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5 hours +$168 today and I could be as frustrated at myself as I've ever been playing the game.

I walk into Live, win a few hands and am up a couple hundo. Then, I win a $599 high hand as Jacks full of aces miraculously holds for 28 minutes in a full room. What's cool is this wouldn't have even been a high hand at Rivers so I made the right move playing at Live. The odds of that hand holding for that long in a full room? Very, very low. So at this point I'm up about $900.

Lost a few hundo from some bad luck, etc., then, the big f*** up.

We get dealt AJ off suit and we call a $35 raise form a very aggressive player. We flop the rainbow fucking joint, 10 Q K all different suits. He checks, I check.

The turn is a low diamond putting two diamonds on the board. He raises big to $100, making me think he could have KK. I reraise to $225 in case he's on diamonds. He calls.

The River is a Queen (not a diamond), giving him a boat if he has Kings. I f*** up and nervously snap CHECK OUT OF TURN.

He hesitates and shoves over $200 all in. I say "I"m gonna fold because you have Kings". He shows A4 of diamonds for nothing but a busted draw.

I asked him if he would've made that move if I didn't check out of turn and he said no. I know he was being honest too. So stupid, unexplainable mistake cost me over $400.

Still, decent profit for the session, significantly over my $20/hr goal hourly, but very, very frustrating because of that stupid AS FUCK error.

But NOT as stupid as losing $3k on Bovada, so there's that.

Just gotta do like T-Sizzle and shake it off for the big weekend of poker.

Run good, crew.
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I'm curious, do you routinely put opponents on the best possible hand?

I know you told this story for the out of turn check, but the rest of it has me interested. You call him a "very aggressive player", which I assume means he bets and raises with a wide range of hands, bluffs, etc.

This type of player is going to continuation bet a TON on flop, so it's weird to imagine he checks a flopped set. If he bets a bunch of junk and draws, he's gotta bet his monsters too.

But he checks and you check back, presumably giving him the rope to hang himself with bluffing. (Though if the plan was to worry about a boat and fold if board paired, might as well bet now. But I like the check.)

Turn he bets $100, you raise to $225 "in case he has diamonds", but you only raised $125 so he's actually getting the right price to call with diamonds at over 3:1. If we wanted diamonds to fold and/or have a bad price to draw, we should raise more.

River pairs board and we snap check out of turn. He shoves 200ish into 520, giving us pot odds of ~4 to 1 (~200 to win 920), making this a profitable call if we have the best hand even only ~23% of the time.

1. You've described this player as aggressive (so hes capable of bluffing).
2. We showed him weakness checking out of turn, making a bluff or thin value bet even more likely.
3. Good scare card to bluff.
4. He COULD be value betting with worse straight (J9 combos), or have same hand AJ.

Given all this, seems like a good spot for a call. Curious how much thought you gave it before soul reading him for KK
 
No, I don't always put people on the best possible hand. I agree that it probably should've been a call. I didn't give it much thought, the fact that he was raising the whole way with exception to the flop (where it made sense he could be trapping with KK) made me think that.

-$499 yesterday, shoved into a couple boats like a moron.

Annoyed, Might take the day off.
 
stevek
No, I don't always put people on the best possible hand. I agree that it probably should've been a call. I didn't give it much thought, the fact that he was raising the whole way with exception to the flop (where it made sense he could be trapping with KK) made me think that.

-$499 yesterday, shoved into a couple boats like a moron.

Annoyed, Might take the day off.
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Always good to get a day off in to refresh!

Worth noting he didn't raise on turn, he just bet (delayed continuation bet). When you re-raised, he only called. So check flop, bet-call turn, hadn't shown much aggression at all.

Just food for thought. Good luck next session!
 
6.75 hours +$1,270 today! Hit a high hand for $400 (Jacks full, which AGAIN wouldn't have even been a high hand at Rivers) and cruised to $870 from play. That'll be sexy on the updated stats. Feeling very blessed and thankful.A little annoyed I didnt call for $75 vs and Uber aggro player with 99 and he would've shoved into my flopped boat, but after winning that much money tough to be peeved at all, on the post work fucking MONDAY session.

Raise the roof, crew - and run goot!

Fuck yeah.

:highfive:
 
Oh man, such drama tonight at Live.

I'm grinding a few hours, up a hundo and change, then comes this hand.

We have JdQd in the hole and call a $25 raise by a tight player.

The flop comes 9d10dkh giving us the stone cold nuts with the straight flush redraws! I check in first position to the original raiser. There are three of us in the pot. She raises to $75, and the 3rd player snap shoves his $250 all in! I shove my $600 all in and the original raiser snap calls!

The original raiser has KKK for a set of Kings, and the 3rd player has JhQh to also have the nuts!

Also, there is a $50k bad beat jackpot so we have two streets to hit the King of Diamonds to give her quads and me the straight flush to hit it!

The turn? You guessed it, a 9 giving her the boat and the river was the 3 of hearts, so she triples up as I miss all my outs.

I was steaming over that, and it got worse.

I have aces in the hole in the bb and everyone folds to the sb. I say let's play for the high hand (they were $750 tonight every half hour, so juicy) and he agrees. We check it down and I hit Aces full of Tens for high hand (high hand was aces full of eights at the time) OR SO I THOUGHT. YOU know what I forgot?! You need $10 in the pot to hit the high hand, so all I had to do to qualify is bet $5 and say "I need help" and it would have qualified, but I forgot about that. The fact that I forgot that along with the -$400 on the prior hand had me STEAMING. Thankfully someone hit Aces over Kings to win the high hand for that period, so my Aces over Tens f*** up wouldn't have won, so I didn't f*** myself out of $750.

THEN, we have 3s5s in the hole and call a raise....I forgot the exact details but I hit the 4 of Spades on the River to hit the straight flush with two minutes left in the period! IT held, so $750 for Stevieboy!

Ground back a few hundred in addition to that to finish up $618 in 8.75 hours.

Not too shabby, as Adam Sandler would say. Very thankful, but it could have been SO MUCH MORE....2 streets to hit $25k, doh!

Good sesh, and as always stay blessed and let's get the next one, crew.

Phew!
 
stevek
How the fak do you hit (another) $750 high hand, and still come out -$375 on the 13.75 hour session?

That means I lost $1,125 from gameplay?! In one day?!?!

I need to re ANAL yze what I'm DOO ing.
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It would be interesting to see hourly adjusted with high hand bonuses removed. They SHOULD be included in your main count (as they are earnings), just thinking the adjusted rate would give us a more accurate picture of what we are earning through gameplay.
 
Id have to do alot of backtracking for that, which I don't see myself doing man, with all due respect.

Lost $1,006 yesterday....don't feel like I played that bad, got revered over and over again.

Chased a fish to 2/5 and was bought in for $1k down $1,100 :ohmy:

Looking to bounce back today with any win at all then I probably won't be playing until Friday since work took me off early shift, which is a bummer.

Lose $1k, get your shift changed so you can't play weekdays anymore....Stevie is on a bad run.

Oh well, gives me a probably much needed break.
 
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