Well it's time for another weekly review.
In this week variance stroke my results and I had a bad run of cards at first half of the week. Here are some hands to show this.
Hand converted with online PokerStrategy.com hand converter:
Play hand
$0.02/$0.05 No-Limit Hold'em (9 handed)
Known players:
[tg]MP3 (Hero)$5.00:///////;CO$4.93:///////;BU$2.88:///////;SB$3.17:///////;BB$9.37:///////;UTG1$5.15:///////;UTG2$4.90:///////;MP1$20.56:///////;MP2$5.00:///////;[/tg]
Preflop: Hero is MP3 with A:d, A:c.
4 folds, Hero raises to $0.20, CO folds, BU calls $0.20, 2 folds, BB folds.
Flop: ($0.47) 8:s, K:d, 5:c (2 players)
Hero bets $0.25, BU raises to $0.60, Hero raises to $0.95, BU raises to $1.30, Hero raises to $5.05, BU calls $1.38.
Turn: ($7.95) K:c (2 players)
River: ($7.95) 7:d (2 players)
Final Pot: $7.95.
Results follow:
Hero shows two pairs, aces and kings(A:d A:c).
BU shows three of a kind, kings(Q:d K:h).
BU wins with three of a kind, kings(Q:d K:h).
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Hand converted with online PokerStrategy.com hand converter:
Play hand
$0.02/$0.05 No-Limit Hold'em (9 handed)
Known players:
[tg]BU$6.21:///////;SB$12.45:///////;BB$5.42:///////;UTG1$1.48:///////;UTG2$4.00:///////;MP1$9.11:///////;MP2 (Hero)$5.12:///////;MP3$1.41:///////;CO$5.05:///////;[/tg]
Preflop: Hero is MP2 with K:c, K:d.
3 folds, Hero raises to $0.20, MP3 calls $0.20, 3 folds, BB calls $0.15.
Flop: ($0.62) 6:s, Q:c, 9:h (3 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $0.45, MP3 raises to $0.90, BB folds, Hero raises to $1.35, MP3 calls $0.31.
Turn: ($3.18) Q:h (2 players)
River: ($3.18) 6:d (2 players)
Final Pot: $3.18.
Results follow:
Hero shows two pairs, kings and queens(K:c K:d).
MP3 shows a full-house, queens full of sixs(Q:s K:s).
MP3 wins with a full-house, queens full of sixs(Q:s K:s).
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Hand converted with online PokerStrategy.com hand converter:
Play hand
$0.02/$0.05 No-Limit Hold'em (8 handed)
Known players:
[tg]MP1 (Hero)$5.00:///////;MP2$5.45:///////;MP3$5.00:///////;CO$4.86:///////;BU$4.93:///////;SB$8.83:///////;BB$0.80:///////;UTG2$12.85:///////;[/tg]
Preflop: Hero is MP1 with 9:c, 9:s.
UTG2 folds, Hero calls $0.05, MP2 raises to $0.20, 4 folds, BB calls $0.15, Hero calls $0.15.
Flop: ($0.62) 3:c, 9:h, J:c (3 players)
BB bets $0.05, Hero raises to $0.20, MP2 raises to $0.45, BB raises to $0.60, Hero raises to $4.80, MP2 folds.
Turn: ($6.47) Q:c (2 players)
River: ($6.47) J:d (2 players)
Final Pot: $6.47.
Results follow:
BB shows a full-house, jacks full of queens(J:h Q:d).
Hero shows a full-house, nines full of jacks(9:c 9:s).
BB wins with a full-house, jacks full of queens(J:h Q:d).
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As you can see, at all 3 hands I or the oponnent were all-in on the flop and I had advantage (correct me, if I'm wrong). The villain always got the mirracle card by the river, even if he didn't play strategically correct. But this is poker and you have to get used to such kind of outcomes :f_frown:.
There were also other bad hands I don't want to point out, as they were mostly AA or KK running into trips on flop, which I have to work on (how to discover the trips by villain behavior).
I also had some well played hands that kept me "alive".
After that I managed to recover most of the losses, going up and down. Anyway, at the end of the week there was again one bad session. And here are the results for the week:
- hands played so far: 20097
- winnings: $57.89 (-1.20$)
- bb/100: 8.25
- VPIP%: 11.5
- PFR%: 7.0
When I did daily and weekly session reviews I discovered I didn't make any major mistakes. I tried some of the more sophisticated tehnics, but as I already mentioned, they don't work at this level (NL5).
Anyway, on Saturday I decided to try to implement my current knowledge of NLHE to play a tournament. I read some basic strategies and went to register at $3.30 (3 + 0.30) NLHE tournament. It went quite well and after about 5 hours I finished in 88th position out of 3223 players, recieving $14.98. It was a great experience and I had a lot of fun. I decided to try one NLHE tournament per week, probably the same one, just to mix things a little bit and to see if I can achieve similar results in the future.
This is it and see you next week.