It had to go

Vista simply had to go. Slows down my comp like hell and I don't really know why, because my notebook is vista based. Virtually no poker application works without a problem.
It just has to go. Reinstalling now.

Just lost 3 stacks hu

I guess I was running poorly, but I also had a very tricky hand and I am not sure what to make of it yet, I'll definetly try and post it up somewhere and get some feedback on it. Feel free to comment on it here aswell.

the tricky hand

Reraised pot, if he raises the flop, I'm not folding, but he smooth calls and I make two pair. I decide bet calling will only get me in behind a large percentage of the time, but I figure he could semi-bluff a lot of hands if I check to him so after contemplating what to do I check raise him and he shows me top set ughh. Pretty unlucky spot for me to make two pair vs his set, but check folding seems really weak here.
I believe this was our first 3 bet pot that had action in it so I can't make any ready here based on villains previous actions.
Obviously he quit me after this hand...

valuetown...

...maybe not, but I do think I am betting this turn for value. It amazes me how much people weak lead with tp. I think hu is a valuable tool to get into the heads of weaker players, because you play so many hands with them.

ez hand

Pretty standard cooler.

I make a good call down

This guy was fairly reasonable, but I don't think I like his bet sizing on the river. Made my decision a lot easier. He quit me after this hand, which I think shows strength. Cause this handed would have probably shifted the momentum in my favour.

I think 3 BI's will be my stop-loss for nl hu for the meanwhile. I started to feel a bit tilted after the third stack and I didn't really want to quit, because I was playing against such weak opponents, but I think it's mandatory to be able to stand up and leave when your a hu player.
My stats seem tighter (probably due to short stackers) than the last time I played and although my pfr is high, it doesn't feel as though I am raising so much pf when it is limped to me.

played some absolute

Played a bit on Absolute today, games are so soft, it's not really compairable to FTP. FTP games just play so more sofisticated. Even a lot of the regs on Absolute are bad/passive.
I am not claiming that the FTP games aren't profitable, but you need to adapt to the style of play first or you'll get run over by the overaggro regs.
I don't need much more to be rolled for 2/4. I am getting there guys...

First HU session

Did pretty well for my first HU session. I also ran well for the most part except for 1 or 2 coolers, but everyone knows HU is high variance.
I decided to drop down a stake untill I feel more confident in my HU game. I think I am +ev in the 200 hu games, but I'll stick to 100 for my first 5k hands.
Games were pretty soft. From what I saw it looks as though all the regs are already sitting at tables, so I just opened up new tables myself.


I think he weak

In retrospect this guy was playing pretty weak tight, I just couldn't put him on his hand after he insta mashed the pot. I had outs I guess.

Similar spot

I think my line is +ev, but I figured out quickly that this was the kinda player you bluff less and valuebet more. I am not sure what to think of his call. I think his call his bad, cause he is kinda comitting himself to a blank river, but I am not sure he calls one.

Just a cooler

I guess you could say it's a bad beat, but from my perspective there is nothing I can do here, but get it in.

Don't tilt hu

I guess I must have tilted this guy HU for him to call me down here. My plan was to crai on the flop and represent a draw. I am not scared to give him a free card as I can easily go with my hand here.

Interesting Line

His line looks kinda strong to me, but my hand is too strong here. This was also the second time he used this line against me and I wasn't quite sure which hands he'd play that way so this was my chance to see what he was doing it with.

Mansion Poker

I was browsing the raketherake main page and I noticed that they listed Mansion Poker as a member of the Ongame Network. I didn't know they joined Ongame, last time I played on their site they were still indipendent.
I have a rakeback deal with them through raketherake.com. I think somewhere in the range of 35%. From what I know they don't offer rakeback anymore, so I might check this out (my deal is still valid). I believe the Ongame Network is the 5th largest Poker Network out there and I've never played on it before, so I might give it a shot.

Crazy 1/2 session

Just finished a 1k hand session on FTP. I ran pretty bad, but seemingly solid opponents were making really crazy plays on me.

hand 1

This guy had solid stats of 26/21, he was 3 betting me a ton, so I decided to 4bet light here, even though I raised from UTG. The flop seemed like an easy check call and it worked out for me, just that I couldn't dodge his 2 outs.

hand 2

These minraises are often big pps from weak players. Flop is super standard for me, he can't fold his overpair, but again I can't dodge the 2 outs.

hand 3

This guy was quite aggresive, so I decided crai was the best play. River card is scary, but I think this is a clear value bet (I think he bets flush draws on the turn and I wasn't really worried about the gutshot for the straight...).

hand 4

I dunno what to think about this hand, my time was running down fast so I decided to fold. After putting in so much money preflop I felt almost commited to the hand. His pf line is so strong and I think I see aces here a lot, but why lead out with top set aces? Does he call AK pf too? Is this a scared bet with KK? Will he fold KK to a shove here? Just a weird spot overall. This guy was 20/18/4 over 1k hands.

All in all, despite running into some coolers, I managed to turn a profit of 17$. I think I played well for the most part and am generally happy with my game as of late.

November goals

October is over and it has been one of my weaker months this year. I still can't really complain though. Towards the end it felt like I was running bad and good at the same time, so I wasn't too frustrated.
For this month I want to really try and focus and my game and put in the hands to finally move up to 2/4. I think I need to make about 20 buy ins on 1/2 and then I'll be sufficiently rolled for 2/4. I might take a stab for 2k though once I reach 10 buy ins.
I also want to try and get in 5k hands of heads up play.
Besides that I want to really try and focus on uni aswell which will be tricky, but I have to try and balance things.