April Results

So I know it’s been awhile since I’ve posted and there’s been a couple reasons for that. #1 is probably that I get about three spam comments(which turn into e-mails to me) per day which really tilts me because I go to check the e-mail just to make sure it’s spam and when it is I have to logon here and mark it and get it deleted. It wastes a lot of my time and in general makes me very unmotivated to spending any more time on here making posts. I’ll probably look into IP blocking or just disabling comments altogether in the next week or so who knows.

Anyways, Petaluma and San Francisco were a blast. Dodgy wrote up a good summary of the trip in his P-town post if you’d like to hear about it but I’m not going to reinvent the wheel or anything. Noel also posted footage of our epic camel encounter! I will put up some pictures tho!

Dodgy, Me and Alcatraz

Sealions

Me, Noel and the Golden Gate Bridge

Dodgy, Noel, Me, Bridge and San Francisco (Thx for this one dodgy)

Me in Alcatraz

A couple things I’d like to note from the trip. Gordo’s has delicious burritos. I wish they had a place like this in Seattle. We ate there twice. The 101 Casino in Petaluma has an unbeatable 3/6 limit game. The blind structure is $1 small blind, $3 big blind, and $1 bad beat jackpot on the button every hand. There is a $4 rake taken every single hand whether a flop is seen or not. So if you raise from any position preflop, and everyone folds, you get your money back. So in other words, by choosing to play a hand, you are risking something to win nothing. Now we just went there to have fun obv(it’s 3/6 limit, I don’t even know how to play that game) and for drinks but even those were $4 a pop. Well we ended up getting kicked out after getting into an argument with another patron anyways but my point is I give this a casino a big thumbs down and wouldn’t recommend this casino to anyone.

Okay, on to April results. I didn’t play much, but I game selected very well and was playing my A game when I did. I just felt kinda burnt out from the grind but my recent vacation has gotten me re-motivated and I’m hoping to have a big May, both $$ wise and volume wise. I’ll just post NLH screenshots because plo play was split between laptop and desktop but I played 6,905 hands and won $978 playing plo. I also lost $1,315 playing tournaments and $800ish playing 10/20 with antes. In total not including rakeback I made somewhere around $9,256 in April.

NLH Ptracker

NLH Graph



I really enjoyed playing with antes but I will probably avoid those games in the future unless they are the only ones with action for the simple fact that I’m pretty anal about collecting my hand histories(if I wasn’t I’d play on cake way more) and as of right now it doesn’t look like pokertracker is going to be capable of tracking these games. As far as strategy goes in these games, the blinds are bigger so you are effectively playing bigger stakes. The equivalent of $16/$32 blinds are in the middle at a $10/$20 6max game with antes except the cost per hand is more evenly spread across the players obviously instead of just two people contributing to the pot pre-preflop each hand (ya that’s right I’m coining the street). So if you buyin for “100 big blinds” you effectively have 62.5 big blinds if people raise pot preflop, which is $88 at $10/$20. So the two takeaways should be that

1) Winning lots of small pots is much more profitable in ante games and
2) Buying in deep definitely makes sense at these tables, unless you are used to playing 63 big blind poker