Jeans (Jens Kyllonen) Blog

[Jeans]

Hello guys, I'm starting a blog here about my poker experiences, and might include some strategy posts every now and then. I'm a 18-year-old guy from Finland, and play high stakes no-limit cash games, nl1000 and nl2000 normally, but sometimes nl5000 (underrolled) when the games are really juicy. When I started playing poker it never really was about the money, more about the challenge and trying to move up in stakes, but lately I have been thinking more about the money and one of my goals is to buy my own apartment. I'm going to do my military service starting in July and lasting at least 6 months so I won't be able to play as much during that time.

I'm currently not playing that much texas hold'em, as I'm working on my pot-limit omaha game, which I feel will be the popular poker game in the future. I think there is alot of similarities in plo and nlhe, so being a descent nlhe player I think I can get better at plo faster. I'm soon finished with my 10k hands in PLO200, which after I allow myself to move up to plo400 and 600. Hopefully by the end of the year I could be playing higher stakes plo as a regular. I recently started a new pokertracker database for my plo, and so far I have been killing the plo200 games.



Even tho I said I was going to play 10k hands of plo200 first, today I added a few plo400 tables to go with them, and will be doing that in the future, trying to find some soft tables. I'm also going to work hard on table selection which I think is very important in all poker games, to keep my winrate as high as possible.

I will be travelling to Austria this weekend for my first bigger live event abroad, it is CAPT, a 2k€ buyin event and hopefully come back with some good news, also I heard the cash games are really soft there so if I drop out of the tourney early it wont be that bad.

Feel free to ask/comment on anything and i'll try to answer.

[Winnergambling]

We are excited to have Jeans as our featured blogger here at Winner Gambling.

Expect to see quality strategy posts that will help your poker game and also great stories from his journey in the world of poker on upcoming months.

[Urban]

Welcome to winnergambling Jeans!

[Jsi]

Hi and welcome. I have a couple of questions just out of curiosity.

-What stakes you started at?

-How big was your roll in the beginning?

-How long you have been playing?

-Whats your main game, nlhe full, short, hu?

-At the coaching thread you say: "I have a strong mathematical approach to the game" Can you tell some details about this?

[Jeans]

Hi and welcome. I have a couple of questions just out of curiosity.

-What stakes you started at?

-How big was your roll in the beginning?

-How long you have been playing?

-Whats your main game, nlhe full, short, hu?

-At the coaching thread you say: "I have a strong mathematical approach to the game" Can you tell some details about this?

It all started when I managed to get 3rd place in a freeroll which if I remember correctly paid about 11 bucks. I read some books mostly by Sklansky and started grinding limit texas hold'em with 10cent-15cent blinds. I grinded my roll up to about 300$ in limit before I made the transition to nl10. And from there on I haven't looked back. I have been playing for about a year now, but have spent VERY much of that years time only to poker. My main game is shorthanded nlhe from 3 players to 6 players, but I think I have a very good HU game aswell. Full ring I would only play if it was a really soft game.

Basically what I mean by the mathematical approach is that I calculate different scenarios where I feel someone might be getting the best of me and see what I have to do to stay unexploitable, for example if I am in the big blind, everyone folds to the SB, a winning player who opens, I can use math to see what % of my range I at least have to defend him with so that he isn't making automatic money preflop by opening any2.

[Jeans]

I grinded out some nl1k tables and was up a few thousand euros when this semifishy player was sitting alone at an nl1k table, I got pretty good reads of him so I decided to play some HU. Like the third hand in, I 3bet AQo and he just overbet shoves 100bb, he always does this with all kinds of garbage like KJ and never with premium hands which he likes to slowplay pf, so I snapcall him, he shows 44 which hold up. A few hands later I open 22 and he calls from the bb. Flop comes 25T with 2 clubs, he checks, I bet, he calls. Turn is 9c, now he leads for close to pot, I call. River is a 5 pairing the board, he checks, I bet 2/3 pot, he shoves, there isnt much left so I obviously call and he turns over TT... A few hands after that he sits out and leaves.

Now I'm pretty pissed to have lost all my days earnings. I'm just about to go to quit when I notice this one regular join a nl2k table I have been sitting at, I don't have alot of reads of him but have seen him make some spewy plays in the past so I decide to stay a while and play him. Like the fourth hand intoour HU match I am dealt QQ in the bb which I 3bet, he calls. The flop is KT3r, this is always a really tough spot when you are out of position and an overcard flops. I decide to check/call. Turn is a 7, I check and he fires again, I decide to call. The river is a beatiful queen, and now comes the interesting decision, how should I play the river? there is almost a pot-sized bet left in our stacks and I think leading the river big shows so much strength he would probably have a very tight calling range. Leading it small could be ok, but I decide to check, I feel like he will be value betting a big part of the range he would call a bet will. He shoves and I snapcall and get shown J-high which is nice

We play for a few more minutes and he seems a little tilted being very aggressive, and manages to grind the stacks to about even 3k when this hand comes up. I 3bet 56s from the bb, he calls. The flop is darn pretty 347 with a flush draw, I check(I think it's very important to mix checks in here with strong hands to balance out when you check/fold AK type of hands)
He bets pretty small, and I make a small check/raise, he calls. The turn is an offsuit 6, not the best card in the deck, but could have been worse, I bet and he shoves, I call and he shows 77, which is a pretty sick cooler, the river doesnt pair the board and I drag a 6k pot my way and decide to quit for the day.

My PLO has also been going great:


A funny hand comes up where I crack this poor guys top set http://www.pokerhand.org/?2577109
I might have been able to get away from it if I hadnt flopped a pair to go with my draw, but I think its the right play to stick in the money there and pray. Then the funny part comes, I rarely bother to reply to these whinings but just felt like doing it this time:

JOCKEE2: lol
Hero: i never miss
JOCKEE2: idit
JOCKEE2: 1 pair
JOCKEE2: gutshot
JOCKEE2: 8 high flush
JOCKEE2: sad fkk
JOCKEE2: why play the rigg
JOCKEE2: u cheatn fkkn cleuless idit
Hero: i had a wrap + FD + pair
JOCKEE2: thought u were better man
JOCKEE2: sad fkk
Hero: I was the favorite
JOCKEE2: hahhaha
Hero: believe it - or not
Hero: 51%
JOCKEE2: haha
JOCKEE2: u fat geek sitting with ur calculator
Hero: hahhah
JOCKEE2: f.o
JOCKEE2: nerd

So I ended up booking a nice win for the day, I will give an update here after I get back from Austria.

[Jeans]

I was in Austria playing CAPT, a 2k€bi event and oh man what a trip. I dropped out of the tournament after about 6h of play. First hand, there are like 4 players that havent arrived yet, everyone folds to me on the button, the SB hasnt arrived, so I think opening any2 in this spot is +ev, I look down at 93o and open it to 150 (blinds 25/50, stacks 10k), this guy in the bigblind talks says something about scandinavians always raise raise raise, and then calls. The flop comes down KK9 with 2 hearts, he leads into me 200, i call. The turn is 6h now puts a possible flush out there and he bets 400, I didn't really believe him, couldn't see him leading a king when its so obv I will cbet, but perhaps a flush draw that made the flush, anyways I just decide to give him credit and fold my hand.

I didn't really hit many flops but kept stealing from late position to keep my stack up, when this hand comes up, blinds 100-200, everyone folds to be OTB, I look down at T7o and pump it up to 525, SB folds and this same bb(7k) calls. The flop comes 679, he checks and I feel like he is getting really furstrated with me so I decide to check behind as I really cant call a c/r. The turn is an 8 completing the straight for me, he bets 600, I quickly throw in 2x 1k chips to make it look bluffy, he shoves 7k and I snapcall. He shows 65 for the sucker end of the straight and is out.

Then this one hand I'm really mad at myself, it is just after the dinner break, blinds are 150-300, there are like 3 guys who arent back yet, the guy besides the dealer which I can't really see from where I'm sitting opens to 1.2k, I didn't see or hear him, and I'm in the CO with the button sitting out and look down at K2s and announce raise and throw in 900, kind of sucks but dealer agrees that I just have to call the raise, so I throw in an extra 300 and we see a flop, T74r with one diamond, he suprisingly checks, so I decide what the heck I cant win this otherwise and bet 1.5k, he checkraises to 4k so I have to fold. This hand really bothered me since I would obv have folded pf had I seen the raise in the first place.

I have just switched tables and this is like the third hand in the new one, and my final hand. UTG(6k) raises to 3k, I look down and see KK, I shove 16k, this guy on my left also shoves a bigger stack, and unfortunately he has aces and I'm out.

I also played some cash games and was pretty unlucky there, ended down like 1.5k on the trip, some hands I can remember. We are 5handed at a nl2k table, I have about 2.2k in my stack. I open 9d9x OTB, the big blind calls and the flop comes Ad7d6d, he checks, I decide to check behind. The turn is a 9h, he bets out, I raise, he 3bets and I'm kind of committed so I just shove. He shows T8o and I miss my million outs. It really hurts alot more to lose live, I mean online I just click reload fast and try to win my money back, but here I have to walk to the cashier, give my credit card and sign some paper to get money, then get back and buy new chips with these pretty 500 euro bills...
One other hand was a pretty big cooler in my favor, it was the next day when I came to the casino only for the cash games, nl1k I have about 950€ in my stack, 2 limpers to me and I raise to 80 with KK (the game was really loose, people didnt give me very much credit and called no matter how big I raised pf ) one caller and the flop comes 238r, I cbet 120 which he calls pretty quickly, the turn is a king putting a flush draw out there, and he leads for 280, I decide to just call as it is a pretty safe board, the river is an offsuit ace and he pushes all-in which I instacall, he shows 88, and when I turn over KKK he punches the table pretty hard, havent seen someone get so upset about a hand earlier :P

It is kind of interesting to think about it that me, an 18 year old kid who has just been playing for like one year, can play against the regulars in the biggest cash games at the casino, against these people who have prolly played texas hold'em for 5 years or more, and poker even longer. I guess it's just that I have gotten most of the information "free" online, thru sources like 2+2 forums and cardrunners, I don't have to experiment myself what play is profitable, I can just watch brian townsend play and play just like him. I think for most of these live players they have learned the game just by playing. That's why I find PLO so interesting, there isn't still that much on the web about the game, and I really have to figure out myself how to play in certain situations with certain hands, and why. I always gotta ask the question why am I doing this with this hand. In nlhe Taylor Caby and CTS say not to defend A6o HU from the bb, fine, I won't do that cause they know better, which is why plo is different.

Also some money was lost in the nearby stripclub to expensive drinks and lapdances but thats irrelevant

[Jeans]

Hey guys, I made a nl100 video which should be available any day now. I'm quite happy with the result tho I didn't really make any preparations of what to talk about or so. Made a laydown with KK which I'm interested in hearing opinions on.

I've been mostly focusing on PLO lately and have been running ridiculously bad. Here are my latest stats, not so pretty anymore.

I ran these hands through pokerEV and I did actually run alot above expectation in plo200, like 10 buyins. When you are running good it's easy to try to ignore it and give all the credit to your poker skills. Probably all the sklansky bucks have been paid back in plo400 and 600, I'm not gonna make this a bad beat post but just want to show you some hands.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2637258
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2637331

and tons of these hands when I get alot of money in with AAxx pf and someone flops a monster

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2637308
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2637318

haven't played that much texas holdem past week but yesterday I managed to book a nice win of almost 4k€, it would have been 5k but one of the last hands before I quit I got kind of coolered, got 150bb all-in pf blind vs blind with KK and was up against aces... this is nl1k. Last sunday I only played Mtts, and managed to lose like 2k in those running really bad and not cashing in a single one .

[Winnergambling]

Just to clarify: Jeans´ video is ready and even uploaded to our server already, so it will be available to download at our poker training videos -section of the site when the site will now open very soon (tonight or tomorrow evening - depending on how smoothly everything will go).

There´s already a commenting thread made for Jeans´ videos. Thread is here, so put your comments and discussion there about the video(s) then.

[Winnergambling]

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