Wave of Mutilation

Here’s a graph of the past grinding week give or take a day or two:

I think I ran pretty poorly overall, but I feel like my game is improving every time I play a session. I’m really hammering out leaks and more importantly my mental balance/flow is coming around for longer sessions. I suspect it will only get better in the coming weeks. Super excited about today because the first of the 4 Never Tell Me the Odds Lockdown Edition videos is coming out. I’m a humble man, but I really think the next few episodes are amazing. :) If they end up sucking balls I’ll eat a hat.

I’ve still been in kind of a downswing overall, so I ran a session with my previous coach Insyder (Hi Insyder!) to see if he could get any insyght (yeah dude, I know you’re reading this Krantz and thinking, INSYGHT is a SICK vid series name for Insyder :D) into what was going on. We saw a lot of spots where I was 5b bluffing vs. players that theoretically it should be a good idea against, but it seems like nobody is 4b’ing that light these days due to the better 5b bluffing range of other players. So that is one thing I’m going to work on. There were a couple of other smaller things, but they aren’t worth mentioning because they specifically pertain to me and my tendencies (If I told you I’d have to kill you or become a nit, not currently interested in doing either).

I’m going to post a few hands each week to coincide with the video, with a few fun categories to make it interesting.

Biggest Pot – Villain is a former student of mine, up from 100NL all the way to 400NL. He makes a huge mistake in checking back the turn, and though I would never check this turn back in his shoes, I have checked back in similar spots 100bb deep with a hand I should nearly always be betting for value/balance. His mistake costs him and instead of putting me in a really tough turn spot, he gets himself into a really tough river spot. This is a really interesting hand from both sides.

Full Tilt Poker $2/$4 No Limit Hold’em $0.75 Ante – 6 players – View hand 486992
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Hero (MP): $898.85
CO: $1829.60
BTN: $1332.75
SB: $1047.10
BB: $444.25
UTG: $1030.40

Pre Flop: ($10.50) Hero is MP with K K
UTG raises to $12, Hero calls $12, 1 fold, BTN calls $12, 2 folds

Flop: ($46.50) 6 T 8 (3 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $40, BTN raises to $118, UTG folds, Hero calls $78

Turn: ($282.50) T (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN checks

River: ($282.50) K (2 players)
Hero requests TIME, Hero checks, BTN bets $228, Hero requests TIME, Hero raises to $768.10 all in, BTN requests TIME, BTN calls $540.10

Final Pot: $1818.70
Hero shows K K (a full house, Kings full of Tens)
BTN mucks 9 7
Hero wins $1815.70
(Rake: $3.00)

Dumbest Play – This is definitely the dumbest play I made in this sample of hands. At the time I couldn’t think of a hand that villain should/could be c/raising for value like this, so I level myself into a jam. Ohhhhh me oh my if I could go back and fold that 92s lol. Villain definitely was not trying to level me, in fact my note on them is that they have very poor bet sizing (previous to this hand) so I thought they could still be bluffing a lot, rather than just having the nuts and not knowing how to play it. He played it better than I did though! hahaha.

Full Tilt Poker $2/$4 No Limit Hold’em – 6 players – View hand 486993
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CO: $400.00
Hero (BTN): $508.60
SB: $270.80
BB: $516.70
UTG: $549.00
MP: $344.80

Pre Flop: ($6.00) Hero is BTN with 9 2
UTG raises to $12, 2 folds, Hero raises to $38, 2 folds, UTG calls $26

Flop: ($82.00) K 8 7 (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $40, UTG raises to $176, Hero raises to $470.60 all in, UTG calls $294.60

Turn: ($1023.20) T (2 players – 1 is all in)

River: ($1023.20) 5 (2 players – 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $1023.20
Hero shows 9 2 (King Ten high)
UTG shows A K (a pair of Kings)
UTG wins $1020.20
(Rake: $3.00)

Avant-Garde – Not a ton to talk about here, just that it’s good to have some value hands/deceptive hands in your flop raising range. I raise a lot of cbets in position because it puts my opponent in pretty tough spots where they have to call and play a guessing game OOP, or invest a lot of money to rebluff or reveal the strength of their hand. They are going to make a lot of mistakes.

Full Tilt Poker $2/$4 No Limit Hold’em – 6 players – View hand 486994
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Hero (MP): $406.00
CO: $886.20
BTN: $2264.45
SB: $2087.20
BB: $632.85
UTG: $802.00

Pre Flop: ($6.00) Hero is MP with Q Q
UTG raises to $12, Hero calls $12, 4 folds

Flop: ($30.00) 9 J 4 (2 players)
UTG bets $24, Hero requests TIME, Hero raises to $76, UTG raises to $258, Hero raises to $394 all in, UTG calls $136

Turn: ($818.00) 3 (2 players – 1 is all in)

River: ($818.00) 6 (2 players – 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $818.00
Hero shows Q Q (a pair of Queens)
UTG shows K J (a pair of Jacks)
Hero wins $815.00
(Rake: $3.00)

LOLOLOLOLest Hand – I guess he thought he had aces?

Full Tilt Poker $2/$4 No Limit Hold’em – 6 players – View hand 479183
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BTN: $374.95
SB: $930.70
BB: $88.80
Hero (UTG): $406.00
MP: $990.25
CO: $606.50

Pre Flop: ($6.00) Hero is UTG with 9 9
Hero requests TIME, Hero raises to $12, 2 folds, BTN raises to $20, 2 folds, Hero calls $8

Flop: ($46.00) 4 7 9 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $40, Hero raises to $108, BTN calls $68

Turn: ($262.00) 4 (2 players)
Hero bets $88, BTN calls $88

River: ($438.00) J (2 players)
Hero bets $190 all in, BTN calls $158.95 all in

Final Pot: $755.90
BTN mucks 3 3
Hero shows 9 9 (a full house, Nines full of Fours)
Hero wins $752.90
(Rake: $3.00)

Sickest Cooler – I’m still bitter about this one, and if you’re out there reading villain, you know who you are, I hate you :D

Full Tilt Poker $2/$4 No Limit Hold’em – 6 players – View hand 486995
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BTN: $417.90
SB: $400.00
BB: $296.30
UTG: $558.50
Hero (MP): $454.30
CO: $251.00

Pre Flop: ($6.00) Hero is MP with 4 4
UTG requests TIME, 1 fold, Hero raises to $16, 1 fold, BTN calls $16, SB calls $14, BB calls $12

Flop: ($64.00) Q 8 6 (4 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero checks, BTN checks

Turn: ($64.00) 6 (4 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero checks, BTN checks

River: ($64.00) 4 (4 players)
SB bets $44, BB calls $44, Hero requests TIME, Hero raises to $144, BTN folds, SB requests TIME, SB raises to $384 all in, BB folds, Hero calls $240

Final Pot: $876.00
SB shows 8 8 (a full house, Eights full of Sixes)
Hero mucks 4 4
SB wins $873.00
(Rake: $3.00)

That’s all for this week folks. Next week is a wide open world, that is, if I can stop playing RUSH FUCKING POKER long enough to breathe. FUCK YOUUUUUUUUU FTP. (but seriously, thanks for the 35bb on reg tables) Good luck at the tables everybody :)