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Post by spiderjohn on Aug 12, 2023 7:54:23 GMT -5
Tough luck Obviously overplayed your hand 10s?
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Post by eye123 on Aug 12, 2023 8:39:34 GMT -5
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Post by unusualpete on Aug 12, 2023 10:50:10 GMT -5
spider, you're incorrect. read some books and work with a coach before you tell me i overplayed 10's in that spot. first read kill everyone and modern poker theory to fig out what the optimal 20-25bb pre flop 3 bet shoving range is from the button. 2ndly get an upswing or runitonce coach and run the spot through a solver w them right there by your side. it's a solved spot. strive to be process oriented in your thinking. played it right and lost. happens.
that said i don't play perfect poker. not close. can think of three hands played v poorly. two were for value. hero won em but missed streets and left too many chips in their stacks. one was a bluff run that was too easy to pick off. to contrast that though, there was one huge correct call to villain's sizeable river pressure bet that most players can't find. hero could after going in the tank over a minute.
it's a good schedule indeed eye. i'll be back tomorrow for the one day 400bi 50k guaranteed game. i might play the senior game or the 6 max if i can get away on a monday too. if not, i'll just play next sunday's 1 day.
fwiw, there's a picture at instant poker of Mrityunjay Jha. he's the one who busted me. while seated w him he was going in bad vs short stack shoves and passing 'em all over the place. including mine, was 5 for 5 aip and behind. beat jj w 10-9, obv beat 10s w a-10, etc. it was his time. don't pick him to win it, but who knows.
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Post by eye123 on Aug 12, 2023 11:39:58 GMT -5
Yeah Pete, when the cards were shown you were better then 2-1...can't help what the board shows. Got it in good. Keep us (the board) posted if (when) you enter another event this week. Fun to follow the journey. GL
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Post by spiderjohn on Aug 12, 2023 11:41:46 GMT -5
Ok—u r experienced and u were there Regardless of simulators and %s, u were close to cashing, and could have possibly survived the game with a loss.
jmo
Good luck out there!
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Post by unusualpete on Aug 12, 2023 18:10:10 GMT -5
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Post by UpInClass on Aug 12, 2023 18:45:16 GMT -5
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Post by cherokeescot on Aug 12, 2023 19:43:50 GMT -5
It’s been on my mind to have an online UIC Poker Tournament and this thread makes me want to do it even more. The UIC WSOP !
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Post by unusualpete on Aug 13, 2023 9:46:50 GMT -5
reging the 11am 400bi 50k guaranteed 1 day this morning. 30k starting stack, 30 min levels.
wish me some run good.
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Post by spiderjohn on Aug 13, 2023 10:22:53 GMT -5
dangerous hand mentioned above
good luck today!
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Post by UpInClass on Aug 13, 2023 10:25:55 GMT -5
It’s been on my mind to have an online UIC Poker Tournament and this thread makes me want to do it even more. The UIC WSOP ! Yes, please. Good luck today, Pete!
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Post by eye123 on Aug 13, 2023 10:29:13 GMT -5
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Post by Badactor on Aug 13, 2023 10:50:21 GMT -5
"Haven't known a poker player yet who didn't wanna bet the ponies."~ Henry Gondorff
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Post by spiderjohn on Aug 13, 2023 18:37:43 GMT -5
As my wife would think on poker night By this time, no news is good news
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Post by unusualpete on Aug 13, 2023 20:29:11 GMT -5
sorry to report that once again i was eliminated. didn't even make it to the 2nd break. been ages since there was a game like this. hero didn't have one hand he felt could win at showdown. it sucks a lot. a player is forced to either bluff too often or get blinded down to a nub. did some crazy things that made me v uncomfortable. check raising rivers w no pair is quite frankly no fun, but it felt required. there was a fit or fold player to my immediate left who also was just card dead af and he blinded down to a nub. when he finally got a hand, he had no fold equity when he finally went in and was eliminated in a multiway pot just after the first break. hero had to take too many bluff lines where i didn't block much so there were attempts to nuance the action to rep the hard to have combos i was repping. i got folds for a while, but there came a level where i either needed a value hand or i was in trouble. v little game post flop for stacks like mine at about 40k, when the blinds are 1000/1500/1500bba.
right before the 2nd break i thought for sure i would get healthy. hero looks down at kk..KK! and opens to 4000 from middle position. folds to villain in the big blind who 3 bets to 11000. villain started w about 75k. hero was loving his life so much that he 4 bet shoved all in and got snap called by villain w aces. thought for sure i was gii good. guess again. nh sister. gg.
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Post by cherokeescot on Aug 13, 2023 20:47:52 GMT -5
Sorry to hear that but as I know from the few tournaments I’ve played it’s tough when you don’t get the cards .
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Post by unusualpete on Aug 19, 2023 14:17:25 GMT -5
reggin the 400bi 1 day at 11 tomorrow. run good play better win it all.
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Post by merasmag on Aug 19, 2023 15:05:49 GMT -5
GOOD LUCK!
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Post by unusualpete on Aug 20, 2023 18:31:09 GMT -5
in actual psychic pain. was rolling as table captain. playing good, running good. started w 20k and had stacked up to 75k. took a miserable beat before the first break as an 80/20 fav to go from 75k down to 30k. rebounded to 65k in an hour. so here's how i got knocked out.
pre. 400/800/800bba. new villain got moved here and asserted himself as the most active and larcenous of us all. never went to showdown. always aggressive. he'd stolen his way up to 70k or so in the hour he'd been w us. hero felt he could get him good w value hands. he opened from middle position to 2k. the player in the cutoff called. on the button i looked down at ace 6 of hearts and 3 bet to 6,600. the opener called. the cutoff folded.
17,200 to the flop that is ace queen 6. two spades. he checks. w two pair hero should bet thinly for value. decided on 1/3 sizing 5,700. villain insta check raised to 15k. it was too fast. almost invariably fast=weak. think first before acting still. there were only 6 combos of ace queen left. v check raised too fast. there was one combo of 66 left which felt could be safely elim from v's range. we weren't deep enough to just call here so it was shove or fold. hero announced, "all in". villain insta called w 10-5 spades and got there. this happens too much and it's what we want as a 70/30 fav.
got him right where hero wanted him and he got there. bums you out when you know that the good luck is wasted on a player that isn't good enough to make a run in the game.
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Post by merasmag on Aug 20, 2023 20:31:00 GMT -5
although i understand absolutely NONE of that except the first few words i feel your pain don't worry what goes around comes around
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Post by cockpit on Aug 26, 2023 18:00:56 GMT -5
I used to be around these (and the old Blood-Horse) forums a lot but life and illness got in the way of following the ponies as much as I used to. I’m trying to get back into the horses again. One thing I have been doing a lot in those years is playing poker and this has been a fun read. Good luck at the tables.
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Post by unusualpete on Aug 30, 2023 9:08:48 GMT -5
some regs tell me how w some experience i'd destroy the cash games around the bay. don't like to admit when they're right, but they might be. spent too many thousands of hours training tournament skills and virtually 0 training for cash. change is forthcoming, however. gonna elim dailies entirely from the schedule and only reg better structured higher bi games when they're available. it's important to keep the live game blade sharpened, which requires playing something live 8-10 hours a week.
the post ciruit first 11 hours of cash were unrealisitcally great. needed it cuz there was v real fear of tilt from the circuit beat in the back of the dome. the first 6 hr game was all rungood. anyone woulda come up. flopped sets 1 of every 3 attempts and had villains ship it w top pair top kicker when i did. same 1/3 rate applied for two pair hits when i opened suited connectors. i'd get three streets; check-bet half, check-bet half, check-bet pot on dry uncomplex one big-four small runouts. got 400bb all in pre when they 5bet shoved kk into my aa to finish the day. heard another dude mention he folded a king. beautiful music to ace's ears. doubtful to run that good again the rest of the year. the second game was just soft. you could win 100 an hour running neutral. did have to overfold two top pair rivers, but aside from those, it was remarkable how easy 90% of the spots were to navigate. need more games like the second. it's a money printing environment.
much duller than tournament games, but much easier to win. you can fold however long you want. you can stand up whenever you want. the players feel much easier to beat. it's just once or twice a week til the next series at the end of sep. is live cash a profitable hobby? a hero w a villain moustache can dream.
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Post by spiderjohn on Aug 30, 2023 11:22:52 GMT -5
Played in a $100 bi tourney Monday Neighbor hood player went with me Torture the whole time—) hands before I had a face card Nothing after nothing—won a couple of small aces pairs pots and limped in to first break—was down to 45% when new loose guy joined our rable(could hear him bullying at next table) First hand he goes all in—I have paired 8s and felt due He had k 10 and paired both—no 8 my way
Bad move?
Neighbor held on for 3rd
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Post by 5wide on Aug 30, 2023 12:39:20 GMT -5
It’s been on my mind to have an online UIC Poker Tournament and this thread makes me want to do it even more. The UIC WSOP ! I'd probably be in over my head, but i'm game.
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Post by unusualpete on Aug 30, 2023 19:33:41 GMT -5
Played in a $100 bi tourney Monday Neighbor hood player went with me Torture the whole time—) hands before I had a face card Nothing after nothing—won a couple of small aces pairs pots and limped in to first break—was down to 45% when new loose guy joined our rable(could hear him bullying at next table) First hand he goes all in—I have paired 8s and felt due He had k 10 and paired both—no 8 my way Bad move? Neighbor held on for 3rd it's tough to say wo knowledge of level, stack sizes and position. regarding the upinclass poker tournament, i'd be game to play but only if certain conditions are met. it'll probably be played on poker stars home games or something similar. a. someone not me is named as the tournament director. b. we start the games w 200 big blinds and use 12 minute levels. 12 minutes online=45 minutes live. c. we make the bi $55 w $5 or 110 w 10 for the director to use at his or her own discretion. d. we have a series of games, probably twice a month and keep standings for poy. e. we allow for late reg the first 5 levels f. it's a freezeout. if you bust, you're out. no re-entry. someone should start their own thread to organize the minutae.
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