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William "Bill" Craven's Blog

August 24, 2009

Haven't been playing too much poker, I have been trying to play live but the games keep breaking. Its tough too keep live backroom games going when a small select few have a fairly large edge and not a lot of people to play lol

On the life side of things I feel great! I am in the best shape in over 2 years, have been eating like a king, and I have not had or craved a cigarette in over a week! I really feel like this time is it for quiting cigarettes, as I haven't been smoking regularly in months and my mother bought me Nicorette.

My mother has never told me I "have" to do something ever before in my life and isn't well off by any means, so when she told me to quit and paid the outrageous price for name brand Nicorette I knew I really had to do it both out of reason and respect for the woman who has done everything for me.

I played poker for the first day Saturday in almost 2 weeks, just a few MTTs and SNGs for iron man purposes and ran bad. Played 2 PLO, 1 Razz, and a couple of NLH mtts all of which I ran poorly in. I got an amazing table draw for every tournament but just couldn't get the run good to go deep in any of them.

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Playing tight I three bet TT and get 4 bet all in by KTo, I get short stacked and 99 < AKs.

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Here a weak player I have notes on min raises again, I flat in position with AJ for value and too keep in a monster donk in the SB who was playing very recklessly deep stacked. On the river he bets out 1/2 pot and on this board texture I fold a lot to this bet as there really are NO draws besides gutters but this player was so out of line and I thought if he was value betting he would just put me all in.

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Really didn't want to shove this as he overbet but folding flopped two pair on a flush draw board in the daily dollar is EV suicide.

I still have yet to run good in a razz tournament although its only a matter of time with how weak the low/medium buyin MTTs are. Players routinely capping with an 8 showing on 3rd lol

In SNG news I have moved up to the 14s for super turbos and have been doing quite well over the small sample. The games are just as juicy at this level and also seem to have a slightly lower variance style although 30 buyin downswings should still be prevelant. I will post a graph next time.

I am also going to be playing more PLO, Razz, and 6-max cash games online as I am very bored with tournaments in general right now.

On Sunday I played about a thousand hands of PLO and ran hot as balls LOL and was sitting on over $150 & $100 on two .10/.25 tables. I had position on a player deep stacked who called all three bets, even with paired hands so it wasn't very difficult.

I will be updating regularly again as the summer is ending and I will be back on the grind!

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