Well my night seems to have been pretty much like this all night
Although i did tilt for a short while
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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
Thursday, 2 August 2007
Wednesday, 1 August 2007
My First Sweat Session
Wow , just had my first sweat session with Dodgyken . Man he was running hot so there
were not too many sticky points to talk about as a result
However what i want to stress is how easy it was . On the voip and away .
I was sort of worried a little about it . But once you get the logmein downloaded and sorted
It is easy . Believe me its easier than writing the blogs !!
were not too many sticky points to talk about as a result
However what i want to stress is how easy it was . On the voip and away .
I was sort of worried a little about it . But once you get the logmein downloaded and sorted
It is easy . Believe me its easier than writing the blogs !!
Learning The Hard Way
Did nt manage to play on Sunday night , I got back late from my chip shop and was just feeling really tired , so i managed to get away from the screen for a proper sleep
Monday night I lost a buyin early on when i got all in with 89s on the button on a 8 7 10 J 5 board only for the cut off to show Q9 the thing is he called my raise and then he called my c bet and then i just had to go all in. After that its hard work getting back to where you started .
Still i experimented a little with the 3 betting and i think i got the hang of it well just a little anyway . The guy on my right raised 3 times in a row when i was on the button the first time i had nothing but then JJ and AA what else could i do but re raise , he then proceeded to warn me about it lol . I did not feel i could justify doing it again too soon .
Tuesday night again i struggled early on and lost a buyin when i raised with K10o on the button the utg+1 called he then called my flop bet my turn bet and my river bet on a KJ847 I couldn't seem to get him to fold and was all in on the river only for him to show K7. Cold have saved some money here . Still again worked on the 3 betting with a little more success beginning to understand it .
Spent most of this morning reading the blogs in particular noledges blog
I need to get to this level ! no i will get to this level !!
Whilst i am not always posting on the blog i am most certainly reading others and trying to comment . Once i find a Hot spot for my laptop ill do my comments at lunchtimes giving me more time to play in the evenings
The blogs are a great way of learning , they really are , i have already got articles on 3 betting , table selectin and table aggression . Whats also pretty cool is you can also add to other blogs who probably dont know you exist and they respond
So although July has not been very productive on the $ side . In fact pretty unproductive .It most certainly has been on the learning / understanding side
So see you at the tables
Monday night I lost a buyin early on when i got all in with 89s on the button on a 8 7 10 J 5 board only for the cut off to show Q9 the thing is he called my raise and then he called my c bet and then i just had to go all in. After that its hard work getting back to where you started .
Still i experimented a little with the 3 betting and i think i got the hang of it well just a little anyway . The guy on my right raised 3 times in a row when i was on the button the first time i had nothing but then JJ and AA what else could i do but re raise , he then proceeded to warn me about it lol . I did not feel i could justify doing it again too soon .
Tuesday night again i struggled early on and lost a buyin when i raised with K10o on the button the utg+1 called he then called my flop bet my turn bet and my river bet on a KJ847 I couldn't seem to get him to fold and was all in on the river only for him to show K7. Cold have saved some money here . Still again worked on the 3 betting with a little more success beginning to understand it .
Spent most of this morning reading the blogs in particular noledges blog
I need to get to this level ! no i will get to this level !!
Whilst i am not always posting on the blog i am most certainly reading others and trying to comment . Once i find a Hot spot for my laptop ill do my comments at lunchtimes giving me more time to play in the evenings
The blogs are a great way of learning , they really are , i have already got articles on 3 betting , table selectin and table aggression . Whats also pretty cool is you can also add to other blogs who probably dont know you exist and they respond
So although July has not been very productive on the $ side . In fact pretty unproductive .It most certainly has been on the learning / understanding side
So see you at the tables
Sunday, 29 July 2007
Solid Session
Ok first here are a few hands , now that i finally have worked out how to get these posted correctly
Hand 1 I was wondering should i have called this ? or fold ? I know I'm on the button so i should be using my position , but how ? or do i just pitch this hand and wait ?
www.pokerhand.org/?1311348
Hand 2 I seem to want to call the flush draws . Is there any +EV in this play , should i just fold ?
www.pokerhand.org/?1311360
Hand 3 This was my first attempt at 3 betting on this table , Not sure if my play makes sense though ?
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Hand 4 This guy minraised me , I just felt that it was a weak play that he continued , I was aso the big stack and easily had him covered . Those were my thoughts , but were they correct
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So anyway last nights session was ok , had to change tables a couple of times , must be some sort of delay with the hud , My 47 , 20 table somehow turned into a 20 / 16 by the time i got there...lol i hate it when that happens !!!
Ended up 2 buyinsup , so i was quite pleased , it beats losing a big pot early on and then having to grind my way back to the starting position .
It just goes to show how important confidence is in this game and you also
need a little momentum . Yep momentum , and i came up with a cunning
plan for when i go back to 4 tabling .
I will start of patiently with the 2 tables , feel my way into the session , and then once i feel i am playing my a game , i will add another table and then another
,
this also gives me the opportunity to pick a decent table , so often i
just get to choosing any table , the first and just load them up . A
little preparation should is necessary
See you at the tables
oh , i just read an article by corny on 12 tabling . I wonder if Mr Warrior has read it ?
Hand 1 I was wondering should i have called this ? or fold ? I know I'm on the button so i should be using my position , but how ? or do i just pitch this hand and wait ?
www.pokerhand.org/?1311348
Hand 2 I seem to want to call the flush draws . Is there any +EV in this play , should i just fold ?
www.pokerhand.org/?1311360
Hand 3 This was my first attempt at 3 betting on this table , Not sure if my play makes sense though ?
www.pokerhand.org/?1311362
Hand 4 This guy minraised me , I just felt that it was a weak play that he continued , I was aso the big stack and easily had him covered . Those were my thoughts , but were they correct
www.pokerhand.org/?1311386
So anyway last nights session was ok , had to change tables a couple of times , must be some sort of delay with the hud , My 47 , 20 table somehow turned into a 20 / 16 by the time i got there...lol i hate it when that happens !!!
Ended up 2 buyinsup , so i was quite pleased , it beats losing a big pot early on and then having to grind my way back to the starting position .
It just goes to show how important confidence is in this game and you also
need a little momentum . Yep momentum , and i came up with a cunning
plan for when i go back to 4 tabling .
I will start of patiently with the 2 tables , feel my way into the session , and then once i feel i am playing my a game , i will add another table and then another
,
this also gives me the opportunity to pick a decent table , so often i
just get to choosing any table , the first and just load them up . A
little preparation should is necessary
See you at the tables
oh , i just read an article by corny on 12 tabling . I wonder if Mr Warrior has read it ?
Saturday, 28 July 2007
Momentum !!
More hands
Hand 1
www.pokerhand.org/?1308569
I was wondering if i should have called this bet
Vilain was 40/8 I knew he didnt have 2 pair but was wondering if i should have bet the turn card
Hand 2
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Was i correct to lay down this hand villain was 46 / 18 he had been very aggro against me in particular calling all my pfr an cbets to be honest i lost most of my pots to this guy . I had played an earlier hand with jj c bet it and got min raised and then it was checked down to the river he was holding A5 and there was an ace on the flop
so i was sure he had an ace here . But still did not like laying this down
Sadly i lost just over a buyin last night mostlu due to the 7 on the river that the guy in the first hand won . Overall i was happy with my play should have got away from the one table though where th guy was really aggro against me . But playing 2
tables for the minute is very helpful
Going to grind my way back to the july starting position .Hopefully i canget some comments here , although i have lacking on the posting side of this blog .
But that will change , Oh by the way the momentum thing is about my blogging
3 in 3 days cool !!
See you at the tables
Hand 1
www.pokerhand.org/?1308569
I was wondering if i should have called this bet
Vilain was 40/8 I knew he didnt have 2 pair but was wondering if i should have bet the turn card
Hand 2
www.pokerhand.org/?1308574
Was i correct to lay down this hand villain was 46 / 18 he had been very aggro against me in particular calling all my pfr an cbets to be honest i lost most of my pots to this guy . I had played an earlier hand with jj c bet it and got min raised and then it was checked down to the river he was holding A5 and there was an ace on the flop
so i was sure he had an ace here . But still did not like laying this down
Sadly i lost just over a buyin last night mostlu due to the 7 on the river that the guy in the first hand won . Overall i was happy with my play should have got away from the one table though where th guy was really aggro against me . But playing 2
tables for the minute is very helpful
Going to grind my way back to the july starting position .Hopefully i canget some comments here , although i have lacking on the posting side of this blog .
But that will change , Oh by the way the momentum thing is about my blogging
3 in 3 days cool !!
See you at the tables
Friday, 27 July 2007
Recovering
first some hands as i never seem to post any
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1305376
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1305379
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1305381
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1305383
any comments much appreciated
Anyway back to the recovery . I have been reading loads of blogs , brian townsends in particular , as he seems to be on a downswing , losing 3 million is pretty big .
Then i got to reading some of the comments , Some of it good , some of it bad and i started to compare it to my downswing and thought that there must be similarities in the feelings . Obviously not the levels , but the feelings , dissapointment , anger , etc etc .
So some more thinking about how to recover , i read and re read some of the posts on more blogs . I put it down to confidence or lack of it , also lack of preparation and lack of concentration .These were the problems i had to solve !
So the last few days i have done the following . Reduced the tables i play from 4 to 2 . Watched some vids , I think trevrob of cr said he waches a vid before he plays
so i watched a brystmar vid . I spent more time selecting my tables . All in all i just slowed down a little , calmed down a little .
Once i get to my july starting position im going to have a break . Someone suggested a 4 day on 4 day off scenario to help . I think this may be a good idea . Maybe a 3 and 3 or even a 2 and 2 . I think fruity pro mentioned about the balance being right and for sure i know for many part timers it just isnt there .
Well more paragraphs than normal . see you at the tables
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1305376
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1305379
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1305381
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1305383
any comments much appreciated
Anyway back to the recovery . I have been reading loads of blogs , brian townsends in particular , as he seems to be on a downswing , losing 3 million is pretty big .
Then i got to reading some of the comments , Some of it good , some of it bad and i started to compare it to my downswing and thought that there must be similarities in the feelings . Obviously not the levels , but the feelings , dissapointment , anger , etc etc .
So some more thinking about how to recover , i read and re read some of the posts on more blogs . I put it down to confidence or lack of it , also lack of preparation and lack of concentration .These were the problems i had to solve !
So the last few days i have done the following . Reduced the tables i play from 4 to 2 . Watched some vids , I think trevrob of cr said he waches a vid before he plays
so i watched a brystmar vid . I spent more time selecting my tables . All in all i just slowed down a little , calmed down a little .
Once i get to my july starting position im going to have a break . Someone suggested a 4 day on 4 day off scenario to help . I think this may be a good idea . Maybe a 3 and 3 or even a 2 and 2 . I think fruity pro mentioned about the balance being right and for sure i know for many part timers it just isnt there .
Well more paragraphs than normal . see you at the tables
Thursday, 26 July 2007
Downward Spirals
Since my last post its has been a downward spiral . I have experienced a huge amount of downswing on my bankroll . The explanations are clear to see . I have been playing tired . I have been playing at my chip shop (that is pure madness) . I have been playing on tilt . I have been playing Badly .
As well as all of this if you are unaware of the floods in the uk . I work in worcester and live in gloucester so to be honest life has been a bit of a nightmare .
However these are just excuses or as someone once told me (probably myself) just a story i have been telling myself .
To be honest i think i had been tilting pretty badly over the weekend of the 13th and 14th of july , and then as i usually do , i go up to the higher limits . I got sucked out with AA vs 10 10 , when the villain hit trips for $245 on stars , then managed to enter a limit holdem sng for $50 which i just could not play and that was the end of my stars BR for the moment
I have done similar things on fulltilt losing nearly 30% of my roll through playing above my limits and poor play .
Then as i have been doing frequently , i started studying some of the blogs . I noiced that brian was on a huge downswing and made a post there , this got me to thinking about my own poker situation .
wanting to post and not wishing to make the post sound too negative , i had a long think about the lack of discipline that is sometimes in my life and therefore my game . When its quiet in the chip shop i play poker . What an absurd thing to do . At home when i am really tired i play 4 tables , again that just no good . These things i have too change .
The worst thing about it al though was having to deal with the loss of my bankroll , that is depressing or was !! Yep i have managed to overcome the sense of loss by reminding myself that i am still winning !! After building my roll up from $350 to nearly %1900 over the last few months , well mid april actually . I still am around the $1100 mark . So i am still winning.
I have used the last week as a lesson in how to recover from downswings and from tilting .
Some of the things i did are as followed , I reviewed my play . I had a rest . I dropped down a level to 10 / 25 for a few days to regain my confidence . I watched a few vids . I didnt have a break though but that will come when i get back to $1500 so i feel like i can start again !!
So were ready to rock and roll . This weekend i will play a little but concentrate on a timetable to bring the discipline back into my game .
Well thats it for now . See you at the tables .
As well as all of this if you are unaware of the floods in the uk . I work in worcester and live in gloucester so to be honest life has been a bit of a nightmare .
However these are just excuses or as someone once told me (probably myself) just a story i have been telling myself .
To be honest i think i had been tilting pretty badly over the weekend of the 13th and 14th of july , and then as i usually do , i go up to the higher limits . I got sucked out with AA vs 10 10 , when the villain hit trips for $245 on stars , then managed to enter a limit holdem sng for $50 which i just could not play and that was the end of my stars BR for the moment
I have done similar things on fulltilt losing nearly 30% of my roll through playing above my limits and poor play .
Then as i have been doing frequently , i started studying some of the blogs . I noiced that brian was on a huge downswing and made a post there , this got me to thinking about my own poker situation .
wanting to post and not wishing to make the post sound too negative , i had a long think about the lack of discipline that is sometimes in my life and therefore my game . When its quiet in the chip shop i play poker . What an absurd thing to do . At home when i am really tired i play 4 tables , again that just no good . These things i have too change .
The worst thing about it al though was having to deal with the loss of my bankroll , that is depressing or was !! Yep i have managed to overcome the sense of loss by reminding myself that i am still winning !! After building my roll up from $350 to nearly %1900 over the last few months , well mid april actually . I still am around the $1100 mark . So i am still winning.
I have used the last week as a lesson in how to recover from downswings and from tilting .
Some of the things i did are as followed , I reviewed my play . I had a rest . I dropped down a level to 10 / 25 for a few days to regain my confidence . I watched a few vids . I didnt have a break though but that will come when i get back to $1500 so i feel like i can start again !!
So were ready to rock and roll . This weekend i will play a little but concentrate on a timetable to bring the discipline back into my game .
Well thats it for now . See you at the tables .
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