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Friday, January 4, 2008
Friday, December 21, 2007
I forgot just how good this was..........
Spurs at home tomorrow, haven't been able to get to this game for a while but i've got tickets for tomorrow. They've got most of their defenders out, they're fucking shite anyway, we're coming off the back of a huge win and we're at home. Hopefully we'll destroy those scummy cunts once again.
Monday, December 17, 2007
On Target:
Looking good for my target atm. Not sure this DB includes all the hands but its pretty close. According to this im winning $98.50/100 hands, but i think in really its quite a bit higher than that currently, this database includes a lot of hands from a) when i was shitter b) from 1/2, 2/4, 3/6. These are my stats since the 1st August, i'm pretty proud of this, but I still think i'm not playing brilliantly, still making tons of mistakes and can definitely increase my winrate - lots of work still to do!
Friday, December 14, 2007
Been a long time.......
Haven't really had anything spectacular to update this with for a while, but i didn't want to disappoint my regular readers [hi to both of you] so i thought i better make a post.
Poker has been pretty up and down so far, been playing on Ladbrokes a lot, the games are totally different to i'm used to, but they're still great. The average player is like 43/32 though. I sat on a table yesterday, played 27/22 and was the tightest raiser at the table by some margin. Probably now up for December but not by a great deal, been winning consistently on Laddies and been on a crazy rollercoaster on Pacific, i've had a ~13 buyin swing on 10/20 in about 24hrs. There's still tons of time though, December could still turn out great.
Went to see Arsenal v. Bucharest on Wednesday with BobboFitos as he was over filming a poker DVD. He's a great guy, it was really good meeting him and just talking poker and life. We talked about the future of poker and how people are going to be learning. It seems to me that one of the reasons why games will continue to be profitable is that the high end thinking will all be done privately instead of on public forums as has happened up until now. When money or connections is the only way to access this, I imagine a lot of players will not be making substantial progress. The games will change, yes, but only the number of players able to make good money will decrease. I want to be in that group, i'm working, and thinking a ton about my game at the moment. I'm putting a lot of effort in and I can feel myself playing waaaaaaaaaaaay better. There's still tons of work to do though and i'm determined to plug some leaks.
Something i worked on today was playing ultra-positionally, for a 4hr session, i played 55/45ish on the button and ~16/16 UTG. That's pretty different to how i normally play but it was pretty good, definitely made me realise i could open up on the button tons.
When i've been playing poker this week, for some unknown reason, i've kept this picture open all the time [4 tables makes one of my screens somewhat redundant]. I can't tell you why but I find it really funny:
Poker has been pretty up and down so far, been playing on Ladbrokes a lot, the games are totally different to i'm used to, but they're still great. The average player is like 43/32 though. I sat on a table yesterday, played 27/22 and was the tightest raiser at the table by some margin. Probably now up for December but not by a great deal, been winning consistently on Laddies and been on a crazy rollercoaster on Pacific, i've had a ~13 buyin swing on 10/20 in about 24hrs. There's still tons of time though, December could still turn out great.
Went to see Arsenal v. Bucharest on Wednesday with BobboFitos as he was over filming a poker DVD. He's a great guy, it was really good meeting him and just talking poker and life. We talked about the future of poker and how people are going to be learning. It seems to me that one of the reasons why games will continue to be profitable is that the high end thinking will all be done privately instead of on public forums as has happened up until now. When money or connections is the only way to access this, I imagine a lot of players will not be making substantial progress. The games will change, yes, but only the number of players able to make good money will decrease. I want to be in that group, i'm working, and thinking a ton about my game at the moment. I'm putting a lot of effort in and I can feel myself playing waaaaaaaaaaaay better. There's still tons of work to do though and i'm determined to plug some leaks.
Something i worked on today was playing ultra-positionally, for a 4hr session, i played 55/45ish on the button and ~16/16 UTG. That's pretty different to how i normally play but it was pretty good, definitely made me realise i could open up on the button tons.
When i've been playing poker this week, for some unknown reason, i've kept this picture open all the time [4 tables makes one of my screens somewhat redundant]. I can't tell you why but I find it really funny:
Friday, November 30, 2007
November results
This is my November results, 2nd best month ever, i'm pretty happy [and there's a few hours of November left, so we may still crack it]. The huge downswing was HU at 10/20, the rest of it grinding mainly 5/10. I think i'll be avoiding HU from now on.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Now that i've looked at it again, this bet was pretty daft, but at the time i felt like the bollocks when i shoved here and got snap called. Fwiw, im 100% sure both villains snap call Ah+ here, so maybe it wasnt too daft.
***** Pacific Hand History for Game 146991349 *****
$5/$10 Blinds No Limit Hold'em - *** 11 26 05:21:16 2007
Table Starry Night (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 10: adamratv ( $1756 )
Seat 1: dollaGes ( $1000 )
Seat 4: rossini3 ( $332.4 )
Seat 5: Hoooooof ( $1896.75 )
Seat 6: Yougef ( $985 )
Hoooooof posts small blind [$5].
Yougef posts big blind [$10].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hoooooof [ 9d 10d ]
adamratv calls [$10].
dollaGes folds.
rossini3 calls [$10].
Hoooooof calls [$5].
Yougef checks.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9s, 10h, 2h ]
Hoooooof bets [$35].
Yougef folds.
adamratv calls [$35].
rossini3 calls [$35].
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qh ]
Hoooooof checks.
adamratv checks.
rossini3 bets [$70].
Hoooooof calls [$70].
adamratv calls [$70].
** Dealing River ** [ 9h ]
Hoooooof bets [$1781.75].
adamratv calls [$1641].
rossini3 folds.
** Summary **
adamratv shows [ 8h Jh ].
Hoooooof shows [ 9d 10d ].
Hoooooof shows [ 9d 10d ].
adamratv shows [ 8h Jh ].
adamratv collected [$3633].
Hoooooof collected [$140.75].
adamratv >> oh my
adamratv >> sorry gotta take that pot and walk
dollaGes >> nh
Hoooooof >> gg
dollaGes >> sick
***** Pacific Hand History for Game 146991349 *****
$5/$10 Blinds No Limit Hold'em - *** 11 26 05:21:16 2007
Table Starry Night (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 10: adamratv ( $1756 )
Seat 1: dollaGes ( $1000 )
Seat 4: rossini3 ( $332.4 )
Seat 5: Hoooooof ( $1896.75 )
Seat 6: Yougef ( $985 )
Hoooooof posts small blind [$5].
Yougef posts big blind [$10].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hoooooof [ 9d 10d ]
adamratv calls [$10].
dollaGes folds.
rossini3 calls [$10].
Hoooooof calls [$5].
Yougef checks.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9s, 10h, 2h ]
Hoooooof bets [$35].
Yougef folds.
adamratv calls [$35].
rossini3 calls [$35].
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qh ]
Hoooooof checks.
adamratv checks.
rossini3 bets [$70].
Hoooooof calls [$70].
adamratv calls [$70].
** Dealing River ** [ 9h ]
Hoooooof bets [$1781.75].
adamratv calls [$1641].
rossini3 folds.
** Summary **
adamratv shows [ 8h Jh ].
Hoooooof shows [ 9d 10d ].
Hoooooof shows [ 9d 10d ].
adamratv shows [ 8h Jh ].
adamratv collected [$3633].
Hoooooof collected [$140.75].
adamratv >> oh my
adamratv >> sorry gotta take that pot and walk
dollaGes >> nh
Hoooooof >> gg
dollaGes >> sick
How can a company be run this badly?
So after giving me my comp points back the other day [another reg i was speaking to, RKrystal, also had his reinstated]. Pacific poker, in their infinite wisdom have taken the ability for me to conver my comp points away. I really hope they never intended to give it back to me and i've done them for $7k. According to PT, i've paid $53k in rake total at Pacific [more like $60k considering how many hands PT has missed]. Never in my life, will a company get that much money out of me in such a short amount of time for such a bad service. If i paid £30k for any
service in 5months in the real world, i'd go sick if they treated me like they do. I suppose though, that it allows me to derive a very good income, and for that I should be happy.
Went for a meal with my parents tonight because they were passing down the motorway, it was really nice, I had sardines on toast [7/10, good nothing spectacular] Seabass w/fennel, cherry tomatoes, olives [9/10, fish and olives were cooked to perfection] and panna cotta with blackberries to finish [9/10, it really was fantastic]. I love eating out in decent restaurants so much, but especially in ones that aren't up their own arse, the waiters don't try to look down on you and the atmosphere is way more chilled out.
Poker has been a little swingy the last few days, and I haven't been playing great. Been making some strange calls, and been playing a wee bit too loose PF i think. I'm well up but thats only through running great at 10/20. I'm breakeven at 5/10 over the last 4 or so days but up nearly $20k at 10/20. I'm at about $45k for the month so far, so with any luck, I might break $50k again.
I'm constantly messing with my ranges at the moment, i played ridic tight yesterday to see if it had any effect, but it didn't at all. My image with the regs is seemingly entirely based on historical stuff. My UTG opens were getting 3bet all over the place which is pretty interesting to know, def something I might do in the future, they seemingly see my stats as like 26/22 or whatever they've got me as and take no more notice than that. In fact i probably played 12/8 for 4hrs yesterday [and admittedly i was almost suicidal at the end of that experiment, being a nit sucks]. Kinda made me realise how few players are paying attention which is pretty awesome to know, perhaps switching gears, which is something i've never given much credit to as a concept [apart from slowing down when your image is bad] could definitely be a very lucrative move. Having a player think im raising 19% UTG and 35% on the button can only be good when its 5 and 15 for periods of time. Definitely something i'll give some thought so, but i'm not sure it is entirely +EV because most of the hands i play are generating a profit [or should be!] in a vaccuum anyway.
Hopefully i'll get some hands in tonight, i'm v. close to hitting 200k hands in my DB, so that's a fairly big milestone, my big [pointless] aim is for $250k in 250k hands which i think is def doable, just need to run at >$1.15 or so a hand for the next 50k hands, which might just be doable. I've done that for the last 150k hands buts i suspect ive been running hot at the higher stakes, so its a pretty big ask.
service in 5months in the real world, i'd go sick if they treated me like they do. I suppose though, that it allows me to derive a very good income, and for that I should be happy.
Went for a meal with my parents tonight because they were passing down the motorway, it was really nice, I had sardines on toast [7/10, good nothing spectacular] Seabass w/fennel, cherry tomatoes, olives [9/10, fish and olives were cooked to perfection] and panna cotta with blackberries to finish [9/10, it really was fantastic]. I love eating out in decent restaurants so much, but especially in ones that aren't up their own arse, the waiters don't try to look down on you and the atmosphere is way more chilled out.
Poker has been a little swingy the last few days, and I haven't been playing great. Been making some strange calls, and been playing a wee bit too loose PF i think. I'm well up but thats only through running great at 10/20. I'm breakeven at 5/10 over the last 4 or so days but up nearly $20k at 10/20. I'm at about $45k for the month so far, so with any luck, I might break $50k again.
I'm constantly messing with my ranges at the moment, i played ridic tight yesterday to see if it had any effect, but it didn't at all. My image with the regs is seemingly entirely based on historical stuff. My UTG opens were getting 3bet all over the place which is pretty interesting to know, def something I might do in the future, they seemingly see my stats as like 26/22 or whatever they've got me as and take no more notice than that. In fact i probably played 12/8 for 4hrs yesterday [and admittedly i was almost suicidal at the end of that experiment, being a nit sucks]. Kinda made me realise how few players are paying attention which is pretty awesome to know, perhaps switching gears, which is something i've never given much credit to as a concept [apart from slowing down when your image is bad] could definitely be a very lucrative move. Having a player think im raising 19% UTG and 35% on the button can only be good when its 5 and 15 for periods of time. Definitely something i'll give some thought so, but i'm not sure it is entirely +EV because most of the hands i play are generating a profit [or should be!] in a vaccuum anyway.
Hopefully i'll get some hands in tonight, i'm v. close to hitting 200k hands in my DB, so that's a fairly big milestone, my big [pointless] aim is for $250k in 250k hands which i think is def doable, just need to run at >$1.15 or so a hand for the next 50k hands, which might just be doable. I've done that for the last 150k hands buts i suspect ive been running hot at the higher stakes, so its a pretty big ask.
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