on the up but still down

last week has been awesome stuff, over $1k with not more than about 1.5 hours played a day.

still down for the month but only about £250 which hopefully i'll make in the next three days, and due about £150 in rakeback probably, so if i make £100 in the next three days i'll be happy.

had 3 outdraws in my favour in the past week. one all in pre, someone called with QQ in a cash game! insane. (i had AQ and won, yeh baby.) the outdraws i win, don't feel as good as the runner runners i suffer, feel bad, if you know what i mean. Does this mean i'm losing out on something somewhere?

anyways, since i have turned chat off, i get a lot less "emotional" about other players, and don't hate them as much and try to kill them all off for being fishy ****s. i guess that's another positive in my play.

as an aside, the killers are awesome. totally. still, they ain't no bouncing souls.

no longer tilting

one month of tilt is finally over and i've won almost $1k in the last 3 days. which is a lot at $1/2.

3 tabling was the best thing i've done for about 2 months, since i concentrate more. only started it to try to get into a promotion where i needed more mpp's on crypto. top 500 get into the next week's mpp thingymjig and they also said 5 wii's were up for grabs. hammered away for 2 days (well, played about 3 hours) and managed to make it into the top 500 by about 1 point.

then i find out it's the top 5 that get the wii's. so i figure if i play 12-14 hours a day for 7 days ill be in the top 5 next week and win some sunglasses. yeh, that's worth it. it would have been nice if they done something like top 3 get prize, and 2 randomly selected from the rest.

the other thing i was thinking about was definition of 'tight'

when i think i'm playing tight, it means folding to raises from later position with almost connectors (like 6-8) and open raising from ep with Kxs. i think others probably think this is loose, but for the last month i've been playing awful and loose, and calling with pretty much anything in any position. a losing strategy for me anyway. 3 tabling just helps me tighten up and i'm reaping the rewards. i did manage to outdraw 3 people wonderfully in the last three days.
once with the chips already in the pot!

so, in conclusion, tight is right.

tighter than a tree's stump. FACT

yes. i have been playing tighter.

defining 'tight' is somewhat difficult. raising with K3sooted from utg, isn't probably what most people refer to as tight, but it is for me. at least i've stopped playing actual junk hands. also bean folding a lot more. a couple of folds i should have made.
one was against a flopped straight and also the same person who hit runner runner quads against me.
went from $120 to $250 then lost it all in about 10 hands.
was also losing on the other tables, but made a nice profit eventually. many thanks to the person who rererereraised all in with AK at a cash table. lol. i had aces and this time they held up.

one interesting hand i played.

aces on the button, raise to 4*bb. bb calls. (he/she/it is new to the table.)
flop is 865 of diamonds. i have the ace.
bet half pot, he goes all in for another 70bb! the pot is only 16bb.

im thinking perhaps the 7 of diamonds with a pair?
so i call, don't see how i can fold and he has 88 for top set.
11 outs all miss for me and i lose a chunky pot.

so anyway, playing tight leads to boring blogs because i fold when i should, raise when i should, and i only bluffed about thrice on the river in 2 hours playing 3 tables.

decided to up it to three tables, since whilst there is ridiculous overlap, i can play less stupid hands and it seemed to work to day with a nice profit for the first time in 2007.

last three days have been profitable and hopefully i'm playing properly again.
will push on for the rest of the month, get back to cash, see if i can break even at least, and bla bla bla.
harder now as i am out during the days and out a few evenings a week. have to get up early too (about 8 o cock every day!) so no late night fishing either.

maybe i'll have cheese sandwiches for lunch tomorrow. again.

no i have a linker to this blog maybe ill write more often and more interesting things.

like my dentist appointment coming up. oh no, wait i said more interesting.

my meating of tony blair. yeh. he's taller than me. you wouldn't know it from watching the telly. YOU wouldn't know it because you don't know how tall i am. so you're gonna have to trust me. or not. i don't care. i'm going to get a drink now. a pint of ribena methinks.

yeeeeeeees.

bean a while

lost £500 on new crypto account since January.

lost £750 on old crypto account since January.

mostly cash. switched to STT's and was tearing them up till today. 4 2nd's in a row yesterday then 5 without a cash today. included 4 3rd's and some ridiculous beats.

but it's ok cos i beat off 2 people good in cash. once i turn raise with flush draw and gutshot. he wont fold top pair and pays me off when flush comes. i didnt have too much left behind at that point. maybe 1/4 of the pot.

next, i reraise a joker lag with AJ. cont bet 1/2 pot which is 2/3rds of his stack on a missed flop. he pushes with 44? and i hit a jack on the turn.

made back some stt losses at cash.

is that what they call a roundabout.

im no longer a bum so i wont be able to play everyday. this is good as i should focus when i do play. but not much time for the mtt's.

havent won a nice one this 2007, havent played many. havent come close to be fair. haven't played many.

might go for some bloglinkage in the coming future, because talking to oneself is boring. i already know what i'm gonna say.

might head back to my local (donkey infested - literally. they're just like little ass's) for some live play as my patience may have returned.

throwing money away

with average hands must stop
post flop play must improve
period, as the amrikans would say.

advice

play more when winning, play less when losing

no more targets

down £125, so stopped.

went out, came on later, two $1/2 table.
about level on one, after many ups and downs,

then get 33 in late pos, bb raises to $12, one ep limp/caller, so i call for value.

flop is 532, two clubs. nice i think. ep bets pot, gets called, so i raise it to 3* his bet, he moves in (AA/KK/QQ obviously) then the other guy calls. He was a bit of a nutter, made bad calls but not a bad player. still, i can't fold, first guy shows KK, next shows 22 and it's set over set for me(!) and no K or 2 and i win a $600 pot. nice

made some bad calls, earlier and later so left a little to late dropping about £50 in bad calls.

end up in profit for the day which was ok. bank up to about £530. looking to get over £1k by end of next week.

blablabla

played ok most days last year except saturday.

wasn't feelin in the mood and had three freerolls inc the $100kmpp on crypto. played the two cheaper ones and did rubbish. decided to concentrate for the big one, down from 1400 to about 300 when my aces get done. all in on flop against top pair who outdraws me. ah well. more serious was cash. played badly, as well as the odd outdraw and dropped loads. lost a $400 getting runner runner flushed but should have played it stronger. was down almost $1k, but got back to about $530 down which was ok really. month ends and think im gonna withdraw everything out of inter and move to a uk account where i can withdraw to debit card.
the small difference from reloads and rake % isn't really worth my while waiting for them to send me cheques at an ABYSMAL exchange rate.
no more dollar accounts for me.

started my uk betting account. gonna avoid targets.....leads to chasing, and stopping whilst playing my best. Am gonna keep good records, and attempt to average over £100 per day 6 days a week...

have done ok out my inter account, about £6k in 3 months which is great, thanks especailly to two multi wins that totalled about £2.5. so only £1k per month from cash, which is ok part time. £12k per year tax free from a hobby is nothing to sniff at.

building my roll at uk now from £200 up to £450 in a couple of days....

HNY all.....will continue with updates...might put in some hands in future, and funny things that have nothing to do with poker.

stt's?

thats right, today i only played stt's and mpp qualifier for the $100kmpp tourney this saturday.

made just over $200 from £10 stt's! i won 4/6 and also played and lost a $10 one.

as long as i keep patient, and get one or two pieces of luck at the right time these are going swimmingly. manage to accumulate a nice stack with no bother much of the time, and can only hope this continues. didn't play today, but managed to qualify for the big one this weekend. thats 3 freerolls im reg'd for, and hopefully will get a result in one of them.

on a bad note i watched casino royale expecting big things thanks to the critics. good performance by the blond one, but a lame film overall imfo.

quickie

got a quickie tonight

also played an hour of poker
$100 up on $1/2

also played £1/2...was down about £70 thanks to someone hitting a gutshot on the river after calling two pot sized bets (flop and turn?!). i check called his small all in on the river. figured there was a high enough chance i had him outkicked or he'd missed his flush. that annoyed me a little....but i got him back. 44 otb and i call after one limper, sb completes and my friend in the bb checks.
flop is J43 rainbow. my friend bets out, i call, all others fold.
turn is a Q, he bets £12, i raise to £36 and he calls. has just under £100 behind, i have him covered. river is a 3, he moves in. im only losing to 33, JJ and QQ but doubt he has anywhere near that strength and call almost instantaneously. he shows K3 and i thank him silently.

made about $300 and all seems to be going well at the moment.

merry festivus if i haven't already said so, going out on wed and thurs night's so will try to play a bit more tomorrow and also qualify for the $100k mpp crypto tourney.....updates to come.

auto post blinds

much has been said of this magical button. unchecking it prior to departure enables you to receive a lovely starting hand which will get outdrawn. this is well known in the online poker world.

so when playing my last round of poker last night i unchecked this button. MISTAKE NUMBER 1.

final hand, UTG, dealt AA. i elect to play this, raising preflop. MISTAKE NUMBER 2.

i know whats coming. 1 caller from the sb and a flop 662, two hearts.
he checks, i bet, he calls.
turn, 4 of hearts. i have two red aces. i bet 10 big blinds. he calls.
river, black 8. HMMMMMM.

he checks to me.......what to do?

well, value bet obviously (?!), another 10bb's. He INSTA CALLS with 55.

bonus.

now. the next dilemma. i had planned to leave, but netiquette would disapprove of this instant scampering so i hung around for 1 more orbit. then got bored and left.

today, played for an hour, only £1/2, bought in for £80 at each and had to rebuy in both but left about $400 up. 1 nice outdraw against the table strongman. i have A6clubs, he has 57clubs.

flop is 89A two clubs. he bets, i call.
turn is a red 6. he bets £25, i min raise leaving £50 behind, and he calls. (well i wouldnt have raised if i could see his cards!)
river is another 6. Bee-autiful. he checks, im all in, he calls. nice. decided to play few hands after that.

got bored, played two heads up games on betfair, lost the important one. logging out now to shower because i smell.

last 7 days ~$1500 profit. right on target.

running along nicely

not much to say except things going well...

played 2 sessions, first for 45 mins and made about $150.

went out, came back, played a little more. down about $180 at one point but recovered nicely to finish about $300 up in 75mins. only played 3 tables, starting on two $1/2 tables, closing one of the boring ones $50 down, and opening up a £1/2 table, which was much more profitable.

not many interesting hands of note, except one. the first table i loaded i played like a maniac at the start dropping $150 and rebuying for the same amount. dude on my left didn't like my style and starting complaining. i gave better than i got, and on my button raised(again) with Q10.
flop is 568, turn 7, river 9. he min bet (or maybe 2bbs) on turn, i called. he bet $10 on river with maybe $60 behind. i went all in, he thought for an age before calling with 22.

nice

i think he left before i could say thanks.

crazy days

just when i think ive beaten tilt it rears its ugly head.

started 2 tables, one on $1/2 and one at £1/2.

none of my big hands get called, and every bluff being called.

was down about £100, got it up to about £30 down and then one hand of madness trying to get someone to lay down top pair when i knew he had it and would call.

that was £150 gone just like that.

so, stuck for over £200, and the only logical thing to do is open up two $2/5 tables.

well, not logical but is what i did. buy in for $200 on both. one table i have nothing the entire night, and end on $275. missed one spot to bluff which would have won $75, but i really wasn't feeling it at the tables by now.

the other table, however, is where all the action was mostly thanks to a retard to my right. and finally some nice cards. won the first two hands and then get dealt KK in the bb. raise
from utg, artard calls so i reraise up to $60. 9 high flop with 2 clubs, i check, the caller moves in, indicating flush draw, i call. he has flush draw with top pair. turn also brings a straight draw. river misses. thank fork for that.

build up to about $775, and greedy me is still down for the day so won't leave. lose a bit, down to about $675 at the point that i get the monster that is 62of clubs. so naturally after a few limps i raise my button. artard only calls.

flop is A105. i bet, he calls. well, last time in this sopt i checked the turn, and no one had an ace, so this time i bet the 4 that falls on the turn. he calls again. great i think. surely a draw of some sort? second pair maybe?hmm, river is a 3 making my straight. that was a nice card. HE BETS INTO ME?! about $105 into a $200 pot. well, how much can i get? he's got about $400 back. i raise to $320, and he calls instantly with 34. nh i thought. i got out of jail there, but i dont see how he can call on the flop or the river? thankfully, he didn't share my perpective.

that pretty much put me level, well, what i thought was level. left both tables, checked my account and found i was $125 up for the day.

MUST NOT TILT AGAIN AND ACCEPT $60 LOSSES ON SOME DAYS.

so today, went to gutshot for the 2pm fo.

first hand JJ, raise to 150 (starting stack 1500, 20 min clock, blinds at 25-25), one caller.

flop is KcQhJh. nice and dangerous. checked to me, i bet 300 and he moves in! well, i couldn't fold and he turns over Kh10h, for top pair, with the royal draw! turn 5, river 5 and he misses, and i double up first hand. had 4 pocket pairs in the first half hour, twice hitting sets, but didnt get much the second time, did as best i could i think. work up to a 5k stack, then run j10 in aces on a 10 high flop leaving me down at about 2500. tighten up, dont play much, and it's down to two tables from 5 with me on about 3k, and blinds just up to 250-500. well, stealing time i think. im in the bb, one limper, i push(with 52o), they fold. steal twice more with half decent hands....then get KK in the same orbit, utg+1. raise, bb thinks a while, almost folds, then moves all in i call. his QJ gets not much help and im up to about 9k and can play.

a few more go out, i steal occasionally and we're onto final table. blinds 500-1000. ive got just under 10k, which puts me about 4th/5th. not much happens on ft, till my bb, 2 limpers, sb completes, ive got J5clubs. 3 clubs on the flop would be nice. 3 come. if only it always worked like that. i check, all follow. turn is 4s, i bet 2k, raised to 6k, i push, and get called by the naked ace. noclub on river and im up to 20k. lots of stealing followed, with some nicely timed preflop folds. i take out a few, outdraw, get outdrawn, and when it's down to four, i take them out one at a time in about 5hands, for a profit of about £270.

lovely stuff.

can't be bothered to play now, but cleared my bonus and pokerstars finally, and just gonna chill for the rest of the evenin.

$200 per day

this will only include cash games.

my mtt skills have been impatient of late and ill be cutting down the amount i play and concentrate more when i play them

i won a freeroll on sunday which was well needed but mtt's wont count for these totals

today +$154

this month im on +$2500 approx but this includes all tourneys ive paid for, and any winnings, of which there have not been much, as ive taken out the freeroll win from that figure which has been my only decent cash for a while. ive also taken out the $450 rakeback from last month.


i think ive only played about 18 days max this month so its about $140 per day so not great but it's a decent start. $200 per day is £3k per month which is a sweet target.
i should really keep proper excel records since the interpoker statement is so awfully constructed.

played only about 45mins of cash tonight. couldnt be bothered to carry on but a nice profit for what i played.

might play live on thursday afternoon in london town. this should be a nice break from the online world. i always find it's good to change things up a little to clear the head.

saying that i played on stars, almost cleared my $50 bonus dropping $45 on omaha hilo. the standard is abysmal. seeing 2 players go all in on river and the nut hi and lo are nowhere in sight. laughable but only 1 or 2 hands in this session. played some fl holdem to try to clear bonus quickly. i think it's quite a skillful game, and something i need to spend some time on to master. i did win about $5 there. nice.

no interesting hands to report on. nothing really worth thinking about imo. hopefully have some excitement tomorrow.

think im gonna start playing stt's during the day as they are beatable, whilst cash games in the day are painful. sixpaks at £10/$10 are weak, and im doing alright in them now. sharkscope seems to think so. my other 2 scope accounts are -ve! so at least ive learnt something in 2 years.
in fact, it's only in the last 2/3 months i actually feel that im a half decent player and feel very comfortable at my cash game level. itry to test the waters at higher levels - he who dares.
currently at $1/2 and £1/2 and im not particularly scared of any of the players....more scared of losing. takes a while to adjust to each level, but it is only time.

also aim in the next few months to try to qualify for an ept. more for the holiday i need. well, i don't need one, but i want one.

no reason for the style changes, except to try out the shortcuts. not as much fun as i would have hoped.

it's been a while

after blowing $4k in my party account i'd had enough so i started playing less for a few months. Went back to betfair, where my new rakeback account turned out to be a losing account.

sometimes i only like to count money withdrawn as winnings and i didnt withdraw for a long time.

so i opened an interpoker account, and i dont like them. turns out you can't withdraw to debit card (anything more than you put in) contrary to their website. they also charge $1 for a withdrawl. no-one else does that. but they have a $100 monthly bonus plus a slightly higher rakeback deal(32%) then any £crypto accounts. I might ask ukbetting to match the rate, if they say yes, bob's my uncle.

no longer play on party since all the yanks left it's DEAD.

opened a pokerstars account to get pokertracker. really should play a little more and get my $50 bonus too.

pokertracker is good except mine ain't working great atm and may need to reinstall.

Onto poker, well, with my inter account i was playing mostly $0.5/1 to try and build a roll.

then came the awf with 3 added tourney's daily, and 2 FTs in the first week, coming 1st and 3rd boosted my roll nicely.

have moved up to $1/2, and with some ups and downs have managed a bit of $2/5 and £1/2.
the nutters that play in £s are useless gamblers and it's very profitable.
i also find i concentrate more at higher limits.

finally managed a withdrawl and think im gonna buy a new car. i have decided to buy some stuff with some of my winnings. my first poker account paid for laptop, tv and chair. moving up in the world.

my aim now is to concentrate on cash and step things up. i only feel i need to play between 1-4 hours per day depending on mood and concentration levels and i believe i can make greater than $200 per day. This would be blinding and will have December and January free to try this out.

Will post every few days how its going.

from tomorrow.

the byes for now.

bit better

playing better, concentrating, patient yada yada, back to the good old 60bb ph profit for last couple of days.

less bluffs, more folds = more money.
no need for any fancy dan stuff.

no interesting hands. 'cept for one nice river bluff i made. i like when i concentrate and read people correctly.

think i need a holiday soon. prevent institutionalisation. although, if you become certifiable, you aren't liable for any debts! thank you CAB.

world cup final

commentators who say stupid things are aplenty. ron atkinson was a legend and 'motty' is trying to join him.


today there were some gems.

for example, "i don't think we should have extra time and just go straight to penalties".
yeh. good one.


and when he was talking about the last italy france meeting that the frogs won with a golden goal, he says " the italians looked so scared of penalties, they'd rather let in a golden goal"
yeh. right.

what a bunch of mormons. i dread to think what old pleaty had been saying on itv

why oh why...

...do i make it hard for myself?

spend 30 mins losing $250 then spend the next two hours winning it back.

up a little for the day.
world cup later so may take a break now.

beginning to re-find (that should be a word if it isn't already, or maybe people just use rediscover?) my patience, although it takes a wacking big loss to do so.

still down far too much for the month. am gonna aim fo $50 a day.
have to be mentally satisfied with a small win to be able to play properly.
considering name change to "patience", or "my only aim is to break even"

quitting?

thinking of quitting.

running into big hand after big hand.

and i still rack disiprine. concentrated a bit better today but made a couple of bluffs with impeccably bad timing - both times opponent hit two rubbish pair.

better than a runner runner flish when i had trips yesterday for 130 big blinds. that was fun.

won about 40 bb today. played 4 days this month and 3 losing days. got a bonus coming if i play about 100000 hands in the next 10 days. am gonna try to play solid. may go back to crapto on betfair thanks to rake back, but more for mutli's. This is where i have been most succesful in the past although i need to be in the mood.

game gets boring after a while which leads to poor concentration and bad plays. must stop the rot. winning month would be nice. will see how weekend goes................

15 minutes of fun

could only play 15mins before going out and had good day, winning back losses.

caught a guy twice for all his chips. i had position on him, and he was rubbish.

i have A4 and raise in the CO, he rerasies to 7*bb, I call.
flop 432. He checks, I bet, he raises, I go all in he calls. With KJ. no help for him and ive taken most his chips. few hands later, I have A3s and limp. sb min raises (never understood that bet from the small blind). 3 players, flop is 323. sb betes 1bb, madman calls, I call. turn is a K, bringing 2 diamonds. sb bets 1bb, madman raises to 4, i reraise to 7, sb folds, madman rrr to 20 I push he calls with K7, 2 diamonds. not rivered and thats all his chips.

been playing a lot more patient of late, not trying to win all my losses back in one go and it's slowly paying off. long may this state
of mind continue............

not rivered

only played for an hour.

one hand of note, i'd been playing nice and tight agg (40% flops seen and that felt tight!)

reraises were being respected. i was in sb, utg min raises, folded round to me with 1010. i figure call and see a flop, bb folds...

flop 862 rainbow. i check, he bets $5.04 into a $5 pot so i take him for nothing and reraise to $13.

He thinks, or more likely pauses before reraising all in for another $40. I think and figure im far enough ahead. Turn jack, river 7 and the money flies to me. I check to see he had KQo. monsta