Lambert180 ----- Life After The Grind -------

Donttelmum · October 2013

Can't believe people are saying the games are bad! The games are freekin great!

Lambert180 · October 2013

TILT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just wrote a massive reply, clicked post and it timed me out!! Let's start again, good job I got a virtually photographic memory so should be able to rewrite very quickly.

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Hey Nick, I heard you were back around the scene, I'll come and say hello at DTD this weekend.

Don't worry about any comments you may think sound harsh, I can take it

and I've already had 'varied' responses from my recent updates. Feel free to post what yuo like on here, PM me, email me (you should still
have my email address) or post up a comment on my blog:

http://paullambert180.blogspot.co.uk/

Obv you can keep it to yourself if you'd prefer like.

I definitely agree with the whole 12tabling thing, and I haven't been playing more than 6-7 tables recently and intend to carry on that way at least for the forseeable future. I came to the same realisation myself recently and since a few people have pointed it out to me. Improving and moving up is definitely paramout, there's no way I'd do this for a living with the intention of staying at these levels and having to grind 50+ hours a week to make a modest living and just make a load of rakeback, so I'm putting more effort into actually trying to spend some time learning/improving rather than just spending all my time playing.

@Larson - There is a bit more to it than just stealing blinds. And imo it's not really robotic, it's essentially the opposite, it's about having good notes/reads on people and using them to exploit them so you're actually adapting to people's play. The other side of the coin is to virtually play every hand readless/in a vacuum and just play every single situation in the exact same way against every single opponent cos 'thats how you play a set on K89r' or whatever.

@Ivan - There's no way on earth you can win 8 BIs 1tabling for a couple of hours on the NLHE tables as they are now without some serious heatering, I don't care how good you are lol. I agree though, I could probably improve my winrate per table by reducing tables, although obv I'd have to look into what it does to my actual hourly rate. During September, I played pretty much 12tables the whole month and maintained a winrate of 5xBB per hour per table. I only played 100k hands so while it's a decent sample, it's by no means gospel as to what it would be long term. FWIW though, I am on a pretty horrendous downswing, it's not like, I'm suddenly now running around EV and I'm losing cos I need to rungood to win.

@DTM - The games are awful for the most part lol.

pryce6 · October 2013

I mean, I can't speak for Sky but in general online cash games are not great!

Cool, rather not derail your thread so if you want my advice at the weekend be happy to talk.

Lambert180 · October 2013

Alright no worries. Cheers, I'll see you on the weekend.

Lambert180 · October 2013

Too tired atm to post an update, off to bed now but just wanted to post this hand so I don't forget, what a beauty.

The disgusting thing is, the K on the river should probably have saved me, and I should probably find a fold there cos he's just never bluffing in this spot and he's never 3bet shipping the river with trips, it's just always gonna be like KK/99/TT.... somehow KT/K9 if he was feeling fruity on the flop lol. So could save myself £20 here but raise/folding that river just feels so disgusting (deffo don't think I should just flat fwiw).

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
jameswins	Small blind		£0.10	£0.10	£71.27
aceshigh04	Big blind		£0.20	£0.30	£20.56
	Your hole cards	6 6
rancid	Raise		£0.60	£0.90	£45.53
POKEY2011	Call		£0.60	£1.50	£39.40
blackb00sh	Fold
Lambert180	Call		£0.60	£2.10	£55.97
jameswins	Fold
aceshigh04	Call		£0.40	£2.50	£20.16
Flop
		9 6 10
aceshigh04	Check
rancid	Bet		£1.40	£3.90	£44.13
POKEY2011	Fold
Lambert180	Raise		£4.05	£7.95	£51.92
aceshigh04	Fold
rancid	Call		£2.65	£10.60	£41.48
Turn
		K
rancid	Check
Lambert180	Check
River
		K
rancid	Bet		£7.95	£18.55	£33.53
Lambert180	Raise		£19.50	£38.05	£32.42
rancid	All-in		£33.53	£71.58	£0.00
Lambert180	Call		£21.98	£93.56	£10.44
rancid	Show	K K
Lambert180	Show	6 6
rancid	Win	Four Kings	£91.76		£91.76

andrizu · October 2013

In Response to Re: Lambert180 ----- Lolpro and Onwards:

Too tired atm to post an update, off to bed now but just wanted to post this hand so I don't forget, what a beauty. The disgusting thing is, the K on the river should probably have saved me, and I should probably find a fold there cos he's just never bluffing in this spot and he's never 3bet shipping the river with trips, it's just always gonna be like KK/99/TT.... somehow KT/K9 if he was feeling fruity on the flop lol. So could save myself £20 here but raise/folding that river just feels so disgusting (deffo don't think I should just flat fwiw). Player Action Cards Amount Pot Balance jameswins Small blind £0.10 £0.10 £71.27 aceshigh04 Big blind £0.20 £0.30 £20.56 Your hole cards 6 6 rancid Raise £0.60 £0.90 £45.53 POKEY2011 Call £0.60 £1.50 £39.40 blackb00sh Fold Lambert180 Call £0.60 £2.10 £55.97 jameswins Fold aceshigh04 Call £0.40 £2.50 £20.16 Flop 9 6 10 aceshigh04 Check rancid Bet £1.40 £3.90 £44.13 POKEY2011 Fold Lambert180 Raise £4.05 £7.95 £51.92 aceshigh04 Fold rancid Call £2.65 £10.60 £41.48 Turn K rancid Check Lambert180 Check River K rancid Bet £7.95 £18.55 £33.53 Lambert180 Raise £19.50 £38.05 £32.42 rancid All-in £33.53 £71.58 £0.00 Lambert180 Call £21.98 £93.56 £10.44 rancid Show K K Lambert180 Show 6 6 rancid Win Four Kings £91.76 £91.76
Posted by Lambert180

Personally the only 2 hands that make any sense the way the hand played out. is either AKhh or KK

sick run out though. But your right it probabaly is a fold on the river, you know rancid aint shoving light.

UL

Lambert180 · October 2013

Discussed this hand last hand and I might have been wrong... a flat on the river, despite feeling really nitty might have been better. Imo on the river he still has 99/TT/KK/K6hh in his range, and the only hands that probably bet/call the river are Kxhh w/ x being another big over... so AKhh, KQhh, maybe KJhh and probably calls QJhh with the straight ... although I'm not sure if he'd be 3betting the open ended straight flush draw on the flop this deep.... obviously would only do it with the intention of getting it in and he's a slight underdog V sets which is most likely what he'd get it in against this deep.

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In life matters... Emma's brother was starting on the road to recovery as mentioned in my last post about it, talking more, getting more movement back in his body then yesterday we found out his condition has taken a turn for the worse. He had another bleed on the brain which they've also said significantly increases the chances of him having another bleed. They were originally going to continue draining the blood from his brain and perform the brain surgery to remove the AVM when he had recovered a little, they've now decided it's too high risk to wait this long and take the risk of him potentially having another bleed so they are going to have to carry out the surgery on his brain while he is unconscious which is obviously higher risk in itself because they can't test his speech etc during surgery if he's not awake. Apparently each instance of a bleed comes with a 10% chance of dying and he's had 3 bleeds so far and is still going, hence the need to avoid him having further bledes... makes you realise how unimportant it is worrying about whether we hold AA v KK or w/e.

Yahoo have offered to pay for all our flights and accommodation to go over and see him so that's a comfort at least. So we'll be going over there for about a week before the end of this year

andrizu · October 2013

In Response to Re: Lambert180 ----- Lolpro and Onwards:

Discussed this hand last hand and I might have been wrong... a flat on the river, despite feeling really nitty might have been better. Imo on the river he still has 99/TT/KK/K6hh in his range, and the only hands that probably bet/call the river are Kxhh w/ x being another big over... so AKhh, KQhh, maybe KJhh and probably calls QJhh with the straight ... although I'm not sure if he'd be 3betting the open ended straight flush draw on the flop this deep.... obviously would only do it with the intention of getting it in and he's a slight underdog V sets which is most likely what he'd get it in against this deep. ================================================================================= In life matters... Emma's brother was starting on the road to recovery as mentioned in my last post about it, talking more, getting more movement back in his body then yesterday we found out his condition has taken a turn for the worse. He had another bleed on the brain which they've also said significantly increases the chances of him having another bleed. They were originally going to continue draining the blood from his brain and perform the brain surgery to remove the AVM when he had recovered a little, they've now decided it's too high risk to wait this long and take the risk of him potentially having another bleed so they are going to have to carry out the surgery on his brain while he is unconscious which is obviously higher risk in itself because they can't test his speech etc during surgery if he's not awake. Apparently each instance of a bleed comes with a 10% chance of dying and he's had 3 bleeds so far and is still going, hence the need to avoid him having further bledes... makes you realise how unimportant it is worrying about whether we hold AA v KK or w/e. Yahoo have offered to pay for all our flights and accommodation to go over and see him so that's a comfort at least. So we'll be going over there for about a week before the end of this year
Posted by Lambert180

With regards to the hand. With you being so deep, I think flatting the river is fine. Especially with him leading into you the river I think his range is pretty nutted and contains only a house.

Mind you I think that the turn is very interesting. Really makes it hard to perhaps not look for value as played. And, after you raise on the river I think its time to just save a buy-in and fold.

Really interesting spot though. Will continue to follow and watch progress. And GL in the SPT.

pilgrim07 · October 2013

Thinking about you and your family at this difficult time, Paul.

LARSON7 · October 2013

Hey Paul

So true poker is trivial to life.

I hope everything works out ok for Emma's brother. All the best for you and the family. The community will be thinking about you.

Lambert180 · October 2013

Thanks for the well wishes, both on here and from some people at the tables.

Only played 2 MTTs tonight, the Mini where I only lasted about an hour, went out in a standard flip AK against a PP.... think it was TT. The other one was the £13 UKOPS supersat and things went a bit better there. Love these sats with very top heavy payouts. Was nice to get a cash after I came 8th last time they ran these a week or so ago. Same payouts, 1st was a £530 seat, 2nd - 6th was a £110 seat.

I managed 5th place going out in what's essentially a standard flip, although a pretty loose call and a pretty cruel runout lol

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
Curt360x27	Small blind		600.00	600.00	11110.00
DivsDreams	Big blind		1200.00	1800.00	46973.62
	Your hole cards	7 7
AllyD90	Raise		2400.00	4200.00	33018.92
SUPERSNEDD	Fold
Lambert180	All-in		11842.14	16042.14	0.00
Curt360x27	Fold
DivsDreams	Fold
AllyD90	Call		9442.14	25484.28	23576.78
AllyD90	Show	10 8
Lambert180	Show	7 7
Flop
		10 2 7
Turn
		2
River
		10
AllyD90	Win	Full House, 10s and 2s	25484.28		49061.06

AllyD90 122500 1 Entry to £25,000 UKOPS 5
DivsDreams 0 2 Entry to £25,000 UKOPS 1
Curt360x27 0 3 Entry to £25,000 UKOPS 1
SUPERSNEDD 0 4 Entry to £25,000 UKOPS 1
Lambert180 0 5 Entry to £25,000 UKOPS 1
OXBOWLER 0 6 Entry to £25,000 UKOPS 1

The ME seats were for this Sunday though and I'll probably still be playing the SPT FT by that point

or more likely driving home at that point, so decided to just reg first and take the cash. So +£91.50 on MTTs today.... finally getting my sharkscope close to £1k profit, it's been a long time coming but that's cos I wasted so much time playing £1 deepstacks.

As for cash, meh, it went alright I guess, started well, but trailed off towards the end of the night and started struggling to win a hand again.... which is kinda the opposite of what should happen on a Friday night but meh what can you do when you got a maniac open shoving every hand, so you eventually snap them off with AK and just get beat by K3 anyway lol. Ended up finishing -£17.85 for the night on cash.

Here's a few hands for Dohhhh's benefit

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
Scene1	Small blind		£0.10	£0.10	£24.71
jameswins	Big blind		£0.20	£0.30	£28.87
	Your hole cards	Q Q
Lambert180	Raise		£0.60	£0.90	£29.46
bishybash	Raise		£1.00	£1.90	£29.18
simonnatur	Call		£1.00	£2.90	£20.92
Scene1	Fold
jameswins	Fold
Lambert180	Call		£0.40	£3.30	£29.06
Flop
		9 9 8
Lambert180	Check
bishybash	Bet		£1.65	£4.95	£27.53
simonnatur	Fold
Lambert180	Call		£1.65	£6.60	£27.41
Turn
		Q
Lambert180	Check
bishybash	Bet		£4.95	£11.55	£22.58
Lambert180	Raise		£11.00	£22.55	£16.41
bishybash	Call		£6.05	£28.60	£16.53
River
		2
Lambert180	All-in		£16.41	£45.01	£0.00
bishybash	Call		£16.41	£61.42	£0.12
Lambert180	Show	Q Q
bishybash	Show	9 10
Lambert180	Win	Full House, Queens and 9s	£59.62		£59.62

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
hotdog61	Small blind		£0.10	£0.10	£62.56
Lambert180	Big blind		£0.20	£0.30	£19.80
	Your hole cards	5 5
weetch01	Fold
Toshiro	Fold
Blame3	Call		£0.20	£0.50	£46.92
jameswins	Fold
hotdog61	Fold
Lambert180	Check
Flop
		10 5 10
Lambert180	Check
Blame3	Check
Turn
		2
Lambert180	Bet		£0.40	£0.90	£19.40
Blame3	Raise		£1.70	£2.60	£45.22
Lambert180	Call		£1.30	£3.90	£18.10
River
		4
Lambert180	Check
Blame3	Bet		£3.90	£7.80	£41.32
Lambert180	All-in		£18.10	£25.90	£0.00
Blame3	Call		£14.20	£40.10	£27.12
Lambert180	Show	5 5
Blame3	Show	K 6
Lambert180	Win	Full House, 5s and 10s	£38.30		£38.30

Hated how this turned out cos of the bet on the river... was tempted to ship it, cos it's pretty obvious imo that he's weak, either a weak pr or missed draw and won't call a shove but I just thought meh, what's the point I'm ahead of all of that, and he turns up with pretty much the only hand he can have that's better than mine lol.

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
DumbPlumb	Small blind		£0.10	£0.10	£38.00
Lambert180	Big blind		£0.20	£0.30	£17.67
	Your hole cards	10 9
rekopace	Fold
DAN7	Raise		£0.40	£0.70	£13.86
Th1nkerman	Fold
DumbPlumb	Call		£0.30	£1.00	£37.70
Lambert180	Call		£0.20	£1.20	£17.47
Flop
		8 4 9
DumbPlumb	Bet		£1.20	£2.40	£36.50
Lambert180	Call		£1.20	£3.60	£16.27
DAN7	Call		£1.20	£4.80	£12.66
Turn
		2
DumbPlumb	Bet		£4.80	£9.60	£31.70
Lambert180	Call		£4.80	£14.40	£11.47
DAN7	Fold
River
		7
DumbPlumb	Bet		£0.60	£15.00	£31.10
Lambert180	Call		£0.60	£15.60	£10.87
DumbPlumb	Show	9 J
Lambert180	Muck	10 9
DumbPlumb	Win	Pair of 9s	£14.82		£45.92

unknown_username · October 2013

Hey man.Just been catchin up on various threads and came across the challenge facing you and your family atm.Hope everything works out for you m8.Family really is more important than anything else.Period!

Be strong.

Paul

Lambert180 · October 2013

Cheers Paul, they've confirmed now he will be going in for the surgery on Monday and that's where the big risk lies so hopefully things will look better after Monday.

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I've done an SPT update on my blog so won't post it here, will just give you the link to that:

http://paullambert180.blogspot.co.uk/

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When I got back from the SPT I thought I'd give one UKOPS micro sat a go. Won the £5.30 sat into the £24 Semi. Then heading towards the bubble (33 seats and 34th got £22), I was sitting 10th out of 40! I played hardly any hands apart from shipping QQ and getting folds then managed to stone bubble the seats getting it in AJ v A5 to basically lock up a seat, so brutal. Couldn't have folded either cos I was in the BB and it was SB that shoved, if I'd folded I was all in with ATC in the SB (and no1 else was currently forced all in)

So that's my 2nd exit to a 3 outer in 2/2 MTTs in 2 days. Must be nice to win races.

Thought I'd play 2 of the £3 all in sats seen as I was freerolling them from the £22 but it was not to be, so finished the day with a grand total of £10.70... pretty sigh after bubbling a £110 seat in a 70/30.

Oh well, I'm playing the Cinq Majeur overseas (basically a €5 freezeout with a pretty big field/guarantee). 3283 people started and I'm currently 399 out of 1021 with a little over average. First prize is €2.7k... hopefully I'll have a big bink to post about in the morning but much more likely I'll mincash for €6 lol.

OHIMGOOD · October 2013

In Response to Re: Lambert180 ----- Lolpro and Onwards:

Cheers Paul, they've confirmed now he will be going in for the surgery on Monday and that's where the big risk lies so hopefully things will look better after Monday. ======================================================================= I've done an SPT update on my blog so won't post it here, will just give you the link to that: http://paullambert180.blogspot.co.uk/ ======================================================================= When I got back from the SPT I thought I'd give one UKOPS micro sat a go. Won the £5.30 sat into the £24 Semi. Then heading towards the bubble (33 seats and 34th got £22), I was sitting 10th out of 40! I played hardly any hands apart from shipping QQ and getting folds then managed to stone bubble the seats getting it in AJ v A5 to basically lock up a seat, so brutal. Couldn't have folded either cos I was in the BB and it was SB that shoved, if I'd folded I was all in with ATC in the SB (and no1 else was currently forced all in) So that's my 2nd exit to a 3 outer in 2/2 MTTs in 2 days. Must be nice to win races. Thought I'd play 2 of the £3 all in sats seen as I was freerolling them from the £22 but it was not to be, so finished the day with a grand total of £10.70... pretty sigh after bubbling a £110 seat in a 70/30. Oh well, I'm playing the Cinq Majeur overseas (basically a €5 freezeout with a pretty big field/guarantee). 3283 people started and I'm currently 399 out of 1021 with a little over average. First prize is €2.7k... hopefully I'll have a big bink to post about in the morning but much more likely I'll mincash for €6 lol.
Posted by Lambert180

I'm currently 9th

Lambert180 · October 2013

In Response to Re: Lambert180 ----- Lolpro and Onwards:

In Response to Re: Lambert180 ----- Lolpro and Onwards : I'm currently 9th
Posted by OHIMGOOD

Nice one, gl. I bust In 623rd

Lambert180 · October 2013

Woooow tonight was brutal. As each all-in passed, I was quite literally speechless. I finished the session -£196.26 and it's a miracle it wasn't more! I don't like doing the whole 'here's a long list of bad beats' anymore but on this occasion I'm going to because it's the only way to show the true magnitude of it. Bear in mind I was only 6tabling for like 4 hours, so I've played probably less than 2000 hands in that time. FWIW, I don't think I won ONE all in tonight where the money went in prior to the river being dealt.

Let's start with the one that felt the most brutal as it was a 400xBB pot where I just had to dodge 5 outs. When the cards turned over I thought 'ok even if AJ hits his 3 outer, I'm coming out good with the BIG side pot' but who'd have thought someone would flop their 3 outer AND someone would flop their 2 outer on the same flop lol

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
Felcher	Small blind		£0.10	£0.10	£34.38
DrRunGood	Big blind		£0.20	£0.30	£8.32
	Your hole cards	Q Q
Lambert180	Raise		£0.60	£0.90	£32.00
urgg	Call		£0.60	£1.50	£12.09
Donttelmum	Fold
pteEAGLE	Raise		£1.00	£2.50	£13.29
Felcher	Call		£0.90	£3.40	£33.48
DrRunGood	Fold
Lambert180	Raise		£2.40	£5.80	£29.60
urgg	Fold
pteEAGLE	Raise		£4.00	£9.80	£9.29
Felcher	All-in		£33.48	£43.28	£0.00
Lambert180	All-in		£29.60	£72.88	£0.00
pteEAGLE	All-in		£9.29	£82.17	£0.00
Felcher	Unmatched bet		£1.88	£80.29	£1.88
Felcher	Show	7 7
Lambert180	Show	Q Q
pteEAGLE	Show	A J
Flop
		7 5 A
Turn
		2
River
		5
Felcher	Win	Full House, 7s and 5s	£78.49		£80.37

Then you know it's bad when you say 'this one is only a 6 outer' lol

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
Lambert180	Small blind		£0.15	£0.15	£64.36
ewalili1	Big blind		£0.30	£0.45	£26.12
	Your hole cards	8 6
Lambert180	Raise		£0.45	£0.90	£63.91
ewalili1	Raise		£1.50	£2.40	£24.62
Lambert180	Call		£1.20	£3.60	£62.71
Flop
		7 8 7
ewalili1	Check
Lambert180	Bet		£2.10	£5.70	£60.61
ewalili1	Call		£2.10	£7.80	£22.52
Turn
		3
ewalili1	Check
Lambert180	Bet		£4.20	£12.00	£56.41
ewalili1	Raise		£16.35	£28.35	£6.17
Lambert180	Raise		£24.30	£52.65	£32.11
ewalili1	All-in		£6.17	£58.82	£0.00
Lambert180	Unmatched bet		£5.98	£52.84	£38.09
Lambert180	Show	8 6
ewalili1	Show	A 9
River
		A
ewalili1	Win	Two Pairs, Aces and 7s	£51.84		£51.84

3 outer

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
Lambert180	Small blind		£0.15	£0.15	£26.25
arnie23131	Big blind		£0.30	£0.45	£25.96
	Your hole cards	Q A
Lambert180	Raise		£0.75	£1.20	£25.50
arnie23131	Call		£0.60	£1.80	£25.36
Flop
		Q 5 3
arnie23131	Bet		£0.60	£2.40	£24.76
Lambert180	Raise		£2.85	£5.25	£22.65
arnie23131	Call		£2.25	£7.50	£22.51
Turn
		4
arnie23131	Bet		£0.30	£7.80	£22.21
Lambert180	All-in		£22.65	£30.45	£0.00
arnie23131	All-in		£22.21	£52.66	£0.00
Lambert180	Unmatched bet		£0.14	£52.52	£0.14
Lambert180	Show	Q A
arnie23131	Show	Q 9
River
		9
arnie23131	Win	Two Pairs, Queens and 9s	£51.52		£51.52

great call

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
joey690	Small blind		£0.10	£0.10	£20.00
EVER	Big blind		£0.20	£0.30	£19.88
	Your hole cards	A 4
habbin	Fold
rancid	Fold
Donttelmum	Fold
Lambert180	Raise		£0.60	£0.90	£22.35
joey690	Raise		£1.90	£2.80	£18.10
EVER	Fold
Lambert180	Call		£1.40	£4.20	£20.95
Flop
		3 10 5
joey690	Bet		£2.10	£6.30	£16.00
Lambert180	Raise		£6.01	£12.31	£14.94
joey690	Raise		£7.82	£20.13	£8.18
Lambert180	All-in		£14.94	£35.07	£0.00
joey690	All-in		£8.18	£43.25	£0.00
Lambert180	Unmatched bet		£2.85	£40.40	£2.85
joey690	Show	Q K
Lambert180	Show	A 4
Turn
		J
River
		A
joey690	Win	Straight to the Ace	£38.60		£38.60

just a flip

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
Donttelmum	Small blind		£0.10	£0.10	£44.40
Lambert180	Big blind		£0.20	£0.30	£19.04
	Your hole cards	9 9
Donttelmum	Raise		£0.50	£0.80	£43.90
Lambert180	Raise		£1.60	£2.40	£17.44
Donttelmum	All-in		£43.90	£46.30	£0.00
Lambert180	All-in		£17.44	£63.74	£0.00
Donttelmum	Unmatched bet		£25.26	£38.48	£25.26
Donttelmum	Show	A K
Lambert180	Show	9 9
Flop
		7 6 K
Turn
		4
River
		3
Donttelmum	Win	Pair of Kings	£37.48		£62.74

great call

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
Donttelmum	Small blind		£0.10	£0.10	£34.13
Lambert180	Big blind		£0.20	£0.30	£32.52
	Your hole cards	A K
anome	Call		£0.20	£0.50	£13.93
Donttelmum	Call		£0.10	£0.60	£34.03
Lambert180	Raise		£0.80	£1.40	£31.72
anome	Raise		£1.60	£3.00	£12.33
Donttelmum	Fold
Lambert180	All-in		£31.72	£34.72	£0.00
anome	All-in		£12.33	£47.05	£0.00
Lambert180	Unmatched bet		£18.59	£28.46	£18.59
Lambert180	Show	A K
anome	Show	5 10
Flop
		Q 5 A
Turn
		4
River
		10
anome	Win	Two Pairs, 10s and 5s	£27.03		£27.03

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
arnie23131	Small blind		£0.15	£0.15	£13.48
Lambert180	Big blind		£0.30	£0.45	£39.73
	Your hole cards	K A
arnie23131	Raise		£0.45	£0.90	£13.03
Lambert180	Raise		£1.50	£2.40	£38.23
arnie23131	Call		£1.20	£3.60	£11.83
Flop
		2 Q 10
Lambert180	Bet		£1.50	£5.10	£36.73
arnie23131	All-in		£11.83	£16.93	£0.00
Lambert180	Call		£10.33	£27.26	£26.40
arnie23131	Show	J 9
Lambert180	Show	K A
Turn
		2
River
		8
arnie23131	Win	Straight to the Queen	£26.26		£26.26

2 outer

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
tay111	Small blind		£0.15	£0.15	£13.20
Lambert180	Big blind		£0.30	£0.45	£29.25
	Your hole cards	K K
tay111	All-in		£13.20	£13.65	£0.00
Lambert180	Raise		£26.10	£39.75	£3.15
Lambert180	Unmatched bet		£13.05	£26.70	£16.20
tay111	Show	4 4
Lambert180	Show	K K
Flop
		8 2 4
Turn
		10
River
		5
tay111	Win	Three 4s	£25.70		£25.70

2 outer

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
nite_owl55	Small blind		£0.15	£0.15	£12.20
Lambert180	Big blind		£0.30	£0.45	£37.75
	Your hole cards	K K
slickboi	Fold
nite_owl55	Raise		£1.35	£1.80	£10.85
Lambert180	Raise		£3.30	£5.10	£34.45
nite_owl55	All-in		£10.85	£15.95	£0.00
Lambert180	Raise		£17.50	£33.45	£16.95
Lambert180	Unmatched bet		£8.75	£24.70	£25.70
nite_owl55	Show	9 9
Lambert180	Show	K K
Flop
		Q 6 9
Turn
		2
River
		J
nite_owl55	Win	Three 9s	£23.46		£23.46

So a grand total of £387.52 worth of pots where apart from 1 flip (and the AKvK9 on QTx), I was a pretty massive favourite and I lost every single one of them.

Ouch!

Most people have no idea how long or how bad a downswing can really be, I think I'm starting to learn.

Donttelmum · October 2013

If anyone knows its me buddy and I've been through a few horrible ones in the past. The main thing is you keep playing your 'A' game and you will be fine. I managed to lose over £200 yesterday at the same sort of stakes. I used to think 10bi's losses were massive, now Im not sure they really are.

When I lose alot in a session, I usually make 1k-2k points so thats £40-£80 I take off to try and help stop beating myself up.

Some horrible plays in the above pots and I'm sure you'll agree theres only going to be 1 winner if you continue playing these guys.

FWIW I'm running horrible too and just spoilt my weekend with poker when I should have been celebrating my gf's birthday. Thats the most stupid play I have made all weekend. Friends and family first!

Chin up, November just around the corner!

DOHHHHHHH · October 2013

At least the games look awesome !

Why are they never this good when I watch???

Phantom66 · October 2013

Definitely some tough beats on the above.

The AK on the QTx board you called ahead. I am not sure calling a re-raise all-in was the best move - u/d str8 draw was the best opportunity you had but aren't you behind to villains range there?

More of a question than a critique - you seem pretty happy to get it all-in with AK pre - how often are you dominating a caller at those levels?

Lambert180 · October 2013

I agree DTM that 10 BI losses can be/are not that uncommon, but that's usually due to things like getting it in w/ a FD v 2pr/set and not getting there, getting it in with 2pr/set v FD and not holding, getting coolered pre stuff like QQ/KK into AA/KK, losing the odd KK v QQ or whatever.... it generally doesn't happen by getting it in as a hugggge favourite about 10 times and losing every single one. It'd also be nice if this didn't come after like 8 weeks of constant runbad at cash... and days after I stone bubble winning a UKOPS £110 seat for £5.30 when I get it in AJ v A5 lol.

Yeah JJ games were amazing which is why it's so puke that the one time I actually get good games and get people getting it in light.... it's useless cos I can't hold no matter how big a favourite I am.

Phantom, the AK call on QTx was the worst of the hands above in terms of how much equity I'll have. I do have 2 overs and a GS to the nut straight, so don't think I'm far off the price to call if he has any 1pr hand which is likely, he can also have bluffs (like this)

RE: getting it in pre with AK and how often I'm dominating a caller... the answer is 7pm - 11pm probably VERY rarely, get it in pre with AK and you're generally flipping if you're lucky so it's generally not that great an idea against most people. However at 1am-3am when these hands all got played, then very much so I expect to be in good shape alot. The only hand above where I got it in pre, I was influenced (rightly so) by the fact the villian only had about 60xBB which means they generally aren't very good, and quite often at that time of the night/morning, people aren't 3betting out of that stack with the intention of folding.... testament to that is him calling with 5Ts lol.... and I'm happy getting it in now knowing he won't fold a load of Ax, he probably won't fold KQ/KJ and I'm very rarely ever gonna be worse then flipping.

foldUfairy · October 2013

I think you should have a stop loss in place, that's just one of those dirty sessions were you know you're going to keep losing flips, if they have outs you know it's coming.
I have tried to play through these a few times thinking iv'e got to start winning some flips soon but it doesn't happen and the hole just gets bigger.
I know most people don't agree on having a stop loss, but you could have reduced the damage here if you did.
I usually just stop after losing about 5 buyins if things are going like this, booking a loss still hurts because I hate losing but that's part of poker.
Gl anyway with the downswong, just try to start fresh in November and forget about this month.

Diminuendo · October 2013

Some brutal beats there indeed

But that aside, why cant i find tables this good ? lol

The one good thing you can take away from all of this is that those players will have left the tables thinking that they had done something right ))

GL in future

Diminuendo · October 2013

In Response to Re: Lambert180 ----- Lolpro and Onwards --- More Puke Downswinging:

I think you should have a stop loss in place, that's just one of those dirty sessions were you know you're going to keep losing flips, if they have outs you know it's coming. I have tried to play through these a few times thinking iv'e got to start winning some flips soon but it doesn't happen and the hole just gets bigger. I know most people don't agree on having a stop loss, but you could have reduced the damage here if you did. I usually just stop after losing about 5 buyins if things are going like this, booking a loss still hurts because I hate losing but that's part of poker. Gl anyway with the downswong, just try to start fresh in November and forget about this month.
Posted by foldUfairy

I know what your saying about having a stop loss to reduce the pain of bad sessions but in all honesty any pro poker player would have to be crazy to want to stop playing against some of the guys in those hands ))

And afterall how many times have you had a losing start to a session and then pulled it back (something that wouldnt have happened with a stoploss).

FWIW my take on it is that if you are a winning player and have a good BR you should just play until you feel you dont want to play anymore regardless of winnings or losses and then everything else will just take care of itself.

DOHHHHHHH · October 2013

In Response to Re: Lambert180 ----- Lolpro and Onwards --- More Puke Downswinging:

I think you should have a stop loss in place, that's just one of those dirty sessions were you know you're going to keep losing flips, if they have outs you know it's coming. I have tried to play through these a few times thinking iv'e got to start winning some flips soon but it doesn't happen and the hole just gets bigger. I know most people don't agree on having a stop loss, but you could have reduced the damage here if you did. I usually just stop after losing about 5 buyins if things are going like this, booking a loss still hurts because I hate losing but that's part of poker. Gl anyway with the downswong, just try to start fresh in November and forget about this month.
Posted by foldUfairy

How can you turn down these kinds of tables though?

These levels are becoming more and more reg infested, I'd have to be playing really badly and be totally mentally shot to stand from the tables when I'm getting it in this good this easily this often.

In normal circumstances where the tables are tougher I'd agree with you in a way, but the only reason to stand is us playing bad, not running bad.

Lambert180 · October 2013

Yeah I don't hate the idea of a stoploss, and it's probably a good idea in tougher games where after a string of nasty hands, I might not be playing my best which may no longer be good enough to actually beat the games, but as Diminuendo says, no amount of runbad is gonna make me stand from tables against these type of players cos it's just printing money long term.

foldUfairy · October 2013

I understand what you are both saying about not standing when the games are good and you are playing well.

However I don't agree that the games are bad at the lower stakes, which is where I play.
There are always a few decent tables going of an evening if you table select in the slightest, they are there.

This is the reason I have a stop loss, I don't just continue playing because I fear the games won't be this good again for x amount of time.
I know that the next session I have there will be value there again.

Playing through a session where nearly every table you have open you are topping up constantly, losing flips and making no progress is a bad idea imo, even if you are playing good as it rarely ends in a winning one.

This is just my experience and opinion from playing low stakes 10nl - 50nl.
I can't comment on anything higher than that as I don't no what the games are like.
Maybe they are full of regs and standing while recs are spewing whether you are running bad or not is bad, idk.

rancid · October 2013

pull your pants ups and get on with it

stop bleating about it and play your best

Lambert180 · October 2013

Well the tables were great again tonight.... dunno what it is, maybe it's a lot of extra traffic and a lot more people hanging around at night because of UKOPS, but tables are great atm and the deck was much kinder to me too.

Finished +£140

Will only post 1 hand tonight and it is a bit of a brag lol. Hero call with K high. I'd been playing 3handed on this table for a pretty long time and had a really good feel for how opponent was playing. It's calls like this which would be nigh on impossible to make 12tabling but now I've reduced my tables, these kind of player dependent decisions are much easier to make.

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
yidarmy747	Small blind		£0.10	£0.10	£17.78
X	Big blind		£0.20	£0.30	£19.80
	Your hole cards	Q K
Lambert180	Raise		£0.60	£0.90	£32.02
yidarmy747	Fold
X	Raise		£1.70	£2.60	£18.10
Lambert180	Call		£1.30	£3.90	£30.72
Flop
		4 8 A
X	Check
Lambert180	Check
Turn
		4
X	Bet		£1.95	£5.85	£16.15
Lambert180	Call		£1.95	£7.80	£28.77
River
		9
X	Bet		£5.85	£13.65	£10.30
Lambert180	Call		£5.85	£19.50	£22.92
X	Show	2 7
Lambert180	Show	Q K
Lambert180	Win	Pair of 4s	£18.52		£41.44

Donttelmum · October 2013

Chirpy chips!

Lambert180 · October 2013

Had another small win tonight +£45

Just wanted to post this hand cos it's so sick for the villain... discussing it with JJ and villain is in such an absolute puke spot on the river, cos not only does he have to put me on the case ace to call, but he also has to give me credit for trying to get him off a chop here. If I had Ax here, I'm never shipping to get called by worse when he pots the river.

There's essentially only 1 card in the deck I can possibly have that he beats and only 1 card in the deck that beats him. Sick spot (and sick get there by me).

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
Donttelmum	Small blind		£0.10	£0.10	£19.40
andybeth	Big blind		£0.20	£0.30	£32.17
	Your hole cards	Q K
joey690	Raise		£0.80	£1.10	£36.63
pocket6s	Fold
stfc_1953	Fold
Lambert180	Call		£0.80	£1.90	£19.10
Donttelmum	Fold
andybeth	Fold
Flop
		K A 8
joey690	Check
Lambert180	Bet		£0.80	£2.70	£18.30
joey690	Call		£0.80	£3.50	£35.83
Turn
		K
joey690	Check
Lambert180	Check
River
		K
joey690	Bet		£3.50	£7.00	£32.33
Lambert180	All-in		£18.30	£25.30	£0.00
joey690	Call		£14.80	£40.10	£17.53
joey690	Show	A A
Lambert180	Show	Q K
Lambert180	Win	Four Kings	£38.30		£38.30

Lambert180 ----- Life After The Grind -------

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