Ooh baby – my poker biorhythms are really in sync now;

Loads of stuff I’ve picked up from the videos are working. For instance, the blind stealing is still proving wildly successful – one of the many multicoloured stats choking up my screen is ‘everyone folds to blind steal’, as long as it doesn’t drop below 30%, then my stealing is profitable (even 30% is generous, because it doesn’t include hands I go on to win even though they call, and since I have position there’s a good chance I will do ok). This stat hasn’t dropped below 40% yet. Virtually no-one picks up that I’m raising each and every time it’s folded to me on the button. (Update, hmm, I think I’ve got my maths wrong. Maybe it should be 60%? In which case I shouldn’t be profiting? – usual table percentage seems to be about 40-50%)

And then when they do cotton on, there’s more stuff to do. For example in this hand the BB had definitely picked up I was stealing a lot – he had 3bet me from the BB three times already, so either he was on a heater or had decided to 3bet light. So I did this;

• Bluffing a blind defender
  $0.05/$0.1 No Limit Holdem
  5 players

  Stacks:
  UTG ($10.00)
  CO ($4.20)
  Hero (BTN) ($24.20)
  SB ($9.40)
  BB ($10.30)

  Pre-flop: ($0.15, 5 players) Hero is BTN T 4 (or whatever, cards aren’t important to me here)
  2 folds, Hero raises to $0.30, 1 fold, BB raises to $0.90, Hero raises to $2, BB calls $1.10

  Flop: 8 A 6 ($4.05, 2 players)
  BB checks, Hero bets $2, BB folds

  Final Pot: $4.05

  Hero wins $5.85 ( won +$1.85 )
  BB lost -$2

Risky perhaps, but not a great deal as long as my assumption that he’s defending is right. However in my 3betting light theory he should have folded preflop (I didn’t raise enough), but still a result. Also, as a result, that’s $1.85 won there covers 6 more blind stealing attempts. I’m probably boring you to death about stealing, so won’t go on about it anymore – just one last bit of proof. Here’s the chart for the last week where I attempted to steal from the blind, but filtered for no-showdown (ie either they folded, or they raised me and I folded) – Att to steal stat was 45%;

So I’m pleased with StoxPoker so far. While I’m learning a lot, I’m sure I’m missing a lot too, but that’s ok, you can’t expect to learn everything instantly…

just seen this on 2p2;

who’s the fat guy in the front, and why does Barry’s beard keep vanishing?