Archive | February, 2009

Back to even!

25. February 2009

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Back to even!

Maybe even a buy-in up as of the end of today, I’ll need to check Hold’em Manager once they sort out the currencies capability next month, because Microgaming switched from Dollars to Euros on the 11th so none of the whole-month totals are correct. Graph is below in denominated in big blinds to compensate; most [...]

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A nice 475bb pot

23. February 2009

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Still £4k down for Feb, but this pot helped. The moral of the story here is to avoid situations in which your range is very narrow and you still have 8-9 times the pot left to bet from out of position. Here I’m sure that his range on the flop is entirely overpairs, and he did [...]

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Downswing

20. February 2009

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Downswing

20 buy-ins from this month’s peak at the end of last week. As you can see, I can’t win without showdown, by going to showdown, or by getting all-in with the best hand. I’m running 8-buy-ins below all-in EV, I’d estimate 2-3 buy-ins lost from spurious, possibly tilty, play, and the rest from either coolers [...]

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146bb pot with 72o

11. February 2009

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No strategy here, just a rare occurence:

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170 bbs, bluff-shove raised flop?

7. February 2009

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This was heads up and had been quite a loose, aggressive match so far. However, I had hardly reraised from the big blind. I’d raised every button as had villain, and we had been playing postflop aggressively, but I’d been card-dead out of position and had hardly played a hand.Given the game flow I expected villain [...]

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