The after-inevitable-downswing upswing

The last 2 days have been pretty crazy. This was Saturday:


My best day ever by some margin. I was happy just to get even for the past few days but it kept on going. Yesterday i saw a really soft 25/50 game running, i eventually decided to sit, i'm not rolled for it really, but i dedcided to take a $5k shot because i had a pretty big edge and was a little down when this beauty happened.

$25/$50 Blinds No Limit Hold'em - *** 09 23 23:35:50 2007
Table La Perla Habana Black Pearl (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 7
Seat 10: nLpOkeR ( $5000 )
Seat 2: Spa300 ( $750 )
Seat 3: MugOfAle ( $4925 )
Seat 6: DooSHCom ( $5994 )
Seat 7: tobba14 ( $5058 )
Seat 8: gyugyu ( $3239 )
Seat 9: Hoooooof ( $6371 )
DooSHCom posts small blind [$25].
tobba14 posts big blind [$50].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hoooooof [ Ad Ac ]
gyugyu folds.
Hoooooof raises [$200].
nLpOkeR folds.
Spa300 folds.
MugOfAle folds.
DooSHCom folds.
tobba14 raises [$400].
Hoooooof raises [$1200].
tobba14 calls [$950].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qh, Qc, 3c ]
tobba14 checks.
Hoooooof bets [$1600].
tobba14 raises [$3658].
Hoooooof calls [$2058].
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jd ]
** Dealing River ** [ Kd ]
** Summary **
tobba14 shows [ As Kh ].
Hoooooof shows [ Ad Ac ].
Hoooooof shows [ Ad Ac ].
Hoooooof collected [$10139].

It was pretty nice getting in with such high equity in my biggest ever pot:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 98.030% 97.98% 00.05% 970 0.50 { AhAs }
Hand 1: 01.970% 01.92% 00.05% 19 0.50 { AcKd }

The inevitable downswing

I've def been running pretty good lately, i knew i was due a downswing. For some reason, i was almost trying to stop myself playing yesterday cos i thought i'd lose. It was really strange, i've never had the feeling before. I'm not saying i'm psychic or anything but i definitely think a lack of PMA could have contributed to me losing $8.2k yesterday. Not a lot in terms of buyins [i lost at 5/10 so obv moved up to 10/20 and lost a buyin w/quads over nut boat] but i think its the most i've ever lost in a day.

Today is going better, had some nasty hands -77>QQ for a stack and Q high > straight flush draw, but i'm making money so i'm smiling.

I've moved up to uni now, i hadn't seen our house before but it's really nice. There was a fire next door so its been completely redecorated, feels like a new house inside. Got cable and broadband installed yesterday, we've got 20mb broadband which [fingers crossed] means i won't be timing out on pacific every 10 seconds.

Spurs away

Spurs away is always my favourite game of the season. Yesterday's game was the best game i've ever been to, the atmosphere was fucking incredible. The travelling fans were fucking amazing, the team was brilliant. Wenger v. Spurs:

Played - 25
Won - 13
Draw - 11
Lost - 1
GF - 45
GA - 24

Always in our shadow.


My mate has got some vids, i'll try and post some at some point.

No Poker but good times

Haven't played any poker at all since i got back from newcastle [on sunday], there's just been a ton going on and I haven't really got round to playing. I'm aiming to get a big sesh in tomorrow, although for some really strange reason i'm expecting a downswing.


Newcastle was awesome. Hardly played a hand of poker the entire time i was there, but had a great time. We were there for 3 nights, and there was 4 us, this was the fridge at the beginning of the trip. I spent a fortune on booze because i had the dream of becoming a Tom Cruise-like cocktail king by the end of the weekend. I only really got as far as Stella and rum and coke.



Bought this just before i left, i've been looking to get one for ages and after such a good month i decided now was the time. I'm really pleased with it, it was much smaller in real life than i'd expected from the pics i'd seen which i was really pleased with.



Tuesday night we went out for an Italian at a restaurant near my friend's house, we all stayed round, got pretty drunk and spent the next day at the beach. Went out last night to watch the football [England v. Russia, England played fairly well, a few good performances out there], i'm not the biggest England fan, i'm a gooner and go to a lot of games and i hate most of the England players and international weeks = no premiership which i hate. But it was all good after 5 pints of Kronenbourg and a good feed.

Today was an awesome day. A friend of mine and I once tried to make a potato cannon in our youth. It was abject failure, we managed to fire a chip sized bit of potato about 10ft. Pathetic. A hefty dose of drunken reminiscing last night spurred us onto trying again. Cannon mk1 was a blight on our engineering heritage so cannon mk2 was born. After much fettling and tuning, we prob got the range up to the 500+ft mark. We think more is possible if we try different propellants and sealants. Pics and Vids to follow.

$10k DAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!

So stoked, hit $10k for the day, been waiting ages for this.

Stats:

Whey Aye Man

Played a solid session today, up about $4k. I think i played really well, played 1 hand i need to go through with my coach where i cold called a raise oop with JJ and called down 3 streets on 33829. I'm not sure if it was good, really don't know if he's bluffing there ever. Had some brutal hands too so if i'd run better it could have been a monumental session. I'm becoming more comfortable trading stacks in the 10/20 games now so hopefully i can be a bit more of a regular in the games, they seem pretty soft, not all that many all out fish but some of the regs are absolutely fucking horrendous.

Booked a trip to newcastle for the weekend with 3 pals, staying in a pretty sweet apartment, flying up there Friday night and coming back Monday afternoon. I'm looking forward to donking about in the microstakes games, newcastle is an awesome night out too so this is gonna be a messy one.

Nearly even for the day

Played another 1000 or so hands tonight and i'm pretty much back to even for the day, i played 5/10 and the tables weren't great but there were a few TAGfish about, so def worth playing. Didn't seem to play many big hands just won quite a few small ones. It's always a pretty awesome feeling to book a win before bed when you've been down all day.

Arghhhhhhhhhh so tilted

For anyone that's actually reading this - I'm Luke, 22, just about to start my 3rd year at Uni but currently playing poker for a living, and have been for the past year. This is probably going to be a really long post..................

I'm going to try and keep this updated fairly often, mainly with tales of my poker adventures but anything else cool I fancy writing about i'll chuck in too.

So August was my best month ever, I made just a little over $50k [I actually think it's more like $52-53k because pokertracker missed a tons of hands]. I hit $50k [my previous best was <$20k so this was a pretty big thing for me] at about 5pm on the 31st August, about 1/2 an hour before i went out for a few drinks. It was really nice to hit such a big milestone and then go out and celebrate straight away. Went for a nice Mexican with a couple of pals and got pretty pissed on passion fruit margaritas and cubans [i'm not gay, honest]. A pretty awesome day all round.

I missed half the day yesterday so only ended up doing about 1.5k hands, but still did about $4.5k which was awesome cos i don't think i was playing particularly well. Jumped back on today and titled my self so badly, i had AQ >KQ on KJ43 in a 3bet pot and then 910s > A10 on A10s77s. Which i'm pretty much fine with, +Sklansky [should i be using G-Bucks?] bucks, but then i played a ridic hand, sb limps my bb, i raise A10o [this is 5/10 btw], flop KhJhKs, he overbet leads the pot. I call [why????] turn A, he checks, i bet [again, check behind, call river seems like a way better idea], he instaminraises. I call [wtf??] which basically commits myself as his river shove lays me ~3:1 which again i call. He has K6o. I seem to play really solid and then go and do something spastic like that every week or so. This one has to be one of the worst hands i've ever played and really tilted me, I had to stop playing, I may not play for the rest of the day.

All round though, i'm pretty happy with my game at the moment, i'm not having too much trouble with the regs, there's only a few I really don't like playing against and i'm finding it much easier to exploit the weaker 20/8, 30/10 type ones. I think i'm 10x the player I was a couple of months ago and i'm sure I cause a lot of people some headaches. Hopefully I can have another good month for September. I'd like to play some more 10/20 when the games are good and really try to play as much as possible at 5/10, if i can do 50k hands i'll be thrilled.

Although I really want to get a load of hands in, it might not be possible, i've got to head back to Uni in a couple of weeks and there'll be a lot of work, so i'm going to aim to play about 15hours a week. That'll give me a good income but should also mean i'm able to get a decent grade in my degree. The course is Marketing, which i'm not thrilled about, it's not what I want to do as a career but i've decided that the degree itself is important so i'm really going to try and get a decent grade. That may be easier said than done, i'm not the greatest at doing things I don't really like doing.