Finally got in the green for the month. A much less depressing way of looking at it is I’m up over a grand in the past week. I’ve been dabbling in some short handed NL hold em even though I said that I wouldn’t. After watching aba’s video on cardrunner’s something just really clicked with me and I think I can really beat these games. I’m only playing 100NL right now, I hope to move up to 200NL sometime next month. sbrugby’s insight was extremely helpful and really made me realize all the information I was missing out on while playing. There is SOO much information that opponents give you, you just have to make sure you’re paying attention to take advantage of it.
Busted out 5th of a $55 6handed freezeout tonight so that’s mostly why I’m in the green. Hand here: hand
Right now I think I’m a pretty good MTT and SNG player, but my cash game definitely needs some tweaking. I don’t really want to become a donkament specialist however for the following reason. bigjoe2003 is one of the best SNG players out there and he’s only up something like $90k over the past 12 months in SNGs. sbrugby is one of the best cash game players out there and he’s up over half a mil in the past month. Clearly cash games is the way to go if I want to make lots of $$$.
Yeah so I went to this company info thingy the other night and I get there right when it starts and they are all out of pizza. So I’m upset – I’m not even late and no free dinner what is that? So I sit down next to this girl who has five slices of pizza to herself and she proceeds to eat all of them, except not all the pizza, she doesn’t even eat the crust. She puts that back on her plate and throws it away later. Then she leaves like 20 mins into the presentation and clearly doesn’t care to work for the company. What a bitch. I really wanted to choke her out. Good story?
Both the overbet all in and the call are just hideous and this happens ALL THE TIME at these levels.
PokerStars Game #8348600343: Tournament #42562469, $25+$2 Hold’em No Limit – Level III (25/50) – 2007/02/08 – 23:49:44 (ET)
Table ‘42562469 1’ 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: andr3w321 (1360 in chips)
Seat 3: yatara82 (1105 in chips)
Seat 4: Caravaggio_1 (980 in chips)
Seat 5: iplayrough (2070 in chips)
Seat 6: eliraqy (1520 in chips)
Seat 7: chigl (1040 in chips)
Seat 8: bj45 (1625 in chips)
Seat 9: junkiesue (3800 in chips)
iplayrough: posts small blind 25
eliraqy: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to andr3w321 [2h 2s]
chigl: calls 50
bj45: folds
junkiesue: folds
andr3w321: calls 50
yatara82 has timed out
yatara82: folds
yatara82 is sitting out
yatara82 has returned
Caravaggio_1: raises 930 to 980 and is all-in
iplayrough: calls 955
eliraqy: folds
chigl: folds
andr3w321: folds
*** FLOP *** [3s Qs Td]
*** TURN *** [3s Qs Td] [Jd]
*** RIVER *** [3s Qs Td Jd] [7d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
iplayrough: shows [Ah Th] (a pair of Tens)
Caravaggio_1: shows [4s 4c] (a pair of Fours)
iplayrough collected 2110 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2110 | Rake 0
Board [3s Qs Td Jd 7d]
Seat 1: andr3w321 folded before Flop
Seat 3: yatara82 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 4: Caravaggio_1 (button) showed [4s 4c] and lost with a pair of Fours
Seat 5: iplayrough (small blind) showed [Ah Th] and won (2110) with a pair of Tens
Seat 6: eliraqy (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: chigl folded before Flop
Seat 8: bj45 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 9: junkiesue folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Well after dropping a grand today in about 20 $60 turbos or so and losing about every coinflip possible I decided to move back down to the $27 turbos. But I don’t want to talk about bad beats, I will talk about some leaks I found in my game though. I can’t find the exact hand histories right now but I found that I was definitely making some loose calls when I got a bigstack. For example, say I doubled up early and had 3000 in chips. Blinds are 100/200 and there are 8 players left. UTG who is very tight goes all in for 1600 and I am on the button with 99. I found myself making this call because he could be doing this with 22-88. The only problem is the vast majority of the time this is AT+ or TT+. I was also unwilling to ever lay down tptk postflop even if it was clear I was behind.
After only playing 8 $27 turbos tonight I can already tell my game has improved tremendously so my time at the $60s wasn’t a total loss. I think I can comfortably 8-table the $27s. They aren’t so bad after all, its nice to actually get paid off with my good hands and not have 6 people left at 200/400 blinds.
Been playing sets of 6 $60 turbos lately. I’m pretty much breakeven(I think I’m down like 1 buyin over my first 100 or so). I played about 40 tonight and lost like $6. I did buy SNGPT today finally because my paypal account finally cleared so I should be able to fix some holes I’m sure I have in my game and be crushing these in no time. Here’s an interesting hand from tonight.
PokerStars Game #8316248958: Tournament #42407598, $55+$5 Hold’em No Limit – Level II (15/30) – 2007/02/06 – 21:47:06 (ET)
Table ‘42407598 1’ 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: wpr101 (1480 in chips)
Seat 2: gocubs98 (2850 in chips)
Seat 3: HoldmMaster1 (75 in chips)
Seat 4: kalamitsis (1530 in chips)
Seat 5: AJinOK (1660 in chips)
Seat 6: digman (2270 in chips)
Seat 7: dooger1234 (780 in chips)
Seat 8: BigRSlick (1390 in chips)
Seat 9: andr3w321 (1465 in chips)
kalamitsis: posts small blind 15
AJinOK: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to andr3w321 [Qh As]
digman: calls 30
dooger1234: folds
BigRSlick: calls 30
andr3w321: calls 30
wpr101: folds
gocubs98: folds
HoldmMaster1: raises 45 to 75 and is all-in
kalamitsis: folds
AJinOK: calls 45
digman: calls 45
BigRSlick: calls 45
andr3w321: raises 675 to 750
AJinOK: folds
digman: folds
BigRSlick: folds
*** FLOP *** [7h 8c 6c]
*** TURN *** [7h 8c 6c] [Jd]
*** RIVER *** [7h 8c 6c Jd] [Ts]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
andr3w321: shows [Qh As] (high card Ace)
HoldmMaster1: shows [2h 2d] (a pair of Deuces)
HoldmMaster1 collected 390 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 390 | Rake 0
Board [7h 8c 6c Jd Ts]
Seat 1: wpr101 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 2: gocubs98 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 3: HoldmMaster1 (button) showed [2h 2d] and won (390) with a pair of Deuces
Seat 4: kalamitsis (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: AJinOK (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: digman folded before Flop
I just called with AQ at first, got some limpers and then a shortstack moved all in and I was to close the action. Instead of just calling I raised it up with no intention of folding to another push and ended up getting my money it with a coinflip and a lot of dead money in the pot. I’m happy with the way I played this one even though I ended up losing the flip.
1. Make $3k. This is my #1 goal all other goals are to achieve this goal
2. Play only sngs(primarily $60 turbos, I’ve played a few and the play there seems just as bad as the $27s) as well as a little 200NL FULL RING and a couple MTTs if I have time.
3. Stay away from short handed NL. I am just not made for this game. I’ve lost about $1500 at 200NL in the past couple of days trying this and I’m just no good at shorthanded. I need to stay away. I also requested a check from pokerstars for like $2500 so my bankroll at the beginning of Feb for all intents and purposes is $10k.
I will try and post some interesting stories later. I realize now that a purely poker blog is just boring. Check out tuckermax.com that guy is my fucking idol.
So in January my bankroll went from about $870 up to $1850 down to about $950 two days ago. I knew that I wasn’t going to reach my goal playing sngs so I decided to just play MTTs the last couple of days since I knew a big score was the only way to break $2k for the month. Well I ended up winning the $10 rebuy on stars outright for $13.5k. That was nice. linky
In other news I think my bad downswing was actually a result of some bad play which I think I have fixed. I was making some semiloose calls for about half my stack near the bubble which I’m pretty sure were big leaks. With such a large bankroll now I’m not sure if I will continue playing sngs – I may move to 200NL. I will post February goals soon. Pz.
Not really on super tilt, but definitely on a pretty bad downswing right now. While I admit maybe 2-4 sngs were because of actual tilt the rest were all pretty much natural variance I think. I was up to about $1850 earler today, but after playing 50 $27 sngs I’m down about 10 buyins and my BR is $1406 right now. Hopefully tomorrow will go better and I can still make my goal of $2k by Jan 31st.
I’ve been having success playing sets of 6 sngs at a time but haven’t really had a enough time to commit to playing lately. Just had a job interview and a lot of hw and other stuff to do. In the past week I’ve played about 100 sngs and made about $350 so my current bankroll is $1196. I recently moved up to the $27 turbos again and I think I’m down about 2 buyins over my first 20 or so. Here’s my lifetime sharkscope stats:
PokerStars Game #7836527016: Tournament #40053709, $15+$1 Hold’em No Limit – Level IX (300/600) – 2007/01/08 – 19:28:32 (ET)
Table ‘40053709 1’ 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 2: Chrly (8170 in chips)
Seat 5: andr3w321 (5330 in chips)
Chrly: posts the ante 50
andr3w321: posts the ante 50
andr3w321: posts small blind 300
Chrly: posts big blind 600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to andr3w321 [Qd Kh]
ooh KQ he’s pushing like every hand and I’ve already lost one hand heads up to this guy when I had him dominated I will trap him
andr3w321: calls 300
Chrly: checks
*** FLOP *** [Qh 6c 3d]
Chrly: checks
andr3w321: bets 700
Okay I’ll bet 700 b/c he just raises me with nothing every time this happens
Chrly: raises 6820 to 7520 and is all-in
Yay
andr3w321: calls 3980 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [Qh 6c 3d] [Js]
*** RIVER *** [Qh 6c 3d Js] [8c]
How did I know this was coming?
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Chrly: shows [8h Qc] (two pair, Queens and Eights)
andr3w321: shows [Qd Kh] (a pair of Queens)
Chrly collected 10660 from pot
andr3w321 said, “wow”
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 10660 | Rake 0
Board [Qh 6c 3d Js 8c]
Seat 2: Chrly (big blind) showed [8h Qc] and won (10660) with two pair, Queens and Eights
Seat 5: andr3w321 (button) (small blind) showed [Qd Kh] and lost with a pair of Queens
I started just 6tabling sets of sngs after running about even over the past 200 sngs of 8tabling. Bankroll is at $927.