Sick Sick Sick Hand & Life Updates

Ok, this hand was played about half an hour ago, I'm still tilting from it and extremely angry at myself for folding. I'm actually the most tilted I've ever been from Poker (except from taking a beat at 2NL one time and following the guy around for days tryna bust him), I'm so annoyed at myself because I feel I played the hand perfectly, except the river, I just don't trust me reads at all, when they're mostly correct.

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

BTN: $35.45
Hero (SB): $82.50
BB: $10.75
UTG: $50.10
MP: $18.85
CO: $101.10

Bit of history, I've 3bet the guy about two orbits before hand SB vs. CO, I'm running about 26/26 and have been running over the fish at this point iirc. Villain is a 23/17, w/57% fold to 3bet and a 2% 4bet range.

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is SB with K K
2 folds, CO raises to $1.75, 1 fold, Hero raises to $5.50, 1 fold, CO calls $3.75

So when he flats, considering I've 3bet him before and have been running aggressively, I take him off QQ+, AK, and put him on hands like 88-JJ, AJs+, and maybe KQs, his stats suggest he's never 4betting light, or a tleast rarely, so he flats his entire range here except QQ+ and AK. I have two blockers to Kx, so that makes it even more unlikely, he can have hands like QJs, T9s, J9s in randomly aswell, but I'm happy with the situation now.

Flop: ($11.50) T 9 Q (2 players)
Hero bets $7, CO calls $7

Once he flat calls, I'm very happy with my hand. He's raising QQ/TT/99, also I expect him to be raising KJ aswell, the fact that I have Ks means he can't have it (obv), which means he can't take me off AKss, and even if he has As to take me off AKs, I'm ahead.

Turn: ($25.50) 5 (2 players)
Hero bets $12, CO raises to $29, Hero calls $17

I've narrowed his range down to like JJ or QJ here, with the occasion QT or T9, but they're unlikely. I'm not sure he calls another street with JJ or QJ, so I opt to bet about half pot, and hope he reveals the strength of his hand to me by either raising or flat calling. I'm looking real weak here, and when I call his raise, my hand looks like AA/KK always, so I hope he tries to take me off it on the river. I'm not worried much about him catching up, 'cos he's got like 11 outs if he's got QJ, or only 5 if he's got JJ, I'm looking for value more than anything from these hands, so I bet small, he raises like I want to, and I call. I don't like shipping because I'm only getting called by better hands, I'm hoping for him to hang himself on the river.

River: ($83.50) 3 (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $59.60 all in, Hero requests TIME, Hero folds

Result, he does! But I can't call. I'm so angry with myself, I set the whole hand up perfectly, I did everything right to get him to spazz out with QJ/JJ, and he obliged, but I couldn't click call. I'm so angry with myself right now, I'm 95% sure I'm ahead at this point, I just could not click it, and I asked the guy for his MSN, he obliged and we spoke for a bit about the hand and image, his reasoning behind the hand and my reasoning.

Just wanted to blow off some steam and write about the hand, 'cos I'm so pissed right now, I made him my puppet and canceled my plan at the last.

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Life wise, I'm back in employment, start work Monday, and I can't even be arsed writing about it now 'cos I'm even more angry now I've written that ^ and ran back through it, so I'll probably update it tomorrow or something.

Good luck.

Posts have been shit, sorry

I haven't really been interested in posted for the blog in the last month or so for some reason, so the quality of posts have been poor and rushed, just because I didn't wanna let it die, I posted here and there little updates and very little else, I'll try a lot harder from now I think.

So this month has been okay, I put in a serious lack of volume in for the early few weeks of October when FIFA '10 came out, but I've improved, and have done about 8k hands at 50NL. I dropped 3.5BI yesterday which kinda hurt me a little, losing $175 in two hours isn't something I'm used to, but I think it was worth it, as it got my focus back. I moved to 50NL expecting to get stuffed, but I've done reasonably well so far, and although haven't got a winrate at the moment, feel like I've just got to make some minor adjustments.

I've noticed some differences between 25NL and 50NL, notably the aggression. I feel as though I have to valuebet a lot thinner to make more money, and also focus more on hand ranges instead of thinking 'well, he's called a bet, it's not very draw heavy, I think c/f is the best play on the turn', I've started thinking along the lines of 'how does he have a K in his range', and putting them on certain hands I think they'd play this way. For example:

Not a big pot by any means, but I felt my thought process was good. I use the HUD for basic things like determining what kind of player the villain is, whether they could be 3betting me light ect ect, just the standard things, but I don't really use to to help me determined ranges and stuff, not as much as I should anyway. My thought for the hand were as follows:

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

UTG: $38.60
CO: $27.25
Hero (BTN): $55.80
SB: $50.50
BB: $51.80

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BTN with 5 6
2 folds, Hero raises to $1.50, 1 fold, BB calls $1

I open ATC on the BTN if the blinds will let me, as they have been, so I do and I get a call. Villain is a 20/17 w/10% 3bet and 79% fold to steal.

Flop: ($3.25) 2 3 K (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $2, BB calls $2

I flop a gutshot so I fire a cbet, the board is kinda dry so figure I don't really need to make it $2.50, he's calling mid-pairs for the same price, calling a K for the same, so no need to put in extra money if it achieves the same thing.

Turn: ($7.25) Q (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $5, BB folds

He calls, and this is where the HUD came into use. He's got a 10% 3bet over a decent 3k sample, so he's 3betting hands like 99+, AK, KJ+ and possibly KT, he's not bad enough to be flatting hands like K7o, so I don't see how he has any K's in his range here, and if he does, it's weak. So primarily, I put him on a small-medium pair, or a hand like A4s/A5s, or something like 54s, which I think he'll probably pitch anyway, but he's not very strong generally and can't take another barrell, so I fire and he folds.

Generally I'm looking to c/f here, but I've learnt that at 50NL I need to focus more on ranges, something which wasn't really 100% necessary at 25NL, or at least not as much so. The hand itself wasn't anything special, but I felt like I need to start putting more stuff in the blog to make it more read worthy, other than "omg I moved up, I've found it tough, I'm gonna work harder from now, here goes nothing."

Will play some tonight and post up sopme interesting hands, maybe I'll use this to review some hands I played like a fish aswell, I need to start looking over my sessions and I guess this is a good a place as any to do so.