Amazed i had a +ve day

Played 1k hand on each site today, and was running HORRIBLY to start with on both sites. Quickly dropped 3 buy ins on party, including set over set and top pair top kicker < flush draw. Also managed to have a buy in whittled away from me on stars.

Managed to claw my way back on party, and was even about +$150 for the day, then got involved in a 4 way all in pot on the flop with the nut flush draw against 3 sets. Obviously i didn't hit. If i had hit though, i would've probably finished today about +$400 on party. Then in the last few minutes, due to tiredness/tilt i've cost myself another buy in on party.

Stars went through a period of being amazing, and i was on course for a big win on there. Then some guy made a "brave" call on me for his whole stack with second pair third kicker after i'd reraised pre and bet big on two streets. Hmmm.

Also played two 6-max donkaments on stars. Was playing really well in both, but then in the $11, had AA<65 on a 678 flop. The $22 was a deepstack, so that was especially frustrating when 3 hours in, someone check raised me all in on a Jxx flop with AK. I had AJ and snap called. Didn't waste anytime in turning a King. GG, nh, well played sir.

Today:

Stars:
6-max Donkaments: -$33
Random SnGs: -$5.60
Cash: +$163.70

Party:
Cash: -$85.83

Bankroll:
Stars: $805.24
Party: $596.43
Total: $1401.67

Running...pretty much at expectation really.

Today i played 1k hands on stars, and 1k on party. All $100NL.

Todays stats:
Cash Games:
Party: +$166.35
Stars: +$176.25
Total: +$342.60

Bankroll:
Party: $682.26
Stars: $680.14
Total: $1362.40

Todays fun hands:

Urgh

This was an easy flop fold. But i tilt called and hit my 3-outer :)

I guess those two balance each other out really. Not many big pots today...Maybe tomorrow will be more interesting. Will post graphs later.

Return from...?

Right, I have finished messing around with life, and am ready to take poker seriously again. My bankroll took a bit of a beating after a couple of failed investments and my decision to pay $215 to enter an EPT DS, which tilted me for a good week. 5 left, KJ < QQ on a KJxx board for the chip lead. Hit his two outer obviously...

Anyway, I have moved some money to party, as it's quite nice to have a break from a site sometimes, especially one as rigged as pokerstars.

I will be playing $0.50/$1 on both sites unless i lose a couple of buy ins, at which point i will grind $50NL again.

my current status:

Party: $515.91
Stars: $503.89
Total: $1019.80

Might play a quick session now before bed actually. Gl me.

Also just finished attempting a crazy spin up, that you can read about here:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=beats&Number=11382307&page=1&fpart=all

Robusto again.

The last two days have been horrible, and i have experienced one of my worst downswings ever. My pokerdb crashed last night, so i can't give you exact hands, but some highlights included: KK no good against AJ on a Jxx flop. AA vs KQ on a Qxx flop and AA vsAK all in preflop. That last one stung. Also lost a full buy in with 22 against AK when the money went in on the turn, and AK, no hand no draw hit an ace. Normally wouldn't play 22 so aggro there, but it was so obvious he had AK and i went for full value :)

I regrouped though, and today went well. 2.5k hands at $100NL, running at 13ptbb/100. My aim is to play 20k hands this week, but this almost certainly won't happen as i have my graduation on monday. Shame.

As my poker db crashed, i can't give you the exact amount of my downswing, but it's not as bad as the figures below show, as i played 2 or 3 $60 turbo tournys which i busted out of the money in, so that was a chunk of change. I am not playing any more tournys until i am seriously robusto! lol.

This downswing has set me back about 4 days, but i'm back on course now.

Will post pokertracker stuff/graph in a couple of days time. But here are the biggest hands of today:

It was SOOOOTED!!!!

I don't know how to get away from this

KK vs AA standard cooler. Sigh

But it was SOOOOOTED!!!!!!!111one111!!!! take 2

Aces were good to me today

Sigh, chop chop. No, wait, I have you beat?!

Actually got action with quads!

How to get most monies in drawing dead

Today:
Cash: +$656.70
Bankroll: $1574.99

Looking forward to a +$1k day soon judging by these results :) Although will prob have to wait until $200NL.

huh? a losing day?

Got back from my weekend in Paris celebrating my 21st earlier today. It was a pretty fun weekend, which included me playing a 100euro freezeout at the Aviation Club de France on the Champs Elysses. I was doing well in this, chipping up slowly even without any hands. The tournament had half hour blind levels, and i was chipping up nicely, managing to cruise to the last 3 tables (9 to a table, 77 started).

However, after the blinds being nice and slow (we started with 3k, it went 25/50, 50/100, 75/150, 100/200, 150/300) It then did a big jump to 200/400 with a 25 ante. I would like to see them add another level in here, like a 200/400 without antes first. Moving from paying 450 per round to paying 825 hurt me, and after carefully building a stack, i lost 1/3 being blinded while card dead in the 200/400-25. Then, at 300/600-25, I lost half my stack with 88 vs a short stacks TT, then shoved AJ and lost to A4. Sigh.

Since getting home, i have played 1000 hands and finished down for the day! :( I'm pretty tired after travelling a lot today, and after the weekend, so i won't bother with graphs/pokertracker/hands.

Today:
-$8.50 $50PLO Cash Game
+$35.50 Donk n Gos
-$191.35 Cash Games
Bankroll: $1377.19

I made a couple of pretty lose calls of 3-bets preflop. I lost a chunk when I built up a pot against an obvious flush draw, with the plan to bluff him off the river when the flush card hit on the river :( Also managed to lose a buy in with AT on a 987 flop, when i incorrectly deduced that i had fold equity (i had none). And leaked some money when I checked a river in order to induce a bluff, resulting in me paying off a better hand 's big bet, when a block bet on my part would've been much better.

Not too concerned though, a 2 buy-in downswing is so standard, but i would've hoped it would've been neutralised after 1k hands...lol variance?

Guess it just means i run like everyone else in the world :)

Moving up.

Today, due to waking up late, and packing/preparations for Paris tomorrow, I only played 1.7k hands, mostly at $100NL. I decided i'd take a shot, with a short bankroll, and move down if it went badly. Naturally i immediately dropped 3 buy-ins. I think these were largely unavoidable, but it was still annoying (AJ vs KQ on an AJT flop, and 22 vs T8 on a 92x flop...wtf?!). Anyway, i persevered, and actually finished the day quite well up.

I need to be tighter when calling rereraises on the river, as this has probably cost me close to a buy in today. An example was where someone bet $10 on the river, I had KT on a 99QJx board and minraised to $20. He then made it $20, i knew i was beat but couldn't quite find the fold button. Of course i was shown QQ for a boat. And these small mistakes quickly add up...

Anyway, Poker tracker screenshot: Graph:
Today:
Cash Games: +$467.85
Donk n Gos: -$2
Bankroll: $1541.54

Next week will be a lot more $100NL! I'm happy to grind away at this limit until i have $3-$4k+ now. I was amazed to see that in this short time i've already paid $366 in rake. You don't necessarily notice it at the time, but it sure does add up!

Another good day

Today was indeed another good day. I managed to put in another 2k hands, nearly entirely at $50NL. Hopefully in a day or two i'll be able to move up to $100NL. Running well above expectation still, as you can see from this poker tracker screenshot:And here is my graph for the summer so far:
I tried a $10rebuy turbo tournament satellite for EPT Barcelona, but made a really spewy play with about 32 left (17 seats) and essentially got myself knocked out. I was in for $51 in that.

Here's some fun hands from today:

These are hard to get away from but i should've folded the river shove.

Good time to flop a set

I played this badly, and gave myself a tough river call

A lame reraise preflop cost him here

You called me with King high?!

Lucky turn for me

Tomorrow will be my last day online before going to Paris to celebrate my 21st :) Looking forward to hitting the Aviation Club hard and taking down one (or two!) of their poker tournaments!

Also, next week i should be playing all $100NL unless tomorrow goes badly.

Today:
Cash Games: +$416.55
Shovefests: +$1.95
EPT Satellites: -$51
Heads up SnGs: -$10.50
Bankroll: $1075.69

I (l) $50NL

I had a very successful day online. Managed to play pretty much all $50NL after playing pretty much all $25NL yesterday. I played 2k hands, and played reasonably throughout. Made a couple of BAD river calls, and a couple of horrible bluffs though. Here's a bad river call that i should've got away from:

Shoulda folded...

The whole reason i block bet the river was so i could fold to a shove, and to get value from badly played hands like KK, JJ, AJ. I can't see him ever shoving with a hand that i beat, so although tough, i think this is an easy fold. When he shoves, i think his range is precisely AA, QQ, AQ, or perhaps AK for a chop.

On the other hand, this is the hand i won most monies on today. I didn't play it great, but i didn't need to when they clearly wanted to give me their money:

Yum Yum.

Here's my updated pokertracker stats for the summer after two days:
And my summer graph:

All in all i made $485.15 playing cash games today.

I also played two donkaments, and got nowhere in those. Played a $20+$2 NL tourny, where some guy seemed to raise everyone of my flop bets, so I made a move on him, and lo and behold, he had indeed been hitting EVERY flop. Also played a $15+$1.50 PL Omaha tourny, where I flopped top set (the nuts) and someone made a flush against me early.

Today:
Cash Games: +$485.15
Donkaments: -$38.50
Bankroll: $718.69

If i can put together a couple more days like today, then I should be playing $100NL soon. Although i won't pretend for a second that i think the 27.85 ptbb/100 i'm currently running at in the $50NL games is sustainable...Downswing soon? :S

Day 1

In the absence of a job this summer i have decided to give poker a go. I found a couple of hundred dollars lurking around in pokerstars, so thought i'd see what i can turn that into. That means a lot of SSNL grinding. Urgh. Today went ok, i put in 1.3k hands and i played reasonably apart from one brain-dead bluff attempt that cost me half a buy in. Here's a pokertracker screenshot for today:

Pretty demoralising to play that many hands and to win so little. I'll give it a couple more days, but i might have to put some more monies in so i can at least grind $100NL. We'll see. Furthermore, i want to play a lot more than 1.3k hands a day. Ideally i'll be aiming to play at least 2k, but this might not be sustainable. Here's the graph for today:Today: +$89.50
Bankroll: $272.04

Once i get past $300 i'll play a lot more $50NL, leaving myself 10 buy-ins for $25NL (10 buy ins at $25NL = nearly impossible to busto!)

Plan for tomorrow is to not do any more stupid bluffs, and to put in at least 2k hands!