Live poker

I've been playing more live poker lately. It's pretty fun but gets old after a few hours. I have a few hands written down that I will post but they are more for entertainment then anything else. I have been playing some online but I will be putting in a lot more time online soon once I get over this live kick of mine. So far I have played about 26 hours of live and I've played 10 sessions and have won in all of them. I'm up totally $2903 so far which is pretty nice for having not played live in a long time. A 5-10nl game plays just like nl100 online. Everyone iso the limpers and you get a few regs squeezing so it's about the same it's just for a lot more money. The 2-5 nl uncapped games are pretty fun also. Everyone is about 1k deepish usually and everyone limps I iso and get 2 or 3 callers then I cbet most of the time and take it down. The live games are just so easy so that's maybe why I have been getting out more. I do need to get back on track for supernova elite but I already have a bad feeling about it. I guess what makes me happy about it is that I see there are supernova elites that got it last year didn't even want to keep up a 50k vpp pace just to keep up to keep their status. A lot just say it's not worth it and it was a waste of time. These are cash game supernova elites that say that so maybe I'm better off playing my norm and trying to improve and moving up to bigger live games. I'm not really sure. I really want to get supernova elite just to feel like I've accomplished something online. Anyways this post went on way longer then what I expected. I'm heading out now to go play live. I should get in about 6 hours of play then I will come home and play about 4 hours online. Gl to everyone at the tables. I played really late yesterday so that is why I'm getting up a little late. I think I will try to make blog posts every other day from now on or maybe if I can everyday. At least for the next few days there will be updates daily since I want to post some live hands and most important I want to post about my vacation.

Back from vacation!!

My vacation was sooooooooo amazing and tons of fun! It would've not been the same without Reet. I played some poker. About 20 hours of poker. I also just played a 2/5 nl session while my family in town played some slots. Ended up 487$ profit from a 2 hour sessions. Im up about 2k in the few sessions I played. I will post some 5-10nl hands that I found interesting. I played 8 sessions and most all of them were different levels or different games lol. I also played in a 2-4 plo game which I ran bad in :( I can't wait to get started up back again with online poker and blogging everyday. I will also be putting up a ton of pics of Vegas. I will finish up my beating small stakes blog post hopefully soon. Also I had the request for the main difference of nl50 to nl100 so I want to make a post about that. I also wanted to do an end of month for March post but since it was awhile ago I might not. Once I get back into online in a day or so I will be blogging everyday and making weekly blog updates about how I'm doing overall towards my sne goals.

March update will come up soon. Also nl5 info

Alright so in a day or so I will be posting all the stats for March. I'm a little disappointed in not playing as much as I wanted to but still managed to earn about 5k with rakeback included. So that will be up soon.

Ok so I just got down playing 1200 hands of nl5. I finished up 3 stacks even though I ran quite bad. I will be playing about 4k more hands or so in the next day then posting a how to on beating this level and probably a few hand histories. If you are interested in hearing some more about beating that level or have some questions just post them. If you don't want to post but still have some questions email my at gsustudent842007@yahoo.com Also follow my blog if you like it. I will be spending all next week on the strip staying at the Venetian and playing tons of live poker and will be updating about all my live nl adventures. Thanks for reading and the 'how to' on beating nl5 will be up in a day maybe 2.

27th-29th March weekend update.

The graph is from Friday to about Monday 2 or 3am ish. I did pretty good this weekend for being completely sick and horrible the whole weekend. I had a few interesting spots and a few good hands where I was just donated to. The weekends are great :)

I don't have many interesting hands but I will show some. The first 2 hands are aces that usually play themselves but I just kind of wanted to show you how to play them to get max value or at least as much as you can.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4051562

OK in this hand this guy has been a pretty big fish at the table. His starting stack of 60$ kind of sucks but that's alright. I decided to raise a little larger then usual because I know he will call and at the same time it will start to build the pot faster and get him more committed as the flop turn river come. On the flop he donks into me which I raise 100% of the time because they fold almost every single time but in this hand I basically have the nuts so I don't want to scare him away right on the flop. I figure if he has junk I won't get anything but maybe a turn bet which would be nice. He did end up betting the turn and then I raised. I was not worried about him having anything. I also made a slightly smaller raise on the turn. I guess I could of just shoved but he's a fish and he might get away from his hand if I shoved so I decided to raise just to commit him some more then he shoves the river and it's a snap call and everything worked perfectly :)

Ok so the 2nd AA hand. Also I have a ton of hands to review. I will get to them and be making posts as much as possible.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4051586

Now this hand was not really interesting besides maybe preflop. The person that raised in EP is a solid reg. There's a fish in this hand so I didn't want to raise too much to push him out. Usually I would raise it to 9 or 10 in this situation but I felt the reg that also knows me very well would either shove or fold so that is the reasoning for the small reraise. Once the fish calls I feel he has some sort of pocket pair so I just went with a bet then 2 more progressively bigger bets that worked well in getting paid. I always wanted to keep the bets small because I know I'm way ahead so I wanted to just reel him in with the smaller then half pot sized bets.

Well those are just 2 hands. I have many more but I will write them up in a different post. Also I might play some nl5 nl10 nl25 and post some strat and hands on those levels for anyone that plays those levels and want to move up that maybe they will learn something from my hh and strat talk.

Ok well onto the totals for this weekend.

Money won: +908$ +158$ in fpp value

Hours played: 10

Hands played: 12,543

Fpps earned: 9,909

Vpps earned: 3,000ish

More updates to come. I'm going to try and make a few posts a day since I will be offline all next week. Thanks for looking and if you like my blog and you follow it :) thanks :)

Feeling slightly better. Last week and weekend update to come

Alright so I'm not feeling 100% but enough to post some updates. I did play about 13k hands or about 7 or 8 hours this weekend which was a shame because I did really well and wish I could of played more. I will make a weekend update and then I will post some hands and do things like this for the next week. Also I won't be online from the 5th-11th of April but I will write a daily journal of my days and take a lot of pics etc and post them all once I get back online. I look forward to posting some hands.

I'm sick :(

I've been sick yesterday and today. I'm going to try and put in a session today because its FRIDAY and all the donks are out and about. When playing on the weekends you should really game select. There should be no reason you are in a game with 3 other regs unless there is a 80/20 fish with 200bb. Also on the weekends I tend to loosen up a lot. I know some loosen up during the week and tighten up on the weekends but I think you should play fairly loose on the weekends. The reason why I get loose is because I'm trying to play as many hands in position vs the fish that like to C/F a lot. Also it's important to value bet as much as possible vs the fish. Like on a J high flop they will call you down with 10j qj kj all day long so you need to be value betting all 3 streets. GL at the tables everyone. I'm hopefully going to try and get in some hours today even though I'm not feeling so good.

Tuesday!

Tuesday went well even though I didn't play a lot. I played about 2k hands and beat nl50 for over 20bb/100 which was nice to finally start winning again. I tried to post my stats but for some reason they wont come up. I won't be posting any hands today because there was nothing really interesting.

Sorry that this update sucks but I'm just sluggish. Since I only played so few hands the Vpps and Fpps haven't changed much. I just wanted to get in Tuesdays blog so I can do Wednesdays. Also today is going really well. I've won the last 3 days or so and it feels really good since I went on a really bad downswing after winning for a month straight but I guess its all variance.

Hours played- 3
Money won: +433$