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William "Bill" Craven's Blog

July 06, 2009

Cash/Super Turbo Hands/Graphs, 4th of July

Since my last blog I've played a lot of Super Turbos, live fuck around tournaments, and started up 6-max cash online since my new computer. I have been playing live with a great group of guys, the usual drinking and cards routine and I feel like I have been put in sooo many tough spots with them. All standard very tough/coolerish type spots and not crazy play.

One spot I wanted to make a crying fold with TPTK in a 4-bet pot deep on a KJ4 board but I just couldn't believe his breathing could be sooo calm with such a huge hand in a big pot. I make the call he shows JJ and ships it. Turns out he was on about 6 Vikatin and was essentially melted to his seat...lol owned.

On the 4th of July I had a whole list of things to do...various parties etc. It turns out the guy who was supposed to pick me and my girlfriend up gave us the run around for 2 hours and then didn't even show up after we both rushed to get ready! By the time we figured out we didn't have a ride we were both drunk and decided to watch some of Season 1 of True Blood. I LOVE THIS SHOW! If you haven't watched it, don't judge it because the commercials look SO lame in comparison to how the show really is. It is on HBO so obviously they can't put almost anything on.

But ya we were both drinking Red Bull and Vodka, which tastes like candy btw, and got drunk quickly. Redbull 4-packs are now only 8.4 floz each! That is almost 30% less and still cost $2 a piece! There goes $17 dollars for mixers!

Anyway late night, laying in my bed, my dog got up and sat by my door. This means he has to go outside so I got up, went downstairs, unlocked the door and opened the front door to let him out. For one reason or another I happened to be completely naked and as I opened the door a man was standing there. He handed me my newspaper, slowly turned awkwardly, stopped and stood for a second turned completely around...then finally walked back to his car. lololololol the timing was so perfect and I was drunk enough to not give a fuck at all and just enjoy the awkwardness. I'm not really sure why he was so close to my door and he actually gave me the day befores paper as well that I hadn't even gone outside and seen yet. Either way it should be great next time I'm outside at night and he shows up to deliver the newspaper! ;)

So I have been grinding out $3-$7 super turbos (I am a bankroll nit and won't play a super turbo unless I have 200+ buyins on that site. I have been playing good, running average, and crushing the bubble. It is just so great when you get a nit on the bubble in these things, you can basically guarantee a top 2 finish every time if you abuse it correctly! Here is the graph I have from the small sample that I have been able to datamine as a couple of updates in FTP took off saving HH's so I did not get them all. If you want my complete graph, only a hundred or so more you can sharkscope me, billcraven419.

So finally I got my HUD up and running once I got ftp to save HH's in the right directory, and I decided to hit up some 25NL. I proceeded to run about as bad as you can over 500 hands. Dropped almost 4 buyins in that amount of time with the most frustrating session I've had in a while. AA once...folded around to me in the BB, limped 99 from sb blind vs blind against an aggressive player I flop top set on a dry board (he insta folded to a min bet), and a lot of 77-TT pps that ran into pps one higher than mine. I did a halfway decent job at the beginning of losing the minimum and noticed a few tilt calls...one may be shown here so once I noticed I obviously stopped.

Here are the big losers...lol I'd put a big winner but there weren't any!

1) Obviously a gross cooler. I normally don't flat with KK pre but I liked being in position and three betting his UTG open from UTG+1 is very strong and might fold out a lot of hands I dominate. He had AA.

Seat 1: Kushington ($26.85)
Seat 2: kvo535 ($25.49) -

Seat 3: kirillius ($25.10) -

Seat 4: Maglet ($25) -

Seat 5: Paddymctaff ($59.48)
Seat 6: Hero ($28.29)

PRE-FLOP:

kirillius posts small blind $0.10
Maglet posts BIG blind $0.25
Dealt To: Hero

RAISE Paddymctaff ($0.85)
CALL Hero ($0.85)
FOLD Kushington
CALL kvo535 ($0.85)
FOLD kirillius
FOLD Maglet

FLOP:

Pot: $2.9

BET Paddymctaff ($1.50)
RAISE Hero ($3.75)
FOLD kvo535
RAISE Paddymctaff ($10)
CALL Hero ($6.25)

TURN:

Pot: $22.9

BET Paddymctaff ($20)
CALL Hero ($17.44)
UNCALLED Paddymctaff ($2.56)

RIVER:

Pot: $57.78

2) Here I make a hero call as his line looks sooo much like a missed draw. He had quad 5s lol.

Seat 1: Hero ($26.94)
Seat 2: clownytwo ($16.52)
Seat 3: fluoro ($10.07) -

Seat 4: JohnWillis ($11.10) -

Seat 5: SmirnovEV ($25) -

Seat 6: stopper35 ($67.26)

PRE-FLOP:

JohnWillis posts small blind $0.10
SmirnovEV posts BIG blind $0.25
Dealt To: Hero

FOLD stopper35
RAISE Hero ($0.75)
FOLD clownytwo
CALL fluoro ($0.75)
FOLD JohnWillis
FOLD SmirnovEV

FLOP:

Pot: $1.85

CHECK Hero
BET fluoro ($0.25)
RAISE Hero ($2.50)
CALL fluoro ($2.25)

TURN:

Pot: $6.85

CHECK Hero
BET fluoro ($1.50)
CALL Hero ($1.50)

RIVER:

Pot: $9.85

CHECK Hero
BET fluoro ($5.32)
CALL Hero ($5.32)

3) Here I raise a weak lead in a multiway pot on the flop. On the turn I bet/call off my flush draw + over trying to fold out JJ/AT, I had previously checked behind a draw against this villain so I thought this line would seem very strong. He had 9h7h for a turned pair that he decided to get it in with on the turn.

Seat 1: RorschachTest ($110.53)
Seat 2: Hero ($25)
Seat 3: birdmAAn88 ($52.91) -

Seat 4: Moreira007 ($23.55) -

Seat 5: dunne1jj ($28.15) -

Seat 6: realdeal27 ($27.72)

PRE-FLOP:

Moreira007 posts small blind $0.10
dunne1jj posts BIG blind $0.25
Dealt To: Hero

RAISE realdeal27 ($0.75)
CALL RorschachTest ($0.75)
CALL Hero ($0.75)
FOLD birdmAAn88
CALL Moreira007 ($0.65)
CALL dunne1jj ($0.50)

FLOP:

Pot: $3.75

CHECK Moreira007
CHECK dunne1jj
BET realdeal27 ($1.50)
FOLD RorschachTest
RAISE Hero ($4.25)
FOLD Moreira007
FOLD dunne1jj
CALL realdeal27 ($2.75)

TURN:

Pot: $12.25

CHECK realdeal27
BET Hero ($8.25)
RAISE realdeal27 ($22.72)
CALL Hero ($11.75)
UNCALLED realdeal27 ($2.72)

RIVER:

Pot: $52.25

4) Here I put the BB on a weakish ten with timing tells. My plan was to bomb the turn and river to get him off it but I turned top pair. I value towned the turn and river just to have him show me JTo. Frustrating...

Seat 1: SERG27 ($4.65)
Seat 2: AEKK ($28.32)
Seat 3: Abroadessay ($21.72)
Seat 4: swats41 ($34.15) -

Seat 5: Hero ($26.68) -

Seat 6: prohibo ($27.82) -

PRE-FLOP:

Hero posts small blind $0.10
prohibo posts BIG blind $0.25
Dealt To: Hero

FOLD SERG27
FOLD AEKK
FOLD Abroadessay
FOLD swats41
CALL Hero ($0.15)
CHECK prohibo

FLOP:

Pot: $0.5

BET Hero ($0.25)
RAISE prohibo ($1.25)
RAISE Hero ($3.25)
CALL prohibo ($2)

TURN:

Pot: $7

BET Hero ($3.75)
CALL prohibo ($3.75)

RIVER:

Pot: $14.5

BET Hero ($7.75)
CALL prohibo ($7.75)

5) Here I have been very active and decide to call the three bet in position. I raised the turn to try and control the amount bet out on the river. I kind of like turning my hand into a bluff on the river, but with his weak bets I kind of thought I could be good. He shows JJ and ships it.

Seat 2: AEKK ($27.83) -

Seat 3: Abroadessay ($20.40) -

Seat 4: swats41 ($24.17) -

Seat 5: Hero ($35.98)
Seat 6: prohibo ($28.36)

PRE-FLOP:

Abroadessay posts small blind $0.10
swats41 posts BIG blind $0.25
Dealt To: Hero

RAISE Hero ($0.85)
FOLD prohibo
FOLD AEKK
FOLD Abroadessay
RAISE swats41 ($2.45)
CALL Hero ($1.60)

FLOP:

Pot: $5

BET swats41 ($2)
CALL Hero ($2)

TURN:

Pot: $9

BET swats41 ($2.25)
RAISE Hero ($6.75)
CALL swats41 ($4.50)

RIVER:

Pot: $22.5

CHECK swats41
CHECK Hero

Well I took Sunday off to recover after not eating almost anything at all on July 4th. It's really tough for me to keep up with eating sometimes as I really don't ever get hungry unless it is clearly effecting me physically. And that really isn't getting hungry like a normal person, the grumbling that normal people get, I don't. I just understand the necessity of consumption and make consious decisions to eat. I know that sounds very weird but you have to understand I have Celiac disease and am latose intolerant so I don't get to eat like normal people in any way. The only time I overwhelmingly love what I am eating is when I have the munchies...speaking of which I have to go eat!

Good day and Good luck! Heres a sick old rap music video!