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

outplaying loose aggresive mormons

Seat 2: let_be_rock ( $59.20 )
Seat 3: joshua__7 ( $143.80 ) loose aggressive annoying dude
Seat 4: shifty608 ( $72.20 )
Seat 6: jaheim17 ( $76.30 )
Seat 5: me ( $103.15 )
Seat 1: cop112 ( $99.90 )
me posts small blind [$0.50].
jaheim17 posts big blind [$1].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to me [ 9s Jh ]
cop112 folds.
let_be_rock folds.
joshua__7 raises [$3].
shifty608 folds.
me calls [$2.50].
jaheim17 folds.

** Dealing Flop ** [ 4s, 2s, 4d ]
me checks.
joshua__7 bets [$6].
me calls [$6]. raise looks too obvious i felt

** Dealing Turn ** [ Kd ]
me checks.
joshua__7 bets [$9].
me raises [$23].

joshua__7: eat sht fish
joshua__7: you have A,4 im sure of it
shifty608: fold
joshua__7: im gonna lay my QQ
joshua__7 folds.

i dont for a second believe he had QQ but that annoyed him a lot.
unfortunately the world cup kicked off and i had to watch holland lose, but the referree gave a show and a half.


this followed an earlier hand that i spent ages thinking about on the river.....

Seat 1: me ( $107.09 )
Seat 6: dirigo111 ( $98.50 )
Seat 3: Captain54173 ( $99.05 )
Seat 4: ANDREWBEL ( $27.93 )
Seat 5: Great__Ape ( $134.85 )
Seat 2: fruktmusli ( $100 )
dirigo111 posts small blind [$0.50].
me posts big blind [$1].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to me [ 9c 7c ]
ANDREWBEL folds.
Great__Ape folds.
dirigo111 calls [$0.50].
me checks.
blind on blind. my favourite
** Dealing Flop ** [ Th, 4d, 8c ]
dirigo111 checks.
me bets [$1].
dirigo111 calls [$1]. - check call, doesnt have much. maybe a pair

** Dealing Turn ** [ 9d ]
dirigo111 checks.
me bets [$2].
dirigo111 raises [$4].
me calls [$2]. now he raises?? straight draw...9? i had been playing loose agg and at the time I put him on a pair of 8s or 4s thinking he had the best hand

** Dealing River ** [ Qh ] - that surely didnt help him
dirigo111 bets [$6]. - bets half the pot....doesnt tell me much, but i didnt think he had a ten

me calls [$6].
dirigo111 shows [ Ad, 8h] a pair of eights.
me shows [ 9c, 7c ] a pair of nines.

small pot but i liked me thinking. been playin better last few days, more position, aggression and patience.....just gotta keep it going. hit by two three outers today but didnt tilt and won it all back and more....now just to keep it going. might even play live rebuy tomorrow.

BORING

2 and a half hours of play and nothing of interest occured.

Won $70 which was nice.

Played a mtt satellite to the $1,000,000 party tourney which happens tonite. Might try one of these a week. 60 players, top 2 get a seat.

Managedto get to final table. Decent start nicking a few pots, was above average then became completely card dead with no oppurtunities for nothing. Stole a pot then some blinds as they increased. Got to final table.

Finally got a hand, JJ in pos. Guy about 3rd in chips (24000) limps for 800, im playing about 4500.
folded
round to me. i push, small blind playing 8000 calls (!), as does 1st villian.

flop 10910. sb thinks and pushes his remaining 4K, limper folds.

guess the hand he called half his stack pre and pushed post flop?

turn 2 river 8....if you havent guessed by now i pity you.

and im out in 10th

(he had QJo. monsta!)

poor standard, reckon i can win one, then just need to beat 5000 odd (as in wierd) players for a nice payday. Maybe ill try to get some sponsorship so i can enter the tourney a couple of times. see how i do.....

losing = no fun

deposited a few times a lost a few times.
playing bad and getting outdrawn. 4 5 and 6 outers all together and im trying to win all my losses back in one night.

had a few days off, played for half our today and up $150. and lost one big pot after guy called me on the river with his pocket pair of fives. after he called on every street. weirdo.

aim is not to tilt EVER again which will lead to me being level for this month.

so the theory goes.

not that anyone reads but ill post after each session, and will start including interesting hands.

playing sheet

$100 t0 $1100 by the end of the month is the new plan.

position and patience.

$0.5/$1 limit. nothing more, nothing less.

PATIENCE

Thats all im currently missing. Well, im actually missing lots of things but patience is my number one target for this month.
Having considered giving this up (poker, not my blog) (my blog is indestructable) i may become reinvigorated.

I may have to buy poker tracker to analyse my data properly. I did the old free 1000 hand import a while ago and its quite handy. KQ is pants, KQs in position is a monster. In fact, anything in position is a monster.

I may play live again, head screwed on. £10 rebuy on Mondays with people so bad it makes me want to play every hand. Whereas I should wait and only play AA. They wouldn't even notice and pay me off each and every time. Except when I play i keep getting screwed.

When i try patience i drown in rivers, when I try to build a stack I get caught by someone with third pair.
Maybe my first buy in ill play like a loony, all in on every flop when i have the lead. Then uber tight.


Hm, we'll see.

Also may return to craptologic for now improved 30% rakeback. Doesn't help when you lose all the money in your account bluffing.

Must have bluffed off about 2K in the past month. It still pains me to think about it. Thats a nice holiday. Maybe i'll just find some nice beach photos and phtoshop myself in.

hasta leugo cabrons

foooooooooook

****
****
****
******
**************
****
*******

when will i learn,
MUST BE PATIENT
MUST BE PATIENT
MUST NOT GET RIVERED
MUST BE PATIENT

ive done a whoopsie

a ten day tilt session is over. lost lots.

plan is now $100 per day and not feel like a mormon.

then again, anchorman is a funny film.

based on a true story.

Bonjourno

Long time since last post.

End of t'month now and pokering has been ok.
withdrawn half my profits and has been a good month.

If i could learn not to tilt better I would have made about 150% of what i actually won.

This is my plan for next month and i will keep myself updated on progress.

Thanks to Mr. Smart Money for his spreadsheet. It has been most useful in recording progress.

Won't be able to play much as computer going in for repairs this month. A break might do me good.
Well, that's what i'm gonna have to tell myself.

logs

someone once pointed out that blogs sounds like logs.

indeed this is true and the nature of most ryhmes.

lost my last post as eblogger was being more like a log than a blog.

i need a new phone, but can't find any super dooper offers like my current £5 per month 500mins and 100texts, which will currently set me back £18.42 per month.

more happily its friday which not only means weekend but an update to ebaums.

also check out showtime challenge and place links to this magnificent upcoming charity event on any webpage you host.

no poker today, but with two more weekends, hopes are high for the month of this.

bankroll up moving up

hit $2k for the month so far.

played solid. runner runner'd someone whilst betting AQ against AK on an ace high board.
they should have rasied, but outdrawing someone felt nice.

played for 45 mins and 2nd best day of the month. however, i am beginning to see more and more the idea that it's one long game and individul results and hands are irrelevant.

i do think i need to find another site with rakeback. i must be paying party lots. looking for something other than crypto'logic' but may try interpoker anyway for good deal.

oops, i did it again

dognammit.

just when i think im doing ok i go and blow many a dollar.

in one hour over $1k

absolute madness. then decided not to go to bed till i'd won it back.
didnt manage that and five hours later called it a day with about $130 profit on the day.
down from $400 earlier on and what a rollercoaster.
least another daily profit. not gonna hit my $4k target i don't think, but will setlle for 3.

Thanks to my shennaigans I discovered that the sun rises at about 5 in the morning and the birds start singing and its quite a nice time to go for a run.

I hope a day like this never happens again.

It's raining water

Well hallo there.

These blogs should have webcounters so I know how many of you aren't reading this and act accordingly.

Poker is on the up with winning every day since my last tilting session. I think I am one of the few people who is capable of tilting for days on end.

Met a couple of nice folks who couldn't fold top pair top kicker. Once with an overpair and once with a set and up working my way to $1k up for the month. Aiming for $4k per month, and without tilting it's possible.

This blog should help me keep my discipline. (Here's hoping) I may even return more consistently to Betfair especailly for MTT's, and cash. MTT's can be frustrating but winning a multi is awesome and something I haven't done for a while. Came second in a 30 man live tourney couple o' weeks ago, but it was against a bunch of people who are useless and that takes the shine away. Especially when you don't even win.

Current reading is 'The Emporer's New Mind' by Roger Penrose. Fascinating stuff. Any views from you who have read it? Just don't spoil the ending.

more highs and lows than a chinese phonebook

$780 up
then lose $700 of that

what is wrong with me??

answers on a postcard......
(or reply below)

Poker day

am beginning to think blogs are weird.

why would anyone write one about themselves? and who would read my inane drivel?

like me winning every game of pro evo i have ever played. well, almost. i think need to test my skills on a national level. i wonder if i could make a living hustling people at pro evo?

or like winning a nice hand at poker and dancing round the room. don't think thats the etiquette live but my point is this isn't very interesting to average joe. maybe joe should get a job and not read this then. although it was a straight flush

going well this week and might move up a level. gonna work on setting strict bankroll standards so i never have to deposit again. like withdrawing half of weekly profit. (maybe every two weeks since i dont get enough time to play). only go up a level when I have 1,000,000 big blinds. i read that on the betfair forum. that montana seems to know what he's talking about. words of wisdom.

back to blogging ideas; politics is quite boring and so many people are thicker than vicky pollard its hard to get through. i guess that leaves porn and humour. and humourous porn.

these blogs should have built in spell checkers. like gmail.

anyway, south park is funny and im off to watch an episode.