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So I played 1k hands this evening and I thought I was playing very well. I ended up even but I really feel a strong desire to play more and better poker at the moment. In effort to keep up with this I am going to start posting all of my hands I get stacked on whether they are coolers or not and evaluate my play. Feel free to comment but this is mainly so I can get my thoughts down for myself.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/430401
Alright so the pfr in this hand is new to me and by his raise size you can tell he is terribad. I 3x it with position with AA which is completely standard. He flats and the flop comes 367hh. He c/r me small which is scary, especially on this board, especially when a donk is doing it and they tend to c/c draws. Anyway, I get it in which I feel is also completely standard
and run into the top of his range. Obviously he can have two pair hands, sets, and I guess a straight here, but I also think we see one pair+straigh draw hands, top pair hands, and over pair hands enough to warrant getting it in. Pretty sure this is a standard cooler.


http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/430399
Alright so this was a real interesting hand from my sesh tonight. Villain in this hand is a competent regular who I don't like to tangle with all that much. We flop pretty much the straight up nuts so am very happy. At this point we get c/rd in a three way monotone flop by the competent player. This equals so much strength its ridiculous. Now we have two options, get it all in now or call and get it in on turn. My in game thinking was that by calling it looks like I have a moderate strength hand that is looking to see a turn and re-evaluate. The pot is also big enough to where if he checks the turn I can bet and get it in by the river anyhow. In hind sight I should have realized just how strong this c/r is and got it in then rather than on the turn just because I don't think he is ever folding and he almost always has outs or scare cards for him can come. I elected to call and get it in on turn which I think is wrong now but end up getting sucked out on anyhow .


http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/430400
Another semi-interesting spot preflop. Pushbot has been pretty active at the tables tonight, however I have not seen him before. He seems average-good and is probably three betting a wide range. NutStylin is your average run of the mill nit. He probably has an opening range of 22+ AJ+. I decided against four betting here mainly because it would have been my first four bet at the table tonight and I thought it would look overly strong. I want to exploit Pushbots wide range in this spot and NutStylin doesn't really worry me all that much. Anyhow NutStylin calls and his range is like any pocket pair and AK maybe AQs. So the flop comes out relatively dry and I elect to try and c/rai. It goes check check check and we see a turn. The turn seems like a meh safe card but I wouldn't be surprised if it hit either of their ranges. I thought that betting out would be okay but would get folds a lot more than calls, although if I lead out river I might get a skeptical call more often than on turn. When I checked I had the intention of c/rai and so I went with that when NutStylin bet out. I thought his range was more narrow towards weaker hands after he checked the flop so I didn't give him much credit and went with the hand. Once he called I was expecting to see TT/AQ more often then any other hand so I was surprised to see QQ. I still don't think not four betting pf is a mistake and I feel like I played this one okay. I think leading flop or turn is also okay.

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Have been unbelievably soft and totally awesome the last couple days. Thank you to PS for the reload bonus. I hope everyone's last few days have been as donk-filled as mine. Let's all pray to the poker Gods and hope this continues for the rest of the week.

Good luck,
Austin

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Long time no talk...again. Let me just get this off my chest. Poker is not as much fun when you start running bad or you start losing money. When you aren't on an insane heater all month every month it turns into more of a grind and feels boring. With that said, my heater has slowed down a lot and almost at a stand still. Keeping that in mind I have done some revamping of my game which includes better table selection, playing heads up, and throwing in some MTTs every so often. This keeps me interested in poker and helps me stay focused on my longer term goal this year, which is to make 100k. We are about 3 1/2 months in and I am up to 20k so I need to step it the fuck up. I will be hitting SN sometime this month which I am looking forward to. Also, I have two vacations planned out this summer which should be a lot of fun. I am going to the Tampa region with a bunch of poker friends for a week of fun, and then in July I am going to Philly with the gf for a week of relaxation and historical sight seeing. Lately I have been seriously throwing around the idea of dropping out of college as I have lost all interest in it and the whole time I am there all I can think about is getting back to the grind! Other than that life has been good and poker is going semi decent this month. Looking forward to seeing you all at the tables!

Good luck
Austin

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