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.
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