Boom!

To all who think I am a bankroll nit. Yes I am. I've tried move up before and can't help but feel like I'm playing with scared money.

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Just when I thought I was God's gift to poker I played one of the worst sessions ever on Friday. Detailed stats are missing coz I was playing at my work PC and left the office in disgust after my last debacle without emailing those history files to myself. But I promise I'll eventually post those hands, so that you can either 1) laugh at me or 2) offer me advices if you're kind enough, and I can revisit those hands and try to learn from the mistakes.

I did more than recover those monies today, played all right -- just slightly better than opponents.

Fri pm 3700+ hands ??/?? -$600+
Sat pm 825 hands 16/10 $420.85 +25.51 PTBB/100
Sat eve 843 hands 18/10 $417.95 +24.79 PTBB/100

My 100NL 6-max PT Stats now looks like this: 18k hands, +$4072, +11.2 PTBB/100. Don't know how much the Friday disasters will affect those glorious numbers.

Afternoon hands, sorted by entertainment value:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/347776 88 Villain thought he caught his 2-outer
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/347766 93d BB special every street played perfectly
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/347768 TT I thought opponent was a good TAG. Until this.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/347761 AQh Villain made the same move w/ JTs and 97 before, so I thought my call was automatic.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/347762 55 Can't see another way to play this
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/347764 99 Poorly played; I can't see myself calling that extra 56 if I was villain
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/347770 KK Standard

Evening hands are more entertaining:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/348027 A8h Pwned. Opponent was rather loose preflop, and it's not unlikely he has a 5 (or even a 2) here. I can't see an unimproved PP lead this strong after I bet two streets.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/348026 AK I just want to throw up
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/348024 A7 Against a scared or trappy opponent?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/348025 74 Trying to get opponent to fold what could be an overpair to the flop
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/348017 QQ Why not CRAI on flop T_T
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/348018 QQ Fuck it
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/348016 QQ ......
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/348021 A8d This opponent has made this move a few times (w/ 50+ BBs) so I looked him up with an excellent draw.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/348019 53s I called PF because SB was really bad

Bankroll approaching 20k

Two 6max sessions
Afternoon 1178 hands 18/12 +$387.05 +16.43 PTBB/100
Night 1910 hands 19/13 -$10.10 -0.26 PTBB/100
Overall 'roll 196xx

Afternoon session. Started out like crap and then took off. Hands:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/346278 AQs missed flop reraised pot, "WTF I don't care" call
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/346281 A9h Even though villain only had $35ish behind would check-call turn be the superior line?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/346277 A5d Trying to represent AK myself. I thought villain would fold his strong underpairs on the turn for sure. But then he might not have called flop with those hands at first place.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/346283 66 Got a stack back soon after the A5d disaster. Don't think villain would have stacked off without seeing that hand.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/346284 KQh Everything worked out so beautifully
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/346282 87h I had no idea what SB had. But I was sure SB was steaming trying to get to button who sucked out on him earlier. And that I've the nuts if I can beat AA in a raised pot.

Evening. A bit of everything. Played well at times, but good results were negated by some boneheaded plays which happened too frequently tonight. Hands are highly entertaining:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/346578 87 Meh time to defend blinds; at least I improved from a trailing to a racing situation
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/346580 75h Raised AI on sexy turn, can't fold. Wow.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/346572 AK Villain was sick of all the preflop raising
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/346582 JT Not my proudest moment -- 1st level thinking being my downfall. The moment I saw the flop against this loose player I decided I will try to go all-in no matter what.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/346583 KK Hideous flop call by donkey
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/346584 AQ gg me
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/346587 AJ Sick value bet
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/346586 A2d Kind of like the A5d hand in the afternoon -- trying to represent what my opponent actually had. But here I had a few real outs.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/346585 55 Totally butchered this
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/346588 AK Cluuuuuuuuuuuuuuub
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/346590 AA Against a limp-reraiser

6-max was much harder a few months ago

After 2 sessions of uninspiring full ring play, especially on Tuesday when I loss countless small-medium pots getting trapped by nits, I got back to 6 max today. I had a monstrous day.

Results
Mon 12/24 late night FR 372 hands 15/8 +$160.15 +21.53 PTBB/100
Tue 12/25 late night FR 1785 hands 19/10 -$236.95 -6.64 PTBB/100
Wed 12/26 pm 6-max 861 hands 18/13 +$766.35 +44.50 PTBB/100

FR Hands
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/344252 KK Stacking superfish #1
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/345365 QQ Suboptimal flop, stacking superfish #2

6-max hands. Excellent opponent selection on this day.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/345317 85 Flopped deceptive draw in BB vs fish. Didn't get there, and I decided to give up even though I've shown some strength on earlier streets. He called flop with Q8o. WTF
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/345318 J5 Flop TP turned top-2. Value-towning another loose villain who called with 54 (worse 2-pairs).
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/345323 A4h Probably not a very good semibluff despite my tight image at the table. I probably would've bet any big pair on the flop myself. Non-donk villain thought for a while and called w/ QQ, but I rivered the flush (Th) for his stack.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/345325 KQ Playing TP2K for stacks (villain called w/ KJ). Not sure whether my turn check was good.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/345352 AK Committing myself on flop w/ TPTK against donk
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/345330 AQ Same villain as in the 85 hand. He called down w/ K9o. WTF?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/345327 TT Set against trapper dodging his million outs.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/345331 AKd Good flop. In retrospect I had no idea how to respond if he 3-bet preflop.

Three sessions

Curiously I ran @ 20/13 for all of them. Moneywise not much happened

Sat eve 1179 hands +$62.4 +2.64 PTBB/100
Sun eve 865 hands -$89.2 -5.15 PTBB/100
Mon eve 806 hands +$249.4 +15.47 PTBB/100

Sat hands
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/344089 KK Couldn't avoid the inevitable
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/342962 TT Loose semibad player made a move on me
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/344094 85d I had to request time on the river against this ABC opponent

Sun hands
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/344083 AJd Board got better each street, but I had to hesitate before shoving over his river raise (he called w/ A3o)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/344084 A8 Obviously opponent is reckless
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/344085 AJd Probably should've shoved flop myself

Mon hands
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/344093 88 After getting rag-dolled at this table a few times I exploded against this shortie =(
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/344078 77 Pokerstars didn't like me play this too fast
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/344072 JJ Flop flat worked out beautifully
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/344074 55 Standard set vs overpair
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/344077 T8s Somewhat baffled by his raise, but since "when in doubt push" I did just that. Opponent timed and called with 64dd, turn 9 river 9 gg.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/344080 Big bluff #1. Stack size / flop bet size perfect for this.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/344076 Big Bluff #2. Against a good in-line reg. There's no way he'd call flop with AK while it's entirely possible that I have AK here. Opponent instant-folded, so while result was awesome a 200BB push was probably excessive. Didn't know whether he would call with a set (TT/QQ).

Successful revisit of 6-max

So I realize that I'm not that good. No problem; I can still run good, which is what happened the past 3 sessions, allowing me to win at 6-max.

Gaudy stats:
Thurs pm 818 hands, 21/13, +$310, 18.93 PTBB/100
Thurs late night 950 hands, 15/9, +$438, 23.05 PTBB/100
Fri pm 2577 hands, 20/13, +$473, 9.18 PTBB/100

Keys to success
-tidy up my preflop play
-find fishes
-avoid marginal situations
-get poker God's help from time to time

Sexy hands:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/342177 AQ sick value bet (got called by AT, pot $200+)

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/342179 66 I think this was well executed. After he called my flop check-raise I put him on a good overpair like QQ. I assumed he checked turn for pot control, which meant he would flat-call any reasonable river bet, so I tried for the scarier check-raise bluff. Villain thought for a while and then folded, probably putting me on a set, which was not inconsistent with my line.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/342181 88 Poker God saved me here. Opponent called all-in w/ AQd (flush) but river was a King giving me a full house. Probably inevitable coz I don't want to lose value vs AA with a diamond, AdKx, AQ w/ one diamond or even QQ w/ a diamond.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/342188 QQ One of many moderate suckouts that I encountered.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/342191 AQd Didn't like turn board-pair, but regardless I got this overzealous villain to hang himself.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/342235 AA I was befuddled by his lead, which was actually not that strong ($20 into $45 pot). In any event turn was a T, he shoved I called, he had AQ, split-pot. Feels like I was robbed.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/342180 65s I followed up turn because I thought it's much more likely he called flop with an overpair and now feared the Ace.