Mondays at work suck. So here is a quick update. I played a bit on Saturday and made about £30, played for about 15 mins yesterday and made about £10, all in 10p/20p and 15p/25p; trying some sort of bankroll management out, will hopefully be motivated to keep at these stakes so I don't have to redeposit. Getting rich quick will just have to wait. Off to France on Wednesday for a much needed break and I can't bloody wait, haven't been on holiday since Faliraki in 2001 so it's gonna be nice to have a week off work and get some sun. :-)
Bankroll - £175ish
Monday 30 July 2007
Saturday 28 July 2007
Friday night
Last night was the first Friday in ages that I just stayed in and didn't drink any alcohol. I was so knackered from a tough week that I just wanted an early night and a nice lie in. I wanted to play some poker and just chill so I deposited £100 on to Inter. I played the $20 headhunter tournament and came about 48th, taking no heads, lame. I then attempted some sort of bankroll management and played £0.05/£0.10 cash games, I proceeded to lose £23, that's more than 2 buy ins in not a very long time; at these stakes people just don't fold, you really have to hit a hand in order to win pots and as this doesn't happen very often, it wasn't too successful for me. People were literally calling all ins on the flop with K high etc.
So I had £67 left from the £100 and was a little disheartened so decided to play £0.25/£0.50 with the full £50 buy in. Now I played so so sensibly and very well too, caught a few fish and eventually left the room on £206 at about 1am. So a £156 profit for the session, very pleasing. I cashed out the £100 I had deposited leaving myself with £135ish bankroll to work with.
I feel I was just playing much better poker, like I used to months ago, totally in control of the table and making good reads, keeping pots small with mediocre hands etc. I even laid down 1010 on an 8 high flop and the guy had QQ. Something I would usually just not do, I was actually not playing like a moron and thinking things through with good results.
Hopefully I can keep up this level of play, only time will tell, at least I have some money to work with again.
Bankroll - £135.11
So I had £67 left from the £100 and was a little disheartened so decided to play £0.25/£0.50 with the full £50 buy in. Now I played so so sensibly and very well too, caught a few fish and eventually left the room on £206 at about 1am. So a £156 profit for the session, very pleasing. I cashed out the £100 I had deposited leaving myself with £135ish bankroll to work with.
I feel I was just playing much better poker, like I used to months ago, totally in control of the table and making good reads, keeping pots small with mediocre hands etc. I even laid down 1010 on an 8 high flop and the guy had QQ. Something I would usually just not do, I was actually not playing like a moron and thinking things through with good results.
Hopefully I can keep up this level of play, only time will tell, at least I have some money to work with again.
Bankroll - £135.11
Wednesday 25 July 2007
Why do I bother?
DIS-FUCKING-ASTER. So last night I went home, sat in three rooms, 2 of £0.25/£0.50 with £50 in each and one 10 seater £0.50/£1 with £50. Well, cooler bloody city ensued; twice I flopped top 2 pair and someone else had flopped a straight and I couldn't lay it down. I flopped a set and someone had flopped a straight, my AA beat by KQ all in pre flop with a Q x Q flop. I raised with 1010 and some fish pushed so I insta called he shows J6 flop is 5 6 6. It was just the sickest run of crap and I moved up to $2/$5 cos I was tilting big time, made a little then had dinner then came back and lost it all. So major tilted I deposited £100 in £1/£2, cooler city again it was like the deck was out to get me. Lost that, put in another £40, was tilting so bad, i called an all in with K7d and made runner runner flush, just didn't give a shit. Final hand I raise A10 and get re-raised, flop comes 10 9 8 and I hope he has AK, I check intending to call an all in cos I'm tilting. He puts me in and has 88. Nice hand. So lost a total of £424 last night, another PS3 out the window, when will I learn? Pissed off now cos I only have £350 left till I get paid again and I am going to France a week today and need spending money, also need to pay direct debits too. No doubt I will put most of it in tonight and attempt to spin it up then I can withdraw again, risky but I need to play.
Monday 23 July 2007
A winning weekend!
Well its Monday morning at work and I actually banked a profitable weekend despite a drunken session! I basically played 3 sessions, winning about £50 each time. Each session was sitting with £50 in £0.50/£1 rooms. First session was Friday before I went out, sat in a 10 seater room allowing me to play tighter. I lost a bit by doubling up a couple of short stacks with marginal calls. Then I got lucky I guess, I made it £4 in EP with QQ, only the SB called. The flop was a pleasing 7 10 Q with 2 spades and the SB bet £4 into me. This was a little confusing and I put him on a flush draw and seeing as I had the nuts made it £9 to go. He then doesn't hesitate in pushing all in which I obv insta call expecting to see a flush draw but no he had KK no spade and my hand held, guess I got lucky there.
A little later i have 77 in the SB, LP min raises it to £2 and 4 of us see a flop. Flop comes A 7 5 with 2 hearts which is again, pleasing. I check and everyone checks to the PFR. He bets £3 which I smooth call and the person next to me raises it to £12 or something. Everyone folds to me and I push expecting a call, he does and shows A7 and misses his 2 outter, all about sets!
Then I went to my mates house to get drunk on vodka and logged on about 2 am....uh oh! I managed to get my £50 up to £130 in one room then cant remember how but managed to lose most of that! However at the same time I was sitting in a £1/£2 room with £100, went down to about £75 then doubled up with AA against some fishes flush draw. That room then broke up, I planned to stop playing at 3 and I did just that, banking a £50 win overall (although I had been up £100).
On Saturday I went shopping and spent quite a bit! I bought 2 tops for £45, some jeans and some shorts for half price in the Next sale for £24! And I went to Game to buy a PSP game I wanted called Crush, and it was in the buy one get one free section - bonus! So I chose Grand Theft Auto as my free game and had a quick go and its very good, also swapped an old game so got 2 brand new games worth £50 for a tenner! - trips on the flop!
Then on Saturday night I went out and got hammered, and felt like shit all day Sunday, played a £5 HeadHunter multi, bubbled on a huge bluff but took 3 heads in the process giving me my buy in back. Had a little sleep then sat with £50 in a £0.50/£1 again. Managed to lose my first buy in with 83h on an 8 7 4 board, it was a (bad) read I had against a serial PFR and he didn't need a hand to go all the way with, but I should have folded it. I bought back in and managed to get up to about £75 then this hand happened. I had AQ in LP and the person to my right makes it £3.50, 3 of us take the flop of Q Q 5. 1st position checks, PFR bets £6 and I smooth call hoping that he makes some sort of hand, other guy folds. Turn is the A of spades putting 2 spades on the board and completing my boat. He checks, and I get sneaky and check behind hoping this will make him bluff the river or think his AK is good. The river comes a blank and he bets £14 into me, I think for a while about how much to raise and decided the over raise all in is ideal - if he has a Q or strong Ace he is gonna call, I think this bet looks like it could easily be a bluff or a naked Ace. Anyway he insta calls with KQ - thankyouverymuch!
Left the room shortly after for a £55 profit. I am getting good at actually leaving a room when I am ahead which is something I often don't do, and boy does it feel good to do this; any winning session is a win so I think it is vital for confidence to have repeated winning sessions. My confidence is high right now. Well, a good weekend, risky BRM but I feel I am playing very well and very TAG and so far it has worked, I think I will drop down a level now however cos I have a workable bankroll to do so.
On a side note, I was e-mailing Sharkscope on Friday and also whilst I was playing drunk at 2am about getting one of my usernames blocked, the woman was uber quick at responding so I kept replying which was quite amusing, so thought I would post the banter here:
Me: Can you please then unblock them both then! sorry to be a pain i'm sure ur very busy, but would appreciate it thanks x
SS: Hi Jon,I have unblocked them both for you; I am sorry we could not block the one you wanted only.Best Wishes,Isabella
Me: wow u guys, or should i say girl, are very quick at responding! What's it like working for sharkscope Isabella? I'm currently a bit drunk and playing £0.50/£1, in which I doubled up in the 1st hand! woo! x
SS: Hi Jon,Be careful, playing cash drunk can be lethal! Working at SharkScope is great.Isabella
There was a bit more with asking what sort of office it was like etc and she said it was small and that she was going home, lol. I think I must have deleted this though.
Also on a side note, went to see Transformers last night, it was AMAZING! One of the best films I have ever seen and just seeing those robots transform is ridiculously cool beyond belief. So so good I wanna see it again! I also have the new, and last Harry Potter book and so far have only read 2 chapters, really need to read it before someone spoils the ending!
Bankroll - £284.34
A little later i have 77 in the SB, LP min raises it to £2 and 4 of us see a flop. Flop comes A 7 5 with 2 hearts which is again, pleasing. I check and everyone checks to the PFR. He bets £3 which I smooth call and the person next to me raises it to £12 or something. Everyone folds to me and I push expecting a call, he does and shows A7 and misses his 2 outter, all about sets!
Then I went to my mates house to get drunk on vodka and logged on about 2 am....uh oh! I managed to get my £50 up to £130 in one room then cant remember how but managed to lose most of that! However at the same time I was sitting in a £1/£2 room with £100, went down to about £75 then doubled up with AA against some fishes flush draw. That room then broke up, I planned to stop playing at 3 and I did just that, banking a £50 win overall (although I had been up £100).
On Saturday I went shopping and spent quite a bit! I bought 2 tops for £45, some jeans and some shorts for half price in the Next sale for £24! And I went to Game to buy a PSP game I wanted called Crush, and it was in the buy one get one free section - bonus! So I chose Grand Theft Auto as my free game and had a quick go and its very good, also swapped an old game so got 2 brand new games worth £50 for a tenner! - trips on the flop!
Then on Saturday night I went out and got hammered, and felt like shit all day Sunday, played a £5 HeadHunter multi, bubbled on a huge bluff but took 3 heads in the process giving me my buy in back. Had a little sleep then sat with £50 in a £0.50/£1 again. Managed to lose my first buy in with 83h on an 8 7 4 board, it was a (bad) read I had against a serial PFR and he didn't need a hand to go all the way with, but I should have folded it. I bought back in and managed to get up to about £75 then this hand happened. I had AQ in LP and the person to my right makes it £3.50, 3 of us take the flop of Q Q 5. 1st position checks, PFR bets £6 and I smooth call hoping that he makes some sort of hand, other guy folds. Turn is the A of spades putting 2 spades on the board and completing my boat. He checks, and I get sneaky and check behind hoping this will make him bluff the river or think his AK is good. The river comes a blank and he bets £14 into me, I think for a while about how much to raise and decided the over raise all in is ideal - if he has a Q or strong Ace he is gonna call, I think this bet looks like it could easily be a bluff or a naked Ace. Anyway he insta calls with KQ - thankyouverymuch!
Left the room shortly after for a £55 profit. I am getting good at actually leaving a room when I am ahead which is something I often don't do, and boy does it feel good to do this; any winning session is a win so I think it is vital for confidence to have repeated winning sessions. My confidence is high right now. Well, a good weekend, risky BRM but I feel I am playing very well and very TAG and so far it has worked, I think I will drop down a level now however cos I have a workable bankroll to do so.
On a side note, I was e-mailing Sharkscope on Friday and also whilst I was playing drunk at 2am about getting one of my usernames blocked, the woman was uber quick at responding so I kept replying which was quite amusing, so thought I would post the banter here:
Me: Can you please then unblock them both then! sorry to be a pain i'm sure ur very busy, but would appreciate it thanks x
SS: Hi Jon,I have unblocked them both for you; I am sorry we could not block the one you wanted only.Best Wishes,Isabella
Me: wow u guys, or should i say girl, are very quick at responding! What's it like working for sharkscope Isabella? I'm currently a bit drunk and playing £0.50/£1, in which I doubled up in the 1st hand! woo! x
SS: Hi Jon,Be careful, playing cash drunk can be lethal! Working at SharkScope is great.Isabella
There was a bit more with asking what sort of office it was like etc and she said it was small and that she was going home, lol. I think I must have deleted this though.
Also on a side note, went to see Transformers last night, it was AMAZING! One of the best films I have ever seen and just seeing those robots transform is ridiculously cool beyond belief. So so good I wanna see it again! I also have the new, and last Harry Potter book and so far have only read 2 chapters, really need to read it before someone spoils the ending!
Bankroll - £284.34
Friday 20 July 2007
Quick update
Well, I shall try and make this as brief as possible. Following last post I stuck to £20 rooms on crypto. First I shall explain what happened to my stars money. Well I played Omaha cash games and lost about $150, played hold em lost some more. When I could I eventually cashed out about $230, covering the weekends deposits then I ended up losing the rest playing purposely stupid. So cos of PokerStars new rule I couldn't withdraw the lot like I wanted to so didn't really make any profit out of it, great.
Back to crypto, well I was running ok on the £20 rooms, then on Sat night this happened. Basically I was playing 2 rooms with a £55 stack in one and a £20 stack in the other. In the £20 stack room this guy started raising to like £2.60 pre flop regularly with trash. I had position on him and he did this to me and I went all in with AK he INSTA called with 56off and won that one. I therefore knew I had to reload in this room, so I left the other room to free up funds and sat with £20 again. It was about 4 hands in that he made the same stupid raise and I pushed with 99 and he insta called with A5s and he missed so I was on about £38. Then literally a couple of hands later I had 10 9 off and called a massive raise from him again hoping to hit a pair and the flop came 10 high, he bet about £5 I pushed and he insta called again with AK off and missed. this put me on about £70 or something. Then he reloads for £20 and makes the same raise, this time I push again with AK and he calls with some useless trash and I win, so I went from £20 to £90 in about 10 mins courtesy of this maniac, unfortunately he left after this so I did too.
Then I went out and got drunk and played at about 2 am......I had a roll of about £120 and somehow lost the lot in £20 rooms. I can't really remember what the hell happened but I know I lost with KK and AA about 5 times, on one occasion I was all in on flop and called by 22, only for the turn and river to come 2, 2 - he said he "didn't believe me", lmao. Well, Sunday came and I realised I had drunkenly deposited another £100 but thankfully not played with it so I withdrew it immediately cos I still had the money on my Stars account.
Well as you/I(?) know that all went and then I deposited £40 on crypto, lost it all when my QQ lost to 67 or something. So then the other day I put £50 into crypto and sat in £0.50/£1, I ran and played very good and managed to make £160 for the evening. So I withdrew the £90 from last 2 deposits to keep myself on top of things and played again last night, lost a bit but played very well (in my opinion) and made it all back and a £10 profit. The roll now stands at £130 on crypto but it IS the weekend so will have to see what happens then! Thank god its the weekend cos I'm so tired and bored of work and am going out to get pissed tomorrow which is always fun. Must not play poker drunk when I get back.
Bankroll - £130 ish
Back to crypto, well I was running ok on the £20 rooms, then on Sat night this happened. Basically I was playing 2 rooms with a £55 stack in one and a £20 stack in the other. In the £20 stack room this guy started raising to like £2.60 pre flop regularly with trash. I had position on him and he did this to me and I went all in with AK he INSTA called with 56off and won that one. I therefore knew I had to reload in this room, so I left the other room to free up funds and sat with £20 again. It was about 4 hands in that he made the same stupid raise and I pushed with 99 and he insta called with A5s and he missed so I was on about £38. Then literally a couple of hands later I had 10 9 off and called a massive raise from him again hoping to hit a pair and the flop came 10 high, he bet about £5 I pushed and he insta called again with AK off and missed. this put me on about £70 or something. Then he reloads for £20 and makes the same raise, this time I push again with AK and he calls with some useless trash and I win, so I went from £20 to £90 in about 10 mins courtesy of this maniac, unfortunately he left after this so I did too.
Then I went out and got drunk and played at about 2 am......I had a roll of about £120 and somehow lost the lot in £20 rooms. I can't really remember what the hell happened but I know I lost with KK and AA about 5 times, on one occasion I was all in on flop and called by 22, only for the turn and river to come 2, 2 - he said he "didn't believe me", lmao. Well, Sunday came and I realised I had drunkenly deposited another £100 but thankfully not played with it so I withdrew it immediately cos I still had the money on my Stars account.
Well as you/I(?) know that all went and then I deposited £40 on crypto, lost it all when my QQ lost to 67 or something. So then the other day I put £50 into crypto and sat in £0.50/£1, I ran and played very good and managed to make £160 for the evening. So I withdrew the £90 from last 2 deposits to keep myself on top of things and played again last night, lost a bit but played very well (in my opinion) and made it all back and a £10 profit. The roll now stands at £130 on crypto but it IS the weekend so will have to see what happens then! Thank god its the weekend cos I'm so tired and bored of work and am going out to get pissed tomorrow which is always fun. Must not play poker drunk when I get back.
Bankroll - £130 ish
Saturday 14 July 2007
Good result?
Firstly Harry Potter was pretty good, and I only thought about poker about once all the way through lol! Well, I came home from work on Friday night and lost the remaining £50 in my bank owing to some seriously shite play (from other players) and nasty rivers on crypto. One example I raise KK and get a caller to see a flop of JQx all hearts and I have K of hearts, i bet - get called, turn a blank, I push and he thinks and calls with AJ no heart, river a J for £37 pot, ho hum. Well then I only had £6 on my card so no more playing for me on Friday night so did the only sensible thing and went round my mates house and got pissed.
So Saturday came and my work cheque had cleared so obviously I wanted to chill all day and play some poker. Deposited $109 onto Stars to play the $100 + $9 multi on there, and £50 on to crypto to play there. The $109 multi was a bit of a risk cos its very expensive but the reward is worth it so I thought fuck it why not. 150 runners and I came 7th for $637.50. Its very nice but its still a bit disappointing because its not often you find yourself on a final table where the first prize is $4300!
However, I should feel lucky cos I was short stack with 18 people left, so to even make the final table was an achievement, don't think I have ever been so patient in a tournament, even folded A high on button when folded to me as short stack and the SB showed JJ! Also folded 88 with a raise before meas short stack, just played uber uber tight and managed to work my way to final table and so I am happy with the much needed $630 after Thursday nights fiasco. Tried to cash the whole lot out but forgot you have to wait 48 hours after depositing, so will try and resist the urge to hit $5/$10 ;-)
On the crypto side of things, played a £10 multi and lost when I made a good call, it got folded to the SB and he completed, I had A5 in the BB and made it 900 with blinds at 150/300. He then pretty quickly pushes, and I pretty quickly saw straight through this and called, he had 67s and he rivered a straight, I may not have been that far ahead but I knew he had nothing but oh well what can you do.
Think I may have found my niche on crypto. The £0.10/£0.20 cash games. I have started playing my usual pretty aggressive style in here and find the players at this level pretty abysmal who call me down so light that my style really works. I have been doing very well on this level, (as i write this i just flopped a set with 44 flop Q 4 Q! - first set in sooooooo long). Just won that pot and I currently sit on £75.66 in there and max buy in is £20 so I think I may stay at this level for a while. One example of how lame the players are, i had AA and bet every street and finally pushed the river and got called by AQ no pair. Just one example of the standard.
Well I'm in a $6 18 man turbo on stars now as well as the cash game so I better get off back to it... and I just busted out of it in 9th, dammit! Well now at least I have an OK roll on crypto again and will continue at £20 cash games, will withdraw the whole poker stars roll ASAP to replace the money I lost earlier in the week. Must... resist... the cash games.
Bankroll - £???
So Saturday came and my work cheque had cleared so obviously I wanted to chill all day and play some poker. Deposited $109 onto Stars to play the $100 + $9 multi on there, and £50 on to crypto to play there. The $109 multi was a bit of a risk cos its very expensive but the reward is worth it so I thought fuck it why not. 150 runners and I came 7th for $637.50. Its very nice but its still a bit disappointing because its not often you find yourself on a final table where the first prize is $4300!
However, I should feel lucky cos I was short stack with 18 people left, so to even make the final table was an achievement, don't think I have ever been so patient in a tournament, even folded A high on button when folded to me as short stack and the SB showed JJ! Also folded 88 with a raise before meas short stack, just played uber uber tight and managed to work my way to final table and so I am happy with the much needed $630 after Thursday nights fiasco. Tried to cash the whole lot out but forgot you have to wait 48 hours after depositing, so will try and resist the urge to hit $5/$10 ;-)
On the crypto side of things, played a £10 multi and lost when I made a good call, it got folded to the SB and he completed, I had A5 in the BB and made it 900 with blinds at 150/300. He then pretty quickly pushes, and I pretty quickly saw straight through this and called, he had 67s and he rivered a straight, I may not have been that far ahead but I knew he had nothing but oh well what can you do.
Think I may have found my niche on crypto. The £0.10/£0.20 cash games. I have started playing my usual pretty aggressive style in here and find the players at this level pretty abysmal who call me down so light that my style really works. I have been doing very well on this level, (as i write this i just flopped a set with 44 flop Q 4 Q! - first set in sooooooo long). Just won that pot and I currently sit on £75.66 in there and max buy in is £20 so I think I may stay at this level for a while. One example of how lame the players are, i had AA and bet every street and finally pushed the river and got called by AQ no pair. Just one example of the standard.
Well I'm in a $6 18 man turbo on stars now as well as the cash game so I better get off back to it... and I just busted out of it in 9th, dammit! Well now at least I have an OK roll on crypto again and will continue at £20 cash games, will withdraw the whole poker stars roll ASAP to replace the money I lost earlier in the week. Must... resist... the cash games.
Bankroll - £???
Thursday 12 July 2007
FFS!!!
Well all that bollocks about bankroll management just went out the sodding window. Came home from work tonight and sat at $2/$5 with $250, lost it all, bought back in for my remaining $180 or something then got bored so went to a 6 seater, ended up losing it all. Deposited £100 - lost that, deposited £52 managed to double up with AA then lost it all with AK vs AA. Didn't get any hands for so damn long then when AK comes along someone has aces, typical.
Anyway feeling pissed off I go make myself dinner, then I just came back up and deposited £50 and played someone HU in $0.50/$1. I sat with $50 then lost that with JQ on a J 7 x flop where he had J7. Then put my other $50 in and lost it first hand with J8 on a 9 8 x flop to his K9. Then feeling even more pissed off deposited another £25, my last deposit. Got it all in pre with AK vs his 1010, flop 10 x A all spades and I am spadeless and its goodbye me. So I lost the £210 odd that I had in my roll and a further £227 from my bank tonight - £437 - I could have bought a fucking PS3 or something, when will I learn? Only have £42 in my bank now till my cheque from work clears which is a whopping £841 - so need a new job, pretty glad it hasn't cleared now actually or a large chunk of it might have gone. I need to sort myself out.
Well off to watch the new Harry Potter film tonight - should be good hopefully it will cheer me up, but I'll probably just be thinking of spinning up in the poker rooms all the way through it, lol.
Anyway feeling pissed off I go make myself dinner, then I just came back up and deposited £50 and played someone HU in $0.50/$1. I sat with $50 then lost that with JQ on a J 7 x flop where he had J7. Then put my other $50 in and lost it first hand with J8 on a 9 8 x flop to his K9. Then feeling even more pissed off deposited another £25, my last deposit. Got it all in pre with AK vs his 1010, flop 10 x A all spades and I am spadeless and its goodbye me. So I lost the £210 odd that I had in my roll and a further £227 from my bank tonight - £437 - I could have bought a fucking PS3 or something, when will I learn? Only have £42 in my bank now till my cheque from work clears which is a whopping £841 - so need a new job, pretty glad it hasn't cleared now actually or a large chunk of it might have gone. I need to sort myself out.
Well off to watch the new Harry Potter film tonight - should be good hopefully it will cheer me up, but I'll probably just be thinking of spinning up in the poker rooms all the way through it, lol.
Tuesday 10 July 2007
Back in Business!
Well, its been a looong time since my last post and the reason for that is basically I haven't played much poker really (apart from the weekend just gone). So time for a bit of a recap on what I have played and what I can remember.
Well after my last post I went to Riley's again on Thursday night and played the £15 FO in which I did shite and got no cards. I think I only won one pot where I pushed pre with JJ and got no callers - so all in all a lame effort. Hung around tho and the bustees started up an 11 man Sit and Go for £10 each, now the majority of people seemed like they just didn't want to be there so people were playing with shite cards and tight patient play saw me chop 1st place with this old guy who said I was "wearing him out" heads up, for £50 each, which was nice - and I think my largest ever 'live' win with strangers - which is kinda pathetic, lol.
Think I dabbled a bit in online pokes with like $10 here and there, couldn't really play cos I had no money and had direct debits to pay. Well, my £2K loan came in, and so I paid £1000 off my overdraft so now I won't get charged interest :-)
Have used the rest of the £2K to pay off a couple of people that I owed, and of course I deposited some to play poker with.
I first lost my rakeback for the 2nd half of June on Inter Poker which was about £30. I can't remember the exact figures of what I deposited so this is roughly. I deposited about £25 and managed to lose it Heads Up. Then I think last Friday night I lost another £25 Heads Up so I deposited £100 and played the same guy some more. He had me down to my last $46 from the $200 or so I got from the £100 - but this guy was simply awful and way too aggressive and I managed to outplay him all the way to about $230. I then had to go out and went to my friends house and got pissed, not before playing a little bit of £0.50/£1 HU in a 6 max room. I sat with £40 cos that's what my opponent had, first hand i have 10 4 off in my BB, we see a flop of 2 4 10, i check, he bets £1.50 and i just insta push and he insta calls with 55 - lol plus £40 for me, I played a bit more then left about £40 up.
I can't remember exact figures now but I know i withdrew all the money I had deposited in the last couple of days so that I was playing with just winnings and by Sunday this was about £100 (can't remember how I got it). Well, I was uber-hungover on Sunday cos I went to London the night before and spent about £70 - mostly on booze - lol. Well on Sunday I sat there and I was just getting bored of all this small stakes shit. Thoughts of Bluescouse's mega spin ups took over my thoughts so I thought fuck it I'll go on a mini spin and see what happens. So I noticed the 10 seater $2/$5 game was running on Inter. I sat with $200 out of my $230 roll. The table filled to max pretty quickly, I lost about $30 so I topped up my stack with my last $30 and just played uber tight. Well a nice hand came up when i was in the SB with 74 off, there was one limper so I thought I would complete for value. The flop was a pretty standard 4 4 7 with 2 clubs so i checked and next to act bet $25 and then the pre flop limper called! I thought prob one of them was on a flush draw - so I min raised to $50 which is kinda obvious I had the 4 but oh well, well the next man knew this and folded but to my delight the PFL went all in! I snap called and he showed 4 6 so was drawing dead to a runner runner split pot at best. He missed and I was up to around $400 or so (can't remember exact). Not sure what he was doing limping in middle position with 4 6 off but I'm glad he did.
The next hand I basically played at all came when I had AKo on the button. It got folded to me and I made it $20. The SB then insta raised to $60 (not sure how he did it so quickly). I basically thought he has QQ or maybe KK or AA - but i figured KK or AA far less likely seeing as I had AK - so I just wanted to see a flop and if an A or K fell I was not gonna get away from it. Well I called and the flop came 4 9 A which I was more than happy with cos I can't see him 3 betting me pre flop with 44 or 99 and if he has AA well then cooler city eh? He bet out about the pot I don't remember, so I pushed and he insta called with A5 off?? He turned a gutshot and I shit myself for a bit but my hand held up which put me up to about $650 - glad I came across such morons - what the hell was he doing with A5? I then went up and down a bit cos I always loosen up after winning a big pot and getting a big stack. But I did the sensible thing and left on $550 - so a good session all in all and my mini spin up worked. I later played a £5 STT and took it down with I think the best comeback ever, i had 87 chips left with the BB at 400 with 4 people left and I still won - I so rock. I withdrew £20 just for the hell of it and that left my bankroll at about £240.
Played last night and lost about £10 but I was tired and couldn't even be arsed to play so I got an early ish night. I also watched Jambon's video (player from Warwick Uni) of 4 tabling and he is a good player and basically very aggressive with lots of 3 betting pre flop and not a lot of flat calling. I started to try out his method but didn't play for long so I hope to practise it more in a good session soon on £25NL which is good BRM for me lol. I have added 2 links to the side of my blog - one of my mate Jack who is nothing like me when it comes to poker - ie. sensible with highly disciplined BRM skills, the other is someone who is somewhat similar - Ed 'Bluescouse' who wins and loses ridiculously sick amounts of money from scratch and has no BRM skills, both worth a read!
That's about it I guess, now have a bankroll of over £225 which I made in a couple of short sessions which is more than workable, will see what I can do!
Well after my last post I went to Riley's again on Thursday night and played the £15 FO in which I did shite and got no cards. I think I only won one pot where I pushed pre with JJ and got no callers - so all in all a lame effort. Hung around tho and the bustees started up an 11 man Sit and Go for £10 each, now the majority of people seemed like they just didn't want to be there so people were playing with shite cards and tight patient play saw me chop 1st place with this old guy who said I was "wearing him out" heads up, for £50 each, which was nice - and I think my largest ever 'live' win with strangers - which is kinda pathetic, lol.
Think I dabbled a bit in online pokes with like $10 here and there, couldn't really play cos I had no money and had direct debits to pay. Well, my £2K loan came in, and so I paid £1000 off my overdraft so now I won't get charged interest :-)
Have used the rest of the £2K to pay off a couple of people that I owed, and of course I deposited some to play poker with.
I first lost my rakeback for the 2nd half of June on Inter Poker which was about £30. I can't remember the exact figures of what I deposited so this is roughly. I deposited about £25 and managed to lose it Heads Up. Then I think last Friday night I lost another £25 Heads Up so I deposited £100 and played the same guy some more. He had me down to my last $46 from the $200 or so I got from the £100 - but this guy was simply awful and way too aggressive and I managed to outplay him all the way to about $230. I then had to go out and went to my friends house and got pissed, not before playing a little bit of £0.50/£1 HU in a 6 max room. I sat with £40 cos that's what my opponent had, first hand i have 10 4 off in my BB, we see a flop of 2 4 10, i check, he bets £1.50 and i just insta push and he insta calls with 55 - lol plus £40 for me, I played a bit more then left about £40 up.
I can't remember exact figures now but I know i withdrew all the money I had deposited in the last couple of days so that I was playing with just winnings and by Sunday this was about £100 (can't remember how I got it). Well, I was uber-hungover on Sunday cos I went to London the night before and spent about £70 - mostly on booze - lol. Well on Sunday I sat there and I was just getting bored of all this small stakes shit. Thoughts of Bluescouse's mega spin ups took over my thoughts so I thought fuck it I'll go on a mini spin and see what happens. So I noticed the 10 seater $2/$5 game was running on Inter. I sat with $200 out of my $230 roll. The table filled to max pretty quickly, I lost about $30 so I topped up my stack with my last $30 and just played uber tight. Well a nice hand came up when i was in the SB with 74 off, there was one limper so I thought I would complete for value. The flop was a pretty standard 4 4 7 with 2 clubs so i checked and next to act bet $25 and then the pre flop limper called! I thought prob one of them was on a flush draw - so I min raised to $50 which is kinda obvious I had the 4 but oh well, well the next man knew this and folded but to my delight the PFL went all in! I snap called and he showed 4 6 so was drawing dead to a runner runner split pot at best. He missed and I was up to around $400 or so (can't remember exact). Not sure what he was doing limping in middle position with 4 6 off but I'm glad he did.
The next hand I basically played at all came when I had AKo on the button. It got folded to me and I made it $20. The SB then insta raised to $60 (not sure how he did it so quickly). I basically thought he has QQ or maybe KK or AA - but i figured KK or AA far less likely seeing as I had AK - so I just wanted to see a flop and if an A or K fell I was not gonna get away from it. Well I called and the flop came 4 9 A which I was more than happy with cos I can't see him 3 betting me pre flop with 44 or 99 and if he has AA well then cooler city eh? He bet out about the pot I don't remember, so I pushed and he insta called with A5 off?? He turned a gutshot and I shit myself for a bit but my hand held up which put me up to about $650 - glad I came across such morons - what the hell was he doing with A5? I then went up and down a bit cos I always loosen up after winning a big pot and getting a big stack. But I did the sensible thing and left on $550 - so a good session all in all and my mini spin up worked. I later played a £5 STT and took it down with I think the best comeback ever, i had 87 chips left with the BB at 400 with 4 people left and I still won - I so rock. I withdrew £20 just for the hell of it and that left my bankroll at about £240.
Played last night and lost about £10 but I was tired and couldn't even be arsed to play so I got an early ish night. I also watched Jambon's video (player from Warwick Uni) of 4 tabling and he is a good player and basically very aggressive with lots of 3 betting pre flop and not a lot of flat calling. I started to try out his method but didn't play for long so I hope to practise it more in a good session soon on £25NL which is good BRM for me lol. I have added 2 links to the side of my blog - one of my mate Jack who is nothing like me when it comes to poker - ie. sensible with highly disciplined BRM skills, the other is someone who is somewhat similar - Ed 'Bluescouse' who wins and loses ridiculously sick amounts of money from scratch and has no BRM skills, both worth a read!
That's about it I guess, now have a bankroll of over £225 which I made in a couple of short sessions which is more than workable, will see what I can do!
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