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prime and okada session

 Last night I hit up Prime Poker and grinded there for a few hours. Mostly a break even session. One key hand, it is straddled and limped (in fact villain trys to limp 50 then corrects his limp to 100) and I make it 450 with 99 either on the button or sb. Straddler defends - only like 700 back - limper folds. Flop KQ9 x all in fold. Another hand I have AKo in the BB, BU opens 3x. So villain seemed pretty bad, I've played with him before. He made a bunch of really obviously losing calls. Was having a bad session. Anyway SB folds. I jam for 20-30 bb effective. Also picked up some small pots with like top pair or mid pair. Then it looked like two guys were showing each other their cards, so I call them out on it and storm out, +1k. I hit up Okada. There is a LONG wait for 25/50 but I get in the game. Action is insane. Really quickly I pick up AA and make it 1200 vs 200 call call + maybe some limp action. The preflop raiser peels my threebet! Flop comes low and I bet big and take it do...
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okada trip report

 Alright. So my last session was basically three sessions at once. It was late in the evening when I finally called for a taxi. Manila is experiencing a heat wave, and my air con is on the fritz, which makes sleep elusive but I managed to get in at least a solid six hours so I was pretty much good to go. On the way to the casino my cabby stopped for gas, so I grabbed a couple Ultra Monsters and we hit the road.  The list for 25/50 was massive, so I decided to play some 50/100 while I waited. Sitting down with a meager 50 bb it didn't take long for me to get into the mix. I opened KQ, AT, and Q9s but whiffed the flop and check folded multiway every time. Then things got a little bit interesting. After a straddle to 200, there was an open to 1000 and it folded around to me. I was playing 7500 after a few strategic topups and holding Ace King suited I put in a raise to 5200. 4200 more, a classy 420 joke that was lost on my oblivious opponents. My opponent went deep into the tank ...
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dear diary

 ok. so my last few poker sessions were a bit of a disaster from a mental game perspective. although my results were okay, these tears in the fabric of the mental game fortress I have been constructing, if not addressed, will lead directly to my ruin. Specifically there were three mental game flaws. But they all emanated from the same mental game weakness. Checking cashier constantly. Being fixated on results and desperate to get even. Unwilling to quit stuck. Dropping PLO $10 tables in favour of PLO $25 tables not based on game selection criteria but simply because it was higher stakes. There was a third but I forget it now. Maybe it will come to me later. Anyway. I will address these weaknesses. I am going to play another session, and will attempt to fix these mental game leaks in this session. Or quit if I am unable to. OKAY. I am going to fire a session of online poker. I'm ready. I'm alert. It is time to grind. My goal this session is to work on my above identified mental ...
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poker sess

 About to fire on a poker session. Hopefully it goes well. My goals for this session. Volume.  Quality. Focus. Let's get it done. session recap :  decent session. not much on volume, but high quality and good focus. really short session. ok. goign to fire another session. session goals. play well. make good decisions. post session recap. go for a walk after session recap : this session I exhibited concerning behaviour, specifically sitting at PLO $50 and playing 6 card PLO. Actually, the 6 card PLO table turned out to be extremely profitable, after I flopped nuts + redraw in a three way three bet pot and GII with 75% on the turn three way. I cashed out that hand. Then I won a massive pot not much later with flopped nuts (JT on AKQ) which I check called until the river when I c/r. Villain had top two pair only. So yah. Definitely problematic. I did have a nice win and am now even for the day. But definitely tested my mental game and found it wanting. So I will have to work...
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poker journal : same old story morning glory

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 Alright ladies and gentlemen, it is session time again. Today I am going to be grinding PLO $10 and PLO $25 across two different sites. I think things are going well. So far I have played 4,000 hands on this grind. The volume has been pretty clean. I like what I've been doing with my journal and grinding. This is a really effective way of staying competitive, because I am forced to be accountable to my journal and I am forced to reflect upon my play. Ideally I would like to get more hands in.  Anyway, gonna fire on a session. My session goals are to play well, stay focused, and evaluate my mental game. And do a post session recap. post session recap : not really feeeling it. quit early.
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poker journal : time and time again

 About to fire on a poker session. Last one went well.   The session plan. One hour session. Up to 8 tables. PLO4 $10 and $25.  Before I begin let me think about my poker goals. My immediate short term plan is to grind PLO $10 and $25. I'd like to get to the point where I am grinding 6-8 hours a day. As a job. Probably 4 sessions of 90-120 minutes.  Anyway. Let's go. Post session recap : Session went pretty well I guess. Lost focus at the end and started tweeting so I called it. 38 minutes. 169 hands. +$29.
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poker journal : the grind

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 going to fire a session of online poker. my goals are to play good, get in some solid volume, and make good decisions. after the session i want to do a post session recap.  okay. i want to do a big session. 6-8 tables. ideally play until 1 or 2 am, then go for a walk. then a post session recap. mark hands. take notes. make good decisions. pay attention to my mental game. also i want to do a longer more exhaustive analysis  post session recap. ok. pretty good session. 1 hour 25 minutes. 916 hands. +$43.60 pretty smooth sailing I guess. A slow decline where I was just bricking flop and then bang. This little beauty. Not really an interesting hand strategically. We three bet good aces vs MP raise and CO call on the button 100 bb deep. Very standard. We flop top set and pot it in a low SPR situation. Again, very standard. And we hold vs two flush draws. 62% equity three way is nice. Okay, so that had was 22:36. At 22:39 just three minutes later this hand occurred. Which was ...
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