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gusma
Joined: 07.10.2007

Hello!

My name is Pedro Madeira and im a professional poker player. I am 24 years old and was born in Brazil , country that I live atm. I have been playing poker for the last 6 years , comming from the fixed limit cash games to high stakes mtt , wich I play nowadays.

During this 6 years I went to university, mechanical engineering , but never graduated. I did not finish my course simply because I was not interested in it. I just do not see myself working for a company , every day from 8am to 5pm , picking up my kids at school , go back home , kiss the wife , watch the news and go to bed. That`s the main reason that led me to quit school and become a professional poker player. Combined to that is my love to be free , travel , see different places and meet different people ( during this school time I took a 1.5 year break and went to USA and Australia to study business. ) .

Altough Ive never graduated I plan on doing it . So here is the main point why im writing this blog. Despite of being a professional poker player for two years ,ive never dedicated myself entirely for it , having school to go and other business aside. Therefore I decided to take this first semester of this year only for poker , playing both live and online, traveling te world.

So here I will post some experiences , hands , feelings , everything related to my poker lifestyle during this time.

btw , I play as gusmaa on Stars .

cheers,

gusma.


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AfonsoMagalhaes
Joined: 03.12.2009

Nice!

I'm gonna follow for sure this blog!

Gl gusma!


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gusma
Joined: 07.10.2007

A nice start

The year already started well , not pokerwise but lifewise . Right after christmas , me my cousin and some friends took ours cars and decided to drive from our city , Belo Horizonte , to Pratigi , where there would be an amazing music festival , the Universo Pararelo :

A map of the distance we had to drive:

The trip did not start so well , as during the way , due to the horrible roads in Brazil , we had 3 flat tires and a 12 hour trip took us exactly 24 hours ;(
Despite all that troubles we kept going and finally arrived in heaven:


view from a boat they set at one of ther stages


my two friends and I at the main stage


home sweet home


the whole crew

So we stayed there untill the 2nd. I came back home to start the grind and my friends went up to Morro de Sao Paulo.

Just freaking awsome!


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gusma
Joined: 07.10.2007

Originally posted by AfonsoMagalhaes
Nice!

I'm gonna follow for sure this blog!

Gl gusma!

Hi Afonso!

Its good to know man. Im glad that people from the pt community are following me here.

cheers.


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alonohara
Joined: 06.03.2011

Following a great blog. _cool:

What FixedLimit taught/teach you more for MTTs?

Leaks that you find in the NoLimit players? (I play NL5 BSS SH&FR.)

GL @poker@life!!!


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gusma
Joined: 07.10.2007

Originally posted by alonohara
Following a great blog. _cool:

What FixedLimit taught/teach you more for MTTs?

Leaks that you find in the NoLimit players? (I play NL5 BSS SH&FR.)

GL @poker@life!!!

Hi alonohara!

I believe that fixed limit help me out alot concerned to the math of the game , since the game is just math. And also related to the post flop game, since we alot of the times have to go to SD with bottom pair or even A high.

The biggest leaks I find in NL players are concerned to the math of the game , even the simple ones as odds , but mostly ev calcs, wich are in theory the same ;)


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makinazero
Joined: 02.09.2008

gogogo

i go read and folow this blog.

show de bola cara (flex)


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gusma
Joined: 07.10.2007

Originally posted by makinazero
gogogo

i go read and folow this blog.

show de bola cara (flex)

hey man!

glad to see you here.

I hope you like it.


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AfonsoMagalhaes
Joined: 03.12.2009

Originally posted by gusma

Originally posted by AfonsoMagalhaes
Nice!

I'm gonna follow for sure this blog!

Gl gusma!

Hi Afonso!

Its good to know man. Im glad that people from the pt community are following me here.

cheers.

Since I'm moving from cash to sng mtt and then finally to the mtts exclusevly how can I miss one of the top players of my community? eheh

vamo ki vamo!

Hope to see some theoretical discussions here about hands!


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gusma
Joined: 07.10.2007

Originally posted by AfonsoMagalhaes

Originally posted by gusma

Originally posted by AfonsoMagalhaes
Nice!

I'm gonna follow for sure this blog!

Gl gusma!

Hi Afonso!

Its good to know man. Im glad that people from the pt community are following me here.

cheers.

Since I'm moving from cash to sng mtt and then finally to the mtts exclusevly how can I miss one of the top players of my community? eheh

vamo ki vamo!

Hope to see some theoretical discussions here about hands!

I am glad to hear that and dont worry , I will post hands to discuss every week.


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gusma
Joined: 07.10.2007
Its not all flowers

The year did start very well in the poker scenario. In the first sunday of the year I shiped the 22c on stars for ~ 11k , and got a few other ok results. But as in every real life history it was not all flowers ( as we say in Brazil : "nem tudo são flores " ), and my graph went down as a roller coaster

But yesterday I thought all would go back to be flowers again as I was deep in the big 11 with only big fishs at the two final tables. It was the FT bubble when I was dealt this hand

[PokerStars - $10+$1|40000/80000 Ante 10000 NL - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (SB): 2,206,574
BB: 2,815,972 (VPIP: 22.64, PFR: 18.87, 3Bet Preflop: 14.29, Hands: 54)
UTG: 6,150,743 (VPIP: 24.44, PFR: 20.00, 3Bet Preflop: 11.11, Hands: 45)
CO: 2,729,998 (VPIP: 14.75, PFR: 6.61, 3Bet Preflop: 3.23, Hands: 122)
BTN: 5,712,935 (VPIP: 37.50, PFR: 22.45, 3Bet Preflop: 9.68, Hands: 154)

5 players post ante of 10,000, Hero posts SB 40,000, BB posts BB 80,000

Pre Flop: (pot: 170,000) Hero has J♦ 8♠

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 200,000, BB calls 120,000

Flop: (450,000, 2 players) K♠ J♥ J♣
Hero bets 157,500, BB raises to 480,000, Hero calls 322,500

Turn: (1,410,000, 2 players) 2♠
Hero checks, BB bets 800,000, Hero raises to 1,516,574 and is all-in, BB calls 716,574

River: (4,443,148, 2 players) 3♦

Spoiler

Hero shows J♦ 8♠ (Three of a Kind, Jacks) (Pre 25%, Flop 26%, Turn 18%)
BB shows J♠ Q♦ (Three of a Kind, Jacks) (Pre 75%, Flop 74%, Turn 82%)
BB wins 4,443,148

Analysing:

The big blind was a huuuuuge fish. He was playing 24/19 with 14 3bet on 55 hands. I had the note that both for bluff and value he always bets big amounts ( nothing so great ).

So ok. I raise pre and the flop comes ... "FUCK YEA , Im rich now" that was exactly what I thought atm.
So i value bet the flop and get raised. Here I do not see him doing that with less than hands like a GS as T9,AT,Q9 or QT. But we can also have KQ , KT and of course Jx and a few times a pure bluff. Therefore I do not see any big reason to 3bet as I can make him fold Kx and his bluffs.

Turn is a total blank that does not change anything , so the ideia is to c/r here as he can call me with worse now , as his draws and prob Kx.

Unfortunatelly he had me and GG in 10th.

Today I will take a break from online and will play love live cash.

cheers!


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VAMOOOOOO


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gusma
Joined: 07.10.2007

Originally posted by srCuco
VAMOOOOOO

to the moon!


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saojoseclub
Joined: 19.10.2010

The truth is that you bring all PT community here. Vamoooooooo!


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gusma
Joined: 07.10.2007

Originally posted by saojoseclub
The truth is that you bring all PT community here. Vamoooooooo!

very happy to know that!

vamoooooo!


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gusma
Joined: 07.10.2007

So i just got home , and now is exactly 2am. Ready to start a session with awsome feeling.

Good vibes here!


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gusma
Joined: 07.10.2007

Today I played a hand that at the beggining did not sound that interesting but after some analysis I turned out to be.

No Limit Holdem Tournament
8 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com
$200+$50+$15

Stacks:
UTG (3,220) 161bb
UTG+1 (2,960) 148bb
MP1 (3,000) 150bb
MP2 (3,000) 150bb
Hero (CO) (2,950) 148bb
BTN (6,210) 311bb
SB (2,880) 144bb
BB (3,000) 150bb

Blinds: 10/20

Pre-Flop: (30, 8 players) Hero is CO A♠ 5♠
3 folds, MP2 raises to 60, Hero calls 60, 3 folds

Flop: A♦ K♥ 9♣ (150, 2 players)
MP2 checks, Hero bets 75, MP2 calls 75

Turn: 2♦ (300, 2 players)
MP2 checks, Hero checks

River: 5♣ (300, 2 players)
MP2 goes all-in 2,865, Hero goes all-in 2,815

Final Pot: 5,930
MP2 shows three of a kind, Kings
K♠ K♦
Hero shows two pair, Aces and Fives
A♠ 5♠

MP2 wins 5,980 (net +2,980)

Hero lost 2,950

As I am a math fan I did some calculations and the result kind of surprised me.
Knowing the result , as the vilain does it with KK , I can suppose he also does it with AK . Since he did not value bet the flop with this monstes , I will also assume he mgiht not do it with AQ and AJ.
On the river , considering we wont put me on a big hand , por not even an ace , I def think we will do this crazy shit with all his values as AA,KK,99,22 and 55 also with AK , A9 , A2 .
Therefore at the river I do have an easy call :

www.pokerstrategy.com
Board: AdKh9c2d5c
Equity Win Tie
MP2 60.86% 60.86% 0.00% { As5s }
MP3 39.14% 39.14% 0.00% { KK+, 99, 55, 22, AJs+, A9s, A2s, AJo+, A8o, A2o }

And even if he does not have hands like AJ , the call is quite close , once I only need 47% equity , not considering the bounty:

www.pokerstrategy.com
Board: AdKh9c2d5c
Equity Win Tie
MP2 45.16% 45.16% 0.00% { As5s }
MP3 54.84% 54.84% 0.00% { KK+, 99, 55, 22, AQs+, A2s, AQo+, A2o }

As a conclusion , even that right after the call I thought I was wrong , it turned out to be that the call is mostly +ev .


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