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What do all of these things have in common? Pretty much the last week of my life in a nutshell. lots of stuff going on and I feel like I need to vent a little.
Family
+ Show Spoiler +So alot of people read my last blog about finding out my sister was a smoker. Ill start off by saying thanks for all the suggestions. In the end, I decided it would be good to confront her personally about it. I told her all of the evidence about it and how careless she was being, and she basically said shes been under alot of stress between doing Pit Orchestra for the school play (rehersal routinely go past 12) and maintaining her grades. She told me she would stop and I'm going to help try and keep her off.
Poker
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So I took up pokerstrategy on their $50 offer yesterday and have been following their guide on MSS, playing NL10 games. I'm really liking it so far. I've made a $ 5 profit between yesterday and today and this is my first time ever playing poker.
There's 1 hand that really sticks out for me ATM though and I was wondering if anyone could tell me if I played it right. It was basically me on BB with JJ, everyone folds except MP3 who raises to 15 and BU calls it. I raise to 60, MP3 folds, BU calls, flop is A49, I check, BU goes all in, I call, turn is 3, river is 2, BU wins with a straight 6 high.
So like the one error I think I made was checking instead of going all in. I lost my agression and BU thought he would catch a bluff and wound up getting a straight instead. But I was wondering is there something I'm missing? Should I be going in so hard with JJ as BB at all?
SC
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So like, is it just me or did people suddenly start getting better? Im in master league but I haven't played in months so I loaded up some 1v1 obs xel naga caverns to try and get some skill back before jumping into ladder, but the more I play the more I realize that I'm just not on the same level as some of these players who are in low masters with me and even some high diamonds. Also my trusty Korean 4 gate in pvp seems to be countered by even the lowest platinum players lol.
Is anyone else noticing a skill increase in the lower leagues, or am I just ridiculously rusty ATM..
league
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The most tragic part of my week. Over the last few days I've dropped from 1300 range down to 1020. I'm relatively new to ranked, I've only played about 150 games, but DAMN does that make me mad. I know I should be able to carry myself out of this elo but man.. Take my last game for example. I'm juggling udyr and start out with 2 easy kills on their MF mid, I get 2 early dragons and down the tower bot at 11 meanwhile they have no jungles and our renekton is tearing it up with 3 kills on his own in a 2v1 lane.
Then the first teamfight comes and Annie decides it's good idea to focus malphite from now on and we lose every team fight. Then lose the game.
So yeah, wtf. Any suggestions on how I can play myself out of this elo range? I really hate it down here and am like WTF at some of the retarded things I see people do.
So yeah, that's this blog for now. Again, I want to thank everyone for helping me out with my family issues. The help payed off and I was able to save my closest sibling from killing herself the way our father did.
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Poker:
Dude. You lose to everything in that position. You have pocket Jacks against a callingstation on the button? That sounds like every A-X hand in existence. You basically can't win there unless he is both terrible and unlucky. I mean, if you know he is full of shit, that's one thing. But on BB with that opening, given his apparent desire to see a flop, you put him pretty reasonably on a weak Ace hand, tries to see a cheap flop, and boom, GG.
I think you played your Jacks right pre-flop but calling the all-in after checking seems suspect without knowing he is prone to nonsense. I think you definitely come out firing and say, alright if you have an Ace, let's tango. By checking you are limiting the number of hands he will put you on. You come out firing, he has no idea. You check then the right play is probably to fold unless you have a good read on him. Sure sure he had a weak hand, but in that spot, there were infinite hands that fit what you saw that beat you.
EDIT: Now obviously I am talking about the situation, where you sit down at a table and this si what plays out. Clearly he didn't have the Ace, but that behavior broadcasts middle to weak hand with a lot of potential or just a monster he is slow-rolling you with.
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at micro stakes dont play big pots without big hands, also i dont know if i like re raising so much with JJ, especially with a preflop raiser and a caller already t.t. calling all in with JJ vs an ace on the flop is dangerous, lots of micro players will play any ace fearlessly lol
since micro players overvalue aces like mad i'd just cbet the flop and see what happens. checking is pointless in this situation imo
i'm a fish though, need REKRUL to come lay the poker smackdown on yo face
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Man, LoL is just a terrible terrible game, I enjoy it, it's fun.... Sometimes, but I dropped far, far, far, far, because of bad teammates. Sometimes I go on losing streaks of like 3-4 games in a row, then I just go crazy and mass games hoping for a win, after that I don't even feel anything, sometimes I can get to like 8-9 ranked games in a row on a weekend, man, LoL is really punishing if you lose your grip on reality then you get all mad and neighbors complain that your swearing too loud.
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How did you take up pokerstrategy on their $50 offer if you're from the USA? Share your secrets bro; I want in too!
Edit: Poker, you lost to a fish who got lucky. Not sure you played the flop correctly. Sometimes it's ok to slowplay hands when you think you've won, but really with almost no information you should keep pressuring "BU" to see if he keeps calling and derping away his chips. In this case, I probably would have made an even pot bet or so. You represented a strong hand preflop with a reraise, so betting the flop basically puts you on AA, 99 or a high pocket pair, or better. Really most good players will fold an A49 flop with 56 unless they have a flush or need one more to make a flush. You just got bad luck that hand. It happens.
No idea what MSS, MP3, and BU mean. I assume they're players, and MSS is some kind of strategy. I play a mix of Tight Aggressive and Loose Aggressive. Sometimes I'll slowplay a hand to see what the other players' reactions are, or if I have a full house or something and someone else is representing trips or a flush or whatever.
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Family: nice to hear 
SC: I am in the same situation - basically haven't played in ~6 months. I got matched up with some master leaguers and got my ass completely handed to me T.T
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Family: That other blog you made was really interesting to read through, I'm glad to hear you're helping out, as a younger sibling myself, I listen to what my brother says, so I'm glad you made your voice heard :D
SC: Probably just rusty, cause a few months is a long time. A couple weeks of practice should bring you back up to par
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raise preflop more because you have the button in between you and the original raiser.
if you are able to just jam on the flop without it being a huge overbet these are some huge raises or you are playing really really shortstacked. if you have a psb left on the flop then you pretty much have to stick the money in.
if you are shortstacking im pretty sure you should just jam it in preflop.
biggest mistake of the hand is not buying in full.
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On March 29 2011 13:57 hp.Shell wrote:
No idea what MSS, MP3, and BU mean. I assume they're players, and MSS is some kind of strategy. I play a mix of Tight Aggressive and Loose Aggressive. Sometimes I'll slowplay a hand to see what the other players' reactions are, or if I have a full house or something and someone else is representing trips or a flush or whatever.
BU is the button, MP3 is middle position 3 ( = hijack). I guess MSS is medium stack strategy, but it sounds weird, playing cash game with a medium stack is generally terrible as it cumulates the drawbacks of the short stack and the big stack.
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Duo q ranked games; much easier than solo.
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good to hear that you were acting very smartly regarding the smoking issue, and that your sister seems to be reacting reasonably as well.
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Poker:
I've been in the same situation as you (basically) where i have a pretty decent but not monster pocket pair (jacks, 9s). Preflop, pretty much what I would do. I really think checking on the flop was a bad idea though. In this situation you would know an ace would probably beat you, and since it was you and only one other player, be agressive and make it expensive for him to get to the turn. You need to scare him out of calling you. Once you saw he went all in, that probably meant one of two things, he had an ace or two, or he was looking for a straight draw. Overall, it was your lack of agression after seeing the flop. After that he just got lucky and hit his straight.
SC:
Yes, players are overall getting more talented at the game. Near the end of 2010, anyone under diamond was a complete scrub who didn't know how to play. Now there are players as low as silver and gold that know what they are doing, they just can't get promoted because of their previous results. May also be that you are rusty too.
LoL:
Yeah, low/no ELO is a pain in the ass, having to play with partners that have no idea how to play properly. You just gotta ignore the past game and focus on the future. There is nothing you can do to change the noobyness of players, just start playing a bunch of games and winning your way back up to where the decent players are.
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you need to post a lot more info on the poker hand if you want some real advise. Stuff like villian stats, stack size are pretty important.
What is mp3, is this suppose to be utg in FR? I dont play much FR but i'd imagine JJ is in the middle of the UTG opening range, your 3bet is just folding out all the worse hands.
Flop decision depends heavily on stack size, i'd imagine the vilian is not full stacked in this hand or that would be too big of an overshove. But to be honest when he calls there, and A high flop you beat just about 0 hands, you should just fold.
Anyways it turns out he had 2 small cards, i mean if you had the information he did random shit like that you can reevaluate. But assuming you had no other information I'd imagine its a fold.
Also for future reference, dont post results when discussing poker hands, it will make ppl results oriented.
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