Today's Hands

I played a couple of hours this morning and this were pretty average, I just couldnt catch anything which was pretty frustrating. I didnt force the action though and just tried to get my money in in good spots.

I played about another 1.5 hours this afternoon and the tables were pretty bad. Many regulars and few fish, so I had to table hop quite a bit.

Overall for the day I played pretty tight due to a lack of cards/situations but managed to still pick up $340 in about 1250 hands. When things dont go for you on the whole, you have to take that for sure.

Here's some hands from today:-

AK has 3 streets of value against a fish.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1038404

Hit a 2 outer with KK v AA :-)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1038407

Opponent's float gets him into trouble against my flopped quads!!!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1038412

Appalling call gets rewarded for the short stack.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1038433

Horrible hand with AA. I'm really not sure of a good flop line here. The guy who lead $20 was very TAG and I thought he was going for a bet/3bet line. Looking at his hand, I think that was definitely the case. Good turn for me so I decided to commit myself, but the river was the worst in the deck so I had to pass.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1038424

And that's about it for today. Gonna play some more tomorrow!

Solid Day At 1/2

Well - I havent played that much over the last few days for a few reasons. Firstly after getting broadband back last week I have been doing quite a lot of coaching and that has gone pretty well overall. I always enjoy it when students are very proactive and are asking a lot of questions and trying to pick my brains for good lines in certain spots. The last few sessions have definitely done that.

Also I moved some money to UB to see what the games were like there. Answer is, I really dont know. I datamined for a while (prefetching hands is pretty awesome!) and the games looked kinda softish but PAHUD seems to be very patchy on UB so I decided to sack it off. Also the table selection and the amount of tables is pretty bad. I'm not sure how they get double the amount of players as Cryptologic but have less cash game tables...

So I'm in the process of getting my cash back to FTP. I left some anyway so I could still play 1/2.

Here's some hands from today's session, where I picked up a few buyins and felt happy with my play.

Flop a boat against trips :-)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1034959

Me sucking out against a short stack

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1034962

Rivered the straight, his call is atrocious.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1034964

Pretty decent sized pot with 83o, I would have been happy to get a/i on the flop but it kinda got scary...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1034970

Not that many other hands of note, mainly standard stuff which I won medium sized pots with. I'll be playing a lot tomorrow so hopefully I can post some more. Also, does anyone know how to get the pokerhand links to be clickable again? I seem to have lost that capability...

Gl everyone,

FP

Up and Down Week

Well - where to start?

The weekend seems a good point, when I picked up 6.5 buyins in a 24 hour period at 1/2 on FTP. I played about 3.5k hands in this time and things went pretty well. I got my money in good and didnt have any problems and I was pleased overall with how I played.

Monday I played a bit and did ok, and I FINALLY got broadband on Tuesday in my flat. But then, disaster strikes. As soon as I get connected, my Postgre SQL database no longer connects to the server (port blocked). It's blatantly something to do with my connection as its the only thing thats changed, but support from all angles deny it's their problem. It's not a huge issue as I have many many hands on my access db's but just a pain as also I had loads of numbers on people on my PSQL db (like 30k hands on some regulars) and now I dont have that many.

I decided that this was a good point to have a shot at 2/4 again. I did ok on Wednesday but the tables were terrible, full of regulars, so I left after 30mins picking up a tiny bit less than a buyin after stacking someone w/a set against his float which turned top pair :-)

I didn't get any hands in on Thursday, but I did on Friday. I had an awful day at 2/4 on Friday, dropped about $1,500 in total and to be honest there was little I could do on the most part. I think maybe a couple of the hands were marginally questionable but those playing lower limits must remember that the game is hugely aggressive preflop with much light squeezing and 3-betting.

Here's some hands from Friday:-

Probably played this a bit tranparently but I'm not sure what other line to take seeing as I dont think I get that much value from TT if I double barrel a standard player.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1023712

Half stack donation.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1023715

JJ facing a potential squeeze from a regular. Opinion was pretty mixed on the forum as to the optimal line in this spot.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1023718

QQ busted by hugely aggro donk (45/25/5). Obv a different line would have been taken against a more competent player.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1023719

Absolutely ridiculous chase gets rewarded. Nice turn call in particular with one card bottom end of a gutshot for $164.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1023722

Maybe I should have double barrelled the turn but whatever.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1023727

Set loses to 2nd pair which hits runner runner straight.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1023732

And that's about it. Not ideal, but I guess you have to take the rough with the smooth and that certainly was rough.

I went to Spurs V Arsenal yesterday, we outplayed them for the first half and went in fron through Robbie Keane and deserved the lead at half time. But yet again we sit back with a one goal lead against a top 4 team and throw it away. I was so convinced we would not equalise I left with 2 minutes to go. Obviously Jenas scored :-)

Gonna move some money onto another site from FTP and see what that's like at 2/4. At FTP it's just regular city. A good table would be 4 regulars, one 30/10/2 and one donk.

I've got another video coming on CR today, a 2 parter which is about 50mins playing and 25 mins PT analysis. It's pretty decent IMO and hopefully will make up for the one with bad sound.

Cheers,

FP

Getting The Hands In

Well - since my last post I have got a good amount of hands in. I've upped my tables to 8 now and this really helps with getting them in, I've been getting in a regular 2k or more a day on 'playing days' now which is great. Finally getting the motivation to play and I'm really feeling confident about my game.

Despite this, I've been running kind of marginal lately. Had a sick beat in a big pot which I'll show later on in the hands, and just haven't been hitting. But I'm still winning and winning when running poorly can't be bad. I did run ok today and picked up 3.5 buyins.

I just got my new monitor delivered so I can pitch the 15" CRT which I was running as my second monitor. Now have 2 x 19" TFT which works well. And further good news on the technology front - should be getting broadband next week in the new flat... I have placed the order now the line seems free of tag so I'm waiting for the box and activation. Will be a huge relief!

I also had to get another 1GB RAM for my PC too because the FTP client seems to be a huge memory resource after their resizeable table update. It was ridiculous, PAHUD stats not showing properly and the cards lagging. Many people have found this too - but the memory upgrade seems to solve the problem. Anyone else having this problem?

Away from the tables, I've got football training in a couple of hours and then the Spurs game is tomorrow against Sevilla. I'll probably play online most of the day though before that. Massive game, would be awesome if we won. Watched the Man United game yesterday, that was amazing. They are the best team in the world at the moment, and despite his faults, Ronaldo is the best player by far.

I wrote an article for CR about PAHUD on tuesday, if you havent read it check it out, I think there's some interesting content on there. I also made my next video the other day and that should be up soon, I think there's some good discussion on there too.

I've also linked a few new blogs, everyone who added theirs on the comments should be added. If I have missed you out, please drop me a reminder.

And some hands from the last few days:-

People love donating:-

http://www.pokerhand.org/?988322

Pretty unlucky against an 80% vpip player

http://www.pokerhand.org/?988326

I'm sure he should not be shoving this turn...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?988329

This was actually a great preflop call seeing as his range was tiny with a 4% pfr - but I felt he'd do this with hands I race with as well as sometimes worse so I called, was right and got punished :-(

http://www.pokerhand.org/?988333

Tough for the other guy to get away from.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?988336

Felt his overbet meant he was on a draw. I was right. He hits anyway.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?988339

Very next hand. I get revenge.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?988343

Fish's call with a gutshot gets him into trouble!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?988346

The amount of players I have made notes on lately for not being able to fold top pair is crazy!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?988350

I insta called this, he was terrible.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?988357

He was a huge fish and insta bet the river, I didnt like his line so I decided to call. Pretty decent call I think, many people get stacked here IMO.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?988362

KK loses to open ender against a terrible, terrible player.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?988367

Just played this hand this afternoon against one of the worst players on FTP

http://www.pokerhand.org/?988370

Probably just had the edge in this one but lose

http://www.pokerhand.org/?988376

I just couldnt put him on a 3.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?988380

Pot which has been discussed on CR - against regular who squeezes light.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?988381

Great flop, obv he was a big, big fish.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?988384

Good old 86 gets the money from an idiot. Check his hand out.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?988386

This guy is another one on my buddy list

http://www.pokerhand.org/?988388

The sick hand I talked about earlier.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?988390

Good luck at the tables,

Fruitypro.

Birthdays, Mobile Phones, Spanish Police and Some Hands :-)

First up just wanted to say it was my birthday on Monday - 28 is not a good age to be, getting v close to 30 now! I think this is the age where the novelty of birthdays has finally worn off! I'm buying a new monitor with some money I got and also I got my ticket paid for for my trip to France next month.

To celebrate my birthday, I played poker online. And whilst doing this I dropped my new Nokia N73 onto the floor from a filing cabinet. Onto carpet. And somehow the stupid LCD screen broke inside and now its busto. Its insured, luckily as they gave me £50 in the shop to take out 3 months insurance costing £30 :-) I thought I'd get my old N70 unlocked to vodafone from orange but no, apparently you cant get N70 series Nokia's unlocked. Eventually I get my old old phone unlocked - but its so wierd, you feel totally lost without a mobile phone even for a day even though I actually hate them! And the N70 is going on ebay seeing as its basically no use to me now I am on vodafone.

Other points of interest was the Spurs game in Sevilla on Wednesday. I actually gave serious thought to going to this game but it was probably best in the end. I'm pretty disappointed I havent made it to a European away game so far this season. Looking at the crowd scenes on TV it looked pretty bad but now the truth has come out it seems the police were at fault just like at Man United - apparently they beat up a defenceless guy in a wheelchair pretty bad for no reason and it all kicked off after the worst referee of all time gave a penalty against Robbo and our fans committed the heinous crime of booing the ref. No fan on fan violence and there wouldnt be either. We have got on great with opposing fans in Europe. Club Bruges fans were awesome and we clapped each other at the end of the game at White Hart Lane.

As soon as there is any trouble with English fans we get blamed straight away. Fact is, if we had behaved like Italian, Dutch or Turkish fans over the last few years we would all have been banned from Europe for years. But they can get away with anything they want, and perhaps someone who knows more about life and football than me can explain it. Whilst they are doing that, maybe they can explain how the worst referee in the world took charge of the game. He was worse than the one we had in Sunday League last week who I wrote a report on because he was that bad. And maybe Seville players might actually get punished for diving sometime (or the headbutt on Keane in the last minute) - but no, silence again. We are still well in the tie though with the away goal and have everything to play for at home.

Today we are playing Chelsea - and because they run the league we have to play 36 hours after the game in the UEFA Cup. Back overs in this game because there will be plenty of goals. I think we'll play a weakened team so I think they will get 3 themselves.

I've played quite a lot this week, here's some hands. I've run pretty average - racking up some tough beats as well as inflicting an awesome one too :-) Pretty solid profit though.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?974849

Thanks for the donation

http://www.pokerhand.org/?974852

Very marginal spot - I think this is generally a fold but these guys were total donators (seen by their hands)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?974855

Thought he was squeezing. He wasnt. Still, I won :-)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?974858

I know - I have queens and the board comes with an overcard in a reraised pot. Let's overbet this flop!!! Thanks again for the donation.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?974860

One of the best beats I have ever inflicted on someone. I really felt I was gonna win on the turn too - I felt it coming!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?974862

Another donation

http://www.pokerhand.org/?974865

Does this guy really think his hand is good here?

http://www.pokerhand.org/?974867

I do run into sets too...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?974869

Pretty terrible river call from me

http://www.pokerhand.org/?974871

Ouch. Flop the nuts and lose.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?974874

Another donation from the guy in the first hand. I think he may be 2+2 or even CR as he was calling out Boosted J in the chat and asking him if he was making a vid.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?974876

When will people learn top pair ten kicker is not a good hand !!!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?974879

Set v set against a regular

http://www.pokerhand.org/?974883

I know - I'll call $70 on the river with ace high. Thanks again!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?974884

Nice.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?974887

Another bad river call by me. I just couldnt put him on a hand.

And after going through my PT database, I can firmly say that I am owed some sets from small pairs. Better hit the tables to get them!

GL everyone,

FP