Keeping a promise to myself to at least briefly update the blog after Sundays:

Everything considered, it was a pretty mediocre day, one of those "oh, they've got the extreme top end of their range this time" surprise-filled funfests that make you curse the concept of G-bucks. I ran pretty bad and didn't even play that well (blah), dropping a little under a grand all told. My only cash was in FTOPS, though, and I'm 3 for 3 in that series, which is always nice. (Annoying sidebar: the guy to my left for 2 hours was pretty bad, but is still in with 2 tables left as of this writing. Of course, I doubled him up from a ~10x stack on a pretty bad button vs. SB "2:1 call" that should really have been a fold because he had just enough chips to make it bad. Meh.)

Tomorrow is "video Monday", which basically means I've been slacking on my CR vids and have to finish up recording a couple of hours worth of replays for Cardrunners. I have a good tournament HH saved up for it - the FTOPS 6 max event - and it ought to make a good video, because I play a pretty nitty 6 max style that nobody really teaches but works very well in donkaments. The natural aggression in 6 max combines with tournament players to create people that don't know how to hand read but keep on betting for no apparent reason, which means all you have to do is to keep calling their bluffs down and you make moneys. Easy game (when they don't wind up with a full house at showdown, but really, who makes those?)

After that's done, I'm going to get this blog back to analyzing hands in some detail. It's been a while.

I was semi-sweating you in the Stars $1M and saw your bustout hand. Your timing and the wheel board texture instantly set off my CR alarm. And IIRC in an earlier hand you pushbotted into him and he typed "tick tock newbs" in the chatbox. Basically, given his image of you and the fact that he was also in EP, I don’t see him betting without a pair there and I don’t see him folding to the CR. I didn’t catch every hand, but from what little I saw he seemed obnoxious but not bad. I could be wrong obv.

3 for 3 FTOPS, that's encouraging. Better luck next Sunday.

Yeah, I was usually not folding out a better hand there, but with the way I was setting up my image I thought I'd rather take a chance that he'd bet *anything* he coldcalled and possibly even wind up calling a CR with AQ than to cbet and wind up having the odds to call his shove with a '10 outer'. Obv he had the top end of his range that time too, lol.

Repeatedly shoving on people tilts them out of all proportion and screws up their perceived ranges so much...I'm gonna cover this in one of my CR vids.