A couple of weekends on the trot ive played some live games for a change. First it was a fun weekend away in Essex but more recently i spent all Sunday up at the Bristol UKIPT playing a £220 plo event.
It got 49 runners on the day and i went through phases in it of being solid, drunk, tired, solid, drunk, tired , etc etc :)
A couple of key hands that allowed me to go deep, 1st one probably being the most important hand of my day.
150/300 and i raise utg to 800 (8handed) with A4ssJ9cc and pick up 1 caller behind (fishey local) and 1 of the blinds. i had only been at the table 1 round or 2 but there was a lot of banter and chips going in so i had already put some people into category types.
flop is 2x2c6c and i cont bet 1200 which is just called by chap behind. at this point its obv to assume overpair/flush draw/deuce as his range.
turn is a 6x , i was probably slowing down here but felt this card really really good to fire again on and try and see if i can pick it up or pick up more info on other guys hand. i led 2700 and whilst he called quite quick i got the impression he didnt like it so was leaning more to the line he had a high flush draw but still possibly a deuce.
river is a queen of spades and im left with the perfect air or nuts type shove stack of 6,400. was probably shoving any non club anyway but matey flicks his cards quickly and puts them back down even quicker in such a fashion i could tell he hated that river so i actually confidently shoved thinking he was deffo on a flush draw. he folded so quickly i felt confirmed as he showed A5cc but then proceeded to show he had a deuce as well !!! slowplayin the flop got him confused by the turn then he just didnt think i could bluff there i guess :)
other hand was me getting it in bad with KK55 1 suit vs AA97 vs guy raising nearly every hand and hitting quads when i was out if i missed with 18odd left. he wsa only guy at that table capable of 3 betting anything other than aces so it wasnt too bad a shove.
ended up finishing 4th/49 and couldnt complain i was lucky on above and other smaller allins. had a chance of winning but never had more than 1/4 chips in play with 4 left so wasnt too disappointed. return of £950 on my investment in a strange game that at times i really enjoyed and at other times was bored of and hated , more so when i was tired from the early start and drive up there. overall i was happy with my play but it still reminded me how live games are not for me a lot of the time but also was a good test of my patience which held out well.
sitting on just over £2,500 for the month. raked $2,900 so far. generally not playin as well this month but running well (all of my hard profit online) and probably should only be up the rakeback. been quite volatile and testing at times whch i havent always passed. 1 day i even went $2,800 down before finishing just $800 down and happy !!!
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Oct Figures
Sorry for lack of updates, blog dying a bit but will still drop by to post monthly figures and it helps me summarise if stuff is working or not generally.
Amazingly similar month to Sept, ran slightly over ev. Win rate at plo is still much better than prior to Sept and graph is pretty steady when its observed over the full month. Similar number of hands too and rake as well. See prior post to compare graphs.
Final figure of £3,999, uncashed rakeback would bump that up by nearly £3,000 so overall another decent month recorded.
A few more distractions in November but still hoping for another steady month.
Amazingly similar month to Sept, ran slightly over ev. Win rate at plo is still much better than prior to Sept and graph is pretty steady when its observed over the full month. Similar number of hands too and rake as well. See prior post to compare graphs.
Final figure of £3,999, uncashed rakeback would bump that up by nearly £3,000 so overall another decent month recorded.
A few more distractions in November but still hoping for another steady month.
Monday, October 01, 2012
September Figures - Back In The Game !
+£7,193 , raked about $7,500 so approx another £2,000 worth of uncashed rakeback to add to that. More like the months of last winter/spring and hoping to keep this going. Run good helps as well but even if i ran on the ev line the month would have been worth around £6,000 total. Sommat seems to have clicked in plo, good job as my hi lo stats aint particularly great of late. 99% of all games on 1 site seems to have worked again as well.
Plan for October is similar. Minimum 4hours per day every day on similar games and stakes.
Plan for October is similar. Minimum 4hours per day every day on similar games and stakes.
Sunday, September 23, 2012
My Biggest Bad Beat Ever But Running Gooooooood
I see i havent updated for nearly 2 weeks so bout time i put sommat down in writing. After the 1st week i reduced my game to a planned 5 hours ish per day 7 days a week for the last 2 weeks. Something seems to have clicked and, whilst running good especially 2 of the last 3 days, i know ive been playing a hell of a lot better. The big difference seems to be plo where im sure im getting into better spots and playing better strategy against individual players.
Just having a little analysis now before i head to the pub as im finished early for the day.
Done nearly 50k hands of plo and plo hi lo this month. The first 20k were not much more than break even but that was earning about £200 a day in rakeback for 10hours ish play (basically the first week).
The next 30k hands if i follow either the run good profit line or the ev line are pretty much as steady as can be for the 5hours per day period. The ev line shows about £3,000 profit and my £100 a day in rakeback would add to that obviously.
Ive been worried about complacency but seem to have been conquering that so far. Overall for September im sat on +£4,829 but receive a £200 bonus before i start tommorrow so say £5,029. Total rake so far for the month is about $6,200 so basing it on the 50% cash out im targetting that would be another £2,000 ish. That said my graph shows im around £2,500 above ev. That said we all feel we are due a good run and ive been "dry" now for many months as stated in previous less positive posts. Anyways hoping ill have another cracking final week to the month and will report back here after that.
Just looking at my hi lo and plo split and about half my hands were hi lo and actually the results are steady but nothing to get excited over at all. As said above that doesnt surprise me as i know ive been golden and playing better in the plo games for a change, gnnna look at those now.
.5/1plo went 11 buyins down ( i suspect the 10hrs day period ) before finishing 6 buyins up (ev line).
1/2plo steady up finishing about 9 buyins up (ev line).
Both of above 8-9k hands, 2/4 im 3buyins up nearly but only played under 1000 hands.
Prob over-analysing now anyway its all good stuff to view.
AND FINALLY (IN CAPITALS AS ITS CRAZY)
I PLAYED A HAND ON 1/2 LIMIT HOLDEM 6 HANDED WITH 67HH
BY THE RIVER WE HAD CAPPED BOTH TURN AND RIVER 3WAY AND THE BOARD SHOWED
JX,10H,9H,8H,9X
1 GUY ONLY HAD KQ BUT OTHER GUY HAD QJHH AND I LOST TO A HIGHER STRAIGHT FLUSH WHERE WE BOTH HAD USED BOTH OF OUR HOLE CARDS. SHAME NO BAD BEAT JACKPOT, THEY USED TO HAVE ONE A YEAR OR SO AGO BUT NUTS REALLY ESPECIALLY WHEN U CONSIDER HOW LITTLE HOLDEM I PLAY ANY MORE.
Just having a little analysis now before i head to the pub as im finished early for the day.
Done nearly 50k hands of plo and plo hi lo this month. The first 20k were not much more than break even but that was earning about £200 a day in rakeback for 10hours ish play (basically the first week).
The next 30k hands if i follow either the run good profit line or the ev line are pretty much as steady as can be for the 5hours per day period. The ev line shows about £3,000 profit and my £100 a day in rakeback would add to that obviously.
Ive been worried about complacency but seem to have been conquering that so far. Overall for September im sat on +£4,829 but receive a £200 bonus before i start tommorrow so say £5,029. Total rake so far for the month is about $6,200 so basing it on the 50% cash out im targetting that would be another £2,000 ish. That said my graph shows im around £2,500 above ev. That said we all feel we are due a good run and ive been "dry" now for many months as stated in previous less positive posts. Anyways hoping ill have another cracking final week to the month and will report back here after that.
Just looking at my hi lo and plo split and about half my hands were hi lo and actually the results are steady but nothing to get excited over at all. As said above that doesnt surprise me as i know ive been golden and playing better in the plo games for a change, gnnna look at those now.
.5/1plo went 11 buyins down ( i suspect the 10hrs day period ) before finishing 6 buyins up (ev line).
1/2plo steady up finishing about 9 buyins up (ev line).
Both of above 8-9k hands, 2/4 im 3buyins up nearly but only played under 1000 hands.
Prob over-analysing now anyway its all good stuff to view.
AND FINALLY (IN CAPITALS AS ITS CRAZY)
I PLAYED A HAND ON 1/2 LIMIT HOLDEM 6 HANDED WITH 67HH
BY THE RIVER WE HAD CAPPED BOTH TURN AND RIVER 3WAY AND THE BOARD SHOWED
JX,10H,9H,8H,9X
1 GUY ONLY HAD KQ BUT OTHER GUY HAD QJHH AND I LOST TO A HIGHER STRAIGHT FLUSH WHERE WE BOTH HAD USED BOTH OF OUR HOLE CARDS. SHAME NO BAD BEAT JACKPOT, THEY USED TO HAVE ONE A YEAR OR SO AGO BUT NUTS REALLY ESPECIALLY WHEN U CONSIDER HOW LITTLE HOLDEM I PLAY ANY MORE.
Monday, September 10, 2012
Sept So Far
Lost £400 odd the first day on an awful run. Think i lost 5 allins preflop in row at one point on pl hi lo which could be a record for me. A reasonable rake promotion started on the 3rd though so after a day off i wasnt quite sure how to attack it.
I began thinking i might do 10hrs a day for 28 days straight but knew this was unlikely especially at this time of year. After 2 full days i gave up on that and just did 5/7 days of the first week at that pace. Fortunately its split into 4 weeks so i can vary week on week but ive gone down the half the rake now but spread over 7 days instead of 5 this week. So last week i raked over $2,500 to get a $400 bonus added to my balance. This week all being well i will rake over $1,750 to get a smaller bonus but at a similar %rakeback value.
Back a week ago i played the $215 PL hi lo 6 max WCOOP on stars (i immediately rebuy and lasted to addon so was in for $615 total) . After a final table last time i hoped again for good things but began slowly and couldnt seem to push on. That said i was patient but only because i was 6-8tabling for the above rake promtion at the same time. It was very difficult to watch what was goin on all the time. When i finally began to push things as blinds went up it went more my way and i managed to get my stack right up, often without showdown, apart from busting 1 or 2 shorter stacks. I was actually never allin covered and called right until my bust which was around 120th/500+ which paid around 80 if i remember right. I did get to average stack with about 150 left but just went backwrds from there, still was a good run i guess.
Obviously the above dented my month but most days overall were fairly steady profit wise. Still had some bad sessions but there were often preceded or followed by good ones. Im now sat on +£674 for Sept which doesnt sound brilliant but given the above start and mtt i should be really happy with, especially with the rakeback points racking up as well. Its kind of nice to be back on just 1 site (except that sole mtt and 1st Sept) and hopefully i can keep focus and just keep things progressing.
I began thinking i might do 10hrs a day for 28 days straight but knew this was unlikely especially at this time of year. After 2 full days i gave up on that and just did 5/7 days of the first week at that pace. Fortunately its split into 4 weeks so i can vary week on week but ive gone down the half the rake now but spread over 7 days instead of 5 this week. So last week i raked over $2,500 to get a $400 bonus added to my balance. This week all being well i will rake over $1,750 to get a smaller bonus but at a similar %rakeback value.
Back a week ago i played the $215 PL hi lo 6 max WCOOP on stars (i immediately rebuy and lasted to addon so was in for $615 total) . After a final table last time i hoped again for good things but began slowly and couldnt seem to push on. That said i was patient but only because i was 6-8tabling for the above rake promtion at the same time. It was very difficult to watch what was goin on all the time. When i finally began to push things as blinds went up it went more my way and i managed to get my stack right up, often without showdown, apart from busting 1 or 2 shorter stacks. I was actually never allin covered and called right until my bust which was around 120th/500+ which paid around 80 if i remember right. I did get to average stack with about 150 left but just went backwrds from there, still was a good run i guess.
Obviously the above dented my month but most days overall were fairly steady profit wise. Still had some bad sessions but there were often preceded or followed by good ones. Im now sat on +£674 for Sept which doesnt sound brilliant but given the above start and mtt i should be really happy with, especially with the rakeback points racking up as well. Its kind of nice to be back on just 1 site (except that sole mtt and 1st Sept) and hopefully i can keep focus and just keep things progressing.
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