MathrimC's poker journal

[MathrimC]

Thanks for the useful feedback everyone 😃

 You're right about the fold pre. I thought JT still has a decent chance of flopping top pair, which is good with shallow stacks, but didn't think about the domination risk. As for my post-flop play, I cut off my decisions and the results, to not influence the feedback. When I reviewed the hand I agree with you, he's repping a better hand. There is simply no value hand with which he would shove that I beat. And I don't see him as someone with enough aggression to who would bluff his stack off with multiple barrels, so I agree I should have folded. However, as often in the heat of the moment, I didn't fold, and he had KK:

[jonny2192]

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@MathrimC wrote:

Thanks for the useful feedback everyone 😃

@ArtyMcFly You're right about the fold pre. I thought JT still has a decent chance of flopping top pair, which is good with shallow stacks, but didn't think about the domination risk. As for my post-flop play, I cut off my decisions and the results, to not influence the feedback. When I reviewed the hand I agree with you, he's repping a better hand. There is simply no value hand with which he would shove that I beat. And I don't see him as someone with enough aggression to who would bluff his stack off with multiple barrels, so I agree I should have folded. However, as often in the heat of the moment, I didn't fold, and he had KK:

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The curse of us non believers.

You watch so many hands and see people turn up with nothing after betting pot every street, you end up not believing anyone.

Its also a lot easier to make the right calls when its not you actually playing the hand and in retrospect.

Just consider it a fee for a lesson and hopefully in the future this hand will guide you the right decision. :)

[MathrimC]

Yet another good run at 10NL, bankroll up to €939,43.

Last Sunday it was at €758,21. If I exclude the €60 subscriber freeroll payout, that's €121,22 profit on 10NL in one weak. Pretty big given that I probably only play on average 1.5 hours a day 😀

[ArtyMcFly]

That's some impressive growth of the bankroll. Nice going!

[YpresX]

Good short-term result. 

Now keep playing and studying and see how you do in the long-run.

Just dont set yourself unrealistic expectations and dont be overconfident.

 

 

[MathrimC]

Bankroll down to €894,98 after a very bad 10NL session, the upswing is officially over.

Meanwhile it's not going well in the UK Tour qualifiers, my ticket value is down to €9. But I have €49 in MTT tickets that I can put in the UK Tour grind if needed.

[FreakyPrince]

Nice journal MathrimC, and it was nice to meet you!
Learned that evening some good things from you and still trying to complete my goal (win a package) :p

You're on the way to be a bigger... maybe "Pro" poker player^^ 

Good luck!!! 👍

[NeriPoker]

Nice blog . Really enjoying the read. Keep up the good work! 

[hascorel]

Gg

[ChapInAChair]

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@MathrimC wrote:

My biggest leak is entitlement tilt and associated bad river calls.

But could I fold this?

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***DISCLAIMER - I'm a tourney player so a bit of a cash fish**

 

At these stakes I don't think I'm ever folding this river against an unknown opponent. In my experience a random's 3 betting range is unlikely to deviate much from 88+ AT+ so I'm rarely expecting to see him turn up with his actual holding. The only hands I'm really scared of here are AT and TT but there are so few combos compared to the times he's turning up with AK, AQ and AJ or getting spewy with JJ, QQ, KK that I think it's going to be very profitable to ship in the long term.

 

But if you have history on the player then it's a totally different matter.

 

[ChapInAChair]

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@ArtyMcFly wrote:

Fold pre. Don't make a habit of calling 3x opens with dominated hands or suited connectors with those stack sizes. When you're a medium stack there's not much to gain by getting involved with a speculative hand. I think your post-flop play is fine. He's repping a much better hand.

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Yeah, this. That particular flop is exactly why you don't want to be flatting with these stack sizes as you never know where you are. As played it looks a clear fold because even when ahead villain has lots of equity from overcards and draws and when you're behind you're really behind. It might be worth running through ICMizer but I can't imagine it to be anything but a standard fold.

 

Stack sizes and game dynamic dependent then it might be worth 3-betting pre-flop but I generally think that just folding is best.

[Unruled7]

Contraz for raffle!!!!!

[MathrimC]

Bankroll back up to €914,33, and won a UK4 qualfier.

Here's another cashgame hand: effective stack is €9,90, I'm KhebNeFrisco, UTG with AhKs, villain is SB.

What range do you give the villain when he shoves on the turn?

[ChapInAChair]

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@MathrimC wrote:

Bankroll back up to €914,33, and won a UK4 qualfier.

Here's another cashgame hand: effective stack is €9,90, I'm KhebNeFrisco, UTG with AhKs, villain is SB.

What range do you give the villain when he shoves on the turn?

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I think you're usually crushed here. Unless he's the type to go crazy with KK or AJ-AT then I'm expecting to see trips, AQ or JdTd pretty much every time.

[MoreTBC]

Villain on a draw, I call. I lose. I don't play cash again. 

[JillianP]

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@StartlingGrope wrote:

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I think you're usually crushed here. Unless he's the type to go crazy with KK or AJ-AT then I'm expecting to see trips, AQ or JdTd pretty much every time.

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Agreed, my thought process would be that he was waiting to make sure the straight or flush wasn't coming, and then shove on his trips/two pairs. Alternatively he's on KJd or JTd and trying to push you off, but I don't think I'd chance it either way.

BTW thanks for posting these, very educational 😃

[Unruled7]

AK chance?

[ArtyMcFly]

He has some AA/QQ/99 and AQ/A9s/A5s, but I snap-call. He can have AK just as often. It looks like a cooler to me, unless he's going mental with something. If I call a 3-bet with AK, I'm not folding TPTK unless the board is super-ugly (flushes/straights/boats possible). A read on villain would help.

[MathrimC]

Thanks for the feedback. I agree that I'm behind all of his value hands. But it's so hard to fold tptk in a pot with low stack to pot ratio. I made the call and he turned over AA:

[Mynona]

Very nice comments and analyses in this thread, keep them coming :)   thanks to all for helping explaining strategy :)

[ChapInAChair]

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@ArtyMcFly wrote:

He has some AA/QQ/99 and AQ/A9s/A5s, but I snap-call. He can have AK just as often. It looks like a cooler to me, unless he's going mental with something. If I call a 3-bet with AK, I'm not folding TPTK unless the board is super-ugly (flushes/straights/boats possible). A read on villain would help.

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I think as played I'd probably be more inclined to jam the turn and go busto that way. I really don't think one pair is ever ahead to a third barrel on this board.

[MathrimC]

Evaluation of monthly goals: November 2016

• Cashgame goal: play at least 15 hours of cashgames COMPLETED
  • I think I broke my personal volume record this month, by both playing more hours and more tables (went from 4 to 6 tables) than any time before.
• MTT goal: play at least 20 UK Tour qualifiers COMPLETED
  • Played a lot of qualifiers, but didn't win any of the three finals I played.
• Study goals:
  
  • Review one hand a day in Flopzilla PARTLY COMPLETED
    • I did review 50 hands this month, which is on average 2 each day, but didn't use Flopzilla a lot.
  • Read 'Crushing Low Stakes Poker Volume 3: Hyper Turbos' COMPLETED
    
    • I didn't learn many new things, but the hand examples are a good reminder and motivation for me to play more aggressively. In turbo qualifiers I tend to play tighter than I theoretically should.

 

November bankroll evolution:

• cash: €651,81 -> €907,59
• UK Tour tickets: €266 -> €26
• Other MTT tickets: €0 -> €59

 

New monthly goals: December 2016

• Cashgame goal: play at least 25 hours of cashgames
  • Given that I easily achieved my cashgame goal last month, I can set the bar a bit higher this month.
• MTT goal: play at least 20 UK Tour qualifiers
• Live goal: go play a cashgame session at Viage casino in Brussels
  • This is one of my yearly goals that I still need to fulfull, and kind of a 'bucket list' thing.
• Study goals
  • Finish reading Applications of No-Limit Hold'em
    • I started reading this book half a year ago but stopped because it was to advanced for my knowledge at the time. I picked it up again last month and find it much more useful now, although a lot of it is meant for higher stakes against better opponents. I think I'll keep rereading it every 6 months to pick up new things.
  • Study check-raising, both for value and as a bluf
    • I don't check-raise enough, and I don't recognize good spots to do so.

[Mynona]

Nice achievements for november 👍

GlGl for december :)

ps: you should divide your uk ticket when you win a bigger one to build up a nice uk bankroll :)

[MathrimC]

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ps: you should divide your uk ticket when you win a bigger one to build up a nice uk bankroll :)

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I do that. My bankroll rules are that I only play €4 qualifiers if my ticket value is going to drop below €50. That way I'm rathers sure I can grind it up again without going broke. So to play a €25 qualifier I need at least €75, and to play a €100 final I need at least €150.

The reason I dropped so low in value now, is that I now have these other MTT tickets which I consider a possible part of my UK Tour bankroll, and I prioritized using up my UK Tour tickets before the other ones, because they are more limited in use.

[MathrimC]

I'm going to play the UK Tour event in Manchester next week! Got a seat from someone who won't play it 😀

Got everything booked last minute. It's going to be great fun, looking forward to seeing , , ,  and  again, meet some new people, and hopefully meet Jamie Sykes 😃