I'm backing the Frog!

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.

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.

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.

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.