Monday, 31 December 2007
Sunday, 30 December 2007
Im Done With 2007
Ok so thats it for 2007 for me . I have posted the majority of my monthly
figures in a previous post . But here are Decembers final results
Its certainly been an interesting year poker wise . I started off in January winning 2 $30 party tournaments with about 300 players for about $3500 . I decided to join cardrunners in a bid to refine my tournament skills an by May / June im playing cash games 50nl
To be honest until recnetly i hadnt felt like i was really achieving much but this month i certainly have had the ive got it moment at 50nl at least
In the strategy section of CR i posted my Stats for the year and got some informative replies about my game . There must have been some Freudian thing going on as on of the replies mentioned STRATEGY !! This is what i have been missing .
I think it was highlighted in a qui by Verneer when he asked what a particular Raise should be after 1 limper My answer was 4BB plus 1 BB for the limper Correct answer
However , there was no reason behind it It was just a robotic thing to do . But it is to isolate the limper , drive out any weaker hands that may be waiting to limp
I think i have been playing poker without any real strategy . I often fail to recognise the strengths or weaknesses of other players and frequently would just play the cards . As opposed to the opponents . I also am working on my hand ranges more too
Any way i think i mentioned that i may take a stab at 100 nl but i think i may stick to 50nl in Jan to see if there has been a movemnet in my play or if it was a lucky month ?
I am over 8.51 BB/100 this month and i know that is good . I have also been very disciplined with my play this month only a couple of times did i stray into 100nl territory
Anyway Happy New Year All
Heres To 2008
figures in a previous post . But here are Decembers final results
Its certainly been an interesting year poker wise . I started off in January winning 2 $30 party tournaments with about 300 players for about $3500 . I decided to join cardrunners in a bid to refine my tournament skills an by May / June im playing cash games 50nl
To be honest until recnetly i hadnt felt like i was really achieving much but this month i certainly have had the ive got it moment at 50nl at least
In the strategy section of CR i posted my Stats for the year and got some informative replies about my game . There must have been some Freudian thing going on as on of the replies mentioned STRATEGY !! This is what i have been missing .
I think it was highlighted in a qui by Verneer when he asked what a particular Raise should be after 1 limper My answer was 4BB plus 1 BB for the limper Correct answer
However , there was no reason behind it It was just a robotic thing to do . But it is to isolate the limper , drive out any weaker hands that may be waiting to limp
I think i have been playing poker without any real strategy . I often fail to recognise the strengths or weaknesses of other players and frequently would just play the cards . As opposed to the opponents . I also am working on my hand ranges more too
Any way i think i mentioned that i may take a stab at 100 nl but i think i may stick to 50nl in Jan to see if there has been a movemnet in my play or if it was a lucky month ?
I am over 8.51 BB/100 this month and i know that is good . I have also been very disciplined with my play this month only a couple of times did i stray into 100nl territory
Anyway Happy New Year All
Heres To 2008
Saturday, 29 December 2007
December Update - Still Playing
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I really dont think its fair to post hands like these but WTF !!
www.pokerhand.org/?1870202
On This Table ? again WTF
I really dont think its fair to post hands like these but WTF !!
www.pokerhand.org/?1870202
On This Table ? again WTF
2007 Summary
Ok . here are my results at 50nl over the last 7 months . I started playing nl in June after a ssnl grinder sugesstion .
The thing im after with these figures is to see if i can spot any leaks from these figures or maybe a reason why i have suddenly started to win this month !!
On the subject of this month i know there has been a significant change in my style but i am maybe looking for something to bacl it up !
September , October and November i know i can include a substantial amount of tilt and inconsistent play due to the change in my lifestyle and lack of order in my life
after selling my chip shop . Anyway these are the figures
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
The thing im after with these figures is to see if i can spot any leaks from these figures or maybe a reason why i have suddenly started to win this month !!
On the subject of this month i know there has been a significant change in my style but i am maybe looking for something to bacl it up !
September , October and November i know i can include a substantial amount of tilt and inconsistent play due to the change in my lifestyle and lack of order in my life
after selling my chip shop . Anyway these are the figures
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Thursday, 27 December 2007
General Update
Well its been a few days since my last update. There's not been a lot happening . The xmas break has been quiet and relaxed and i been fortunate to play a little poker.
Had a little go at 4 tabling again but found it a little to busy for me at present !
Its odd really as i used to 4 table all the time ! 3 tables are no problem but the 4 i find just a little to quick at present .
There haven't been to many big hands for me to lose money on so that's cool and i have been slowly grinding away . Gonna see if i can hit 6k hands this month.
I'm still being disciplined in playing 50nl at the moment so that is good for my BR but I'm sure ill have a little stab at the 100nl before the end of the month
Anyway here are my figures so far this month
Opening Bank Roll $1 438.92
Hands 4934
$ Won /lost $367.16
Closing Bank Roll $1 806.08 7.91 BB
I think im quite pleased at the moment and i am hoping there has been a significant
improvement in my game . But only time will tell here
Anyway Good Luck at the Tables
Graham
Had a little go at 4 tabling again but found it a little to busy for me at present !
Its odd really as i used to 4 table all the time ! 3 tables are no problem but the 4 i find just a little to quick at present .
There haven't been to many big hands for me to lose money on so that's cool and i have been slowly grinding away . Gonna see if i can hit 6k hands this month.
I'm still being disciplined in playing 50nl at the moment so that is good for my BR but I'm sure ill have a little stab at the 100nl before the end of the month
Anyway here are my figures so far this month
Opening Bank Roll $1 438.92
Hands 4934
$ Won /lost $367.16
Closing Bank Roll $1 806.08 7.91 BB
I think im quite pleased at the moment and i am hoping there has been a significant
improvement in my game . But only time will tell here
Anyway Good Luck at the Tables
Graham
Sunday, 23 December 2007
Developing Progress
I am not sure if i have mentioned it here , but over the last few weeks i have been
trying to refine my play. I been reading verneers blog for a long while now and i always notice that his winning sessions are relatively bigger compared to the number of hands he has played
This got me thinking that he must be doing something fundamentally different ( obviously !! ) whilst playing . I re read a few of his blogs and studied a video again and got back to the playing for stacks thing .
I'm sure he is prepared to play more against some players than others . So i started to pay more attention to particular players who's hud stats were v loose and whose play seemed weak .
I'm not saying i was going to go all in against these players with any 2 cards , but certainly i would be more aggressive , and if i thought i was ahead of their range i would certainly be more prepared to play for stacks !!
Anyway it seems to be reaping rewards . I have had a winning weekend so far despite a massive tilt incident !! .This is one of the intangibles that Dice talks about in the little interview with Verneer .
Here's how it goes . Got home Friday Night , my eyes were very tired after a busy day on the computer all day , but looking forward to playing poker , After tea i have to get my boy to bed but we spend some time together before hand FIFA 2002 is our game at the moment , We plat 2002 as its the last FIFA with the mighty LEEEEEEDS on it . He thrashes me as usual !! Then its a bath and bedtime story . We are on Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince at the moment . We have a deadline of Xmas Eve to finish it but maybe a chapter or two away realistically . So we read two chapters in an effort to get on schedule
By this time my eyes are fucked i mean they really hurt , i spend a few hours with my wife chatting , she goes to bed , i watch a bit of WWE , research for my boy . he likes to know whats going on !!! lol !!!
Eventually i decide to go and play some poker , get 3 50nl tables up and start playing . The screen seems really bright tonight for some reason !! ( Duuhhh... you re eyes fucked and glasses no where to be found ) Getting a little impatient so i fire up a 100nl . im not sure what time it is but i have dimmed the screen and turned the light off so i shut down a couple of 50 nl and just have 1 50nl and 1 100nl
No action...eyes hurting...the player on my right is pissing me off... i can feel the tilt already whilst writing this !! ) Ahh JJ this will piss him off... The short stacks playing as well . MMM not sure i like the flop . What... hes bet fuck it ill call... Hes bet again...fuck it ill call . Jesus my eyes are really hurting . Fuck me the short stacks all in. Hes called AAAhh Fuck it ALL IN....Shit hes got KK
Computer off
here's the hand
http://weaktight.com/64019
No thought here ... pure tiredness and shit play
anyway that's how i donked off $100
back to the weekend and after Friday night i got back into my new style , attacking some weak players and winning instead of donking off chips
So after that long story here's where we are
Opening Bankroll $1 438.92
Hands 4302
Dollars WON/lost $ 332.78
Closing Bankroll $ 1 771.70
one i am really pleased about here is that last night i won a $100 pot at 100nl to even out the one i lost on Friday so im even at 100nl . This means my winnings here are purely at 50 nl so i think thats good
Anyway maybe the last post before xmas , but be sure to check out Inspirions blog on cr aod Dodgygykens and Verneers , these guys are definitely people we can learn from big time
good luck the tables
trying to refine my play. I been reading verneers blog for a long while now and i always notice that his winning sessions are relatively bigger compared to the number of hands he has played
This got me thinking that he must be doing something fundamentally different ( obviously !! ) whilst playing . I re read a few of his blogs and studied a video again and got back to the playing for stacks thing .
I'm sure he is prepared to play more against some players than others . So i started to pay more attention to particular players who's hud stats were v loose and whose play seemed weak .
I'm not saying i was going to go all in against these players with any 2 cards , but certainly i would be more aggressive , and if i thought i was ahead of their range i would certainly be more prepared to play for stacks !!
Anyway it seems to be reaping rewards . I have had a winning weekend so far despite a massive tilt incident !! .This is one of the intangibles that Dice talks about in the little interview with Verneer .
Here's how it goes . Got home Friday Night , my eyes were very tired after a busy day on the computer all day , but looking forward to playing poker , After tea i have to get my boy to bed but we spend some time together before hand FIFA 2002 is our game at the moment , We plat 2002 as its the last FIFA with the mighty LEEEEEEDS on it . He thrashes me as usual !! Then its a bath and bedtime story . We are on Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince at the moment . We have a deadline of Xmas Eve to finish it but maybe a chapter or two away realistically . So we read two chapters in an effort to get on schedule
By this time my eyes are fucked i mean they really hurt , i spend a few hours with my wife chatting , she goes to bed , i watch a bit of WWE , research for my boy . he likes to know whats going on !!! lol !!!
Eventually i decide to go and play some poker , get 3 50nl tables up and start playing . The screen seems really bright tonight for some reason !! ( Duuhhh... you re eyes fucked and glasses no where to be found ) Getting a little impatient so i fire up a 100nl . im not sure what time it is but i have dimmed the screen and turned the light off so i shut down a couple of 50 nl and just have 1 50nl and 1 100nl
No action...eyes hurting...the player on my right is pissing me off... i can feel the tilt already whilst writing this !! ) Ahh JJ this will piss him off... The short stacks playing as well . MMM not sure i like the flop . What... hes bet fuck it ill call... Hes bet again...fuck it ill call . Jesus my eyes are really hurting . Fuck me the short stacks all in. Hes called AAAhh Fuck it ALL IN....Shit hes got KK
Computer off
here's the hand
http://weaktight.com/64019
No thought here ... pure tiredness and shit play
anyway that's how i donked off $100
back to the weekend and after Friday night i got back into my new style , attacking some weak players and winning instead of donking off chips
So after that long story here's where we are
Opening Bankroll $1 438.92
Hands 4302
Dollars WON/lost $ 332.78
Closing Bankroll $ 1 771.70
one i am really pleased about here is that last night i won a $100 pot at 100nl to even out the one i lost on Friday so im even at 100nl . This means my winnings here are purely at 50 nl so i think thats good
Anyway maybe the last post before xmas , but be sure to check out Inspirions blog on cr aod Dodgygykens and Verneers , these guys are definitely people we can learn from big time
good luck the tables
Saturday, 22 December 2007
Thursday, 20 December 2007
Progression
MMM not sure what the title is supposed to mean ... but over the past few weeks , i feel my play has changed for the better...
i have been reading a few blogs and studying them as well as watching Fabians video...i always notice that when verneer posts his figures he has always seemed to win quite a lot compared to his session number of hands...
for me that sort of suggests that he is doing something fundamentally different
whilst playing...i went over a few of his videos and stuff and i think / know he is
prepared to play more aggressively against particular players than others
i have sort of been trying to tighten up early and play more aggressively against weaker players especially from lp...i think i am making progress...
tonight will be the big test as the weekend is usually when i tend to lose through the bad beats and coolers so i will be paying particular attention
anyway heres an update
starting bankroll $1438.92
hands played 3599
S WON / lost $258.50
closing bankroll $1697.42
good luck at the tables
oh check out inspirions blog its cool
i have been reading a few blogs and studying them as well as watching Fabians video...i always notice that when verneer posts his figures he has always seemed to win quite a lot compared to his session number of hands...
for me that sort of suggests that he is doing something fundamentally different
whilst playing...i went over a few of his videos and stuff and i think / know he is
prepared to play more aggressively against particular players than others
i have sort of been trying to tighten up early and play more aggressively against weaker players especially from lp...i think i am making progress...
tonight will be the big test as the weekend is usually when i tend to lose through the bad beats and coolers so i will be paying particular attention
anyway heres an update
starting bankroll $1438.92
hands played 3599
S WON / lost $258.50
closing bankroll $1697.42
good luck at the tables
oh check out inspirions blog its cool
Monday, 17 December 2007
Sunday, 16 December 2007
Progress - December
Ok This is more for myself than anyone else
Just a record of my progress hands played etc etc
Bankroll Start December $1438.92
Hands played 3 303
Dollars Won / Lost $ 152.67
Current Bankroll $1591.59
I am a little dissapointed , had a poor weekend mainly due to a little tilt ,
went down as low as $102 due to some short stack suckouts , but made a sweet comeback .
Anyway progress on the blog
Later people
Just a record of my progress hands played etc etc
Bankroll Start December $1438.92
Hands played 3 303
Dollars Won / Lost $ 152.67
Current Bankroll $1591.59
I am a little dissapointed , had a poor weekend mainly due to a little tilt ,
went down as low as $102 due to some short stack suckouts , but made a sweet comeback .
Anyway progress on the blog
Later people
Stairway
Verneer pointed me to inspirions blog and this... Basically i must get to 3k before i play $100 nl... The plan is thus... get to $2500 withdraw $500... from $2000 get to $3000 withdraw $500... from $2500 get to $3500 withdraw $500... Start $100nl with $3000
Sounds cool !! Doesnt mention about stabs at $100 nl though... looks like they are not included.. Thats sad but... i need the dicipline to be frank...whos frank by the way ?
I also want to admit to sucking at blogs at present . This will change . I Certainly have not stopped reading blogs and am still playing pretty frequently . My paint has for some reason stopped working but i will get over to image shack later so ill paste stuff properly
I was up $300 after about 2400 hands nearly 21ptbb but had a cooler on friday night and a little tilt session brought me down to $189 which is not bad but somwhat demoralising after my start . Still, thats... nahh i hate cliches
Later people
Sounds cool !! Doesnt mention about stabs at $100 nl though... looks like they are not included.. Thats sad but... i need the dicipline to be frank...whos frank by the way ?
I also want to admit to sucking at blogs at present . This will change . I Certainly have not stopped reading blogs and am still playing pretty frequently . My paint has for some reason stopped working but i will get over to image shack later so ill paste stuff properly
I was up $300 after about 2400 hands nearly 21ptbb but had a cooler on friday night and a little tilt session brought me down to $189 which is not bad but somwhat demoralising after my start . Still, thats... nahh i hate cliches
Later people
Tuesday, 27 November 2007
Ok here is a first i think !!
These are my top 10 losing and 9 out of my top 10 winning
I am going to go through them and analyse my play !! Be warned i suffer from tilt
so i am going to work out how many are coolers and how many are tilt
Then the same with the winning . ie how many i have played well and also if i have coolered anyone
For info on some of the HHs there are 2 sets of hole cards . I am player G1RAY not always the hero . I dont know why it does this
Losers
www.pokerhand.org/?1746957
I am not sure if this is a cooler !! KK and the guy hits trips My all in bet certaianly means ill get called by better hands though. Looks like i should have made a pot size bet to see where i am . Probably could have worked out i was behind but not sure i could have folded
www.pokerhand.org/?1746962
This looks like tilt to me !! I cant see why on earth i am all in with tens here
i think maybe the guy had been pissing me off . So i gave it the all in beat my tens !! Which obviously he did . Poor play
www.pokerhand.org/?1746967
Another obvious poor play from me . How could i think my A10 was ahead . This must be another tilt play . For some reason sometimes i have problems believing that an all in bet at this level probably means that the guy has hit his trips
Hopefully i can learn from this one !!
www.pokerhand.org/?1746973
Another KK loser . I remember thinking a lot about this one . I just cold not put him on an 8 after my re-raise hence the call bit of a bummer . I must realize that an all in bet must mean something !! However calling a rr with J* is pretty donkish i think . But not as donkish as my call !!
www.pokerhand.org/?1746979
Rivered !! I think i can handle this one . i was pretty sure i was ahead of this guy and was pretty please when i saw the K6 not so happy when the 6 fell on the river though . At least i was ahead !!
www.pokerhand.org/?1746987
Not quite a cooler although i had the nfd and a straight . I was trying to slow play this but have since learned not too !! My call on the river though is pretty donkish , Probably a disappointment call that i had had such a strong hand on the turn which i had played wrong
www.pokerhand.org/?1746990
Here is another one where im not sure if its a cooler !! I think i have got to get it in here , thats what i think OR should i have thought more about his raise
i dont know here !!
www.pokerhand.org/?1746995
I think this is pretty standard . I knew he had a strong hand maybe AA but cant fold here !!
www.pokerhand.org/?1746999
Not sure what to make of this hand . At the end of the day do i want to get it all in with AQ here ? maybe not . looking back i think maybe i could have folded !
but ill need a comment or 2 on this one , to help me here
www.pokerhand.org/?1747003
I have no idea WTF !! this is obviously a tilt call , i must have taken a bad beat on another table to play this like i did . I dont really like A% at the best of times os i have no idea why i played like a moron here !!
Thats the hbyh summary , ill have a look later and come to some overall conclusion
on my biggest losers
Winners
www.pokerhand.org/?1747007
www.pokerhand.org/?1747012
www.pokerhand.org/?1747015
www.pokerhand.org/?1747019
www.pokerhand.org/?1747031
www.pokerhand.org/?1747039
www.pokerhand.org/?1747050
www.pokerhand.org/?1747058
www.pokerhand.org/?1747063
Comments on my losers welcome
These are my top 10 losing and 9 out of my top 10 winning
I am going to go through them and analyse my play !! Be warned i suffer from tilt
so i am going to work out how many are coolers and how many are tilt
Then the same with the winning . ie how many i have played well and also if i have coolered anyone
For info on some of the HHs there are 2 sets of hole cards . I am player G1RAY not always the hero . I dont know why it does this
Losers
www.pokerhand.org/?1746957
I am not sure if this is a cooler !! KK and the guy hits trips My all in bet certaianly means ill get called by better hands though. Looks like i should have made a pot size bet to see where i am . Probably could have worked out i was behind but not sure i could have folded
www.pokerhand.org/?1746962
This looks like tilt to me !! I cant see why on earth i am all in with tens here
i think maybe the guy had been pissing me off . So i gave it the all in beat my tens !! Which obviously he did . Poor play
www.pokerhand.org/?1746967
Another obvious poor play from me . How could i think my A10 was ahead . This must be another tilt play . For some reason sometimes i have problems believing that an all in bet at this level probably means that the guy has hit his trips
Hopefully i can learn from this one !!
www.pokerhand.org/?1746973
Another KK loser . I remember thinking a lot about this one . I just cold not put him on an 8 after my re-raise hence the call bit of a bummer . I must realize that an all in bet must mean something !! However calling a rr with J* is pretty donkish i think . But not as donkish as my call !!
www.pokerhand.org/?1746979
Rivered !! I think i can handle this one . i was pretty sure i was ahead of this guy and was pretty please when i saw the K6 not so happy when the 6 fell on the river though . At least i was ahead !!
www.pokerhand.org/?1746987
Not quite a cooler although i had the nfd and a straight . I was trying to slow play this but have since learned not too !! My call on the river though is pretty donkish , Probably a disappointment call that i had had such a strong hand on the turn which i had played wrong
www.pokerhand.org/?1746990
Here is another one where im not sure if its a cooler !! I think i have got to get it in here , thats what i think OR should i have thought more about his raise
i dont know here !!
www.pokerhand.org/?1746995
I think this is pretty standard . I knew he had a strong hand maybe AA but cant fold here !!
www.pokerhand.org/?1746999
Not sure what to make of this hand . At the end of the day do i want to get it all in with AQ here ? maybe not . looking back i think maybe i could have folded !
but ill need a comment or 2 on this one , to help me here
www.pokerhand.org/?1747003
I have no idea WTF !! this is obviously a tilt call , i must have taken a bad beat on another table to play this like i did . I dont really like A% at the best of times os i have no idea why i played like a moron here !!
Thats the hbyh summary , ill have a look later and come to some overall conclusion
on my biggest losers
Winners
www.pokerhand.org/?1747007
www.pokerhand.org/?1747012
www.pokerhand.org/?1747015
www.pokerhand.org/?1747019
www.pokerhand.org/?1747031
www.pokerhand.org/?1747039
www.pokerhand.org/?1747050
www.pokerhand.org/?1747058
www.pokerhand.org/?1747063
Comments on my losers welcome
Sunday, 25 November 2007
Blog Update
Ok
I think this past week has gone ok . We had a session with verneer and i think this went ok
We are not the most talkative group . But i think that may be because verneer is so good its better to sit and listen
Trying to get back into the routine of posting blogs . However i wish i could get out of the routine of talking a stab at $100 and then Either hitting a cooler and or Spewing
I am not sure what this one is ?
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1736579
My target number of hands is 5k 2 tabling . This will equate to 10k 4 tabling so i will be happy with that this month
I have been following the blogs so the next step is to start posting some comments
as usual
good luck at the tables
I think this past week has gone ok . We had a session with verneer and i think this went ok
We are not the most talkative group . But i think that may be because verneer is so good its better to sit and listen
Trying to get back into the routine of posting blogs . However i wish i could get out of the routine of talking a stab at $100 and then Either hitting a cooler and or Spewing
I am not sure what this one is ?
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1736579
My target number of hands is 5k 2 tabling . This will equate to 10k 4 tabling so i will be happy with that this month
I have been following the blogs so the next step is to start posting some comments
as usual
good luck at the tables
Tuesday, 20 November 2007
Too Long !!
Man its been way too long Again !!! since my last post
Since i have reduced the number of tables too 2 i have obviously played
less hands than i normally would .
This month has seen me actually winning !! So far about $180 after 3500 hands
I really suffer from tilt sometimes Usually after about a 50 to an hour log session
when i have been really card dead . Ill decide to call it a day and then pick up
pocket kings and my decision to go all in has been made . Or i ll call down
a stupid hand .
I am pretty sure that my pre flop play is ok pretty tag to be frank
and im slowly working on putting people on ranges
Our study group has just started to make some videos and review them
and we have hopefully some cool stuff ahead
Heres a couple of hands that really messed with my head
www.pokerhand.org/?1721881
www.pokerhand.org/?1721887
i posted the one above on the forum
www.pokerhand.org/?1721881
Since i have reduced the number of tables too 2 i have obviously played
less hands than i normally would .
This month has seen me actually winning !! So far about $180 after 3500 hands
I really suffer from tilt sometimes Usually after about a 50 to an hour log session
when i have been really card dead . Ill decide to call it a day and then pick up
pocket kings and my decision to go all in has been made . Or i ll call down
a stupid hand .
I am pretty sure that my pre flop play is ok pretty tag to be frank
and im slowly working on putting people on ranges
Our study group has just started to make some videos and review them
and we have hopefully some cool stuff ahead
Heres a couple of hands that really messed with my head
www.pokerhand.org/?1721881
www.pokerhand.org/?1721887
i posted the one above on the forum
www.pokerhand.org/?1721881
Saturday, 10 November 2007
Update Update Update
Ok here we go
Since the last proper blog back in October i have had a hectic time. For those of you who don't know i sold one of my Chip Shops about 10 Weeks ago . What you don't know is that 10 Years before that i worked as an Assistant Accountant for a Large Security Company.
During the months preceding the sale of my shop i hand been doing Temporary Accounting work at a Local Government Office and was due to start a Permanent Job . Nice Salary an extremely cushy lifestyle sort of 9.30 till 4.30 plus one of my oldest friends was the Principal Accountant so all seemed sweet.
Then about 3 days after my last blog i got an approach from an agency about a position in a town where i used to Work , I said send me some more details and they promptly replied telling me it was for the company i worked for before i went into the Chip Shop business . They said it was an Assistant Accountants role and after reading the spec i told the Agency that this was virtually the same role i had 10 years ago
This was on the Wednesday before i started my new job on the Monday . I asked them what the next step was and they phoned me back and said could i start Monday !!
Fuck Me what a predicament
Any way after lengthy discussions with my Wife and Boss/Friend i decided that the offer was to good to refuse and took the plunge . And so its been 5 weeks now and fuck me have i been working. It seems that my old boss the Financial Director has
not changed one bit, in the 6 months he has managed to lose 2 Accountants with about
5 years experience and 2 Assistants as well and has an Accountant who has been there for just 3 months controlling the Department where i used to work
This poor guy has been so used to the temps doing the work for him so that now they have all gone he is really struggling . I mean work isn't really in his nature which doesn't bode well for his future i feel . Me on the other hand i have been working to pretty much 8 most evenings now as there is so much work to do and judging by the
state of Novembers Month end Schedule there is tons to do .
So that is pretty much why i have not been blogging . The last couple of weeks i have been in at 8.30 ish and in bed at 9 Knackered . And as a result my poker has suffered
To be honest it has been suffering since i left the Chip shop . My levels of concentration have been sadly lacking and once you check out my river aggression it pretty much explains my losses during October. Not wishing to make excuses but some of my play was i thought pretty good but i have not been able to take a bad beat without pretty much losing a stack soon afterwards .
Anyway check out the figures
So there is a lot of Tilt in here which sadly comes from my lack of schedule
I had a few goals in November that i was nowhere near achieving but it looks like a
pretty poor performance to me. There were some positive .Managed to get a couple fo study sessions in with a study group . Watched a verneer 6 table 100 nl which helped my game a lot and one of his posts about his dog was very interesting and hopefully that will help me with my main goal at the moment which is Hand Ranges .
November is going ok . I have won a $100 from just over 1300 hands and i am now only playing 2 tables until i am happy with my hand range forecasting
Any way apologies for the lack of posting but i have been busy and i have still been following all the blogs . around 25 of them for me and here's hoping this will give me a little momentum .
Good luck at the tables
Since the last proper blog back in October i have had a hectic time. For those of you who don't know i sold one of my Chip Shops about 10 Weeks ago . What you don't know is that 10 Years before that i worked as an Assistant Accountant for a Large Security Company.
During the months preceding the sale of my shop i hand been doing Temporary Accounting work at a Local Government Office and was due to start a Permanent Job . Nice Salary an extremely cushy lifestyle sort of 9.30 till 4.30 plus one of my oldest friends was the Principal Accountant so all seemed sweet.
Then about 3 days after my last blog i got an approach from an agency about a position in a town where i used to Work , I said send me some more details and they promptly replied telling me it was for the company i worked for before i went into the Chip Shop business . They said it was an Assistant Accountants role and after reading the spec i told the Agency that this was virtually the same role i had 10 years ago
This was on the Wednesday before i started my new job on the Monday . I asked them what the next step was and they phoned me back and said could i start Monday !!
Fuck Me what a predicament
Any way after lengthy discussions with my Wife and Boss/Friend i decided that the offer was to good to refuse and took the plunge . And so its been 5 weeks now and fuck me have i been working. It seems that my old boss the Financial Director has
not changed one bit, in the 6 months he has managed to lose 2 Accountants with about
5 years experience and 2 Assistants as well and has an Accountant who has been there for just 3 months controlling the Department where i used to work
This poor guy has been so used to the temps doing the work for him so that now they have all gone he is really struggling . I mean work isn't really in his nature which doesn't bode well for his future i feel . Me on the other hand i have been working to pretty much 8 most evenings now as there is so much work to do and judging by the
state of Novembers Month end Schedule there is tons to do .
So that is pretty much why i have not been blogging . The last couple of weeks i have been in at 8.30 ish and in bed at 9 Knackered . And as a result my poker has suffered
To be honest it has been suffering since i left the Chip shop . My levels of concentration have been sadly lacking and once you check out my river aggression it pretty much explains my losses during October. Not wishing to make excuses but some of my play was i thought pretty good but i have not been able to take a bad beat without pretty much losing a stack soon afterwards .
Anyway check out the figures
So there is a lot of Tilt in here which sadly comes from my lack of schedule
I had a few goals in November that i was nowhere near achieving but it looks like a
pretty poor performance to me. There were some positive .Managed to get a couple fo study sessions in with a study group . Watched a verneer 6 table 100 nl which helped my game a lot and one of his posts about his dog was very interesting and hopefully that will help me with my main goal at the moment which is Hand Ranges .
November is going ok . I have won a $100 from just over 1300 hands and i am now only playing 2 tables until i am happy with my hand range forecasting
Any way apologies for the lack of posting but i have been busy and i have still been following all the blogs . around 25 of them for me and here's hoping this will give me a little momentum .
Good luck at the tables
Tuesday, 6 November 2007
Blog Update
Hi everyone , sorry about the lack of blogging
I am still here and stil playing .
Just a load of thgs happening in October that i could
not control
Really time cosuming .
I am still here and stil playing .
Just a load of thgs happening in October that i could
not control
Really time cosuming .
Saturday, 6 October 2007
Short Summary
Ok here is a quick summary of the month so far and a few goals that I have set and I am determined to achieve. Actually one that I am determined to achieve
1 - Opponent Hand ranges - For some reason I am finding it difficult to put players on ranges. Therefore, I have decided to cut down to two tables until I have achieved a reasonable level. The reason why I have cut down to 2 tables is so that I can try and record notes for every hand that I play and give the opponents ranges .This is a fundamental part of the game and I think until I achieve this I wont progress much further .
2 - My hand-playing goal is not going to be massive this month due to the above. If I get to 8000 I think that will be an achievement 2 tabling.
3 - I have sort of stolen this from Marc I think... in that I am going to make at least a hundred posts on the CR forum. I have already started and as I am two tabling, I can find that I can post as well. Lol... the trick is to make sure people can understand them though, otherwise ill get no answers.
4 - A small group of us have started some review sessions. The first one went really well and I am going to make sure I am available and prepared for this. It will be a great method for improvement.
5 - Finally I checked out losberts Poker Tracker analysis the other day and found it very, very constructive. I am going to do the same for myself
As for this month... Well I finished my last session and had played 1310 hands. I sopped on this particular hand as I was dealt AA !!! I thought it was a good time to stop as it was the first time in those 1310 hands. Man that’s card dead for you, Anyway played 1310 V$PIP is at 14.05 I know this is low but I really have been card dead. PFR is at 10.69 some work to do here I know and imp going to get it up to 25% of the V4PIP . Also i have won $23 which is a plus as usualyy by this time of the month im down around $300 . Lets hope it stays that way !! mmm maybe less of the hope...hey !
I know I have played only 1300 hands but 1 figure I am proud of is my fold to sb this is 95.24% so no limping out of the sb for me so far !!
One final thing, got to the last 5 in the Blue Square GP qualifying Tourney
Three get the $2750 package but I finally went out in a desperate utg raise and my fours got crushed by the chip leaders AA gutted, but im going to get one of those packages
For sure
Anyway really looking forward to this month
Good Luck at the Tables
1 - Opponent Hand ranges - For some reason I am finding it difficult to put players on ranges. Therefore, I have decided to cut down to two tables until I have achieved a reasonable level. The reason why I have cut down to 2 tables is so that I can try and record notes for every hand that I play and give the opponents ranges .This is a fundamental part of the game and I think until I achieve this I wont progress much further .
2 - My hand-playing goal is not going to be massive this month due to the above. If I get to 8000 I think that will be an achievement 2 tabling.
3 - I have sort of stolen this from Marc I think... in that I am going to make at least a hundred posts on the CR forum. I have already started and as I am two tabling, I can find that I can post as well. Lol... the trick is to make sure people can understand them though, otherwise ill get no answers.
4 - A small group of us have started some review sessions. The first one went really well and I am going to make sure I am available and prepared for this. It will be a great method for improvement.
5 - Finally I checked out losberts Poker Tracker analysis the other day and found it very, very constructive. I am going to do the same for myself
As for this month... Well I finished my last session and had played 1310 hands. I sopped on this particular hand as I was dealt AA !!! I thought it was a good time to stop as it was the first time in those 1310 hands. Man that’s card dead for you, Anyway played 1310 V$PIP is at 14.05 I know this is low but I really have been card dead. PFR is at 10.69 some work to do here I know and imp going to get it up to 25% of the V4PIP . Also i have won $23 which is a plus as usualyy by this time of the month im down around $300 . Lets hope it stays that way !! mmm maybe less of the hope...hey !
I know I have played only 1300 hands but 1 figure I am proud of is my fold to sb this is 95.24% so no limping out of the sb for me so far !!
One final thing, got to the last 5 in the Blue Square GP qualifying Tourney
Three get the $2750 package but I finally went out in a desperate utg raise and my fours got crushed by the chip leaders AA gutted, but im going to get one of those packages
For sure
Anyway really looking forward to this month
Good Luck at the Tables
Monday, 1 October 2007
Where Too Now ?
Well September has been a truly disappointing month . And to say im pissed would be an understatement . To be honest i had sort of resigned myself to losing around $350 this month and was looking to write a summary last night but i though i would play 2 tables of 100nl which i think i can cope with .
Cooler no 1... When my KK got it all in with AQ on a 5 10 Q flop Villain bet $24 into a pot of the same size i raise all in for my stack and they called turn was a J and the river was a king...nice
Cooler no 2... i had AA after raising the flop to about $30 the shorty raise on a flop with 2 spades to $64 all in which i obviously called only for him to hit his flush draw on the turn...talk about kicking when there down !!
So that put my monthly loss at $-534 my figures are as follows and as my paint still isnt working this will have to do
Hands 13476 $-534 V$PIP 19.67 PFR 12.52
Looking at those stats im thinking its obvious that the problrm is im not raising enough and when you look at my sb figure which is close to 26% its easy to see im limping from the blind straight into trouble . If you take my small blind posting figure out of my stats...its still red !!
So the only target i have sort of hit this month is the hands played !! However that was only because i tried 8 tabling in order to get the hands in !! On occasions this seemed to be going ok however i was finding that i was calling with marginal hands too much and it was easy for tilt to set in !!
other factors are that I stopped taking notes and my 3 betting was virtualy Zero . I also didnt work very much on hand ranges .
On the positive !!! . There is a positive i hear you say !! Well theres got to be one somewhere ?!
I think its this .Obviously the above is pretty much why my figures are as they are so at least i am aware of it !!
I opened a Blue Square account so i could try and win an online entry into the Grosvenor Tourney in Walsall . The thing is there are so few satellites there that i got bored and decided to play 100nl and managed to win $200 . I also entered a Stars $15 DS and manged to get $320 in $ws so my bankroll is sort of ok . I say sort of as i dont count my stars bankroll as thats for tourneys and relaxation when i cant be bothered and play micro limits whle watching TV and the blue Square is not counted either as thats for tourneys also !!
My FT bankroll has taken a hit !! and that hurts . I have some rakeback which i will sort out later but when i play FT or AB thats when i am really concentrating on playingand my results suck !!
So Where do i go to now !! I am ging to take a Week off from playing the 4 table or cash games . I am going to play 1 or 2 tables of 50 nl or maybe 100 nl if i do decide to play and i will try and put people on hands . Ill do a bit of reading . Im going to review a lot of my hands to see if i can see where the leaks are , although i know calling down pots with marginal hands or draws is one of them and this is costing me money big time .
I also think there is a session with a few of the other bloggers which i will try and get too and i have a live game on wednesday at the local rugby club .
I will post some goals later in the week . I think at least if i start later in the week i cant get off to a bad start ... i hope... and as confidence is really a big part of anything i do it would be nice to get off to a good start .
Anyway there appears to be some thoughtfull stuff above so it will give me something to work on . Also if i havent posted during the week dont worry im am always reading the blogs .
Its a really tough thing blogging about stuff when you are really dissapointed in your play .
Anyway Good Luck at the tables
Cooler no 1... When my KK got it all in with AQ on a 5 10 Q flop Villain bet $24 into a pot of the same size i raise all in for my stack and they called turn was a J and the river was a king...nice
Cooler no 2... i had AA after raising the flop to about $30 the shorty raise on a flop with 2 spades to $64 all in which i obviously called only for him to hit his flush draw on the turn...talk about kicking when there down !!
So that put my monthly loss at $-534 my figures are as follows and as my paint still isnt working this will have to do
Hands 13476 $-534 V$PIP 19.67 PFR 12.52
Looking at those stats im thinking its obvious that the problrm is im not raising enough and when you look at my sb figure which is close to 26% its easy to see im limping from the blind straight into trouble . If you take my small blind posting figure out of my stats...its still red !!
So the only target i have sort of hit this month is the hands played !! However that was only because i tried 8 tabling in order to get the hands in !! On occasions this seemed to be going ok however i was finding that i was calling with marginal hands too much and it was easy for tilt to set in !!
other factors are that I stopped taking notes and my 3 betting was virtualy Zero . I also didnt work very much on hand ranges .
On the positive !!! . There is a positive i hear you say !! Well theres got to be one somewhere ?!
I think its this .Obviously the above is pretty much why my figures are as they are so at least i am aware of it !!
I opened a Blue Square account so i could try and win an online entry into the Grosvenor Tourney in Walsall . The thing is there are so few satellites there that i got bored and decided to play 100nl and managed to win $200 . I also entered a Stars $15 DS and manged to get $320 in $ws so my bankroll is sort of ok . I say sort of as i dont count my stars bankroll as thats for tourneys and relaxation when i cant be bothered and play micro limits whle watching TV and the blue Square is not counted either as thats for tourneys also !!
My FT bankroll has taken a hit !! and that hurts . I have some rakeback which i will sort out later but when i play FT or AB thats when i am really concentrating on playingand my results suck !!
So Where do i go to now !! I am ging to take a Week off from playing the 4 table or cash games . I am going to play 1 or 2 tables of 50 nl or maybe 100 nl if i do decide to play and i will try and put people on hands . Ill do a bit of reading . Im going to review a lot of my hands to see if i can see where the leaks are , although i know calling down pots with marginal hands or draws is one of them and this is costing me money big time .
I also think there is a session with a few of the other bloggers which i will try and get too and i have a live game on wednesday at the local rugby club .
I will post some goals later in the week . I think at least if i start later in the week i cant get off to a bad start ... i hope... and as confidence is really a big part of anything i do it would be nice to get off to a good start .
Anyway there appears to be some thoughtfull stuff above so it will give me something to work on . Also if i havent posted during the week dont worry im am always reading the blogs .
Its a really tough thing blogging about stuff when you are really dissapointed in your play .
Anyway Good Luck at the tables
Wednesday, 26 September 2007
Stuck - I think
OK as with a few other bloggers i have been neglecting my blog over the past few weeks .
Although i had not planned to do much last week in the way of poker i managed to play approx 4000 hands although not much progress was made in the way of recouping my losses . In fact i probably lost more .
After reading Spark99s blog i decided that one of my problems was the lack of hands i play .
I mean since June I have racked up about 45k for a profit of $850 yet in comparison to some that is what they play in a month !!
So my solution was to buy another monitor and try 8 tabling lol . I'm not sure how its going as i am short on comparisons . Last night though i played over1700 hands for a loss of $73. I had a couple of coolers which was a shame as i thought i handled the tables OK .
The problem i think i am having is knowing where i am in this game at the moment
As i have only played cash games seriously for 4 months and with that only about 45k hands.
I am going to make a few posts on the Cr forum to find out about leaks and the most common ones that occur .
Anyway result's so far hands 10,571 V$PIP 19.75 PFR 12.48 $-393 pfr needs to improve here
Another set of stats which i will enquire about on Cr are the $ lost when went to showdown , for me , in the blinds its $-1309 , when not in the blinds its -$409 is this a leak ?
This is the sort of thing i really need to know !
Although i had not planned to do much last week in the way of poker i managed to play approx 4000 hands although not much progress was made in the way of recouping my losses . In fact i probably lost more .
After reading Spark99s blog i decided that one of my problems was the lack of hands i play .
I mean since June I have racked up about 45k for a profit of $850 yet in comparison to some that is what they play in a month !!
So my solution was to buy another monitor and try 8 tabling lol . I'm not sure how its going as i am short on comparisons . Last night though i played over1700 hands for a loss of $73. I had a couple of coolers which was a shame as i thought i handled the tables OK .
The problem i think i am having is knowing where i am in this game at the moment
As i have only played cash games seriously for 4 months and with that only about 45k hands.
I am going to make a few posts on the Cr forum to find out about leaks and the most common ones that occur .
Anyway result's so far hands 10,571 V$PIP 19.75 PFR 12.48 $-393 pfr needs to improve here
Another set of stats which i will enquire about on Cr are the $ lost when went to showdown , for me , in the blinds its $-1309 , when not in the blinds its -$409 is this a leak ?
This is the sort of thing i really need to know !
Monday, 17 September 2007
Half Way Through September
Long Blog !!
So Its just about halfway through the month , and probably a good time to review things to get an indication of how its been going so far .
To be honest last week was difficult , AGAIN , my first session lasted about an hour and a half , i was card dry and by the end of the session i went all in with ak on a rag board to be called ny JJ and by then had lost about 2 buyins . That was Tuesday and then Wednesday morning i played a 100 nl heads up game and lost a buyin when my AK on A 9 4 board failed against 10 10 when the guy hit a 10 on the turn .But i think i played the hand ok , so no complaints there .
For the rest of the week i struggled to find the right time to play and decided to just watch a couple of fruity pro videos , re jigged my hud and basically tried to work out what was going on with my game and things .
The answers i am pretty much sure lie in my timetable . The tables are much harder earlier in the evening uk time and then there is the other problem of getting into a table at Absolute at that time . It seems as though everyone is looking for a 50 nl table and you cant get one for love nor money !!
This means that the table selection is poor and much harder to 4 table , for me anyway . So i had to make a few rules and change the format . If i play early in the evening i will only play 2 tables and 4 if i play later in the evening . The 2 tableing helps me with hand ranges which i am struggling with at the moment , but that is the area i need to work on so thats not a problem .
Anyway so far this month i have played a dissapointing 4462 hands which meant i played only 1624 hands since last week and 683 were last night !! Her i felt i had a good session on Absolute winning about a buyin . My V$PIP and PFR are 19.65 and 12.51 so i can work on that . Position stats are much better although from the first week my sb is dreadful. I am at -$297 but that has been below -$400 so i see that as a sort of recovery form my poor start to the week .
I played a couple of sit and gos and a couple of tourney as well only small ones but it sort of made me realize how much of a grind the cash games are and how you must be prepared mentally and physically too. You must make sure you bring your A game to the tables . I thik August took a bit out of me and i am still coming to grips with my new lifestyle so this is effecting my play also .
I am pretty sure i had not been enjoying my poker over the last coupl of weeks and that may have been one reason for the poor play . This was confirmed when i played acouple of SnGs and i really enjoyed them along with the tourneys . I just needed a smallbreak and a little change of scenerey . This may continue into this week but ill see how it goes .
I Dont want to sound drepressing or anything like that but im learning a few lessons at the moment that are uncomfortable to me ( like losing $ ) but i think they say that the most succefull jockey's are also the ones that have lost the most races ?
At least i think they say that .
Anyway im not making any big plans this week , im just trying to play around with scheduling the games , i have been reading all the blogs . Spark99 form the PIFs is worth a read as he just stepping up to 100nl . Also im going to buy the full tilt book and Professional no limit holdem which i havent got yet to see if i can pick up some hints and tips
Just one hand to post that i played this morning . I was in MP and raised it up like you do . Standard c bet and then this re raise . I mean i was toying with the idea of calling , but i just couldnt think he had though i had missed and was re raising with air i mean this is a big re raise ( i thought ) i put him on trips to be honest or is this an aggressive flush draw raise . Thoughts please
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1490703
Seat 1: Deadly5s ($10.50)
Seat 2: UrWifeLovesMe ($49.75)
Seat 3: Suburban BAyy ($56.45)
Seat 4: soltana ($50.95)
Seat 5: HERO ($48)
Seat 6: DMJET ($45.90), is sitting out
UrWifeLovesMe posts the small blind of $0.25
Suburban BAyy posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to HERO [9s Ts]
soltana folds
HERO raises to $1.75
Deadly5s calls $1.75
UrWifeLovesMe folds
Suburban BAyy calls $1.25
*** FLOP *** [4s 5d Td]
Suburban BAyy checks
HERO bets $4.50
Deadly5s folds
Suburban BAyy raises to $12
HERO has 15 seconds left to act
HERO has requested TIME
HERO folds
Uncalled bet of $7.50 returned to Suburban BAyy
Suburban BAyy mucks
Suburban BAyy wins the pot ($13.80)
Good Luck At The Tables !!
So Its just about halfway through the month , and probably a good time to review things to get an indication of how its been going so far .
To be honest last week was difficult , AGAIN , my first session lasted about an hour and a half , i was card dry and by the end of the session i went all in with ak on a rag board to be called ny JJ and by then had lost about 2 buyins . That was Tuesday and then Wednesday morning i played a 100 nl heads up game and lost a buyin when my AK on A 9 4 board failed against 10 10 when the guy hit a 10 on the turn .But i think i played the hand ok , so no complaints there .
For the rest of the week i struggled to find the right time to play and decided to just watch a couple of fruity pro videos , re jigged my hud and basically tried to work out what was going on with my game and things .
The answers i am pretty much sure lie in my timetable . The tables are much harder earlier in the evening uk time and then there is the other problem of getting into a table at Absolute at that time . It seems as though everyone is looking for a 50 nl table and you cant get one for love nor money !!
This means that the table selection is poor and much harder to 4 table , for me anyway . So i had to make a few rules and change the format . If i play early in the evening i will only play 2 tables and 4 if i play later in the evening . The 2 tableing helps me with hand ranges which i am struggling with at the moment , but that is the area i need to work on so thats not a problem .
Anyway so far this month i have played a dissapointing 4462 hands which meant i played only 1624 hands since last week and 683 were last night !! Her i felt i had a good session on Absolute winning about a buyin . My V$PIP and PFR are 19.65 and 12.51 so i can work on that . Position stats are much better although from the first week my sb is dreadful. I am at -$297 but that has been below -$400 so i see that as a sort of recovery form my poor start to the week .
I played a couple of sit and gos and a couple of tourney as well only small ones but it sort of made me realize how much of a grind the cash games are and how you must be prepared mentally and physically too. You must make sure you bring your A game to the tables . I thik August took a bit out of me and i am still coming to grips with my new lifestyle so this is effecting my play also .
I am pretty sure i had not been enjoying my poker over the last coupl of weeks and that may have been one reason for the poor play . This was confirmed when i played acouple of SnGs and i really enjoyed them along with the tourneys . I just needed a smallbreak and a little change of scenerey . This may continue into this week but ill see how it goes .
I Dont want to sound drepressing or anything like that but im learning a few lessons at the moment that are uncomfortable to me ( like losing $ ) but i think they say that the most succefull jockey's are also the ones that have lost the most races ?
At least i think they say that .
Anyway im not making any big plans this week , im just trying to play around with scheduling the games , i have been reading all the blogs . Spark99 form the PIFs is worth a read as he just stepping up to 100nl . Also im going to buy the full tilt book and Professional no limit holdem which i havent got yet to see if i can pick up some hints and tips
Just one hand to post that i played this morning . I was in MP and raised it up like you do . Standard c bet and then this re raise . I mean i was toying with the idea of calling , but i just couldnt think he had though i had missed and was re raising with air i mean this is a big re raise ( i thought ) i put him on trips to be honest or is this an aggressive flush draw raise . Thoughts please
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1490703
Seat 1: Deadly5s ($10.50)
Seat 2: UrWifeLovesMe ($49.75)
Seat 3: Suburban BAyy ($56.45)
Seat 4: soltana ($50.95)
Seat 5: HERO ($48)
Seat 6: DMJET ($45.90), is sitting out
UrWifeLovesMe posts the small blind of $0.25
Suburban BAyy posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to HERO [9s Ts]
soltana folds
HERO raises to $1.75
Deadly5s calls $1.75
UrWifeLovesMe folds
Suburban BAyy calls $1.25
*** FLOP *** [4s 5d Td]
Suburban BAyy checks
HERO bets $4.50
Deadly5s folds
Suburban BAyy raises to $12
HERO has 15 seconds left to act
HERO has requested TIME
HERO folds
Uncalled bet of $7.50 returned to Suburban BAyy
Suburban BAyy mucks
Suburban BAyy wins the pot ($13.80)
Good Luck At The Tables !!
Monday, 10 September 2007
Interesting Insights
If you have read my last blog youll probably know that i had been having a turbulent week . Thats probably the best way to describe it . Sadly my paint programe is not working so i cant show screen pics.I have all the details and have been reviewing the last 9 days and they have shown up some interesting insights into my play last week.
My figures are as follows. Sadly i have only managed to play 2838 hands so far , after a manical start i slowed right down . I 1 tabled 100 nl and on occasions 1 or 2 tables the 50 nl in order to bring some sanity back to my week .
My VSPIP is at 20.54 which is slightly higher than it should be . The disorganised routine that i had lead to me probably playing looser than i should .
My PFR has dropped by about 25% to 12.47 . I think the major reason here is lack of confidence and calling raises more as opposed to raising. this was really interesting to discover as although i probaly was aware i wasnt paying that much attention
I have lost $191.97 to date , i had been down to -$323 , but i am expexcting this to change and become a positive . This will give me a good indication into my ability at this level
Another poor figure is my Small Blind % which is currently 30.30 . Again this illustrates how your play changes with lack of confidence . Its obvious i am completing the blind in order to hit a hand to win back my lost $ , -EV for sure here.
So while reviewing the last 9 days i got an insight into some interesting factors about my play and its also reminded me of a story about the guy who had this really , really expensive piano , but it was out of tune and had not been tuned for a a very long time . He obviously called the piano tuner who spent an absolute age
tuning it . He presented him with the bill and said " Ill see you in a weeks time then " the guy nearly fell off his chair " what do you mean , youll see me in a weeks time " he replied " I thought you just tuned it !! " . The Piano tuner then went on to explain that the strings were set in a certain position and would return there quite soon . They would need fine tuning over the next few weeks and then gradually over the coming months the time in between tuning the strings would increase as they adapted to there knew positions .
Its a little bit like somone going on a massive run and then saying " right thats it i , wont need to excersice ever again , i done my run and that will last for a while " it doesnt work like that . Things have to be worked on constantly and its the same with this mad game of poker . You constantly have to adjust your play to how it should be and this is done by annalysing how you are playing
Another thing that i am going to do is a weekly review . At least that way i can fool myself into thinking if i start winning this week then i will be winning in order to help the confidence . As i think somomone once told me there is not much difference between real and pretend feelings
Good Luck At The Tables
My figures are as follows. Sadly i have only managed to play 2838 hands so far , after a manical start i slowed right down . I 1 tabled 100 nl and on occasions 1 or 2 tables the 50 nl in order to bring some sanity back to my week .
My VSPIP is at 20.54 which is slightly higher than it should be . The disorganised routine that i had lead to me probably playing looser than i should .
My PFR has dropped by about 25% to 12.47 . I think the major reason here is lack of confidence and calling raises more as opposed to raising. this was really interesting to discover as although i probaly was aware i wasnt paying that much attention
I have lost $191.97 to date , i had been down to -$323 , but i am expexcting this to change and become a positive . This will give me a good indication into my ability at this level
Another poor figure is my Small Blind % which is currently 30.30 . Again this illustrates how your play changes with lack of confidence . Its obvious i am completing the blind in order to hit a hand to win back my lost $ , -EV for sure here.
So while reviewing the last 9 days i got an insight into some interesting factors about my play and its also reminded me of a story about the guy who had this really , really expensive piano , but it was out of tune and had not been tuned for a a very long time . He obviously called the piano tuner who spent an absolute age
tuning it . He presented him with the bill and said " Ill see you in a weeks time then " the guy nearly fell off his chair " what do you mean , youll see me in a weeks time " he replied " I thought you just tuned it !! " . The Piano tuner then went on to explain that the strings were set in a certain position and would return there quite soon . They would need fine tuning over the next few weeks and then gradually over the coming months the time in between tuning the strings would increase as they adapted to there knew positions .
Its a little bit like somone going on a massive run and then saying " right thats it i , wont need to excersice ever again , i done my run and that will last for a while " it doesnt work like that . Things have to be worked on constantly and its the same with this mad game of poker . You constantly have to adjust your play to how it should be and this is done by annalysing how you are playing
Another thing that i am going to do is a weekly review . At least that way i can fool myself into thinking if i start winning this week then i will be winning in order to help the confidence . As i think somomone once told me there is not much difference between real and pretend feelings
Good Luck At The Tables
Wednesday, 5 September 2007
Reflecting on Bad Play
Well its been a poor start to September for me so far , sadly , mainly due to my poor play . It certainly has got me thinking more and more about this game of poker .
A few months ago before this cr experiment i would try and sneak a few mins here and a few mins there of poker , my lifestyle was such that it was easy to play for short spells at a time , but this lacked preparation and goals , the former absolutely essential when playing .
This resulted in a pretty inconsistent set of results over several months . I am very keen to move up to 50 / 100 nl and so i had a lesson from a coach . This pretty much involved watching his style and replicating it which i did with success .
Around the same time the blogger experiment started and i had a disatorous July
I think down to lack of preparation and maybe overconfidence .
August was a turning point , although i did nt move up i certainly grinded out some results and the way i did this was pleasing . I could feel myself learning and understanding all the time .
So whats gone wrong ? i here you ask . Routine is my reply !! You may have caught on that i have been working in chip shops , nearly ten years now !! 30 000 bags of spuds later , i have sold the one where i worked . Whilst it was long hours i would come home at about 11pm and then start a little rolutin of playing poker , reviewing a session and then blogging and then the same again .
Now i have sold the shop i get home at around 5.30 ish and look to play a little bit here and there through the evening , no planing , no preparation , NO PROFIT !!
I have managed to lose 5 buyins so far which is a lot for me , admittedly there have been have been a couple of $100 dollar all ins , one on a tripp 5 i lost to a higher kicker and another when i had ak on an AK9 board only to lose to trip 9s , however on aech occasion the guy goes all in and i call . Without being funny it is obvious that i am way behind on both occasions but i still call like a fish . Oh and i played a hu $100 game against a guy called sbrugby dont know who he is but he did quite well against me . Personally i think he was playing well below his limit !!
LOL
Anyway i think the point of this post is to remind myself that you cant just mess about here , there and everywhere when playing poker and expect to win . It has to be the PPPPPP way proper preparation prevents piss poor performance.
More posts later in the week I may even post some resu;ts if there not too embarassing
GL All
A few months ago before this cr experiment i would try and sneak a few mins here and a few mins there of poker , my lifestyle was such that it was easy to play for short spells at a time , but this lacked preparation and goals , the former absolutely essential when playing .
This resulted in a pretty inconsistent set of results over several months . I am very keen to move up to 50 / 100 nl and so i had a lesson from a coach . This pretty much involved watching his style and replicating it which i did with success .
Around the same time the blogger experiment started and i had a disatorous July
I think down to lack of preparation and maybe overconfidence .
August was a turning point , although i did nt move up i certainly grinded out some results and the way i did this was pleasing . I could feel myself learning and understanding all the time .
So whats gone wrong ? i here you ask . Routine is my reply !! You may have caught on that i have been working in chip shops , nearly ten years now !! 30 000 bags of spuds later , i have sold the one where i worked . Whilst it was long hours i would come home at about 11pm and then start a little rolutin of playing poker , reviewing a session and then blogging and then the same again .
Now i have sold the shop i get home at around 5.30 ish and look to play a little bit here and there through the evening , no planing , no preparation , NO PROFIT !!
I have managed to lose 5 buyins so far which is a lot for me , admittedly there have been have been a couple of $100 dollar all ins , one on a tripp 5 i lost to a higher kicker and another when i had ak on an AK9 board only to lose to trip 9s , however on aech occasion the guy goes all in and i call . Without being funny it is obvious that i am way behind on both occasions but i still call like a fish . Oh and i played a hu $100 game against a guy called sbrugby dont know who he is but he did quite well against me . Personally i think he was playing well below his limit !!
LOL
Anyway i think the point of this post is to remind myself that you cant just mess about here , there and everywhere when playing poker and expect to win . It has to be the PPPPPP way proper preparation prevents piss poor performance.
More posts later in the week I may even post some resu;ts if there not too embarassing
GL All
Monday, 3 September 2007
September Goals
Its been a busy weekend for me this weekend and havent managed to play much , pretty knackered if i must say .
Here are my September goals
Play 12000 hands and win +$650 or
Play 16000 hands and win +$950
I have put down 2 lots of hands this month as im not sure which is the more realistic . There has been a pretty big change in my lifestyle with the sale of the chippy , so i am not sure how things will develope this month . I know for certain that I will need a strict routine in order to suceed and this may take a week or two to develope
I am going to use September hopefuly to consolodate and get a solid month in.
I am going to maintain my Position and V$PIP / PFR play this month
I will be concentrating more on hand reading
I am also going to focus on my c betting an introduce floating too my game
These will be my goals for September
Here are my September goals
Play 12000 hands and win +$650 or
Play 16000 hands and win +$950
I have put down 2 lots of hands this month as im not sure which is the more realistic . There has been a pretty big change in my lifestyle with the sale of the chippy , so i am not sure how things will develope this month . I know for certain that I will need a strict routine in order to suceed and this may take a week or two to develope
I am going to use September hopefuly to consolodate and get a solid month in.
I am going to maintain my Position and V$PIP / PFR play this month
I will be concentrating more on hand reading
I am also going to focus on my c betting an introduce floating too my game
These will be my goals for September
Thursday, 30 August 2007
15 000 Hands !!
Ok so here we are at the end of August . Its been a week since my last post but i have had lots of life stuff going on and wanted to get to 15000 hands hence the delay i also wanted to get to $800 but this is close enough got a bit obsessive .
And after approximately 1 YEAR i have finally sold one of my chip shops . Praise the lord !!
Sorry but i could not get the paint programme to work a second time for the exact figures so this will have to do
15068 hands 1116 $100nl 13842 $50nl +$416 $100nl + $312 $50nl + S72 HU
V$PIP 19.47 PFR 14.17
Thats all good , but check out my button play !!
And so we go on , results wise i think things have gone pretty well , although there are still areas where i can improve massively , and I'm not completely happy with the path i took to the month end results ( could have done with out the bad start !! ) .When i look at the goals i set for August i have pretty much achieved what i wanted to . The power of Goal setting i do believe
I am amazed at the difference playing in position has made to my figures
i mean check out my button play !! I was obviously aware of position when studying other peoples pos stats , but when you see it on your own , that's when it hits home .
The number of hands that i have played is also pretty cool . If you take into account that i work from 9 - 4 in an office and then go and run my chip shop that hopefully will be sold next week . That's a goal achieved !!
Another important factor in my improvement in this game , is the continued support of all the other bloggers in this developing group . I must say i was a little sceptical early in July as to the effectiveness of this , and this combined with selling my chip shop and a severe bout of overconfidence led to the disaster that was July .However i have learned my lesson the hard way .
One of my September goals will be to improve my ability to decide where to get action as opposed to winning the pot . A point that has been helpfully made on some of my hands recently . This will be combined with the improvement of my player range reading which is needed in order to achieve the first goal .
I am pretty sure that the range issue will be a fundamental area in my overall improvement in September . I am also going to incorporate this in my use of floating which is an area i need to work on
Anyway here are the result for the month of August in no particular order and a great big thank you to all who have posted on my hands and all who have maybe just read them .
Graham
And after approximately 1 YEAR i have finally sold one of my chip shops . Praise the lord !!
Sorry but i could not get the paint programme to work a second time for the exact figures so this will have to do
15068 hands 1116 $100nl 13842 $50nl +$416 $100nl + $312 $50nl + S72 HU
V$PIP 19.47 PFR 14.17
Thats all good , but check out my button play !!
And so we go on , results wise i think things have gone pretty well , although there are still areas where i can improve massively , and I'm not completely happy with the path i took to the month end results ( could have done with out the bad start !! ) .When i look at the goals i set for August i have pretty much achieved what i wanted to . The power of Goal setting i do believe
I am amazed at the difference playing in position has made to my figures
i mean check out my button play !! I was obviously aware of position when studying other peoples pos stats , but when you see it on your own , that's when it hits home .
The number of hands that i have played is also pretty cool . If you take into account that i work from 9 - 4 in an office and then go and run my chip shop that hopefully will be sold next week . That's a goal achieved !!
Another important factor in my improvement in this game , is the continued support of all the other bloggers in this developing group . I must say i was a little sceptical early in July as to the effectiveness of this , and this combined with selling my chip shop and a severe bout of overconfidence led to the disaster that was July .However i have learned my lesson the hard way .
One of my September goals will be to improve my ability to decide where to get action as opposed to winning the pot . A point that has been helpfully made on some of my hands recently . This will be combined with the improvement of my player range reading which is needed in order to achieve the first goal .
I am pretty sure that the range issue will be a fundamental area in my overall improvement in September . I am also going to incorporate this in my use of floating which is an area i need to work on
Anyway here are the result for the month of August in no particular order and a great big thank you to all who have posted on my hands and all who have maybe just read them .
Graham
Thursday, 23 August 2007
?
Believe it or not i have been struggling over the past few days . I have been trying to push a little to hard after good starts and then slowly become frustrated . Whilst this is not a good thing at least i have been aware of it . I could fel myself going on tilt when i hit trip 2s and then on a 10 2 Q flop there were runner runner Qs and the guy went all in !!
Absolutley loving the new skin on Absolute . had to adjust the hud which was a bit tricky but hey ho
I ll try and get some comments posted but it seems no one has blogged too much recently
probably me included
Anyway tonights results
NL 1 59 hands +$11.8 $VPIP 13.56 PFR 3.39 Card Dead Honest !!
Nl 50 290 hands +$24.9 $VPIP 20.92 PFR 14.14
I di find absolute quite laggy on the 25 / 50 to be honest maybe that swhy i was a little looser than usual
August to date
11,536 hands +$482.46 V$PIP 18.94 PFR 14.3 af 5.25 2.19 3.05 3.84
Just the one hand that i wanted some comments on please
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1403648
Absolutley loving the new skin on Absolute . had to adjust the hud which was a bit tricky but hey ho
I ll try and get some comments posted but it seems no one has blogged too much recently
probably me included
Anyway tonights results
NL 1 59 hands +$11.8 $VPIP 13.56 PFR 3.39 Card Dead Honest !!
Nl 50 290 hands +$24.9 $VPIP 20.92 PFR 14.14
I di find absolute quite laggy on the 25 / 50 to be honest maybe that swhy i was a little looser than usual
August to date
11,536 hands +$482.46 V$PIP 18.94 PFR 14.3 af 5.25 2.19 3.05 3.84
Just the one hand that i wanted some comments on please
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1403648
Sunday, 19 August 2007
August Update
Ok here are some stats for the month of August so far
I really didnt feel up to playing much Sunday , but as is always the way i
spent a little time messing around on the computer and ended up trying a bit of heads up . Couple of hit and runs netted me about $40 dollars , im not sure i lke hit and runs !
I opened an account on absolute as ive heard there rakeback and reloads are good.
Also watched the Bystmar $50 100 4 table video.
I have managed to improve my V$PIP and PFR which i think are ok at the moment
Just the one hand here . Initialy i thought it was a cooler , bit after a short instant message , it was pointed out that maybe i could have played it a little differently and that also the river bet , could have meant a whole raft of things .
I think i just got carried away and stopped thinking after the turn as i thought i
had the best hand and that it was unbeatable . Important to study the board at every point i feel .
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1390063
Nearly reached my August total for hands played , but ill continue at the same pace and see where it takes me . I will revise them slightly and maybe add another goal
I think i may drop down to 2 tables for a couple of sessions in order to concentrate on hand reading and putting villains on ranges
Anyone got any good tips here ?
Good Luck All
I really didnt feel up to playing much Sunday , but as is always the way i
spent a little time messing around on the computer and ended up trying a bit of heads up . Couple of hit and runs netted me about $40 dollars , im not sure i lke hit and runs !
I opened an account on absolute as ive heard there rakeback and reloads are good.
Also watched the Bystmar $50 100 4 table video.
I have managed to improve my V$PIP and PFR which i think are ok at the moment
Just the one hand here . Initialy i thought it was a cooler , bit after a short instant message , it was pointed out that maybe i could have played it a little differently and that also the river bet , could have meant a whole raft of things .
I think i just got carried away and stopped thinking after the turn as i thought i
had the best hand and that it was unbeatable . Important to study the board at every point i feel .
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1390063
Nearly reached my August total for hands played , but ill continue at the same pace and see where it takes me . I will revise them slightly and maybe add another goal
I think i may drop down to 2 tables for a couple of sessions in order to concentrate on hand reading and putting villains on ranges
Anyone got any good tips here ?
Good Luck All
Friday, 17 August 2007
Hers a question for all the 50 / 100 nl ers
Is this a standard sort of bluff... not my all in... but the guys re raise of my c bet
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1382652
And wtf is this all about ?... F me man i only re-raised you... ! I mean should i be looking to get it all in with AKs
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1382659
Anyway after a mad sweat session with DWarrior... where i managed to get myself on the end of several sticky situations last night and overall lost 2 and a half buy ins i thought tonight would be a little different... but after losing over 2 buyins somehow in a couple of hundred hands i decided to 1 table 50 100 nl with a modicum of success .
ABOVE
So refreshed i decide to play 1000 hands tonight , back on the 25 50 nl and managed to win 3 buyins... ill post some of the hands on the BB hand page to view
I know its time for bed when i cant see the 3 clubs on the board and go all in with my straight . F me and i have a coloured deck !!!
Any way tonight 983 hands +$157.3 V$PIP 20.14 PFR 15.46 a little higher than usual the eraly session was pretty poor
August 8757 +$293.8 2.90bb/100 V$PIP 18.28 PFR 14.76 flop AF 5.37
Graphs and stuff later !!
Is this a standard sort of bluff... not my all in... but the guys re raise of my c bet
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1382652
And wtf is this all about ?... F me man i only re-raised you... ! I mean should i be looking to get it all in with AKs
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1382659
Anyway after a mad sweat session with DWarrior... where i managed to get myself on the end of several sticky situations last night and overall lost 2 and a half buy ins i thought tonight would be a little different... but after losing over 2 buyins somehow in a couple of hundred hands i decided to 1 table 50 100 nl with a modicum of success .
ABOVE
So refreshed i decide to play 1000 hands tonight , back on the 25 50 nl and managed to win 3 buyins... ill post some of the hands on the BB hand page to view
I know its time for bed when i cant see the 3 clubs on the board and go all in with my straight . F me and i have a coloured deck !!!
Any way tonight 983 hands +$157.3 V$PIP 20.14 PFR 15.46 a little higher than usual the eraly session was pretty poor
August 8757 +$293.8 2.90bb/100 V$PIP 18.28 PFR 14.76 flop AF 5.37
Graphs and stuff later !!
Wednesday, 15 August 2007
Good Night !!
Ok another session over . Tried 5 tabling . Just a little difficult to keep turning my head . Played another 350 hands for +$24.5 ao that makes tonight s total
589 +$121 V$PIP 17.15 PFR 14.74
Aug 7297 +$274.4 V$PIP 18.18 PFR 14.68
589 +$121 V$PIP 17.15 PFR 14.74
Aug 7297 +$274.4 V$PIP 18.18 PFR 14.68
Short Winning Session
Just a pretty short session early in the evening 169 hands +$97.5
Its always nice to get off to a good start .
I was running hot and it would have been more but for the short stacks !!
Dam those short stacks
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1374176
Its always nice to get off to a good start .
I was running hot and it would have been more but for the short stacks !!
Dam those short stacks
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1374176
Tuesday, 14 August 2007
Session Over !!
Ok somone help !! I cant get the graphs to appear at the bottom of the page !!
So here we go
Right so i finished tonights session on a wicked hand which is my first big bb hand
check it out
The 2nd session didnt start off too well . Just finished watching DodgyKens video and decide to put the short stack all in. In future i try and do that a little earlier.
Like before hes hit his straight !!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1371574
Then a tricky spot with JJ and after my experience the other night I thought i was behind. Was this a good fold ?
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1371580
This was pretty weak i think . Should i have C bet the flop . I just thought my 4s were weak . Is this marginal ?
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1371592
I went into the tank a little here !! Hated the flop...thought trips all over...
But this is a must bet situation...i closed my eyes...drew back the curtain...lol...f me !!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1371603
so after tonights session 737 hands +$87.80 V$PIP 17.07 PFR 14.63
So here we go
Right so i finished tonights session on a wicked hand which is my first big bb hand
check it out
The 2nd session didnt start off too well . Just finished watching DodgyKens video and decide to put the short stack all in. In future i try and do that a little earlier.
Like before hes hit his straight !!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1371574
Then a tricky spot with JJ and after my experience the other night I thought i was behind. Was this a good fold ?
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1371580
This was pretty weak i think . Should i have C bet the flop . I just thought my 4s were weak . Is this marginal ?
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1371592
I went into the tank a little here !! Hated the flop...thought trips all over...
But this is a must bet situation...i closed my eyes...drew back the curtain...lol...f me !!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1371603
so after tonights session 737 hands +$87.80 V$PIP 17.07 PFR 14.63
It feels like ive been away for weeks !!
Well i went away on Sunday to a Big Fat Greek Wedding ( They are the best Weddings )
I know my wifes greek !! and to be honest with the routine i had gotten into , it now feels like ive been away for weeks !! It really does !!
Last night i played about 400 hands but got into a real pickle with this one , i think i was a little tired as well , but thats a poor excuse . The only thing i was pleased with is that i didnt stack off
Re raised the jj and he called C bet and he min raised.... I should have folded there
i was way behind...then when this small bet came i was convinced he was on a flush draw so i reraised hoping he would fold...then his all came and id realised that i should have folded when he min raise my c bet...thats the only good thing imo !!but corrections and opinions are always welcome !!
www.pokerhand.org/?1371082
Just wondered what people though of this hand i would not normally call with this hand but there was a shortish stack involved...i also think that these sort of connectors play well in multiway pots...i got priced in on the draw...and the rest is history
what do you think
www.pokerhand.org/?1371058
Another poorly played hand i think...i mean i was playing for the flush...had the straight draw as well...however when it hit i started to worry...blocking bet did not work !! But is this an easy fold !!
www.pokerhand.org/?1371072
Anyway off for a break and then maybe another session !!
I know my wifes greek !! and to be honest with the routine i had gotten into , it now feels like ive been away for weeks !! It really does !!
Last night i played about 400 hands but got into a real pickle with this one , i think i was a little tired as well , but thats a poor excuse . The only thing i was pleased with is that i didnt stack off
Re raised the jj and he called C bet and he min raised.... I should have folded there
i was way behind...then when this small bet came i was convinced he was on a flush draw so i reraised hoping he would fold...then his all came and id realised that i should have folded when he min raise my c bet...thats the only good thing imo !!but corrections and opinions are always welcome !!
www.pokerhand.org/?1371082
Just wondered what people though of this hand i would not normally call with this hand but there was a shortish stack involved...i also think that these sort of connectors play well in multiway pots...i got priced in on the draw...and the rest is history
what do you think
www.pokerhand.org/?1371058
Another poorly played hand i think...i mean i was playing for the flush...had the straight draw as well...however when it hit i started to worry...blocking bet did not work !! But is this an easy fold !!
www.pokerhand.org/?1371072
Anyway off for a break and then maybe another session !!
Monday, 13 August 2007
Blogging
Man i go away for one day . Just one day !! and already things are changing
i have bloggers left , right and centre bringing up new blogs with their big hands etc etc ...
This more than anything goes to show how important these blogs are .
So if you read and leave comments or just read .
Thanks very Much
ps do i start a new blog completely and then link it in ? How ?
also i want to do the profile thing ! How ?
sorry for being a little thick here
i have bloggers left , right and centre bringing up new blogs with their big hands etc etc ...
This more than anything goes to show how important these blogs are .
So if you read and leave comments or just read .
Thanks very Much
ps do i start a new blog completely and then link it in ? How ?
also i want to do the profile thing ! How ?
sorry for being a little thick here
Saturday, 11 August 2007
Greeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnnnnnnn
Have some of this !!
and this is looking better except for the sb but its green !!!
Kings making a comeback....but i thought i played it well....nice ace
www.pokerhand.org/?1359445
So tonight session went well $ wise . I am now in the green . However there were a few tricky situations that i got into . Rob Racing words ( i hope ) about a few situations during the session making all the difference ring very true i feel.
Any way tonight 625 hands $90.75 no excursions into the 50 100 tonight !!
These were the hands i feel i want comments on
www.pokerhand.org/?1359480
So i raised with the 3s . Obviously i must make a continuation bet . Im sure this would be expected although by checking i could perhaps show weakness on this flop
I get the call and then make a pot sized bet . The thing is can i get any more money here ? I am pretty sure that people would not worry about the odds for the flush here at these stakes ? or maybe i m wrong please correct me ?
www.pokerhand.org/?1359502
Again on this hand i raise . I have been raising this guy all the time and im pretty sure hes expecting it so i dont .
The spade comes on the turn and so i make a value bet to increase the pot .
I hit the flush and then i am struggling with what to do . I am thinking i want to get a call so my bet should not be to big , but obvioulsy not too small .
I am also thinking there is an outside chance he has pocket 8s and slowplayed them on the turn
I suppose what i am wanting here is a way of being able to put this guy on that hand as i feel i could have bet more if i had known . Thats obvious i know... but do you know what i mean ? if i could have put him on chasing a flush too i may have stacked him off ?long i know !!
Finally my last hand
www.pokerhand.org/?1359540
My worry here... is that i am looking to make a good fold or find out where i am
So i make the raise .... he re raises hes 28/14/3 i think a while . my thinking goes like this....i want to know where i am with the queens....if i call the re raise and the flop is not good or has an ace ill have to make a cbet on a crappy flop or fold....so how can i find out where i am now....my answer was to re raise as shown
now his all in im am pretty sure tells me exactly where i am.... i think
But is my thought process ok should i have been thinkg about finding out where i was
or should i have called and seen a flop ?
and this is looking better except for the sb but its green !!!
Kings making a comeback....but i thought i played it well....nice ace
www.pokerhand.org/?1359445
So tonight session went well $ wise . I am now in the green . However there were a few tricky situations that i got into . Rob Racing words ( i hope ) about a few situations during the session making all the difference ring very true i feel.
Any way tonight 625 hands $90.75 no excursions into the 50 100 tonight !!
These were the hands i feel i want comments on
www.pokerhand.org/?1359480
So i raised with the 3s . Obviously i must make a continuation bet . Im sure this would be expected although by checking i could perhaps show weakness on this flop
I get the call and then make a pot sized bet . The thing is can i get any more money here ? I am pretty sure that people would not worry about the odds for the flush here at these stakes ? or maybe i m wrong please correct me ?
www.pokerhand.org/?1359502
Again on this hand i raise . I have been raising this guy all the time and im pretty sure hes expecting it so i dont .
The spade comes on the turn and so i make a value bet to increase the pot .
I hit the flush and then i am struggling with what to do . I am thinking i want to get a call so my bet should not be to big , but obvioulsy not too small .
I am also thinking there is an outside chance he has pocket 8s and slowplayed them on the turn
I suppose what i am wanting here is a way of being able to put this guy on that hand as i feel i could have bet more if i had known . Thats obvious i know... but do you know what i mean ? if i could have put him on chasing a flush too i may have stacked him off ?long i know !!
Finally my last hand
www.pokerhand.org/?1359540
My worry here... is that i am looking to make a good fold or find out where i am
So i make the raise .... he re raises hes 28/14/3 i think a while . my thinking goes like this....i want to know where i am with the queens....if i call the re raise and the flop is not good or has an ace ill have to make a cbet on a crappy flop or fold....so how can i find out where i am now....my answer was to re raise as shown
now his all in im am pretty sure tells me exactly where i am.... i think
But is my thought process ok should i have been thinkg about finding out where i was
or should i have called and seen a flop ?
Friday, 10 August 2007
Pissed Off Actually
May as well have one of these !!
So near and yet so far . Well not quite . Couldnt quite do it !! Maybe tommorow !!
But the AA and KK situ really pisses me off . Hey Ho
M
So near and yet so far . Well not quite . Couldnt quite do it !! Maybe tommorow !!
But the AA and KK situ really pisses me off . Hey Ho
M
Nearly There
Tonights first session was interesting to say the least
ended the 25 /50 sesison about $40 up had a few interesting hands
couple of donks stacked off against me
www.pokerhand.org/?1356407
www.pokerhand.org/?1356411
Then i ran into a tricky hand . really tried to make some sense of the min raise
had a quick chat with dodgyken afterwards . still unsure myself and timed out
www.pokerhand.org/?1356380
This hand was a little more straightforward in that i wanted to know how to get the most out of him , but im not sure i played this right ?
www.pokerhand.org/?1356387
Anyway , as per usual , or not actually , i thought i would give the 50/100 a little go . I mean there are only so many bad beats one can run into arent there ?
www.pokerhand.org/?1356374
So in disbelief , i played this hand on tilt WTF
www.pokerhand.org/?1356367
After that i didnt want to risk too much , so i did this ! Crazy lazy was 45/25 and had been raising at any opportunity , mainly in position though . Obviously i re raised , and then this . I dont know what people think but i just felt i was behind
www.pokerhand.org/?1356399
So after all that 334 hands +$99 im only $8 dollars away form augusts starting position . The only thing is do i try and win it back tonight ??
Wait and See !!
ended the 25 /50 sesison about $40 up had a few interesting hands
couple of donks stacked off against me
www.pokerhand.org/?1356407
www.pokerhand.org/?1356411
Then i ran into a tricky hand . really tried to make some sense of the min raise
had a quick chat with dodgyken afterwards . still unsure myself and timed out
www.pokerhand.org/?1356380
This hand was a little more straightforward in that i wanted to know how to get the most out of him , but im not sure i played this right ?
www.pokerhand.org/?1356387
Anyway , as per usual , or not actually , i thought i would give the 50/100 a little go . I mean there are only so many bad beats one can run into arent there ?
www.pokerhand.org/?1356374
So in disbelief , i played this hand on tilt WTF
www.pokerhand.org/?1356367
After that i didnt want to risk too much , so i did this ! Crazy lazy was 45/25 and had been raising at any opportunity , mainly in position though . Obviously i re raised , and then this . I dont know what people think but i just felt i was behind
www.pokerhand.org/?1356399
So after all that 334 hands +$99 im only $8 dollars away form augusts starting position . The only thing is do i try and win it back tonight ??
Wait and See !!
Thursday, 9 August 2007
LMFAO
Well at least i managed to stop after that last KK hand
Just have to put it down to variance
Probably shouldnt have called the river bet .
Anyway tonight will be my last 2 sessions for a couple days
So hopefully i can get somewhere near break even
An if i get 4 bet with KK !!!! i am folding !!!!
I would be interested to know what other peoples results are with AA and KK ?
See you at the tables
Just have to put it down to variance
Probably shouldnt have called the river bet .
Anyway tonight will be my last 2 sessions for a couple days
So hopefully i can get somewhere near break even
An if i get 4 bet with KK !!!! i am folding !!!!
I would be interested to know what other peoples results are with AA and KK ?
See you at the tables
Fucking KK
oh so i went and played 50 /100 nl as you do when youre titlting 2nd hand is KK
how much do you think i won Fuck All !!!!!!!!!!!!
how much do you think i won Fuck All !!!!!!!!!!!!
Fucking KK
tonight session 346 hands lost $60.10
another pretty average session until the last hand when i though i could make it up
with KK but hey you guessed it versus AA All in lost my $50 thats knocked the shit out of me So far KK has cost me $126.5 the 15 times i had it And AA the 15 times ive had that guess how much ive won ? $26.45 For Fucks Sake
another pretty average session until the last hand when i though i could make it up
with KK but hey you guessed it versus AA All in lost my $50 thats knocked the shit out of me So far KK has cost me $126.5 the 15 times i had it And AA the 15 times ive had that guess how much ive won ? $26.45 For Fucks Sake
Wednesday, 8 August 2007
Ok so far this evening ive managed 562 hands 4 tabling . Thats approx 2 50min sessions
managed to eek out another $12 in this session although it would have been more if whilst selecting table i donked off $18 to some jerk going all in every hand .
Went in with AK and he called me with Q8 obviously the 8 came on the river . But hey ho
My poker tracker crashed as well whilst playing as i think im up a little bit more on the cashier screen
Here are my stats so far
Anyway just the one hand where i thought i could have got more ! I just didnt want him completing his flush draw cheaply if he had one .
The other question was should i be playing this hand ? I know its marginal but i am trying to play more in position
www.pokerhand.org/?1348613
managed to eek out another $12 in this session although it would have been more if whilst selecting table i donked off $18 to some jerk going all in every hand .
Went in with AK and he called me with Q8 obviously the 8 came on the river . But hey ho
My poker tracker crashed as well whilst playing as i think im up a little bit more on the cashier screen
Here are my stats so far
Anyway just the one hand where i thought i could have got more ! I just didnt want him completing his flush draw cheaply if he had one .
The other question was should i be playing this hand ? I know its marginal but i am trying to play more in position
www.pokerhand.org/?1348613
UTG V$PIP 0%
lol this made me laugh . I have been trying to get my utg figures down and although i did not do this intentionally my utg V$PIP was zero . Going to check the hands but just looked at fruity pros new vid and utg he was a nit .
Any way tonights first session was 306 hands for a profit of $48.75 things were going quite slow until i hit trip 5s and then a short stack decide to to call when i put him all in with ak on an ak 6 board . He was holding A8 ????!!!
A vSpip of 17.41 and pfr of 14.24 so i am quite pleased so far . Just a few hands but i will list them later mainly to do with folding
Any way tonights first session was 306 hands for a profit of $48.75 things were going quite slow until i hit trip 5s and then a short stack decide to to call when i put him all in with ak on an ak 6 board . He was holding A8 ????!!!
A vSpip of 17.41 and pfr of 14.24 so i am quite pleased so far . Just a few hands but i will list them later mainly to do with folding
Not Really Much Progress
Well , last nights session was pretty uneventful for some reason
played 520 hands and lost $7.30 . Still thats probably the way it goes .
Managed to resist the temptation of some river calls so that was good
and my utg and mp position stats were much lower ,although i was still completing the small blind too much
My AA 4 times and KK 2 times managed to win a massive $5.80 and $3.00
so far this month out of the 3286 hands i have had AA 11 times for $23.4
and KK 13 times for -$79.85 Thats not right im sure ?
So my results for August thus far are 3286 hands -$71.70 on a positive note though my $VPIP and PFR are running at 17.68% and 14.18% and as one of my goals is too reduce my $VPIP so i am quite happy with that . Will concentrate more on my postional play over the next few days if possible
To be honest it looks like August is not going to be the breakthrough month i wanted it to be . But hey , still a long way to go !!
played 520 hands and lost $7.30 . Still thats probably the way it goes .
Managed to resist the temptation of some river calls so that was good
and my utg and mp position stats were much lower ,although i was still completing the small blind too much
My AA 4 times and KK 2 times managed to win a massive $5.80 and $3.00
so far this month out of the 3286 hands i have had AA 11 times for $23.4
and KK 13 times for -$79.85 Thats not right im sure ?
So my results for August thus far are 3286 hands -$71.70 on a positive note though my $VPIP and PFR are running at 17.68% and 14.18% and as one of my goals is too reduce my $VPIP so i am quite happy with that . Will concentrate more on my postional play over the next few days if possible
To be honest it looks like August is not going to be the breakthrough month i wanted it to be . But hey , still a long way to go !!
Monday, 6 August 2007
A Winning Session And i hate coolers !! again !! or were they ?
Well first session tonight and i played 396 hands , more than usual for a session but i was feeling good , and then bad , and then good again .
At first i thought this was a cooler , but was it ? I mean he went all in , but could you put him on AA ? there was no way he had any other trips ? Should i have seen this ?
www.pokerhand.org/?1341025
This hand i tried to limit the losses , after his min raise i thought about going over the top again but then thought he may have the j But should i have called ?
www.pokerhand.org/?1341040
A bad beat , but should i have really called ?
www.pokerhand.org/?1341032
I wanted to know if these were played ok or if i want to improve do i need to play these better here. Be gentle with the comments please ! Actually what the fuck !!
if its shit then tell me !!
But at least it was a winning session + $2.80 FFS
At first i thought this was a cooler , but was it ? I mean he went all in , but could you put him on AA ? there was no way he had any other trips ? Should i have seen this ?
www.pokerhand.org/?1341025
This hand i tried to limit the losses , after his min raise i thought about going over the top again but then thought he may have the j But should i have called ?
www.pokerhand.org/?1341040
A bad beat , but should i have really called ?
www.pokerhand.org/?1341032
I wanted to know if these were played ok or if i want to improve do i need to play these better here. Be gentle with the comments please ! Actually what the fuck !!
if its shit then tell me !!
But at least it was a winning session + $2.80 FFS
Sunday, 5 August 2007
Not So Mad
Still a little tough to find the tables so ive called it a night . Started to call a couple of times when i knew i was losing thats a sure sign to stop and so i did . Also ive not had much sleep since thursday and its begining to tell
Ok 2nd session i managed to win another $31 dollars it would have been more but for some poor calls . But here are a couple of laydowns not sure if they should have been
Hope i played these ok
Hand 1.. 1st villain was 34 / 3 and was called by 2nd villain 13 / 8 me ? OOP
www.pokerhand.org/?1337738
Hand 2.. No figures on the villain but he was short stacked and could only see getting it all in at some stage here
www.pokerhand.org/?1337743
August so far hands 2389 $-63.15 V$PIP 18.46 PFR 14.82 Sort of pleased with both my recovery from the start of the week and also my discipline .... 4 lots of 2 sessions then reviews and posts . Cool.... however rest assured i wont be getting carried away
See You At The Tables !!
Ok 2nd session i managed to win another $31 dollars it would have been more but for some poor calls . But here are a couple of laydowns not sure if they should have been
Hope i played these ok
Hand 1.. 1st villain was 34 / 3 and was called by 2nd villain 13 / 8 me ? OOP
www.pokerhand.org/?1337738
Hand 2.. No figures on the villain but he was short stacked and could only see getting it all in at some stage here
www.pokerhand.org/?1337743
August so far hands 2389 $-63.15 V$PIP 18.46 PFR 14.82 Sort of pleased with both my recovery from the start of the week and also my discipline .... 4 lots of 2 sessions then reviews and posts . Cool.... however rest assured i wont be getting carried away
See You At The Tables !!
Sunday Night Madness
FFS my first session didnt start off so well . Trying to get a 25/50nl table is virtually impossible , and then when you do its the same old story . My 70 / 7 table turns into a unbeliveble 10 /10 !!!! anyway enough of the moaning .
As im am trying to play 4 table 300 hand 45 - 60 min sessions with a review maybe you can understand that after 150 hands i was a little upset in that i hadnt even managed to get a decent table . Just chopping and changing . Man is dodgykens advice important on table selection worth adhering too !
Anyway after 277 ended up $11.65 up . Only one hand i need advice on or should i say am asking advice on which i have listed . It came immdeiately after i was dealt AA and had re raised a raiser and a caller . The caller being on the button after the AA hand
I called the raise and then bet the flop . Suggestions please . I really did not know what to do , Should i have just played this with a standard raise and then a cbet?
www.pokerhand.org/?1337338
As im am trying to play 4 table 300 hand 45 - 60 min sessions with a review maybe you can understand that after 150 hands i was a little upset in that i hadnt even managed to get a decent table . Just chopping and changing . Man is dodgykens advice important on table selection worth adhering too !
Anyway after 277 ended up $11.65 up . Only one hand i need advice on or should i say am asking advice on which i have listed . It came immdeiately after i was dealt AA and had re raised a raiser and a caller . The caller being on the button after the AA hand
I called the raise and then bet the flop . Suggestions please . I really did not know what to do , Should i have just played this with a standard raise and then a cbet?
www.pokerhand.org/?1337338
Testing
Well im not sure how i got this here but its here , ill soon sort it
Anyone fancy commenting on my position figures ? I know its a really small sample
Anyone fancy commenting on my position figures ? I know its a really small sample
Saturday, 4 August 2007
2nd session Grinding it out
Ok the 2nd session tonight went ok . I try to play 2 sessions a night 4 tabling approx 300 hands each time over 45 - 60 mins .I then review the session and then a post. Its 2 in the morning here for me so its late . Anyway
Hand 1 - raised with AKo and then there was a reraise to $4.5 3 x my raise . I jst did not like it so i folded Villain was 15/12
Hand 2 was pocket queens i made the raise got re raised and so i re raised him (is that a 4 bet or 3 bet ?) anyway a cbet won the hand after he called
hand 1 www.pokerhand.org/?1334519
hand 2 www.pokerhand.org/?1334527
so the combined 2 session result was played 622 won $67.4 V4pip 18.01 pfr 13.02
August so far 1926 hands -$106.15 $vpip 18.74 pfr 15.26
Just a few comments ... i certainly find it a little easier with this vpip . i tend not to find myself in so many tricky situations and it makes playing in position easier too , as im finding myself tossing away marginal hands
Also if anyone knows how to export the pt reports ont blogs please help
Hand 1 - raised with AKo and then there was a reraise to $4.5 3 x my raise . I jst did not like it so i folded Villain was 15/12
Hand 2 was pocket queens i made the raise got re raised and so i re raised him (is that a 4 bet or 3 bet ?) anyway a cbet won the hand after he called
hand 1 www.pokerhand.org/?1334519
hand 2 www.pokerhand.org/?1334527
so the combined 2 session result was played 622 won $67.4 V4pip 18.01 pfr 13.02
August so far 1926 hands -$106.15 $vpip 18.74 pfr 15.26
Just a few comments ... i certainly find it a little easier with this vpip . i tend not to find myself in so many tricky situations and it makes playing in position easier too , as im finding myself tossing away marginal hands
Also if anyone knows how to export the pt reports ont blogs please help
A Winning Session And i hate coolers !!
For some reason pokerhad org is not working so im gonna post a couple from the pt hand history
hand 1 trip 5s - did i play this all right , always get kinda dissapointed when i dont win loads with trips
Seat 1: bbyndsnwshs ($44.30)
Seat 2: grahamwhite ($50)
Seat 3: jcrib4 ($21.25)
Seat 4: EMOOO ($79.85)
Seat 5: iluvfree ($50.50)
Seat 6: Merbau ($16.05), is sitting out
EMOOO posts the small blind of $0.25
iluvfree posts the big blind of $0.50
5 seconds left to act
grahamwhite posts $0.50
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to grahamwhite [5s 5c]
bbyndsnwshs raises to $1
grahamwhite calls $0.50
jcrib4 folds
EMOOO calls $0.75
iluvfree calls $0.50
*** FLOP *** [Tc 5d 7d]
EMOOO checks
iluvfree checks
bbyndsnwshs has 15 seconds left to act
bbyndsnwshs bets $2
grahamwhite has 15 seconds left to act
grahamwhite raises to $6
EMOOO folds
iluvfree folds
bbyndsnwshs folds
Uncalled bet of $4 returned to grahamwhite
grahamwhite mucks
grahamwhite wins the pot ($7.60)
hand 2 - is this a correct fold
Seat 1: ZeRo115 ($82)
Seat 2: nemesis08 ($95.15)
Seat 3: Vedocorban ($50)
Seat 4: nineball8 ($9)
Seat 5: Amateurs ($75.20)
Seat 6: grahamwhite ($83.95)
nineball8 posts the small blind of $0.25
Amateurs posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to grahamwhite [6c 6d]
grahamwhite raises to $1.75
ZeRo115 folds
nemesis08 folds
Vedocorban folds
nineball8 raises to $9, and is all in
Amateurs folds
grahamwhite has 15 seconds left to act
grahamwhite folds
Uncalled bet of $7.25 returned to nineball8
nineball8 mucks
nineball8 wins the pot ($4)
ok tonight session number 1 was a winning one at last played 295 hands won $42 although i had one cooler AA lost to JJ when he hit trips that cost me $24
So far in my 1500 hands AA has lost -$13.40 and KK has lost -$94.35 lol
hand 1 trip 5s - did i play this all right , always get kinda dissapointed when i dont win loads with trips
Seat 1: bbyndsnwshs ($44.30)
Seat 2: grahamwhite ($50)
Seat 3: jcrib4 ($21.25)
Seat 4: EMOOO ($79.85)
Seat 5: iluvfree ($50.50)
Seat 6: Merbau ($16.05), is sitting out
EMOOO posts the small blind of $0.25
iluvfree posts the big blind of $0.50
5 seconds left to act
grahamwhite posts $0.50
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to grahamwhite [5s 5c]
bbyndsnwshs raises to $1
grahamwhite calls $0.50
jcrib4 folds
EMOOO calls $0.75
iluvfree calls $0.50
*** FLOP *** [Tc 5d 7d]
EMOOO checks
iluvfree checks
bbyndsnwshs has 15 seconds left to act
bbyndsnwshs bets $2
grahamwhite has 15 seconds left to act
grahamwhite raises to $6
EMOOO folds
iluvfree folds
bbyndsnwshs folds
Uncalled bet of $4 returned to grahamwhite
grahamwhite mucks
grahamwhite wins the pot ($7.60)
hand 2 - is this a correct fold
Seat 1: ZeRo115 ($82)
Seat 2: nemesis08 ($95.15)
Seat 3: Vedocorban ($50)
Seat 4: nineball8 ($9)
Seat 5: Amateurs ($75.20)
Seat 6: grahamwhite ($83.95)
nineball8 posts the small blind of $0.25
Amateurs posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to grahamwhite [6c 6d]
grahamwhite raises to $1.75
ZeRo115 folds
nemesis08 folds
Vedocorban folds
nineball8 raises to $9, and is all in
Amateurs folds
grahamwhite has 15 seconds left to act
grahamwhite folds
Uncalled bet of $7.25 returned to nineball8
nineball8 mucks
nineball8 wins the pot ($4)
ok tonight session number 1 was a winning one at last played 295 hands won $42 although i had one cooler AA lost to JJ when he hit trips that cost me $24
So far in my 1500 hands AA has lost -$13.40 and KK has lost -$94.35 lol
Friday, 3 August 2007
1st session Coolers
I m pretty sure this guy had AA i just knew it ! should i have folded my KK ?
www.pokerhand.org/?1331394
And im pretty sure i played this just fine !!
www.pokerhand.org/?1331385
A fancy play . Too fancy !!
www.pokerhand.org/?1332403
man these hurt
Anyway , after the 1st session last night i ended up $130 dollars down . Pretty dissapointed to be honest but on the whole i thought i did ok apart from the hands
above .
It got me thinking though . Is it worth maybe staying out of big pots early in a session in order toget a good start . Its really difficult to get back in the grind after a big hit , it knocks your confidence and sometimes alters your playing style , especially when you know you have got to grind it out just to get back to where you start ? Comments please
So the 2nd session went better and manage to win just over a buyin and a half on my 4 tables ending down $60 dollars for the evening
The question i need answering her re this session is that i managed to build a $140 stack on one table . In tourney play i am quite good at using this stack . But how do you do so in cash games . Anyone know of any articles ?
So last night 605 hands - $60.25
August to date Hands 1304 $vpip 19.10 pfr 16.33 Af 5.21 $-173.55
Ok its doesnt look to good so far but honestly i dont think i have played too badly
I can put these losses down to approx 10 hands which i need to cut out
Need some help in posting the pokertracker reports
www.pokerhand.org/?1331394
And im pretty sure i played this just fine !!
www.pokerhand.org/?1331385
A fancy play . Too fancy !!
www.pokerhand.org/?1332403
man these hurt
Anyway , after the 1st session last night i ended up $130 dollars down . Pretty dissapointed to be honest but on the whole i thought i did ok apart from the hands
above .
It got me thinking though . Is it worth maybe staying out of big pots early in a session in order toget a good start . Its really difficult to get back in the grind after a big hit , it knocks your confidence and sometimes alters your playing style , especially when you know you have got to grind it out just to get back to where you start ? Comments please
So the 2nd session went better and manage to win just over a buyin and a half on my 4 tables ending down $60 dollars for the evening
The question i need answering her re this session is that i managed to build a $140 stack on one table . In tourney play i am quite good at using this stack . But how do you do so in cash games . Anyone know of any articles ?
So last night 605 hands - $60.25
August to date Hands 1304 $vpip 19.10 pfr 16.33 Af 5.21 $-173.55
Ok its doesnt look to good so far but honestly i dont think i have played too badly
I can put these losses down to approx 10 hands which i need to cut out
Need some help in posting the pokertracker reports
OMG And i actually thought i was getting better
Ok Here are my losing hands from last night . I had to post the all as i need to know if these are big leaks . I dont understand how i can feel i am playing weel yet lose so much . I know there is a ridiculous number of hands here but i would really apppreciate some comments on the 3 bets if at all possible ! I mean have i got them all wrong ?
Hand1
Just a cooler !!
Seat 1: dstevensou19 ($39.05)
Seat 2: pain23 ($178.35)
Seat 3: drunk_onion ($115.45)
Seat 4: kKIRKHAMMETTt ($14.35)
Seat 5: grahamwhite ($55.15)
Seat 6: kkalashian ($23.15)
grahamwhite posts the small blind of $0.25
kkalashian posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to grahamwhite [5d 5s]
dstevensou19 folds
pain23 folds
drunk_onion folds
kKIRKHAMMETTt has 15 seconds left to act
kKIRKHAMMETTt calls $0.50
grahamwhite raises to $2
kkalashian calls $1.50
kKIRKHAMMETTt calls $1.50
*** FLOP *** [Qs 5h 7h]
grahamwhite checks
kkalashian bets $21.15, and is all in
kKIRKHAMMETTt folds
grahamwhite calls $21.15
kkalashian shows [Qd 9h]
kKIRKHAMMETTt is sitting out
grahamwhite shows [5d 5s]
*** TURN *** [Qs 5h 7h] [4h]
*** RIVER *** [Qs 5h 7h 4h] [Jh]
kkalashian shows a flush, Jack high
grahamwhite shows three of a kind, Fives
kkalashian wins the pot ($45.90) with a flush, Jack high
Hand 2 – Looking back im not so sure I should be re raising with 88 but his figures were 20 / 10 maybe a little to low for the pfr
However once I had made the re raise was I right to make the cBet and correct in folding
Seat 1: schemr ($33.35)
Seat 2: YankeeRomeo7 ($136.05)
Seat 3: tuosevink ($52.35)
Seat 4: ThePHC ($48.40)
Seat 5: grahamwhite ($71.65)
Seat 6: GamblingBrother ($37.65)
grahamwhite posts the small blind of $0.25
GamblingBrother posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to grahamwhite [8h 8s]
schemr calls $0.50
YankeeRomeo7 calls $0.50
tuosevink folds
ThePHC raises to $2.75
grahamwhite has 15 seconds left to act
grahamwhite raises to $8.50
GamblingBrother folds
schemr folds
YankeeRomeo7 folds
ThePHC calls $5.75
*** FLOP *** [2d Td 9c]
grahamwhite bets $14
ThePHC calls $14
*** TURN *** [2d Td 9c] [4h]
grahamwhite checks
ThePHC bets $25.90, and is all in
grahamwhite folds
Uncalled bet of $25.90 returned to ThePHC
ThePHC mucks
ThePHC wins the pot ($44.20)
Hand 3 Now this guys figures were definitely ok to re raise He was about 17 / 14
The thing is should I have made the cbet into this flop . What else could I do
I hate it when there is a rag flop like this and you know that if you check the turn he is going to fire on the river
Seat 1: Samoyed111 ($70.10)
Seat 2: YankeeRomeo7 ($140.85)
Seat 3: grahamwhite ($58.55)
Seat 4: bluemonstr22 ($44.50)
Seat 5: agpoker96 ($50)
Seat 6: zerosum79 ($91)
YankeeRomeo7 posts the small blind of $0.25
grahamwhite posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to grahamwhite [Ks Ah]
bluemonstr22 folds
zerosum79 folds
Samoyed111 raises to $1.75
YankeeRomeo7 folds
grahamwhite has 15 seconds left to act
grahamwhite raises to $5.50
Samoyed111 calls $3.75
*** FLOP *** [5h 9d 3s]
grahamwhite bets $9.50
Samoyed111 calls $9.50
*** TURN *** [5h 9d 3s] [9c]
grahamwhite checks
Samoyed111 bets $30.25
grahamwhite folds
Uncalled bet of $30.25 returned to Samoyed111
Samoyed111 mucks
Samoyed111 wins the pot ($28.75)
Hand 4 - thiis guy had been like play 50/14 and had a massive stack
Probably should have not double barreled
Seat 1: schemr ($27.05)
Seat 2: YankeeRomeo7 ($145.05)
Seat 3: Vieille Peau ($10.40)
Seat 4: ThePHC ($66.90)
Seat 5: grahamwhite ($47.90)
Seat 6: GamblingBrother ($31.05)
grahamwhite posts the small blind of $0.25
GamblingBrother posts the big blind of $0.50
5 seconds left to act
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to grahamwhite [Ts Td]
schemr folds
YankeeRomeo7 calls $0.50
ThePHC folds
grahamwhite raises to $2
GamblingBrother folds
YankeeRomeo7 calls $1.50
*** FLOP *** [2s 7d Jd]
grahamwhite bets $4.50
YankeeRomeo7 calls $4.50
*** TURN *** [2s 7d Jd] [Js]
grahamwhite has 15 seconds left to act
grahamwhite bets $8.50
YankeeRomeo7 raises to $138.55, and is all in
grahamwhite folds
Uncalled bet of $130.05 returned to YankeeRomeo7
YankeeRomeo7 mucks
YankeeRomeo7 wins the pot ($29)
Hand 5 - here we go again another 3 bet with a small pp , Although im sure that when it comes to 3 betting its more to do with the player and position and not so much the cards . I think that I am overbetting my cbets on the 3 bets
Atlas King posts the small blind of $0.25
WhetSpot posts the big blind of $0.50
the button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to grahamwhite [7s 7c]
jselling calls $0.50
grahamwhite raises to $2.25
TheNutters calls $2.25
dentalfrank calls $2.25
Atlas King folds
WhetSpot calls $1.75
jselling calls $1.75
*** FLOP *** [3s 5s Jd]
WhetSpot checks
jselling checks
grahamwhite checks
TheNutters checks
dentalfrank bets $2.50
WhetSpot has 15 seconds left to act
WhetSpot folds
jselling folds
grahamwhite raises to $11.50
TheNutters folds
dentalfrank calls $9
*** TURN *** [3s 5s Jd] [6h]
grahamwhite checks
dentalfrank bets $9
grahamwhite adds $20.30
grahamwhite folds
Uncalled bet of $9 returned to dentalfrank
dentalfrank mucks
dentalfrank wins the pot ($32.80)
Hand 6 – I played this pretty weakly I think tried to play a raise and a cbet against this player looks like I should have double barrelled and folded to his river bet
Seat 1: grahamwhite ($54.70)
Seat 2: DuggleBogey ($41.20)
Seat 3: ab1x ($102.50)
Seat 4: Heartachee ($50)
Seat 5: tash78 ($22)
Seat 6: zerosum79 ($59.05)
DuggleBogey posts the small blind of $0.25
ab1x posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to grahamwhite [Jd Th]
tash78 folds
zerosum79 folds
grahamwhite raises to $1.75
DuggleBogey calls $1.50
ab1x has 15 seconds left to act
ab1x folds
*** FLOP *** [9d Qc Ts]
DuggleBogey checks
grahamwhite has 15 seconds left to act
grahamwhite bets $4
DuggleBogey calls $4
*** TURN *** [9d Qc Ts] [Jh]
DuggleBogey checks
grahamwhite checks
*** RIVER *** [9d Qc Ts Jh] [Ah]
DuggleBogey has 15 seconds left to act
DuggleBogey bets $7
grahamwhite has 15 seconds left to act
grahamwhite calls $7
*** SHOW DOWN ***
DuggleBogey shows [9c Ac] two pair, Aces and Nines
grahamwhite mucks
DuggleBogey wins the pot ($24.70) with two pair, Aces and Nines
Hand 7 - yipes another 3 bet - I don’t think there was anything wrong with this 3 bet . I should have spotted this guys stack here though . I mean he only has one bet So that maybe where th problems was
All in
Seat 1: INGELTROD ($41)
Seat 2: kauch12 ($50.85)
Seat 3: MelloAceCV ($12.65)
Seat 4: Colonel Mustard ($50)
Seat 5: grahamwhite ($50.55)
Seat 6: schemr ($161.45)
grahamwhite posts the small blind of $0.25
schemr posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to grahamwhite [Kh Qc]
INGELTROD folds
kauch12 folds
MelloAceCV raises to $1.75
grahamwhite has 15 seconds left to act
grahamwhite raises to $5.75
schemr folds
MelloAceCV raises to $12.65, and is all in
grahamwhite calls $6.90
MelloAceCV shows [7d 7c]
grahamwhite shows [Kh Qc]
*** FLOP *** [8s 5h Jc]
*** TURN *** [8s 5h Jc] [7h]
*** RIVER *** [8s 5h Jc 7h] [Tc]
MelloAceCV shows three of a kind, Sevens
grahamwhite shows King Queen high
MelloAceCV wins the pot ($24.55) with three of a kind, Sevens
Hand1
Just a cooler !!
Seat 1: dstevensou19 ($39.05)
Seat 2: pain23 ($178.35)
Seat 3: drunk_onion ($115.45)
Seat 4: kKIRKHAMMETTt ($14.35)
Seat 5: grahamwhite ($55.15)
Seat 6: kkalashian ($23.15)
grahamwhite posts the small blind of $0.25
kkalashian posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to grahamwhite [5d 5s]
dstevensou19 folds
pain23 folds
drunk_onion folds
kKIRKHAMMETTt has 15 seconds left to act
kKIRKHAMMETTt calls $0.50
grahamwhite raises to $2
kkalashian calls $1.50
kKIRKHAMMETTt calls $1.50
*** FLOP *** [Qs 5h 7h]
grahamwhite checks
kkalashian bets $21.15, and is all in
kKIRKHAMMETTt folds
grahamwhite calls $21.15
kkalashian shows [Qd 9h]
kKIRKHAMMETTt is sitting out
grahamwhite shows [5d 5s]
*** TURN *** [Qs 5h 7h] [4h]
*** RIVER *** [Qs 5h 7h 4h] [Jh]
kkalashian shows a flush, Jack high
grahamwhite shows three of a kind, Fives
kkalashian wins the pot ($45.90) with a flush, Jack high
Hand 2 – Looking back im not so sure I should be re raising with 88 but his figures were 20 / 10 maybe a little to low for the pfr
However once I had made the re raise was I right to make the cBet and correct in folding
Seat 1: schemr ($33.35)
Seat 2: YankeeRomeo7 ($136.05)
Seat 3: tuosevink ($52.35)
Seat 4: ThePHC ($48.40)
Seat 5: grahamwhite ($71.65)
Seat 6: GamblingBrother ($37.65)
grahamwhite posts the small blind of $0.25
GamblingBrother posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to grahamwhite [8h 8s]
schemr calls $0.50
YankeeRomeo7 calls $0.50
tuosevink folds
ThePHC raises to $2.75
grahamwhite has 15 seconds left to act
grahamwhite raises to $8.50
GamblingBrother folds
schemr folds
YankeeRomeo7 folds
ThePHC calls $5.75
*** FLOP *** [2d Td 9c]
grahamwhite bets $14
ThePHC calls $14
*** TURN *** [2d Td 9c] [4h]
grahamwhite checks
ThePHC bets $25.90, and is all in
grahamwhite folds
Uncalled bet of $25.90 returned to ThePHC
ThePHC mucks
ThePHC wins the pot ($44.20)
Hand 3 Now this guys figures were definitely ok to re raise He was about 17 / 14
The thing is should I have made the cbet into this flop . What else could I do
I hate it when there is a rag flop like this and you know that if you check the turn he is going to fire on the river
Seat 1: Samoyed111 ($70.10)
Seat 2: YankeeRomeo7 ($140.85)
Seat 3: grahamwhite ($58.55)
Seat 4: bluemonstr22 ($44.50)
Seat 5: agpoker96 ($50)
Seat 6: zerosum79 ($91)
YankeeRomeo7 posts the small blind of $0.25
grahamwhite posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to grahamwhite [Ks Ah]
bluemonstr22 folds
zerosum79 folds
Samoyed111 raises to $1.75
YankeeRomeo7 folds
grahamwhite has 15 seconds left to act
grahamwhite raises to $5.50
Samoyed111 calls $3.75
*** FLOP *** [5h 9d 3s]
grahamwhite bets $9.50
Samoyed111 calls $9.50
*** TURN *** [5h 9d 3s] [9c]
grahamwhite checks
Samoyed111 bets $30.25
grahamwhite folds
Uncalled bet of $30.25 returned to Samoyed111
Samoyed111 mucks
Samoyed111 wins the pot ($28.75)
Hand 4 - thiis guy had been like play 50/14 and had a massive stack
Probably should have not double barreled
Seat 1: schemr ($27.05)
Seat 2: YankeeRomeo7 ($145.05)
Seat 3: Vieille Peau ($10.40)
Seat 4: ThePHC ($66.90)
Seat 5: grahamwhite ($47.90)
Seat 6: GamblingBrother ($31.05)
grahamwhite posts the small blind of $0.25
GamblingBrother posts the big blind of $0.50
5 seconds left to act
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to grahamwhite [Ts Td]
schemr folds
YankeeRomeo7 calls $0.50
ThePHC folds
grahamwhite raises to $2
GamblingBrother folds
YankeeRomeo7 calls $1.50
*** FLOP *** [2s 7d Jd]
grahamwhite bets $4.50
YankeeRomeo7 calls $4.50
*** TURN *** [2s 7d Jd] [Js]
grahamwhite has 15 seconds left to act
grahamwhite bets $8.50
YankeeRomeo7 raises to $138.55, and is all in
grahamwhite folds
Uncalled bet of $130.05 returned to YankeeRomeo7
YankeeRomeo7 mucks
YankeeRomeo7 wins the pot ($29)
Hand 5 - here we go again another 3 bet with a small pp , Although im sure that when it comes to 3 betting its more to do with the player and position and not so much the cards . I think that I am overbetting my cbets on the 3 bets
Atlas King posts the small blind of $0.25
WhetSpot posts the big blind of $0.50
the button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to grahamwhite [7s 7c]
jselling calls $0.50
grahamwhite raises to $2.25
TheNutters calls $2.25
dentalfrank calls $2.25
Atlas King folds
WhetSpot calls $1.75
jselling calls $1.75
*** FLOP *** [3s 5s Jd]
WhetSpot checks
jselling checks
grahamwhite checks
TheNutters checks
dentalfrank bets $2.50
WhetSpot has 15 seconds left to act
WhetSpot folds
jselling folds
grahamwhite raises to $11.50
TheNutters folds
dentalfrank calls $9
*** TURN *** [3s 5s Jd] [6h]
grahamwhite checks
dentalfrank bets $9
grahamwhite adds $20.30
grahamwhite folds
Uncalled bet of $9 returned to dentalfrank
dentalfrank mucks
dentalfrank wins the pot ($32.80)
Hand 6 – I played this pretty weakly I think tried to play a raise and a cbet against this player looks like I should have double barrelled and folded to his river bet
Seat 1: grahamwhite ($54.70)
Seat 2: DuggleBogey ($41.20)
Seat 3: ab1x ($102.50)
Seat 4: Heartachee ($50)
Seat 5: tash78 ($22)
Seat 6: zerosum79 ($59.05)
DuggleBogey posts the small blind of $0.25
ab1x posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to grahamwhite [Jd Th]
tash78 folds
zerosum79 folds
grahamwhite raises to $1.75
DuggleBogey calls $1.50
ab1x has 15 seconds left to act
ab1x folds
*** FLOP *** [9d Qc Ts]
DuggleBogey checks
grahamwhite has 15 seconds left to act
grahamwhite bets $4
DuggleBogey calls $4
*** TURN *** [9d Qc Ts] [Jh]
DuggleBogey checks
grahamwhite checks
*** RIVER *** [9d Qc Ts Jh] [Ah]
DuggleBogey has 15 seconds left to act
DuggleBogey bets $7
grahamwhite has 15 seconds left to act
grahamwhite calls $7
*** SHOW DOWN ***
DuggleBogey shows [9c Ac] two pair, Aces and Nines
grahamwhite mucks
DuggleBogey wins the pot ($24.70) with two pair, Aces and Nines
Hand 7 - yipes another 3 bet - I don’t think there was anything wrong with this 3 bet . I should have spotted this guys stack here though . I mean he only has one bet So that maybe where th problems was
All in
Seat 1: INGELTROD ($41)
Seat 2: kauch12 ($50.85)
Seat 3: MelloAceCV ($12.65)
Seat 4: Colonel Mustard ($50)
Seat 5: grahamwhite ($50.55)
Seat 6: schemr ($161.45)
grahamwhite posts the small blind of $0.25
schemr posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to grahamwhite [Kh Qc]
INGELTROD folds
kauch12 folds
MelloAceCV raises to $1.75
grahamwhite has 15 seconds left to act
grahamwhite raises to $5.75
schemr folds
MelloAceCV raises to $12.65, and is all in
grahamwhite calls $6.90
MelloAceCV shows [7d 7c]
grahamwhite shows [Kh Qc]
*** FLOP *** [8s 5h Jc]
*** TURN *** [8s 5h Jc] [7h]
*** RIVER *** [8s 5h Jc 7h] [Tc]
MelloAceCV shows three of a kind, Sevens
grahamwhite shows King Queen high
MelloAceCV wins the pot ($24.55) with three of a kind, Sevens
Thursday, 2 August 2007
Well my night seems to have been pretty much like this all night
Although i did tilt for a short while
www.pokerhand.org/?1327891
i had to laugh he was 50 / 8 / 1 and posted the coment " that was lucky
So after this depressing session i decided to blog my goals for August
2500 hands per week 10000 for the month of August
Play in position more frequently
Reduce my $vpip to less than 20% with an increased pfr if possible
I am currently 24 / 16
Make more notes on players . I didnt realize that once you have made them on FT
you just have to hover over the villains icon and they show up F Me thats thick
Finally im gonna stop donking off chips to large turn or river bets when i have not got the goods
Oh and a few more Sweat sessions
Tonights results 607 hands -$113
Although i did tilt for a short while
www.pokerhand.org/?1327891
i had to laugh he was 50 / 8 / 1 and posted the coment " that was lucky
So after this depressing session i decided to blog my goals for August
2500 hands per week 10000 for the month of August
Play in position more frequently
Reduce my $vpip to less than 20% with an increased pfr if possible
I am currently 24 / 16
Make more notes on players . I didnt realize that once you have made them on FT
you just have to hover over the villains icon and they show up F Me thats thick
Finally im gonna stop donking off chips to large turn or river bets when i have not got the goods
Oh and a few more Sweat sessions
Tonights results 607 hands -$113
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