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!