Sup Gang,
Finally got off my lazy ass and got back to the poker room last night. Took a little while to get acclimated to the game again but after a while I felt right at home. I instantly dropped 350 of my initial 500 buyin and took a step back and played more straightforward as opposed to being tricky. Long story short, I ended up getting into a set over set situation that almost doubled me up and then just took down a couple small pots and ended the session +300. For being away from the tables for so long, I was happy with the outcome and being able to turn a profit after dropping 350 so fast.
Session 1 Recap-
Time: 3.5 hours
Buyin: $50
Stakes: 2/5NL
Cashout: $827
Profit: +$327
I'm about to head out again so hopefully I can keep this up!
Cheers,
mazzler
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
10/17/2011
Sup Gang,
Had a session over the weekend where I started off losing with T8hh on 883 v AA for half my stack. Built that back up to about $350 and then got it in with J9dd on JT7dd and bricked out. Felt pretty shitty and just bounced after that.
Session 5 Recap-
Time: 2 hours
Buyin: $300
Stakes: 2/5NL
Cashout: $0
Profit: $-300
Cheers,
mazzler
Had a session over the weekend where I started off losing with T8hh on 883 v AA for half my stack. Built that back up to about $350 and then got it in with J9dd on JT7dd and bricked out. Felt pretty shitty and just bounced after that.
Session 5 Recap-
Time: 2 hours
Buyin: $300
Stakes: 2/5NL
Cashout: $0
Profit: $-300
Cheers,
mazzler
Friday, October 14, 2011
10/14/2011
Sup Gang,
Just got back from the casino. Was a pretty good session as we were playing 7-8 handed for the majority of the night and the table was pretty soft. People were just overplaying their hands and making really bad call downs. I didn't do anything tricky, just opened and cbet bluffed with a couple hands but besides those, most of my hands were for value. The toughest hand of the night was when I opened UTG+1 with AA over a limp and got 2 callers. Flop came down 862cc. UTG checks, I cb 45, other dude folds and UTG calls. Turn is 4x and again the guy c/c my bet of 110 with about 250 behind. River comes 7x and he open ships and I call and he tables 97o. Besides that I was pretty much cruising and playing kinda nitty but I was fine with that. I was getting really good value from these players that called down with like MP or BP.
My friend is having his bday tmw at the same casino so I'll get a chance to grind a little bit on a Friday which is rare. Hopefully the action is good and ya boy can make some money.
Session 4 Recap-
Time: 4 hours
Buyin: $300
Stakes: 2/5NL
Cashout: $1180
Profit: $+880
Cheers,
mazzler
Just got back from the casino. Was a pretty good session as we were playing 7-8 handed for the majority of the night and the table was pretty soft. People were just overplaying their hands and making really bad call downs. I didn't do anything tricky, just opened and cbet bluffed with a couple hands but besides those, most of my hands were for value. The toughest hand of the night was when I opened UTG+1 with AA over a limp and got 2 callers. Flop came down 862cc. UTG checks, I cb 45, other dude folds and UTG calls. Turn is 4x and again the guy c/c my bet of 110 with about 250 behind. River comes 7x and he open ships and I call and he tables 97o. Besides that I was pretty much cruising and playing kinda nitty but I was fine with that. I was getting really good value from these players that called down with like MP or BP.
My friend is having his bday tmw at the same casino so I'll get a chance to grind a little bit on a Friday which is rare. Hopefully the action is good and ya boy can make some money.
Session 4 Recap-
Time: 4 hours
Buyin: $300
Stakes: 2/5NL
Cashout: $1180
Profit: $+880
Cheers,
mazzler
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
10/12/2011
Sup Gang,
Just got back from the casino. Pretty lame session. Not much was going on and everyone was really nitty. Decided to just loosen up and iso a ton and had some mixed results. It was nice though because it was less variance and was just smooth sailing for the majority of the session.
Session 3 Recap-
Time: 2.5 hours
Buyin: $300
Stakes: 2/5NL
Cashout: $513
Profit: $+213
Cheers,
mazzler
Just got back from the casino. Pretty lame session. Not much was going on and everyone was really nitty. Decided to just loosen up and iso a ton and had some mixed results. It was nice though because it was less variance and was just smooth sailing for the majority of the session.
Session 3 Recap-
Time: 2.5 hours
Buyin: $300
Stakes: 2/5NL
Cashout: $513
Profit: $+213
Cheers,
mazzler
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
10/5/2011
Sup Gang,
It's been a long time since my last post. I took a bunch of time off to do all sorts of ill shit. I had my birthday at the end of July, a bunch of birthdays in August and I went on a cruise not too long ago with my girlfriend around the Caribbean. Going on that downswing really deterred me from playing more poker but on the cruise ship I got a chance to play some poker and realized that I am probably better than 90% of the population. I just have to get in my hours like I did when I played online and I know at the end of it I will be in the green. Playing live sometimes I take losing a few hundred bucks a little too seriously and feel like I need to win it back before the end of the session. I just have to remember that the fish will always be there tomorrow and today might not be my day.
I played two sessions the past couple days and I have to say I'm happy with how I am playing but the results aren't quite there. I am hoping to get in like 20 hours a week minimum and reevaluate my situation at the end of the month. Pretty much I am running pretty shitty but I managed to not lose too much money.
Session 1 & 2 Recap-
Time: 6 hours
Buyin: $1000
Stakes: 2/5NL
Cashout: $839
Profit: $-161
It just seemed that things weren't going my way. Top set in 3b pot and losing. Bricking my draws. I feel like I need to just play a lower variance style and just value bet my way to profit. It felt good to get back to the tables and I hope the next time I blog, I'll have some good things to talk about.
Cheers,
mazzler
It's been a long time since my last post. I took a bunch of time off to do all sorts of ill shit. I had my birthday at the end of July, a bunch of birthdays in August and I went on a cruise not too long ago with my girlfriend around the Caribbean. Going on that downswing really deterred me from playing more poker but on the cruise ship I got a chance to play some poker and realized that I am probably better than 90% of the population. I just have to get in my hours like I did when I played online and I know at the end of it I will be in the green. Playing live sometimes I take losing a few hundred bucks a little too seriously and feel like I need to win it back before the end of the session. I just have to remember that the fish will always be there tomorrow and today might not be my day.
I played two sessions the past couple days and I have to say I'm happy with how I am playing but the results aren't quite there. I am hoping to get in like 20 hours a week minimum and reevaluate my situation at the end of the month. Pretty much I am running pretty shitty but I managed to not lose too much money.
Session 1 & 2 Recap-
Time: 6 hours
Buyin: $1000
Stakes: 2/5NL
Cashout: $839
Profit: $-161
It just seemed that things weren't going my way. Top set in 3b pot and losing. Bricking my draws. I feel like I need to just play a lower variance style and just value bet my way to profit. It felt good to get back to the tables and I hope the next time I blog, I'll have some good things to talk about.
Cheers,
mazzler
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
July Results 8/2/2011
Hey Gang,
Not much to report here. Just wasn't feeling poker for the tail end of July and just wanted to chill for my birthday and what not. My birthday was this past weekend and it was pretty awesome. We had a party over at my parents place which provided a lot more space than our condo. We started off with a poker tournament which I came in 4th/22 and I just drank myself into a blackout around 10pm. The next couple days were just spent recovering and now I realize I have some licenses for work to renew. It's just a pain in the ass that I have to do every couple years.
Poker was pretty meh for me. I just can't get anything going and I'm just going through that phase where I don't know if I'm a winning player or not. Hoping to get in a ton of hours this month and try to get some sort of true winrate. I had a couple sessions that I didn't record yet where I went like -600 and -300 I believe.
July Totals:
Sessions: 7
Time: 28 hours
Profit: -2000
Hourly: -$71/hr
So yeah, July was pretty ass at the tables but I think the time off recharged my chi or whatever and hope things can come together. Hoping I can get at least 60 hours in this month and just do work ya dig.
Hope you guys have been well!
Cheers,
mazzler
Not much to report here. Just wasn't feeling poker for the tail end of July and just wanted to chill for my birthday and what not. My birthday was this past weekend and it was pretty awesome. We had a party over at my parents place which provided a lot more space than our condo. We started off with a poker tournament which I came in 4th/22 and I just drank myself into a blackout around 10pm. The next couple days were just spent recovering and now I realize I have some licenses for work to renew. It's just a pain in the ass that I have to do every couple years.
Poker was pretty meh for me. I just can't get anything going and I'm just going through that phase where I don't know if I'm a winning player or not. Hoping to get in a ton of hours this month and try to get some sort of true winrate. I had a couple sessions that I didn't record yet where I went like -600 and -300 I believe.
July Totals:
Sessions: 7
Time: 28 hours
Profit: -2000
Hourly: -$71/hr
So yeah, July was pretty ass at the tables but I think the time off recharged my chi or whatever and hope things can come together. Hoping I can get at least 60 hours in this month and just do work ya dig.
Hope you guys have been well!
Cheers,
mazzler
Thursday, July 21, 2011
7/21/2011
Hey Gang,
Just got back from a trip to Snoqualmie. It was actually a lot shorter drive than I expected. It usually takes me about 45 minutes to get to Tulalip and the drive to Snoqualmie took me about 25 minutes. Definite plus right here. When I arrived in the poker room there were 3 2/5 tables and 1 4/8 limit game running. I got seated pretty quickly at a table that turned out to be pretty damn juicy. There were a few people just playing every hand and calling down super light. I am trying to implement a new strategy based around limping more and just trying to take advantage of people playing terribly postflop.
While getting accustomed to my new table, I slowly bled off $200 of my initial $300 buyin. I topped off and got into a hand with 77. I opened the action in EP and got 3 callers. Came down 654ss and the huge fish led for 25 and I raised it up to 75. I got this old guy to flat and the fish called as well. The turn was the 3x and it got checked to me and I just shipped my remaining 125 into the pot. The old guy called and the river came 5x and he turns over AKss for the missed FD. At this time we were playing shorthanded so I was playing in a ton of pots with the huge fish but he kept getting some super premium hands.
The next hand of the night came when we got another table to combine with ours and a older Vietnamese dude sat down with about 3k. He was limping and calling every single raise preflop and tried to bluff a ton. I opened AA UTG and he flats as well as the huge fish. It comes down 977ss and I cb 50 and viet dude calls. Turn is the 6s and I check and he bets 120. I look back at my cards and see that I have the As just in case. The river is a 3x and it gets checked down and I scoop. I elected to c/c turn and check river because I didn't want to get blown off the hand and wasn't sure if he'd call more streets with weaker hands.
The next orbit I get JJ in the CO and I raise it up big because the fish were L/C raises to 50. The viet guy and the huge fish call again and the flop comes down 972r. I cb 65 and the viet guy raises to 140. He has been raising a lot of TP type of hands so I elected to flat with about 550 behind. The turn is the Tx and I check and he bets out 210. I decide to ship it because he can call with a lot of worse hands and I didn't feel like folding to this dude. He ended up tanking and saying how this would be a crazy call. He ended up calling because he said there was too much money in the pot and the river came like a 3x and I ended up scooping. He later told me had 98.
The last orbit I played I picked up AA in MP and raised to 45 after a couple limpers came in and they all called along with the viet guy. Flop came down KQ9dd and it got checked to me and I led for 90 and the viet guy called again. I observed that he would play his strong hands aggressively on the flop so when he called I put him on a pair or diamonds. The turn was a 7x and he c/c again my bet of 140. The river brought the 3x and he checked again and this is where I might have messed up. I thought his range consisted of more diamonds than kings, and didn't want him shoving over my vb so I ended up checking and he said he had a king and I scoop. Take into account that I have been on a downswing so I took the lower variant play but it might have cost me some money.
Session 5 Recap-
Time: 6 hours
Buyin: $500
Stakes: 2/5 NL
Cashout: $1640
Profit: +1140
It feels incredible to finally get a winning session under my belt after running so bad for so long. I will definitely be hitting up Sno in the future and hope that things will work out.
I also forgot to mention that Sno has hourly $200 high hands through 2am so that was pretty cool as well as having a Monte Carlo for quads or better.
Cheers,
mazzler
Just got back from a trip to Snoqualmie. It was actually a lot shorter drive than I expected. It usually takes me about 45 minutes to get to Tulalip and the drive to Snoqualmie took me about 25 minutes. Definite plus right here. When I arrived in the poker room there were 3 2/5 tables and 1 4/8 limit game running. I got seated pretty quickly at a table that turned out to be pretty damn juicy. There were a few people just playing every hand and calling down super light. I am trying to implement a new strategy based around limping more and just trying to take advantage of people playing terribly postflop.
While getting accustomed to my new table, I slowly bled off $200 of my initial $300 buyin. I topped off and got into a hand with 77. I opened the action in EP and got 3 callers. Came down 654ss and the huge fish led for 25 and I raised it up to 75. I got this old guy to flat and the fish called as well. The turn was the 3x and it got checked to me and I just shipped my remaining 125 into the pot. The old guy called and the river came 5x and he turns over AKss for the missed FD. At this time we were playing shorthanded so I was playing in a ton of pots with the huge fish but he kept getting some super premium hands.
The next hand of the night came when we got another table to combine with ours and a older Vietnamese dude sat down with about 3k. He was limping and calling every single raise preflop and tried to bluff a ton. I opened AA UTG and he flats as well as the huge fish. It comes down 977ss and I cb 50 and viet dude calls. Turn is the 6s and I check and he bets 120. I look back at my cards and see that I have the As just in case. The river is a 3x and it gets checked down and I scoop. I elected to c/c turn and check river because I didn't want to get blown off the hand and wasn't sure if he'd call more streets with weaker hands.
The next orbit I get JJ in the CO and I raise it up big because the fish were L/C raises to 50. The viet guy and the huge fish call again and the flop comes down 972r. I cb 65 and the viet guy raises to 140. He has been raising a lot of TP type of hands so I elected to flat with about 550 behind. The turn is the Tx and I check and he bets out 210. I decide to ship it because he can call with a lot of worse hands and I didn't feel like folding to this dude. He ended up tanking and saying how this would be a crazy call. He ended up calling because he said there was too much money in the pot and the river came like a 3x and I ended up scooping. He later told me had 98.
The last orbit I played I picked up AA in MP and raised to 45 after a couple limpers came in and they all called along with the viet guy. Flop came down KQ9dd and it got checked to me and I led for 90 and the viet guy called again. I observed that he would play his strong hands aggressively on the flop so when he called I put him on a pair or diamonds. The turn was a 7x and he c/c again my bet of 140. The river brought the 3x and he checked again and this is where I might have messed up. I thought his range consisted of more diamonds than kings, and didn't want him shoving over my vb so I ended up checking and he said he had a king and I scoop. Take into account that I have been on a downswing so I took the lower variant play but it might have cost me some money.
Session 5 Recap-
Time: 6 hours
Buyin: $500
Stakes: 2/5 NL
Cashout: $1640
Profit: +1140
It feels incredible to finally get a winning session under my belt after running so bad for so long. I will definitely be hitting up Sno in the future and hope that things will work out.
I also forgot to mention that Sno has hourly $200 high hands through 2am so that was pretty cool as well as having a Monte Carlo for quads or better.
Cheers,
mazzler
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