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.