Pretty nondescript day. played something like 1.2k hands and ended up at about +$220.
Here's the biggest pot
Full Tilt Poker - No Limit Hold'em Cash Game - $1/$2 Blinds - 5 Players - (http://www.legopoker.com/hh)
Fletcher19 (SB): $266.70
BB: $200.00
UTG: $200.00
CO: $595.55
BTN: $254.30
Preflop: Fletcher19 is dealt Jh Jc (5 Players)
2 folds, BTN raises to $7.00, Fletcher19 raises to $25.00, BB folds, BTN calls $18.00
Flop: ($52) 7c 6h Js (2 Players)
Fletcher19 bets $38.00, BTN calls $38.00
Turn: ($128) 7s (2 Players)
Fletcher19 checks, BTN bets all-in for $191.30, Fletcher19 calls $191.30
River: ($510.60) 2c (2 Players - 1 All-In)
Pot Size: $510.60 ($3 Rake)
BTN had Kd Qd (a pair of Sevens) and LOST (-$254.30)
Fletcher19 had Jh Jc (a full house, Jacks full of Sevens) and WON (+$253.30)
Saw the simpsons movie earlier, it had some solid gags which i wasn't really expecting but other than that it was pretty thin and the storyline was shit. I am sure it will be a big hit though.
Peace
Thursday 26 July 2007
Wednesday 25 July 2007
Solid Day
Had a pretty solid day today and i really felt as though i needed it considering how poorly yesterday went and how awful my level of play was.
Lost focus for an hour or so whilst playing earlier but managed to pull myself together after i had a cup of tea. I honestly believe that the greatest challenge to an online poker player is focus, reproducing your best game every day is something very few if any players achieve. You see players who stuggle with huge breakeven stretches and downswings and often they'll tell you that they are just running bad and they are unlucky blah blah blah but in 95%+ of cases the player has let his focus slip and has been too busy wallowing in his bad streak rather than treating every hand as a new hand and trying to play to the best of his abilities.
Below is my graph since the 11th of this month (when i actually started playing). I am very pleased with the results and hope that i can continue to reproduce this throughout the summer.
Tuesday 24 July 2007
Crap
Bah, stuck something like $600 today. I got coolered for about half of that and the other half was just bad play. I keep telling myself to not become complacent because of how well things have been going, but i have and i am disappointed in myself.
Going for some beers tonight so i won't be playing but tomorrow is back to serious study and hard work. Also have to revise maths aswell for a resit.
Played golf the past 2 days and i have been absolutely shit haha. Think i will hire a swing coach to help me out next week as it is awful at the moment
Going for some beers tonight so i won't be playing but tomorrow is back to serious study and hard work. Also have to revise maths aswell for a resit.
Played golf the past 2 days and i have been absolutely shit haha. Think i will hire a swing coach to help me out next week as it is awful at the moment
Sunday 22 July 2007
Great Weekend!
My weekend
Hasn't really sunk in yet how great this weekend has been. I managed to surpass my target by $800 and did so in about half as many hands as i expected.
Below is the biggest pot i won. I feel i played it pretty well though in reflection i think that if i raised the flop slightly larger then he would've been committed to call the the river but meh, whatever, i'll just keep that in mind for next time . Note: this was against a complete maniac who i eventually took just over $1k from
Party Poker - No Limit Hold'em Cash Game - $1/$2 Blinds - 6 Players - (http://www.legopoker.com/hh)
SB: $275.50
BB: $197.00
UTG: $63.45
MP: $474.45
CO: $546.00
Fletcher19 (BTN): $487.68
Preflop: Fletcher19 is dealt Js Jd (6 Players)
UTG folds, MP calls $2.00, CO calls $2.00, Fletcher19 raises to $12.00, 2 folds, MP calls $10.00, CO folds
Flop: ($29) 7c Jh 6h (2 Players)
MP bets $6.00, Fletcher19 raises to $35.00, MP calls $29.00
Turn: ($99) 4s (2 Players)
MP bets $14.00, Fletcher19 raises to $146.00, MP calls $132.00
River: ($391) Tc (2 Players)
MP bets $34.00, Fletcher19 raises all-in to $294.68, MP folds
Pot Size: $719.68
This is the biggest pot i lost this weekend. It's a bit of a cooler but still pretty spewy.
Party Poker - No Limit Hold'em Cash Game - $1/$2 Blinds - 6 Players - (http://www.legopoker.com/hh)
SB: $41.60
BB: $200.00
UTG: $206.00
MP: $261.65
Fletcher19 (CO): $372.45
BTN: $222.10
Preflop: Fletcher19 is dealt Ad Qh (6 Players)
2 folds, Fletcher19 raises to $8.00, BTN calls $8.00, SB folds, BB calls $6.00
Flop: ($25) 8d 5d 2h (3 Players)
BB checks, Fletcher19 checks, BTN checks
Turn: ($25) Qs (3 Players)
BB checks, Fletcher19 bets $18.00, BTN folds, BB raises to $36.00, Fletcher19 raises to $106.00, BB raises all-in to $192.00, Fletcher19 calls $86.00
River: ($409) Jd (2 Players - 1 All-In)
Pot Size: $409.00 ($3 Rake)
BB had 2s 2d (three of a kind, Twos) and WON (+$206.00)
Fletcher19 had Ad Qh (a pair of Queens) and LOST (-$200.00)
As if i didn't know it already this weekend has really hammered home the importance of patient/good table selection. If you can pick up the prime seats and run semi-good you can make a ton of money.
These are my stats since the 11th of this month
At my old temp job i worked 2 summers ago that would be around 14 weeks wages at about 36 hours a week so it feels absolutely insane to take that down in just 11 days :)
In other news, I have an engineering mathematics resit exam in mid august which is a bit rubbish, there's no one to blame though it's my own fault though for being too lazy the first time around. After that though as a gift to myself for all the hard work i've put into poker i am going to buy a ps3 and this.
I figure that if i buy that then i won't need a new tv for 6-7+ years.
I think i'll take tomorrow off and play some golf.
Peace
Hasn't really sunk in yet how great this weekend has been. I managed to surpass my target by $800 and did so in about half as many hands as i expected.
Below is the biggest pot i won. I feel i played it pretty well though in reflection i think that if i raised the flop slightly larger then he would've been committed to call the the river but meh, whatever, i'll just keep that in mind for next time . Note: this was against a complete maniac who i eventually took just over $1k from
Party Poker - No Limit Hold'em Cash Game - $1/$2 Blinds - 6 Players - (http://www.legopoker.com/hh)
SB: $275.50
BB: $197.00
UTG: $63.45
MP: $474.45
CO: $546.00
Fletcher19 (BTN): $487.68
Preflop: Fletcher19 is dealt Js Jd (6 Players)
UTG folds, MP calls $2.00, CO calls $2.00, Fletcher19 raises to $12.00, 2 folds, MP calls $10.00, CO folds
Flop: ($29) 7c Jh 6h (2 Players)
MP bets $6.00, Fletcher19 raises to $35.00, MP calls $29.00
Turn: ($99) 4s (2 Players)
MP bets $14.00, Fletcher19 raises to $146.00, MP calls $132.00
River: ($391) Tc (2 Players)
MP bets $34.00, Fletcher19 raises all-in to $294.68, MP folds
Pot Size: $719.68
This is the biggest pot i lost this weekend. It's a bit of a cooler but still pretty spewy.
Party Poker - No Limit Hold'em Cash Game - $1/$2 Blinds - 6 Players - (http://www.legopoker.com/hh)
SB: $41.60
BB: $200.00
UTG: $206.00
MP: $261.65
Fletcher19 (CO): $372.45
BTN: $222.10
Preflop: Fletcher19 is dealt Ad Qh (6 Players)
2 folds, Fletcher19 raises to $8.00, BTN calls $8.00, SB folds, BB calls $6.00
Flop: ($25) 8d 5d 2h (3 Players)
BB checks, Fletcher19 checks, BTN checks
Turn: ($25) Qs (3 Players)
BB checks, Fletcher19 bets $18.00, BTN folds, BB raises to $36.00, Fletcher19 raises to $106.00, BB raises all-in to $192.00, Fletcher19 calls $86.00
River: ($409) Jd (2 Players - 1 All-In)
Pot Size: $409.00 ($3 Rake)
BB had 2s 2d (three of a kind, Twos) and WON (+$206.00)
Fletcher19 had Ad Qh (a pair of Queens) and LOST (-$200.00)
As if i didn't know it already this weekend has really hammered home the importance of patient/good table selection. If you can pick up the prime seats and run semi-good you can make a ton of money.
These are my stats since the 11th of this month
At my old temp job i worked 2 summers ago that would be around 14 weeks wages at about 36 hours a week so it feels absolutely insane to take that down in just 11 days :)
In other news, I have an engineering mathematics resit exam in mid august which is a bit rubbish, there's no one to blame though it's my own fault though for being too lazy the first time around. After that though as a gift to myself for all the hard work i've put into poker i am going to buy a ps3 and this.
I figure that if i buy that then i won't need a new tv for 6-7+ years.
I think i'll take tomorrow off and play some golf.
Peace
Saturday 21 July 2007
New best day ever
Absolutely great day today. I'll go into circumstances and some hands in tomorrows post as i am pretty knackered right now.
Friday 20 July 2007
Pain in the arse
weird kinda day today, i am only up something like $74 but i ran terribly and it could have been so much worse.
below is my EV graph, the red line (sklansky bucks) is what i would have won if there were no luck in poker and the green line is what i actually won, it sucks, but that is all part of the game and i can't complain. There are days when my winnings would be on the other side of that line and i could be up $2k.
Got some new kicks aswell
Going to try and play a ton this weekend, and like i said in yesterdays post i am aiming for a $1.4k profit. I think i'll take a couple of days off after that though as i'll be pretty burned out, maybe go to berlin for the day or something random like that
below is my EV graph, the red line (sklansky bucks) is what i would have won if there were no luck in poker and the green line is what i actually won, it sucks, but that is all part of the game and i can't complain. There are days when my winnings would be on the other side of that line and i could be up $2k.
Got some new kicks aswell
Going to try and play a ton this weekend, and like i said in yesterdays post i am aiming for a $1.4k profit. I think i'll take a couple of days off after that though as i'll be pretty burned out, maybe go to berlin for the day or something random like that
Thursday 19 July 2007
Quiet Day
Been out shopping today for some clothes and stuff and was also a good excuse to get out of the house for a while.
Played just now for about 30 minutes and ended up stuck a buy in ($200). Not too bothered really as i was far from being completely focused and it could have been worse if a few donks didn't donate me a few hundred dollars. I got coolered a bit in one hand where i stacked off against a donk with AK against his AA and in another hand i laid down AA with 3 players in the pot but if i hadn't have folded i would've taken it down for something like $400 but whatever. At all levels of poker it is of course important to be focused when you're playing but i think NL200 is where it really becomes necerssary if you want to show a good profit just because of how aggro the games are and all the moves that are being made.
i wanted to get these shoes today but they didn't have any that fit my clown size feet so i'll have to try and get them off ebay or something
probably won't get much playing done tomorrow and i'll be out in the evening most likely but i am aiming for a $1.4k weekend. lets gogogogogo
Played just now for about 30 minutes and ended up stuck a buy in ($200). Not too bothered really as i was far from being completely focused and it could have been worse if a few donks didn't donate me a few hundred dollars. I got coolered a bit in one hand where i stacked off against a donk with AK against his AA and in another hand i laid down AA with 3 players in the pot but if i hadn't have folded i would've taken it down for something like $400 but whatever. At all levels of poker it is of course important to be focused when you're playing but i think NL200 is where it really becomes necerssary if you want to show a good profit just because of how aggro the games are and all the moves that are being made.
i wanted to get these shoes today but they didn't have any that fit my clown size feet so i'll have to try and get them off ebay or something
probably won't get much playing done tomorrow and i'll be out in the evening most likely but i am aiming for a $1.4k weekend. lets gogogogogo
Wednesday 18 July 2007
Best Day Ever
Had my best day ever today. Obviously i ran really well but i definitely played well too. The 1/2 games at party at full tilt are certainly crushable long term and i think i'll keep playing these games until i get rolled for 2/4 where the fun really starts.
All in all pretty good for 5 hours work
All in all pretty good for 5 hours work
Monday 16 July 2007
Playing Well, Running Well
I know it has been a while but I've just been busy traveling about and busy with the matter of turning 21. Below is my progress since last wednesday (the 11th). I have cut down from 6 tables to 4 tables and so far i couldn't be happier. playing 4 tables just lets you focus so much more and really think about your play and of course the lower variance is also a bonus.
It can be difficult getting a decent amount of hands in though but that's to be expected. I hope to be playing about another 15k hands at NL100 before moving up to NL200. My goal is to be comfortably rolled and comfortably beating NL400 by the end of this summer.
It can be difficult getting a decent amount of hands in though but that's to be expected. I hope to be playing about another 15k hands at NL100 before moving up to NL200. My goal is to be comfortably rolled and comfortably beating NL400 by the end of this summer.
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