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Brian's Blog

September 19 2009

Today was the first day I played 100/200 mixed games and it went very well for me winning 18k not counting 2-7 triple draw where I think I had a winning day. I won big in holdem and stud and lost elsewhere. Here is the breakdown of games.

PLO: -$160
NLH: $14,500
LHE: $9,100
Razz: -$6,500
Stud 8: -$3,920
Stud: $9,525
O8: -$4,030
2-7: ???

As I have said before I have lost alot of money playing games I wasn't skilled in. The most notable was PLO, but before that I tried limit holdem and lost lots of money before becoming skillful in it. I am very worried that my great holdem and omaha play will mask the fact that I am not very good at the other games and make me move up to quickly. Even at the 100/200 limits I confident I am a big winner just off my NLH and PLO, but when the stakes rise, people will be more skilled at those games and my edge will drop.

Today I played about 3,500 hands. As I sit here writing this I can't articulate why I won in the games I am not skilled at. I can articulate mistakes my opponents are making in NLH, LHE, razz and PLO. But when it comes to the other games I can't articulate where my edge is. I really want to beable to say I am winning beacause of x, y and z.

So instead of just going to bed tonight, I plan on going through a bunch of hands and analysis spots and determining why I am winning. Anyways here are some interesting hands from the day.

A big razz pot that I lost.

http://weaktight.com/1511158

A lucky river for me.

http://weaktight.com/1511161

Concealed trips are fun to play. I think I could have folded preflop.

http://weaktight.com/1511163

Maybe I can find a fold on the river...

http://weaktight.com/1511165

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September 19,2009

brian, on the razz pot, if you had 4 to a 6 low, would you have raised the bet?

DK1115

September 19,2009

seriously brian i give you mad props for reviewing so many hand histories you deserve to win big and you will (not that you aren't lol) keep it up and good luck from Tennessee

spankykirky

September 21,2009

Calling 6th in the razz hand seems thin, also you double posted it instead of posting the last hand you meant to post

Stinger885

September 21,2009

stinger- im no razz expert but i think huck has a bigger pair (mostly 44) enough to call getting 10-1

nutedawg

September 22,2009

The razz hand is interesting. I think he can expect the 2 to have paired you a decent amount of the time, but you can also expect the A to have paired him most, if not more, of the time. But once he raises you on 5th street I think he always has a good 4 card low.

I think 6th street is a fold.

Benji2813

September 22,2009

Stud hand is weird. I would think 5th is a fold, but I have no clue how these games play. I mean your diamonds are pretty live, but theres only one 7 left and 3 Jacks. Even if he has KQJ or KQT on third he has overs and he could easily have better pair or KK.

But then again he showed 33K so what do I know.

Benji2813

September 22,2009

Check out my blog. It will be mostly 10-20 to 30-60 LO8.

http://blogs.cardrunners.com/benji2813

Benji2813

September 22,2009

I've actually been thinking about this hand for the last few days, so I started a thread about it on the razz forum : http://www.cardrunners.com/members/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=574742&page=0#Post574742

would love to see a discussion about this as I have no idea when it comes to razz...

D.Redstone

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