Another Uninteresting Night and DQB and Vote on Hand of the Day

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Another breakeven night. I'm starting to get back getting down early and having to play catchup mode. Here is a graph from last night. Oops... For some reason, pictures aren't working today. Anyway, I found myself 3 buyins down after about 500 hands.

1 buyin was attributed to this hand.

Full Tilt Poker $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 2 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

Hero (BB): $50.00
BTN/SB: $82.35

Pre Flop: Hero is BB with 9s Ad
BTN/SB raises to $1.50, Hero calls $1

Flop: ($3.00) Qh Qc Ac (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets $2, Hero raises to $7, BTN/SB calls $5

Turn: ($17.00) Qs (2 players)
Hero bets $10, BTN/SB calls $10

River: ($37.00) 9d (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets $37, Hero calls $31.50 all in

Final Pot: $100.00
Hero mucks 9s Ad
BTN/SB shows 7c Qd (four of a kind, Queens)
BTN/SB wins $99.50
(Rake: $0.50)

DQB!!!!! Unfortunately for me, I had a full house and looked him up.


I was able to work my way back to finish in positive territory; but again, just barely as I finished up $20 again. Again, positive is always better than negative; but I think I need to be more careful early on. I did try to play 8 tables at a time last night. For the most part, I was able to handle the action; but after awhile, I would look and I had been dealt out of a table for missing action and sitting out for too long. I don't want to make the table too small because then the HUD information gets too small. I may experiment some more on this.

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I am trying to make more of an effort on table selection. Of there are sites like tablingratings.com; but what I ended up doing was purchasing a program for data mining (for Full tilt). It is called FT Table Opener from Windy Hill Technology. These are the same people that might the very impressive FT Shortcuts. While I have not ever purchased FT Shortcuts, I have read about it and it is pretty cool. Anyway, FT Table Opener opens Tables based on your criteria. Using that coupled with Holdem Managers Table Window, I am able to make more informed decisions on the tables that I play.

I am still mixing in Pot Limit and No Limit. I should have enough hands by the end of the month to get a true indication of how things compare between the two.

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OK, let's look at my Hand of the day. Maybe I'll start regularly doing this and calling it something like winning or losing a buyin.

EDIT!!! I've added a poll to the right at the top for you to register your vote.

Today's win or loss of a buyin goes like this.


In this hand I will show you how I played the hand; but will not show how it ended up. I'd appreciate any thoughts on the hand both preflop and postflop.


This hand I was 3 bet by a decent player (stat wise). He was a 23/19/5.1 over 592 hands. He 3 bet 8% which is high and squeezed 17% which is high. In other words, he likes aggression.

Full Tilt p0ker $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

BTN: $31.25
SB: $52.15
BB: $50.00
UTG: $64.80
Hero (MP): $50.00
CO: $128.20

Pre Flop: Hero is MP with Jc Qc
1 fold, Hero raises to $1.75, CO raises to $6, 3 folds, Hero


1st decision??

My thinking that this was a big stack; but again this was flawed as I was only 100BB deep.

Hero calls $4.25

Flop: ($12.75) Tc Qh 2c (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $8.50, Hero raises to $22, CO raises to $122.20 all in, Hero calls $22 all in

Thoughts on Flop play?



I will post tomorrow (or whenever my next post is) how the hand turned out. Did I win a buy in or did I lose a buyin? Don't forget to vote on the poll at the top right.

Thanks.

Have a nice day!!!