ok Kantor could you please do me a favour? If you find me playing the HU 25c/50c cash games, could you please kick my ass!! The lure of quick cash is so tempting, but for the very same reason the downswings are wayyy too much for my bankroll. I should stop while I'm ahead (actually I'm down 50, but you know what I mean...)
Haha! broke yet?:P If I find you at the 25/50 I am forced to join in the pursuit of some easy money
I don't think the players at those stakes are too good though..but the overall playing has improved greatly at all stakes over the years
What's your bankroll now?
Cash games can be frustrating some times. After spending 2+ hours making some decent profit only to loose it all on a few key hands.. I guess thats when you are thinking "fuck this small stake shit, time to gamble it up! I can win it all back just from stealing some blinds!"
Regarding rush poker, I haven't played it in quite some time. I think I hate it more than I love it. You can't put anyone on any reads, which cash games is all about. However, the added hourly hand rate might add up to the -ev lost due to lack of reads.
My poker update: My bankroll is exactly the same as it was 3 months ago. Maybe a little less. I am so tired of it. I progressed and progressed until suddenly reaching some sort of a plateau. If I had the classical gambling mentality, I would say that this is due to fulltilt refusing to give me anymore money
Apparently I must have some leaks in my game, or I am running bad. I don't know. But if it's due to leaks, then why have I been able to steady build my roll for so long? So frustrating to play and play, without seeing any growth at all. Spending my time jacking off to an old picture would be more productive than this.
Anyways, I had a hand recently. First hand that I have seen being played like this at these low stakes. Don't think I could have played it any differently with the exception of calling the reraise on the river. Below I comment on my reasoning. You can watch the hand here:
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/1392779
Blinds 02/05 with a 01 ante
Villain:10 dollar stack
Me (aq): 11 dollar stack
I am in the bb, he is in the sb.
This is a 6 man table and someone raises 0.15 utg. Villain in sb calls.
I was thinking about flat calling, but apparently the utg raiser was a pretty frequent raiser, so I re-popped it to 0.45. This way I could rep a really great hand and hopefully isolate the utg raiser. The utg raiser quickly folded and the villain called.
The flop came 5 Q 8 rainbow. A dream flop. I couldn't hope for anything better.
Villain checks so I bet 0.55, half the pot, because of the dry flop. Villain calls. Turn is a j (still rainbow). Villain checks. This made me suspicious, so I checked behind. River is a total blank. 3d. Now for the interesting part, villain checks again. Almost everyone would bet their hand for value here. Especially since I checked the turn. So, I figured that the villain might had a hand like q10 or most likely a medium pair. I was for sure getting paid by a queen I thought, so I value bet kinda big 1.5 into a 2 dollar pot, I might get it to look like a steal as well and could possibly even induce calls from medium pairs. Anyways, what happens is that the villain raises 3.8. I am steaming like crazy and call on impulse knowing that I am beat. The villain shows trip 8s. Apart from the idiotic call on the river, is there anything wrong with the way I played the hand?
