<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899443441862197744</id><updated>2011-07-07T19:21:58.760-07:00</updated><category term='Gospel'/><category term='My Poker Story'/><category term='Session Reviews'/><category term='Month Wrap-Ups'/><title type='text'>cry me a river</title><subtitle type='html'>...see you in the long run</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16330859776003249407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>14</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899443441862197744.post-4041122358718768475</id><published>2009-11-10T17:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-10T17:33:41.409-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Session Reviews'/><title type='text'>1.4k mãos, 60€</title><content type='html'>Mais 2 horas de jogo hoje, meti cerca de 1.4k mãos e fiquei up ~60€. A maior parte do lucro veio de nl10; nl20 ainda não quer nada comigo. O maior pote que ganhei foi de apenas 13€, nada mais que isso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SvoNAuewEoI/AAAAAAAAAEg/QKedtfhB_DY/s1600-h/nov10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SvoNAuewEoI/AAAAAAAAAEg/QKedtfhB_DY/s400/nov10.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Com esta sessão fico 35€ up no mês. Melhor que nada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/r63vVOEjhCM&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/r63vVOEjhCM&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1899443441862197744-4041122358718768475?l=craimeariver.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/feeds/4041122358718768475/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/11/14k-maos-60.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/4041122358718768475'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/4041122358718768475'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/11/14k-maos-60.html' title='1.4k mãos, 60€'/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16330859776003249407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SvoNAuewEoI/AAAAAAAAAEg/QKedtfhB_DY/s72-c/nov10.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899443441862197744.post-8672030264556474502</id><published>2009-11-09T18:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-09T18:55:08.439-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Session Reviews'/><title type='text'>back to nl20, fail</title><content type='html'>Cerca de 2k mãos hoje. Resolvi passar por nl20 só para ver como é que estava o tempo por lá mas apanhei chuva da grossa. Parece que ainda não é desta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SvjTwfoeIlI/AAAAAAAAAEY/A1hAfs8Ciq0/s1600-h/nov9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SvjTwfoeIlI/AAAAAAAAAEY/A1hAfs8Ciq0/s400/nov9.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vou continuar a tentar até voltar aos 600€ de banca, altura em que voltarei a jogar apenas nl10.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UcGTiz5Djng&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UcGTiz5Djng&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1899443441862197744-8672030264556474502?l=craimeariver.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/feeds/8672030264556474502/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/11/back-to-nl20-fail.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/8672030264556474502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/8672030264556474502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/11/back-to-nl20-fail.html' title='back to nl20, fail'/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16330859776003249407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SvjTwfoeIlI/AAAAAAAAAEY/A1hAfs8Ciq0/s72-c/nov9.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899443441862197744.post-2768777785529933853</id><published>2009-11-08T19:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-08T19:14:07.785-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Session Reviews'/><title type='text'>back into the green</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mais 2k mãos pó currículo. So far estou a gostar de multitablar em 10 mesas; claro que a variância é maior mas também vemos mais acção, podemos deixar de jogar mãos marginais e por vezes podemos até fazer uso da nossa imagem (muito tight) na mesa para raisar uns bons flops com air e low pp HU contra alguns regs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SveBNsQAnjI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/Ht1_wyjyVyc/s1600-h/nov8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SveBNsQAnjI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/Ht1_wyjyVyc/s400/nov8.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Saquei perto de 2byins a jogar &lt;i&gt;mega tight tilt free poker&lt;/i&gt;. Podia ter acabado bem pior uma vez que houve ali uma altura em que estava a ir de caras contra as mãos fortes dos adversários. Após esta sessão fico no verde (overall) este mês. Ainda tenho tempo suficiente para retirar algum profit desta minha visita a nl10. A ver vamos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jVlZBEneQyg&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jVlZBEneQyg&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;10 points?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1899443441862197744-2768777785529933853?l=craimeariver.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/feeds/2768777785529933853/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/11/still-on-grind.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/2768777785529933853'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/2768777785529933853'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/11/still-on-grind.html' title='back into the green'/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16330859776003249407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SveBNsQAnjI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/Ht1_wyjyVyc/s72-c/nov8.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899443441862197744.post-4930810435267445158</id><published>2009-11-07T18:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-07T18:21:57.019-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Session Reviews'/><title type='text'>keep'em coming</title><content type='html'>Hoje meti cerca de 3k mãos. 3byins up, não está mau.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SvYiBUlyw2I/AAAAAAAAAEI/rrTb7H-WE_A/s1600-h/nov7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SvYiBUlyw2I/AAAAAAAAAEI/rrTb7H-WE_A/s400/nov7.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Se a coisa continuar assim, daqui a mais umas 2 ou 3 sessões volto para nl20.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Os dois maiores pots que perdi foram estes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://weaktight.com/1675550"&gt;http://weaktight.com/1675550&lt;/a&gt; - Nada a fazer, meti todas quando estava à frente. Respiro fundo e siga.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://weaktight.com/1675553"&gt;http://weaktight.com/1675553&lt;/a&gt; - Nesta mão tenho dúvidas sobre a minha jogada no river. Na altura não reparei que tinha caído mais um J dando nutz ao villain se ele tivesse o A (10 tabling eu sei, eu sei). Ao apostar a única coisa que bato no river é um str8 e acho que teria levado um raise no turn se o villain o tivesse. Mas por outro lado penso que poderei estar a perder algum valor ao fazer apenas check behind quando a board fica com 2 valetes. Vou postar a mão nos forums.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Outra mão interessante foi este fold no river com 2nd nutz (weak play?):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://weaktight.com/1675562"&gt;http://weaktight.com/1675562&lt;/a&gt; - Podia ter apostado o turn uma vez que ganhei alguma equity mas decidi-me pelo check. Quando o marathon fez check behind no flop e overbet no turn, cheirou-me logo a set embora também fosse possível que ele tivesse 2pair ou flush draws. Bluff acho que não vai fazer frequentemente uma vez que ele é uma calling station - 69/9/2.5; mas o certo é que estes gajos também fazem coisas malucas. Quando cai outro 6 no river acho que estou a perder valor ao não apostar mas quando ele me faz um raise daqueles penso que vou levar com full-house ou A high flush na boca grande parte das vezes. Esta também vai para os forums.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;E por hoje já é suficiente. Espero continuar no verde nas próximas sessões.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yYX3q1kqPlo&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yYX3q1kqPlo&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1899443441862197744-4930810435267445158?l=craimeariver.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/feeds/4930810435267445158/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/11/keepem-coming.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/4930810435267445158'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/4930810435267445158'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/11/keepem-coming.html' title='keep&apos;em coming'/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16330859776003249407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SvYiBUlyw2I/AAAAAAAAAEI/rrTb7H-WE_A/s72-c/nov7.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899443441862197744.post-2608623775113009862</id><published>2009-11-06T15:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-07T02:14:28.103-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Session Reviews'/><title type='text'>não tinha saudades, mas fui bem vindo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Decidi descer para nl10 não porque achasse que estava a jogar mal mas porque achava que, ultimamente, em nl20, já começava a entrar em tilt muito facilmente devido a esta monstruosa downswing. E por tilt entenda-se fazer call down com top pair-good kicker vs muita agressão, ir all the way com flush draws e outras cenas marginais desse género. Apesar de ainda ter 600€ (20by para nl20) resolvi descer na mesma porque precisava de voltar a ganhar confiança no meu jogo e porque já estava a jogar um pouco scared money em 8 mesas uma vez que entramos logo com 160€. Então, como disse anteriormente, ia jogar mais tight do que alguma vez tinha jogado e por isso decidi também subir para 10 mesas, o máximo da unibet. O resultado tem sido este, até ao momento:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SvSzfvunRoI/AAAAAAAAAEA/K79sY1mVMCk/s1600-h/nl10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SvSzfvunRoI/AAAAAAAAAEA/K79sY1mVMCk/s400/nl10.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;À excepção de estar a jogar muito tight não tenho alterado praticamente mais nada no meu jogo. E também não acho que os jogadores de nl10 sejam muito piores do que os de nl20. Apenas não tenho levado os suckouts do costume. É ainda uma amostra insignificante mas espero que seja um sinal de que os deuses do poker tenham decidido finalmente desligar o meu Doom Switch.&amp;nbsp; Ámen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Aspecto positivo: Estou-me a dar bem jogando em 10 mesas, concentration wise, e estou também muito satisfeito com a minha atitude em descer de stakes. Quando comecei a dar os shots em nl40 nunca pensei em ter de voltar a jogar nl10 nem em ter pachorra para o fazer, mas acho que não havia outra forma de dar a volta por cima disto a não ser engolir o orgulho, descer e grindar, grindar, grindar. NL20, i'll be back...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Qnq7N6X4x84&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Qnq7N6X4x84&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1899443441862197744-2608623775113009862?l=craimeariver.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/feeds/2608623775113009862/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/11/nao-tinha-saudades-mas-fui-bem-vindo.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/2608623775113009862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/2608623775113009862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/11/nao-tinha-saudades-mas-fui-bem-vindo.html' title='não tinha saudades, mas fui bem vindo'/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16330859776003249407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SvSzfvunRoI/AAAAAAAAAEA/K79sY1mVMCk/s72-c/nl10.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899443441862197744.post-6286540317253025306</id><published>2009-11-04T18:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-06T16:07:45.915-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Session Reviews'/><title type='text'>yes we can't</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SvI-9ZxwFTI/AAAAAAAAAD4/-I1BcFqo9Ao/s1600-h/nov4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SvI-9ZxwFTI/AAAAAAAAAD4/-I1BcFqo9Ao/s400/nov4.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Não me apetece dizer nada a não ser que vou descer para NL10 e jogar mais tight que a vagina de uma virgem. Estou mais interessado no que isto vai dar do que propriamente em jogar poker. Isto pode bem ser o princípio do fim. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1899443441862197744-6286540317253025306?l=craimeariver.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/feeds/6286540317253025306/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/11/yes-we-cant.html#comment-form' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/6286540317253025306'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/6286540317253025306'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/11/yes-we-cant.html' title='yes we can&apos;t'/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16330859776003249407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SvI-9ZxwFTI/AAAAAAAAAD4/-I1BcFqo9Ao/s72-c/nov4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899443441862197744.post-8352949246451781851</id><published>2009-11-02T18:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-02T19:04:56.545-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Session Reviews'/><title type='text'>to be continued... (?)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mais 2k hands hoje, mais do mesmo. Durante cerca de 80% da parte inicial da sessão runei como de costume (aka "crap"), e depois, já na recta final, em 400 mãos runei como o Obikwelu, vá lá, só mesmo o suficiente para vir acabar o dia no verdinho (sem contar com o rakeback). Como se os Deuses do Poker estivessem lá no Olimpo ou o caralho, a gozar comigo. Começando desta forma não vejo um mês nada promissor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/Su-XU8BRP7I/AAAAAAAAADw/lQNZGCTktXE/s1600-h/nov2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/Su-XU8BRP7I/AAAAAAAAADw/lQNZGCTktXE/s400/nov2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Pontos positivos até então: estou satisfeito com o volume de mãos que tenho posto e com a disciplina que tenho tido em não tiltar [cough]muito[cough]. Penso que me estou a adaptar bem às 8 mesas e acho que o meu nível de concentração não fica muito prejudicado com esta mudança. Claro que continuo a fazer alguns calls que fazem cócegas aos adversários mas é tudo dentro do espírito &lt;i&gt;this shit can't be happening to me again, hell no! I call. Fuck.&lt;/i&gt; que tenho tido durante esta downswing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Sei que não estou a jogar um estilo perdedor, os meus stats demonstram isso. Estou a jogar mais TAG do que nunca, sempre que vejo o flop ganho a mão perto de 40% das vezes e quando vou a showdown levo o pot mais de 50% das vezes. O meu problema são os pots grandes que continuam afastados de mim. Parece que não faço o estilo deles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Tudo isto existe, tudo isto é triste, tudo isto é poker. Sei que ultimamente tudo o que tenho feito aqui é chorar mas é para isso que este blog serve: para vir aqui despejar toda a diarreia mental que me apetecer. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ah, enquanto ainda aqui estamos,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;THIS:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://weaktight.com/1657132"&gt;http://weaktight.com/1657132&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://weaktight.com/1657138"&gt;http://weaktight.com/1657138&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EQUALS THIS:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9s93cknr-j8&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9s93cknr-j8&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Shit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1899443441862197744-8352949246451781851?l=craimeariver.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/feeds/8352949246451781851/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/11/to-be-continued.html#comment-form' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/8352949246451781851'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/8352949246451781851'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/11/to-be-continued.html' title='to be continued... (?)'/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16330859776003249407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/Su-XU8BRP7I/AAAAAAAAADw/lQNZGCTktXE/s72-c/nov2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899443441862197744.post-5996846224552149372</id><published>2009-10-31T19:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-31T20:17:49.172-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Month Wrap-Ups'/><title type='text'>and that's a wrap</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SuzqU7qiXFI/AAAAAAAAADo/U6eNOVs1FfQ/s1600-h/oct-rap-up.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SuzqU7qiXFI/AAAAAAAAADo/U6eNOVs1FfQ/s400/oct-rap-up.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Dia 31, mais 2k hands e down cerca de 1by, nada de novo. Um aspecto positivo que notei este mês foi o facto de não alterar o meu estilo de jogo com a downswing. Vejo isso como um sinal de auto-confiança. Sinto mais segurança no meu jogo. A meio do mês passado, por exemplo, comecei a levar na boca e a ver os meus winnings irem pelo cano abaixo e quando dei por mim estava já a jogar um estilo 25/20 LAG-donk, abrindo mãos no button e fazendo steals nas blinds como como se não houvesse amanhã. E quando os outros atletas se começaram a defender a minha estratégia passava por enviar todas lá p'ra dentro com mãos cómicas e começar a distribuir buyins à esquerda e à direita, tratando a minha banca como se fosse uma instituição de caridade. Podia jurar que conseguia ouvir os gajos a rirem-se do lado de lá.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;No entanto, este mês consegui manter um 18/15/3.2 bastante sólido. Também comecei a tentar aumentar a minha agressão no turn quando ganho mais alguma equity e a ser mais contido na frequência das minhas cbets no flop. No river é que ainda tenho muitos problemas. Muitas vezes tenho dificuldade em largar mãos e não faço a mínima ideia de como identificar bons spots para bluffs, por isso a minha agressão é muito baixa. Certamente que é algo a trabalhar no futuro, mas uma coisa de cada vez.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Então tá feito. O meu pior mês até agora está ultrapassado. Graças ao rakeback ainda&amp;nbsp; fico com 700€ de banca. Levaram-me o guito mas não a motivação e a paixão pelo jogo (mas se continuar assim mando mas é tudo pó car... :). Novembro só pode ser melhor. GO-GO-GO!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LHY8NKj3RKs&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LHY8NKj3RKs&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;gt;That clock is gonna keep tickin' until it reaches 999.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;lt;What happens then?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;gt;Nothing... you just suck.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1899443441862197744-5996846224552149372?l=craimeariver.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/feeds/5996846224552149372/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/10/and-thats-rap.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/5996846224552149372'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/5996846224552149372'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/10/and-thats-rap.html' title='and that&apos;s a wrap'/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16330859776003249407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SuzqU7qiXFI/AAAAAAAAADo/U6eNOVs1FfQ/s72-c/oct-rap-up.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899443441862197744.post-2398101412529591816</id><published>2009-10-30T19:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-30T20:47:08.567-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Session Reviews'/><title type='text'>grinding sucks</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mas não me posso queixar. Ontem tive mais uma downswing significativa para a minha banca por isso não posso dizer que estou descontente com a sessão que fiz hoje. Mas que sabe a pouco, sabe. É frustrante ver as nossas mãos fortes serem batidas no turn/river e ver os nossos adversários foldarem à nossa cbet no flop com um monstro numa super wet board mas estar para aqui a chorar como uma menina só vai tornar tudo isso ainda mais risível. Não se chama azar nem se chama injustiça, chama-se POKER. Jogo há bem pouco tempo mas há tempo suficiente para saber que tudo isto que se está a passar é natural. GET THE FUCK OVER IT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SuuY7YKz4oI/AAAAAAAAADg/UZJQfUNnxV8/s1600-h/30out.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SuuY7YKz4oI/AAAAAAAAADg/UZJQfUNnxV8/s400/30out.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Resolvi redefinir os meus objectivos para o mês seguinte. Removi a parte de postar uma mão por sessão simplesmente porque não me apetece fazê-lo. Não acho que vá ganhar grande coisa com isso. Se houver alguma mão interessante que deseje postar aqui então assim o farei, mas não me vou obrigar a isso, é uma perda de tempo. Sempre que tiver dúvidas sobre alguma mão jogada aí irei postá-la nos forums (como de costume) onde o feedback é maior ou então irei discuti-la com outros jogadores.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Também aumentei o volume de mãos pretendido para o mês seguinte. O que gostaria mesmo era de conseguir umas 40k/mês mas acho que será muito puxado e a última coisa que quero fazer é meter pressão sobre mim próprio e deixar de jogar poker por prazer. Contento-me com as 30k.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7Mlch97EQDA&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7Mlch97EQDA&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1899443441862197744-2398101412529591816?l=craimeariver.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/feeds/2398101412529591816/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/10/grinding-sucks.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/2398101412529591816'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/2398101412529591816'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/10/grinding-sucks.html' title='grinding sucks'/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16330859776003249407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SuuY7YKz4oI/AAAAAAAAADg/UZJQfUNnxV8/s72-c/30out.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899443441862197744.post-8006121800606346572</id><published>2009-10-29T17:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-30T20:47:21.807-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Session Reviews'/><title type='text'>downswing no fun</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Outubro so far:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/Suo3GXUNteI/AAAAAAAAADI/SX4XVx3o4CI/s1600-h/dwnswing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/Suo3GXUNteI/AAAAAAAAADI/SX4XVx3o4CI/s320/dwnswing.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/Suo3N32ibSI/AAAAAAAAADQ/VuBgN91q0HY/s1600-h/dwnswing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/Suo3N32ibSI/AAAAAAAAADQ/VuBgN91q0HY/s320/dwnswing.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hoje joguei cerca de 1.3k hands e fiquei down perto de 5by. Preciso de descansar durante um tempo e desviar a minha atenção do poker. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/Suo_QN9AXSI/AAAAAAAAADY/KyPer4dT7DA/s1600-h/girl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/Suo_QN9AXSI/AAAAAAAAADY/KyPer4dT7DA/s320/girl.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Yep, that'll do. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1899443441862197744-8006121800606346572?l=craimeariver.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/feeds/8006121800606346572/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/10/downswing-no-fun.html#comment-form' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/8006121800606346572'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/8006121800606346572'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/10/downswing-no-fun.html' title='downswing no fun'/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16330859776003249407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/Suo3GXUNteI/AAAAAAAAADI/SX4XVx3o4CI/s72-c/dwnswing.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899443441862197744.post-3771158117931722918</id><published>2009-10-27T19:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-31T19:30:51.557-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Session Reviews'/><title type='text'>aumentando o volume</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hoje meti cerca de 2k hands. Já não jogo assim tantas mãos num só dia há já muito tempo. Ultimamente tenho estado mais focado em aumentar o meu volume de mãos. Acho que nestes níveis, a partir do momento em que nos sentimos confortáveis, bankroll wise, e seguros de que somos ganhadores, então devemos tentar ir aumentando o número de mesas gradualmente de forma a maximizarmos os nossos resultados.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;É claro que vamos cometer mais erros, jogar mais frequentemente em mesas menos boas e ferir um pouco a nossa winrate mas penso que esta abordagem é muito mais lucrativa do que jogar 4 mesas nas calmas. Especialmente para quem não dispõe de muito tempo para jogar diariamente (aka, me). Num dos blogs que sigo, o RiverRock55 faz uma referência à &lt;a href="http://riverrock55.blogspot.com/2009/10/volume-is-underrated-imo.html"&gt;importância do volume de mãos&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;«TBH I don't think Volume gets the respect it deserves from ssnl and msnl grinders. The common attitude is to play less tables so you are paying more attention to specific hands and reads etc - this will make you more skillful and you will able to move up faster because of this skill and thus make more money in the long run. However I think Volume is also key in moving up. The more volume the more money you make at your current win rate, the more money you make the bigger you bankroll will be and the more shots you can take, the more shots you take the more you will be out of you comfort zone , and the more you are out of your comfort zone the more you will learn. This obviously assumes you are beating the game as this won't work for a breakeven player.»&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Então hoje resolvi jogar 2 sessões de 2h cada, a jogar 8 mesas e o resultado foi este:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SuefybHI3wI/AAAAAAAAAC4/D0V08tZ3tNE/s1600-h/27out.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SuefybHI3wI/AAAAAAAAAC4/D0V08tZ3tNE/s320/27out.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Praticamente break-even. Mas a quantidade de rakeback que se consegue gerar a 8tablar é impressionante. Podemos ficar a zeros nos winnings no final do mês que mesmo assim ainda conseguimos uns trocos jeitosos só em rakeback. Vou continuar assim por enquanto e veremos se resulta ou se vai todo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Quanto às mãos em si, houve de tudo um pouco desde ir all in com 88 e perder contra 89s (sim, o gajo fez call de perto de 100bb à minha 4bet shove com esta mer...), a flopar straight e depois fazer bet bet shove o river contra 2 jogadores numa paired board. Eu podia ter desconfiado e feito apenas check-call/fold, mas a jogar 8tables essa mão pra mim era pure nuts :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;E cá vai a mão mais interessante/duvidosa do dia e o meu raciocínio:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;.wt_rel td {font-weight: bold;}.hheader  { font-weight: bold; font-variant: small-caps; font-size : 13px; color: black;}.wt_hh1{ font-weight: bold; font-variant: small-caps; font-size : 12px; color: black; }.wt_h2{ font-variant: small-caps; font-size : 11px; color: black; }.wt_t1{ font-size : 11px; color: black; background-color: #eeeeee; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 4px; border:1px solid #DDDDFF;}.wt_blue {color:blue}.weaktight_hand {font-size: 11px;}.wt_ul {list-style:none;}&lt;/style&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="weaktight_hand"&gt;&lt;div style="border-top: 2px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: auto; padding: 4px;"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="4" class="wt_t1"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr class="wt_rel"&gt;&lt;td&gt;UTG&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;gingin2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;$20.27&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;UTG+1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;BigVito&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;$5.62&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="wt_rel"&gt;&lt;td&gt;CO&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;PieaaroOw&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;$20&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;BTN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;express2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;$13.58&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;SB&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Kintax&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;$40.90&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr class="wt_rel"&gt;&lt;td&gt;BB&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Hero&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;$54.20&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Pre-Flop ($0.30, 6 players)Hero is BB &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://weaktight.com/img/d54c/cA.gif" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://weaktight.com/img/d54c/cK.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;gingin2 raises to $0.80, 1 fold, PieaaroOw raises to $2.40, 2 folds, Hero calls $2.20, gingin2 calls $1.60&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flop ($7.30, 3 players) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://weaktight.com/img/d54c/d6.gif" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://weaktight.com/img/d54c/d5.gif" /&gt; &lt;img src="http://weaktight.com/img/d54c/sA.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hero checks, gingin2 checks, PieaaroOw checks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Turn ($7.30, 3 players) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://weaktight.com/img/d54c/h4.gif" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hero bets $3.80, gingin2 goes all-in $17.87, PieaaroOw calls $17.60, $14.07 to Hero ($48)?&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Preflop: Inicialmente não fiz re-raise porque pensei que o Pieaaroow estaria muito forte ali uma vez que estava a raisar um aggro donkey com 33% de f3b. Mas o meu raciocínio estava errado. Se temos posição sobre um jogador que raisa muito e raramente folda a 3bet então o que devemos fazer é precisamente alargar o nosso range de 3bet for value. Devia ter raisado pre (IMO) mas penso que o call também é aceitável.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flop: Aqui o meu único pensamento foi "this is the nuts". Não consigo definir o range do gingin2 mas vou estar melhor que ele quase 100% das vezes. Quanto ao Pieaaroow colocava-o em PP TT-AA e broadways. Só perdia aqui contra AA e dividia o pot com AK por isso decidi fazer um check-raise all in. Não pegou. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Turn: Fiz lead com uma aposta fraca para talvez conseguir induzir qualquer coisa ou extrair valor de algum FDraw ou TT-KK. Quando o gingin2 põe todas penso "insta call" mas a minha dúvida surge quando o TAG faz call. Não acho que ele irá fazer call ali com PP&amp;lt;AA e acho que se ele tivesse um Ás teria cbetado o flop. Também acho que com 66/55/44 ele irá fazer apenas set mine e nunca 3betar preflop. Assim sendo penso que na maior parte das vezes estarei atrás do range dele no turn (AA, low suited connectors?) mas não tenho bem a certeza de como jogar esta mão. Postei a mão nos forums para receber algum feedback.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1899443441862197744-3771158117931722918?l=craimeariver.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/feeds/3771158117931722918/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/10/aumentando-o-volume.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/3771158117931722918'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/3771158117931722918'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/10/aumentando-o-volume.html' title='aumentando o volume'/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16330859776003249407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SuefybHI3wI/AAAAAAAAAC4/D0V08tZ3tNE/s72-c/27out.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899443441862197744.post-806736780850988542</id><published>2009-10-27T10:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-27T14:06:38.043-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gospel'/><title type='text'>meeting success and failure with equal measure</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;«Having played this game for around 7 years and around 3 million hands, ive had plenty of ups and downs. The ups are truly exhilarating, especially in the first few years. you go to sleep at night very content at a job well done. Time and experience help put a perspective on the current euphoria though. You realise you've had an exceptional day, its still very satisfying, but you know its not "normal".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;However, recovering from a downswing is a different ball game. These are especially difficult to recover from as there are several forces working against you:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;1) financially your in the hole. And you want the money back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This is the initial phase, but it quickly turns into,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;2) stress, anxiety, and frustration. Is this the end of my poker playing days ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;and lastly&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;3) you feel dejected. Theres no way out. The cards are conspiring against you&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The last part sounds crazy, only the donks talk about it being rigged right? It crosses my subconcious mind when im getting nailed over and over and over at the tables. i know its ludicrous, but in the heat of battle and a downswing its always there. You feel like the worlds against you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Heres the thing though. An this is a mathematical certainty if you play long enough: at some point you will run worse than you ever imagined possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;You need to be mentally prepared for this steam train, otherwise the results can be completely disasterous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The worst reaction is feeling sorry for yourself. Your bad run consumes you, its at the back of your mind constantly, always there thoughout every non poker related decision. Everytime your mind has a blank moment, the downswing fills that gap. You start posting bad ev graphs on the forums, backslapping other "run bad" players. Seeking re-assurance from your peers that you are a good player because your beginning to doubt yourself&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Theres lot a written on variance and downswings, but not much literature on how to deal with it, so heres my take in one very important sentence (imo):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Meet success and failure with equal measure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Train your mind to accept a good month and a bad month with no emotions. Feel nothing when you win a pot, nothing when you lose a pot. If you can train your mind to do this, then you will be a much much better player. Eradicate the emotional apsect, and you have arrived as a player. Bigtime. Constantly focusing on each decision. Cold, calculating poker decisions, no emotions involved. Not forcing the issue when your stuck, not getting it in high variance spots when your winning, total control.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Thats what the really good players are good at, and where im aiming to be eventually. In a state of grace. Permanently in the zone. As near as you can get to a pokerbot i suppose&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Theres soo soo much variance in this game that you have to try to do this. Emotions cloud the decison making process. Im not there yet, probably wont ever get there, but im getting much better at controlling it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Being self aware is critical also. Poker is the most delusional environment ive ever come across. As a winning player, this is where the profit comes from. A winning player profits from others dellusionality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I play in a game where another reg calls me a "set up artist" . But the truth is i have an edge on him. His ego wont allow him to see this though. And so he plays in the same games as me. As i mentioned in my last post, id like to think i know when im a table where im outmatched, and , well i just leave. Theres thousands of other cyber games out there, no need to stay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The point is, there is no room for your ego in poker. If you ego isnt in check, then it suffocates your progress as a player, it blinds your decision making progress from table selection to hand analysis. Ultimately, prevents you from maximising your true potential.»&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;By Clarkatroid, at &lt;a href="http://www.clarkatroid.com/2009/09/meeting-success-and-failure-with-equal.html"&gt;http://www.clarkatroid.com/ &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1899443441862197744-806736780850988542?l=craimeariver.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/feeds/806736780850988542/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/10/meeting-success-and-failure-with-equal.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/806736780850988542'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/806736780850988542'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/10/meeting-success-and-failure-with-equal.html' title='meeting success and failure with equal measure'/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16330859776003249407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899443441862197744.post-288771952862144602</id><published>2009-10-23T17:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-24T23:28:16.852-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Session Reviews'/><title type='text'>com o pé esquerdo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: black; text-align: justify;"&gt;Hoje joguei cerca de 1k hands e fiquei down perto de 1buyin. Nada de especial a salientar, joguei mais tight do que é costume, talvez pela escassez de mãos. Para além disso ninguém me deu acção nas poucas mãos fortes que flopei e perdi 3 potes médios, 2 dos quais sem saber bem o que fazer. Eis a mão que me deixou mais dúvidas:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hero (SB): $20.20&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BB: $4.92&lt;br /&gt;UTG: $34.47&lt;br /&gt;CO: $48.72&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;BTN: $21.89 (20/16/3.1, cbet-79%, f3b-25%, fcbet-57%)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pre Flop:&lt;/b&gt; ($0.30) Hero is SB with T&lt;img alt=" of diamonds" src="http://www.deucescracked.com/images/diamond.png" /&gt; T&lt;img alt=" of hearts" src="http://www.deucescracked.com/images/heart.png" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UTG calls $0.20, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;1 fold&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;BTN raises to $1&lt;/span&gt;, Hero calls $0.90, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;1 fold&lt;/span&gt;, UTG calls $0.80&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Preflop devia ter feito 3bet for value porque vou estar à frente dele muitas vezes. Para além disso ele tem uma f3b muito baixa e vou conseguir extrair mais valor quando me fizer call com PP mais fracos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Flop:&lt;/b&gt; ($3.20) 4&lt;img alt=" of clubs" src="http://www.deucescracked.com/images/club.png" /&gt; 6&lt;img alt=" of spades" src="http://www.deucescracked.com/images/spade.png" /&gt; 6&lt;img alt=" of diamonds" src="http://www.deucescracked.com/images/diamond.png" /&gt; &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;(3 players)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hero checks, UTG checks, &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;BTN bets $2.00&lt;/span&gt;, Hero calls $2, UTG folds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Penso que o call é a decisão mais correcta. Ele tem uma cbet muito elevada e pode ter aqui any PP, A2s+ A8o+, KT+, QT+, JT+ e alguns suited connectors mais baixos. Tenho cerca de 70% de equity contra esse range e se raisar só vou foldar mãos piores.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Turn:&lt;/b&gt; ($7.20) Q&lt;img alt=" of hearts" src="http://www.deucescracked.com/images/heart.png" /&gt; &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;(2 players)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hero checks, &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;BTN bets $3.40&lt;/span&gt;, Hero calls $3.40&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Aqui é que começa a parte questionável. A Q é uma óptima carta para mandar um segundo barril. E o tamanho da aposta dele leva-me a pensar nisso mesmo. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;River:&lt;/b&gt; ($14.00) 6&lt;img alt=" of hearts" src="http://www.deucescracked.com/images/heart.png" /&gt; &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;(2 players)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hero checks, &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;BTN bets $5.00&lt;/span&gt;, Hero calls $5&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;No river penso que se ele tivesse uma Q teria apostado mais. Senão, está a perder valor contra full houses mais fracos. Penso que ele aqui nunca vai ter air porque se tivesse ou checkava ou apostava mais de metade do pot. Também acho que PP&amp;lt;TT teriam apenas feito check behind. Tenho 21% de pot odds pra fazer call, hmmm...não sei. Postei a mão nos forums da DeucesCracked e recebi uma resposta interessante do WhiteHeatSyd:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;I think with tt here you can 3 bet it or call. Mixing it up is fine. When overcards come on the flop and I have flatted pf I will call one street as on the flop he is going to bet his entire range. I think check calling line is fine. He is going to bluff the queen a lot. River u don't need to be good very often to show a profit so call. Other options are to lead the flop and hope he raises you with 77-99&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O artista acabou por levar o pote com JJ. Meh, shit happens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SuJNJ0TRqCI/AAAAAAAAACw/oA-NAH-NBwY/s1600-h/graph1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SuJNJ0TRqCI/AAAAAAAAACw/oA-NAH-NBwY/s320/graph1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1899443441862197744-288771952862144602?l=craimeariver.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/feeds/288771952862144602/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/10/your-best-is-not-enough.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/288771952862144602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/288771952862144602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/10/your-best-is-not-enough.html' title='com o pé esquerdo'/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16330859776003249407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/SuJNJ0TRqCI/AAAAAAAAACw/oA-NAH-NBwY/s72-c/graph1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899443441862197744.post-8076681662112656217</id><published>2009-10-21T20:27:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-27T10:29:02.106-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='My Poker Story'/><title type='text'>y'gotta be kiddin' me...</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;...not another poker blog. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3IphR3A64VI&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3IphR3A64VI&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Background&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Estamos em finais de janeiro/09. Estava eu já na caminha a fazer um zapping quando me deparei com um estranho jogo de poker na Eurosport em que os jogadores envolvidos recebiam apenas 2 cartas e depois nunca mais lhes punham os olhos em cima enquanto se entretinham a apostar quantias exorbitantes de dinheiro. Faziam-no como se não fosse um jogo de cartas, faziam-no como se fosse um jogo de jogadores. Lembro-me de ter pensado na altura: "Dass, que cambada de degenerados..." e apaguei as luzes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Poucos dias mais tarde deparo-me com um artigo numa revista informativa sobre o poker em Portugal e de como jovens pré púberes ganhavam já o suficiente para sustentar os pais. Lembro-me de ter pensado na altura: "Ei, qual é o mal em ser degenerado?..." e depositei 10$ na Everest Poker. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Cerca de -390 euros depois, já em Junho, estou eu na Unibet com 20 euros, a jogar nl4 e a escrever nas paredes &lt;i&gt;Fuck my Life&lt;/i&gt;. Estava prestes a mandar tudo pró car*lho. Na altura tinha começado a ver uns vídeos do Espanhol e pelo caminho tinha já descoberto o PokerPt, 2+2, Deucescracked, lido inúmeros artigos na Web, alguns excertos de livros em pdf e comprado o Holdem Manager. Finalmente aprendi a jogar TAG, e foi a partir daí que comecei a construir a minha banca. Até ao momento nunca mais fiz qualquer depósito. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Fui subindo gradualmente de stakes até chegar ao início de Outubro com 1100 euros, pronto para dar o meu primeiro shot a sério em nl40. Mas com uma mistura de bad runs e tilt lá se foi quase metade da banca e fui chutado outra vez para nl20. E é onde estou neste momento. A grindar 5by para voltar a nl40 e tentar dobrar aquele cabo das tormentas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Graph so far:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/St_U-uv4o8I/AAAAAAAAABo/_mFaRH6iIns/s1600-h/Overall-graph.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/St_U-uv4o8I/AAAAAAAAABo/_mFaRH6iIns/s320/Overall-graph.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Foreground&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Criei este blog com o objectivo de melhorar o meu jogo e ganhar dinheiro. A cru, é isto. Não vou trazer nada de novo. Sou apenas mais um a rapar no tacho. Criei este blog para me obrigar a ser disciplinado, para me obrigar a pensar sobre o jogo fora das mesas de uma forma mais frequente e, se possível, para receber algum feedback da comunidade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quando comecei a aprender Texas Holdem NL era relativamente fácil ir identificando e corrigindo as minhas leaks: vpip elevado, passividade, não saber jogar em posição, high call a 3bets, etc. Neste momento tenho muita dificuldade em identificar leaks no meu jogo. E isso põe-me apreensivo porque sei que tenho muitas e tenho receio de estagnar a minha evolução. Assim sendo, espero poder vir a conhecer jogadores que estejam dentro do mesmo nível que eu e que possam estar interessados numa troca de conhecimentos, bem como jogadores mais experientes que possam estar dispostos a clarificar as partes mais nebulosas do meu jogo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Por agora é tudo, espero não ter resumido demasiado o assunto. See you in the long run.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1899443441862197744-8076681662112656217?l=craimeariver.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/feeds/8076681662112656217/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/10/ah-pois-e-mais-um-blog-de-poker.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/8076681662112656217'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1899443441862197744/posts/default/8076681662112656217'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://craimeariver.blogspot.com/2009/10/ah-pois-e-mais-um-blog-de-poker.html' title='y&apos;gotta be kiddin&apos; me...'/><author><name>Alex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16330859776003249407</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WScsPfkqdjc/St_U-uv4o8I/AAAAAAAAABo/_mFaRH6iIns/s72-c/Overall-graph.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
