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another good day
by Adam on Feb.05, 2012, under poker
Binked 1st in a $5 PLO8 tourney, 1st in a 2/180, 1st in a small HOSE tourney, and 3rd in a 2/180 after some bad luck. Still have not ran well enough in any 3r180s or 8/180s to win one. Hopefully soon.
finally, some luck
by Adam on Feb.03, 2012, under poker
got 4th/1705 in a $5 hyper turbo for and 3rd in a 3r180. Nice day so far, gonna grind a bit later tonight.
breaking even
by Adam on Feb.02, 2012, under poker
Not much going on, I get deep in tournaments and finish 3rd-20th over and over again. Ev way below expectation every day. Today I played a short session of $8/180s and $3r180s. I made some profit, but I think i had 5 final tables and 3 other cashes, but I always ran bad at the final tables. Either I went carddead or I just lost totally standard coinflips. I finished 5th, 7th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 12th, 16th.
225k chips under ev. Ev bb/100 = 17.03. Actually bb/100 = 1.71 today
holy runbad
by Adam on Jan.27, 2012, under poker
Can’t believe the day I had. Either I was incredibly carddead, or I took bad beats. I lost about 100 flips in a row in the omaha hyper turbos. I played the razz tcoop and ran like absolute shit but almost min-cashed because the players were so god awful. There were several hands were I had the best hand showing and a player was raising me, with only about a 30% chance to hit and got there. Then of course I get no playable hands and missed 3 or 40-50%’s in a row to bust. I played some other random tourneys like the $16.50 hose and bubbled, the $22 O8 and bubbled because I never got dealt a hand while two ultra-mega-degen fish played 80% of their hands and always won.
hyper turbos
by Adam on Jan.26, 2012, under poker
decided to grind a few hyper turbos so I could get to goldstar by the end of the month. Ended up running really well. overall a great day.
min cashing
by Adam on Jan.25, 2012, under poker
Somehow won today even though I ran like crap. Bubbled or min/cashed in virtually everything. Bubbled the stud hi/lo tcoop because some swedish guy decided to reraise Q55 preflop as if that’s a great stud hi/lo starting hand.
3rd in $11 plo FT only paid
by Adam on Jan.24, 2012, under poker
Got a small win today 3rd in the $11 turbo PLO final table only paid. I went out on a hand where I had 70% equity and only 16% chance to lose for the chip lead. Pretty frustrating beat but I did get lucky cracking AAxx at one point near the money.
Played a few other omaha games and got deep but the cards turned ugly. I think I flopped top set 3 or 4 times today, got the chips in on the turn for a big pot and my opponents rivered their draw each time. Strangely I always had top set with KK and lost.
might play a bit later tonight. Time to hit the gym.
played another session, went deep in a lot of games and cashed in a bunch. I found a few good late night tourneys with a lot of fish.
more variance
by Adam on Jan.24, 2012, under poker
I was doing fairly well at the beginning of the day, but then ran into a huge stretch of coolers.
I played some $7 HU hyper turbos and after the session I had I might just give up on that form of poker. It seemed like virtually every hand I had was second best, and every time I shoved a standard hand my opponents would call me and have me dominated. I got coolered a ton, flopping top pair, top 2 pair, etc and losing to a better hand over and over again. Then to cap it off, when I did get all in pre and have the advantage my opponents kept hitting their 30-45%’s over and over and over again. I’m still up about $57 over 125 games, but after this last session I’m probably just going to play these only once in a while if I feel like it. Grinding them just seems way too mind-numbing. I don’t even really enjoy the players in them either. Most of the guys are super spazz-aggressive which makes the variance that much higher.
variance
by Adam on Jan.23, 2012, under poker
not much happened today, got deep in some tourneys and ran bad. Lost two 80%’s in a row in the sunday storm to bust. Lost AA to K6 all in pre in a $1r turbo down to 40 players for a huge pot.
yuck
by Adam on Jan.22, 2012, under poker
horrid day full of carddeadness and beats. Ran ultra shitty in satellites – in one I lost AA to J7o in a weird situation that cost me $100… went all in preflop for 6bbs and got called after another shortstack was all-in for less than 1 bb on the bubble. Later I lost AK to TT on the bubble of a $215 satellite, so that cost me another $100 in equity.
Also played the tcoop triple stud and a swedish fish on tilt raised my ep open in stud with A38 no suits. I had 47Jddd and the rest of the players cards looked crappy so I went for a steal. He ended up hitting an ace on 5th and had 47J99 with 4 diamonds and we got all in. I was about a 57% favorite to have a 25k stack but whiffed. Really frustrating. The same player also called my ep raise of 743 in razz with 962 and I ended up making 3 pair. Just one of those days I guess….