I’ve done some interesting things this week. I finished my 3^rd video.  I had to record two sessions for this video. The first session I was sick, and my mic was on during this session. So You hear me blowing my nose every now and then, so that wasn’t really optimal. So I decided to record a new session. It’s kind of a waste though, I recorded the session somewhere in a 6000 hand session. So there was a lot of history and meta-game going on between me and the other players. I’m not really a computer wizard, so I don’t know how I can mute the original sound and voice it over. Maybe I’ll figure it out someday and I can still release that footage.

Also I did my first coaching session. I don’t know if the player wants me to reveal his name, so I won’t. But I coached him for 30NL on 4 tables and I think I helped him approve his game dramatically in a period of an hour. I hope he will remember all the things we talked about, and find a way to adept his game so he can be more profitable and move up in stakes sooner or later. I also had fun doing it. Making videos and coaching also helps me to improve my own game. When I have to put my thought process into words and explain what to do and why on each street forces me to think things trough.

I’m trying out a skin on the Ipoker network this week. I got a good rakeback deal (a lot better then on Tilt), so I decided to try it out. The software is not great. I can’t mass multi table on the site because the software is not cut out for that. So I have to play like 6 tables, which means less hands, which means less rakeback. But the rakeback is so high I just put in more hours for now. Also The skill level on Ipoker is a lot lower then on Tilt, so for now I’m also taking more bb/100 hands.

This week I got the blackcard from Full Tilt. I don’t know what I can do with it exactly. But I know it has a different store for it when I can buy cash bonuses and other things. Also I get more Full Tilt Points with it. So right on the moment I switched to Ipoker, Full Tilt gives me this blackcard, as if they knew…. Anyways I gotta calculate someday which is better for me. Ipoker with the low skill level and more rakeback. Or Fulltilt with the blackcard and Iron man bonuses, lower rakeback but more tables. Someday I will, for now I’m still lazy :P

I’m going on vacation to Florida Thursday, so I won’t write a blog for a while.

Here’s a hand that was in the recorded session I didn’t make a video of:

***** Hand History for Game 24188956942 ***** (Full Tilt)

$100.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, September 25, 10:21:10 ET 2010

Table Cutie (6 max) (Real Money)

Seat 2 is the button

Seat 1: RussianFlower ( $100.00 USD )

Seat 2: Deshen ( $74.60 USD )

Seat 3: emiliamaria ( $131.80 USD )

Seat 4: Mort_nmgn ( $132.00 USD )

Seat 5: LARSderCHUND ( $351.40 USD )

Seat 6: H0rr0rka ( $99.00 USD )

emiliamaria posts small blind [$0.50 USD].

Mort_nmgn posts big blind [$1.00 USD].

** Dealing down cards **

Dealt to Mort_nmgn [  6d Ah ]

LARSderCHUND folds

H0rr0rka raises [$3.00 USD]

RussianFlower folds

Deshen folds

emiliamaria calls [$2.50 USD]

Mort_nmgn raises [$12.00 USD]

H0rr0rka folds

emiliamaria calls [$10.00 USD]

** Dealing Flop ** [ 9h, 2s, Qc ]

emiliamaria checks

Mort_nmgn bets [$14.00 USD]

emiliamaria calls [$14.00 USD]

** Dealing Turn ** [ 3c ]

emiliamaria checks

Mort_nmgn bets [$24.00 USD]

emiliamaria calls [$24.00 USD]

** Dealing River ** [ 3d ]

emiliamaria bets [$80.80 USD]

Mort_nmgn calls [$80.80 USD]

emiliamaria shows [5s, 5h ]

emiliamaria wins $263.60 USD from main pot

Mort_nmgn doesn't show [6d, Ah ]

Preflop:

 Initial raiser is an unknown, which means he isn’t a regular. The SB (villain) is a big fish who plays 89/26/39/4.7 over 230 hands. I’ve got A6o in the BB and I decide to squeeze. I squeeze here to fold out the Initial raise and play a 3bet pot in position of the fish. The fish 3bets 4.7 so he probably does 3bet his High pairs and AK. My hand plays pretty easy on all boards, so I am happy if the Initial raiser fold and the fish calls.

Lucky for me my plan works out.

Flop:

The flop is Q92rainbow, which is a pretty dry board. The fish checks to me, and I fire my pretty standard cbet that’s a little below half pot. I always cbet around half pot in 3bet pots with my made hands a bluffs. It’s cheaper to bluf, and because it’s a 3bet pot I can still get all the money in over 3 streets when I do have a made hand.

The fish c/c my cbet. His range is pretty wide at this point. It’s Any Pocket pair, any hit, any straight draw (gut shots + open ended) , some A highs, some random floats. Fishes still randomly float with like K6off and hands like that.

I’m pretty much ruling out Q9 and sets here, because fish are pretty passive with 1 pair hands but play 2 pair and sets pretty fast! So I am expecting a c/r with two pair and sets like 90% of the time here.

Turn:

Turn is a nice blank 3 which pretty much misses his entire range (expect for 33 or 2/3). The 3 does put a flush draw out there. But not much of his range contains backdoor flushdraws. Only some straightdraws and A highs pick up a flush draw on this turn. This fish has a really high VPIP but I think he’s folding Q3 and 93. So the 3 rarely improves his hand. I fire another bet of 24 into 57. Which again is a low bet, with the same reasons I stated on the sizing of the flop cbet. I fire  2^nd time here to try and make him fold better A highs and hands like 44-88 and 2x/9x. I know fishes won’t fold Top purrrr but as stated above his range is soo much wider then just top pair. Also he can still call me with straight draws which are KT/KJ/JT/J8/T8 which are 80 handcombo’s.

When he doesn’t c/r the turn I am sure he doesn’t have a made hands. With the extra straight and flushdraws out there I am sure fishes wouldn’t slow play any made hand on the turn here.

River:

Another blank 3. Which is great. And the fish surprises me and front shoves all in with his $80 in a $105 pot.  This shove doesn’t make any sense. Like I said he wouldn’t slow play any made hand on the flop or turn. So I can rule out QQ/99/22/33/Q9. The only boat he might play this way is 23. Which was bottom pair on the flop and bottom two pair on the turn which made a full house on the river. I am not sure how often the fish c/c the turn with bottom two pair though. But I am sure if he did c/c the turn with bottom two he would front shove the river. So 23 are 6 handcombo’s he is shoving a full house for value here.

Now I have to figure out, what other hands does the fish value shove on the river here? Does he ever value shove Qx here? I’m pretty sure he is check calling me down here with any Queen. But for those rare occasions he does value shove AQ here I put in some handcombo’s that beat me in his valuerange. There 9 Handcombo’s AQ out there, so let’s put in 4 handcombo’s in his valuerange.

So he’s shoving 9 handcombo’s for value here.

Then again he had 80 handcombo’s of straight draws in his range. So how often his he bluff shoving those? I think he’s shoving missed draws here a decent amount of the time. The pot is already $105, and a fish has a K high or even worse T high hand on the river. I think the fish panic and shove their stack in a lot of the times. Even if they only do this half of the time with a missed draw here in this exact spot, that’s still 40 handcombo’s! And that’s a lot more than his value range!

So I decide to call and the fish shows me 55. Which makes me look like an idiot :D. But I am hapy with the call I made, because I knew the fish was bluffing here a majority of the time. And like I stated above the fish did panic here and saw his hand on a $105 pot and just bluff shove his stack in. Sadly I didn’t beat his entire bluffrange in this spot. I think the A high call is a profitable call though in the long run J

Greetz, Morten