[ ] Sustainable

Next 2/4 shot in progress and yesterday was a good day:


More of the same please poker gods :)

Mario Wars

Poker Stars $1/$2 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 657906

The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter



MP: $277.50

CO: $201.00

BTN: $220.00

SB: $200.00

BB: $486.50

Hero (UTG): $251.30

Pre Flop: ($3.00) Hero is UTG with 7 8

Hero raises to $6, 2 folds, BTN calls $6, 2 folds

Flop: ($15.00) 6 9 A (2 players)

Hero bets $10, BTN raises to $32, Hero raises to $80, BTN raises to $214 all in, Hero calls $134

Turn: ($443.00) 8 (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: ($443.00) J (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $443.00

BTN shows 8 T (a pair of Eights - Ace+Jack+Ten kicker)

Hero shows 7 8 (a pair of Eights)

BTN wins $440.00

(Rake: $3.00)


Converter ok bish ?

Pay attention folks

From what I have seen so far the Stars changes are working out ok. Panic over!

My game, however is not ok. Or at least it wasn't until my sweat session with fooz last night which made me realise how many spots I misplay because I am on auto pilot and just not thinking things through in enough detail.

There is lots of information available if you pay attention and I am ready to take some notes.....

Be careful what you wish for.

Following the great ratholing debate Pokerstars have changed buyins on tables as follows:

20-50bb
40-100bb
100-250bb fast ante

This is not what we were hoping for and it looks ratholers still have a comfortable home at stars.

I am having some time off and haven't been able to play but from what I can see the changes are pretty bad news for any reg who chooses to play 100bb's deep and likes to see some fish in the pond.

I did a HEM scan this morning and all the recreational players seem to be sitting with the ratholers at the 20-50bb tables, and the regs are sitting at 40-100bb tables passing money to each other.

There are some 100-250bb tables running (again filled with regs) but the decision to make these tables fast only when people can be sitting 500+bb's deep clearly shows that the decision makers at stars do not play too much poker themselves. To have normal speed 20-50bb tables and fast only 100-250bb ante tables makes no sense at all!

In addition the tables are labelled 20-50bb, 40-100bb and 100-250bb ante, rather than the obviously clearer and better shallow, normal and deep ante. This is a big deal imo and shows stars are trying too hard to placate the ratholers.

I will post more when I have actually got some hands in but I am concerned to say the least. My initial reaction is Stars just moved themsleves below FTP in the pecking order and that is something I never thought I would say :(

Edit:
It appears that the regs that were very vocal in their hate for shorties are starting to sit on the shallow (20-50bb) tables. Begs the question why they wanted things changed in the first place.

Easter

I played almost 15,000 hands over the easter weekend which is huge volume for me.

Mostly this is because I have family visiting from tomorrow and want some time off but I was also experimenting with some longer sessions and I found this to be a worthwhile excersise. I definitely am going to try and play longer sessions when possible to maximise volume and enable me to be more time efficient.

I much prefer playing two 3 hour sessions instead of three 2 hour sessions and found my focus and poker minset actually improved as the sessions went on. I seemed to get in the zone after an hour or so of each session and from then the time just flew by. No looking at results and just in the zone!

So far so frustrating

I have put in a ton of hands for april already. This just about sums up my month so far:

€1/€2 No Limit Holdem • 6 Players

Generated by weaktight.com.

UTG	€208.70
UTG+1	€115.60
Hero	€200
BTN	€200
SB	€194.20
BB	€259.20

• Pre-Flop (€3, 6 players)Hero is CO
• 

2 folds, Hero raises to €6, 1 fold, SB calls €5, BB calls €4

• Flop (€18, 3 players)
• 

SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets €14, SB calls €14, BB folds

• Turn (€46, 2 players)
• 

SB checks, Hero bets €28, SB calls €28

• River (€102, 2 players)
• 

SB bets €45, Hero goes all-in €152, SB goes all-in €101.20

• Final Pot: €400.20

• Hero shows a flush, Ace high
• 

• SB shows a straight flush, Three to Seven
• 

• SB wins €392.40 (net +€198.20)
• Hero collects €5.80 (net -€194.20)
• BB lost €6

New Coach

I am pretty happy with my game theses days but I decided after my last shot at 2/4 that I would get some coaching to give me a helping hand next time round.

Yesterday I had my 2nd session with fooz and it was great. We spent 2 hours discussing a big bunch of hands that I had marked up in HEM and there are plenty of areas for me to work on.

I recorded the whole session and will be taking extensive notes over the next few days. There are no doubt a ton of things I missed first time around!