Hi, I hope I have cracked a way to make a nice bit of profit out of heads up. I load up the lobby of a table, and when someone enters I search them and make a note of who is a fish. If they are awful, I play against them. I have to be fast, as the tables load up fairly quickly, but find at the $57.50's this isn't so bad and I can be quick enough to cash a decent % of the fish. So far, playing mostly absolutely horrible terrible fish, I have managed to make a very healthy profit, and rarely play anybody whose style troubles me. As such, I think the variance will be greatly reduced. Results are obviously over a very small sample, but so far, my stats are as follows...
41
$25.67
$55
45%
$1,053
I wanted to play some tournies tonight, but have been peer-pressured in to playing a cash game at a mates, which is a bit shit. Gl to everyone playing, I will be back to play HU later and rail the FT's of the WarmUp and Mill which pg and sm1le will be occupying!
Sunday 28 December 2008
Wednesday 24 December 2008
Merry xmas...and the story of a small profit on Xmas Eve...
Hi all, merry christmas, boooooom, christmas = christmas dinner, i'm going to eat more meat than Tony has balancing on his neck, get in!! BUT, why the fuck am I up at 6am on xmas eve, what kind of sad, nooby, dweeby, nerdy (remember the sweets called nerds n dweebs...so good and should be brought back!) person would be up at this time...well, someone who runs like absolute AIDS at the start of the night and doesn't want to lose on a night that he thought might be full of drunk people/still awake late due to the weird sleep patterns as he has been working the night shift at poker for the last few days.
Well, it turns out that the standard was actually really good tonight, and seeing as I was getting more bad beats than Tina Turner I was pretty much $500 down for the night. Unfortunately for me, this was after 54 games :S
Before tonight is explained, a tiny tiny update about where I am at and why I was down so much after just 54 games.
In between now and the last post, I was pretty much break even for December, running at around 4% ROI or something shit like that and less than a $ a game! I finally decided that I was playing like a cock at the $23's, not caring enough about them and was so much of a pussy in terms of bankroll that I started growing vaginal lips. I therefore moved up to the $34.50's...delightfully I started fantastically, ran slightly above average, and was $400 up in two nights and only around 90games and all was great.
Then tonight hit...all profits were wiped and I'm probs down for the $34.50's now, despite playing averagely. I was getting beaten by all sorts, and didn't tilt, at least I didn't fast-play my big hands and other telltale signs of tilt that I usually portray. I was handling the massive swing in a mature way, and though I did move up to 4 from 2 tables, I hadn't lost my head which was very unlike me. I was still $400 down though, and was ready to call it a night, safe in the knowledge that I can win when I run average and hit profitable upswings when I run well...happy enough that this was just a blip.
But...at this point I had a brainwave...I keep playing good opponents, but the $34.50's and the $57.50's take a while to load, which would give me time to scope any potential opponents and I could table select, making sure I play the complete fish. I found my first "victim" at the $57.50's...he had a -16% ROI, so I fancied taking him on at the higher level. This I saw as less of a risk than playing a randomer at the $35's, and after all, I do have 55-60 BI for it so it isn't reckless. I was also 100% stopping if I lost the first one.
I got outdrawn, was down to 250chips, but managed to turn it around from an 11-1 chip deficit to win. This was the boost I needed. I won 2-3 of the $35's I had randomed up as well, and had a bit of confidence back. I began to open up every $57.50 lobby, rapidly searching Scope for the fish. I played two tables vs a couple of guys with around -6% ROI...this isn't indicative of the most terrible of players but I fancied taking them on and managed to win them both. The fact that both folded leaving themselves 180ish behind at the 50/100 level shows how poor they were. I had played three $57.50 and won 3, and in the last two, was able to play small-pot poker and was never flipping for the win or involved in too big a hand when I was doubtful of where I was.
I found another two fish, played them both and comfortably won, one -30% ROI and another -20% I think...one was super-passive and just so readable that there wasn't really any danger, and the other was so keen to shove all his chips in I just had to be patient and not even think about bluffing!! I crushed the pacifist and vs the psycho I check-raised with K5 on a KK5 board to a random amount which prompted his shove with Q2....so, played 5, won 5...profit from table selection = $262.50.
I then stalked the lobbies for these five players and searched the $35s and $57s for any fish as the tables were loading up. I played the -30% guy a further two times and won both, the -20% guy again and beat him and beat the -6% guy but found him more difficult this time round.
So, I played 9 games of the $55's (NOT $57.50 as I have been saying) using table selection, and managed to win all 9...maybe I was running well but I felt like playing vs such fish made the game so much easier, and it was just a matter of working out what type of fish they were to win.
I fully intend to table select from now on, in just an hour and a half I was able to win nearly $500, and play the $35's or the $55's depending on where the fish are. This should provide much lower variance than the way I was previously playing, where I could get runs of good opponents. This concept has prompted considerations of going back to fulltilt where I might be able to get the fish to rematch as well, and maybe play from either software depending on the opponents. Either way, I definitely think table selection is a fantastic way to avoid decent opposition and make money in the most clever and variance-reduced way.
Finally, some stats from tonight...first from the $35's :-(
Games 83
Avg Profit -$5.08
Avg Stake $33
ROI -15%
Profit (LOL @ profit!!) -$422
Then the $55's (table selects)
9
$52.5
$55
91%
$473
I defo have to move up so people respect my raises!! :P
Merry xmas all,
Mariah Carey.x
Well, it turns out that the standard was actually really good tonight, and seeing as I was getting more bad beats than Tina Turner I was pretty much $500 down for the night. Unfortunately for me, this was after 54 games :S
Before tonight is explained, a tiny tiny update about where I am at and why I was down so much after just 54 games.
In between now and the last post, I was pretty much break even for December, running at around 4% ROI or something shit like that and less than a $ a game! I finally decided that I was playing like a cock at the $23's, not caring enough about them and was so much of a pussy in terms of bankroll that I started growing vaginal lips. I therefore moved up to the $34.50's...delightfully I started fantastically, ran slightly above average, and was $400 up in two nights and only around 90games and all was great.
Then tonight hit...all profits were wiped and I'm probs down for the $34.50's now, despite playing averagely. I was getting beaten by all sorts, and didn't tilt, at least I didn't fast-play my big hands and other telltale signs of tilt that I usually portray. I was handling the massive swing in a mature way, and though I did move up to 4 from 2 tables, I hadn't lost my head which was very unlike me. I was still $400 down though, and was ready to call it a night, safe in the knowledge that I can win when I run average and hit profitable upswings when I run well...happy enough that this was just a blip.
But...at this point I had a brainwave...I keep playing good opponents, but the $34.50's and the $57.50's take a while to load, which would give me time to scope any potential opponents and I could table select, making sure I play the complete fish. I found my first "victim" at the $57.50's...he had a -16% ROI, so I fancied taking him on at the higher level. This I saw as less of a risk than playing a randomer at the $35's, and after all, I do have 55-60 BI for it so it isn't reckless. I was also 100% stopping if I lost the first one.
I got outdrawn, was down to 250chips, but managed to turn it around from an 11-1 chip deficit to win. This was the boost I needed. I won 2-3 of the $35's I had randomed up as well, and had a bit of confidence back. I began to open up every $57.50 lobby, rapidly searching Scope for the fish. I played two tables vs a couple of guys with around -6% ROI...this isn't indicative of the most terrible of players but I fancied taking them on and managed to win them both. The fact that both folded leaving themselves 180ish behind at the 50/100 level shows how poor they were. I had played three $57.50 and won 3, and in the last two, was able to play small-pot poker and was never flipping for the win or involved in too big a hand when I was doubtful of where I was.
I found another two fish, played them both and comfortably won, one -30% ROI and another -20% I think...one was super-passive and just so readable that there wasn't really any danger, and the other was so keen to shove all his chips in I just had to be patient and not even think about bluffing!! I crushed the pacifist and vs the psycho I check-raised with K5 on a KK5 board to a random amount which prompted his shove with Q2....so, played 5, won 5...profit from table selection = $262.50.
I then stalked the lobbies for these five players and searched the $35s and $57s for any fish as the tables were loading up. I played the -30% guy a further two times and won both, the -20% guy again and beat him and beat the -6% guy but found him more difficult this time round.
So, I played 9 games of the $55's (NOT $57.50 as I have been saying) using table selection, and managed to win all 9...maybe I was running well but I felt like playing vs such fish made the game so much easier, and it was just a matter of working out what type of fish they were to win.
I fully intend to table select from now on, in just an hour and a half I was able to win nearly $500, and play the $35's or the $55's depending on where the fish are. This should provide much lower variance than the way I was previously playing, where I could get runs of good opponents. This concept has prompted considerations of going back to fulltilt where I might be able to get the fish to rematch as well, and maybe play from either software depending on the opponents. Either way, I definitely think table selection is a fantastic way to avoid decent opposition and make money in the most clever and variance-reduced way.
Finally, some stats from tonight...first from the $35's :-(
Games 83
Avg Profit -$5.08
Avg Stake $33
ROI -15%
Profit (LOL @ profit!!) -$422
Then the $55's (table selects)
9
$52.5
$55
91%
$473
I defo have to move up so people respect my raises!! :P
Merry xmas all,
Mariah Carey.x
Saturday 13 December 2008
wee tourniess...
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Saturday 29 November 2008
I'm a streaky player!
First of all, thanks a lot for all the feedback I have received from my last post. I'm glad people enjoyed reading about my poker aims, and it will be interesting to see if they develop/change over the next few months!
I've been trying to get some volume out since my last post to reach the FPP target...I have all day tomorrow to get 7osngs in to get the 350FPPs, shouldn't be a problem.
As expected, after I posted last, the next day I quickly went $200 down, though an 8-win streak helped me get back up to nearly evens. I then ran very averagely for 70-80ish games, being outdrawn a fair amount and struggling to break even. Then tonight, after over 100 games for less than $50 return, I hit run-like-God mode just as I was getting tired to take home 11 in a row. 12 is my record and I will be hoping tomorrow to smash it!!
My roll is $12 short of my target of $3500 for moving up, so I might mix in some $35s soon. I'm not convinced I've beaten the $23's well enough, and my ROI of 6% confirms this, so this makes me more reluctant but I would love to see a 33% increase in my hourly so know I have to move up. With xmas/anniversary/gfs bday on the horizon and my bank accts so drained, I think I'm going to have to take a little money out of Stars soon. I hate to do this and will take out the minimum I can to get by...it's just a nightmare but shouldn't be too much.
Stimulated by Isaac's post, I thought I would have a check how much I've lost from not having rakeback on Stars...from my nearly 6200 games I have paid over 3.5k in rake...that's sick, and with 30% rakeback I would have an extra $1000 to my name...fk stars for not having rb!!
Since my last post my stats have been...
154
$1.86
$22
8%
$286
which again is down to my big win streak tonight and still doesn't convince me I'm ready to move up. I'm such a nit (!!!) but I don't feel good enough to crush the $35s yet...maybe I'll start December at the $35's and see how it goes!!
Gnite
2:54am_star,xxxx
I've been trying to get some volume out since my last post to reach the FPP target...I have all day tomorrow to get 7osngs in to get the 350FPPs, shouldn't be a problem.
As expected, after I posted last, the next day I quickly went $200 down, though an 8-win streak helped me get back up to nearly evens. I then ran very averagely for 70-80ish games, being outdrawn a fair amount and struggling to break even. Then tonight, after over 100 games for less than $50 return, I hit run-like-God mode just as I was getting tired to take home 11 in a row. 12 is my record and I will be hoping tomorrow to smash it!!
My roll is $12 short of my target of $3500 for moving up, so I might mix in some $35s soon. I'm not convinced I've beaten the $23's well enough, and my ROI of 6% confirms this, so this makes me more reluctant but I would love to see a 33% increase in my hourly so know I have to move up. With xmas/anniversary/gfs bday on the horizon and my bank accts so drained, I think I'm going to have to take a little money out of Stars soon. I hate to do this and will take out the minimum I can to get by...it's just a nightmare but shouldn't be too much.
Stimulated by Isaac's post, I thought I would have a check how much I've lost from not having rakeback on Stars...from my nearly 6200 games I have paid over 3.5k in rake...that's sick, and with 30% rakeback I would have an extra $1000 to my name...fk stars for not having rb!!
Since my last post my stats have been...
154
$1.86
$22
8%
$286
which again is down to my big win streak tonight and still doesn't convince me I'm ready to move up. I'm such a nit (!!!) but I don't feel good enough to crush the $35s yet...maybe I'll start December at the $35's and see how it goes!!
Gnite
2:54am_star,xxxx
Tuesday 25 November 2008
I like two at a time baby, yeah!!
Have been down in Brighton with the gf the last couple of days, and whilst she has been at lectures, I have been either 1-tabling or 2-tabling heads up, and I have to say, I have much preferred it and feel I can win a lot more by doing it. I am going to keep with 2 until I feel my game is where it was at it's peak, and then I will move back up to 4 and hope to crush it!
I haven't put in much volume since last post, what with a dissertation synopsis and a few pool money matches (only really small amounts...but hopefully = free pool for me if I win!) I have been restricted to 146 games, which is actually so low for me! Luckily, I have been running well (plsss for once don't let me run bad after posting!!) and my stats are...
146
$3.52
$22
15%
$514
I am hoping that if I 2-table, my ROI will be up around 13-15%, so that could make me around $33/hr...if I can achieve this I might wave 4-tabling goodbye until I can hit above 8% when doing it!
Roll = $3201
FPP to get before 1st Dec to get $100 bonus = 1100
Days left to do that = 5!...gonna be tight!
POKER AIMS!!!
My poker aim is to hit Vegas in 2years time (with the gf on a holiday probs) and play in some WSOP events/cash games/deepstack tournies...it's a very big ask, but if I can keep working my roll up and NOT WITHDRAWING, and make at least $1k a month which can hopefully shoot up as I move up (+ taking shots at sats for the WSOP etc), it's a possibility, and if I ship a big tournie could even be for the 2009WSOP.
I recognise that for me the idea of being a poker pro is more than likely unattainable, so I am trying to work my roll up for a few amazing trips of a lifetime or maybe towards a house/car/anything expensive. If I manage to fall into earning a few $k a month whilst grinding away over a sustained period, I may give full-time a shot, but for the time being I think I'm going to have to get my degree and will maybe go straight in to work. Maybe, IF I CAN KEEP MY ROLL AND NOT WITHDRAW, I might take the summer to play poker if I can get a job that starts in September. Unlike last year, this will hopefully be off of a much larger roll and I'll see how I can fare.
The idea of studying for extra qualifications whilst playing poker for the next couple of years seems tempting, and with my lack of idea as to what I want to do could happen...though poker is a fickle business and I don't want to miss out on any secure opportunities for the risk that is poker. It just seems a shame to play the game for two and a half years solid, get to a level where I can win, and then have to let it slide...the reality is that's probably what's going to happen!!
I think over Christmas, with my gf working a lot of the time, I will be able to play nearly full-time....maybe I'll use this as an indication as to what I should do...
Hmmm the post descending in to rambling...never mind...if you've read this far....wp and ty...if u skipped to read this last bit...u take the moral highground and win the ultimate prize...vwp.
155_star
I haven't put in much volume since last post, what with a dissertation synopsis and a few pool money matches (only really small amounts...but hopefully = free pool for me if I win!) I have been restricted to 146 games, which is actually so low for me! Luckily, I have been running well (plsss for once don't let me run bad after posting!!) and my stats are...
146
$3.52
$22
15%
$514
I am hoping that if I 2-table, my ROI will be up around 13-15%, so that could make me around $33/hr...if I can achieve this I might wave 4-tabling goodbye until I can hit above 8% when doing it!
Roll = $3201
FPP to get before 1st Dec to get $100 bonus = 1100
Days left to do that = 5!...gonna be tight!
POKER AIMS!!!
My poker aim is to hit Vegas in 2years time (with the gf on a holiday probs) and play in some WSOP events/cash games/deepstack tournies...it's a very big ask, but if I can keep working my roll up and NOT WITHDRAWING, and make at least $1k a month which can hopefully shoot up as I move up (+ taking shots at sats for the WSOP etc), it's a possibility, and if I ship a big tournie could even be for the 2009WSOP.
I recognise that for me the idea of being a poker pro is more than likely unattainable, so I am trying to work my roll up for a few amazing trips of a lifetime or maybe towards a house/car/anything expensive. If I manage to fall into earning a few $k a month whilst grinding away over a sustained period, I may give full-time a shot, but for the time being I think I'm going to have to get my degree and will maybe go straight in to work. Maybe, IF I CAN KEEP MY ROLL AND NOT WITHDRAW, I might take the summer to play poker if I can get a job that starts in September. Unlike last year, this will hopefully be off of a much larger roll and I'll see how I can fare.
The idea of studying for extra qualifications whilst playing poker for the next couple of years seems tempting, and with my lack of idea as to what I want to do could happen...though poker is a fickle business and I don't want to miss out on any secure opportunities for the risk that is poker. It just seems a shame to play the game for two and a half years solid, get to a level where I can win, and then have to let it slide...the reality is that's probably what's going to happen!!
I think over Christmas, with my gf working a lot of the time, I will be able to play nearly full-time....maybe I'll use this as an indication as to what I should do...
Hmmm the post descending in to rambling...never mind...if you've read this far....wp and ty...if u skipped to read this last bit...u take the moral highground and win the ultimate prize...vwp.
155_star
Saturday 15 November 2008
p0kers0c sh1paments-
Boom, managed to win the Poker Society's Saturday tournament for a solid £58 today...no real interesting hands to speak of, just a bit of aggression, a few good hands and aggravating people into calling me with my big mouth! :P
This aside, heads up online hasn't been all too pretty. I had a $300 downswong on Monday, which made me decide I was going to have a break for a while, maybe a couple of weeks or so. However, by Thursday I felt ready to play, and despite getting filthed a few times (Gamble and Isaac being witnesses to how much I whinge!!) I started clawing back the buy-ins. As I post, I have reversed it, with my roll just above what it was before I started losing. It took me 4sessions to do, running average imo just having some hands that hold to win games. The standard really isn't good at all so I shouldn't swing as much as I do, though I do find when I'm multiing so much I often get owned by aggro people early on.
6-tabling for a large part made getting unstuck a lot quicker and in terms of volume, I basically spank out around 22/hr when I 6-table, and when I'm tuned in, if I can get just 5% ROI this is around $26/hr...any more ROI and this is a sick hourly for the level I play at. Maintaining focus/playing optimally does get tough when 6-tabling, but I hope to see my ROI tend upwards for the rest of the month!!
Tonight, whilst I ended up winning $65 from 47 games, this doesn't tell any of the story. I lost like 7/8 of my first 2 sets, starting $150ish down so early on, and making the rest of the night a struggle. i started like an aggro twat and really have to learn to play my normal game from the outset otherwise a session will be a rescue mission instead of a winning opportunity!
In terms of strat, I keep finding that I work people down to 800ish and then they double up to get back in it, so I'm going to see if I can work on my weaknesses here to close games out. Also, I'm going to have a super-hot run soon and sore above $3k...plzzzzzzz! 2540 FPPs earned and 1460 to go to get goldstatus on stars and a free $100. Should be on!
Roll- $2896.
Moving up at- $49596969200506.23
Fatigue- 100%
Fkmylifeithinki'vehitthefunnynamewall_star.
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This aside, heads up online hasn't been all too pretty. I had a $300 downswong on Monday, which made me decide I was going to have a break for a while, maybe a couple of weeks or so. However, by Thursday I felt ready to play, and despite getting filthed a few times (Gamble and Isaac being witnesses to how much I whinge!!) I started clawing back the buy-ins. As I post, I have reversed it, with my roll just above what it was before I started losing. It took me 4sessions to do, running average imo just having some hands that hold to win games. The standard really isn't good at all so I shouldn't swing as much as I do, though I do find when I'm multiing so much I often get owned by aggro people early on.
6-tabling for a large part made getting unstuck a lot quicker and in terms of volume, I basically spank out around 22/hr when I 6-table, and when I'm tuned in, if I can get just 5% ROI this is around $26/hr...any more ROI and this is a sick hourly for the level I play at. Maintaining focus/playing optimally does get tough when 6-tabling, but I hope to see my ROI tend upwards for the rest of the month!!
Tonight, whilst I ended up winning $65 from 47 games, this doesn't tell any of the story. I lost like 7/8 of my first 2 sets, starting $150ish down so early on, and making the rest of the night a struggle. i started like an aggro twat and really have to learn to play my normal game from the outset otherwise a session will be a rescue mission instead of a winning opportunity!
In terms of strat, I keep finding that I work people down to 800ish and then they double up to get back in it, so I'm going to see if I can work on my weaknesses here to close games out. Also, I'm going to have a super-hot run soon and sore above $3k...plzzzzzzz! 2540 FPPs earned and 1460 to go to get goldstatus on stars and a free $100. Should be on!
Roll- $2896.
Moving up at- $49596969200506.23
Fatigue- 100%
Fkmylifeithinki'vehitthefunnynamewall_star.
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Tuesday 4 November 2008
High volume...lowish success!
Hi, the same as the last time I hit the $23's, I am having spells of running as well as Christopher Reeve (post-death --- see it's not a wheelchair gag!) whilst enduring more swings than Gary Glitter has masturbated over. Anyways, exotic and enticing imagery aside, I have basically been playing at least 15 an hour in the sessions I have played, for probably a combined time of a day over the last 8 days...
The other night, whilst reversing a $250 downswing, I played 98 games in 5 hours, which was pretty sick and intense!!
I have basically been running at around a 4-5% ROI, with an average profit of around $1.20...this is annoying because I keep getting anally penetrated by nobheads floating on all sorts of boards and hitting some rank outs!! Ghost surfer porn aside I keep getting outdrawn at poker as well!
As I am planning to crack out the volume this month, and am due a collosal upswing imo, I am going to attempt to make $2k profit from heads up games alone in November. It's just about the 5th now, and my stats for Nov read as follows...
190
$1.31
$22
6%
$250
I am probably just on target atm, but with a couple of trips home on the horizon, it may be tight...but I'm hoping I can give it a good shot! I should be able to play 1.25k games (unless my mind is fucked by then!!), so if I can up the avg prof I may have a chance!! It will be fun to see how I do! :-)
WonForeSevern_star
The other night, whilst reversing a $250 downswing, I played 98 games in 5 hours, which was pretty sick and intense!!
I have basically been running at around a 4-5% ROI, with an average profit of around $1.20...this is annoying because I keep getting anally penetrated by nobheads floating on all sorts of boards and hitting some rank outs!! Ghost surfer porn aside I keep getting outdrawn at poker as well!
As I am planning to crack out the volume this month, and am due a collosal upswing imo, I am going to attempt to make $2k profit from heads up games alone in November. It's just about the 5th now, and my stats for Nov read as follows...
190
$1.31
$22
6%
$250
I am probably just on target atm, but with a couple of trips home on the horizon, it may be tight...but I'm hoping I can give it a good shot! I should be able to play 1.25k games (unless my mind is fucked by then!!), so if I can up the avg prof I may have a chance!! It will be fun to see how I do! :-)
WonForeSevern_star
Monday 27 October 2008
What A Bonus!!
Finally worked off my bonus this evening...at last I have the $239.99 sitting in my account! 4799FPPs took a good few months to earn but it's so nice having an extra bit of unearned cash in the account. (Wishing Stars did rakeback so much!!!)
I have moved up and with the exception of one game vs sm1le where my raise to 147 pre was met by 1147 and my AK outdrew his KQ, I have played exclusively $23s. I have worked out if I keep loading them up in sets of 4 basically as soon as the last one goes I can pummel out 16/hour, more than the 13 I think I projected last time! That's pretty sick because I could theoretically (hoepfully!!) be on around $32 an hour with a 9% ROI at the $23s...and with the $$$ being strong, taking home around £18-19ish an hour would be so so sick!
Since I have moved back up, I ran fairly well to start with, had a shocking evening but then won 4/4 at the end of tonight to finish with stats like these,
92
$2.35
$22
10%
$216
The standard is barely better than the $11s, though winning 2/4 hurts me a bit more than before due to the extra rake, so I have to try to keep guaranteeing 2wins and hopefully getting 3 or 4 as much as possible! Despite vicious rumours I am a nit, I can't wait to move up again!!! At the minute it's just to make sure my head is in the right place and prepared for higher losses during bigger games...soon enough I'll be over that!!
My roll is at $2.583.12 atm, maybe another few hundred games at the $23s and I will be up on the $35's...I'm definitely going to give them a go at the weekend to see how soft they are!
Merci,
PS Tony...u ever come round my house at 2am again and I will smash your face in...do you hear me?! (Give me time to get on the stall first though please?!!)
Cheers,
CAPSLOCKFUCK
I have moved up and with the exception of one game vs sm1le where my raise to 147 pre was met by 1147 and my AK outdrew his KQ, I have played exclusively $23s. I have worked out if I keep loading them up in sets of 4 basically as soon as the last one goes I can pummel out 16/hour, more than the 13 I think I projected last time! That's pretty sick because I could theoretically (hoepfully!!) be on around $32 an hour with a 9% ROI at the $23s...and with the $$$ being strong, taking home around £18-19ish an hour would be so so sick!
Since I have moved back up, I ran fairly well to start with, had a shocking evening but then won 4/4 at the end of tonight to finish with stats like these,
92
$2.35
$22
10%
$216
The standard is barely better than the $11s, though winning 2/4 hurts me a bit more than before due to the extra rake, so I have to try to keep guaranteeing 2wins and hopefully getting 3 or 4 as much as possible! Despite vicious rumours I am a nit, I can't wait to move up again!!! At the minute it's just to make sure my head is in the right place and prepared for higher losses during bigger games...soon enough I'll be over that!!
My roll is at $2.583.12 atm, maybe another few hundred games at the $23s and I will be up on the $35's...I'm definitely going to give them a go at the weekend to see how soft they are!
Merci,
PS Tony...u ever come round my house at 2am again and I will smash your face in...do you hear me?! (Give me time to get on the stall first though please?!!)
Cheers,
CAPSLOCKFUCK
Sunday 26 October 2008
Like A Star, Like A Star, Like A Star!
Wooo life aim completed...I now have a star next to my name when I am sharkscoped! This shows I am 20th for the highest profit 2008 for holdem heads up games average stake $6-$15...thinking about that, maybe there are only 20 people who play that exact game!!! Anyway, for the next couple of days at least, I have a star, boom!!
I'm not going to be able to build on that because I am going straight to the $23's, and giving them a proper shot. Though, hopefully this will only be for a couple of hundred games because I plan on moving up again very soon. Won't bore you with huge updates, will just generally work out how much I have made since I got back to Uni on the 8th October.
Heads up - average prof is $1.47 obv, $411 from 279 games.
MTT's - up $448, most of that originating from the $11 sat I played which consequently I cashed in the Million with, and that's from 14 games.
Live cash - Up around $225 from a few home games, though won most of that when I was sober and others weren't!!
So, up around $1.1k for the 18days I have been back (minus 3days for a trip back home). I have only had one session during the day when I played that satellite, and have had half of my nights relaxing, so I think I must be running pretty well!! Also though, I am making sure I am joining in at Durham loads, and not trapping myself playing poker like I did all the first year and some of the second year!! So when I play I feel fresh, and that's working out pretty good.
Finally, a comment on the SICKEST RE-RAISE I HAVE EVER FACED!!
147_star is on Phone 1, Durham.
Gf is on Phone 2, Sussex.
147_star raises a bit of conflict.
Gf flat calls with some counter-arguments.
147_star is tilted and disconnects for time to think.
147_star tries to re-connect.
Gf has left Seat 2. (The *bitch* hung up...sick sick strength!!)
Gf takes home all the chips, strength, pride, honour and dignity.
147_star is left grovelling, and had an hour and a half feeling awful not able to get through to her!!
Cheers,
Alfaromeo_star
I'm not going to be able to build on that because I am going straight to the $23's, and giving them a proper shot. Though, hopefully this will only be for a couple of hundred games because I plan on moving up again very soon. Won't bore you with huge updates, will just generally work out how much I have made since I got back to Uni on the 8th October.
Heads up - average prof is $1.47 obv, $411 from 279 games.
MTT's - up $448, most of that originating from the $11 sat I played which consequently I cashed in the Million with, and that's from 14 games.
Live cash - Up around $225 from a few home games, though won most of that when I was sober and others weren't!!
So, up around $1.1k for the 18days I have been back (minus 3days for a trip back home). I have only had one session during the day when I played that satellite, and have had half of my nights relaxing, so I think I must be running pretty well!! Also though, I am making sure I am joining in at Durham loads, and not trapping myself playing poker like I did all the first year and some of the second year!! So when I play I feel fresh, and that's working out pretty good.
Finally, a comment on the SICKEST RE-RAISE I HAVE EVER FACED!!
147_star is on Phone 1, Durham.
Gf is on Phone 2, Sussex.
147_star raises a bit of conflict.
Gf flat calls with some counter-arguments.
147_star is tilted and disconnects for time to think.
147_star tries to re-connect.
Gf has left Seat 2. (The *bitch* hung up...sick sick strength!!)
Gf takes home all the chips, strength, pride, honour and dignity.
147_star is left grovelling, and had an hour and a half feeling awful not able to get through to her!!
Cheers,
Alfaromeo_star
Wednesday 15 October 2008
Hannes is a legend!!
Don't know if you've ever met Hannes, but if you have, you will know he is a legend!!
He loves poker, is always laughing, and is so German that he brought German beer over to my house for a cash game, but as he was driving, it was the non-alcoholic stuff!!
Patriotic, funny, keen, what a legend!!
He loves poker, is always laughing, and is so German that he brought German beer over to my house for a cash game, but as he was driving, it was the non-alcoholic stuff!!
Patriotic, funny, keen, what a legend!!
Monday 13 October 2008
Cashed in my first Sunday Million!
Hi, I have played a few heads up since I've been back at uni, running really well and taking home around $141 in 92 games at a 14% ROI. This has got me within $100 of the leaderboard I think, so maybe this week I'll hit it. I could have perhaps done it in the last week, but instead, with the Sunday Million on the horizon went in to tournament mode.
I small cashed in a $11 30k guaranteed and a 3r on Friday and Saturday, and felt I played pretty good poker. On the Sunday, I loaded up $300 worth of tournaments, deciding to play the $50 125k guaranteed, the Sunday 200k, another $11 and the Sunday Million. I feel like I did myself proud in all four, and cashed in three of them, with the other one being crippled by a sick runner runner.
In the 200k, I came like 520/210000000000 and won a measly $20, what a fucking joke...fuck my life!!! I went out shoving K10 into a min raisers AA...the slag had minned two hands before so I read weakness...he said before was KK :-( I flipped pretty bad in this tournie but did suck out on AA with the PS nuts KQsuited, so can't complain...apart from the fucking $20...ridic tournie...pure shite.
In the 125k, in the first hour I had no hands at all, but managed to finish it just above my starting stack...I was rocking it right up. After the break, I took some blinds, put in a resteal or two and eventually managed to cash, left with only 9BB. I doubled up from here and with 18k was looking to putting a good run in. Basically, the next hand, I 4-bet shoved AK suited into KK and missed, leaving me out, disappointed, but pleased I wasn't out of my depth. $82 isn't much but means I'll take more shots and know what to expect in future attempts.
In the Sunday Mill, in the 6th hand I doubled up with AA vs QQ, and was nervous as anything when I saw him flip QQ after taking a weird line vs me!! I ran so cold for the next 30mins, and with two retards on my table, couldn't take any uncontested pots or be aggressive! I then lost a sick coinflip with my AK losing to 99, and that 12k pot bought me back down to around 12k. I got 3bet a couple of times and with no cards stayed around 12k for quite a while, perhaps a good hour and a half in fact.
With the blinds a lot greater, I found a few good spots to resteal with hands such as 78 (which made my heart pound but obv have to do it!) and then in the end shoved K5 against the table fishes perennial raise, to be against his A7. I found a 5 and got up to 27k and finally 20BB+ instead of 10BB. With this fish on my table, I had chances to get back up, but I had to be selective about my hand as I knew he 4bet so so light. Luckily, when I 3bet him with QQ in the most obvious way, he shoved with A6 and I held and won. Then I had AA vs AK to double up to 92k and a very healthy stack!
I then lost 20k of that the next hand, with 99 vs 1010 after I called a shorties shove of 7k, and the BB (who was short also with only 20k) shoved over. With the fish calling the SB, I had to call the BB and was unlucky I guess to see him flip 10s and win. Back to 70k but still feeling good.
From here the bubble was approaching, and I kept facing raises from the table fish, but didn't have any hands to play back at him with. Against a thinker I can 3-bet, but not this clown!! The bubble eventually burst, I switched tables, and found myself up on 85k blinds 2500/5000 at the time of my exit hand!
I raised AQcc from mid position to 12499 and the BB flatted. The flop was 810J, giving me ample draws, and the BB weirdly donked 25k in to me...with some fold equity as he's not taking this line with any decent hands, and multiple outs, I shoved my 72k, and he snapped the extra 47k with 104cc...I missed, and my exciting run was ended by this piece of shit!!! So annoying...I could do nothing more...win that pot and I have a huge stack, confidence, still that fish to pick off and a massive chance. Lose it, and I think...just fold 410cc pre ffs!!!
So yeah, annoying but in no way disspiriting...I keep thinking of hands I could have stood up to the fish with on the table before when the bubble was approaching, but with his aggro nature, I had no option but to fold and pick up pots when he folded (very rarely!!) from the tight people ahead of me!
Overall, in terms of cards I ran cold overall, but very hot in streaks...I only had AA twice and QQ, but AA was against QQ and AK and I doubled up with both...and QQ got action from A6...
In this respect i was lucky, but a lot of my other hands were fairly weak, and I had to lay down JJ after my UTG raise was shoved into. You have to run like God to win this thing...I ran fairly normally and gave myself a decent shot at getting very deep. Next time, hopefully soon, I can go 712 better and ship an enormous 1st place!! I'm not going to lose heads up after all! ;-)
Still, got to be happy...though these cashes reduced my ROI on OPR ffs!! :-D
Cheers for all the support everyone gives me,
Roll at $1853 now, so taking shots at the next levels soon enough I think...also seem to have grown some balls finally so maybe this next month might be exciting!!
7ducksandasingle_star
I small cashed in a $11 30k guaranteed and a 3r on Friday and Saturday, and felt I played pretty good poker. On the Sunday, I loaded up $300 worth of tournaments, deciding to play the $50 125k guaranteed, the Sunday 200k, another $11 and the Sunday Million. I feel like I did myself proud in all four, and cashed in three of them, with the other one being crippled by a sick runner runner.
In the 200k, I came like 520/210000000000 and won a measly $20, what a fucking joke...fuck my life!!! I went out shoving K10 into a min raisers AA...the slag had minned two hands before so I read weakness...he said before was KK :-( I flipped pretty bad in this tournie but did suck out on AA with the PS nuts KQsuited, so can't complain...apart from the fucking $20...ridic tournie...pure shite.
In the 125k, in the first hour I had no hands at all, but managed to finish it just above my starting stack...I was rocking it right up. After the break, I took some blinds, put in a resteal or two and eventually managed to cash, left with only 9BB. I doubled up from here and with 18k was looking to putting a good run in. Basically, the next hand, I 4-bet shoved AK suited into KK and missed, leaving me out, disappointed, but pleased I wasn't out of my depth. $82 isn't much but means I'll take more shots and know what to expect in future attempts.
In the Sunday Mill, in the 6th hand I doubled up with AA vs QQ, and was nervous as anything when I saw him flip QQ after taking a weird line vs me!! I ran so cold for the next 30mins, and with two retards on my table, couldn't take any uncontested pots or be aggressive! I then lost a sick coinflip with my AK losing to 99, and that 12k pot bought me back down to around 12k. I got 3bet a couple of times and with no cards stayed around 12k for quite a while, perhaps a good hour and a half in fact.
With the blinds a lot greater, I found a few good spots to resteal with hands such as 78 (which made my heart pound but obv have to do it!) and then in the end shoved K5 against the table fishes perennial raise, to be against his A7. I found a 5 and got up to 27k and finally 20BB+ instead of 10BB. With this fish on my table, I had chances to get back up, but I had to be selective about my hand as I knew he 4bet so so light. Luckily, when I 3bet him with QQ in the most obvious way, he shoved with A6 and I held and won. Then I had AA vs AK to double up to 92k and a very healthy stack!
I then lost 20k of that the next hand, with 99 vs 1010 after I called a shorties shove of 7k, and the BB (who was short also with only 20k) shoved over. With the fish calling the SB, I had to call the BB and was unlucky I guess to see him flip 10s and win. Back to 70k but still feeling good.
From here the bubble was approaching, and I kept facing raises from the table fish, but didn't have any hands to play back at him with. Against a thinker I can 3-bet, but not this clown!! The bubble eventually burst, I switched tables, and found myself up on 85k blinds 2500/5000 at the time of my exit hand!
I raised AQcc from mid position to 12499 and the BB flatted. The flop was 810J, giving me ample draws, and the BB weirdly donked 25k in to me...with some fold equity as he's not taking this line with any decent hands, and multiple outs, I shoved my 72k, and he snapped the extra 47k with 104cc...I missed, and my exciting run was ended by this piece of shit!!! So annoying...I could do nothing more...win that pot and I have a huge stack, confidence, still that fish to pick off and a massive chance. Lose it, and I think...just fold 410cc pre ffs!!!
So yeah, annoying but in no way disspiriting...I keep thinking of hands I could have stood up to the fish with on the table before when the bubble was approaching, but with his aggro nature, I had no option but to fold and pick up pots when he folded (very rarely!!) from the tight people ahead of me!
Overall, in terms of cards I ran cold overall, but very hot in streaks...I only had AA twice and QQ, but AA was against QQ and AK and I doubled up with both...and QQ got action from A6...
In this respect i was lucky, but a lot of my other hands were fairly weak, and I had to lay down JJ after my UTG raise was shoved into. You have to run like God to win this thing...I ran fairly normally and gave myself a decent shot at getting very deep. Next time, hopefully soon, I can go 712 better and ship an enormous 1st place!! I'm not going to lose heads up after all! ;-)
Still, got to be happy...though these cashes reduced my ROI on OPR ffs!! :-D
Cheers for all the support everyone gives me,
Roll at $1853 now, so taking shots at the next levels soon enough I think...also seem to have grown some balls finally so maybe this next month might be exciting!!
7ducksandasingle_star
Friday 10 October 2008
I love Standard Assessment Tests!!
Bonjour, had another very nice result yesterday. Decided to play another one of them $11 sats to the Sunday Warm Up, and managed to come 1/27, winning it for the third time in three attempts. I played pretty good most the way, had the guy 2nd in chips when there was 4 left sit out until he'd lost nearly all his stack, and the fish beat the good player to leave my heads up a much easier proposition.
Happy days!! The heads up was a marathon from then as it was 300/600 and i had 30ishk and he had 20ishk. I managed to grind him down and when he shoved his last 10k, I called with 66 and they held vs his K10. Not so sure whether or not to play the Sunday Mill this time, though rekon I will do, especially if I can perhaps sell half of myself as well. It's nice to be able to take shots whilst building my roll, so I am keen to cover myself a little, but if not I might just have a shot anyways.
I might go to Aspers tonight if people are up for it, and try to do something in the £20 freezeout. Probably won't play cash as I don't like shortstacking that game, but who knows!??
Looking forward to Sunday,
adg_19,20,1,18
Happy days!! The heads up was a marathon from then as it was 300/600 and i had 30ishk and he had 20ishk. I managed to grind him down and when he shoved his last 10k, I called with 66 and they held vs his K10. Not so sure whether or not to play the Sunday Mill this time, though rekon I will do, especially if I can perhaps sell half of myself as well. It's nice to be able to take shots whilst building my roll, so I am keen to cover myself a little, but if not I might just have a shot anyways.
I might go to Aspers tonight if people are up for it, and try to do something in the £20 freezeout. Probably won't play cash as I don't like shortstacking that game, but who knows!??
Looking forward to Sunday,
adg_19,20,1,18
Thursday 9 October 2008
5000th Sit n Go on Stars! But what should it be?!
Hi all, interestingly enough (is it interesting?!) my next sit n go on Pokerstars will be my 5000th, and it's led me to wonder which is my most profitable game. I've moved to Heads Up over the last few months, with a decent level of success. However, maybe I moved here because at 9man turbos I had moved up to 15 tabling and had a few downswings which reduced my pretty small roll more dramatically than I could handle...but perhaps 9mans are my most profitable game and I'm missing out on a lot of value?!?
So this post, I'm going to break down my lifetime Stars record, with a stupid September 2007 $300 tilt still skewing my results ridiculously!! My best month on Stars in terms of profit has been $1550 in June 2008, which was started 15tabling turbos and finished caning out the heads up games, to a total of 1404 games which is massive!! However, my best month was August 2007, where I made $750 profit from around 190 games, playing at this time some $6 and $16 turbos and some $4.40s 180mans. The worst month was that September 2007, which would have been break even without the stupid tilt but it happened and can't be forgotten about.
So, what are my lifetime stats (on stars) like...
Heads up...
2,927
$0.91
$12
9%
$2,678
This does include the big $300 tilt and my early days when I was way too aggro, but as an overall thing doesn't look too bad.
9-man turbos...
1,693
$0.98
$6
12%
$1,667
180mans...
55
$15.78
$4
364%
$868
So at the minute, it looks like I am actually pursuing my least profitable games. I do really enjoy heads up though, and perhaps destroyed the 9mans by leaving out playing poker and only using a system to beat the games, so maybe moving down to 10tabling these I would enjoy them more. Again, I really want to give the $16s a go and might do if I have a spell of not being up for heads up.
The rest of the games are made up of around 100 $1's I let my Dad play on my account when he played worse than Rookie62 (seriously, anyone who hasn't, sharkscope him!!)
If I include my tournie stats in here, it again makes me wonder whether I should stick with heads up so religiously...
Prizes
Profit
ROI
ABI
AFS
R/A
ITM
ITM
$3,026
$1,801
147%
$7
1893
13%
36/174
21%
Which again confirms I should play MTT's, especially MTT sats. But then I was thinking maybe I should give some 27-mans or 45-mans a go, as I seem to do ok in these smaller field satellites in particular. And 147%...loving that ROI, might not play another tournie again!!
So yeah, I think just because I like them I will keep playing heads up, but I should mix in 9mans as well, and not lose a strong aspect of my game. I haven't played since I won the satellite until today, so hopefully the 5000th game and the next few after that are wins!!
Can't wait til Sunday, one time let me run well!
3n-2(n=integer<4)_star
So this post, I'm going to break down my lifetime Stars record, with a stupid September 2007 $300 tilt still skewing my results ridiculously!! My best month on Stars in terms of profit has been $1550 in June 2008, which was started 15tabling turbos and finished caning out the heads up games, to a total of 1404 games which is massive!! However, my best month was August 2007, where I made $750 profit from around 190 games, playing at this time some $6 and $16 turbos and some $4.40s 180mans. The worst month was that September 2007, which would have been break even without the stupid tilt but it happened and can't be forgotten about.
So, what are my lifetime stats (on stars) like...
Heads up...
2,927
$0.91
$12
9%
$2,678
This does include the big $300 tilt and my early days when I was way too aggro, but as an overall thing doesn't look too bad.
9-man turbos...
1,693
$0.98
$6
12%
$1,667
180mans...
55
$15.78
$4
364%
$868
So at the minute, it looks like I am actually pursuing my least profitable games. I do really enjoy heads up though, and perhaps destroyed the 9mans by leaving out playing poker and only using a system to beat the games, so maybe moving down to 10tabling these I would enjoy them more. Again, I really want to give the $16s a go and might do if I have a spell of not being up for heads up.
The rest of the games are made up of around 100 $1's I let my Dad play on my account when he played worse than Rookie62 (seriously, anyone who hasn't, sharkscope him!!)
If I include my tournie stats in here, it again makes me wonder whether I should stick with heads up so religiously...
Prizes
Profit
ROI
ABI
AFS
R/A
ITM
ITM
$3,026
$1,801
147%
$7
1893
13%
36/174
21%
Which again confirms I should play MTT's, especially MTT sats. But then I was thinking maybe I should give some 27-mans or 45-mans a go, as I seem to do ok in these smaller field satellites in particular. And 147%...loving that ROI, might not play another tournie again!!
So yeah, I think just because I like them I will keep playing heads up, but I should mix in 9mans as well, and not lose a strong aspect of my game. I haven't played since I won the satellite until today, so hopefully the 5000th game and the next few after that are wins!!
Can't wait til Sunday, one time let me run well!
3n-2(n=integer<4)_star
Monday 6 October 2008
Temporary Bankroll Boost!
Hi, this evening I have increased my bankroll by just under 1/5, taking me up to $1331.
However, this is broken in to T$ as I shipped the same sat that I did before, the $11 satellite to the Sunday Warm Up. 27 played I think, with prizes of one seat and 2-7 getting their entry fees back. Pretty good structure, and haven't I always said I love the top heavy payouts!!
Some hands that took me to my win...
My double up early on standard 7s vs 2s.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3288044
Shoved a draw and ran good.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3288049
Are 10s a fold here?
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3288054
Key hold.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3288062
Getting stacked.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3288067
I rivered his turn stop and go!!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3288079
Shocking shove got what it deserved vs player who should have been out with A2 > my A8 a couple of hands before.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3288089
Now I got to heads up vs easily the worst of the two players and despite my 2 to 1 chip deficit I felt confident, and luckily along came this hand!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3288119
Now the final hand I ran good but was never committing on the river without hitting so had loads of implieds...so pleased I hit!!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3288123
So yeah, play or not play...zzzzzzzzzzz...gna grow some and play, though paintball on Sunday may get in the way!! Think I will play the million instead of the warm-up this Sunday if I'm back in time from paintballing and whatever we do in the evening. If not I'll play two weeks after as in the week in between I'm back home. To psychologically help me do this I am going to preserve the T$215 and not use them to play heads up games, as if I did use the T$ I would actually be taking the money out of my BR which would of course be bad BR management!!
So yeah, I'll confirm when I am going to play, and hopefully a few people can rail me and watch me go busto on my first hand probs! Loving that sat, and quite looking forward to going up to Durham tomorrow evening. Should be a sick term before the work etc etc kicks in. Thank fuck I'm not an engineer, they run so bad!!
Rambling now so I'll guess I'll end with some stats.
People who read the blog ... < 10.
People who give a shit about the stats... < or = to 1 (1 if I want to see that I'm running well!!)
Cheers,
147_SundayToAccumulateRoll.
However, this is broken in to T$ as I shipped the same sat that I did before, the $11 satellite to the Sunday Warm Up. 27 played I think, with prizes of one seat and 2-7 getting their entry fees back. Pretty good structure, and haven't I always said I love the top heavy payouts!!
Some hands that took me to my win...
My double up early on standard 7s vs 2s.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3288044
Shoved a draw and ran good.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3288049
Are 10s a fold here?
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3288054
Key hold.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3288062
Getting stacked.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3288067
I rivered his turn stop and go!!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3288079
Shocking shove got what it deserved vs player who should have been out with A2 > my A8 a couple of hands before.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3288089
Now I got to heads up vs easily the worst of the two players and despite my 2 to 1 chip deficit I felt confident, and luckily along came this hand!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3288119
Now the final hand I ran good but was never committing on the river without hitting so had loads of implieds...so pleased I hit!!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3288123
So yeah, play or not play...zzzzzzzzzzz...gna grow some and play, though paintball on Sunday may get in the way!! Think I will play the million instead of the warm-up this Sunday if I'm back in time from paintballing and whatever we do in the evening. If not I'll play two weeks after as in the week in between I'm back home. To psychologically help me do this I am going to preserve the T$215 and not use them to play heads up games, as if I did use the T$ I would actually be taking the money out of my BR which would of course be bad BR management!!
So yeah, I'll confirm when I am going to play, and hopefully a few people can rail me and watch me go busto on my first hand probs! Loving that sat, and quite looking forward to going up to Durham tomorrow evening. Should be a sick term before the work etc etc kicks in. Thank fuck I'm not an engineer, they run so bad!!
Rambling now so I'll guess I'll end with some stats.
People who read the blog ... < 10.
People who give a shit about the stats... < or = to 1 (1 if I want to see that I'm running well!!)
Cheers,
147_SundayToAccumulateRoll.
"Duck" and "Heads up"...which command helps you to avoid the bullet?
Hi, boring post...! Played some tournies last night.
The Sunday 200k where I had 810 vs 10s on a 1086 flop when it had been minned by someone else in to my big blind. Standard...stupid tournie that I will never cash in!!
Some freeroll thing, 100k prize pool...Small cashed for $9.
$2.75 Multi...lost a huge pot with 99 < 66 and then busted out later with AJ < AQ.
$3r...in for about $16, started after the break with an average stack, lost a sick 10k pot with top two vs a rivered better 2pair, dwindled, got up to above average with KK > AJ, but then as the blinds got high I lost a BB v SB battle with my A8 < his QQ (so illegal!!) and then my J8 didn't hit against the most dwelt 6BB call from 7s ever. Finished around 850th, 630 cash. Lovely tournament so might play the earlier version a bit more often.
Apart from that, just been boring playing HU, working up towards the leaderboard. On $2170 now, so just $250ish to go to break on the leaderboard. I'm hoping to play loads more tonight so maybe have a chance before the end of the week.
Roll is at $1121.16, so probably around the time when I might be taking shots at $23s given my thoughts on the standard last time round, but I'm going to stick with the $11s, unless I'm feeling good and then I might move up.
After Nathan's post that he loves "The Gambler", I was thinking about whether or not I should listen to music when playing poker. I used to and used to love it, but never bother any more. I am trying to tihnk if it affected my mood, and I'm pretty sure it kept me calm, so maybe I might try to play a bit whilst getting my jam on and see if it helps! But if tracks start jumping that's insta-tilt so I better be careful of that!
Laters,
EinsVierSeben_Star
The Sunday 200k where I had 810 vs 10s on a 1086 flop when it had been minned by someone else in to my big blind. Standard...stupid tournie that I will never cash in!!
Some freeroll thing, 100k prize pool...Small cashed for $9.
$2.75 Multi...lost a huge pot with 99 < 66 and then busted out later with AJ < AQ.
$3r...in for about $16, started after the break with an average stack, lost a sick 10k pot with top two vs a rivered better 2pair, dwindled, got up to above average with KK > AJ, but then as the blinds got high I lost a BB v SB battle with my A8 < his QQ (so illegal!!) and then my J8 didn't hit against the most dwelt 6BB call from 7s ever. Finished around 850th, 630 cash. Lovely tournament so might play the earlier version a bit more often.
Apart from that, just been boring playing HU, working up towards the leaderboard. On $2170 now, so just $250ish to go to break on the leaderboard. I'm hoping to play loads more tonight so maybe have a chance before the end of the week.
Roll is at $1121.16, so probably around the time when I might be taking shots at $23s given my thoughts on the standard last time round, but I'm going to stick with the $11s, unless I'm feeling good and then I might move up.
After Nathan's post that he loves "The Gambler", I was thinking about whether or not I should listen to music when playing poker. I used to and used to love it, but never bother any more. I am trying to tihnk if it affected my mood, and I'm pretty sure it kept me calm, so maybe I might try to play a bit whilst getting my jam on and see if it helps! But if tracks start jumping that's insta-tilt so I better be careful of that!
Laters,
EinsVierSeben_Star
Friday 3 October 2008
"All night long!"
After a break away from poker, sometimes I feel like I can't really be bothered to play. 5 days qualifies as a break away from poker for me, but since I have got back from Camber Sands I have been raring to play! I have played 91 games of heads up and 14 frames of snooker since 3pm...my head/eyes/brain are fkd!
My new cue (for those who don't know as a 21st present I chose to buy a £380 John Parris cue...so expensive but hopefully won't be left on a train like my last one!!) is feeling lovely but I haven't smashed out any breaks with it yet, a 77 the best yet but hopefully can get playing and get that up.
Made $120 from my 91 heads up games, and I think I have been getting a little unlucky, so that's a pleasing start to October. I have made around 270FPPs as well which helps me towards my bonus, which is in sight now!
My roll is nearly at the $1k mark, on $973...I want to get up over that landmark now but my head is throbbing so I can't!
Having the leaderboard on Scope as a target has helped to drive me to play more, which is gdgd. If/hopefully when I've reached it I may move up to $23's again at fruity times like late evenings and weekends and try to get on that leaderboard whilst playing $11s during the days until I'm better rolled for 4-tabling $23s.
I'm on $2009 now on the Scope leaderboard which is $400 away from 20th...so hopefully that's not too far away! My ROI has been 13% over the 1611 games for this leaderboard which considering I'm usually 4-tabling is something I'm chuffed with.
Fuk my life HUSNG's are boring to report, but I have a hand for once...wooohooo...
A sick hand between me and a certain James Keys, who may ship £££s for fun and then still run good vs me!!
Dealt to 147_star [Qh 5h]
skolsuper: raises 20 to 40
147_star: calls 20
*** FLOP *** [5c 4h 8h]
147_star: checks
skolsuper: bets 40
147_star: raises 100 to 140
skolsuper: raises 220 to 360
147_star: raises 1080 to 1440 and is all-in
skolsuper: calls 1080
*** TURN *** [5c 4h 8h] [Qd]
*** RIVER *** [5c 4h 8h Qd] [8s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
147_star: shows [Qh 5h] (two pair, Queens and Eights)
skolsuper: shows [5d 8d] (a full house, Eights full of Fives
Pure sick!!
But I'm 3-1 up vs him so let me revel in my glory whilst it lasts!!
Tomorrow spending the evening with the girlfriend before she goes to Uni on Sunday so can't play until Sunday, where I'm definitely going to play a few tournies I think, and maybe play a few sats into the Mill.
Night...
OFS_star
My new cue (for those who don't know as a 21st present I chose to buy a £380 John Parris cue...so expensive but hopefully won't be left on a train like my last one!!) is feeling lovely but I haven't smashed out any breaks with it yet, a 77 the best yet but hopefully can get playing and get that up.
Made $120 from my 91 heads up games, and I think I have been getting a little unlucky, so that's a pleasing start to October. I have made around 270FPPs as well which helps me towards my bonus, which is in sight now!
My roll is nearly at the $1k mark, on $973...I want to get up over that landmark now but my head is throbbing so I can't!
Having the leaderboard on Scope as a target has helped to drive me to play more, which is gdgd. If/hopefully when I've reached it I may move up to $23's again at fruity times like late evenings and weekends and try to get on that leaderboard whilst playing $11s during the days until I'm better rolled for 4-tabling $23s.
I'm on $2009 now on the Scope leaderboard which is $400 away from 20th...so hopefully that's not too far away! My ROI has been 13% over the 1611 games for this leaderboard which considering I'm usually 4-tabling is something I'm chuffed with.
Fuk my life HUSNG's are boring to report, but I have a hand for once...wooohooo...
A sick hand between me and a certain James Keys, who may ship £££s for fun and then still run good vs me!!
Dealt to 147_star [Qh 5h]
skolsuper: raises 20 to 40
147_star: calls 20
*** FLOP *** [5c 4h 8h]
147_star: checks
skolsuper: bets 40
147_star: raises 100 to 140
skolsuper: raises 220 to 360
147_star: raises 1080 to 1440 and is all-in
skolsuper: calls 1080
*** TURN *** [5c 4h 8h] [Qd]
*** RIVER *** [5c 4h 8h Qd] [8s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
147_star: shows [Qh 5h] (two pair, Queens and Eights)
skolsuper: shows [5d 8d] (a full house, Eights full of Fives
Pure sick!!
But I'm 3-1 up vs him so let me revel in my glory whilst it lasts!!
Tomorrow spending the evening with the girlfriend before she goes to Uni on Sunday so can't play until Sunday, where I'm definitely going to play a few tournies I think, and maybe play a few sats into the Mill.
Night...
OFS_star
September...SO SICK!
September was such a class month, and the money made over the early stages of the summer really helped me to enjoy myself!
Zzzzzzzzz at happy posts all the time, but it's a good time to post as unless I run bad and degree work gets in my way I should be able to pummel out the hours in October.
Since my last post I have had 3 trips away.
I went on a trip up to Liverpool to see Uni mates which was dead boss man, a golf trip with the Durham Poker lot to Bournemouth where I got a hole-in-one (such a sick luckbox!!) and had cleverly inserted a clause in the facebook group saying that if anyone gets a hole-in-one everyone buys them a round instead of the reverse. Love it.
Finally, I had a break away with Louise just down to Camber Sands which was a quality time away and has helped to make us very close before we part for a while at our different Uni's.
So, poker in September was kind of on the back burner, though as a standard course of events, once a week I will be railing Ptevey or Nathan running deep in a MTT...especially Ptevey who consistently runs deep, usually at times most inconvenient for me!!
Despite this, I have managed to work up a roll from the $39 of a month ago, and currently have $882 in my account. I am still a fair way away from the $240 bonus I am working off, but this should be done by the end of the month I hope. Hopefully I'll have blitzed on to the leaderboard by then...a few hundred $$$ to go but I hope to get there soonish.
September stats...
577
$1.42
$9
20%
$820
So bring on some playing in October, before maybe knuckling down November on working towards a good degree.
Some wps for this post..
1) Keys for cashing in the WSOPE again...the hardest tournie in the world negotiated to the cash twice shows how class he is.
2) Ptevey for being so good online and helping my tournie game come along heaps and bounds, without me even having to pay a learners tax (yet). I'm going to play a lot more in October, mainly because of our hand discussions and how much this has helped my game.
3) Nathan for crushing the low limits all the time, even with playing 100% of flops at $5NL. When he wants to move up he can do so with ease.
4) Gambon for sticking at poker, still enduring a sick downswing but being man enough to post about it and expose his game to improve. The road to crushing it is close imo.
5) Tony for shipping the live tournie..have faith son, u got potential, and online will come soon enough.
6) Me for getting a hole-in-one...and then being such an idiot that I lost the ball I got it with and didn't take a picture of one of the hardest par 3s I've ever seen!
Cheers for reading,
redbrownblack_star
Zzzzzzzzz at happy posts all the time, but it's a good time to post as unless I run bad and degree work gets in my way I should be able to pummel out the hours in October.
Since my last post I have had 3 trips away.
I went on a trip up to Liverpool to see Uni mates which was dead boss man, a golf trip with the Durham Poker lot to Bournemouth where I got a hole-in-one (such a sick luckbox!!) and had cleverly inserted a clause in the facebook group saying that if anyone gets a hole-in-one everyone buys them a round instead of the reverse. Love it.
Finally, I had a break away with Louise just down to Camber Sands which was a quality time away and has helped to make us very close before we part for a while at our different Uni's.
So, poker in September was kind of on the back burner, though as a standard course of events, once a week I will be railing Ptevey or Nathan running deep in a MTT...especially Ptevey who consistently runs deep, usually at times most inconvenient for me!!
Despite this, I have managed to work up a roll from the $39 of a month ago, and currently have $882 in my account. I am still a fair way away from the $240 bonus I am working off, but this should be done by the end of the month I hope. Hopefully I'll have blitzed on to the leaderboard by then...a few hundred $$$ to go but I hope to get there soonish.
September stats...
577
$1.42
$9
20%
$820
So bring on some playing in October, before maybe knuckling down November on working towards a good degree.
Some wps for this post..
1) Keys for cashing in the WSOPE again...the hardest tournie in the world negotiated to the cash twice shows how class he is.
2) Ptevey for being so good online and helping my tournie game come along heaps and bounds, without me even having to pay a learners tax (yet). I'm going to play a lot more in October, mainly because of our hand discussions and how much this has helped my game.
3) Nathan for crushing the low limits all the time, even with playing 100% of flops at $5NL. When he wants to move up he can do so with ease.
4) Gambon for sticking at poker, still enduring a sick downswing but being man enough to post about it and expose his game to improve. The road to crushing it is close imo.
5) Tony for shipping the live tournie..have faith son, u got potential, and online will come soon enough.
6) Me for getting a hole-in-one...and then being such an idiot that I lost the ball I got it with and didn't take a picture of one of the hardest par 3s I've ever seen!
Cheers for reading,
redbrownblack_star
Thursday 11 September 2008
I'm back...
Hello, the break was good!
I managed to sort things out I never would have had time to do before. Not so much dissertation work, but I arranged a golf trip, sorted out a voyage up to Liverpool to see Uni mates and booked a short break away for me and the lady. Obviously the money from the withdrawal helped a lot there, and I don't know, the break has really re-vitalised me!
August, despite being my breaking point in terms of poker, was actually break-even, so wasn't anything to be upset about. August 31st, as I had sort of planned in my head, became the date I returned to the grind of poker. However, I still didn't want to play heads up, I just fancied playing the Turbo Takedown, the Sunday 200k and perhaps a couple more tournaments. However, I decided to play a few $2 heads up games, but soon decided the $6 games would be more fun.
Underolled obviously, I managed to work up to around $90, before playing way late into the night, and nearly losing it all and extending my break, only to finish the night on $49 at 6am. The next day I scudded this up to $150, and two days ago I was on $290ish. This sharp rise was all from heads up and from around 4 fairly long sessions, proving to myself I can still crush the heads up games.
6 TABLING heads up became my way of enjoying myself, with 2 $11 games and 4 $6 games to keep me sharp. This worked fairly well, but I'm now favouring 4-tabling $11 games.
Then, a few of us from Durham decided to grind out some $4.40 180-man SNGs, something that really pleased me as I wanted to commit some time tapping in to this goldmine. We were supposed to play every one in a 3 hour stretch, but my head was hurting so I only managed 11. Early on I ran like AIDS, with my AK losing to a check shove from A7 on a K56 board, AA losing to a K3 flush draw despite my 6X pre raise, and other wonderful examples of dirty outdraws. Despite this, in a few I managed to accumulate a stack early on, one in particular I reached 6000chips from 1500 by the 15/30 stage. However, I managed to bust this before the start of the first break by losing a couple of coolers and struggling against some players limp calling hands like 10s, which plays well against me shoving AK on a low flop!
I had a couple of aggravating finishes short of the cash, with a 22nd and a 24th, and was starting to think it wasn't my night. Then on one table I had quietly reached the final table without having any spectacular hands, whilst on the other, after the bubble had burst I built up an enormous chip lead.
This chip lead went after losing a huge chunk with AJ vs A10, on a AQJKK board (he bet so small on the turn and river which at least saved me a bit) and then failing to hit with AQ vs 55 against an aggro idiot. A disappointing 7th considering where I had been, but wasn't really my fault.
Meanwhile, on the other one, the final table arrived, and here I picked up hands. In a 5way pot despite a 3BB raise, my 88 flopped trips on a KQ8 board 2 clubs, and I held vs AJcc and J10...here I had a monster stack and I think I knocked everyone out on the FT, to pick up a very nice win, and bringing my roll over $500 after just 10days (5playing days) since my $39 deposit.
I have played just 8 heads up games since, winning all in my 1st set of 4, and then getting outdrawn massively to only win 1 of my next 4.
However, can't complain, as it seems I have fallen on the good side of variance again in the $4.40s.
In 51 games, I have had 3 1sts, 2 2nds, a 3rd and now a 7th, along with a couple of other cashes, and my stats for these illustrate how profitable these tournies are.
51
$16.51
$4
374%
$842
So, now I have a roll of $519.80, hopefully enough money in bank account to last me until the end of the academic year, and the spark back to work back up to the $23s and beyond.
My September stats so far are...
281
$1.64
$7
29%
$461
This is skewed due to the 180man win, but pleasingly my HU stats are...
269
$1.02
$7
14%
$275
...which gives me confidence that I can keep winning at a decent rate playing heads up. Also, most of this has been when 4 or 6 tabling, which increases the hourly rate quite nicely. I am still miles away from my bonus on Stars, but hopefully getting Silver VIP will help me accumulate FPPs faster and I should have that before long.
I have one aim for next few weeks...get on the leaderboard on Sharkscope for HU $6-$15 Total Profit 2008. Bottom position is currently at $2k, and so far my HU stats for this buy-in for 2008 are...
1,219
$1.27
$8
14%
$1,550
...so I haven't got too far to go, and I can hopefully put in a few hundred games and possibly more in September so I hope to see a nice star by my name some time soon on Sharkscope.
Sorry for the long update, I'll post again if anything interesting happens, and with a 12 hour MTT session a few of us are planning possibly happening soon, the post could be before too long.
Laters all,
RapsFan,
x
I managed to sort things out I never would have had time to do before. Not so much dissertation work, but I arranged a golf trip, sorted out a voyage up to Liverpool to see Uni mates and booked a short break away for me and the lady. Obviously the money from the withdrawal helped a lot there, and I don't know, the break has really re-vitalised me!
August, despite being my breaking point in terms of poker, was actually break-even, so wasn't anything to be upset about. August 31st, as I had sort of planned in my head, became the date I returned to the grind of poker. However, I still didn't want to play heads up, I just fancied playing the Turbo Takedown, the Sunday 200k and perhaps a couple more tournaments. However, I decided to play a few $2 heads up games, but soon decided the $6 games would be more fun.
Underolled obviously, I managed to work up to around $90, before playing way late into the night, and nearly losing it all and extending my break, only to finish the night on $49 at 6am. The next day I scudded this up to $150, and two days ago I was on $290ish. This sharp rise was all from heads up and from around 4 fairly long sessions, proving to myself I can still crush the heads up games.
6 TABLING heads up became my way of enjoying myself, with 2 $11 games and 4 $6 games to keep me sharp. This worked fairly well, but I'm now favouring 4-tabling $11 games.
Then, a few of us from Durham decided to grind out some $4.40 180-man SNGs, something that really pleased me as I wanted to commit some time tapping in to this goldmine. We were supposed to play every one in a 3 hour stretch, but my head was hurting so I only managed 11. Early on I ran like AIDS, with my AK losing to a check shove from A7 on a K56 board, AA losing to a K3 flush draw despite my 6X pre raise, and other wonderful examples of dirty outdraws. Despite this, in a few I managed to accumulate a stack early on, one in particular I reached 6000chips from 1500 by the 15/30 stage. However, I managed to bust this before the start of the first break by losing a couple of coolers and struggling against some players limp calling hands like 10s, which plays well against me shoving AK on a low flop!
I had a couple of aggravating finishes short of the cash, with a 22nd and a 24th, and was starting to think it wasn't my night. Then on one table I had quietly reached the final table without having any spectacular hands, whilst on the other, after the bubble had burst I built up an enormous chip lead.
This chip lead went after losing a huge chunk with AJ vs A10, on a AQJKK board (he bet so small on the turn and river which at least saved me a bit) and then failing to hit with AQ vs 55 against an aggro idiot. A disappointing 7th considering where I had been, but wasn't really my fault.
Meanwhile, on the other one, the final table arrived, and here I picked up hands. In a 5way pot despite a 3BB raise, my 88 flopped trips on a KQ8 board 2 clubs, and I held vs AJcc and J10...here I had a monster stack and I think I knocked everyone out on the FT, to pick up a very nice win, and bringing my roll over $500 after just 10days (5playing days) since my $39 deposit.
I have played just 8 heads up games since, winning all in my 1st set of 4, and then getting outdrawn massively to only win 1 of my next 4.
However, can't complain, as it seems I have fallen on the good side of variance again in the $4.40s.
In 51 games, I have had 3 1sts, 2 2nds, a 3rd and now a 7th, along with a couple of other cashes, and my stats for these illustrate how profitable these tournies are.
51
$16.51
$4
374%
$842
So, now I have a roll of $519.80, hopefully enough money in bank account to last me until the end of the academic year, and the spark back to work back up to the $23s and beyond.
My September stats so far are...
281
$1.64
$7
29%
$461
This is skewed due to the 180man win, but pleasingly my HU stats are...
269
$1.02
$7
14%
$275
...which gives me confidence that I can keep winning at a decent rate playing heads up. Also, most of this has been when 4 or 6 tabling, which increases the hourly rate quite nicely. I am still miles away from my bonus on Stars, but hopefully getting Silver VIP will help me accumulate FPPs faster and I should have that before long.
I have one aim for next few weeks...get on the leaderboard on Sharkscope for HU $6-$15 Total Profit 2008. Bottom position is currently at $2k, and so far my HU stats for this buy-in for 2008 are...
1,219
$1.27
$8
14%
$1,550
...so I haven't got too far to go, and I can hopefully put in a few hundred games and possibly more in September so I hope to see a nice star by my name some time soon on Sharkscope.
Sorry for the long update, I'll post again if anything interesting happens, and with a 12 hour MTT session a few of us are planning possibly happening soon, the post could be before too long.
Laters all,
RapsFan,
x
Saturday 16 August 2008
Well that's it!!
Hi, in my opinion, poker is an addiction. An addiction which is no problem at all when everything is going well, and is actually a pleasant and profitable form of occupation. For the last couple of months, I have subscribed to this addiction and enjoyed riding the highs and attempted to avoid the lows.
However, for me, this addiction provides too many unpleasant side effects and as such I need a long break. With my personality, with money in my account, I can't have this break, as I am too tempted to keep playing. I know I am good enough to win a higher percentage of the time than I lose, but at the minute this isn't enough. If I lose, I find it hard to go to bed...now that's not right. I am tired, but I know there is money out there that I have lost and should win back, I stay up and waste the next day...that's when poker turns from a skill game to a gamble. I always say to people when defending poker that it isn't greatly different from the stocks and shares, and involves calculated risks and for the top % of people profits will be made. Yet if a stockbroker always felt compelled to stay after work hours, this would also be counter-productive, and would involve many stretches where the worker is working less than operatively.
Not sure where the analogy is going, but basically I need to take my money out to stop me from playing when I don't want to. The huge selection of bad beats (AS IF I'M THE ONLY ONE ANYWAY!) hasn't really upset me too much...it upsets me more that I stay up all night trying to get back to where I was, as if the game of poker owes me something. Staying up til 5AM is inexcusable, bad for me, and something I want to avoid.
I guess this post and my actions in withdrawing have proven everyone right...grinding poker all summer isn't a realistic thing to do...and you will get sick of downswings or need money or whatever and have to stop. For me, I can't not play if I have money in my account, and , It's not the financial nature of a downswing which bothers me, but the impact this has on my day/night/etc. I have run so so bad over the last few days, but tonight I played bad, for the first time in such a long time. This was the product of overplaying and losing the element of fun from poker. Turning it into a grind has meant this project has to end, but the profits made will be re-invested when I feel ready.
I am going to spend the next couple of weeks seeing friends in the evenings more, waking up earlier in the days and working on my dissertation. Law really interests me when I get into it, so that's what I'm going to do.
The $2310 I've taken off from Pokerstars tonight, on top of the $900 I've already withdrawn and another $300 or so from live/Fulltilt means I have made around £1650 profit in around two and a half months, an amount that has kept me tied over for the summer, and when I get back to poker I am happy to put a lot of this back in to build on the progress I've made this summer.
However, for now I need to have a long break, and have to do what I have to to get back in control of my life, as poker has a canny knack of dominating your lifestyle!!
Apologies to those who wanted me to crush the top games...I will do, just on my terms and not poker's terms!!
Much love to all,
Paul!
Ps...I'm feeling good about this, actually looking forward to sacking it off for a long while!
However, for me, this addiction provides too many unpleasant side effects and as such I need a long break. With my personality, with money in my account, I can't have this break, as I am too tempted to keep playing. I know I am good enough to win a higher percentage of the time than I lose, but at the minute this isn't enough. If I lose, I find it hard to go to bed...now that's not right. I am tired, but I know there is money out there that I have lost and should win back, I stay up and waste the next day...that's when poker turns from a skill game to a gamble. I always say to people when defending poker that it isn't greatly different from the stocks and shares, and involves calculated risks and for the top % of people profits will be made. Yet if a stockbroker always felt compelled to stay after work hours, this would also be counter-productive, and would involve many stretches where the worker is working less than operatively.
Not sure where the analogy is going, but basically I need to take my money out to stop me from playing when I don't want to. The huge selection of bad beats (AS IF I'M THE ONLY ONE ANYWAY!) hasn't really upset me too much...it upsets me more that I stay up all night trying to get back to where I was, as if the game of poker owes me something. Staying up til 5AM is inexcusable, bad for me, and something I want to avoid.
I guess this post and my actions in withdrawing have proven everyone right...grinding poker all summer isn't a realistic thing to do...and you will get sick of downswings or need money or whatever and have to stop. For me, I can't not play if I have money in my account, and , It's not the financial nature of a downswing which bothers me, but the impact this has on my day/night/etc. I have run so so bad over the last few days, but tonight I played bad, for the first time in such a long time. This was the product of overplaying and losing the element of fun from poker. Turning it into a grind has meant this project has to end, but the profits made will be re-invested when I feel ready.
I am going to spend the next couple of weeks seeing friends in the evenings more, waking up earlier in the days and working on my dissertation. Law really interests me when I get into it, so that's what I'm going to do.
The $2310 I've taken off from Pokerstars tonight, on top of the $900 I've already withdrawn and another $300 or so from live/Fulltilt means I have made around £1650 profit in around two and a half months, an amount that has kept me tied over for the summer, and when I get back to poker I am happy to put a lot of this back in to build on the progress I've made this summer.
However, for now I need to have a long break, and have to do what I have to to get back in control of my life, as poker has a canny knack of dominating your lifestyle!!
Apologies to those who wanted me to crush the top games...I will do, just on my terms and not poker's terms!!
Much love to all,
Paul!
Ps...I'm feeling good about this, actually looking forward to sacking it off for a long while!
Saturday 9 August 2008
18/3977 in the 20k freeroll - for $60 ffs!!
Hi, 2 posts in one day...woop!
Yeah, title says it all, scrapped it out in the 20k freeroll to get to the last two tables. How did I go out I here u ask...well I post some hands up and you can see...
Table had started fairly tight...bad fold here?
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022402
After getting sucked out playing heads up on my other table, nearly got tilted!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022408
Third time he's raised from the SB...enough is enough!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022420
Nice double up from the table fish.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022431
Annoying split but not a travesty!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022438
Limp me up son!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022447
Erm how did I get called?
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022453
Yuk I'm rank!!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022465
Finish him off after the last manky hand!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022482
A hold against a light raise from the cut-off
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022491
A nice BB hand
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022498
Another nice hand limped to my BB
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022510
A stubborn call got very lucky!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022527
AND THE GASH WAY I WENT OUT!!!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022545
Overall, it was a good tournament for me, with an awful structure where the average stack always had around 10BB's, but I felt comfortable and was so annoyed to lose in the way I did. Stupid payout structure again means I get 2900 or so less than 1st place, but $60 isn't too shabby. 100FPPs is a fair price to pay anyway!!
Night off now and a football friendly tomorrow, before perhaps a day of tournaments and I might try to sat in to the Sunday Mill.
147_i've had bigger breaks in my sleep
Yeah, title says it all, scrapped it out in the 20k freeroll to get to the last two tables. How did I go out I here u ask...well I post some hands up and you can see...
Table had started fairly tight...bad fold here?
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022402
After getting sucked out playing heads up on my other table, nearly got tilted!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022408
Third time he's raised from the SB...enough is enough!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022420
Nice double up from the table fish.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022431
Annoying split but not a travesty!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022438
Limp me up son!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022447
Erm how did I get called?
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022453
Yuk I'm rank!!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022465
Finish him off after the last manky hand!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022482
A hold against a light raise from the cut-off
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022491
A nice BB hand
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022498
Another nice hand limped to my BB
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022510
A stubborn call got very lucky!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022527
AND THE GASH WAY I WENT OUT!!!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3022545
Overall, it was a good tournament for me, with an awful structure where the average stack always had around 10BB's, but I felt comfortable and was so annoyed to lose in the way I did. Stupid payout structure again means I get 2900 or so less than 1st place, but $60 isn't too shabby. 100FPPs is a fair price to pay anyway!!
Night off now and a football friendly tomorrow, before perhaps a day of tournaments and I might try to sat in to the Sunday Mill.
147_i've had bigger breaks in my sleep
I'm back...and ready to show some hands!
I have been back a few days, and finally I think my lag and laziness to play poker has subsided. After waking up today (around 1pm as standard!) I must have had a heads up game loaded within a minute. I had some interesting and nice hands (and one shocker, so I will post them here!)
Hmm, slow play anyone?
Seat 1:
dl184 (1520 in chips)
Seat 2: 147_star (1480 in chips)
147_star: posts small blind 10dl184: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to 147_star [9c 6c]
147_star: raises 40 to 60dl184: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [7c Tc 8c]
dl184: checks
147_star: checks
*** TURN *** [7c Tc 8c] [8h]
dl184: checks
147_star: bets 80
dl184: folds
I run good, no I don't, yes I do...
Seat 1: dl184 (2000 in chips)
Seat 2: 147_star (1000 in chips)
147_star: posts small blind 25 dl184: posts big blind 50
HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to 147_star [Td Ah]147_star: raises 100 to 150
dl184: raises 1850 to 2000 and is all-in
147_star: calls 850 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (1000) returned to dl184
*** FLOP *** [8d 9h Ac]
*** TURN *** [8d 9h Ac] [Jh]
*** RIVER *** [8d 9h Ac Jh] [Qs]
*** SHOW DOWN ***dl184: shows [Js Jc] (three of a kind, Jacks)
147_star: shows [Td Ah] (a straight, Eight to Queen)
A hand I'm proud of...
Seat 1: Mrfuzztop (1260 in chips) Seat 2: 147_star (1740 in chips)
Mrfuzztop: posts small blind 50 147_star: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to 147_star [7c 4h]
Mrfuzztop: calls 50
147_star: raises 233 to 333
Mrfuzztop: calls 233
*** FLOP *** [As 8h Jd]
147_star: checks
Mrfuzztop: bets 400
147_star: raises 527 to 927
Mrfuzztop: folds
Uncalled bet (527) returned to 147_star
147_star collected 1466 from pot
147_star: doesn't show hand
A hand I'm ashamed of... (was vs a superfish who I trying to make a play against :-(
Dealt to 147_star [6s 5s]
wolle666: raises 100 to 200
147_star: calls 100
*** FLOP *** [4c 2s Jh]
147_star: bets 100
wolle666: raises 100 to 200
147_star: calls 100
*** TURN *** [4c 2s Jh] [8s]
147_star: checks
wolle666: bets 925 and is all-in
147_star: calls 925
*** RIVER *** [4c 2s Jh 8s] [Td]*** SHOW DOWN ***
147_star: shows [6s 5s] (high card Jack)
wolle666: shows [4h Ah] (a pair of Fours)wolle666 collected 2650 from pot
I also relaxed last night playing a bit of 5c/10c, making a few $$$ profit, hitting some flops and being stacked by a cooler with my top two vs bottom set on the flop.
I had a hand vs Keys where I flopped a set vs his overpair on the flop but couldn't get him to get it in, but another set was paid off vs Isaac when my 66 tripped up vs his JJ. Another sick hand was my 107 suited flopping a boat on a board 0f 7710, and I eventually got ptevey to call his stack on a board of 7 7 10 2 x...no surprise really, as he had 72 for a sick cooler!! Was a good laugh, maybe not the most profitable way to play but got to keep poker enjoyable.
Since I have been back I have been running well heads up, mainly one tabling but had 3 sessions of 3 tabling
where I have been 3/3 each time.
My heads up stats since my return are...
42
$6.63
$21
32%
$279
so are pretty sick and not sustainable, but I hope it could set me up for a 20% ROI month...we shall see.
A short post this one, take care all,
Paulinho,x
Hmm, slow play anyone?
Seat 1:
dl184 (1520 in chips)
Seat 2: 147_star (1480 in chips)
147_star: posts small blind 10dl184: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to 147_star [9c 6c]
147_star: raises 40 to 60dl184: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [7c Tc 8c]
dl184: checks
147_star: checks
*** TURN *** [7c Tc 8c] [8h]
dl184: checks
147_star: bets 80
dl184: folds
I run good, no I don't, yes I do...
Seat 1: dl184 (2000 in chips)
Seat 2: 147_star (1000 in chips)
147_star: posts small blind 25 dl184: posts big blind 50
HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to 147_star [Td Ah]147_star: raises 100 to 150
dl184: raises 1850 to 2000 and is all-in
147_star: calls 850 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (1000) returned to dl184
*** FLOP *** [8d 9h Ac]
*** TURN *** [8d 9h Ac] [Jh]
*** RIVER *** [8d 9h Ac Jh] [Qs]
*** SHOW DOWN ***dl184: shows [Js Jc] (three of a kind, Jacks)
147_star: shows [Td Ah] (a straight, Eight to Queen)
A hand I'm proud of...
Seat 1: Mrfuzztop (1260 in chips) Seat 2: 147_star (1740 in chips)
Mrfuzztop: posts small blind 50 147_star: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to 147_star [7c 4h]
Mrfuzztop: calls 50
147_star: raises 233 to 333
Mrfuzztop: calls 233
*** FLOP *** [As 8h Jd]
147_star: checks
Mrfuzztop: bets 400
147_star: raises 527 to 927
Mrfuzztop: folds
Uncalled bet (527) returned to 147_star
147_star collected 1466 from pot
147_star: doesn't show hand
A hand I'm ashamed of... (was vs a superfish who I trying to make a play against :-(
Dealt to 147_star [6s 5s]
wolle666: raises 100 to 200
147_star: calls 100
*** FLOP *** [4c 2s Jh]
147_star: bets 100
wolle666: raises 100 to 200
147_star: calls 100
*** TURN *** [4c 2s Jh] [8s]
147_star: checks
wolle666: bets 925 and is all-in
147_star: calls 925
*** RIVER *** [4c 2s Jh 8s] [Td]*** SHOW DOWN ***
147_star: shows [6s 5s] (high card Jack)
wolle666: shows [4h Ah] (a pair of Fours)wolle666 collected 2650 from pot
I also relaxed last night playing a bit of 5c/10c, making a few $$$ profit, hitting some flops and being stacked by a cooler with my top two vs bottom set on the flop.
I had a hand vs Keys where I flopped a set vs his overpair on the flop but couldn't get him to get it in, but another set was paid off vs Isaac when my 66 tripped up vs his JJ. Another sick hand was my 107 suited flopping a boat on a board 0f 7710, and I eventually got ptevey to call his stack on a board of 7 7 10 2 x...no surprise really, as he had 72 for a sick cooler!! Was a good laugh, maybe not the most profitable way to play but got to keep poker enjoyable.
Since I have been back I have been running well heads up, mainly one tabling but had 3 sessions of 3 tabling
where I have been 3/3 each time.
My heads up stats since my return are...
42
$6.63
$21
32%
$279
so are pretty sick and not sustainable, but I hope it could set me up for a 20% ROI month...we shall see.
A short post this one, take care all,
Paulinho,x
Wednesday 6 August 2008
Golf.
I love golf. It's superb, challenging and so rewarding. One of the only sports where you go home thinking about the positives, remembering the great shots and not really beating yourself up over the 4-putt. You can always think of shots you could take off your round, and rather than thinking "damn I should be better" you think "I can and will get better."
On holiday, I missed golf so much more than poker, and sports I'm probably more talented at like tennis, football and snooker just can't compare with the enjoyment golf brings. It's nearly been a year since I first bought myself a set of clubs and started playing and just before I went away I hit a personal best of 88. I think I have played around 20 rounds so I'm happy with my progress, and with hopefully ten more rounds to squeeze in before returning to uni I'm hoping to make an improvement on that, though I know it will be tough. I've been warned about hitting the wall, and I can definitely see the bridge in class between the ok players and the "good" players. I may consider getting lessons once I'm earning but until then I'm going to develop my own dodgy style which can hopefully work, a bit similar to my poker!
On a poker front, my last couple of posts were pretty much my monthly update, but just to provide some stats for July, in heads up games my stats were...
619
$1.84
$18
10%
$1,138
And overall...
675
$1.83
$17
13%
$1,232
It was an important month for me because I moved up, stayed there, kept my roll on when I was running bad and found a game which Gamble would describe as my "bread and butter". I took off $400 for spending money on my holiday, but still have a roll online of $2805 so I hope to do well for a few weeks and reach $4600, thus making my $5k target. $1795 to go, with a month in which I can put in a lot of hours, is a tough task but hopefully achieveable.
Whilst on holiday, the $$$ in my account was turning more and more in to £££ in my head, but I played a few today and didn't start too badly which confirmed to me I should keep my money on there. I said to myself, unless the dollar hits a Zimbabwean hyperinflation crisis I have to keep it on there. The fact that I earnt 70cents more per game in July whilst riding out a couple of downswings and moving up in levels has reinforced the fact that I should keep moving up as and when my bankroll permits and only withdraw small amounts if entirely necessary (or to fund golf!!)
August was my most profitable month by far last year earning around $2k due to sng, mtt and satellite wins and I hope this year I can get close to that. I'm going to look out for the sats to the WCOOP and play a few of them as sngs and I have decided if I can sat into the WCOOP heads up event I will play it. So basically, I'm going to try to pummel out the hours this month and try to make some $$$. Standard really.
Golf, tennis, squash and pre-season football should burn off the Devon ice-creams and maybe I can get down from the ELEVEN STONES the scales indicated I weighed yesterday. They say muscle weighs more than fat(?!?) but still it can't be great when I fall in to the overweight category according to my BMI. Bowling tonight for my sisters birthday which should be good and then hopefully a few evenings this month we can have some DUPS 180man tournies and maybe some SNG's for a laugh. And perhaps the sun will shine a little!!
Much love,
Glad to be back,
Paulo,xx
On holiday, I missed golf so much more than poker, and sports I'm probably more talented at like tennis, football and snooker just can't compare with the enjoyment golf brings. It's nearly been a year since I first bought myself a set of clubs and started playing and just before I went away I hit a personal best of 88. I think I have played around 20 rounds so I'm happy with my progress, and with hopefully ten more rounds to squeeze in before returning to uni I'm hoping to make an improvement on that, though I know it will be tough. I've been warned about hitting the wall, and I can definitely see the bridge in class between the ok players and the "good" players. I may consider getting lessons once I'm earning but until then I'm going to develop my own dodgy style which can hopefully work, a bit similar to my poker!
On a poker front, my last couple of posts were pretty much my monthly update, but just to provide some stats for July, in heads up games my stats were...
619
$1.84
$18
10%
$1,138
And overall...
675
$1.83
$17
13%
$1,232
It was an important month for me because I moved up, stayed there, kept my roll on when I was running bad and found a game which Gamble would describe as my "bread and butter". I took off $400 for spending money on my holiday, but still have a roll online of $2805 so I hope to do well for a few weeks and reach $4600, thus making my $5k target. $1795 to go, with a month in which I can put in a lot of hours, is a tough task but hopefully achieveable.
Whilst on holiday, the $$$ in my account was turning more and more in to £££ in my head, but I played a few today and didn't start too badly which confirmed to me I should keep my money on there. I said to myself, unless the dollar hits a Zimbabwean hyperinflation crisis I have to keep it on there. The fact that I earnt 70cents more per game in July whilst riding out a couple of downswings and moving up in levels has reinforced the fact that I should keep moving up as and when my bankroll permits and only withdraw small amounts if entirely necessary (or to fund golf!!)
August was my most profitable month by far last year earning around $2k due to sng, mtt and satellite wins and I hope this year I can get close to that. I'm going to look out for the sats to the WCOOP and play a few of them as sngs and I have decided if I can sat into the WCOOP heads up event I will play it. So basically, I'm going to try to pummel out the hours this month and try to make some $$$. Standard really.
Golf, tennis, squash and pre-season football should burn off the Devon ice-creams and maybe I can get down from the ELEVEN STONES the scales indicated I weighed yesterday. They say muscle weighs more than fat(?!?) but still it can't be great when I fall in to the overweight category according to my BMI. Bowling tonight for my sisters birthday which should be good and then hopefully a few evenings this month we can have some DUPS 180man tournies and maybe some SNG's for a laugh. And perhaps the sun will shine a little!!
Much love,
Glad to be back,
Paulo,xx
Wednesday 23 July 2008
Need to find time to grind 180men! (Warning: explicit gay content not included!)
Hi, due to being busy in the days with golf, tennis and squash, I haven't played much in the evenings because I don't want to play too much when tired! So a short post wooooooohooooooo!
In around the sixth time a few Durham lads played a $4.40 180-man together, I finally managed to cash, and luckily it was a good one for 2nd, scoring a tidy $145. With around 50 left, I made a huge play to near double up, and if my memory serves me correctly should be able to post most of the hands.
I had a stack of around 5.7k ish (won a huge pot with KK vs AJ and something else fairly recently), and had KJ in the big blind. Two limps, the SB completes and I check.
Flop JQ3...SB checks and I put a feeler bet of 400 out here. Fold, call and SB folds.
Turn 7... I fire out 1k, not putting my opponent on a Q and he flats.
River 5...I feel I'm good so check, trying to induce a bluff and also to control the pot if I am beat.
Here, he fires out 3k, surprising me quite a bit. I dwell for around 5 seconds (quite a long dwell for me!) and I call...he has K10 for a missed straight draw and I near double up. This relieved some of the pressure a prominent Mr_Rahl was putting on me, sitting next to me 2nd in chips with a pretty huge stack.
A few hands later I had 77 on the button and raised standard (obv means 599 blinds 100/200)
Flop A97 (weee nice, two spades though) Checked by BB and I raise 999 or something. Flat call.
Turn 10 spade...not too nice...I think about checking to be fruity, but bet 2399 instead. Flat call.
River 9...happy days...I have around 5k, pot around 8-9k...
Here I have 3300 written in the raise column and just about to raise...and I think if he calls that he calls a shove. So I shove. He folds, don't know what he had, probably ace x. Maybe a raise would have been better.
At this point i was in around 4th, Isaac still in 2nd, with 1st place to my left. He was a huge fish and I quite a few pots vs him value betting top pair and calling down with 2nd pair. In no time at all, I was up on 25k, Isaac had chipped up to about the same, and we were in 1st and 2nd I think! :-) I was dreaming of heads up vs him, but as the bubble burst, we went our separate ways, and his luck run out.
He finished in around 12th for a cash but a disappointing end to a superbly played tournament. A bad run of luck and cards at the worst time hurt his chances but he's proving his $515 score was no fluke! (maybe a little bit of a fluke!! :P)
My table had another huge stack and a guy I recognised from a leaderboard somewhere. I sharkscoped xmachine888 and found stats of...
17,962
$1.59
$7
34%
$28,599
Huge 180man grinder with sick results. He doubled up to get a stack near to 20k, but by this time I had worked up to 44k with aggro play and people folding to most of my c-bets.
Here, 6-handed 12 left in the tournie, I took a huge hit from the guy in 2nd. I had k10 on the BB...(blinds 300/600 some ante)
Pre- Limp, Sb folds, I check
Flop...1082 I bet 1.5k...flat call
Turn 5 (2 diamonds now)...I want to control the pot and learn more where I am in the hands so I check. he bets 3k, I'm concerned so I just flat.
River...3rd diamond 7 i think.
I put him on a small pair pre which is why I was cautious because I thought he may have trips...and he bet a large bet of 8k in to the pot. Here I knew he was strong, but couldn't fold, and sure enough he had me beat. He had 910 though, both diamonds, so I was quite badly outdrawn. Still, I should have folded the river and would never have known.
This took me back down to around 30k, and I won a few and lost a few from here, and started getting resistnace from people who were re-popping and I had dwindled down to 20k. I got a double up here from the shark guy who pushed 88 and my AK hit trips. So the final table, and I had 27k. Chip lead had around 50k, and the blinds were still small like 600/1200, crazy for a final table but a testament to the skill-favoured structure of the tournie.
Here, I went on a sick heater. In the space of about 4 knock-outs, I think all by me, I had shoved AA, AK and another couple of hands to knock people out. 5 handed I was tied 2nd place roughly, but the 5th player went and I managed to get all the chips from the guy out in 4th. With an aggro image, I re-shoved AQ to a min raise and was insta-called by K10. I hit trips on the turn leaving him dead and had a huge stack. I looked to dominate from here but faced tough resistance from a player called cellmax. We were passing chips between us as 3rd guy whittled down, but then I lost a huge pot to the guy in 3rd.
I had j7 suited and limped. Bad play #1
Flop, 568...i check called a pot raise. Bad play #2
Turn, j (2 clubs out now)...I led out 2/3 pot, trying to turn a bad play in to a good one and thinking he was weak. He called.
River, 9...(weee straight card...3rd club though...and sure enough he had k4 clubs when it went to showdown. I could have avoided that by simply check-raising or leading the flop...boooo!
So I'm back into 2nd and we are more evens then before...then a stupidly sick hand!!!!!!!!!!
I have AQsuited on the SB, and cellmax on the button raises (as per...up to 6k blinds 1000/2000)
I have 60k behind but still using my aggro image I shove...couldn't flat and didn't want to raise and be 4-bet...he insta-called with AQ clubs. I had spades...little did he know spades are the nuts!!
The flop was a dream, 2 spades and one club...I said to myself, no club on the turn! The turn in fact completed my flush (weeeeee) and gave me a royal flush draw! A little unnecessarily and showing off to the railbirds, I completed the royal flush and re-established my lead at the top!!!
3 handed I had a top pair which I played fairly well against a guy who was chasing a flush in a quite obvious way so I could easily call his river shove with a pair of Aces.
So when it got to heads up, apparently my speciality, I had a 3.5 to 1 chip lead.
Then there was a really annoying hand...
I managed to get him to put it all with A2 on a board of A10K4, only for the river to counterfeit my hand with a 10. Annoying but I maintain my lead.
Then I lost a bit because he was aggro and taking the plays away from me. At a bit less than 3 to 1 lead I gave him the double up I didn't want to give him, with my pushing after a flop raise with 910 on a 89J board 3 hearts and I have the 10 of hearts only to be instacalled by Q7 hearts, leaving me drawing dead to a house.
Sick...then I lost quite a big pot after limping a hand, representing a big hand, I barreled three streets with air and was painfully called (after much dwelling) on the river by his top pair with a decent kicker, showing my play did appear strong. Anyway, I was slightly down here but then managed to check-shove with 2nd pair after quite a bit of action to get it nearly back to evens. Then I tried to be too tricky. he raised button as per, and I flatted AA. The flop was Q72, not too bad for my hand. I checked and he raised his standard half pot. I flatted, knowing the turn bet would appear as well. But the turn was another Q and he bet a bit less than his usual turn bet. I had enough behind to fold but that wasn't really an option, and even though it felt bad I shoved. he flipped his Q5 and the game was over, I was the loser. Thinking back on it, I don;t beat myself up too much if I lose a $36 heads up after having a big lead, and this is pretty similar. The cards didn't come heads up and when I reduced him to 14% to split, he hit!!
All in all I was happy with the game, and if I hadn't have lost with KK vs J9 on the other $4.40 I played and busted in 39th, I felt like it could have been double success. So I definitely like them tournies and recommend them massively.
My stats for them are quite sick, not sustainable because luckily my cashes have been high but still xmachine's stats show massive amounts can be made at them games.
38
$17.26
$4
392%
$656
Anyway, haven't played much heads up, won around $90ish I think since last post playing heads up, with my overall profit now about $4k for pokerstars sng's!
Also, I deposited another $600, to take advantage of the 40% deposit bonus on stars, so in a couple of months time I should get around $240 which will be nice :-)
I'm going to withdraw the $600 when I get a chance and probably $400 more, so will take $1k or which will be nice :-)
My roll (assuming the $600 has been taken off) stands at $3091, so I'm over the $3k mark, yay! :-D
Adding the quick $100 I made on fulltilt and the $150ish playin live, my spoils since my $200 mission at the end of May shows around $3150 profit, or £1580ish, which is a nice feeling. At the minute though, I'm too tired to play too much so looking forward to coming back from holiday August 5th nice and refreshed and ready to make some $$$ and complete my bonus.
So unless anything exciting happens before then I'll post in a few weeks :-)
Gl all
147_574R
In around the sixth time a few Durham lads played a $4.40 180-man together, I finally managed to cash, and luckily it was a good one for 2nd, scoring a tidy $145. With around 50 left, I made a huge play to near double up, and if my memory serves me correctly should be able to post most of the hands.
I had a stack of around 5.7k ish (won a huge pot with KK vs AJ and something else fairly recently), and had KJ in the big blind. Two limps, the SB completes and I check.
Flop JQ3...SB checks and I put a feeler bet of 400 out here. Fold, call and SB folds.
Turn 7... I fire out 1k, not putting my opponent on a Q and he flats.
River 5...I feel I'm good so check, trying to induce a bluff and also to control the pot if I am beat.
Here, he fires out 3k, surprising me quite a bit. I dwell for around 5 seconds (quite a long dwell for me!) and I call...he has K10 for a missed straight draw and I near double up. This relieved some of the pressure a prominent Mr_Rahl was putting on me, sitting next to me 2nd in chips with a pretty huge stack.
A few hands later I had 77 on the button and raised standard (obv means 599 blinds 100/200)
Flop A97 (weee nice, two spades though) Checked by BB and I raise 999 or something. Flat call.
Turn 10 spade...not too nice...I think about checking to be fruity, but bet 2399 instead. Flat call.
River 9...happy days...I have around 5k, pot around 8-9k...
Here I have 3300 written in the raise column and just about to raise...and I think if he calls that he calls a shove. So I shove. He folds, don't know what he had, probably ace x. Maybe a raise would have been better.
At this point i was in around 4th, Isaac still in 2nd, with 1st place to my left. He was a huge fish and I quite a few pots vs him value betting top pair and calling down with 2nd pair. In no time at all, I was up on 25k, Isaac had chipped up to about the same, and we were in 1st and 2nd I think! :-) I was dreaming of heads up vs him, but as the bubble burst, we went our separate ways, and his luck run out.
He finished in around 12th for a cash but a disappointing end to a superbly played tournament. A bad run of luck and cards at the worst time hurt his chances but he's proving his $515 score was no fluke! (maybe a little bit of a fluke!! :P)
My table had another huge stack and a guy I recognised from a leaderboard somewhere. I sharkscoped xmachine888 and found stats of...
17,962
$1.59
$7
34%
$28,599
Huge 180man grinder with sick results. He doubled up to get a stack near to 20k, but by this time I had worked up to 44k with aggro play and people folding to most of my c-bets.
Here, 6-handed 12 left in the tournie, I took a huge hit from the guy in 2nd. I had k10 on the BB...(blinds 300/600 some ante)
Pre- Limp, Sb folds, I check
Flop...1082 I bet 1.5k...flat call
Turn 5 (2 diamonds now)...I want to control the pot and learn more where I am in the hands so I check. he bets 3k, I'm concerned so I just flat.
River...3rd diamond 7 i think.
I put him on a small pair pre which is why I was cautious because I thought he may have trips...and he bet a large bet of 8k in to the pot. Here I knew he was strong, but couldn't fold, and sure enough he had me beat. He had 910 though, both diamonds, so I was quite badly outdrawn. Still, I should have folded the river and would never have known.
This took me back down to around 30k, and I won a few and lost a few from here, and started getting resistnace from people who were re-popping and I had dwindled down to 20k. I got a double up here from the shark guy who pushed 88 and my AK hit trips. So the final table, and I had 27k. Chip lead had around 50k, and the blinds were still small like 600/1200, crazy for a final table but a testament to the skill-favoured structure of the tournie.
Here, I went on a sick heater. In the space of about 4 knock-outs, I think all by me, I had shoved AA, AK and another couple of hands to knock people out. 5 handed I was tied 2nd place roughly, but the 5th player went and I managed to get all the chips from the guy out in 4th. With an aggro image, I re-shoved AQ to a min raise and was insta-called by K10. I hit trips on the turn leaving him dead and had a huge stack. I looked to dominate from here but faced tough resistance from a player called cellmax. We were passing chips between us as 3rd guy whittled down, but then I lost a huge pot to the guy in 3rd.
I had j7 suited and limped. Bad play #1
Flop, 568...i check called a pot raise. Bad play #2
Turn, j (2 clubs out now)...I led out 2/3 pot, trying to turn a bad play in to a good one and thinking he was weak. He called.
River, 9...(weee straight card...3rd club though...and sure enough he had k4 clubs when it went to showdown. I could have avoided that by simply check-raising or leading the flop...boooo!
So I'm back into 2nd and we are more evens then before...then a stupidly sick hand!!!!!!!!!!
I have AQsuited on the SB, and cellmax on the button raises (as per...up to 6k blinds 1000/2000)
I have 60k behind but still using my aggro image I shove...couldn't flat and didn't want to raise and be 4-bet...he insta-called with AQ clubs. I had spades...little did he know spades are the nuts!!
The flop was a dream, 2 spades and one club...I said to myself, no club on the turn! The turn in fact completed my flush (weeeeee) and gave me a royal flush draw! A little unnecessarily and showing off to the railbirds, I completed the royal flush and re-established my lead at the top!!!
3 handed I had a top pair which I played fairly well against a guy who was chasing a flush in a quite obvious way so I could easily call his river shove with a pair of Aces.
So when it got to heads up, apparently my speciality, I had a 3.5 to 1 chip lead.
Then there was a really annoying hand...
I managed to get him to put it all with A2 on a board of A10K4, only for the river to counterfeit my hand with a 10. Annoying but I maintain my lead.
Then I lost a bit because he was aggro and taking the plays away from me. At a bit less than 3 to 1 lead I gave him the double up I didn't want to give him, with my pushing after a flop raise with 910 on a 89J board 3 hearts and I have the 10 of hearts only to be instacalled by Q7 hearts, leaving me drawing dead to a house.
Sick...then I lost quite a big pot after limping a hand, representing a big hand, I barreled three streets with air and was painfully called (after much dwelling) on the river by his top pair with a decent kicker, showing my play did appear strong. Anyway, I was slightly down here but then managed to check-shove with 2nd pair after quite a bit of action to get it nearly back to evens. Then I tried to be too tricky. he raised button as per, and I flatted AA. The flop was Q72, not too bad for my hand. I checked and he raised his standard half pot. I flatted, knowing the turn bet would appear as well. But the turn was another Q and he bet a bit less than his usual turn bet. I had enough behind to fold but that wasn't really an option, and even though it felt bad I shoved. he flipped his Q5 and the game was over, I was the loser. Thinking back on it, I don;t beat myself up too much if I lose a $36 heads up after having a big lead, and this is pretty similar. The cards didn't come heads up and when I reduced him to 14% to split, he hit!!
All in all I was happy with the game, and if I hadn't have lost with KK vs J9 on the other $4.40 I played and busted in 39th, I felt like it could have been double success. So I definitely like them tournies and recommend them massively.
My stats for them are quite sick, not sustainable because luckily my cashes have been high but still xmachine's stats show massive amounts can be made at them games.
38
$17.26
$4
392%
$656
Anyway, haven't played much heads up, won around $90ish I think since last post playing heads up, with my overall profit now about $4k for pokerstars sng's!
Also, I deposited another $600, to take advantage of the 40% deposit bonus on stars, so in a couple of months time I should get around $240 which will be nice :-)
I'm going to withdraw the $600 when I get a chance and probably $400 more, so will take $1k or which will be nice :-)
My roll (assuming the $600 has been taken off) stands at $3091, so I'm over the $3k mark, yay! :-D
Adding the quick $100 I made on fulltilt and the $150ish playin live, my spoils since my $200 mission at the end of May shows around $3150 profit, or £1580ish, which is a nice feeling. At the minute though, I'm too tired to play too much so looking forward to coming back from holiday August 5th nice and refreshed and ready to make some $$$ and complete my bonus.
So unless anything exciting happens before then I'll post in a few weeks :-)
Gl all
147_574R
Sunday 20 July 2008
I can't wait...for the weekend to begin!!
Hi all, I have played heads up only since Sunday so this will only be a small post littered with a few stats and comparisons! (That's the plan anyway!)
I have been fairly busy but have still managed to squeeze quite a few games in, mostly due to extending the day more than most non-nocturnals. The birds do sound amazing in the morning though, but it's tough to finally get to sleep when it's light!?
I have been fairly busy but have still managed to squeeze quite a few games in, mostly due to extending the day more than most non-nocturnals. The birds do sound amazing in the morning though, but it's tough to finally get to sleep when it's light!?
Anyway, quick sum up. After the last post, I have played just under 200 games, and for the most part it was immensely frustrating. I started quite well winning a few and by Tuesday(((/Wednesday/days really mean nothing when you're on 4 months holiday!! ))) I was on $2715...
...well this became the figure of doom as at this point I told Nathan and Keys how I was getting on and showed them my sharkscope graph. I didn't mean it in a way to show off or be arrogant, and yet karma still had a shark-size bite out of my ass. The next couple of days, I ran pretty badly again, and more annoyingly I was losing to some stupidly bad fish getting lucky. Again something that aggravated me was whittlig my opponents down to 750, giving me a 3 to 1 chip lead, only for them to win nearly all 40/60s from here and get back to evens. I played a little badly for a while but luckily stayed around break-even, and by this time I was around $2600. I couldn't break the $2700 mark until Saturday, when I won my first game of the day (getting lucky to hit my up and down vs trips!) to get back to the ill-fated amount of $2715!
Luckily for me, it was a Saturday, and I got going around 1am ish to play a few. A note, Saturday's are full of aggro idiots and pure fish. :-) I quickly scooted up a couple of hundred $$$, playing quite well according to the opponent I was faced with but also getting lucky quite a lot. :-)
Unfortunately for me, I was too tired to play by around 3am, but I went to bed with my roll on $2916. A new high and approaching my figure of $3600 to play the $35 heads up. I'm really hoping the standard on Sunday will be just as bad as Saturday and hopefully the weekends will be really lucrative.
A few stats to end...
Overall since $200 deposit.
Heads up since deposit.
1,250
$1.62
$13
13%
$2,027
$1.62
$13
13%
$2,027
And the interesting one, $23 heads up
370
$2.21
$22
10%
$818
$2.21
$22
10%
$818
This I am happy with, as I'm not convinced I've run very nicely, and I think I have been a few games below expectation. Despite this, and despite the buy-in being double the $11 heads up, the standard isn't really any better, and there aren't as many regs as the $11 I don't think!
I wanted a 10% ROI and I have this bang on atm, and I'm hoping to boost it up to closer to 15% if things go well.
A few more stats that may be interesting,
Since $200 deposit Heads up Wins - 739
Losses- 511
This I think means I have won just over 59% of my heads up games. I think this shows 66% to be maybe too ambitious a target but I hope to get it closer to that, and I hope that having a couple of downswings and staying relatively calm will put me in good shape to get closer to 66%.
July stats..
590
$1.69
$18
8%
$998
$1.69
$18
8%
$998
The ROI has gone down from June, but the average stake has gone up a lot due to the $23 and the average profit has gone up accordingly. The ROI is quite interesting because atm, my total Stars stats are..
Nearly $1 a game now, and the shape of the graph is becoming more like the x squared graph I would hope to see if I'm moving up. The swings look more dramatic, but this means an upswing looks dramatic so it's pretty cool (when I'm winning of course!!)
The final stat I would like to include would be my hourly rate, as this is an option cash game players can work out pretty well.
Based on playing 13 heads up games an hour (4 sets of 3 and a little bit of 3 is around fair I think) and assuming I am averaging $2.21 a game as I have been in the $23s, I am making $28.73 an hour.
I'm not too sure what the cash game equivalent of $23 heads up is, and I'm not sure what hourly rates people at similar cash levels would expect, so any input on this would be great because I really don't have a clue.
Finally, how awesome is golf?! My new favourite sport, and I'm somebody who doesn't like doing this he isn't good at!! I can't wait for my next round and hopefully in Durham or before Keys' success in London this year we can get a round in with the PokerSoc, that would be sick.
I'm not so good at golf, but parts of my game are coming together, and nearly a year on from when I first started, I'm hoping I can break 90 before that year mark, around 30th August. I'll need to get a few rounds in for that to happen, but I hear Gamble and Ptevey are golf sharks so I want to hit form if we do get the PokerSoc game going.
Oooooops, sorry about the lengthy mcpost...
Cliff notes...run/play well,
break even and run/play not so well/lose a bit
Saturday $$$$
blah blah blah
Thanks all, and I'm loving the regularity of blog updates, your work is being appreciated by me!!
147_rats [ star backwards sucks! :-( ]
PS, if u believe me when I say it's going to be a quick post, I'm sorry!!! Have to keep you reading though you see???
Sunday 13 July 2008
You're only swinging when you're winning!
I wrote this all before, a page wasn't working, closed it and it closed these all. Therefore, I'm going to summarise more than before! (Did i hear cheers?!!)
Anyway, for a while the other night I thought I may be posting at 7am saying about my win in the tournie as I hoped. After an uneventful rebuy period where I was in for $35 but ended on 9k after k6 tripled through, I didn't really have many hands but managed to chip up. A couple of draws hit and though I took a couple of knockbacks I was steadily in around 150th place, and made the cash fairly easily.
Then I got put on a nightmare table, with an aggro and solid player to my left. He shoved over so many of my button and cutoff raises and hands like 33 and 77 had to hit the bin. Annoying! Anyway, I exacted my revenge when I hit a straight with my JJ vs his QQ, though I was nice enough not to use his Q! From then I was 50th with around 120 left, but I ran very card dead and other stacks were pushing me around a little bit. I finally made a stand with AJ on around 13BB and was called by AQ. By J on the flop was nothing compared to his Q on the turn, and I busted in 82nd place.
Wooo, beat so many players, must be a nice cash right. Nope, 701st gets $31, 1st gets $11.x k, and 82nd gets $96. Stupid top heavy payout with too many people getting paid!
Still, not a bad return, and OPR indicates that in June I have made a $100 profit at 87% ROI and in July $77 profit for a 73% ROI. Not too bad really and supplements my heads up quite well.
Apart from the tournies, I have exclusively played heads up, and it has been SWINGY!!!! I have been basically running really badly at times, with 6 all in flip losses in a row and at one point in 7 of 9 games I lost when they had roughly 10%.
The first bad spell was the 10% outdraws, and this was just a sick horrible run after I had worked it up to around $2300. I dropped right down to $2050 ish, and was very close to tilting. Fortunately, I managed to bring it around that night and finish up slightly up from what I had started on, and began the next day on around $2300. Some fairly breakeven play from here, winning a little, before a sick spell of losing 8 in a row! :-( I didn't deserve this, though my play was a little worse than it should have been. Won 2, lost 6 would have been fair as twice I flopped sets only to be outdrawn by a runner runner. After being at around $2250 after a few more wins than losses after this sick run, I put on an 11 game winning streak, the last 9 won whilst 3tabling, for a quick rise up to $2480. The next 6 were 3 and 3 and this is where I left it. After donking off a few $$$ playing HORSE and Omaha, my roll is now at $2466. I am possibly on for the $5k by August, as I have moved up and hopefully with average more profit a game.
I have been exploting the advanced search on Sharkscope, and have the following stats.
Heads up $23.
Games 183
Avg Stake $22
Avg Profit $1.76
ROI 8%
Total Profit $323.
Heads up since $200 deposit
Games 1060
Avg Profit $1.47 (SICK SIGN!!)
Avg Stake $11
ROI 14%
Total Profit $1560
Heads up wins and losses since deposit
Wins- 633
Losses- 433
Overall Stars sharkscope
Games 3696
Avg Profit $0.92
Avg Stake $8
ROI 12%
Total Profit $3400
The wins and losses thing is interesting, because I think I should be able to get 2 wins out of 3, but that seems a very high estimate. I will see in the next few days if I can run better and will see how it changes. The average profit has increased at $22, despite the lower ROI, and I do think over 10% is achievable given the standard of play. I have been talking to a few players in the higher games today who say that every level plays basically the same, so that's something to look forward to! :-)
Anyway, I'm off for a round of golf.
Gl all!
The $5k by Sep 1st bet at 1/1 is still on if people fancy it, I'm hoping it will be close.
Paul :-)
Anyway, for a while the other night I thought I may be posting at 7am saying about my win in the tournie as I hoped. After an uneventful rebuy period where I was in for $35 but ended on 9k after k6 tripled through, I didn't really have many hands but managed to chip up. A couple of draws hit and though I took a couple of knockbacks I was steadily in around 150th place, and made the cash fairly easily.
Then I got put on a nightmare table, with an aggro and solid player to my left. He shoved over so many of my button and cutoff raises and hands like 33 and 77 had to hit the bin. Annoying! Anyway, I exacted my revenge when I hit a straight with my JJ vs his QQ, though I was nice enough not to use his Q! From then I was 50th with around 120 left, but I ran very card dead and other stacks were pushing me around a little bit. I finally made a stand with AJ on around 13BB and was called by AQ. By J on the flop was nothing compared to his Q on the turn, and I busted in 82nd place.
Wooo, beat so many players, must be a nice cash right. Nope, 701st gets $31, 1st gets $11.x k, and 82nd gets $96. Stupid top heavy payout with too many people getting paid!
Still, not a bad return, and OPR indicates that in June I have made a $100 profit at 87% ROI and in July $77 profit for a 73% ROI. Not too bad really and supplements my heads up quite well.
Apart from the tournies, I have exclusively played heads up, and it has been SWINGY!!!! I have been basically running really badly at times, with 6 all in flip losses in a row and at one point in 7 of 9 games I lost when they had roughly 10%.
The first bad spell was the 10% outdraws, and this was just a sick horrible run after I had worked it up to around $2300. I dropped right down to $2050 ish, and was very close to tilting. Fortunately, I managed to bring it around that night and finish up slightly up from what I had started on, and began the next day on around $2300. Some fairly breakeven play from here, winning a little, before a sick spell of losing 8 in a row! :-( I didn't deserve this, though my play was a little worse than it should have been. Won 2, lost 6 would have been fair as twice I flopped sets only to be outdrawn by a runner runner. After being at around $2250 after a few more wins than losses after this sick run, I put on an 11 game winning streak, the last 9 won whilst 3tabling, for a quick rise up to $2480. The next 6 were 3 and 3 and this is where I left it. After donking off a few $$$ playing HORSE and Omaha, my roll is now at $2466. I am possibly on for the $5k by August, as I have moved up and hopefully with average more profit a game.
I have been exploting the advanced search on Sharkscope, and have the following stats.
Heads up $23.
Games 183
Avg Stake $22
Avg Profit $1.76
ROI 8%
Total Profit $323.
Heads up since $200 deposit
Games 1060
Avg Profit $1.47 (SICK SIGN!!)
Avg Stake $11
ROI 14%
Total Profit $1560
Heads up wins and losses since deposit
Wins- 633
Losses- 433
Overall Stars sharkscope
Games 3696
Avg Profit $0.92
Avg Stake $8
ROI 12%
Total Profit $3400
The wins and losses thing is interesting, because I think I should be able to get 2 wins out of 3, but that seems a very high estimate. I will see in the next few days if I can run better and will see how it changes. The average profit has increased at $22, despite the lower ROI, and I do think over 10% is achievable given the standard of play. I have been talking to a few players in the higher games today who say that every level plays basically the same, so that's something to look forward to! :-)
Anyway, I'm off for a round of golf.
Gl all!
The $5k by Sep 1st bet at 1/1 is still on if people fancy it, I'm hoping it will be close.
Paul :-)
Wednesday 9 July 2008
Moooooving On Up!
Hello, an amazing thing happened today. My balls grew and I took the plunge and played a $22 heads up game. I played a guy with around -25% ROI, and thought hello this level isn't so bad!
Since then I have played 32 games for exactly $100 profit at an ROI of 14%. Early days, but something over 10% ROI will guarantee at least $2 profit a game which should hopefully see my account soar (TOUCH WOOD!!). Using sharkscope, I didn't play against one player I would class as a solid reg. There was a mix of average stakes $40 and around -5% ROI who knew how to play but had flaws and just a few who had a decent ROI. I will play a lot more this evening and see if it toughens up then. I imagine it will be more polarised, with more strong players but hopefully more super-fish!
To get me the balls to play, I worked my roll up to around $2100. Since my last post, I have only had one session of 9man turbos I think and lost around $40 from 15 games running pretty badly and not playing great. Apart from that it's been exclusively heads up, which seems to be my new direction atm.
Sharkscope shows that since I started with my $200 deposit heads up I have the following stats.
Games 904
Avg Profit $1.45
Avg Stake $9
ROI 15%
Total Profit $1,310
The 9 men are pretty much the same as before so I won't bother re-posting them.
So yeah, I'm not on a super-hot sicko luckster run atm but the heads up is staying OK and seems to be the most profitable way to play at the minute.
Also, I can play heads up whilst I'm playing in tournies, which I did last night. Spurred on by the 2X prize pools on Stars, I played the 5rebuy, the $11 and the 3rebuy.
I managed to cash in the 5 rebuy and 3 rebuy for $31 and $52 respectively after being in for $15 and $12. Not bad but I made a few errors which Nathan (who railed all night!) was witness to but generally played OK. I busted out of both from a reasonable-to-weak position running in to hands when making a stand but it's good to learn lessons and i can't expect a big score yet. I will play the same set of tournies tonight I think and hopefully can run deep. Though unless I hit the final table the prize money won't really be lucrative which is an annoying feature of these huge field games.
My roll at present is $2186 and my next mini target is $3200 or so before I might move up to $33 heads up. I was also sent $39 from Isaac on FullTilt that I earnt playing 1p/2p at the mighty Aidans cash game at Uni. I decided to play a $34.50 heads up game to try to spin it up and won 2 in a row. I withdrew the $100 or whatever because without a job I need the money and I was going to lose it all playing that high! Having a bit more money in the bank takes away the urge to withdraw from Stars so that's a good thing.
Again, another stupidly long post but it has been over a week. I haven't really played much due to seeing the girlfriend but I have taken the step to move up so it's been a productive few days that I have played. I had an amazing hand the other day where I had 66 vs 52dd on a board of Kx6d4x4d3d which made me laugh and a few hands from the tournie I wish I had saved because they were dubious so I will make sure I save these in future.
Hopefully, I'll be posting at 7 this morning having taking down one of the big tournies2nite :-)
Gl all. 13:47_star
Since then I have played 32 games for exactly $100 profit at an ROI of 14%. Early days, but something over 10% ROI will guarantee at least $2 profit a game which should hopefully see my account soar (TOUCH WOOD!!). Using sharkscope, I didn't play against one player I would class as a solid reg. There was a mix of average stakes $40 and around -5% ROI who knew how to play but had flaws and just a few who had a decent ROI. I will play a lot more this evening and see if it toughens up then. I imagine it will be more polarised, with more strong players but hopefully more super-fish!
To get me the balls to play, I worked my roll up to around $2100. Since my last post, I have only had one session of 9man turbos I think and lost around $40 from 15 games running pretty badly and not playing great. Apart from that it's been exclusively heads up, which seems to be my new direction atm.
Sharkscope shows that since I started with my $200 deposit heads up I have the following stats.
Games 904
Avg Profit $1.45
Avg Stake $9
ROI 15%
Total Profit $1,310
The 9 men are pretty much the same as before so I won't bother re-posting them.
So yeah, I'm not on a super-hot sicko luckster run atm but the heads up is staying OK and seems to be the most profitable way to play at the minute.
Also, I can play heads up whilst I'm playing in tournies, which I did last night. Spurred on by the 2X prize pools on Stars, I played the 5rebuy, the $11 and the 3rebuy.
I managed to cash in the 5 rebuy and 3 rebuy for $31 and $52 respectively after being in for $15 and $12. Not bad but I made a few errors which Nathan (who railed all night!) was witness to but generally played OK. I busted out of both from a reasonable-to-weak position running in to hands when making a stand but it's good to learn lessons and i can't expect a big score yet. I will play the same set of tournies tonight I think and hopefully can run deep. Though unless I hit the final table the prize money won't really be lucrative which is an annoying feature of these huge field games.
My roll at present is $2186 and my next mini target is $3200 or so before I might move up to $33 heads up. I was also sent $39 from Isaac on FullTilt that I earnt playing 1p/2p at the mighty Aidans cash game at Uni. I decided to play a $34.50 heads up game to try to spin it up and won 2 in a row. I withdrew the $100 or whatever because without a job I need the money and I was going to lose it all playing that high! Having a bit more money in the bank takes away the urge to withdraw from Stars so that's a good thing.
Again, another stupidly long post but it has been over a week. I haven't really played much due to seeing the girlfriend but I have taken the step to move up so it's been a productive few days that I have played. I had an amazing hand the other day where I had 66 vs 52dd on a board of Kx6d4x4d3d which made me laugh and a few hands from the tournie I wish I had saved because they were dubious so I will make sure I save these in future.
Hopefully, I'll be posting at 7 this morning having taking down one of the big tournies2nite :-)
Gl all. 13:47_star
Monday 30 June 2008
Monthly Updates:- Heads Up(Swings!)
Good evening. Whilst railing Ptevey going deep in an MTT for the second day running, I thought why not provide the monthly update!
I have to repeat what I said in my last post. This month has been so so sick! I knew from when I started playing with the concept of a bankroll on FullTilt and was maintaining a good ROI that this poker malarky could be profitable, but I am astounded with how much I have made at the low levels!
The last few days I have been running so well heads up it's just wrong. I have won 30 of my last 34 heads up games (obviously 30 of my last 35 but why would I include a game 35 games ago!!!) and as such have finished the month with a flourish.
My roll = $1887.
Stats for June-
Games- 1,443
Avg Profit- $1.1
Avg Stake- $7
ROI- 14%
Total Profit- $1,585
Heads up- (Same order as above)
665
$1.46
$8
16%
$971
9- man SNG's-
740
$0.9
$6
13%
$668
Overall Pokerstars stats-
3,301
$0.87
$7
13%
$2,874
I am probably ready to move up in the 9-man Sit N Goes, but I may play a few more heads up SNG's and I'm not sure I am ready for the $22's yet, as I expect they will play very differently! I will just take it easy, do what feels good and hopefully next month's downswing won't be too severe and I hope I can have a few more upswings!
I have played a few more tournies over the last few days to no avail. In basically all of them I haven't really had cards or when I did have pairs they have attracted overcards and in nearly all of them I have finished pretty much middle of the road. Despite this, I feel like I am learning fast and hope to play a few more over the next month to improve and maybe hit a good return a.k.a luckbox my way to a big win!!
Thanks to all the people who read this and leave comments etc, I appreciate all the help and advice I receive! :-)
147_insert any good star gag here!
I have to repeat what I said in my last post. This month has been so so sick! I knew from when I started playing with the concept of a bankroll on FullTilt and was maintaining a good ROI that this poker malarky could be profitable, but I am astounded with how much I have made at the low levels!
The last few days I have been running so well heads up it's just wrong. I have won 30 of my last 34 heads up games (obviously 30 of my last 35 but why would I include a game 35 games ago!!!) and as such have finished the month with a flourish.
My roll = $1887.
Stats for June-
Games- 1,443
Avg Profit- $1.1
Avg Stake- $7
ROI- 14%
Total Profit- $1,585
Heads up- (Same order as above)
665
$1.46
$8
16%
$971
9- man SNG's-
740
$0.9
$6
13%
$668
Overall Pokerstars stats-
3,301
$0.87
$7
13%
$2,874
I am probably ready to move up in the 9-man Sit N Goes, but I may play a few more heads up SNG's and I'm not sure I am ready for the $22's yet, as I expect they will play very differently! I will just take it easy, do what feels good and hopefully next month's downswing won't be too severe and I hope I can have a few more upswings!
I have played a few more tournies over the last few days to no avail. In basically all of them I haven't really had cards or when I did have pairs they have attracted overcards and in nearly all of them I have finished pretty much middle of the road. Despite this, I feel like I am learning fast and hope to play a few more over the next month to improve and maybe hit a good return a.k.a luckbox my way to a big win!!
Thanks to all the people who read this and leave comments etc, I appreciate all the help and advice I receive! :-)
147_insert any good star gag here!
Saturday 28 June 2008
sAt 'n' go
An unusually quick update on my blog!
Reason:-
I decided to play an $11 satellite to the Sunday Warm Up today after a couple of hours of uninspiring heads up sit n goes. After rocking it up early on and then doubling through with QQ against AJ I managed to chip up, delve a lead and on the final table dominate proceedings despite starting with just 9 BB (after taking a hit bluffing a rock!) to win a seat in the Sunday Warm Up. 6 handed I felt like I always had a shot despite the blinds getting big and I barely showed my cards to move from level 4th with 6 left to chip lead with 3 left (2 players getting seats!). Here the play was all pretty standard with me aggressing them both and finally after getting down to 3 BB the shortie pushed the button, I called with 7 2 in the SB and the BB also called. My 7 2 held to win a place and relieve the pain from coming 2nd in the 375FPP sat to the Sunday Million despite having a 4 to 1 chip lead heads up a couple of months before (with 2nd place winning sweet FA!!).
If I win these types of sats in August I hope to take the seat to take a few shots but building a roll is my priority atm, so I took the tournament dollars. A nice $215 to add to my roll, which has now reached $1716 :-)
I really think I should play a few of these Sats every week. Looking at thepokerdb.com I have played 10 sats on Stars and have won 4 for a total of $990 from roughly an initial $100 overall. I also bubbled that 375FPP one and bubbled another for $190 a few months back. I think the standard is quite poor and the games play very similar to a 9 man turbo for the most part. So therefore, I am going to have to get over the fact that my ITM will reduce and start looking for the most profitable areas of poker. In the same way, I may start attacking the 45 man SNG's because I haven't given these a proper go and I hope they could be very fishy!!
I have a couple of days of June left but to be honest it has gone so much better than I could have imagined. Hopefully I can have a good day of tournies 2moro but if not over $1500 profit on Stars in less than a month is overwhelming and I just hope I can run as good next month!! Especially as I should be moving up soon, so wish me luck!
A monthly update will recap and hopefully concisely summarise my last few posts on Tuesday, so look forward to that :-)
Much love,
147_.... of David
Reason:-
I decided to play an $11 satellite to the Sunday Warm Up today after a couple of hours of uninspiring heads up sit n goes. After rocking it up early on and then doubling through with QQ against AJ I managed to chip up, delve a lead and on the final table dominate proceedings despite starting with just 9 BB (after taking a hit bluffing a rock!) to win a seat in the Sunday Warm Up. 6 handed I felt like I always had a shot despite the blinds getting big and I barely showed my cards to move from level 4th with 6 left to chip lead with 3 left (2 players getting seats!). Here the play was all pretty standard with me aggressing them both and finally after getting down to 3 BB the shortie pushed the button, I called with 7 2 in the SB and the BB also called. My 7 2 held to win a place and relieve the pain from coming 2nd in the 375FPP sat to the Sunday Million despite having a 4 to 1 chip lead heads up a couple of months before (with 2nd place winning sweet FA!!).
If I win these types of sats in August I hope to take the seat to take a few shots but building a roll is my priority atm, so I took the tournament dollars. A nice $215 to add to my roll, which has now reached $1716 :-)
I really think I should play a few of these Sats every week. Looking at thepokerdb.com I have played 10 sats on Stars and have won 4 for a total of $990 from roughly an initial $100 overall. I also bubbled that 375FPP one and bubbled another for $190 a few months back. I think the standard is quite poor and the games play very similar to a 9 man turbo for the most part. So therefore, I am going to have to get over the fact that my ITM will reduce and start looking for the most profitable areas of poker. In the same way, I may start attacking the 45 man SNG's because I haven't given these a proper go and I hope they could be very fishy!!
I have a couple of days of June left but to be honest it has gone so much better than I could have imagined. Hopefully I can have a good day of tournies 2moro but if not over $1500 profit on Stars in less than a month is overwhelming and I just hope I can run as good next month!! Especially as I should be moving up soon, so wish me luck!
A monthly update will recap and hopefully concisely summarise my last few posts on Tuesday, so look forward to that :-)
Much love,
147_.... of David
Thursday 26 June 2008
Quick Update 2
When I write so much, I forget that I actually kept the title as quick update. I think I have broken a lot of statues regarding description of goods but I hope it is an interesting read anyway.
FINAL POINT:- If anyone else is going to play or try to sat into the $1million Turbo Takedown on Sunday I would firstly recommend it as it is very good value (5000FPP's is a lot but there are lots of I expect weak sats) and secondly post on here or wherever if you want to perhaps swap percentages of each other and we can try to get some value out of Pokerstars generosity.
Isaac special offer (only applicable if your name is Isaac and you run like God!) - 25% of your potential win for 2% of my potential win...u know that's +EV!
FINAL POINT:- If anyone else is going to play or try to sat into the $1million Turbo Takedown on Sunday I would firstly recommend it as it is very good value (5000FPP's is a lot but there are lots of I expect weak sats) and secondly post on here or wherever if you want to perhaps swap percentages of each other and we can try to get some value out of Pokerstars generosity.
Isaac special offer (only applicable if your name is Isaac and you run like God!) - 25% of your potential win for 2% of my potential win...u know that's +EV!
Quick update and some delightful hands!
Hi all. My account is on $1495.15 now, which I would have taken 1000000% at the start of the month, but I have been stuck in the $1400's the last few days which has annoyed me. I have made another $40 in a short session with a few mates to increase my live winnings (though it swiftly went towards a day out to the beach with the gf!!), mainly from one mate in particular who has more gamble in him than Lassey! (and nowhere near Lassey's ability)
To be fair to myself in this breakeven stage, I have been running pretty badly so I am always pleased to come out of the bad sessions breaking even. I was around the low-to-mid $1400's at the start of the night tonight but I continued to start my session with some $11 heads up (2 at a time) and after winning a few was over $1500 for the first time. Anyway, then followed 15 SNG's for a small loss which was pretty annoying seeing as in two of them i bubbled after having a dominating stack and one of them i snatched 2nd from the jaws of 1st (and one bastard I was sitting out of the whole time and still bubbled)! Can't dwell though, I know these things happen!
A couple of delightful hands in this session were promised, and I hope they won't disappoint.
The first one I just knew was going to happen pre flop and even on the flop. Seriously, I have a sick read on Pokerstars now!
PokerStars Game #18406043780: Tournament #93521318, $6.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level IX (300/600) - 2008/06/26 - 21:30:33 (ET)
Table '93521318 1' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 2: menaheme (2788 in chips)
Seat 5: mascherano10 (4386 in chips)
Seat 6: 147_star (2420 in chips)
Seat 9: Georgenia213 (3906 in chips)
menaheme: posts the ante 50
mascherano10: posts the ante 50
147_star: posts the ante 50
Georgenia213: posts the ante 50
Georgenia213: posts small blind 300
menaheme: posts big blind 600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to 147_star [Ad As]
mascherano10: raises 1200 to 1800
147_star: raises 570 to 2370 and is all-in
Georgenia213: folds
menaheme: folds
mascherano10: calls 570
*** FLOP *** [Ac 6d 7h]
*** TURN *** [Ac 6d 7h] [8d]
*** RIVER *** [Ac 6d 7h 8d] [Td]
147_star said, "lol"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
mascherano10: shows [Kd Qd] (a flush, King high)
147_star: shows [Ad As] (three of a kind, Aces)
mascherano10 collected 5840 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 5840 Rake 0
Board [Ac 6d 7h 8d Td]
Seat 2: menaheme (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: mascherano10 showed [Kd Qd] and won (5840) with a flush, King high
Seat 6: 147_star (button) showed [Ad As] and lost with three of a kind, Aces
Seat 9: Georgenia213 (small blind) folded before Flop
Yeah, that hurt a lot, mainly because my Ad took away one of his outs! lol cooler and exacerbated as it was on the bubble but kq suited couldn't do anything and it happens! I will post one of my outdraws (sometimes I am behind Isaac!) to show that I don't just dwell on my bad beats.
So yeah, that was enjoyable, but provided nowhere near as much pleasure as this hand gave me.
PokerStars Game #18405378981: Tournament #93521277, $6.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level II (15/30) - 2008/06/26 - 20:56:04 (ET)
Table '93521277 1' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: skydiver1212 (1345 in chips)
Seat 2: gstvbrjs (1270 in chips)
Seat 3: Mongo_1254 (1570 in chips)
Seat 4: seethesun (1395 in chips)
Seat 5: 147_star (1470 in chips)
Seat 6: Dbert88 (1925 in chips)
Seat 7: lifes3ps (1470 in chips)
Seat 8: almostawinnr (1610 in chips)
Seat 9: wintermagic (1445 in chips)
147_star: posts small blind 15
Dbert88: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to 147_star [Jh Js]
lifes3ps: folds
almostawinnr has timed out while being disconnected
almostawinnr: folds
almostawinnr is sitting out
wintermagic: folds
skydiver1212: calls 30
gstvbrjs: folds
Mongo_1254: folds
seethesun: folds
147_star: raises 90 to 120
Dbert88: folds
skydiver1212: calls 90
*** FLOP *** [5s 5d Jc]
147_star: checks
skydiver1212: checks
*** TURN *** [5s 5d Jc] [5c]
almostawinnr has returned
147_star: bets 120
skydiver1212: calls 120
*** RIVER *** [5s 5d Jc 5c] [5h]
147_star: checks
skydiver1212: bets 660
147_star said, "sooooooooooo sick"
gstvbrjs said, "vnh"
147_star: folds
Uncalled bet (660) returned to skydiver1212
skydiver1212 collected 510 from pot
skydiver1212: doesn't show hand
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 510 Rake 0
Board [5s 5d Jc 5c 5h]
Seat 1: skydiver1212 collected (510)
Seat 2: gstvbrjs folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: Mongo_1254 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: seethesun (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: 147_star (small blind) folded on the River
Seat 6: Dbert88 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: lifes3ps folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: almostawinnr folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: wintermagic folded before Flop (didn't bet)
That is just truly gorgeous. You can't buy that. Again when the third 5 hit I thought a fourth 5 may hit. As I was playing 15 tables, I saw the bet on the river by my opponent of 660 in to a 510 pot first and thought happy days, then I looked at the river. Anything under 300 and I call for humour purposes (perhaps) but lol later I said I had JJ and he informed me he had an Ace. Would have been a sick bluff but the revelation of the A didn't surprise me!
So yeah, things are OK, ROI has slightly reduced for the month but that's fine and I hope to have $1600 before the start of July. This way I could go in to July starting on the $16 SNG's, and who knows, could be on the $27s by August if things go very well.
Some stats to conclude (why not, if my mate has signed up to Sharkscope I assume he wants me to use his searches!!
Total June: -
Games - 1330
Avg Profit $1.02
Avg Stake $7
ROI 13%
Total Profit $1357
Heads up June: -
Games - 587
Avg Profit $1.22
Avg Stake $8
ROI 14%
Total Profit $714
Sit n Go June: -
Games - 700
Avg Profit $0.90
Avg Stake $6
ROI 13%
Total Profit $631
At the minute I'm considering which would give me the higher hourly rate, heads up or sit n goes. I can probably squeeze 45 sit n goes in around 2 hours 15. And I haven't really established how many heads up SNG's I can play in an hour but I can cope reasonably with 3 at once. I guess HU is on average 12 minutes (possibly less), thus meaning I can chuck in around 33, but as I can play these continuously it will probably be slighter higher. If I chuck in my avg profit and ROI (and I have to borrow Isaac's maths to draw up some sort of comparison), and of course get a much larger sample, it may work out that I avoid one form of game. But playing both suits me and if I want to watch something on TV or chat on MSN I can stick a couple of heads up on at the same time. Plus, I am learning not to tilt when I get outdrawn playing heads up. I may actually switch some funds to FullTilt because they have a rematch feature on their heads up games which could be extremely +EV.
Anyway, I have reached 19,000 words for this post. My avg words for my posts is around w100000 and my ROI on time and words = high because I blag a load of bog on the blog.
Seriously though, anyway, finally, to conclude, etc, I was going to call this post quick update! What a dishonest assessment that would have been!
Much love and wish me balls so I move up!!
147_star_probably a red dwarf_especially since the beach was hot 2day!
To be fair to myself in this breakeven stage, I have been running pretty badly so I am always pleased to come out of the bad sessions breaking even. I was around the low-to-mid $1400's at the start of the night tonight but I continued to start my session with some $11 heads up (2 at a time) and after winning a few was over $1500 for the first time. Anyway, then followed 15 SNG's for a small loss which was pretty annoying seeing as in two of them i bubbled after having a dominating stack and one of them i snatched 2nd from the jaws of 1st (and one bastard I was sitting out of the whole time and still bubbled)! Can't dwell though, I know these things happen!
A couple of delightful hands in this session were promised, and I hope they won't disappoint.
The first one I just knew was going to happen pre flop and even on the flop. Seriously, I have a sick read on Pokerstars now!
PokerStars Game #18406043780: Tournament #93521318, $6.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level IX (300/600) - 2008/06/26 - 21:30:33 (ET)
Table '93521318 1' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 2: menaheme (2788 in chips)
Seat 5: mascherano10 (4386 in chips)
Seat 6: 147_star (2420 in chips)
Seat 9: Georgenia213 (3906 in chips)
menaheme: posts the ante 50
mascherano10: posts the ante 50
147_star: posts the ante 50
Georgenia213: posts the ante 50
Georgenia213: posts small blind 300
menaheme: posts big blind 600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to 147_star [Ad As]
mascherano10: raises 1200 to 1800
147_star: raises 570 to 2370 and is all-in
Georgenia213: folds
menaheme: folds
mascherano10: calls 570
*** FLOP *** [Ac 6d 7h]
*** TURN *** [Ac 6d 7h] [8d]
*** RIVER *** [Ac 6d 7h 8d] [Td]
147_star said, "lol"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
mascherano10: shows [Kd Qd] (a flush, King high)
147_star: shows [Ad As] (three of a kind, Aces)
mascherano10 collected 5840 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 5840 Rake 0
Board [Ac 6d 7h 8d Td]
Seat 2: menaheme (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: mascherano10 showed [Kd Qd] and won (5840) with a flush, King high
Seat 6: 147_star (button) showed [Ad As] and lost with three of a kind, Aces
Seat 9: Georgenia213 (small blind) folded before Flop
Yeah, that hurt a lot, mainly because my Ad took away one of his outs! lol cooler and exacerbated as it was on the bubble but kq suited couldn't do anything and it happens! I will post one of my outdraws (sometimes I am behind Isaac!) to show that I don't just dwell on my bad beats.
So yeah, that was enjoyable, but provided nowhere near as much pleasure as this hand gave me.
PokerStars Game #18405378981: Tournament #93521277, $6.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level II (15/30) - 2008/06/26 - 20:56:04 (ET)
Table '93521277 1' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: skydiver1212 (1345 in chips)
Seat 2: gstvbrjs (1270 in chips)
Seat 3: Mongo_1254 (1570 in chips)
Seat 4: seethesun (1395 in chips)
Seat 5: 147_star (1470 in chips)
Seat 6: Dbert88 (1925 in chips)
Seat 7: lifes3ps (1470 in chips)
Seat 8: almostawinnr (1610 in chips)
Seat 9: wintermagic (1445 in chips)
147_star: posts small blind 15
Dbert88: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to 147_star [Jh Js]
lifes3ps: folds
almostawinnr has timed out while being disconnected
almostawinnr: folds
almostawinnr is sitting out
wintermagic: folds
skydiver1212: calls 30
gstvbrjs: folds
Mongo_1254: folds
seethesun: folds
147_star: raises 90 to 120
Dbert88: folds
skydiver1212: calls 90
*** FLOP *** [5s 5d Jc]
147_star: checks
skydiver1212: checks
*** TURN *** [5s 5d Jc] [5c]
almostawinnr has returned
147_star: bets 120
skydiver1212: calls 120
*** RIVER *** [5s 5d Jc 5c] [5h]
147_star: checks
skydiver1212: bets 660
147_star said, "sooooooooooo sick"
gstvbrjs said, "vnh"
147_star: folds
Uncalled bet (660) returned to skydiver1212
skydiver1212 collected 510 from pot
skydiver1212: doesn't show hand
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 510 Rake 0
Board [5s 5d Jc 5c 5h]
Seat 1: skydiver1212 collected (510)
Seat 2: gstvbrjs folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: Mongo_1254 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: seethesun (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: 147_star (small blind) folded on the River
Seat 6: Dbert88 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: lifes3ps folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: almostawinnr folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: wintermagic folded before Flop (didn't bet)
That is just truly gorgeous. You can't buy that. Again when the third 5 hit I thought a fourth 5 may hit. As I was playing 15 tables, I saw the bet on the river by my opponent of 660 in to a 510 pot first and thought happy days, then I looked at the river. Anything under 300 and I call for humour purposes (perhaps) but lol later I said I had JJ and he informed me he had an Ace. Would have been a sick bluff but the revelation of the A didn't surprise me!
So yeah, things are OK, ROI has slightly reduced for the month but that's fine and I hope to have $1600 before the start of July. This way I could go in to July starting on the $16 SNG's, and who knows, could be on the $27s by August if things go very well.
Some stats to conclude (why not, if my mate has signed up to Sharkscope I assume he wants me to use his searches!!
Total June: -
Games - 1330
Avg Profit $1.02
Avg Stake $7
ROI 13%
Total Profit $1357
Heads up June: -
Games - 587
Avg Profit $1.22
Avg Stake $8
ROI 14%
Total Profit $714
Sit n Go June: -
Games - 700
Avg Profit $0.90
Avg Stake $6
ROI 13%
Total Profit $631
At the minute I'm considering which would give me the higher hourly rate, heads up or sit n goes. I can probably squeeze 45 sit n goes in around 2 hours 15. And I haven't really established how many heads up SNG's I can play in an hour but I can cope reasonably with 3 at once. I guess HU is on average 12 minutes (possibly less), thus meaning I can chuck in around 33, but as I can play these continuously it will probably be slighter higher. If I chuck in my avg profit and ROI (and I have to borrow Isaac's maths to draw up some sort of comparison), and of course get a much larger sample, it may work out that I avoid one form of game. But playing both suits me and if I want to watch something on TV or chat on MSN I can stick a couple of heads up on at the same time. Plus, I am learning not to tilt when I get outdrawn playing heads up. I may actually switch some funds to FullTilt because they have a rematch feature on their heads up games which could be extremely +EV.
Anyway, I have reached 19,000 words for this post. My avg words for my posts is around w100000 and my ROI on time and words = high because I blag a load of bog on the blog.
Seriously though, anyway, finally, to conclude, etc, I was going to call this post quick update! What a dishonest assessment that would have been!
Much love and wish me balls so I move up!!
147_star_probably a red dwarf_especially since the beach was hot 2day!
Thursday 19 June 2008
+$1k :-)
It's been 3 weeks since I deposited $200 on Pokerstars and I am pleased to say I am up to $1240. Combine that with my live profits of $130 and I am up around $1170 in quite a short space of time, which I will attempt to sustain!
Playing 13 $6.50's has been my recent approach and I am enjoying it greatly. The last 3 sets of 13 I have been running around $2.5 a game which I know isn't sustainable but I hope to settle in to over $1 a game. It would seem that playing more sit n goes reduce the quality of decisions and the ROI should reduce accordingly but I think playing so many helps me in many ways as I just play the hands and position in a set way and don't get involved in marginal situations too often! I hope to be able to maintain long term at least 16% ROI at this level though pretty soon I guess I will be moving up because I shouldn't be a tart!! Hopefully I continue to run well and play well and the $1600 figure will be reached soon.
I would say another reason for my recent success is taking down more firsts than seconds, and this has been largely in part to the heads up games I have been playing in June. I feel that I can push people around and have been using some strange psychology to try to get people to fold which has given me a bit of an edge.
For example, I have been raising and leaving $1 behind from a stack of say $2500 as a way to indicate strength and I also did a sick thing in the chat box in a game earlier.
With the bubble upon us, and two big stacks (me and another) pushing around the two others who had dwindled really low, I pick up 2 5 in the SB. The big stack folds as does one of the shorties. (On around 1000 by now with blinds 300/600 50 ante!). The BB has 935 chips and i know that I am going to stick it in because I don't want to sacrifice the odds and fold. So I write in the chat box gl sir and min raise. I don't know if this caused him to fold but he did and I felt slightly responsible for his super-tight fold by reminding him of the bubble scenario.
So yeah, atm I am getting much better at working with a roll touch wood. If I haven't felt like playing I haven't and when I feel tired I find something else to do. And I'm not missing out on social things due to poker because I know that makes me feel bad and play bad. So I'm finally getting somewhere near the discipline of Isaac. Playing 13 at once means you don't really see the beats anyway which is a good thing!!
Now I just need to stick a couple of tournies in there at some point and hope for a big score, maybe when I get home on Saturday I will start pursuing some of the guaranteeds on Stars.
So, an update on the June stats.
June total.
Games 1059
Avg Stake $7
Avg Profit $1.04
ROI 14%
Total profit $1099
June Sit n Go 9-man
Games 556
Avg Stake $6
Avg Profit $0.99
ROI 15%
Total Profit $552
June Heads up
Games 461
Avg Stake $8
Avg Profit $1.17
ROI 14%
Total Profit $541
I haven't put in as many hours as I could be because the days have been busy but that's kept me fresh I think, though over the summer I am looking forward to some really long stints, especially if I can't find a job.
Hope everyone is doing well,
Paul 147_star
Playing 13 $6.50's has been my recent approach and I am enjoying it greatly. The last 3 sets of 13 I have been running around $2.5 a game which I know isn't sustainable but I hope to settle in to over $1 a game. It would seem that playing more sit n goes reduce the quality of decisions and the ROI should reduce accordingly but I think playing so many helps me in many ways as I just play the hands and position in a set way and don't get involved in marginal situations too often! I hope to be able to maintain long term at least 16% ROI at this level though pretty soon I guess I will be moving up because I shouldn't be a tart!! Hopefully I continue to run well and play well and the $1600 figure will be reached soon.
I would say another reason for my recent success is taking down more firsts than seconds, and this has been largely in part to the heads up games I have been playing in June. I feel that I can push people around and have been using some strange psychology to try to get people to fold which has given me a bit of an edge.
For example, I have been raising and leaving $1 behind from a stack of say $2500 as a way to indicate strength and I also did a sick thing in the chat box in a game earlier.
With the bubble upon us, and two big stacks (me and another) pushing around the two others who had dwindled really low, I pick up 2 5 in the SB. The big stack folds as does one of the shorties. (On around 1000 by now with blinds 300/600 50 ante!). The BB has 935 chips and i know that I am going to stick it in because I don't want to sacrifice the odds and fold. So I write in the chat box gl sir and min raise. I don't know if this caused him to fold but he did and I felt slightly responsible for his super-tight fold by reminding him of the bubble scenario.
So yeah, atm I am getting much better at working with a roll touch wood. If I haven't felt like playing I haven't and when I feel tired I find something else to do. And I'm not missing out on social things due to poker because I know that makes me feel bad and play bad. So I'm finally getting somewhere near the discipline of Isaac. Playing 13 at once means you don't really see the beats anyway which is a good thing!!
Now I just need to stick a couple of tournies in there at some point and hope for a big score, maybe when I get home on Saturday I will start pursuing some of the guaranteeds on Stars.
So, an update on the June stats.
June total.
Games 1059
Avg Stake $7
Avg Profit $1.04
ROI 14%
Total profit $1099
June Sit n Go 9-man
Games 556
Avg Stake $6
Avg Profit $0.99
ROI 15%
Total Profit $552
June Heads up
Games 461
Avg Stake $8
Avg Profit $1.17
ROI 14%
Total Profit $541
I haven't put in as many hours as I could be because the days have been busy but that's kept me fresh I think, though over the summer I am looking forward to some really long stints, especially if I can't find a job.
Hope everyone is doing well,
Paul 147_star
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