GamblinLeaf

Puke blood, that is. Through your nose. Profusely. (gee, can you tell I'm running bad?)

In your opinion, what are some "standard" stats for each position. Could you look at a 30k to 40k sample where you were winning at a decent rate and let me know what they looked like?Over the last 30k hands of breakeven frustration (at 2/4), mine look like this (in BB/hand):SB -- (-.12) ... (early in the sample I was over-completing quite a bit)BB -- (-.12)UTG -- +.07MP -- +.07CO -- +.09Btn -- +.10Thanks for the help Tim.

I feel your pain bacon. Pretty much breakeven (up maybe 10BB) over the last 35k hands at 2/4 and 3/6 SH. I've never been through a B.E. stretch this long so I can't say from experience that it'll get better. But I'm keeping the faith, hope you do to.Thanks to the other responses in this thread, they're helpful.Here's a comment from one of Stoxtrader's bloggers. He's a pretty good mid-limit SH player, and he's going through a bad run too."I’m still running just horribly. Just to put things in perspective, in my first 150k hands of the year I was up roughly 3700 big bets. In my last 150k han

Excellent point. Rates are also higher in Europe than they are here in the U.S.They may at some point end the 100% rakeback offer, but there's a chance they would grandfather in the players who had already signed up, which is why I did.I've only played there a couple of times, and it is moderately rocky at full ring (2/4 and 3/6). It's certainly not a rock-garden hell like Absolute is and I haven't found players to be THAT good.The 3/6 SH game appears to be pretty decent, I've seen lots and lots of limping. Will check that out at some point and report back.

Villain in this hand is about 65/12/1 but I only have a very small sample of hands with him. He's already led into me once after I raised PF and the flop came low.PokerRoom 2/4 Hold'em (5 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)Preflop: Leaf is Button with J, J. 1 fold, MP calls, Leaf raises, SB calls, BB calls, MP calls.Flop: (8 SB) 6, 3, 8(4 players)SB bets, BB calls, MP folds, Leaf raises, SB calls, BB calls.Turn: (7 BB) K(3 players)SB checks, BB checks, Leaf bets, SB calls, BB folds.--> I was planning to fold to a check-raise. Thoughts on t

Thanks for the input Screech.What if the flop was, say, K85 rainbow? Maybe a better question is: Is slowplaying of any kind a disease in short-handed HE? Hey ... good call on that. And I uzhullee spel goot two! This speaks to my follow up question to Screech. I'm beginning to wonder if most types of slow playing in short-handed games is a cancer I need to eradicate.

Villain in this hand is 75/7/1 after several hundred hands. She's the reason I sat at this table.PokerRoom 2/4 Hold'em (5 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)Preflop: Leaf is UTG with 8, 8. Leaf raises, 2 folds, SB calls, BB calls.Flop: (6 SB) 4, 7, Q(3 players)SB checks, BB checks, Leaf bets, SB calls, BB folds.Turn: (4 BB) 2(2 players)SB checks, Leaf bets, SB calls.River: (6 BB) K(2 players)SB checks, Leaf checks.Final Pot: 6 BB--> Am I missing value by not betting the river? And if so, is it bet/fold or bet/call?

In the middle of a juicy 200BB downswing, and am breakeven over the last 9500 hands or so. Small sample ... yeah yeah ... just want to make sure I'm not committing any agregious errors.No reads on villain. Comments on all streets appreciated.PokerRoom 2/4 Hold'em (6 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)Preflop: Leaf is BB with 5, K. 1 fold, MP calls, 2 folds, SB raises, Leaf calls, MP calls.--> A little light?Flop: (6 SB) 5, T, K(3 players)SB bets, Leaf calls, MP folds.--> Here's the real question: I have, for as long as I can remember,

Amen DN.Two of my favorite verses are Deuteronomy 28:8 and 2 Corinthians 1:20.The first one says, "The LORD will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand ..."And in Corinthians, Paul says, "For all the promises of God in Him (Christ) are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us."Not some of His promises. Not just a handful, or just the ones He feels like honoring that day, but ALL. This is really a wonderful statement. The Bible is chock full of promises for provision for our needs, for abundance (both materially and in other ways suc

I believe he flopped two pair, Jacks and sixes, versus Brian's set of 8's.

Yeah, the flop was J86

I am getting the same error message on another PokerRoom skin. Gotta be a network issue, not an FCP specific issue.Bummer.EDIT: Able to get in now ... (2:40pm edt)

Heads up against a 45/25/2 I'm showing down TPTK for 2BB (check/calling turn and river) rather than bet/calling the turn, folding the river UI in a big pot and losing 2BB anyway.But that's just me, I've been wrong before ...

Dawg! Welcome to "this side" of 25!Been meaning to ask you for a few weeks now ... how're things going with the staking and the family stuff you mentioned a few months ago? Hope you don't mind me asking, but I was just curious how everything worked out ...

I am by no means a baseball park afficionado as I had only ever been to Yankee Stadium and Sky Dome, but this past weekend I went to Camden Yards for the first time. Beautiful. Everything about the look and feel of the place was top notch. Didn't hurt that it was sunny and 80 degrees at game time.

Good God, you all are young! I hope you all realize what a tremendous advantage this is.

The suggestions about drinking lots of water and taking short breaks every half hour or so to rest the eyes are good ones. Insufficient hydration is the #1 cause of common headaches ... it's the reason we get hangovers - dehydration. And frequent rests will give the actual muscles around the eyes a chance to recoup, like breaks between sets at the gym.Another thing to consider ... if the headaches are persistent enough, you might want to have your eyes checked. If a pair of reading glasses, or something like that, is the difference between pain and no pain, it'd be worth it. A lot of peopl

I agree that 2 - 3 years from now the games on Party won't be as soft as they are today, as they are already a little less soft than they were two years ago. But that's still a relative distinction. It's like saying, "marshmallow isn't as soft as cotton candy". While that's a true statement, marshmallow is still damn soft.As you might know, I'm a market guy and what has happened in poker the past few years has happened in the past to other performance-oriented professions (like trading). Something propels the profession and the allure of money into the public eye and an unprecendented grow

This makes sense. You're essentially playing wa/wb poker the majority of the time given your position. Lose the minimum when he has hit and let him bluff off his chips when he misses. Once he adjusts and slows down (if he does adjust) then you can start aggro'ing it up again.Just a thought ...

Gank is Brett Jungblutt, a former member of the over-hyped "crew", and a friend of Steve's. He and Fischman are the only ones who deserved any legitimate attention, imo.

http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-tournament...175&screen=logsStarts at 3p local time.

Looks very interesting. Best of luck with it Brandon. Will it be available on Amazon any time soon?

You've probably seen these but just in case you haven't ...

Villian is nuts. He's already shown down third pair no kicker that he'd been jamming the pot with. He's more than capable of jamming pre-flop with anything.His stats are much more passive than he was playing ... he's 43/3/4 after a few hundred hands. Someone must've fired him up today.PokerRoom 2/4 Hold'em (5 handed) converterPreflop: Leaf is UTG with [Ad], [As]. Leaf raises, 1 fold, Button calls, SB calls, Villain 3-bets, Leaf caps, Button calls $2.40 (All-In), SB calls, Villain calls.Flop: (15.20 SB) [7c], [2d], [6s] (4 players, 1 all-in)SB checks, Villain bets, Leaf raises, SB calls,

I'm showing this down so I don't mind the river check if there's any chance that villian would bluff with Ace high. He might have a moment of clarity and fold Ace high to a bet so inducing a bluff, if we think he would bet it, is better than betting, imo. Not to mention getting raised here sucks.