Man, I feel sick and angry.
1) Played a fair bit last night and won well, hence my sharkscope is now over $1250. All good.
2) Played some this morning and lost $75 playing ring pretty much what I won last night, down to chasing really on 2/4 LHE full ring. The only good thing was I made about 200Fpps.
Set loses over Set
AK hits AK5 loses to 55
QQ loses to J10
KK raise obviously called 6 ways with pot capped WTF. Naturally 45 won the pot.
So here's where I say. NO MORE FRIGGING CASH GAMES EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm on holiday from Sunday so whatever is in the account I'll be withdrawing currently about $150. After that I may give Stars a break site is full of retards. Tilt still a problem at times!
Adios.
Wednesday 1 October 2008
Tuesday 23 September 2008
I'm back
I've decided to give this blog lark another go, mainly because my poker game has improved and my record taking has not and I feel like sharing things.
Simply profit wise last six months the tools I use to monitor success are www.officialpokerrankings.com for MTTs, including 180s where by I'm up $2,000, www.sharkscope.com for SNGs and 180s where I'm up $1,150 over 1500 games and www.pokertracker.com for all cash games where by I'm now break even overall, slightly up LHE, OHPL and down at NLH. Yeah a small brag but hell if I'm not winning I'm not going to brag about it, plus I'm a donkey so just winning the odd dollar here or there is nice not that much of it gets to remain in my bankroll which gets eaten up by kids, holidays, oil heating bills you know the drill perhaps 2009 will be the year I win enough to be richer enough to leave 5k in Stars!!
Going forward I'll try and get some things down weekly or even fortnightly because I feel just writing down experiences, hands what not will make me improve and you never know may well help someone else in the same donkey boat, I'm already keen to help a guy I know improve his online game because simply he's good enough but lacks any sort of decent results, confidence online, i.e. he's a fish (props to him however for taking down a 180 the other night).
So what's been happening the last six months, well aside from playing pretty much the week I'm off work and working the week I am, I've cracked my biggest score back in May for $1,297 coming 2nd of 2297 in a $5.50 freezeout, I'll post the complete hand history when I'm back home next week. The tourney really was the first time at the final table I felt ultra confident and if it wasn't for my QQ losing to the other big stacks JJ - 4 handed - I felt I'd have won it easily as it goes 2nd was a pretty good comeback, however I'll bleat on more about it when I've posted the HH. In addition to that I've had another close run in the $3 rebuy coming 18th and in the process having the chip lead from about 200 to go to 50 remaining which was great fun but alas went card dead whilst the blinds turned the event into a crapshoot, message to stars sort the structure of these events out, the $146 I won from that run felt like the worst money I've made which I guess is a good sign. I've had several decent final tables in 180s and the main thing with these is that I feel far more confident, only the other day I finished 3rd and felt severly depressed about it, a year ago that sort of result would have made me jump for joy. The other main thing worth talking about side was my first foray into the Pot Limit Omaha tournament world, played an MTT on Friday an $11 freeze-out with 288 players and somehow managed to come 2nd for $424.80, this event was a real blast and although early doors I felt in somewhat sticky waters due to my propensity to fold, once we got through the bubble things really opened up and I actually played pretty well without having much of a clue, I'll post the HH of this aswell.
So that's about it, I'm not going to post any more goals like making $1k (which I obviously managed) or anything in general but I'll just post when I feel like saying something and keep everyone informed.
Simply profit wise last six months the tools I use to monitor success are www.officialpokerrankings.com for MTTs, including 180s where by I'm up $2,000, www.sharkscope.com for SNGs and 180s where I'm up $1,150 over 1500 games and www.pokertracker.com for all cash games where by I'm now break even overall, slightly up LHE, OHPL and down at NLH. Yeah a small brag but hell if I'm not winning I'm not going to brag about it, plus I'm a donkey so just winning the odd dollar here or there is nice not that much of it gets to remain in my bankroll which gets eaten up by kids, holidays, oil heating bills you know the drill perhaps 2009 will be the year I win enough to be richer enough to leave 5k in Stars!!
Going forward I'll try and get some things down weekly or even fortnightly because I feel just writing down experiences, hands what not will make me improve and you never know may well help someone else in the same donkey boat, I'm already keen to help a guy I know improve his online game because simply he's good enough but lacks any sort of decent results, confidence online, i.e. he's a fish (props to him however for taking down a 180 the other night).
So what's been happening the last six months, well aside from playing pretty much the week I'm off work and working the week I am, I've cracked my biggest score back in May for $1,297 coming 2nd of 2297 in a $5.50 freezeout, I'll post the complete hand history when I'm back home next week. The tourney really was the first time at the final table I felt ultra confident and if it wasn't for my QQ losing to the other big stacks JJ - 4 handed - I felt I'd have won it easily as it goes 2nd was a pretty good comeback, however I'll bleat on more about it when I've posted the HH. In addition to that I've had another close run in the $3 rebuy coming 18th and in the process having the chip lead from about 200 to go to 50 remaining which was great fun but alas went card dead whilst the blinds turned the event into a crapshoot, message to stars sort the structure of these events out, the $146 I won from that run felt like the worst money I've made which I guess is a good sign. I've had several decent final tables in 180s and the main thing with these is that I feel far more confident, only the other day I finished 3rd and felt severly depressed about it, a year ago that sort of result would have made me jump for joy. The other main thing worth talking about side was my first foray into the Pot Limit Omaha tournament world, played an MTT on Friday an $11 freeze-out with 288 players and somehow managed to come 2nd for $424.80, this event was a real blast and although early doors I felt in somewhat sticky waters due to my propensity to fold, once we got through the bubble things really opened up and I actually played pretty well without having much of a clue, I'll post the HH of this aswell.
So that's about it, I'm not going to post any more goals like making $1k (which I obviously managed) or anything in general but I'll just post when I feel like saying something and keep everyone informed.
Wednesday 12 March 2008
Once a month
Sucks eh!
My updating skills are awfully sloppy.
Not a great amount to report, my SNG performances have been rocking up $300 on Sharkscope over the past 60 or so games so at my levels that's awesome, I'll post some pics when I get the chance.
Played a bunch of limit 6 max - mainly break even and had a few tilty sessions on the no-limit ring, which I have no banned myself completely from playing. I may decide to start an objective right from the bottom with ring on a different site to Pokerstars but at present I'm steering clear.
MTTs haven't had the time to play on the whole, played a satellite to the nightly 50k on Stars which I made and then withdrew the buyin so that was a nice $55, which I then deposited on Party Poker and nearly satellited into the $215 buyin 300k event but finished just out of the entrants in a 3r rebuy satellite, was a good crack though and reminded me of how I like playing MTTs over on Party, alas to attempt to clear a bonus I needed to visit the Party Casino as you can imagine that went badly and the $50 I deposited soon dissapeared playing blackjack.
Lesson = Do not chase miniscule bonuses at games I'm not competent with.
Last but not least played my first $4.40 on Stars for about two months on Sunday morning. With 25 left, I was chip leader, I proceeded to donk off and finish 10th!! So that was slightly galling, mind I do seem to be obtaining some nice stacks in longer events for once so am pleased that I've not had to play short stack dynamo every time I sit in anything longer than an 18 man sng.
I'll attempt to update once a week, because once a month is lame. Anyways happy hunting all.
My updating skills are awfully sloppy.
Not a great amount to report, my SNG performances have been rocking up $300 on Sharkscope over the past 60 or so games so at my levels that's awesome, I'll post some pics when I get the chance.
Played a bunch of limit 6 max - mainly break even and had a few tilty sessions on the no-limit ring, which I have no banned myself completely from playing. I may decide to start an objective right from the bottom with ring on a different site to Pokerstars but at present I'm steering clear.
MTTs haven't had the time to play on the whole, played a satellite to the nightly 50k on Stars which I made and then withdrew the buyin so that was a nice $55, which I then deposited on Party Poker and nearly satellited into the $215 buyin 300k event but finished just out of the entrants in a 3r rebuy satellite, was a good crack though and reminded me of how I like playing MTTs over on Party, alas to attempt to clear a bonus I needed to visit the Party Casino as you can imagine that went badly and the $50 I deposited soon dissapeared playing blackjack.
Lesson = Do not chase miniscule bonuses at games I'm not competent with.
Last but not least played my first $4.40 on Stars for about two months on Sunday morning. With 25 left, I was chip leader, I proceeded to donk off and finish 10th!! So that was slightly galling, mind I do seem to be obtaining some nice stacks in longer events for once so am pleased that I've not had to play short stack dynamo every time I sit in anything longer than an 18 man sng.
I'll attempt to update once a week, because once a month is lame. Anyways happy hunting all.
Sunday 17 February 2008
Saturday 16 February 2008
Quiet week
Not much going down . . but I do want to try and get something down on here once a week. Played a little bit during the week nothing overboard just some pot limit $25 full ring, which was a success - well made $8, so that's a success in my book. Also ground out about 100 hands of 6 max limit for $2.25 . . so yeah positives lol!!
Other than that nothing to say poker wise, I've been really trying to get as much knowledge as possible from FTR and am posting more than ever on their, some of the guys have a great deal of knowledge so being able to learn from them is awesome stuff. I'll update again middle of next week when hopefully I'll have a bit more to chat about.
Other than that nothing to say poker wise, I've been really trying to get as much knowledge as possible from FTR and am posting more than ever on their, some of the guys have a great deal of knowledge so being able to learn from them is awesome stuff. I'll update again middle of next week when hopefully I'll have a bit more to chat about.
Wednesday 13 February 2008
I'm still here!
Hello I've not forgotten this just been incredibly lazy with updating. I find it's probably a better idea to only talk about things from time to time than spew on every day about random crap.
Anyways what have I got to tell ya, not much truth be told lol. Played a fair bit last week, nothing this so far and nothing the week previously as I had no access. Last week was to be fair a grind, didn't win anything, didn't lose anything. Going to start using Neteller more which will allow me to experiment with a couple of other sites aswell mainly Party and Sky Poker for MTTs and probably Pacific again for some donkey filled cash.
Ring once again hit me with the varience stick and ultimately I ended up getting slightly frustrated with it, limit is more of a chore than fun but again I do think given some real attention I could beat it for a profit, no-limit well is more of a disaster at present had one tilty session at 0.25/0.5 6 max where by I managed to lose $30 with AA all in preflop vs QQ. Yeah the river was the Q. So that was lame.
MTTs I've hardly played mainly due to time issues, it's good fun making final tables and the like but having the time to sit and play for 5/6 hours to get there just isn't possible, had a couple of decent tourneys but nothing worth shouting about.
SNGs alas have been positive, I've entered into a staking arrangement with a guy on FTR who has enabled me to step up my bankroll to play the $11 9 man sngs and so far after 13 games, I'm sitting with a ROI of 50% and a healthy profit of $78 which means $39 for each of us so that's sweet, ideally I hope to be able to make enough from this arrangement to step up to play them with my own bankroll but currently I've just not got the resources to take varience into account. However 4 wins out of 13 tells me I can definately beat this level.
So that's about it, as I say I will update when anything dramatic happens and will keep you all abreast of matters as I'm determined to keep this thing going. See y'all at the $11 sngs on Stars.
Anyways what have I got to tell ya, not much truth be told lol. Played a fair bit last week, nothing this so far and nothing the week previously as I had no access. Last week was to be fair a grind, didn't win anything, didn't lose anything. Going to start using Neteller more which will allow me to experiment with a couple of other sites aswell mainly Party and Sky Poker for MTTs and probably Pacific again for some donkey filled cash.
Ring once again hit me with the varience stick and ultimately I ended up getting slightly frustrated with it, limit is more of a chore than fun but again I do think given some real attention I could beat it for a profit, no-limit well is more of a disaster at present had one tilty session at 0.25/0.5 6 max where by I managed to lose $30 with AA all in preflop vs QQ. Yeah the river was the Q. So that was lame.
MTTs I've hardly played mainly due to time issues, it's good fun making final tables and the like but having the time to sit and play for 5/6 hours to get there just isn't possible, had a couple of decent tourneys but nothing worth shouting about.
SNGs alas have been positive, I've entered into a staking arrangement with a guy on FTR who has enabled me to step up my bankroll to play the $11 9 man sngs and so far after 13 games, I'm sitting with a ROI of 50% and a healthy profit of $78 which means $39 for each of us so that's sweet, ideally I hope to be able to make enough from this arrangement to step up to play them with my own bankroll but currently I've just not got the resources to take varience into account. However 4 wins out of 13 tells me I can definately beat this level.
So that's about it, as I say I will update when anything dramatic happens and will keep you all abreast of matters as I'm determined to keep this thing going. See y'all at the $11 sngs on Stars.
Monday 28 January 2008
Man I suck at updating this
So it's been over a week . . shame on me regards this anyways some news regards the blog
I've done away with a majority of the stuff I need to update, mainly because I cannot be bothered to lol, no seriously now I've got pokertracker it's more a case of using that as my main tool to record things, I've also done away with the 1k challenge because frankly it's not really motivating me as it should be, ditto the Skeeno vs Fenners comp, I find myself drawn to the MTTs and I keep losing pathetically in them, I obviously still have goals to reach and will update as far as these go but I don't really see the need for me to put everything down on here.
As far as the poker goes . . it sucks basically, last week I must have whacked in over 3000 hands and won absolutely nothing. I was up $100 at one stage, before I managed to donk it all off . . most of it on 25NL sigh. The bankroll is exactly what it was at the start of the previous week, the only thing I've accumulated is about 1000FPPs.
Did however put in a serious amount of time at Limit Ring, which is something I'm going to be playing a fair amount of, ain't it funny how one week I say I'm going to concentrate on sngs the next it's ring lol. Anyways . .
758 hands at 0.5/1 6 Max Limit - profit of minus 15 cents!!! Yeah freaking amazing hehe, I was however up some $55 after about 500 hands and running at a BB/hour rate of 12 which is amazingly hot, so with that I feel I can probably with some thinking, reading and sanity beat it.
125 hands at 0.5/1 Full - profit of $6.55 - best to concentrate on full ring.
334 hands at 0.25/0.5 Full - profit of minus $7 - again most of this due to one tilting session and one hand I vastly over played when villain had AA vs my AQ.
Other than that I've dabbled with no limit ring, without any success - some serious flaws there, so I'm avoiding it. SNGs been going okay . . . I'll try and post a picture of them from the new sharktracker tool thing from Arcatum, it doesn't list the $3.40 10 mans but other than that all SNGs inc 9, 45, 180 mans are in there, I've been doing okay in the single table jobs so will continue beating the crap out of them. MTTs bascially I've been sucking in, so will probably avoid, was going really well in a $2.75 job the other night until my AA got cracked by a big stacks A10 with about 300 left sigh.
So that's about it, I will offer more of a thought process to this blog in future posts and less of a stat based/target one. More to come later this week, I'm away and having a complete break this week so it's time for reading and learning with a break from the tables.
Friday 18 January 2008
SNGs for the win
Hello again, long time no see . . I've not played much since the last update but here's what I have played.
$3.25 35/45 (-$3.25)
$5.50 33/64 (-$5.50)
$11 1/5 PFF Tourney easy money that ($14)
Cash not been going great managed to stack off with AQ yet again.
10nl - down ($15.65)
5nl - up ($36c)
SNG wise
$5.50 1/9 ($17)
$6.50 5/18 ($-6.50)
$5.50 3/9 ($3.50)
$11 3/9 ($7)
$6.50 1/18 ($36.70)
So an overall profit recently of $47.66 which is nice.
I've decided I'm really going to concentrate on SNGs aswell, mainly because I think it's probably the strongest part of my game, ring makes me feel great making a profit but I just feel I don't have any kind of edge on any other players, I tend to overplay TPTK and stack off to easily. I'll probably move down to 5nl 6 max aswell if I do play it but I'm going to concentrate on just making a profit at the $5.50/$11 9 mans with the odd $6.50 18 man turbo throw in and the odd dip into ring and MTTs when I'm feeling frisky! Plenty of comments on the FTR experiment are now posted on the forum the link is here:
http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/forum/january-2008-sng-experiment-hhs-t65721.html
Catch you all laters.
$3.25 35/45 (-$3.25)
$5.50 33/64 (-$5.50)
$11 1/5 PFF Tourney easy money that ($14)
Cash not been going great managed to stack off with AQ yet again.
10nl - down ($15.65)
5nl - up ($36c)
SNG wise
$5.50 1/9 ($17)
$6.50 5/18 ($-6.50)
$5.50 3/9 ($3.50)
$11 3/9 ($7)
$6.50 1/18 ($36.70)
So an overall profit recently of $47.66 which is nice.
I've decided I'm really going to concentrate on SNGs aswell, mainly because I think it's probably the strongest part of my game, ring makes me feel great making a profit but I just feel I don't have any kind of edge on any other players, I tend to overplay TPTK and stack off to easily. I'll probably move down to 5nl 6 max aswell if I do play it but I'm going to concentrate on just making a profit at the $5.50/$11 9 mans with the odd $6.50 18 man turbo throw in and the odd dip into ring and MTTs when I'm feeling frisky! Plenty of comments on the FTR experiment are now posted on the forum the link is here:
http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/forum/january-2008-sng-experiment-hhs-t65721.html
Catch you all laters.
Saturday 12 January 2008
A belated update
Okay here goes recent results . .
$5.50 673/2789 (-$5.50)
$2.20 702/1906 (-$2.20)
$6.50 7/45 ($5.50)
$2.20 1st Tie/135 ($8.80)
$2.20 22/2769 - ($7) so near yet so far lol
Profit there of $13.60 wahey
SNGs have been going badly . .
$5.50 2/9 ($8) FTR SNG Experiment, more about this later
$6.50 9/9 (-$6.50)
$6.50 3/9 ($4.30)
$6.50 4/9 (-$6.50)
$6.50 7/9 (-$6.50)
$6.50 3/9 ($4.30)
$6.50 16/18 (-$6.50)
$6.50 9/18 (-$6.50)
$6.50 3/18 ($15.10)
$6.50 5/18 (-$6.50)
$6.50 18/18 (-$6.50)
$6.50 14/18 (-$6.50)
$6.50 5/18 (-$6.50)
So a bit of a disaster all that bubble mania. And a grand loss of $26.80.
Last but not least cash haha.
0.05/0.1 6 max. Profit of $26.20 over some 400 hands so nice. My current stats at 0.05/0.10 are reasonable somehow.
Played 616 hands for a grand profit overall of $18.15 at a BB/Hr rate of 13.75 which is well decent, I'll be sticking to this level and attempting to kill it, I'll post some hands when I get the chance.
Also played stupidly.
0.5/1 Limit lost $12.55
0.10/0.25 nl 6 max lost $11.80
0.25/0.5 nl 6 max won $9.15
So yeah pretty tilty lol and a grand total overall on cash lately of $11 ha and overall from an absolute shedload of hands a grand profit for the bankroll challenge of wait for it . . .
-$2.20
I'll update the Skeenobeener vs Fenners thing later not many games been played and before I go how about this for the most stupid call of the year . .
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1933533
$5.50 673/2789 (-$5.50)
$2.20 702/1906 (-$2.20)
$6.50 7/45 ($5.50)
$2.20 1st Tie/135 ($8.80)
$2.20 22/2769 - ($7) so near yet so far lol
Profit there of $13.60 wahey
SNGs have been going badly . .
$5.50 2/9 ($8) FTR SNG Experiment, more about this later
$6.50 9/9 (-$6.50)
$6.50 3/9 ($4.30)
$6.50 4/9 (-$6.50)
$6.50 7/9 (-$6.50)
$6.50 3/9 ($4.30)
$6.50 16/18 (-$6.50)
$6.50 9/18 (-$6.50)
$6.50 3/18 ($15.10)
$6.50 5/18 (-$6.50)
$6.50 18/18 (-$6.50)
$6.50 14/18 (-$6.50)
$6.50 5/18 (-$6.50)
So a bit of a disaster all that bubble mania. And a grand loss of $26.80.
Last but not least cash haha.
0.05/0.1 6 max. Profit of $26.20 over some 400 hands so nice. My current stats at 0.05/0.10 are reasonable somehow.
Played 616 hands for a grand profit overall of $18.15 at a BB/Hr rate of 13.75 which is well decent, I'll be sticking to this level and attempting to kill it, I'll post some hands when I get the chance.
Also played stupidly.
0.5/1 Limit lost $12.55
0.10/0.25 nl 6 max lost $11.80
0.25/0.5 nl 6 max won $9.15
So yeah pretty tilty lol and a grand total overall on cash lately of $11 ha and overall from an absolute shedload of hands a grand profit for the bankroll challenge of wait for it . . .
-$2.20
I'll update the Skeenobeener vs Fenners thing later not many games been played and before I go how about this for the most stupid call of the year . .
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1933533
Wednesday 9 January 2008
Anyone spot me playing cash?
If you did and can legitamately prove it, then I'll send you $5.
Anyways been playing cash again - as if you couldn't guess, ha. However been going ok, playing full ring limit holdem . . mainly because Stars had a technical upgrade, anyways quick update of all the games I've been playing over the past few days . . cash first, then sngs, then sngs qualifying for the Skeenobeener v Fenners challenge.
0.10/0.25 limit full ring ($2.20)
0.10/0.25 no limit 6 max (-$7.25)
0.25/0.5 limit full ring ($1.90)
0.25/0.5 limit 6 max (-$1.50)
0.5/1 limit full ring ($7.40)
Total $2.75 (hardly worth it lol; mind without that escapade into no-limit it would have been $10, so a start, thats probably over approx 500 odd hands)
5/10 $3.40 (-$3.40)
7/10 $3.40 (-$3.40)
3/10 $3.40 ($2.60)
6/18 $6.50 (-$6.50)
5/10 $3.40 (-$3.40)
4/18 $1.75 ($1)
Total -$13.10
Then the 45/180 and MTT jobs.
4/45 $3.25
10/45 $3.25
727/1615 $8.80
17/45 $3.25
32/45 $3.25
15/45 $3.25
13/45 $3.25
65/99 $2.20
1/45 $5.50
31/45 $3.25
10/45 $3.25
23/45 $3.25
3/45 $3.25
23/45 $3.25
1524/2626 $5.50
Total $46
So an overall total profit for everything since Monday of $35.65, not to be sniffed at eh.
Moving on, Fenners has scored nothing of note lately, so wee I'm in the lead, no real surprise hehe. I'm getting pokertracker today so will be inputting zillions of hands and probably looking to improve my limit stats. Playing the FTR SNG challenge thing tonight so I'll update on that and link the relevant thread, don't play all that many 9 man jobs but if it helps me win the PFF challenge more than anything then that's brilliant.
Anyways been playing cash again - as if you couldn't guess, ha. However been going ok, playing full ring limit holdem . . mainly because Stars had a technical upgrade, anyways quick update of all the games I've been playing over the past few days . . cash first, then sngs, then sngs qualifying for the Skeenobeener v Fenners challenge.
0.10/0.25 limit full ring ($2.20)
0.10/0.25 no limit 6 max (-$7.25)
0.25/0.5 limit full ring ($1.90)
0.25/0.5 limit 6 max (-$1.50)
0.5/1 limit full ring ($7.40)
Total $2.75 (hardly worth it lol; mind without that escapade into no-limit it would have been $10, so a start, thats probably over approx 500 odd hands)
5/10 $3.40 (-$3.40)
7/10 $3.40 (-$3.40)
3/10 $3.40 ($2.60)
6/18 $6.50 (-$6.50)
5/10 $3.40 (-$3.40)
4/18 $1.75 ($1)
Total -$13.10
Then the 45/180 and MTT jobs.
4/45 $3.25
10/45 $3.25
727/1615 $8.80
17/45 $3.25
32/45 $3.25
15/45 $3.25
13/45 $3.25
65/99 $2.20
1/45 $5.50
31/45 $3.25
10/45 $3.25
23/45 $3.25
3/45 $3.25
23/45 $3.25
1524/2626 $5.50
Total $46
So an overall total profit for everything since Monday of $35.65, not to be sniffed at eh.
Moving on, Fenners has scored nothing of note lately, so wee I'm in the lead, no real surprise hehe. I'm getting pokertracker today so will be inputting zillions of hands and probably looking to improve my limit stats. Playing the FTR SNG challenge thing tonight so I'll update on that and link the relevant thread, don't play all that many 9 man jobs but if it helps me win the PFF challenge more than anything then that's brilliant.
Sunday 6 January 2008
FA Cup sucks anyways
No poker since last update, but I have updated the Skeenobeener v Fenners section. Fenners put in a fair whack over the last couple of days and but for sneaking a win in $5.50 45 man he'd be adrift, as it is well he's in positive and i'm in negative. Still some 360 days to go. Next week I'm going to dominate.
On other matters Mark Halsey's a clown. Adios until Monday . . .
On other matters Mark Halsey's a clown. Adios until Monday . . .
Saturday 5 January 2008
Least said the better . . .
Okay let’s get the bad stuff out of the way.
$3.25 21/45 – standard, short lose a race
$3.25 8/45 – this one was very amusing, final table I played completely maniacally . . . I’ll post the hands when I get home. They are good for a laugh, conceivably I could have cashed but meh.
$3.25 23/45 – flop a set – end up all in – lose to AJ runner runner wtf!
$12 98/180 – element of the tilt monster playing this, bluffed at a very bad time
$6.50 41/45 – terrible bluff went wrong few hands after having to lay down AQ on board of Q56
$3.25 28/45 – uninteresting
$3.25 5/45 – a cash at last
So from that lot a very pathetic return of -$24.75 not good in the grand scheme of things!!
Also played –
$3.40 6/10 – AK lost to 1010
25nl – yeah I know, bad tilty and all that, however I was pretty solid and walked off with $4.15 profit wahey . . . so overall a grand loss for the day $24. I’ll update Fenners latest batch of scores after I’ve checked OPR, I do know he went pretty far in the $3 rebuy before trying to extract to much value with AQ on a board of QQ72 – two spades, villain hit flush on river. Anyways enough of that good job it’s a year long thing hehe.
Moving on I’ve made a few bullet-proof points which I’ve gleaned from FTR and pretty much these ring so true I’m going to nail them to my laptop, I’ve also made some belated New Year’s Resolution away from the tables.
Resolutions
· Sort Finances out
· Eat less junk
· Drink less
· Get fitter
Poker Thoughts
· Bet your big hands
· Don’t get married to TPTK
· Evaluate board after every card, take time
· Evaluate remaining players in pot, what are they like manic, passive, aggro, tight, tricky etc
· Position, Position, Position
· Continuation bets at raggedy flops if raised pre – shut down on co-ordinated flops multiway, spew otherwise
· Confidence – just because KK never wins, always raise it, always look to get all in pre-flop
· Abuse the bubble constantly
Some worthwhile quotes from FTR members, there’s plenty more – but along with the above remembering all of it will help more than anything. As an aside I don’t want to get way too much information in my head, I naturally know to shove 93o from the SB vs the BB if we’ve both got an M of 5 and likewise.
· Only one thing to say about KK, if you raised preflop and got a caller, an A hits and villain bets into you he has an A more often then not.
· Learn about position. Really, just sticking to the following is a good start: Cut the table in half in your mind: the blinds and the last three positions are places you can make moves IF other people haven't committed many chips to the pot. The rest of the table is for only playing GOOD cards. KQ+ and AJ+ at a minimum. As people get knocked out, remove one position from the "I can't make plays here" side until you're short-handed and it's viable to raise any two from anywhere.
· The only times I limp preflop are early in the tourney with pocket pairs (playing for set value) or suited connectors in position and preferably with multiple limpers in front.
· Realise that bad, horrible, appalling, one-outer beats do happen... ...and that the best way to console yourself is to be sure that you got your money in as a favourite - if you did, there is nothing else you can do, you effectively won. Your AA will be cracked by rubbish like QTs 19.5% of the time when your preflop push is called BUT the other 80.5% of the time you double up/take opp's whole stack. The question to ask yourself is "would I have played differently?" and if the answer is "no", then be happy whatever the results might be.
· Don’t call all-in with less than two pair if your flop bet is called and opp pushes on the turn. Sure, sometimes you fold the best hand but more often than not opp will have the goods.
So that’s it, there’s thousands more to read about and digest but I think following the above will help. Lastly I’ve decided that to beat the Fenman I’m going to be solely concentrating on the following games.
· $4.40 180
· $3.25 45 turbo
· $6.50 45 turbo
· $5.50 45 slow
· $3.40 10 turbo – mainly to mix things up
· $5.50 9/18/27 slow – to boost the bankroll
· MTTS all under $5 – 100k job only if I satellite in
If anyone finds me playing anything else I’ll donate $10 to your account. Good luck all let’s hope next update is a happier one. I’ll update the right hand side tomorrow.
$3.25 21/45 – standard, short lose a race
$3.25 8/45 – this one was very amusing, final table I played completely maniacally . . . I’ll post the hands when I get home. They are good for a laugh, conceivably I could have cashed but meh.
$3.25 23/45 – flop a set – end up all in – lose to AJ runner runner wtf!
$12 98/180 – element of the tilt monster playing this, bluffed at a very bad time
$6.50 41/45 – terrible bluff went wrong few hands after having to lay down AQ on board of Q56
$3.25 28/45 – uninteresting
$3.25 5/45 – a cash at last
So from that lot a very pathetic return of -$24.75 not good in the grand scheme of things!!
Also played –
$3.40 6/10 – AK lost to 1010
25nl – yeah I know, bad tilty and all that, however I was pretty solid and walked off with $4.15 profit wahey . . . so overall a grand loss for the day $24. I’ll update Fenners latest batch of scores after I’ve checked OPR, I do know he went pretty far in the $3 rebuy before trying to extract to much value with AQ on a board of QQ72 – two spades, villain hit flush on river. Anyways enough of that good job it’s a year long thing hehe.
Moving on I’ve made a few bullet-proof points which I’ve gleaned from FTR and pretty much these ring so true I’m going to nail them to my laptop, I’ve also made some belated New Year’s Resolution away from the tables.
Resolutions
· Sort Finances out
· Eat less junk
· Drink less
· Get fitter
Poker Thoughts
· Bet your big hands
· Don’t get married to TPTK
· Evaluate board after every card, take time
· Evaluate remaining players in pot, what are they like manic, passive, aggro, tight, tricky etc
· Position, Position, Position
· Continuation bets at raggedy flops if raised pre – shut down on co-ordinated flops multiway, spew otherwise
· Confidence – just because KK never wins, always raise it, always look to get all in pre-flop
· Abuse the bubble constantly
Some worthwhile quotes from FTR members, there’s plenty more – but along with the above remembering all of it will help more than anything. As an aside I don’t want to get way too much information in my head, I naturally know to shove 93o from the SB vs the BB if we’ve both got an M of 5 and likewise.
· Only one thing to say about KK, if you raised preflop and got a caller, an A hits and villain bets into you he has an A more often then not.
· Learn about position. Really, just sticking to the following is a good start: Cut the table in half in your mind: the blinds and the last three positions are places you can make moves IF other people haven't committed many chips to the pot. The rest of the table is for only playing GOOD cards. KQ+ and AJ+ at a minimum. As people get knocked out, remove one position from the "I can't make plays here" side until you're short-handed and it's viable to raise any two from anywhere.
· The only times I limp preflop are early in the tourney with pocket pairs (playing for set value) or suited connectors in position and preferably with multiple limpers in front.
· Realise that bad, horrible, appalling, one-outer beats do happen... ...and that the best way to console yourself is to be sure that you got your money in as a favourite - if you did, there is nothing else you can do, you effectively won. Your AA will be cracked by rubbish like QTs 19.5% of the time when your preflop push is called BUT the other 80.5% of the time you double up/take opp's whole stack. The question to ask yourself is "would I have played differently?" and if the answer is "no", then be happy whatever the results might be.
· Don’t call all-in with less than two pair if your flop bet is called and opp pushes on the turn. Sure, sometimes you fold the best hand but more often than not opp will have the goods.
So that’s it, there’s thousands more to read about and digest but I think following the above will help. Lastly I’ve decided that to beat the Fenman I’m going to be solely concentrating on the following games.
· $4.40 180
· $3.25 45 turbo
· $6.50 45 turbo
· $5.50 45 slow
· $3.40 10 turbo – mainly to mix things up
· $5.50 9/18/27 slow – to boost the bankroll
· MTTS all under $5 – 100k job only if I satellite in
If anyone finds me playing anything else I’ll donate $10 to your account. Good luck all let’s hope next update is a happier one. I’ll update the right hand side tomorrow.
Thursday 3 January 2008
Quick Update
Fenners has been sticking in some volume to take an early lead. My performance today was limp.
$3.25 42/45 - this hand all you need to know http://www.pokerhand.org/?1889601
$3.25 13/45 - standard, shortish around bubble lost a race
$3.25 5/45 - shoved K 10 with 4 BBs ran into 99, lost
$5.50 11/45 - another standard short around bubble lost
Anyways grand profit or lack of it of -$3.25, Fenners meanwhile has racked up 19 45 mans already and gained a profit so far of $11.75, so I'm already sinking behind.
$3.25 42/45 - this hand all you need to know http://www.pokerhand.org/?1889601
$3.25 13/45 - standard, shortish around bubble lost a race
$3.25 5/45 - shoved K 10 with 4 BBs ran into 99, lost
$5.50 11/45 - another standard short around bubble lost
Anyways grand profit or lack of it of -$3.25, Fenners meanwhile has racked up 19 45 mans already and gained a profit so far of $11.75, so I'm already sinking behind.
Wednesday 2 January 2008
Me vs Fenman
Today's games were pretty trivial.
8/10 $3.40 JJ loses to AK
4/10 $3.40 SB/BB Special my 55 shove called by his 77
3/10 $3.40 88 loses to 66 all in pre
3/18 $5.50 Got berated a little for my SB K7 shove beating the short BB's QQ. Get used to it really circa the bubble, happens. So a grand profit today of $8.30!!
Anyways on to another matter - the challenge is on from today I'm going to check both mine and Fenners8 OPR stats during the year to see who performs better and the see who can claim to be the better player in 2008 in 45s/180s and MTTs. Stats to start from today 2/1 mainly because Fenners scored a nice 2nd in a 45 man last night lol.
8/10 $3.40 JJ loses to AK
4/10 $3.40 SB/BB Special my 55 shove called by his 77
3/10 $3.40 88 loses to 66 all in pre
3/18 $5.50 Got berated a little for my SB K7 shove beating the short BB's QQ. Get used to it really circa the bubble, happens. So a grand profit today of $8.30!!
Anyways on to another matter - the challenge is on from today I'm going to check both mine and Fenners8 OPR stats during the year to see who performs better and the see who can claim to be the better player in 2008 in 45s/180s and MTTs. Stats to start from today 2/1 mainly because Fenners scored a nice 2nd in a 45 man last night lol.
Happy New Year
Happy New Year.
So 2008 is upon us, another year over a new one begins, hope everyone had a top few days. Played a few games since the last update it's been a continued curse of AJ mainly - seems to be a hand I very rarely win with yet others continually suck out on me with it. It's rivalling KK for my most hated hand. I haven't yet gone over the 180 man but I'll attempt to get back and analyse it and perhaps offer some comments on my ability to donk a way to the final three lol.
Anyways here's the finer points all the MTTs and 45 man jobs are tracked from here http://www.officialpokerrankings.com/pokerstars/skeenobeener/poker/results/535A406F4086402ABD7B043A4A730FF0.html?t=2 so may aswell use em.
$6.5 16/45
$6.5 26/45
$3.25 13/45
$3.25 15/45
$6.5 2/45
$6.5 11/45
$6.5 24/45
$3.25 27/45
$12 180/78
$3.25 13/45
$3.3 68/899
Profit of $14.95 from that batch, mainly due to the 2nd place. As I say not much else went right lost plenty of races in the others, with one of the 45 mans so sick I felt the tilt monster eager to reappear. AK losing to AJ then AA losing to AJ. The 899 MTT was pretty sick this hand was the key one and as per usual I lost with KK http://www.pokerhand.org/?1882267. As for the smaller fields -
$6.50 10/18
$6.50 4/18
$6.50 13/18
$6.50 11/18
$6.50 8/18
Loss of $21.90 - pretty standard couple of races lost, couple of dodgy moves
$3.40 4/10
$3.40 4/10
$3.40 7/10
Loss of $10.20 - sigh bit of bubble beats there, in one AQ lost to a shorties KK then my shove with 10J ran into AA in the other my two pair BB special hit a set, goodnight.
$6.50 1/9
Profit of 20.50 - I really should play more of these.
$3.25 1/6
Profit of 3.05 - Boring but a profit.
So SNG and MTT wise since last update - a resounding profit of $6.40 amazing, a profit all the same. However the dreaded cash/alcohol curse struck again and what makes it more irritating is both times I played ring I was looking at a healthy profit - and yeah I played way out of my bankroll in the second session but an element of grolsch and losing another suckout in a 45man did it to me, I even asked stars to ban me from the ring games. It's deffo one of my resolutions to not play em in the coming year at least until I have the patience and ability to lay down some hands, anyways . . .
10nl - loss of 7.55 was up 8 then lost a $21 pot with AK vs 33 on a flop of AA3 - so bad beat.
50nl (yeah I know) - quickly got up to $65 with some pretty aggressive positional poker, perhaps I can actually take something from this session, managed to donk the lot by overplaying A10 and calling an all in move, villain had rivered the flush. Not a beat, just a pretty awful call which cost me $30. So ring cost me $37.55, so a total loss of $31.15 since last update.
So that's pretty much it, http://www.officialpokerrankings.com/ is a nice site and I'm pretty pleased with my ranks in both the overall OPR Rank and Stars Rank, however needless to say I'm aiming to continue to improving this, it's also nice to be rated ahead of the likes of Fenners and Keji, not hard really (I may entertain the idea of running a year long prop-bet against em to see who will perform better this year). Just as an aside here's there current SharkScope ratings time to catch Fenners . . .
fenners8
Kejipiero
skeenobeener
I will be keeping a close eye on my progress on the OPR and will probably as a result stick to the 45 mans, 180 mans more so than anything else. That's all for now, work this week so volume will be low. Happy hunting.
So 2008 is upon us, another year over a new one begins, hope everyone had a top few days. Played a few games since the last update it's been a continued curse of AJ mainly - seems to be a hand I very rarely win with yet others continually suck out on me with it. It's rivalling KK for my most hated hand. I haven't yet gone over the 180 man but I'll attempt to get back and analyse it and perhaps offer some comments on my ability to donk a way to the final three lol.
Anyways here's the finer points all the MTTs and 45 man jobs are tracked from here http://www.officialpokerrankings.com/pokerstars/skeenobeener/poker/results/535A406F4086402ABD7B043A4A730FF0.html?t=2 so may aswell use em.
$6.5 16/45
$6.5 26/45
$3.25 13/45
$3.25 15/45
$6.5 2/45
$6.5 11/45
$6.5 24/45
$3.25 27/45
$12 180/78
$3.25 13/45
$3.3 68/899
Profit of $14.95 from that batch, mainly due to the 2nd place. As I say not much else went right lost plenty of races in the others, with one of the 45 mans so sick I felt the tilt monster eager to reappear. AK losing to AJ then AA losing to AJ. The 899 MTT was pretty sick this hand was the key one and as per usual I lost with KK http://www.pokerhand.org/?1882267. As for the smaller fields -
$6.50 10/18
$6.50 4/18
$6.50 13/18
$6.50 11/18
$6.50 8/18
Loss of $21.90 - pretty standard couple of races lost, couple of dodgy moves
$3.40 4/10
$3.40 4/10
$3.40 7/10
Loss of $10.20 - sigh bit of bubble beats there, in one AQ lost to a shorties KK then my shove with 10J ran into AA in the other my two pair BB special hit a set, goodnight.
$6.50 1/9
Profit of 20.50 - I really should play more of these.
$3.25 1/6
Profit of 3.05 - Boring but a profit.
So SNG and MTT wise since last update - a resounding profit of $6.40 amazing, a profit all the same. However the dreaded cash/alcohol curse struck again and what makes it more irritating is both times I played ring I was looking at a healthy profit - and yeah I played way out of my bankroll in the second session but an element of grolsch and losing another suckout in a 45man did it to me, I even asked stars to ban me from the ring games. It's deffo one of my resolutions to not play em in the coming year at least until I have the patience and ability to lay down some hands, anyways . . .
10nl - loss of 7.55 was up 8 then lost a $21 pot with AK vs 33 on a flop of AA3 - so bad beat.
50nl (yeah I know) - quickly got up to $65 with some pretty aggressive positional poker, perhaps I can actually take something from this session, managed to donk the lot by overplaying A10 and calling an all in move, villain had rivered the flush. Not a beat, just a pretty awful call which cost me $30. So ring cost me $37.55, so a total loss of $31.15 since last update.
So that's pretty much it, http://www.officialpokerrankings.com/ is a nice site and I'm pretty pleased with my ranks in both the overall OPR Rank and Stars Rank, however needless to say I'm aiming to continue to improving this, it's also nice to be rated ahead of the likes of Fenners and Keji, not hard really (I may entertain the idea of running a year long prop-bet against em to see who will perform better this year). Just as an aside here's there current SharkScope ratings time to catch Fenners . . .
fenners8
Kejipiero
skeenobeener
I will be keeping a close eye on my progress on the OPR and will probably as a result stick to the 45 mans, 180 mans more so than anything else. That's all for now, work this week so volume will be low. Happy hunting.
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