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20 Games of $20

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

Completed my 20 games. Took a little longer than it should of (felt crap on Sunday and last night – too much staring at computer monitors).

And here’s the result;

Not bad – ROI 23%. I’m not over the moon about my play though – I sucked out on quite a few of those games, plus I ran into people with plummeting sharkscope graphs who still managed to beat me (some of these graphs are losses in the thousands of dollars! I can’t imagine what it would feel like to suddenly discover sharkscope and look yourself up to see a chart like that). So room for improvement, but the important thing is that I now feel quite comfortable with $20s :-) All I need now is a heater and I’ll be trying the $30s!

Also tonight I came 15th in a HU MTT against 400 other runners which was nice. Shame the buy-in was only $2! I came away with $16 prize money from that – these MTTs run every day at 7pm and are great for winding down after work. Two hours of bashing low stakes droolers while risking only $2.

Return of The Mojo

Monday, March 15th, 2010

It’s one of those weird monday nights – everyone I’ve played has been really, really, really bad! :-D

So far it’s 6 games won out of 7, and the last game was an $10 8 man shootout. I noticed that 5 people had already signed up and figured I might as well join in – the prize is split between the 2 finalists $52/$28, so compared to a 4man it’s not that great, but I felt like killing some time and having a gamble.

Plus I was running hot – so hot that even FT couldn’t handle it! First game of the 8man we were all in and I was in bad shape needing a K on the river to complete a straight. Just before the river card was dealt Full Tilt completely hung – it just stared at me showing me the straight draw, taunting me! Then it crashed completely. I thought ‘oh well, gg’ and restarted Full Tilt not expecting much.

As I logged in the game popped up with the fuckwit villain hammering away at his bet button – a K must have landed!!! He’d blinded me back to a 50:50 stack size and I started rebuilding. I was up to 75:25 and he shoved. I called with A7 (blinds were getting a bit high) to see 88. Flop and turn missed, and then the river hit! That guy must have been so pissed (muhahaha).

I went on to win the 8man making $77 for the night – that rescues this month which had been down $80.

I’m a bit worried about my net connection now though. Full Tilt is disconnecting a lot, plus my modem is also checking out fairly often as well. The two combined aren’t making life easy.

MiniFTOPs Event #9

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

I’ve bought my entry into Full Tilt’s miniftops event #9 (the heads up one of course).

$50 entry fee, so that makes the most expensive tournament I’ve ever paid for. I considered some of the satellites, but I’d probably take several attempts and be wasting the money and time anyway. If I can pay S1ndr0me $50 in a stupid prop bet, then I can pay it for a tournament where I might do ok. The main downside is that it’s another Sunday late nighter, but what can you do. This time I won’t down a bottle of wine before starting though, so that might help.

Which reminds me – the $215 SCOOP ticket I won on that WBCOOP tourney is getting closer to being spent. Pokerstars has released the schedule for it now, although the heads up tournaments don’t have any $215 buy-ins -the closest are $162 and $270 entries. Can I split my ticket? I need to write to support to find out (now that I’m thinking about it I’ll do it now!). If I can’t split it I’ll have to use it on a regular FR tournament which I suck at. Stupid non-transferrable, non-cashable tickets…

Gotta Get My Grind On

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

oop, not posted for more than a week! I was away for a long weekend so haven’t actually played much poker, and what I did play was fairly so-so (On checking it I’ve made $56 – actually quite pleasing considering it seemed like I wasn’t playing at all).

Sooo, what can I post about? Not much I guess. Full Tilt is still proving to be the best site to play husngs – plenty of players and not much waiting for a game. Tonight I’ve been playing on Cake (under the alias ‘Rolf Lmao’ – geddit? :-) ), but it takes too long to sit and wait for someone to join you, so I’ve been joining anyone waiting on a game $25 or less (not many $25s, although the one I played I won – whoohoo!). So far been doing ok, but not getting many games over $10.

Here’s a great hand though – I love bluffing, but when someone showed me that they folded top pair it makes it well worth the many, many times that I get called down;

No Limit Holdem Tournament
2 Players

Stacks:
Hero (1,560)
BB (1,440)

Blinds: 10/20

Pre-Flop: (30, 2 players) Hero is SB 9spades poker card 2spades poker card
Hero raises to 40, BB calls 20

Flop: Qspades poker card 8clubs poker card 2diamonds poker card (80, 2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets 80, BB calls 80

Turn: 3diamonds poker card (240, 2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks

River: Jspades poker card (240, 2 players)
BB bets 240, Hero raises to 480, BB folds

Final Pot: 960
BB shows Qclubs poker card 9diamonds poker card

Hero wins 960 (net +360)

BB lost 360

There is some history on that hand – I’d played the same line of cbet, check turn, fold river about 3 times, with him making a PSB on the river each time. So I was actually waiting for a hand to have some value to take this line anyway, but I figured he’d also give the click-it-back action some credit on the river anyway, and a bluff would work just fine too (which it did lol!). However I had been putting that PSB of his as a stone cold bluff to simply buy the pot, and to see him fold away a hand with decent value really surprised me. I guess those other PSBs weren’t bluffs at all (maybe).

Oh, and here’s another one (different opponent);

No Limit Holdem Tournament
2 Players

$20 + $1 Heads Up Sit & Go

Stacks:
SB (1,140)
Hero (1,860)

Blinds: 10/20

Pre-Flop: (30, 2 players) Hero is BB 6hearts poker card Adiamonds poker card
SB raises to 40, Hero calls 20

Flop: 7spades poker card 4clubs poker card 5clubs poker card (80, 2 players)
Hero checks, SB bets 40, Hero raises to 100, SB calls 60

Turn: 5hearts poker card (280, 2 players)
Hero checks, SB bets 160, Hero calls 160

River: 7hearts poker card (600, 2 players)
Hero bets 200,
SB: what a joke
SB has 15 seconds left to act
SB: i got 36
SB folds

Final Pot: 800

Hero wins 800 (net +300)

SB lost 300

Possibly a bet for value more than a bluff, but very thin really…

6max? Game Over I Think…

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Full Tilt is giving away another little bonus (without telling anyone it seems?), and S1ndr0me said he was off to do a bit of rush to clear it. Sounded a good idea so I opened up a couple of tables.

After 600 hands I was down $27 (NL10). I stopped playing and thought how familiar this was. Every 6max session lately has been a losing one. Not suckouts or bad beats either, just me being spewy.

So I went back to husngs ($10 ones – Monday’s always a bad day, so wanted to play for fun rather than pushing myself into $20s). Six games later I was still unbeaten. $57 from an hour’s play.

What’s the point in playing 6max? Obviously none at all. I’m down $180 this year playing that stupid game, while I’m up $460 playing husngs.

So, time to give up playing anything else other than heads up (well, apart from some MTTs just for the big event of it).

Normality Resumed

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

So cash was way too swingy and husngs looked like a fantastic low variance easy climb up the ranks. Nothing could stop me.

Yeah right. I’ve managed to incorporate swings into husngs. It wasn’t easy, but I did it;

I’ve just lost 10 games in a row. The first 4 were $20s, and after seeing it fall away I switched back to $10s. It just kept on going. I’ve finally broken the streak with a single hand game where I sucked out to get 2pair on the river (yep, would have had a fairly crippled stack if that hadn’t happened).

One thing I’ve noticed though is that Full Tilt is easier than Pokerstars – even though PS has twice as many players there seem to be more newbs on FT husngs, plus the blind structure seems slower (well, seems slower, haven’t actually compared properly).

I think I’ll just piss around on rush poker for a bit just to have some low pressure donking – watch me throw a load more away :-)

FML – down $30 in 50 hands! Ran into Kings and Aces left right and center. Why do I even bother…

January Results

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Half good, half bad month.

The bad was my cash games – I started out the month after some in depth revision of my play, and came to the conclusion I was pushing too hard with paired hands (not PP) – overvaluing them and trying to get too much value. I was doing well at all-in play, and making good value out of 2pair+ hands, but the weaker made hands were wiping out those gains.

So I trimmed down my game and initially it seemed to be working – a nice 12 buy-in climb. It then collapsed dramatically, and to be honest I’m still not sure why;

At the bottom of that dive Full Tilt bought out Rush Poker, and I instantly switched, lured in by the appeal of big rakeback and racking up a large volume of hands. I’m not a big volume player, and the idea of boosting the number of hands was to reduce variance, but somehow I became swingier then ever. I possibly could have worked my way back to zero, but I was dispirited with the whole thing. My new year’s resolution was to not care about the limits I play, and just go with my bankroll, which is still fine, but it hurt to be within $8 of moving down to NL5 :-(

However  at that point I switched to HUSNGs. Which was the good half of the month :-D

For some reason I’ve been unstoppable – $5 buy-in games went fine, enough to give me confidence with the $10s. I then won 75% of $10 games – 17/23! Yesterday I tried some $20 games (not january I know), and won 2/3, so early days there – however the cash profit from these is astounding. Furthermore I’m not feeling bad (much) when I lose a match, not like when I’ve just spewed 4 buy-ins at NL10 – however that could be because I’m on a winning streak, sooo I’m not going to make too much of that right now.

Final gains: $120 including rakeback. $70 without rb – have to admit, rush poker did win in that respect!

February I’m concentrating on HU. Maybe this is a turning point in what kind of game I play, we’ll have to see…

ps. forgot to mention 21st in the WBCOOP main event as well :-)

Also got two weeks of stox from trulyfree, better get watching some vids I guess!



Forum

Re: StoxEV by Simon Debanks 09:25, May 07 2010
Re: StoxEV by Meteoric 20:05, Apr 29 2010
Re: StoxEV by yegor_kgb 08:30, Apr 28 2010
StoxEV by Simon Debanks 21:53, Apr 27 2010
How hard can it be! by Meteoric 20:27, Mar 15 2010
Re: Forum Upgrade by Meteoric 14:26, Mar 11 2010
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