of having my first 1k day. very nice way to start off the month and i managed to get in over 1400 hands playing mostly 4 tables but occasionally 5 or 6 when table selecting. the new ftp software update came out yesterday and they've changed the deep tables to be regularly spread limits instead of the kinda in between limits. there were a few tables going and played on some although they were pretty much just crowded with the normal 1/2 regs.
goal for the month is to get 20k +ev hands in.
tg
Friday, May 2, 2008
Thursday, May 1, 2008
interesting thought
i was kinda thinking about goals and when i started playing nl cash i thought if i could be a winning 2/4 player by the end of the year that would be cool. i just made a spreadsheet to see where i would be at the end of the year based on the following assumptions.
- 40 buy-ins per level
- 20k hands a month played
- winrate of 3ptbb/100 (12 buy-ins per month)
- moving up once i hit 40 buy-ins for the next level
- not counting rakeback towards bankroll
so with a bankroll of roughly 9.6k right now and assuming a nice easy transition from level to level (highly unlikely) and a steady month to month income (once again unlikely) i would be playing 5/10 by the end of the year and have roughly a $53k bankroll come dec 31st.
so as unlikely as it is for all those ducks to line up, it is motivating.
tg
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
april results
played my final session of april last night and did well ending up about $400 i think. i played a mix of 1/2nl 6-max as well as starting a game at 1.5/3 nl deep. (200bb table) i found even last summer when i really sucked that there were a lot of fish at the deep tables for some reason and a lot of players don't know how to adjust there game when playing with deeper stacks, myself included. it's something that i'm working on and thinking about though and i'd like to take a shot at those games to further develope my understanding of deep stack nl. i think becoming more confident in deep stack play will help when i get 2 buy-ins (or more) deep with others in the 100bb cap games and will give me a much larger edge. i also have been thinking about venturing into more live games as my br increases and possibly even playing some games like 5/5 in the future and i believe the buy-in in those games may be a bit deeper than the 50 or 100bb buy-in for the small 1/2 games.
i also had another coaching session last night which went great. it was good to get some positive feed back on a few of the hands i played well and identify a few spots wehere i was not taking optimal lines. we discussed a pretty cool hand from another coach which was quite eye opening and i had really have to look at it more to digest it.
i only played like 800ish hands or so because of the coaching session and only 4-tabled after that.
here's april's results:
Monday, April 28, 2008
live pokers to the rescue
after dropping $851 on saturday afternoon i shut down ftp and went and chilled out since i didn't want to get stuck anymore at the moment and that's my biggsest single session loss ever and probably largest single day loss as well.
so i chilled out, got the ring a little later to round up a few friends for a casino run and decided to put in another small session online before i left. i made back about $260 in a hour or so i played and then headed off for some live 1/2 fun.
i got my name on the list for 1/2 $200 cap buy-in but they only run one table of that and then like a bazzillion tables of 1/2 $100 cap buy-in for some ungodly reason that i can't comprehend. anyways, i got right into a $100 buy-in game and started running like god immediately.
my 2nd hand, a couple players limp, some dude raises to $7, i cold call from the sb, bb cold calls and both limpers come along. (pot $35) the flop comes KQ8r, i chk and it chks to the pfr, he bets $30 and i do the old min-raise to $60, bb and limpers muck and dude goes into the tank and asks how much blah blah blah and then says he's all-in. he bricks off w/ AQo and the dealer counts out the additional money for his call. when the dealer does it though he says he took too much from him and gives him back a small stack of reds and then pushes me the pot. when i looked at it i asked him if he was sure it was right since the stack looked too small but he told me he counted it out twice and was sure so i figured whatever. after a couple hands, i count out my stack and he only pushed me $183 when the pot should have been $217 so i felt like an idiot for not double counting it. then to make matters i find out dude that i stacked is a regular there and knows every dealer in the joint so im starting to wonder if it's intentional.
anyways, lesson learned and after losing a pot with TT i decided to start running like god again. a dude that seemed fairly nice but kinda wired (see coke head or something) started running his mouth and making fun of people at the table. he's played everyhand since i sat down and run about $35 into around $180. he also made fun of some kid because he folded A8o to a raise after limping and the flop came down A8x. he's yacking off about how could he fold an ace for only $10 and that it was so stupid and bad. fast forward a couple hands i limp in w/ 65hh and mouthpiece raises to $17, folds back to me and since im there to gambooooool and would love to snap this idiot off i call. flop comes down 667 and i check/call. turn is a 9 and i check/raise all-in. he calls and says i hope you don't have kings and then shows AA. lets just say he shut his mouth pretty fucking quick and went into a how could you play 65 to a raise yadda yadda. i started telling him how 65s is actually a better hand than A8o and how does he expect me to fold for just $12 more. it was humorous but was capped off when he says this place (casino) is just like pokerstars.
like 4 hands later while he's still complaining i limp/call once again w/ KQo (because im a loose passive fish) after he raises and the bb comes along. flop is QT7r, bb and i both check, mouthpiece shoves for $53 and starts trash talking the bb when he tanks saying that he's on tilt and wants a call. bb folds and i call and am ahead of his JTo. he gets a glimmer in his eye when the turn is a Jack but i crush his soul with an Ace on the river. he gets up from the table and mumbles something about getting owned, maybe the proudest moment of my poker life.
a while later, greasy gross guy limps, same dude from the first hand raises and i just called with AJo from the bb and greasy gross guy calls. flop comes down a beauty AJx with two clubs. i lead out for $20, greasy gross guy shoves for a $100, pfr folds and greasy gross guy doesn't flip his cards but shows the Ace of clubs and mucks after the board has run out. as i stack the pot he tells me he had a flush draw and an overcard to my Jack for a better two pair draw and that he wasn't positive but thinks he was the favorite on the flop.
not much happens for a while, then i run TT into JJ and double a guy up that had maybe a $100 behind. down to 7 handed, utg limps, i limp 32hh right behind and everyone else limps for a 7 way pot. flop comes down a pretty decent A45 with one heart, blinds and utg check, i bet $10, calling station that can't fold top pair no matter what the board is calls as does the button, everyone else folds. turn is a 9x and i lead again for $31 into $44 and both call again. button was pretty sick about calling so i thought for sure he had like 76 or something. river is another 9 and i lead again for $100. calling station shakes his head and calls quickly, button folds (told me he had 63) and i table my wheel which is good against AJo.
the last hand i played of the nite, utg limps, i raise with QhJh which was probably only the 4th time i raised all night, greasy gross guy cold calls which is any two from the bb and limper calls. flop comes down T87 with two hearts giving me a massive draw, chkd to me, i bet like $25 into $31, greasy gross guy tanks and folds A3hh apparently, limper c/r all-in for another $50ish and i call quickly and am the favorite against A9o. i get it over with quickly and bink the 9 on the turn and claim another victim.
i walked away $447 winner for the session which is rare since i usually get owned there.
i played for like 40 mins online tonite and made like $360 playing holdem and dumped $40 playing capped plo and o8.
tomorrow i have a coaching session and will try and put in a good long session afterwards to cap off april.
tg
so i chilled out, got the ring a little later to round up a few friends for a casino run and decided to put in another small session online before i left. i made back about $260 in a hour or so i played and then headed off for some live 1/2 fun.
i got my name on the list for 1/2 $200 cap buy-in but they only run one table of that and then like a bazzillion tables of 1/2 $100 cap buy-in for some ungodly reason that i can't comprehend. anyways, i got right into a $100 buy-in game and started running like god immediately.
my 2nd hand, a couple players limp, some dude raises to $7, i cold call from the sb, bb cold calls and both limpers come along. (pot $35) the flop comes KQ8r, i chk and it chks to the pfr, he bets $30 and i do the old min-raise to $60, bb and limpers muck and dude goes into the tank and asks how much blah blah blah and then says he's all-in. he bricks off w/ AQo and the dealer counts out the additional money for his call. when the dealer does it though he says he took too much from him and gives him back a small stack of reds and then pushes me the pot. when i looked at it i asked him if he was sure it was right since the stack looked too small but he told me he counted it out twice and was sure so i figured whatever. after a couple hands, i count out my stack and he only pushed me $183 when the pot should have been $217 so i felt like an idiot for not double counting it. then to make matters i find out dude that i stacked is a regular there and knows every dealer in the joint so im starting to wonder if it's intentional.
anyways, lesson learned and after losing a pot with TT i decided to start running like god again. a dude that seemed fairly nice but kinda wired (see coke head or something) started running his mouth and making fun of people at the table. he's played everyhand since i sat down and run about $35 into around $180. he also made fun of some kid because he folded A8o to a raise after limping and the flop came down A8x. he's yacking off about how could he fold an ace for only $10 and that it was so stupid and bad. fast forward a couple hands i limp in w/ 65hh and mouthpiece raises to $17, folds back to me and since im there to gambooooool and would love to snap this idiot off i call. flop comes down 667 and i check/call. turn is a 9 and i check/raise all-in. he calls and says i hope you don't have kings and then shows AA. lets just say he shut his mouth pretty fucking quick and went into a how could you play 65 to a raise yadda yadda. i started telling him how 65s is actually a better hand than A8o and how does he expect me to fold for just $12 more. it was humorous but was capped off when he says this place (casino) is just like pokerstars.
like 4 hands later while he's still complaining i limp/call once again w/ KQo (because im a loose passive fish) after he raises and the bb comes along. flop is QT7r, bb and i both check, mouthpiece shoves for $53 and starts trash talking the bb when he tanks saying that he's on tilt and wants a call. bb folds and i call and am ahead of his JTo. he gets a glimmer in his eye when the turn is a Jack but i crush his soul with an Ace on the river. he gets up from the table and mumbles something about getting owned, maybe the proudest moment of my poker life.
a while later, greasy gross guy limps, same dude from the first hand raises and i just called with AJo from the bb and greasy gross guy calls. flop comes down a beauty AJx with two clubs. i lead out for $20, greasy gross guy shoves for a $100, pfr folds and greasy gross guy doesn't flip his cards but shows the Ace of clubs and mucks after the board has run out. as i stack the pot he tells me he had a flush draw and an overcard to my Jack for a better two pair draw and that he wasn't positive but thinks he was the favorite on the flop.
not much happens for a while, then i run TT into JJ and double a guy up that had maybe a $100 behind. down to 7 handed, utg limps, i limp 32hh right behind and everyone else limps for a 7 way pot. flop comes down a pretty decent A45 with one heart, blinds and utg check, i bet $10, calling station that can't fold top pair no matter what the board is calls as does the button, everyone else folds. turn is a 9x and i lead again for $31 into $44 and both call again. button was pretty sick about calling so i thought for sure he had like 76 or something. river is another 9 and i lead again for $100. calling station shakes his head and calls quickly, button folds (told me he had 63) and i table my wheel which is good against AJo.
the last hand i played of the nite, utg limps, i raise with QhJh which was probably only the 4th time i raised all night, greasy gross guy cold calls which is any two from the bb and limper calls. flop comes down T87 with two hearts giving me a massive draw, chkd to me, i bet like $25 into $31, greasy gross guy tanks and folds A3hh apparently, limper c/r all-in for another $50ish and i call quickly and am the favorite against A9o. i get it over with quickly and bink the 9 on the turn and claim another victim.
i walked away $447 winner for the session which is rare since i usually get owned there.
i played for like 40 mins online tonite and made like $360 playing holdem and dumped $40 playing capped plo and o8.
tomorrow i have a coaching session and will try and put in a good long session afterwards to cap off april.
tg
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