Weee hello again, these last 4 days have been an uber-grind to say the least!. I've put in a lot of volume in for a healthy loss, in cash of about 5 buyins and in tournaments I'm very slighlty in profit. After my cash bummage I took a quick break and switched to the 3.30rebuy 180 mans which so far have been quite profitable. I've played about 9 of them and cashed in about 6, although the best cash was no more than 40 dollars which has been incredibly annoying. However, I'm sticking at it as the field seems really soft and I'm determined to register a win, as there is so much value it's untrue.
I think I've played more poker than I have slept in these last two days, including a 20 hour session yesterday where Isaac and Paul joined me and Lass for a 2NL donkfest which was brilliant, just like old times. I can't actually remember if I finished up or not but I suspect not, with Isaac at one point sitting at the table with $69 which was absurd but very funny.
My roll is at 80 which isnt exactly inspiring for the amount of volume put in, but I'm enjoying these tourns despite the frustration and its getting me FPPs much quicker than 10NL so I think I'll stick with these in the near future or I piss away my roll.
If I win tonight which I better bloody do, then I'll post it. Come one you cunts one time X
Laters choildren X
Sunday, 7 March 2010
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
Tilt 0-1 Me. (notice I'm playing away)
Well this is a new era for me. I haven't tilted once, even when dropping 5 BI in my last two pretty filthy sessions. I had got up to +10BI a few days ago which was pretty nice, until I started getting killed somewhat. 4 tables + tracker = win.
Played a few tourns today with no results, a min cash in a 4.40 180 man. This means my roll is now pretty much directly proportional to my cash graph + $10. At this rate I'll easily be hitting the unchartered territory of silver star + VIP bonus by the end of the month. Think I've put more volume in this week than the entirety of last year.
Right, off to watch Italy put in what will most likely be a dire performance against Cameroon.
X
Monday, 1 March 2010
$103
Evening, just had my first day back at school which was quite laid back, all the teachers seemed rightly pissed off and I don't blame them. As usual the best part of the day was dinner time, we get a buffet consisting of at least 4 types of meat. Today was salami, beef, haddock, and fish fingers. Obviously they all went on the same plate. The food is exceptional at this school so I thought it's worth a mention.
Anyways onto poker. Yesterday nights session of about 300 hands was uneventful, eventually finishing a massive $2.30 up. Tonights session has gone much better, being up a buyin and a half. This was 90% due to running like a god. my only reasonably paid hand however was my quads vs overpair. The rest was a small grind. At the end however I was shafted for most my stack with AA hitting the nut flush on the turn for him to fill up on the river, which is fair enough. Straight after that I'm writing this to give myself 10 minutes to recompose, instead of trying to claw it back instantly. It's quite sad it's such a small amount but it could turn out more costly as I do feel slightly tilty even after that.
While playing, pokertube is usually open which keeps my mind on poker and not getting the shakes by not playing like a dickhead. I get the impression that I'm a bit like a dormant volcano ready to spew any minute, but thus far I am not playing badly.
I've plonked in another graph to give you some idea of progress. As the title suggests the BR is just over $100 which is my first milestone and it came reasonably quickly. Technically still not rolled for it though.....
These posts will get less and less frequent but for now every $ matters more so I am updating at a higher rate.
X
Anyways onto poker. Yesterday nights session of about 300 hands was uneventful, eventually finishing a massive $2.30 up. Tonights session has gone much better, being up a buyin and a half. This was 90% due to running like a god. my only reasonably paid hand however was my quads vs overpair. The rest was a small grind. At the end however I was shafted for most my stack with AA hitting the nut flush on the turn for him to fill up on the river, which is fair enough. Straight after that I'm writing this to give myself 10 minutes to recompose, instead of trying to claw it back instantly. It's quite sad it's such a small amount but it could turn out more costly as I do feel slightly tilty even after that.
While playing, pokertube is usually open which keeps my mind on poker and not getting the shakes by not playing like a dickhead. I get the impression that I'm a bit like a dormant volcano ready to spew any minute, but thus far I am not playing badly.
I've plonked in another graph to give you some idea of progress. As the title suggests the BR is just over $100 which is my first milestone and it came reasonably quickly. Technically still not rolled for it though.....
These posts will get less and less frequent but for now every $ matters more so I am updating at a higher rate.
X
Sunday, 28 February 2010
Some more progress
Afternoon, today I had my first loosing session after putting in about 1k's worth of volume 4 tabling, being down 3 dollars at the end of it is nothing so I'm not too bothered, though I did play worse today and didn't manage to win my big races such as KK AK vs JJ, and QQ KJ AI pre. I was expecting a blip after yesterday evenings session where I managed a nice 2.5 BI over about 600 hands. At the moment I'm playing ABC poker but today I haven't hit too much and less of my Cbets and check raising are getting through. I made a very bad call with top pair on the river after a bloke flopped quads and bet out all three streets.
But at the end of this afternoon's session I'm still up by just over 7BI which I'm happy with over the last 3 days. I find 4 tabling much easier now with software and although it's bad to completely rely on it I think that at 10NL people rarely mix things up and so the sample seems to have become more useful than I thought it would.
Because stats are a novelty to me at the moment, here is what they were at the end of the session on respective tables.
14/9
11/8
16/13
14/10
Action Tony no longer exists.
And thanks for the comment and offer Isaac though I'd like to kill this game first before any staking or moving up. And it's great to hear from you again :) I'll probably have an update tomorrow or tuesday as I'm back at the school....boooooooo.
X
But at the end of this afternoon's session I'm still up by just over 7BI which I'm happy with over the last 3 days. I find 4 tabling much easier now with software and although it's bad to completely rely on it I think that at 10NL people rarely mix things up and so the sample seems to have become more useful than I thought it would.
Because stats are a novelty to me at the moment, here is what they were at the end of the session on respective tables.
14/9
11/8
16/13
14/10
Action Tony no longer exists.
And thanks for the comment and offer Isaac though I'd like to kill this game first before any staking or moving up. And it's great to hear from you again :) I'll probably have an update tomorrow or tuesday as I'm back at the school....boooooooo.
X
Saturday, 27 February 2010
One last take.
It's not really necessary to point out the fact that this blog, along with my poker career (if you can call it that) is on its deathbed. Since september I have played almost no poker at all and there isn't a truly valid reason why. While I have decided to 'give it another go' several hundred times, they have all been completely lacklustre faliures and I'm not very proud of it.
Which brings me to now. I'm currently in France working as a language assistant in a private school, and it's treating me very well. 550 euros a month, free apartment, 18 hours work a week, with free food during the day. I've yet to discover a downside to it so I hope it continues.
Moving on to poker, I haven't put any money into Stars, as I still have 30 dollars leftover from my last withdrawal. I am having one last go at building a bankroll- I've set myself no targets at all apart from to not give up when things don't go your way, and play logically as opposed to thinking that pokerstars 'owes' me after I get coolered or vice versa. For this, I have bought poker tracker (more accurately Tom has a spare code which he has given me, which is incredibly generous.) This will keep me completely honest and tell me about my game so I can pinpoint my mistakes instead of blaming it on life in general which was a convenient and unfortunate habit I had last year.
Talking of which, I think last year my game worsened. While I wasn't throwing money around at the table, I was very loose and it came back to bite me. Online I was most certainly down, somewhere in the region of $150, which doesn't sound much- but when I think about how much online profit I had after 6 months of actually learning the game then I'm very disappointed in my performance. My only saving grace is my slightly above average ability to play live which put me in for a small profit. Online my concentration levels are frankly pathetic, as demonstrated last year. My Willhill and full tilt graphs, and to a lesser extent my stars graph tell quite a story, which you can look at at your own leisure. But enough about how much of an anticlimax last year was, I am giving it one last shot- I can't really say how confident I am but I know it's not 100%.
So, about these last 3 days. With this 30 dollars I have, I am treating it as if it was the first stake Isaac ever gave me. That magical $50 which set me on my way to becoming a semi-reasonable micro-stakes player. Poker tracker has given me all the information I need thus far and I know I am more profitable because of it. No more calling raises with K10 in the small blind or 78s.
My current game is Full ring 10NL and this is what the graph shows.
As you can see I am up roughly 5 buy-ins, up until my dip at the peak I was playing well and running well. I have found that my most profitable strategy is to trap and slowplay as much as possible, but obviously not all the time. The amount of river donk bets I have check called, or the amount of non beleivers looking me up after I check the turn after a C-bet has been the foundation for my small profit so far. While it's fair to say that I'm probably not getting the maximum value out of my hands, for the moment I'm going by small pot won > big pot lost.
I'm running nicely at 8.55BB over just short of 3k hands. At the 2k mark it was 15 which was obviously unsustainable. My first dip came after I made a bad call with an overpair after a guy shoved his stack after he completed his flush on the river. I didn't really understand it as he didn't put the standard value bet in so I called and got the bad news. Incidentally though the 3 previous times I made the same call and they turned out well. The next dip came after I raised JJ into the BB who flat shoved. I dwelled for about 20 seconds and called as I thought that's probably the worst way to get value out of a monster- but I lose on the turn to his 66. That's about as bad as it got. I stuck at it surprisingly and clawed some of it back. I'm going to play another session now.
Reward for the gayest post ever- but I do miss DUPS and I hope that some of the other guys like Isaac Gambon and Hannes will update their blogs and let us know what's going on. As a side note I highly doubt anybody reads this anymore, but I would appreciate a comment just to see if you're all still playing.
Tek care lads. X
Which brings me to now. I'm currently in France working as a language assistant in a private school, and it's treating me very well. 550 euros a month, free apartment, 18 hours work a week, with free food during the day. I've yet to discover a downside to it so I hope it continues.
Moving on to poker, I haven't put any money into Stars, as I still have 30 dollars leftover from my last withdrawal. I am having one last go at building a bankroll- I've set myself no targets at all apart from to not give up when things don't go your way, and play logically as opposed to thinking that pokerstars 'owes' me after I get coolered or vice versa. For this, I have bought poker tracker (more accurately Tom has a spare code which he has given me, which is incredibly generous.) This will keep me completely honest and tell me about my game so I can pinpoint my mistakes instead of blaming it on life in general which was a convenient and unfortunate habit I had last year.
Talking of which, I think last year my game worsened. While I wasn't throwing money around at the table, I was very loose and it came back to bite me. Online I was most certainly down, somewhere in the region of $150, which doesn't sound much- but when I think about how much online profit I had after 6 months of actually learning the game then I'm very disappointed in my performance. My only saving grace is my slightly above average ability to play live which put me in for a small profit. Online my concentration levels are frankly pathetic, as demonstrated last year. My Willhill and full tilt graphs, and to a lesser extent my stars graph tell quite a story, which you can look at at your own leisure. But enough about how much of an anticlimax last year was, I am giving it one last shot- I can't really say how confident I am but I know it's not 100%.
So, about these last 3 days. With this 30 dollars I have, I am treating it as if it was the first stake Isaac ever gave me. That magical $50 which set me on my way to becoming a semi-reasonable micro-stakes player. Poker tracker has given me all the information I need thus far and I know I am more profitable because of it. No more calling raises with K10 in the small blind or 78s.
My current game is Full ring 10NL and this is what the graph shows.
As you can see I am up roughly 5 buy-ins, up until my dip at the peak I was playing well and running well. I have found that my most profitable strategy is to trap and slowplay as much as possible, but obviously not all the time. The amount of river donk bets I have check called, or the amount of non beleivers looking me up after I check the turn after a C-bet has been the foundation for my small profit so far. While it's fair to say that I'm probably not getting the maximum value out of my hands, for the moment I'm going by small pot won > big pot lost.
I'm running nicely at 8.55BB over just short of 3k hands. At the 2k mark it was 15 which was obviously unsustainable. My first dip came after I made a bad call with an overpair after a guy shoved his stack after he completed his flush on the river. I didn't really understand it as he didn't put the standard value bet in so I called and got the bad news. Incidentally though the 3 previous times I made the same call and they turned out well. The next dip came after I raised JJ into the BB who flat shoved. I dwelled for about 20 seconds and called as I thought that's probably the worst way to get value out of a monster- but I lose on the turn to his 66. That's about as bad as it got. I stuck at it surprisingly and clawed some of it back. I'm going to play another session now.
Reward for the gayest post ever- but I do miss DUPS and I hope that some of the other guys like Isaac Gambon and Hannes will update their blogs and let us know what's going on. As a side note I highly doubt anybody reads this anymore, but I would appreciate a comment just to see if you're all still playing.
Tek care lads. X
Sunday, 27 September 2009
Worst month to date!
Well well! My comeback has been quite a faliure thus far. That $160 went down quite quickly! I have been playing $6 sit n gos and below, and the results have been quite disturbing. I have put a good amount of volume in over these last few weeks for a very steady loss. I put this down to partly rust, lack of rythm, more tilt, and less patience, which all together is a pretty lethal cocktail of bummage. I am currently trying to nail the reasonably new 3.30 rebuy 180 man turbos, as the field seems quite weak and 1st is around $550, which isnt bad at all.
As there is nothing positive to mention pokerwise, I'll move onto my new accomodation and city! I have been in modena for a week now, and it is an incredibly beautiful city, lovely architecture, churches, and monuments with latin inscriptions, and of course museums. This of course doesn't interest me at all, but I wanted to sound like a cultured student all the same. I am once again sharing a room, this time with a spaniard called Guillermo Chica, which is an infinitely cool name.
As for the accomodation itself- the following is an extract taken from facebook and the first message sent to Tom Lassey but 3 days in.
"Fuck me i only just set up my internet at modena. There are a CUNT load of spaniards so I will be speaking decent spanish too when I get back! Modena is great, next door to a great food place where it's dirt cheap for students. Our toilet is shit. When you flush the fucker it spurts up and over the edge so if you've just been for a shit it regurgitates it back up your arse in a more liquid form and then some goes on the floor"
And that folks.....is the ugly truth! See you soon guys X
As there is nothing positive to mention pokerwise, I'll move onto my new accomodation and city! I have been in modena for a week now, and it is an incredibly beautiful city, lovely architecture, churches, and monuments with latin inscriptions, and of course museums. This of course doesn't interest me at all, but I wanted to sound like a cultured student all the same. I am once again sharing a room, this time with a spaniard called Guillermo Chica, which is an infinitely cool name.
As for the accomodation itself- the following is an extract taken from facebook and the first message sent to Tom Lassey but 3 days in.
"Fuck me i only just set up my internet at modena. There are a CUNT load of spaniards so I will be speaking decent spanish too when I get back! Modena is great, next door to a great food place where it's dirt cheap for students. Our toilet is shit. When you flush the fucker it spurts up and over the edge so if you've just been for a shit it regurgitates it back up your arse in a more liquid form and then some goes on the floor"
And that folks.....is the ugly truth! See you soon guys X
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
I hath returned!!
Hello again, time for another kick start, its good to be back! After my last post I sort of got fed up with online poker. Whilst still cashing out approximately $150 profit, it was the endless run of pteveyesque going deep and then getting bummed which became disheartening, and along with exams I had no real time to play.
Then came another 9 weeks of envelopes, which was much better than last year.....seeing as the polish bitch staff seargent had been fired, which meant it became more relaxing and we had chance to muck around stapling each other, and using industrial strength glue to stick each other to tables when we weren't watching. This time I earnt a bit more, circa £2.8k, which for the first time in a while put me in a confortable position. During the summer I went back to the casino a few times, and failed to register any tournament success, so I moved onto live cash (50/1) which proved to be a reasonable alternative. The players there were megafish, and a few dickheads, me of course being among them! I went 3 times and came out with a Poker profit of just over a buyin, quite dissapointing judging by the quality of the opposition. One hand which springs to mind was a 120 quid pot, after the table limps and I raise to a tenner with QQ, 3 callers. Flop comes KQx two diamonds and of course someone is holding 85dd which hits, but that was about as bad as it got. Please also note the added word 'Poker' profit, this does not include belling
20 quid on 22 playing roulette.
So last week I arrived in Italy, and its so good to be back to see the family, and the food is just orgasmic unlike the weather at the moment. Playing plenty volleyball- its massive over here and just chilling at my cousins before I head off to Modena. I've redeposited $160 into stars for another crack at sit n go grinding. Hopefully I won't have to withdraw. Anyway it's good to be back, and I am glad everyone is doing well.
Congrats to Hannes for his engagement, and for the record.........I'd fucking eat all those chicken wings. XXXXXXX
Then came another 9 weeks of envelopes, which was much better than last year.....seeing as the polish bitch staff seargent had been fired, which meant it became more relaxing and we had chance to muck around stapling each other, and using industrial strength glue to stick each other to tables when we weren't watching. This time I earnt a bit more, circa £2.8k, which for the first time in a while put me in a confortable position. During the summer I went back to the casino a few times, and failed to register any tournament success, so I moved onto live cash (50/1) which proved to be a reasonable alternative. The players there were megafish, and a few dickheads, me of course being among them! I went 3 times and came out with a Poker profit of just over a buyin, quite dissapointing judging by the quality of the opposition. One hand which springs to mind was a 120 quid pot, after the table limps and I raise to a tenner with QQ, 3 callers. Flop comes KQx two diamonds and of course someone is holding 85dd which hits, but that was about as bad as it got. Please also note the added word 'Poker' profit, this does not include belling
20 quid on 22 playing roulette.
So last week I arrived in Italy, and its so good to be back to see the family, and the food is just orgasmic unlike the weather at the moment. Playing plenty volleyball- its massive over here and just chilling at my cousins before I head off to Modena. I've redeposited $160 into stars for another crack at sit n go grinding. Hopefully I won't have to withdraw. Anyway it's good to be back, and I am glad everyone is doing well.
Congrats to Hannes for his engagement, and for the record.........I'd fucking eat all those chicken wings. XXXXXXX
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