June = Poker Fail and Go

I’ve been busy with work, school transfers, and other stuff and haven’t really felt like playing poker. I watched a few videos on Deuces Cracked (Tommy Angelo’s included) and took notes, but didn’t actually play.

Instead, I decided to spend my time learning Go. You should try it.

Poker Range View

Here’s a little poker tool I made at work today. It’s no Poker Stove, but I haven’t seen something like this online yet and I got tired of doing this with pen and paper. Basically you put in different ranges and it breaks them down by hand type and shows you the percentages and hand combos of each. It doesn’t do equities or match to board (yet?). It’s mostly intended as a companion to Poker Stove to copy/paste villain ranges to see the distributions of various hand groups in their range. Here are some usage examples, it shouldn’t be difficult to figure it out:

• All hands, minus Ah,4c, plus some strong sub-ranges
• 17% of all hands, showing monster sub-range
• The KK+,AK thing
• Card removal with Axs vs SC against some 3-bet calling ranges

I don’t have a card selector like Poker Stove does, but all the fields take Poker Stove’s input just fine. Dead cards can be either individual cards or hands.

The percentages are generally not mutually-exclusive. For example, AKs will count as suited broadway, suited ace, and a suited connector (but not as a suited King). The sub-ranges are there to see what % of the villain’s range you actually fear and stuff like that.

Comment here if you spot a bug or if you think of a useful hand grouping or another feature.

Autopiloting

I love finding myself on a turn and having no clue how I got there. Perhaps I’ll work on my H-game since I seem to bring it much more often than my A-game. Now that’s smart thinking!

June Poker Goals

I’m going to keep June somewhat conservative, but I have ambitious goals for the summer overall. Namely, I’d like to take a shot at 2/4 online and try 5/10 live. I plan on staying at FR the whole summer.

1.) 15 hours per week

2.) Watch 3 videos per week

3.) Do 1 full session review per week, where I take a couple of longer sessions and go through every hand

4.) Expand on what I started last year and do more poker math. This involves watching DC’s Math of NL series and reading Bill Chen’s Mathematics of Poker (which recently came in the mail).

5.) Take a shot at 200nl. I’ll move up when I have 20 buyins and stop when I lose 5. I know you 40-buyin nits will hate this plan.

The table hours are conservative and I anticipate putting in more, but that’s the bare minimum. I also want to have at least a little time to spare for math.

Datamining $100 FR

Getting about 70k hands per day at .5/1 FR now, why are half the players I mined with 10k hands+ loser rb pros?

AC Trip

Went down to AC over the weekend to try my luck at live poker. Obviously that’s when my downswing decided to come. I played somewhere around 30 hours and never saw AA once, had one KK where an A flopped, no QQ.

I thought I made decent adjustments but obviously wasn’t used to playing against a table of donks and regs adjusting to donks, but it’s tough to win money when you can’t flop TP. A few times in the beginning I v-towned myself because I haven’t yet learned that people can check TP down on flop and turn and not even bet the riv, so I’d bet my MP and get owned. Then I didn’t read a couple of situations correctly and misplayed (like calling a minraise with a set not realizing they’re block-raising their FD).

I kept getting on good tables and tried to get position on megadonks asap, but then I’d go card dead and they’d go broke to everyone else. No particularly interesting spots, and no spectacular bad beats. I finished down about $100 and another $150 in food/hotel.

Overall it’s probably been a good experience because it let me get a bit into the heads of donks, so I should fare better against the weekend warriors online. For the past few years, my only poker analysis has come from good/thinking players so I was a bit out of touch with how the average joe approaches poker.

Long Weekend

I promise I won’t post a lot of results oriented stuff here.

I think I’ll stay at FR for a while and just try to get up to 2/4 over the summer.

vs LAG: http://weaktight.com/1151698

Other interesting/horribly played spots coming soon.

Machismo

It all started with a check/raise:

$0.25/$0.5 No Limit Holdem
9 players
Converted at weaktight.com

Stacks:

UTG		($70.80)
UTG+1		($50.00)
MP1		($50.00)
MP2		($50.00)
MP3		($136.95)
CO		($47.75)
BTN		($50.50)
Hero (SB)		($80.40)
BB		($60.85)

Pre-flop: ($0.75, 9 players) Hero is SB

UTG raises to $1.75, 6 folds, Hero calls $1.50, 1 fold

Flop: ($4, 2 players)
Hero checks, UTG bets $4, Hero raises to $13, UTG folds

Final Pot: $12

Hero wins $20.40 ( won +$5.65 )
UTG lost -$5.75

FR

I’ve been playing a bit over the past week. Managing to eke out 3BB/100 over 4k hands (lol sample size) at $50nl with a bit of $100nl thrown in, but I’m improving daily and I expect to have a higher winrate soon.

I’m also planning to go down to AC next weekend with some friends, so I started working on my FR game. I got an account with DC (sorry Martin) since they had more FR vids than Leggo and I’ll be playing FR exclusively over the next 10 days to maximize the trip EV, and then I’ll see how it goes.

Might be coming back

I finished school and in the process of transferring to finish my Bachelor’s. I’m probably gonna grind over the summer and see how high I can get. Starting off playing a little $50nl for now.

Holla at me!