Sunday, November 4, 2007

11/3 Results

$102+

NLHE


On my first hand, I can see Pata69 is destined to give away his little stack based on his flop call, so I immediately set my sights on him.


Last night, Marsh and I were discussing our lack of sets on Cake lately. I was saying that I hadn't had any in forever, but then remembered I'd actually made a set of kings in my last session on a king-high board. I owned up to that, but said I meant low, tricky sets, not high sets you probably didn't need anyway. "Gimme a set of threes!" I declared.


Wow, I guess it's that easy.


With that many to the flop with the extra preflop sweeteners, it was a fist-pump moment, I knew someone would pay me. The turn ace was perfect, I figured it gave eggman either top pair or two pair. I bet pot, and he does me the favor of pushing.


Check out the next hand...back to back trey sets!


(AQo) Pata69 was playing with such a huge range (look at his play in my set of threes hand), I couldn't wait to get my money in when he shoved, because I knew even the three aces were clean outs.


A little button aggression with Ah2c, having played very tight at the table so far.


When someone plays a hand like HeadZombie plays his AK from the SB here, I definitely make a note on them. "Limped with AK in SB with 4 limpers, then slowplayed K-high flop with a check-call." I don't set the color rating on a player until I have a book I'm confident of.


$4 --> $9.77

22 Hands


W00t! triple digits at last. Hats off to Chris Ferguson for driving home the 5%/10% roll-management system. The rake still bugs the heck out of me, but my online experience has been vastly different this time around by sticking to the Ferguson diet. I'm fading beats like I'm Martin, I have realistic expectations, and solid play is producing steady profit. I understand now that I was destined to go broke online previously simply based on inapproptiate stake levels and tilty "everyone here is a donk" play when I took a bad beat.

1 comment:

Sushi Cowboy said...

"I'm fading beats like I'm Martin"

Had to say that elicited an audible chuckle out of me.