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Put in a few days this week and actually got in ~11k hands, not that much but alot considering ive pretty much been on a break for a couple weeks besides a few hundred hands here and there.  Going well and i think im stepping out of the rough ride i was on... i only got a few K more VPPs(vip player points) until im supernova, then my FPP (frequent player points) get accumulated faster so i get the bonuses faster etc.

Ive actually made a couple videos, mainly to send to a buddy so he can review it for me, but if you want a link to videos i make shoot me a message.  You just have to download winrar to unzip the files because i use that to compress them, otherwise they are too huge to upload to the free sites.

One hand that i thought was interesting.  http://www.pokerhand.org/?1009774  -The river i check raised because he was a pretty tight player preflop so i'd think a big part of his range up to the turn is AK, JJ,QQ,KK,AA mainly.... sometimes some random stuff but he would more likely bluff the flop with those... we had some history and once I got to the river like this and he bet i did think it was often a bluff since its pretty dumb to bet here, especially that much, with QQ,KK, and AA, and im discounting JJ to some degree because theres only one combo of it given the 2 J's on the board, and he's more likely to bet the flop with JJ rather than larger over pairs.  But given some history i still think he does bet an overpair here some of the time, enough that calling sucks. If i raise he is only getting 2 to 1 and the spot is pretty bad to get into with an overpair.  So obviously he folds hands i beat anyway, but also some hands that beat me, the question is does he fold better hands often enough to make it right?  He tanked for like 45 seconds before calling so i think he does fold enough, and most likely its dependant on the face value of his hand, ie. QQ folds more often than KK that folds more often than AA...

If that is true, its very flawed because AA pretty much equals around 88 here, i would say 44 but im just making up for the times i do this with 55-77 and he calls, so essentially he is holding 88, but i dont think he knows that and rather he just didnt want to fold AA.  If he was thinking it out, he could discount a flush since he would assume i would just call and not raise it here.  Given his hand range i think i would c/r a flush here because he rarely has better and sometimes he can call with worse.  Obviously i definitely would now after seeing this hand.  In this particular situation i think he checks behind alot with overpairs so i might lead for more than pot or something odd with a flush and fold to a raise.  After the hand, i thought i might have more fold equity vs. overpairs if i would have led for something large like $175 instead of c/r, but checking is better since i get to showdown more often and risk less $$ and i can decide what to do if he bets and possibly get more value from a bluff....

A lot about just one hand but i thought it was interesting.  Knowing the player more would make it easier to decide what is best.  Now i would probly say Folding>>>>Raising>>>>Calling, but thats results oriented and i still think at the time it was right. 

He needs to fold a little over %60 of the time to make it right. FWIW.

First session i put in that was more than just a few hundred hands, actually 4 hours.  I ended up breaking even but i was more satisfied that i played for hours rather than minutes

Today didnt go too well either but i feel like im back to playing generally well rather than the rut ive been in recently where my game was sub par overall due to either being burned out or just distracted with other things going on.

Cold streaking it up, im assuming when i run good its gonna be nutty cause this cold streak has been stretching it....

http://www.pokerhand.org/?990453 - i run bad


http://www.pokerhand.org/?990449 - looks questionable or just whateva without further info.  This guy opened up UTG for big raises like this w/ 78o, Q9, randomness and doesnt fold to reraises... so i'd consider this the equivelant to AA vs AA and losing to a flush

But...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?990476 - still some donations that turn out the right way
http://www.pokerhand.org/?990479

Got a link to new video software, hoping it doesnt suck, ima try it out tommorow and make a vid see how it goes.