G1lius' Road to Triplenova

I think, but pretty sure...
http://weaktight.com/2368068
flop is interesting. If SB had just called, I'd prolly raise, but if I 3-bet here, I'm scaring off all the others.
Just calling also disguises my hand. I think I got extra value on the river because villain put me on a lower FD.
Anyhow, ship it!

I'm not really in the habit of posting hands, because nobody really cares all that much about LHE I guess.

PokerStars Limit Hold'em, $10.00 BB (5 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Preflop: Hero is UTG with K, K

Hero raises, MP calls, Button calls, 1 fold, BB calls

Flop: (8.4 SB) 10, J, 7 (4 players)

BB checks, Hero bets, MP calls, Button raises, 1 fold, Hero 3-bets, MP calls, Button caps, Hero calls, MP calls

Turn: (10.2 BB) 7 (3 players)

Hero bets, 1 fold, Button calls

River: (12.2 BB) 2 (2 players)

Hero bets, Button raises, Hero calls

Total pot: $162 (16.2 BB) | Rake: $2

Results:

Button had Q, 8 (flush, Queen high).

Hero mucked K, K (two pair, Kings and sevens).

Outcome: Button won $160

So BTN is a standard regular player. No reads, which means he's not doing crazy stuff.
MP is a huge fish.
He coldcalls preflop, which is low pairs or connecting suited hands pretty much all the time.
Flop is pretty standard I think, I have the best hand often, and I might get MP to fold some gutshotlike draws.
BTN caps, which is surprising. He's in an excellent position to call, and raise the field on the turn. He could although be capping with a flushdraw for a free turn.
Therefor I chose to lead the turn. Once he just calls the turn, his range becomes very narrow. There's very little in his range that beats me. 98 that just calls because he's scared of JJ/TT is about the only hand I can think of.
The river makes the flush, and I'm hating life. His range is so many flushdraws, and I'm basically only beating JT here. Nontheless, I still bet, which is not that bad imo, because I can't really fold in such a big pot if I check, so I might just put the money in when I'm ahead too. But once I get raised, there's really nothing I beat.
If you're trying to make 1BB/100, it's these kinda spots that make or brake your winrate.

The world series are starting again, and just like last year I made a fantasy team with a whopping 20$ on the line.
My team:
- Barry Greenstein, pretty much a must have in my opinion. He plays all the games, plays them good, and plays a lot.
- Chad Brown. I read somewhere he is very motivated for this years world series. He also plays a lot of the games. He's not the greatest out there, but he's good enough to get some results.
- Daniel Negreanu. I don't think I need to explain this one. He's good, plays alot, and has bracelet bets with Ivey and durrrr, and god knows who else.
- George Lind. He's gonna hit at least 3M VPP's on stars this year, so he has stamina, he won the SCOOP leaderboard this year too, so he can plays tournaments as well, and different games. He doesn't have a lot of live results, but it's hard to imagine he can't transfer his skills to a live game.
- Jeff Lisandro. A bit biased by last years result, but he plays good, plays alot of studgames, which means low entrance tourneys.
- John Juanda: Hasn't got a big win the last years, but he's definitely one of the better players in the mixed games.
- Matt Hawrilenko. He made name playing LHE online, so I love that. He's playing the nosebleed mixed games online if they run, and had some good results last year. It does surprise me he didn't start in the 50k 8-game. Let's hope he's only skipping that one.
- Phil Ivey. Because it's Phil Ivey.
- Tom Dwan. This is really the biggest gamble, but he has a lot of bracelet bets, he started playing the nosebleed mixed games lately, so I do think he's going to play alot, and (hopefully) good.
- Vanessa Rousso. She's getting a lot of good results lately. She's doing good in highroller events, so it does mean she has some skill to go with it.

The 50k is well underway, and it's not looking all that good for me. Matthew Hawrilenko and Vanessa Rousso did not start, durrrr was one of the first ones to go out. Daniel Negreanu and Chad brown are out too.
George Lind and Barry Greenstein are on the shortstack, and the first one for me is John Juanda with 396k with a 305k average.
Oh well, if one of them ships it, it's all good :)

Well... I don't feel like playing poker, but I thought that wouldn't make such a good title.

I got time. Don't have to work. Grinding time you'd say.
Well, the weathergods have been good to us for about the first time this year. It's really one of the nicest days in the year. Sun is shining, is warm, but not too hot, like in summertime.
I'm mostly doing stuff outside, or just sit and relax there.
To give you an idea how I'm typing this blogpost atm, I took a picture while pretending to be busy typing :)

I wanna sleeeeeeepp!!
Really. Went to bed around 21.00h  last night, which is pretty early obv., I had to wake up at 5 though. Should be enough, but I'm really really tired right now. I'm not going to play, I'm tired, really don't feel like playing, and the tables are bad.
I have to wake up around 3.30h (in the morning, yes sir) tomorrow, so I'll prolly go to bed right after dinner, in the hope to catch up some sleep.
Not made the average of 666 hands (it's not exactly that much, but it's a funnier number) for a couple of days, so I'll have to have a 'catch-up session' soon. It's a holiday this Monday, and I don't have to work on Saturday, so that's an excellent opportunity.
I'm up about 1.5k this month at a staggering average of 0.5BB/100 (guess at what stakes I'm up, and win a thumps up) I'm at 16.2k vpp's this month, with not enough hands, so that means I'm really catching up by playing 10/20.

Since I was so close to 100k VPP's to hit supernova, and I had a day off from work I decided I'd go for supernova today with around 96700 VPP's on the counter.

Long story short, after 4 hours and 15 minutes I called it a day, with 600 VPP's to go.
Although I didn't hit my goal, it was well worth the try because I played more then 1800 hands, which (I think) is a record for me, and I ended up with a 1833$ profit, which is also a record.
Just for brag-reasons it's kinda sad I didn't make 1$/hand :)

It is kinda double.
I didn't have to work the last 14 days, so I'm going back to work. But I'll also have to get back to work on the pokertable. I've been playing pretty much the whole 14 days, but it's more relaxed, no pressure. Now I've got to  work and schedule close to 3 hours of poker around that, without having to play too much in the evening (because I'm too tired, and can't keep my focus as good as I should).
It shows you have to have some routine to really get things done.
I hope I'll get the good motivation back to keep me from slacking. I might need to look up some video's to help me with that.
For the people who need some motivation, for poker or life, I'll give a couple of links that really helped me set my mind the right way. (most video's I discovered at TED.com)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
Randy Pausch, one of the most famous speeches that goes around the internet I think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTugjssqOT0
Also Randy Pausch with a lecture about time-management.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html
Dan Gilbert talks about happiness.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dan_gilbert_researches_happiness.html
Again Dan Gilbert with a bit of general poker theory applied to life. Although he doesn't present it as poker theory ofc :)

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_asks_are_we_in_control_of_our_own_decisions.html
Not so inspiring, but it's interesting to watch :)

There are a lot more videos I've watched and find inspirational. But I can't remember them all at once or can't find them.
Notice there's little to non information about poker or setting goals. That's because I personally need a bigger picture. I need to know why the hell I want to be a pokerpro anyway.
For some people just saying to themselfs: "I want this" is enough. But I need some bigger picture about life. And you'll see a lot of these videos are about being happy. And that's what it's all about. You can do a lot of things, but you have to remember to be happy while doing it.