Made a cheeky little compilation video of the sports day we had at the end of our uni careers in my spare time today. Not 100% sure how to get it on my blog but if its not here you can check it out here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYkpGxjZlO0
Monday, July 09, 2007
Saturday, July 07, 2007
Overdue update
Haven't been playing much poker recently, mainly for one reason - the Wii. I purchased it on Friday and haven't really stopped playing it since. Took it round Jo's house and their family love it too so we've pretty much spent all our spare time playing it. The only problem was that it only came with one controller but today the other 2 I ordered have come through the post so fun shall soon be improved even more!
In other news my contract for my job with Atkins came through today so I have been reading that and it seems pretty good. I'll be working at Epsom so will have to travel into London then back out again. I also played golf today with Jo's brothers which was pretty fun. Only played a 9 hole par 3 course but was a good laugh. Jo filmed some of it and took some pictures and her little brother is a bit of a whizz with stuff like that and has put together a compilation of the day which looks well professional so hopefully I'll be able to put that up on here if I can figure out how too.
Also booked a holiday with the missus to a 5* hotel in Majorca and cannot wait to go as it's only in 11 days!
Playing cricket tomorrow down in Canterbury and then its back to the missus' for more Wiiing. I'm then playing cricket for my tour side down in Rye with a special guest appearance from the one and only CashyP! Should be a good laugh again and hopefully be able to fit in some snooker/golf action with him during the week aswell.
Playing cricket
In other news my contract for my job with Atkins came through today so I have been reading that and it seems pretty good. I'll be working at Epsom so will have to travel into London then back out again. I also played golf today with Jo's brothers which was pretty fun. Only played a 9 hole par 3 course but was a good laugh. Jo filmed some of it and took some pictures and her little brother is a bit of a whizz with stuff like that and has put together a compilation of the day which looks well professional so hopefully I'll be able to put that up on here if I can figure out how too.
Also booked a holiday with the missus to a 5* hotel in Majorca and cannot wait to go as it's only in 11 days!
Playing cricket tomorrow down in Canterbury and then its back to the missus' for more Wiiing. I'm then playing cricket for my tour side down in Rye with a special guest appearance from the one and only CashyP! Should be a good laugh again and hopefully be able to fit in some snooker/golf action with him during the week aswell.
Playing cricket
Thursday, June 28, 2007
PokerTracker and PAHud
I bought PokerTracker and PAHud yesterday as I've been wanting to get them for a while but never thought I'd use it enough to make it worth it. Now I have got it I can honestly say I can't imagine playing without them and I'd say they've probably already paid their cost back in winnings that I wouldn't have got otherwise. It is especially useful for me when I'm 4 tabling and watching TV or something as it means that I dont have to concentrate so much to see who the aggressive players are who could be opening with a wide range of hands. Obviously its useful to concentrate to see player's betting patterns but I have found that the programs have helped my preflop play alot. Whereas before I would probably just flat-call a raise in front of me with hands like AJ or KQ I now tend to either raise or fold depending on what the stats for the player are. This has led to me saving alot of money by folding marginal hands when tight players raise and win alot more pots preflop with reraises.
I'm currently writing this whilst playing a $3rebuy qualifier for the Party $300k where I'm average stack at 52k with 50 left and 10 getting seats. HOWEVER... the tournament has frozen apart from one table which carried on playing and is now down to 1 player who knocked everyone else on that table out and has 325k chips when the next biggest stack on any other frozen table is 125k which obviouosly would give him a huge advantage if the tourney became unstuck. I dont know how Party are going to sort this one out! Its just a wierd situation that one table was allowed to play whereas usually they all stop if something goes wrong!
On the poker front I've just been grinding the cash tables as usual, the previous couple of days I've had some decent sessions lost a couple of key crucial pots that make or break the night. I dropped about $50 over the 2 days which wasnt too bad. Since I got poker tracker however I've made that back plus another $40 to put my bankroll up over $600. This is despite losing a $64 stack with bottom 2 pair versus top 2 pair on an AJ4 board when I should never have got in so much trouble. In fact I kind of blame Poker Tracker for that loss as I had the villian playing 65% of flops and raising pre 34% of the time so there was no way I could put him on AJ in an unraised flop. Another factor was that I had already won about $35 of him as he was a bit of a mentalist...but I was still kicking myself for losing 250BB with bottom 2 pair.
I tried putting all my hand histories into Poker Tracker but succeeded only in deleting all my Party ones from the last month meaning I'm missing the hands where I was running good and made about $400 of my profit. However, I did manage to get some on plus all my noble poker hands since I've had my new laptop and a few off Sun Poker as well as all the Party cash games I've played since yesterday and in total now have 5.3k hands logged in the following games:
850 hands playing $0.25/0.50 on Noble for a profit of $38
1650 hands playing $0.10/0.20 on Noble for a profit of $65
2800 hands playing $0.10/0.25 on Party for a profit of $270
Overall I have a made a profit of around $380 at just over 14BB/100
Having read and understood alot more about what the pokertracker stats mean I can tell you that I am running at 24/9/1.5 which is pretty tight and passive but I see no reason to change at these levels because it seems to be a winning formula for me.
Position wise I have made a profit from every seat on the table apart from the big blind:
Big Blind : -$72
Small Blind : +$53
Button : +$162
Cutoff : +$129
UTG+1 : +$91
UTG : +$28
I think a major factor in my negative big blind stat is that one hand where I lost $64 and if I had won that I would have positive returns from all positions.
The tournament on Party is still frozen but I'm going to have to leave it and go to bed as I'm playing golf early tomorrow morning.
I'm currently writing this whilst playing a $3rebuy qualifier for the Party $300k where I'm average stack at 52k with 50 left and 10 getting seats. HOWEVER... the tournament has frozen apart from one table which carried on playing and is now down to 1 player who knocked everyone else on that table out and has 325k chips when the next biggest stack on any other frozen table is 125k which obviouosly would give him a huge advantage if the tourney became unstuck. I dont know how Party are going to sort this one out! Its just a wierd situation that one table was allowed to play whereas usually they all stop if something goes wrong!
On the poker front I've just been grinding the cash tables as usual, the previous couple of days I've had some decent sessions lost a couple of key crucial pots that make or break the night. I dropped about $50 over the 2 days which wasnt too bad. Since I got poker tracker however I've made that back plus another $40 to put my bankroll up over $600. This is despite losing a $64 stack with bottom 2 pair versus top 2 pair on an AJ4 board when I should never have got in so much trouble. In fact I kind of blame Poker Tracker for that loss as I had the villian playing 65% of flops and raising pre 34% of the time so there was no way I could put him on AJ in an unraised flop. Another factor was that I had already won about $35 of him as he was a bit of a mentalist...but I was still kicking myself for losing 250BB with bottom 2 pair.
I tried putting all my hand histories into Poker Tracker but succeeded only in deleting all my Party ones from the last month meaning I'm missing the hands where I was running good and made about $400 of my profit. However, I did manage to get some on plus all my noble poker hands since I've had my new laptop and a few off Sun Poker as well as all the Party cash games I've played since yesterday and in total now have 5.3k hands logged in the following games:
850 hands playing $0.25/0.50 on Noble for a profit of $38
1650 hands playing $0.10/0.20 on Noble for a profit of $65
2800 hands playing $0.10/0.25 on Party for a profit of $270
Overall I have a made a profit of around $380 at just over 14BB/100
Having read and understood alot more about what the pokertracker stats mean I can tell you that I am running at 24/9/1.5 which is pretty tight and passive but I see no reason to change at these levels because it seems to be a winning formula for me.
Position wise I have made a profit from every seat on the table apart from the big blind:
Big Blind : -$72
Small Blind : +$53
Button : +$162
Cutoff : +$129
UTG+1 : +$91
UTG : +$28
I think a major factor in my negative big blind stat is that one hand where I lost $64 and if I had won that I would have positive returns from all positions.
The tournament on Party is still frozen but I'm going to have to leave it and go to bed as I'm playing golf early tomorrow morning.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Having a CRACKing time...
The title is so because in a 3 hour session tonight I managed to crack aces not once, not twice, not thrice, but four times! I've got the hand histories somewhere but can't be bothered to search for them at the moment. The four hands I managed to crack the bullets with were:
33 - a simple set versus overcard scenario, all-in on a 3 9 T board.
KT off - Blind on blind battle, I raised from the small blind, he reraised in the big blind, i smooth called to see a KT4 flop. I lead out, he minreraises, I actually thought to myself "it would be brilliant if he had aces here" at this point before shoving all-in...
56 of clubs - I defended my BB from a cutoff raise. Flop of Q56. I check, cutoff bets 3/4pot, I call. Turn's a 10, I check once more, he bets 3/4pot again and I push and win.
and
89 of spades - I raise to $1 UTG, get reraised by the BB to $3, I call. Flop comes down 888...jackpot...he checks...I check....9 on the turn which I think is a bit of overkill. He bets $2, with $21 back. I flat call thinking he's got nothing and a reraise will scare him away. River comes a 2 and he pushes all in for $21 into the $10.10 pot. I insta-call...the rest is history.
Overall in the session I managed to win about $125 meaning my Party bankroll now stands at just over $500. I said in an earlier post that once I reached this figure I would move up to $0.25/0.50 but am feeling comfortable at the level I am at so may not do this. I've always considered there to be two main ways to increase your profit, moving up levels or playing more tables. However, there is a fine line that exists with both of these strategies. Technically by moving up a level because you're playing for higher stakes, the amount you win should go up in a similar fashion. But there are several other factors to consider, such as the standard of players invariably gets better. Also need to consider that my style of play may not be suited to the higher level and I will need to adapt it to maximise profits. Plus technically I will be playing well outside my Party bankroll and so this could affect my game and make me minimise the risks that I may usually take. Looking at the second option of playing more tables, again the theory is that the more tables you play the greater profit per hour you make as you are playing more hands. However this is not always the case as the more tables you play the less attention you are able to pay to each one and each player you are against. This means that it is harder to play the players and you end up just playing the cards, which can work against you. Generally when I have been playing at my current level of $0.10/0.25 I find I make about $15-$25 an hour 4 tabling. It will be interesting to see if this rate increases when I do finally decide to move up a level.
In other news I found out today that I'm going to be offered a job working for Atkins on their graduate scheme which is obviously great news. I'm unsure whether I will be at their Epsom office or their London office but either will be fine with me (although the London office will take about 20-30 minutes off my journey). As for my plans for the near future I'm meeting Marc for lunch on Thursday, playing golf Friday with my Dad, got a Jo's uncle's wedding on Saturday (where she is one of the bridesmaids) and got my Grandad's 80th birthday celebrations on Sunday so its going to be a pretty packed weekend for me. Then, if I carry on with the summer placement with Transport for London, I will be working from either the 2nd or 9th of July near Victoria.
33 - a simple set versus overcard scenario, all-in on a 3 9 T board.
KT off - Blind on blind battle, I raised from the small blind, he reraised in the big blind, i smooth called to see a KT4 flop. I lead out, he minreraises, I actually thought to myself "it would be brilliant if he had aces here" at this point before shoving all-in...
56 of clubs - I defended my BB from a cutoff raise. Flop of Q56. I check, cutoff bets 3/4pot, I call. Turn's a 10, I check once more, he bets 3/4pot again and I push and win.
and
89 of spades - I raise to $1 UTG, get reraised by the BB to $3, I call. Flop comes down 888...jackpot...he checks...I check....9 on the turn which I think is a bit of overkill. He bets $2, with $21 back. I flat call thinking he's got nothing and a reraise will scare him away. River comes a 2 and he pushes all in for $21 into the $10.10 pot. I insta-call...the rest is history.
Overall in the session I managed to win about $125 meaning my Party bankroll now stands at just over $500. I said in an earlier post that once I reached this figure I would move up to $0.25/0.50 but am feeling comfortable at the level I am at so may not do this. I've always considered there to be two main ways to increase your profit, moving up levels or playing more tables. However, there is a fine line that exists with both of these strategies. Technically by moving up a level because you're playing for higher stakes, the amount you win should go up in a similar fashion. But there are several other factors to consider, such as the standard of players invariably gets better. Also need to consider that my style of play may not be suited to the higher level and I will need to adapt it to maximise profits. Plus technically I will be playing well outside my Party bankroll and so this could affect my game and make me minimise the risks that I may usually take. Looking at the second option of playing more tables, again the theory is that the more tables you play the greater profit per hour you make as you are playing more hands. However this is not always the case as the more tables you play the less attention you are able to pay to each one and each player you are against. This means that it is harder to play the players and you end up just playing the cards, which can work against you. Generally when I have been playing at my current level of $0.10/0.25 I find I make about $15-$25 an hour 4 tabling. It will be interesting to see if this rate increases when I do finally decide to move up a level.
In other news I found out today that I'm going to be offered a job working for Atkins on their graduate scheme which is obviously great news. I'm unsure whether I will be at their Epsom office or their London office but either will be fine with me (although the London office will take about 20-30 minutes off my journey). As for my plans for the near future I'm meeting Marc for lunch on Thursday, playing golf Friday with my Dad, got a Jo's uncle's wedding on Saturday (where she is one of the bridesmaids) and got my Grandad's 80th birthday celebrations on Sunday so its going to be a pretty packed weekend for me. Then, if I carry on with the summer placement with Transport for London, I will be working from either the 2nd or 9th of July near Victoria.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Sunday night session
Session started off with an outdraw:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1204020
The theory I applied to this hand was that by betting the amount I did on the turn believing he was drawing he would be forced to either fold his hand or push all-in. Yet he showed what an idiot he was by doing neither and flat calling to hit his 18% shot and then pushing all-in knowing I have to call. It is of course unbelievably bad play on his part but im not too bothered as I know that in the long run I will make money from those sorts of situations.
Things then got a little better:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1204132
My sexy check on the flop induced what I have to believe was a $7 bluff by this guy. The reason I think that was because two hands later this happened:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1204145
Having the outdraw from earlier when I had a set fresh in my mind it took alot of energy not to reraise the flop here. Turns out that if I had done that I would not have got his stack on the turn so I'm very pleased with the way I played it as, in my opinion, if I play it any different I dont get his whole stack.
Then made a couple of stupid stupid moves. Firstly:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1204173
My theory behind this hand was to call behind on the flop to see what he did on the turn and so when he bet less on the turn than he did on the flop I obviously presumed he was weak so min raised his turn bet with a view to raising big on the end...oops.
Then this happened:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1204204
I thought I'd try to find out how strong he was on the flop and again his call made him seem weak. The turn then gave me the nut flush draw which probably got me in more trouble by encouraging me to bet the turn and then when the river hit I thought I'd probably sucked out for a split pot...his insta-call of my all-in shove proved me wrong however.
I then managed to stack the same guy as earlier again:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1204223
Although this time he actually had an overpair and was unlcuky to run into my aces, but maybe still could have got away from it with 100 big blinds.
Once again I didnt think that I played too well tonight but found some good spots and truth be told if I hadnt made those uncharacteristic bluffs then I would have made around a $30 profit instead of being slightly down for the night. I think that it isnt the bluffs that will make me money at this level but maximising profits from my big hands instead which recently I have been able to do fairly well.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1204020
The theory I applied to this hand was that by betting the amount I did on the turn believing he was drawing he would be forced to either fold his hand or push all-in. Yet he showed what an idiot he was by doing neither and flat calling to hit his 18% shot and then pushing all-in knowing I have to call. It is of course unbelievably bad play on his part but im not too bothered as I know that in the long run I will make money from those sorts of situations.
Things then got a little better:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1204132
My sexy check on the flop induced what I have to believe was a $7 bluff by this guy. The reason I think that was because two hands later this happened:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1204145
Having the outdraw from earlier when I had a set fresh in my mind it took alot of energy not to reraise the flop here. Turns out that if I had done that I would not have got his stack on the turn so I'm very pleased with the way I played it as, in my opinion, if I play it any different I dont get his whole stack.
Then made a couple of stupid stupid moves. Firstly:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1204173
My theory behind this hand was to call behind on the flop to see what he did on the turn and so when he bet less on the turn than he did on the flop I obviously presumed he was weak so min raised his turn bet with a view to raising big on the end...oops.
Then this happened:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1204204
I thought I'd try to find out how strong he was on the flop and again his call made him seem weak. The turn then gave me the nut flush draw which probably got me in more trouble by encouraging me to bet the turn and then when the river hit I thought I'd probably sucked out for a split pot...his insta-call of my all-in shove proved me wrong however.
I then managed to stack the same guy as earlier again:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1204223
Although this time he actually had an overpair and was unlcuky to run into my aces, but maybe still could have got away from it with 100 big blinds.
Once again I didnt think that I played too well tonight but found some good spots and truth be told if I hadnt made those uncharacteristic bluffs then I would have made around a $30 profit instead of being slightly down for the night. I think that it isnt the bluffs that will make me money at this level but maximising profits from my big hands instead which recently I have been able to do fairly well.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Things begin to click...
Have had a good week or so life-wise, having recieved a 2:1 degree last Friday this Friday I found out that I have a job with Transport for London to look forward to over the summer although I still am waiting to here about the other job I had an assessment for. If things stay as they are though I'll be starting work on either the 2nd or 9th of July at near Victoria which is handy as it's the train station that the lines from both my house and Jo's house go to.
Was supposed to play cricket for Hartley 2nds today but it got rained off so missed out. Next weekend I'm going to Jo's uncle's wedding so wont be able to play then either which is a shame and it looks like im only going to play about 8 league games this season again. Plus the fact that I'll be working means I wont be able to go on cricket tour with Bexley Wanderers either. By the iway I was written about in the local paper for both my batting and bowling exploits after last weeks game!
On the poker front I've been playing little sessions here and there and breaking even but sat down this evening to play a longer session and made about $40 in just over 2 hours.
It started off pretty badly when I overplayed my Jacks:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1201021
I think that I should have been able to stop myself going broke here but got into the mindset that Saturday night players are absolute donks...as they usually are!
This was a bit of a weird hand:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1201059
I checked the flop because I thought the short stack would continuation bet all-in and I could just call that and when he did that I was happy. When the other player called though I thought I had better try to define my hand to see where I was in the hand so I raised it up again and his flat call suggested he was drawing. So when I put him all-in on the turn after a brick hit I was fully expecting him to have a better Ace...but he had a flush draw and played it so bad by getting his money in when he was about 20% max to win the hand.
This was an interesting hand:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1201075
The way I played it he would have had no idea what I had. My reraise pre would suggest a big pair and the way I called the flop and turn means I could have had the flush and I think it becomes very hard for him to call the bet on the end even with a King if he thinks about it because there cannot be much that he beats. On that particular table I dont think I lost a pot all night that I played to a showdown.
On another table however I couldnt buy a break with hands like this knocking me back:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1201092
What he was playing at I have no idea...$44 on the miracle river for him though.
It's always nice when someone pushes all-in when you have the nuts on the river though:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1201115
If he reraises the flop here I probably have to fold with just a gutshot and an overcard but instead he waits until I've made my hadn before showing any aggression.
Managed to outdraw a short stack:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1201128
I think if he has a deeper stack here I would have got away from it. I was even going to lay it down when I had to call his $3 allin rereraise on the flop knowing I was behind. He cant really complain though as he got his own back getting allin pre with AQ vs my AK and spiking a Queen:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1201135
I had the last laugh though when this cold deck worked in my favour:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1201141
Was pretty sick for him and the other player in the hand claimed he had QQ and would have won when the Q hit the river, but he did well to get away from it on that flop if he did have that hand, although Im sure he was more worried about an 8 than the KK and AA that we had.
Also managed to find AA vs KK on another table:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1201152
The thing is that on another day I could have the KK twice vs AA and it be me losing to the cold decks so I think I just got in a couple of good spots rather than played well tonight.
Was supposed to play cricket for Hartley 2nds today but it got rained off so missed out. Next weekend I'm going to Jo's uncle's wedding so wont be able to play then either which is a shame and it looks like im only going to play about 8 league games this season again. Plus the fact that I'll be working means I wont be able to go on cricket tour with Bexley Wanderers either. By the iway I was written about in the local paper for both my batting and bowling exploits after last weeks game!
On the poker front I've been playing little sessions here and there and breaking even but sat down this evening to play a longer session and made about $40 in just over 2 hours.
It started off pretty badly when I overplayed my Jacks:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1201021
I think that I should have been able to stop myself going broke here but got into the mindset that Saturday night players are absolute donks...as they usually are!
This was a bit of a weird hand:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1201059
I checked the flop because I thought the short stack would continuation bet all-in and I could just call that and when he did that I was happy. When the other player called though I thought I had better try to define my hand to see where I was in the hand so I raised it up again and his flat call suggested he was drawing. So when I put him all-in on the turn after a brick hit I was fully expecting him to have a better Ace...but he had a flush draw and played it so bad by getting his money in when he was about 20% max to win the hand.
This was an interesting hand:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1201075
The way I played it he would have had no idea what I had. My reraise pre would suggest a big pair and the way I called the flop and turn means I could have had the flush and I think it becomes very hard for him to call the bet on the end even with a King if he thinks about it because there cannot be much that he beats. On that particular table I dont think I lost a pot all night that I played to a showdown.
On another table however I couldnt buy a break with hands like this knocking me back:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1201092
What he was playing at I have no idea...$44 on the miracle river for him though.
It's always nice when someone pushes all-in when you have the nuts on the river though:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1201115
If he reraises the flop here I probably have to fold with just a gutshot and an overcard but instead he waits until I've made my hadn before showing any aggression.
Managed to outdraw a short stack:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1201128
I think if he has a deeper stack here I would have got away from it. I was even going to lay it down when I had to call his $3 allin rereraise on the flop knowing I was behind. He cant really complain though as he got his own back getting allin pre with AQ vs my AK and spiking a Queen:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1201135
I had the last laugh though when this cold deck worked in my favour:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1201141
Was pretty sick for him and the other player in the hand claimed he had QQ and would have won when the Q hit the river, but he did well to get away from it on that flop if he did have that hand, although Im sure he was more worried about an 8 than the KK and AA that we had.
Also managed to find AA vs KK on another table:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1201152
The thing is that on another day I could have the KK twice vs AA and it be me losing to the cold decks so I think I just got in a couple of good spots rather than played well tonight.
Monday, June 18, 2007
Quick Update
Havent played any poker in the last few days. Saturday I played cricket for Hartley 3's against Sheppey, we all out for 170, I made 31 having steadied the ship when I came in at number 5 when we were 49-3. I then opened he bowling and removed numbers 2 and 3 in my first spell and then came back and picked up a wicket later to end with figures of 3-30 from my 12 overs. We ended up winning by 7 runs as we bowled them out for 163 in the final over. It would have been slightly easier had second slip not dropped a dolly of a catch in my first over which would have removed their other opener who was the last man out having made 67.
Was very stiff on Sunday having used muscles that hadnt been used for 8 months to bowl and was even stiffer on Monday when I had my interview for a summer placement with Transport for London. Went ok though and I should here back by the end of the week. Got a 2 day assessment centre with Atkins tomorrow and Wednesday so will blog again after that.
Was very stiff on Sunday having used muscles that hadnt been used for 8 months to bowl and was even stiffer on Monday when I had my interview for a summer placement with Transport for London. Went ok though and I should here back by the end of the week. Got a 2 day assessment centre with Atkins tomorrow and Wednesday so will blog again after that.
Friday, June 15, 2007
Running good no more...
I've played a couple of sessions recently that have demonstrated that my luck is changing for the worse. It all started with this in the very first hand I played:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1175844
Obviously the turn gave me the nuts and at this stage I was thinking I'd probably just take down the 75 cents in it. Then the SB bet the pot so I reraised trying to build the pot. Was loving the limpers call but then the SB reraised so I thought, surely we must have the same hand, either that or he's caught a set of threes. Thinking the limper may be on the flush draw I pushed allin to get him off it and hopefully either win the pot there are split it with the SB if he had the same hand. He took ages to call so this ruled out the same hand and in the end I thought he must either have a set or had been overplaying his draw. When he eventually called I was whispering "dont pair the board...dont pair the board" and WHAMMY the 5 pairs the board so I'm now losing to a set...I then see his cards...Q5...sick. How this guy gets all his money in with middle 2 pair I do not know. I suppose I cannot complain as when I get in this spot I've got about 90% chance of winning so I'm glad there are muffs like this who call as the majority of time I'm going to win.
It doesnt happen often but after that I was on tilt a bit and started raising pre almost every hand on all three tables I was playing and then I pick up KK and think brilliant as I've created a loose, tilting image people are going to call with just about anything:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1175868
The funny thing was that today I had been reading the Warwick Poker forums and in particular this topic about how generally people only play back at you with AA or KK preflop at these stakes and this was actually running through my head at the time and I was thinking I may lay down KK pre for only the second time in my life...and then I thought what the hell am I thinking I've got pocket kings and a loose image...i'm all-in...welcome to Coolersville...
In reality there is no way I'm laying that down preflop with 100BB in play, maybe I could have flat called the reraise to see a flop but I don't think I would have gotten away from it then either. I stopped soon after having played QQ like an absolute moron calling station knowing full well I was miles behind just to prove that I had been outdrawn:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1175899
So I ended the 45 minute session stuck about $35 which wasnt too bad considering how bad I was running and eventually playing and hopefully I'll start my next session refreshed and running good...
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1175844
Obviously the turn gave me the nuts and at this stage I was thinking I'd probably just take down the 75 cents in it. Then the SB bet the pot so I reraised trying to build the pot. Was loving the limpers call but then the SB reraised so I thought, surely we must have the same hand, either that or he's caught a set of threes. Thinking the limper may be on the flush draw I pushed allin to get him off it and hopefully either win the pot there are split it with the SB if he had the same hand. He took ages to call so this ruled out the same hand and in the end I thought he must either have a set or had been overplaying his draw. When he eventually called I was whispering "dont pair the board...dont pair the board" and WHAMMY the 5 pairs the board so I'm now losing to a set...I then see his cards...Q5...sick. How this guy gets all his money in with middle 2 pair I do not know. I suppose I cannot complain as when I get in this spot I've got about 90% chance of winning so I'm glad there are muffs like this who call as the majority of time I'm going to win.
It doesnt happen often but after that I was on tilt a bit and started raising pre almost every hand on all three tables I was playing and then I pick up KK and think brilliant as I've created a loose, tilting image people are going to call with just about anything:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1175868
The funny thing was that today I had been reading the Warwick Poker forums and in particular this topic about how generally people only play back at you with AA or KK preflop at these stakes and this was actually running through my head at the time and I was thinking I may lay down KK pre for only the second time in my life...and then I thought what the hell am I thinking I've got pocket kings and a loose image...i'm all-in...welcome to Coolersville...
In reality there is no way I'm laying that down preflop with 100BB in play, maybe I could have flat called the reraise to see a flop but I don't think I would have gotten away from it then either. I stopped soon after having played QQ like an absolute moron calling station knowing full well I was miles behind just to prove that I had been outdrawn:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1175899
So I ended the 45 minute session stuck about $35 which wasnt too bad considering how bad I was running and eventually playing and hopefully I'll start my next session refreshed and running good...
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Last couple of days
Been pretty busy since my last post. Had a mock interview with my aunt and uncle which was very useful and gave me a wealth of information to take into my interviews next week. Then Wednesday I went with Cashy to play a round of golf at Upchurch...and played so so bad. We were playing £1 per hole and thankfully Cashy started off playing as bad as I was so I was only £1 down through 11 holes, I think the first 4 holes were won with bogeys which was pretty embarrassing. Then Cashy started to find some form while I went even further downhill and I ended the round £6 down.
We'd gone round in a buggy and it had taken under 3 hours and it was only 5pm so we decided to play another round. I didnt want to play skins as I was playing so bad but Cashy convinced me to play for 50p a hole this time so I stupidly agreed. By the 12th hole I owed him £13 after a couple of side bets also. At this stage Cashy wanted to up the stakes and so I convinced him to give me 2 to 1, so he would pay £3 if I won and I would pay £1.50 if he did. Having only won about 3 holes out of the last 20 the added stakes made me up my game and I won 3 of he next 6 and ended up only £8 in debt to him. (Which of course I paid straight away after) I doubt I'll be able to play again for a while so it was a bit of a shame to play so badly.
Thursday I didnt do much and decided I would go to Hartley's cricket nets in the evening as I havent bowled a ball for 8 months, and I ended up being told I could play on Saturday for the 3rd team as a few people had dropped out (I had originally said I was unavailable as wanted to go to the Summer Ball at uni with my missus but it was sold out). So I've got a home game at the weekend in the 3rds to try to ease my way back into cricket and hopefully get up to the 2nds like last year and help them to try and survive in the higher division after we were promoted last year. I was suprised to find that I had only missed 5 games and, considering I missed 10 out of the 18 league matches last year I hope to improve on last years wicket tally of 24, although improving on the bowling average of 11 will be a tough ask.
I get my degree results Friday so shall be travelling down to Reading to pick them up and then take as much stuff back from my uni house as possible and pick up my missus for the weekend.
We'd gone round in a buggy and it had taken under 3 hours and it was only 5pm so we decided to play another round. I didnt want to play skins as I was playing so bad but Cashy convinced me to play for 50p a hole this time so I stupidly agreed. By the 12th hole I owed him £13 after a couple of side bets also. At this stage Cashy wanted to up the stakes and so I convinced him to give me 2 to 1, so he would pay £3 if I won and I would pay £1.50 if he did. Having only won about 3 holes out of the last 20 the added stakes made me up my game and I won 3 of he next 6 and ended up only £8 in debt to him. (Which of course I paid straight away after) I doubt I'll be able to play again for a while so it was a bit of a shame to play so badly.
Thursday I didnt do much and decided I would go to Hartley's cricket nets in the evening as I havent bowled a ball for 8 months, and I ended up being told I could play on Saturday for the 3rd team as a few people had dropped out (I had originally said I was unavailable as wanted to go to the Summer Ball at uni with my missus but it was sold out). So I've got a home game at the weekend in the 3rds to try to ease my way back into cricket and hopefully get up to the 2nds like last year and help them to try and survive in the higher division after we were promoted last year. I was suprised to find that I had only missed 5 games and, considering I missed 10 out of the 18 league matches last year I hope to improve on last years wicket tally of 24, although improving on the bowling average of 11 will be a tough ask.
I get my degree results Friday so shall be travelling down to Reading to pick them up and then take as much stuff back from my uni house as possible and pick up my missus for the weekend.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Deep again...
Went deep in another tournament on Sun today but failed to close it out falling in 4th out of the 137 runners in a £2 freezeout. Won a couple of 50/50's in the first hour to double up and played pretty well to reach the final table in 5th chip position. Was not to be though as I crashed out when my A2 push was called by KQ with a K on the flop. I had been lucky just before the bubble when my 99 cracked AA all-in pre against the eventual winner but didnt make the most of my luck in the end.
Also played about an hour and a half 3 tabling Party cash games and ended up about $35. Here's an update of my exact bankrolls on each site:
Party: £200
Noble: £720
Sun: $890
So about £1350 in total, which is pure profit as I have withdrawn the original funds I put in.
Reading that then made me wonder how much I have actually won from internet poker just under 3 years after I started playing and I was pleasantly suprised when I checked my emails for my withdrawal requests and found that the total profit withdrawals from each site were:
Spin Palace Poker: $1300
Pokerroom: $200
Noble: £1838
Empire: $160
So my total previous withdrawals is around £2.5k when I take into account the money I've put in other sites and lost and adding that to my current bankrolls I predict that I've made about £4000 in my time playing internet poker...
Also played about an hour and a half 3 tabling Party cash games and ended up about $35. Here's an update of my exact bankrolls on each site:
Party: £200
Noble: £720
Sun: $890
So about £1350 in total, which is pure profit as I have withdrawn the original funds I put in.
Reading that then made me wonder how much I have actually won from internet poker just under 3 years after I started playing and I was pleasantly suprised when I checked my emails for my withdrawal requests and found that the total profit withdrawals from each site were:
Spin Palace Poker: $1300
Pokerroom: $200
Noble: £1838
Empire: $160
So my total previous withdrawals is around £2.5k when I take into account the money I've put in other sites and lost and adding that to my current bankrolls I predict that I've made about £4000 in my time playing internet poker...
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