Ship the loot . .

So I hope everyone had a good xmas, mine was good fun, well for the kids anyways - got a few pressies which is always nice and a fair helping of beer and food. I need to shove about 3 stone as a result I think lol.

Poker wise things are looking up

• 10nl - lost (-$4.40)
• 3.25 24/45 santa didnt bring me any luck got all in with a 3k stack blinds 100/200 on a flop of 2 6 9, with AA villain had 9 10turn 10! (-$3.25)
• 1.10 MTT 2179/2456 QQ>KK standard early cooler (-$1.10)
• 3.40 8/10 sigh all 10 remain at 100/200 turns into a monster luckbox. (-$3.40)
• 10nl - won!! ($4.95)
• omaha 5pl - lost (-$1.30)
• omaha 2.20 mtt 414/479 totally pointless lol (-$2.20)
• 3.40 8/10 (-$3.40)
• 3.40 2/10 ($5.60)
• 5.50 mtt 2216/2905 (-$5.50)
• 2.20 sat to 100k 21/36. (-$2.20)
• 4.40 34/180 - Shoved A10 pretty short into AK. gg (-$4.40)
• 4.40 3/180 - Hallejuh, I'll prob stick this into the FTR tourney trimmer, was pretty mental. ($81.26)
• 3.25 20/45 ended up all in with A6 vs QK he ended with 4 outs and hit no surprise. ($-3.25)
• 3.40 4/10 shoved at bubble with QK into 99 and JJ; 9s hit quads. (-$3.40)
• 3.25 1/45 wee, pretty standard - won a few races, heads up my QK beat 22, the hand below was a lovely way to get a nice stack. http://www.pokerhand.org/?1862655 ($38.75)

So overall a nice tidy profit since the break, I'll comment more on the 180 man at a later date, it's nice that the deal with Shane has worked pretty quickly in terms of numbers of game, I really probably should have won it but there you go. Laters . .

Have a merry Xmas

Not much to say, haven't played since Friday, prob won't play again till Boxing Day at the earliest.

Here's my aims for early 2008.

1) Complete the goal of this blog. Making $1000 clear profit.
2) Continue the blog, it's a good way of reminding myself where I've come from, mistakes I'm making what not.
3) Concentrate on a single game, be it no-limit, limit, omaha. Ring, SNGs, MTTs and absolutely kill it. For instance concentrate on playing solely $3.40 10 mans until I'm absolutely killing them or playing the $4.40 180 mans until likewise. I will probably decide to only play these on stars and stick to that, save for the odd MTT.
4) Look at increasing bankroll on CDPoker and using all the bonuses, free tourney tickets available.

That's it mainly nothing too difficult, the sooner these are completed the better.
Have a merry xmas everyone and catch you all laters . .

Cash does my freaking nut in . .

So I played for a couple more hours yesterday.

• $4.40 65/180. Got into a pickle chip wise ended up shoving 99 insta called (I mean insta like no thought) by A4 gg wtf. (-$4.40)
• $3.25 2/45. Wee - pretty similar to yesterday's 10/45 but alas I didn't shove into a monster, well actually I did shove AJ into QQ with 8 left but fortunately the flop peeled 235, turn 4, river alas an ace. However I pretty much played the final table aggro, picking off spots, heads up the chipleader had a 3-1 lead and my KJ shove with 2000/4000 blinds was beaten by Q8. ($26.75)
• 25nl. Start $25 - End $7.25 - Loss (-$17.75) That alas doesn't tell the whole story. My biggest three pre-flop hands all were shat on guess that's the nature of cash, the first two are pretty straight forward folds, although hand 2 I'm just aiming to set-hunt, the third hits a dreamy flop and well perhaps I'm playing it too cute, I dunno . . . all a learning process.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1839876

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1839878

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1839882

So overall not a particularly handsome session profit wise, although if that QQ hand holds up I'm looking at a decent $40 profit for a couple of hours play.

So I lied . .

Well kind of anyways, have got in some poker this week via the local Internet Cafe. It does cost 50p an hour but at least I can get some hands in lol.

Anyways not a great deal to report I've been browsing the forums mainly trying to continue learning which is something I'll spend a fair whack of time doing when I'm away from home. Both www.pocketfives.com and www.flopturnriver.com have a fair amount of strategy articles and hand advice type articles to pick up tips. Although P5's seems to have degenerated into a popularity contest more than an actual helpful resource, anyways this section here of FTR is a goldmine http://poker-strategy.flopturnriver.com/ and if you haven't read it, I suggest you do so, it discusses several different areas of the game but you can go in and read certain articles on different strategy in the Poker Forum itself.

As for the poker . .

Wed 19/12

• 25nl - start $25 ended at $16.45. (-$8.55)
• 0.25/0.5 limit - start $20 ended at $15.15 (-$4.85)
• $12 180 man 13/180 ($11.74) - Bit of a crapshoot and never really acquired much of a stack in the end it was push/fold mode and my 8K was demolished by A9, still cashing made up for the cash game antics.

Thur 20/12

• $4.40 180 man 152/180 (-$4.40) - Decided to play more aggresively early on than normal and my A 10 raise hit a dreamy flop 4 way of A 10 6 only to get sucked out on a 7 8 despite my pot size raise, so outdrawn by a donk without the odds!
• $3.25 18/45 (-$3.25) - Made a bad shove early with AJ following a mini-raise which was AK wtf! Then played short-stack dynamo before getting screwed over by Q9 vs my AK.
• $6.50 9/9 (-$6.50) - Say no more.
• $3.25 10/45 (-3.25) - Again looked to play hyper aggro and must have won 5 of 6 pots prior to shoving JK into JJ near final table bubble.
• 25nl - start $25 ended at $29.85. ($4.85) Wee a cash profit

So overall not great . . but I'm not too disheartened as I set out to play super aggro - I'm pretty confident the last 45 man if I'd played tighter I'd have cashed but hell that sucks at times, I'll discuss my goals for 2008 in the next post, one of which is going to have to be sticking to a set game, more than likely the 180 $4.40's as I'm determined to crack them and in the process deliver that promise to Shanetrain. Adios amigos.

Time for a break

So xmas is upon us and sadly work again. No laptop again this week so it will be no poker probably until after the holidays - other things dictate things this time of year. Played one $3.25 yesterday whilst browsing through emails and finished a pretty lame 9th of 45. Better than recent performances but a lack of cards and an agressive table on the final table bubble left me pretty short. Anyways I'll post some goals for 2008 before the break but other than that it's pretty much it for the blog. So merry xmas one and all . . . (that's if anyone reads this tripe lol).