Ivano's TSP binkage variance galore

F_Ivanovic

OK quick update on the past few days. Been on a small downswing the past few days and my roll had decreased from £2550ish to £2330. Had a 2 and a half hour session just then with a profit of £110 but overall disappointed with how I've played.

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
joey690	Big blind		£0.20	£0.20	£90.75
	Your hole cards	8 K
BASH448	Fold
reddiking	Fold
chaseHINCH	Raise		£0.60	£0.80	£41.57
F_Ivanovic	Raise		£1.80	£2.60	£39.30
joey690	Fold
chaseHINCH	Call		£1.20	£3.80	£40.37
Flop
		8 9 3
chaseHINCH	Check
F_Ivanovic	Bet		£2.00	£5.80	£37.30
chaseHINCH	Raise		£5.50	£11.30	£34.87
F_Ivanovic	Call		£3.50	£14.80	£33.80
Turn
		3
chaseHINCH	Bet		£8.00	£22.80	£26.87
F_Ivanovic	Call		£8.00	£30.80	£25.80
River
		A
chaseHINCH	All-in		£26.87	£57.67	£0.00
F_Ivanovic	All-in		£25.80	£83.47	£0.00
chaseHINCH	Unmatched bet		£1.07	£82.40	£1.07
chaseHINCH	Show	10 10
F_Ivanovic	Show	8 K
chaseHINCH	Win	Two Pairs, 10s and 3s	£80.60		£81.67

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
dubzs	Small blind		£0.10	£0.10	£47.75
joey690	Big blind		£0.20	£0.30	£39.80
	Your hole cards	5 5
dontazeme	Raise		£0.60	£0.90	£49.10
chaseHINCH	Fold
F_Ivanovic	Call		£0.60	£1.50	£57.69
dubzs	Fold
joey690	Fold
Flop
		J J 9
dontazeme	Check
F_Ivanovic	Bet		£3.00	£4.50	£54.69
dontazeme	Call		£3.00	£7.50	£46.10
Turn
		5
dontazeme	Check
F_Ivanovic	Bet		£5.90	£13.40	£48.79
dontazeme	Call		£5.90	£19.30	£40.20
River
		A
dontazeme	Check
F_Ivanovic	Bet		£14.80	£34.10	£33.99
dontazeme	All-in		£40.20	£74.30	£0.00
F_Ivanovic	Call		£25.40	£99.70	£8.59
dontazeme	Show	A J
F_Ivanovic	Show	5 5
dontazeme	Win	Full House, Jacks and Aces	£97.90

I lost a lot on this table this afternoon, with 3 medium sized pots going to a fishy player who 3 did the same thing 3 times (call/call/donk river and I payed him off every time) - The first time he had flopped trip 2's with 25 vs my overpair, the 2nd time he had J7 on a 9JxxJ and I payed him off with a 9 because so many draws missed. And the third time we both had trips on a flush board but he had better.

The first hand I posted here was just so annoying and I'm surprised I didn't just auto quit after it. I'd been really active and 3-betting a lot. When he raises my flop bet I assumed his range is 89, 88 99, TJ, 33, 67, some QT with BD draws and then some big overpairs. Turn brings a 3 and when he bets I was pretty certain he didn't have a full house. I had a blocker which helped but at this point I was confident he had a draw. That being said I was still willing to fold the river since I think the avg player just isn't capable of firing a third barrel. Then the river A comes and vs a normal bet size I would probably have folded but his (slight) overbet shove makes me think he's polarized here to AA or a bluff. To find out he had turned TT into a bluff was just horrible and something I never expected - got well and truly owned here!!!

The 2nd hand is weird. When dontaze me checks the flop I assume he has QQ-AA quite a bit and then just some hands he was auto giving up. Maybe sometimes a weak Jx. Obviously very rarely JJ as well. I planned to just put a lot of pressure on him whilst being very deep. I knew if I just bet 3 streets he was probably snap calling me down so I decided to overbet the flop to straight away give the impression I was willing to play for stacks. Then OTT I actually hit my hand, so I bet again but was really unsure of sizing here. Now I don't want him to fold anymore but I still figure I need to bet quite big. River is an A. On a blank I was going to overbet but on this river that might have hit his AA I decide to just bet a normal sizing. I should have folded to his ship but for some crazy reason I thought he might be turning QQ/KK into a bluff. Really stupid call from me - was quite surprised to see he had AJ though. I thought for sure it was JJ/AA or a bluff.

Played 1 50NL as well though and that's where my profit came from today!

F_Ivanovic

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
NH4ME	Small blind		£0.25	£0.25	£171.79
dontazeme	Big blind		£0.50	£0.75	£48.95
	Your hole cards	Q Q
X	Raise		£1.50	£2.25	£49.22
Slim1805	Fold
F_Ivanovic	Raise		£4.50	£6.75	£45.25
everton4	Fold
NH4ME	Fold
dontazeme	Fold
X	Call		£3.00	£9.75	£46.22
Flop
		K 6 9
x	Check
F_Ivanovic	Bet		£4.88	£14.63	£40.37
x	All-in		£46.22	£60.85	£0.00
F_Ivanovic	All-in		£40.37	£101.22	£0.00
x	Unmatched bet		£0.97	£100.25	£0.97
X	Show	4 4
F_Ivanovic	Show	Q Q
Turn
		10
River
		10
F_Ivanovic	Win	Two Pairs, Queens and 10s	£98.45

I won this pot at first and then when I was on £110ish I had AA on an AJ96 board and 3bet the turn/shoved river - villain had A9. Was a horrible flush completing river as well but I thought I was for sure against an other set! Quite surprised to see I was up against A9.

F_Ivanovic

Hey all, be nice to see some more discussion in this thread! Seems like it's just me posting updates every now and again!! I wouldn't mind some hijacking of my thread anymore :P

I'll start talking more about life outside of poker I think. So anyway - still not got a job. I missed my job seekers appointment this week as basically I'd not completed the "obligatory contract" - haven't phoned up though to do anything about it I just find it pointless spending my time doing loads of job searching for full time jobs when doing so only earns me £70 a week. And I know I can make that amount at least playing poker. Problem is I still need money for food etc each week and so it means taking money out of my poker account if I decide to stop getting JSA as I have like £50 left in my bank account.

Anyway, onto the poker; Feels like I've not been running too well recently but have had a pretty decent session tonight. Played 5 tournaments - the main, the mini, the TOTPs, the £22 deepstack and the SPT quarter satellite. Mini didn't go too well. Lost my stack right before the addon so rebought twice and had an addon as well. Then got my stack in miles ahead and lost! Main event I rebought once and had one addon. Got a treble up with 99 when I 3-bet and got it in facing AK and AQ. KQx flop, 9 came otr!! Was on a table with the biggest chip stacks and just couldn't get anything going. I got a double up on 20k and then the next hand lost a flip with JJ vs AK so was back down to 20k. Ended up going out 2 off the money!!

TOTP's I won somehow! Didn't really do too much, just played really tight and let the field drop and then applied the pressure 3 handed. £22 deepstack was a non-starter. Went out horribly when I limped otb with T7s and shoved over the BB's raise - I still had 15bbs here or so. He had QQ and flopped a set - I had a flush draw but he housed up on the turn. And finally the SPT satellite which went well and won a seat!

Played some cash later on when I was out of all tournaments and had a nice profit of around £130 by the end! This was despite my AA being cracked by TT!

Jac35

Hi Ivan 

Been reading but first post in your thread. Balance of poker and life would be good. Don't normally look at hand histories in diaries but yours are interesting because it's always good to see how a strong player plays a hand.

I understand your thoughts on work at the moment. I think we play for decent sums at poker and we're all a little guilty of losing the value of money. I remember years ago getting back from the casino one night about 4am and realising that I'd committed to doing overtime at work the next day. Pretty demoralising when I was going to do the overtime for about £30 and I'd just lost £300.

Discussion points

How difficult is it for you playing at stakes which are far below what you used to? Pretty obvious that you'll get back there soon but really impressed with your discipline to play smart and play the lower stakes whilst rebuilding your bankroll.

Do you play cash live much? I'm always surprised more online grinders don't do this more. Generally the standard at 50/1 in a casino is so much worse than online and you would most likely crush those games. Even I win a bit live!

Have you decided on playing the SPT at Nottinghsm yet?

F_Ivanovic

Should really be going off to bed now (I said that an hour and a half ago!!) but will reply here again first!!

I didn't know whether or not to continue to post hand histories but I will try and pick out interesting ones wherever possible then as long as some people enjoy them!! Balance is definitely important. When I used to have a job (in the gap year between college and uni) I would put in some unreal volume playing poker but it meant I didn't have much of a life outside that. These days I need to consciously make an effort to put in volume.

Yeah I definitely am guilty of losing the value of money, especially in the past (when I was tilt shoving in £1k at 1000NL!) - Not just with poker but in life I would spend on so much that I didn't need to. Now I'm a bit of a life nit with regards to money. It's not really difficult anymore playing lower stakes. Early on I struggled because it took a while to adjust to the lower stakes games and how they played but now I've got used to it I'm fine. 

Don't play much live cash - I used to play 20NL games when they ran in the rileys I used to play at but the poker stopped there. I actually played pretty horrible in them. Also played at the SPT's - had a small profit there but I don't know what it is, just really don't seem to play myself in live games. I definitely would like to improve that aspect though. As for SPT - well as with my last post I mentioned I won a semi-seat so will see how that goes. I might be inclined to sell action if I fail to qualify in that though - although I'm not sure how possible that is, as I think you need to be a priority to BI direct and I missed out on priority last month!

liamboi11

I still keep up to date with thread but don`t post much on it.

keep up the good work I`ve came across you at the 20/30nl tables a bit and you will be back 100nl+ in no time buddy.

also for SPT Notts the direct buyin i`m sure is available for everyone not just priority im the same i`m trying to qualify for it aswell I`ve got to 2 semi`s but no luck so far but will keep trying.

gl at the tables

hhyftrftdr

Yeah direct buy in is available to everyone.

If you're selling action, let me know....

RyanC7

Defo keep posting hand histories mate. I'm sure I'm not the only one reading them all lol.

The K8 hand i play exactly the same, played him for a while the other day. He doesn't exactly play by the book lol. Love how he's panicked and turnt his hand into a bluff on the river haha. 

The 55 hand is almost certainly a b/f on that river imo. Oppo is a super nit who is never going to be turning a FD into a bluff or raising for value with KJ. His line is so strange it gives it away aswell. Pretty confident hes c-betting all draws and only rarely check/calling with a range like 10s-As (coz hes super tight) or he has it, so would say he only ever has AA/Aj here. 

RyanC7

Had a mare if he sees this and starts c/r'in river as a bluff haha

Lambert180

+1 to the comment about the hand with 55. Villian is SO tight postflop so when he ships the river it's gonna be better FHs (and quads) virtually 100% of the time imo. I'd bet/fold and probably bet/fold smaller just cos I wouldn't be surprised to see him hero fold some strong hands that are weaker than yours to that sizing, some Jx etc....

F_Ivanovic

Yeah I knew 55 was a bet/fold. Probably one of the worst decisions I've made at the tables over the past few weeks! I think I shouldn't be overbetting the flop though without a clear plan for the rest of the hand. I think river bet size is OK though - villain's not folding Jx given the strange line we've both taken and he may hero with QQ/KK. 

TimmyRaRa

Quality read F Inanovic i hope things go well and you move up the levels and im pretty sure your be at 100nl at some point.

F_Ivanovic

In Response to Re: F_Ivanovic 20nl to 100nl reg by the end of 2013 (+ skypoker/lifestory):

Quality read F Inanovic i hope things go well and you move up the levels and im pretty sure your be at 100nl at some point.
Posted by TimmyRaRa

Cheers mate. I think with my current BR in the past I'd already be a 100NL reg by now!! But I'm pleased that I'm sticking to rigid BRM this time. 

The huge positive out of doing this is that I find myself no longer tilting. Back when I played higher in the past I would tilt at some point almost every other session of poker. Since I've started this challenge I've tilted just once (one night where I stayed up till 6 in the morning playing 2 tables of 20 PL omaha (against 2 other players) was a fun session though and I didn't end up too much down!

Update over the past few days - good profit of around £300. I played some 50PL omaha yesterday before the mini primo and SPT satellite. Won £250 in the space of less an hour. Got it in twice with AA - once in a HU pot and held and the 2nd in a 3 way pot where a set of aces on the turn won it for me. SPT satellite didn't go well though, barely got going in it.

Today I lost a lot of yesterdays profit in Omaha early on. Ran really badly and just couldn't get any decent run of cards. Entered the Main, mini and deepstack. Got busted in the deepstack when I had AA and opponent shoved turn with TP+ flush draw and binked river. Mini I picked up a couple bounties then got busted. Main I doubled up first hand and plain sailing for a good while. Got into the money and made a loose raise UTG with 8Ts. Flop 833 and I was non-believing when the opponent raised the flop - he showed me JJ. Then got it in with KQs for 10bbs against QJ. J on river.

Fortunately I finished the day slightly in profit as I stuck at the omaha tables and finished with £300ish+ over 2 tables. 

F_Ivanovic

I don't get how sometimes I post hand histories they work out fine, and sometimes they just fail? I do the same thing every time!!

F_Ivanovic

Decent hour and a half session just then leaving me £80ish up. Broke even playing holdem but made just over 4BI's at 20PL Omaha. Really slow start as well where I just folded a lot and waited for a hand but then in the space of half an hour I was from £20 to £110!

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
newstart12	Small blind		£0.10	£0.10	£69.27
JonesyTHFC	Big blind		£0.20	£0.30	£16.60
	Your hole cards	10 7 10 9
X	Raise		£0.70	£1.00	£14.64
edwards02	Fold
F_Ivanovic	Call		£0.70	£1.70	£32.50
newstart12	Call		£0.60	£2.30	£68.67
JonesyTHFC	Call		£0.50	£2.80	£16.10
Flop
		7 9 8
newstart12	Check
JonesyTHFC	Check
X	Check
F_Ivanovic	Bet		£1.60	£4.40	£30.90
newstart12	Call		£1.60	£6.00	£67.07
JonesyTHFC	Call		£1.60	£7.60	£14.50
X	Call		£1.60	£9.20	£13.04
Turn
		4
newstart12	Check
JonesyTHFC	Check
X	Check
F_Ivanovic	Bet		£6.00	£15.20	£24.90
newstart12	Fold
JonesyTHFC	Fold
X	Call		£6.00	£21.20	£7.04
River
		2
X	Check
F_Ivanovic	Check
X	Show	A Q J 6
F_Ivanovic	Show	10 7 10 9
F_Ivanovic	Win	Two Pairs, 9s and 7s	£20.14		£45.04

This hand was pretty interesting. Bet the flop 4 ways with 2 pair and a non-nut straight draw and get 4 calls. With my 10s as a blocker (plus set blockers) and the fact that it was 4 way I figured no-one had the nut straight and I could get a lot of folds by following up with a turn bet. Got a call from the one opponent I knew would chase any draw, no matter how bad! Easy check back and take on the river

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
B	Small blind		£0.10	£0.10	£31.59
A	Big blind		£0.20	£0.30	£23.65
	Your hole cards	Q A A 10
F_Ivanovic	Raise		£0.60	£0.90	£42.74
newstart12	Fold
B	Call		£0.50	£1.40	£31.09
A	Raise		£1.80	£3.20	£21.85
F_Ivanovic	Raise		£5.80	£9.00	£36.94
B	Call		£5.80	£14.80	£25.29
A	Call		£4.40	£19.20	£17.45
Flop
		Q 5 K
B	Check
A	All-in		£17.45	£36.65	£0.00
F_Ivanovic	Call		£17.45	£54.10	£19.49
B	All-in		£25.29	£79.39	£0.00
F_Ivanovic	Call		£7.84	£87.23	£11.65
B	Show	J K 6 10
A	Show	4 2 6 7
F_Ivanovic	Show	Q A A 10
Turn
		8
River
		J
F_Ivanovic	Win	Straight to the Ace	£85.43		£97.08

Biggest pot of the afternoon. Sucks to call off with a pair but with the SPR I had no choice. Q blocker to QQ and gutshot if I happen to run into a set anyway. Probably a fold vs some villains, but not the ones I was up against!

Lambert180

This isn't a dig, it's a genuine question cos obv I don't know much abuot PLO strat and thus don't know how weak the weak players are and how big your edge will be but are you just running insanely good at PLO or what? I only ask cos you seem to be doing alright at NLHE but every single time you say you've played PLO you seem to have completely smashed it.

I thought it was a dead swingy game but you seem to always win... do you think your edge in the low stakes PLO on Sky is pretty huge?

F_Ivanovic

Yeah I'd say my edge is pretty huge vs most of the players that play Omaha. It is definitely a swingy game but to reduce variance when playing 50PLO I often will just play super tight. The bad players won't notice and will still happily get involved with complete garbage hands pre-flop. Thus when I do get it in I often have a big equity advantage. At 20PLO I usually will play a lot looser though because I can handle the swings at 20PLO much more comfortably! Plus if I'm playing 50PLO I have a stop loss of 3-4BI's. 

Lambert180

Ok fair enough. You need to teach me how to play PLO!

F_Ivanovic

Unfortunately, I don't think that will be very ev for me to add regs to the omaha playing pool I'm sure there's a lot of material out there though to teach you the game well enough if you wanted too though!!

I'll give you one good piece of advice though! Getting it in pre with any pair hands other than AA is almost always -ev. Hence we don't want to be opening hands like KK82 other than on the button in an unopened pot!

Lambert180

We don't even want to open them?! Does that mean you'd limp them or open fold?

Granted KK82 is a junky pair hand, but I assume you'd open something like AKKT?

F_Ivanovic

Yeah I'm obviously opening that hand from any position! I might limp KK82 a lot on a weak table because making top sets can be very profitable when the SPR is still high. It's not a hand I want to have in a smaller SPR situation only HU/2 way though because it's just very hard to try and play it well post-flop.

Obviously the reason we don't get it in with anything other than AA (w/o reads) is that a lot of players GII range will include AA... and getting it in with a smaller pair is going to rapidly decrease our equity when facing AA.

F_Ivanovic

Struggling to put much volume in atm. Really want priority again this month but not quite 1/3 of the way there and 1/3 of the month has gone! Playing 1 table atm as wasn't focused enough to play more than 1, and that's the £11 BH. Already got 5 bounties and have a chip stack of 14.5k! Be a disaster if Idon't at least make 2nd place now. Anyone else find it annoying though when the one tourney they run really well in as a relatively small payout?! Same with cash as well when I might have a mixture of 25/50p and then some as low as 10/20p and you run terrible in the 25/50p but great in the 10p/20p!!

Although it's often the other way around for me and I do actually run/play better in the 25/50p (prob being more focused on it)

F_Ivanovic

oooh yeah as predicted I took it down!!! £79.55 + £62.87 in head prizes. Around 40 minutes after I posted here aswell I'd been overtaken as chip leader by someone who was sitting on 34k!! I was still lounging around on 14k. (albeit still comfortably 2nd) Final table came about and the original chip leader lost his whole stack to 1 player in a few different hands. His final hand he shoved with AJo UTG after getting a double up whilst very short the hand before. Big stack calls with A8 and I called with ATs and it got checked down to river where an 8 otr won the hand for him. Guy with the chips was a complete donkey though. Lost a lot of his chips to me then I 3bet with AQs, he shoved a T86 flop with 67 (pot bet) and I snap with 2 overs and FD but brick.

He got busted though to the guy on my right (a super nit) who got KK and AA vs him. Went to HU when I called a 10bb shove with AJs vs 66. Hit a flush OTT. HU I had 30k to his 56k. I found out pretty quickly that he was no longer nitty HU. Got close to level but then let it slip again. Hero called with bottom pair OTR when losing would leave me with just 13k and won. 2nd to last hand I 3-bet with KQo flop was 952 I c-bet 1/3 pot, he flats. Turn was a T and I've seen him flat before OTF with marginal holdings so I jam and get it through. Next hand I raise KTo, flop a BDFD + gutshot on Ace high and c-bet. Turn gives me a straight and I bet, he calls. River is a diamond and gives me nut flush, he donk shoves with 2nd nut flush and I take it down.

Really happy with how I played in the tournament. Ran well at the start to get a chip lead and made the most of it!

F_Ivanovic

Since that tourney win, I haven't even got going in any of the tourneys I've entered. Saturday night I bricked the main and mini and lost £100ish playing cash including not being able to get away from KK 200BB deep! In the Primo tonight never really got going - ended up going out when I raise in SB and call a shove. A9 vs AQ I flop a 9 but a Q turns.

Cash has been better though and up £160 for the day. Playing 50NL holdem and Omaha. Most of the profit came from Holdem tonight though. 50NL Holdem was playing incredibly nitty tonight, not sure if that's usual for it but was a bit boring most of the time, and a reminder of why I love playing Omaha more! 

Still don't know whether I'm going to go SPT or not... I've reached £3k and I did say that if I reached this amount then I'd be happy enough to buy in direct, but now I've got there I'm not so sure as it's still a big proportion of my BR. I was going to try a SPT quarter yesterday but forgot about it and then forgot about the semi tonight as well as was going to enter it direct anyway. I might just decide last minute to buy in direct and then sell action if anyone wants it when I get there!

hhyftrftdr

In Response to Re: F_Ivanovic 20nl to 100nl reg by the end of 2013 (+ skypoker/lifestory):

Since that tourney win, I haven't even got going in any of the tourneys I've entered. Saturday night I bricked the main and mini and lost £100ish playing cash including not being able to get away from KK 200BB deep! In the Primo tonight never really got going - ended up going out when I raise in SB and call a shove. A9 vs AQ I flop a 9 but a Q turns. Cash has been better though and up £160 for the day. Playing 50NL holdem and Omaha. Most of the profit came from Holdem tonight though. 50NL Holdem was playing incredibly nitty tonight, not sure if that's usual for it but was a bit boring most of the time, and a reminder of why I love playing Omaha more!  Still don't know whether I'm going to go SPT or not... I've reached £3k and I did say that if I reached this amount then I'd be happy enough to buy in direct, but now I've got there I'm not so sure as it's still a big proportion of my BR. I was going to try a SPT quarter yesterday but forgot about it and then forgot about the semi tonight as well as was going to enter it direct anyway. I might just decide last minute to buy in direct and then sell action if anyone wants it when I get there!
Posted by F_Ivanovic

Depends if you're gonna be raise folding from a 12bb stack

F_Ivanovic

I won't be raise/folding with a 12bb stack...... I may do so with a 13bb stack though :P

F_Ivanovic

Mixed day today. Won £150 playing 50NL Holdem earlier. Lost £120ish in PLO tonight. Entered main and mini, out the mini but still in the main on the bubble atm. 27k and 1 bounty. Raking in them bounties as usual!

F_Ivanovic

NVM that hand history didn't work. Anyway, had AA and min-r and got a call. Flop was KJT all diamonds and I had the Ad. Opponent donk shoves all in with K9 no flush draw and spikes a 9 on the river!!! Would have gone a good way in making sure I reached the final table. Doubled up with Q6 on 5/6bbs then got back to 23k. Decided to play tricky and limp QQ OTB. Flop is 645 two tone and I min bet and sam1986 shoves on me... I snap to see his A6 and lo and behold, a river 6! Pleased in one way that I played well but I really thought I'd get to a final table at last.

F_Ivanovic

Just realised it's been almost a week without an update, apologies to anyone that looks forward to my updates.....no-one? oh well, here we go anyway :P

So, not really had a week to write home about in all honestly! Haven't played an awful lot been struggling to find motivation + time to play. Only played a couple tournaments this week and none of them I cashed in. Had a bad day on Thursday where I lost £350ish playing cash. Ran pretty horribly - got it in as big favourites a good few times and was outdrawn. Next day I was feeling a bit down but saw my girlfriend (Alicia) later on and she cheered me up massively! Single tabled 50PLO that night and won £250 so that was good. 

Saturday we went out to Liverpool to go to a Vegan fair (Alicia's a vegetarian but tries to eat vegan as much as possible!) - They had a cafe there but there was nothing I really liked the look off. I mean I'm happy to try new things but don't want to pay £2 for a vegetarian sausage roll for example and not even like it!! (I'm currently a life nit with money) We got the train home at quarter to 5 - we had a wedding evening party that we were going to at half 7. And lo and behold the train was cancelled due to a POINTS FAILURE?! I mean, cmon. There were about 350+ people stranded at Hooton. They called for buses but took forever and we ran into 2 friends from Uni and got a taxi back to Chester. The taxi took 25 mins to get there so we didn't get back till 10 to 7 in the end. I was still ready at half 7 though :P But the Wedding overan anyway so Alicia had plenty of time to get ready!

Back on to poker - I played some yesterday afternoon/evening. No touraments as we were intending to go back to my house that night. Watched Spurs win 2-0 whilst single tabling 20PLO omaha and making a small profit. Played a couple 50PLO tables and short stacked 100PLO a couple times. Ended up down £60 overall. Could have been up £100 if not for this hand:

edit: NVM Again it won't post. Every time I use my laptop to c+p it messes up. Basically had AA55ss in a 4bet pot and flop came AK7r. Bet slightly less than 1/3 pot and guy with KQJT shoves over my raise and hits a J OTT. No board pair otr and £180 shipped his way instead of mine!

F_Ivanovic

Out the main event... AQ >>>>>> KK and 88

Two weeks in a row now I've gone deep and reached the money and then have been knocked out holding monster hands. Last week it was KK and QQ; This week it was KK again and then 88 to finish me off.

Played some omaha tonight but couldn't concentrate on it. Doubled my stack and then stupidly lost it. So up slightly tonight but really gutted that I couldn't make it further in the main. In the mini I also had a big stack and then kind of blew it. 3bet rancid a fair few times and just threw away a 12k chip stack. First I had K8o and 3bet to get it in with shorty with 22 and lost. Then I 3bet A9s to isolate shorty but rancid woke up with KK and 4bet and I had to fold. Then I 3-bet KQo and he calls with AJ. Flop is Jxx I fire one c-bet and give up. Then I 3-bet him with AJ and BB min 4-bets. Should have folded but I thought he might be light as I seemed to 3-betting all the time - ended up shoving into his KK and not sucking out.