68

Pre-flop: ($0.03) Psychomobil is MP+1 and dealt Ks Qh
2 folds, UTG+2 calls $0.02, MP calls $0.02, Psychomobil raises to $0.04, 5 folds, UTG+2 calls $0.02, MP calls $0.02

Flop: ($0.15) Kd 9s 5h (3 players)
UTG+2 bets $0.02, MP folds, Psychomobil raises to $0.04, UTG+2 calls $0.02

Turn: ($0.23) Kd 9s 5h Qs (2 players)
UTG+2 bets $0.04, Psychomobil raises to $0.08, UTG+2 raises to $0.12, Psychomobil calls $0.04

River: ($0.47) Kd 9s 5h Qs Td (2 players)
UTG+2 bets $0.04, Psychomobil calls $0.04

Showdown:
UTG+2 shows Kc 7c (a pair of kings)
Psychomobil shows Ks Qh (two pair, kings and queens)
Outcome: Psychomobil wins $0.53

I need to exploit the idiots.
I finished up $0.19 from 47 hands. It's not a bad rate really. Over 10 BB/100 hands.
However, I then played another session. I 4-tabled this time. And I ran pretty good, making nut flushes twice in a row. The good thing about these tables is that you get paid off a lot more than the 6-max. From 49 hands, this time I made $0.79, ie. just over 40 BB/100 hands. Obviously these rates are meaningless from such a tiny sample. But it looks good if it's meant to be a low variance game. That would suggest that my average will be somewhere between 10 and 40. I like that.

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