Feeling good and need help with figures!!!

Well i've finally started doing things a bit more correctly. By this i mean i have finally set up a poker tracker system (poker tracker) and have started playing at a site that gives me rakeback and started playing there. It's funny how i seem to play more sensibly when i keep looking at my tracker!!!

So far i have played 1154 hands at $1 - $2 short handed and have won $606.70 with a 13.14 BB/100 hands.

I realise thats not brilliant but it's a profit!! I never realised how much you actually paid in rake.. $223 so far... That to me shows that a $600 profit isn't great. I will receive my rakeback on that though.

I know it is a very very low sample size i have, how many hands do you need to play before you have a good sample size??

What is a good BB/100 Hand rate???

When will it change........

Do you know what, it's so difficult to win a poker tournament. You think your luck must change but it never does.

180 seat $20 Tournament on Pokerstars

7 Left

1st - $1080
7th - $126

Observe....:

PokerStars Game #11341788614: Tournament #57513295, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level XI (500/1000) - 2007/08/06 - 13:59:19 (ET)Table '57513295 9' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: United113 (25881 in chips)
Seat 2: SyraDKE (35252 in chips)
Seat 3: POMatty (18393 in chips)
Seat 6: Sgt Mjr BJL (34777 in chips)
Seat 7: tschaessman (40648 in chips)
Seat 8: cantseeme1 (72843 in chips)
Seat 9: Henchen (42206 in chips)
United113: posts the ante 100
SyraDKE: posts the ante 100
POMatty: posts the ante 100
Sgt Mjr BJL: posts the ante 100
tschaessman: posts the ante 100
cantseeme1: posts the ante 100
Henchen: posts the ante 100
POMatty: posts small blind 500
Sgt Mjr BJL: posts big blind 1000
*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to United113 [Js Ad]
tschaessman: calls 1000
cantseeme1: folds
Henchen: folds
United113: raises 4000 to 5000
SyraDKE: folds
POMatty: folds
Sgt Mjr BJL: folds
tschaessman: calls 4000
*** FLOP *** [Th 3c Ac]
tschaessman: checks United113: bets 8000
tschaessman: raises 27548 to 35548 and is all-in
United113: calls 12781 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [Th 3c Ac] [Jh]
*** RIVER *** [Th 3c Ac Jh] [Qh]
*** SHOW DOWN ***tschaessman: shows [8h Ah] (a flush, Ace high)
United113: shows [Js Ad] (two pair, Aces and Jacks)
United113 said, "for ****s sake"
tschaessman collected 53762 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***Total pot 53762 Rake 0 Board [Th 3c Ac Jh Qh]
Seat 1: United113 showed [Js Ad] and lost with two pair, Aces and Jacks
Seat 2: SyraDKE (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: POMatty (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: Sgt Mjr BJL (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: tschaessman showed [8h Ah] and won (53762) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 8: cantseeme1 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: Henchen folded before Flop (didn't bet)

For fucks sake indeed

how did he think he was ahead... Out in 7th

Now have a $3000 Free role to play for the top 30 players during july on Virgin..

Need to relax for the next 30 mins..lol

Blog Idea

Now i have had my blog for a while and i read other peoples. I have had an idea today and wondered if anyone was interested in it.

I update my blog as often as i can, normally once or twice a week. There are some hardcore bloggers who update their blogs more often however normally people don't so you check for updates and it's the same post you read before. On these blogs, unless it's a mental scary blog like Ed Hollis's (88% concentration) then you get the same type of reports from the same people all the time, how much they have won, bad beats etc.

What my idea is is to get 4 or 5 bloggers who update about as often as i do, and actually have the SAME blog. This way we can create something more interesting with more frequent posts about different games and the different levels the bloggers play at.

Surely this will be more interesting to people???

If anyone is interested in this (you don't have to cancel your own blog if you don't want to, just update every so often on another) please post a message and i'll see what responce i get.

How do you get away????

Well the cash games have been getting me down a bit. I always get caught out in the same way. I build nicely and profit well then get stung for everything...

Example:

Dealt AsKs

Flop comes Ac Kh 9d

All the chips go in and he has a set of nines.

This keeps happening, i really can't see how you can get away from it?

Dealt QQ

Flop 4 7 10

you raise someone re raises, what do you do??? I really can't get away from these?

So i think i'm about even for the month now, played a few MTT and got busted, it beggers belief the calls some people make... $5000 gtd rebuy on boss, 223 entries 50 left, dealt KQ flop K Q 9, relatively short stacked (5000) blinds 300 600, 2400 in the pot so it was a large all in move.. Guy calls with 7 7 and hit a 7 on the river.. How can you think you are ahead in that situation?? Is it the limits i play?? $10 rebuy...

Going to take a break, find myself playing to often and it is starting to get me down, i might take up something i may enjoy more and start punching myself repeatadly in the head...

Update 5

Taken some really bad beats and lost the bankroll!!

Am still up about $300 for the month with the money i withdrew. Will take a couple of days break and try again

Update 4

Money removed!! Whats the point of making money if i don't use it?? I'd probably lose it all anyway!!

Tickets bought for The Twang, Ash, Editors and the Stereophonics

BANKROLL - $686

REMOVED - $509

Update 3

Well i've not played for the weekend as i was in Portugal. I played this morning and couldn't really get into it. I shouldn't play when i'm like this...



Lost a bit! still up for month..



BANKROLL - $542

Update again - Got my head together and started playing again. It's funny how I don't seem to know when i'm in the wrong frame of mind to be playing and when i'm in the right frame... Played some $2-$4 and am up to over what i was on last update but not by much. It's funny though, when i was down to $500 i thought "you've lost $600 (£300) you could have done loads with that and should of taken it out.. Now i am back up to that do i take it out or keep it in??

BANKROLL - $1235

Update 2

Only played for an hour or so today. Started off on $1-$2 and dropped half a buy in.. i really hate that game!! Moved to $2 - $4 and won a few big hands. Noticably there was a raise and re raise and i has aces so i pushed all in, one fold and a guy called for about $450 and had 10 10.. Decided to quit whilst i was way ahead!!

BANKROLL - $1192

Update 1

Played some $0.50 - $1 on Virgin first and took the $200 down to $55. I don't know what it is with the lower levels, the calls people make are unbelievable. You can't over bet the pot to get people off draws and ace rag seems to be everyone's favourite hand.

Stupidly (even though it worked) i took the last $50 and moved to a $1 - $2 table and stuck in on there and within about half an hour i had built it up to around $350. Am going to quit soon after a relatively succesful first day, almost doubling my initial bankroll

BANKROLL - $394

UPDATE --- PLAYED A BIT MORE AT $2 - $4 WHICH I REALLY LIKE AND BOOSTED UP AGAIN.

BANKROLL - $791

Variance and Bank Roll Challenge

Well i cleared all my bankroll as i needed the money. Playing the Cash games i was playing was fine but the variance was huge... I was up a lot then level and ended up down slightly after i lost a big pot with aces.

So i have left $200 in my Virgin account and i am going to build up gradually and see where i can end up at the end of July.

Will post regulaly and let you know

BANKROLL - $200

Virgin $2-$4

Well i was up about $1000 yesterday on Virgin $2-$4 cash. I have stopped playing today about $250 up.

I was doing much better and was about $850 up when i got dealt ace 3.. I i raised from the small blind and the big blind called..

Flop 33 A..

basically all the chips went in and he spiked a king on the river to make a bigger full house.. That was a $900 pot so if i win that i'm well up but these things happen..

A $250 profit for the day is fine by me...

I seem to find the $2-$4 tables easier to play then the lower limts as there are less idiots and everything seems to be going well at the moment...

UPDATE - JUST AFTER WRITING THIS WON A BIG POT WITH TRIP 3'S NOW $527 UP FOR THE DAY!!

Up.. and Down...

Well i have started playing cash games for the last few days...

On Pokerstars yesterday i played a variety of $1-$2 up to $2-$4. No when you play heads up sit and go's there isn't much variety in winnings. I win constantly just not a lot...

Yesterday i managed to blow $900 on stars so i fired up Virgin today and played some $2-$4 and $3-$6 and am $950 up for the day..

All this really shows me is that i need to find a site that offer a good rakeback deal now i am playing cash at these limits... Stars don't, boss might if i push them but i will have a scout around for the best deals..

Any ideas?? Do they automatically transfer the rakeback into your account??

Glastonbury and Vegas

Well i've not played too much poker since my last post as i've been at Glastonbury, so as i write this i am still trying to de mud myself...

It was ok and Pete Docherty is a fucking idiot...

I am supposed to going to Vegas this week but after checking flights they are now stupidly expensive. If virgin had given me the money in time they were £500 are now well over a grand so i'm not sure if i'm going to go or not...

I'd like to go but it'll mean forking out my own pocket which is bad at this precise moment...

Pokerstars $2-$4

Well i was getting a bit bored playing heads up all the time so i decided to play some cash games on pokerstars.

I sat at a 6 seater $2-$4 table and bought in for the maximum of $400. I had this up quite quickly to around $660 when this hand happened...

PokerStars Game #10510420812: Hold'em No Limit ($2/$4) - 2007/06/19 - 06:54:48 (ET)Table 'Dejanira' 6-max
Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: poonjockey ($499.30 in chips)
Seat 2: OZlander ($102.20 in chips)
Seat 3: SFCellman ($794.60 in chips)
Seat 4: tom90cu ($128 in chips)
Seat 5: capaneo ($407.20 in chips)
Seat 6: United113 ($664.10 in chips)
tom90cu: posts small blind $2
capaneo: posts big blind $4
OZlander: posts small & big blinds $6
*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to United113 [Jc Js]
United113: raises $12 to $16
poonjockey: folds OZlander: folds
SFCellman: calls $16tom90cu: calls $14
capaneo: folds
*** FLOP *** [Ac Tc Jd]
tom90cu: checks
United113: bets $44
SFCellman: calls $44
tom90cu: folds
*** TURN *** [Ac Tc Jd] [Qd]
United113: checks SFCellman: bets $134.60
United113: calls $134.60
*** RIVER *** [Ac Tc Jd Qd] [Qh]
United113: bets $469.50 and is all-in
SFCellman: calls $469.50
*** SHOW DOWN ***United113: shows [Jc Js] (a full house, Jacks full of Queens)
SFCellman: mucks hand
United113 collected $1351.20 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***Total pot $1354.20 Rake $3 Board [Ac Tc Jd Qd Qh]
Seat 1: poonjockey folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: OZlander folded before Flop
Seat 3: SFCellman (button) mucked [Kc 6c]
Seat 4: tom90cu (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 5: capaneo (big blind) folded before FlopSeat 6: United113 showed [Jc Js] and won ($1351.20) with a full house, Jacks full of Queens

Now the call on the turn was a bit loose as i put a king in his hand for the straight but figured if the board paired i'd clean him out which is what happened so i had huge implied odds...

I think this is actually the biggest amount i have won from a single hand

FOR FUCKS SAKE!!!!!!!!!!

This is getting beyond a joke

$100 5 seater STT. 1st prize $350 2nd $150

3 Left i'm on big blind

Dealt KcQc

Guy has same chips as me and moves in, i call

He has Queen 7

flop 7 k 7

Honestly everytime at higher stakes

It really can't be right.........

I give up...

For fucks sake.. honestly

I give up at the moment, i really do...

Why is it that every big pot i play i just get completely sucked out, it's unbelivable

Was about level for the day playing $50 Heads up sit and go's and $110 heads up turbo sit and go's and decided to play some $1 - $2 cash on poker stars. Was playing about $215 when i get dealt Ks Jh in the big blind. 1 player minimum raises so i call and 2 see the flop which comes Kd 4h jd. I bet guy re raises and i push all in, turn 7d river 10 d. He shows king jack with the fucking king of diamonds so i lose wto the flush ith the same fucking hand.. Minus $200.

Honestly why does this happen everytime i play higher limits or for the big pots???

It's really starting to fuck me off

Play More!!!!

Morning...

I have finally worked out how i am going to win more money at poker!!! and that is to play more...

I'm still playing $20 heads up games on pokerstars, after the email conversations i had with the poker room manager at Virgin there still has been no change in the heads up games there. I know this is going to make me sound really big headed but i am so confident at them moment playing these games on pokerstars and i feel i am better than anyone i play. I'll list my sharkscope stats below which i think are ok but please feel free to rip them apart and let me know what you think of them.. Should i move up limits? Are they good or average or poor??

Games played Av Profit Av Stake Av R.O.I Total profit

501 $3 $21 17% $1,632

Heads up games played 486
Won 295 lost 191

I'm also playing 5 seater SNG on Virgin and profiting on that, my last 8 results on sharkscope are:

5 seater $20 SNG, Profit $48
5 seater $20 SNG, Profit -$22
5 seater $20 SNG, Profit $48
5 seater $20 SNG, Profit -$22
5 seater $20 SNG, Profit $48
5 seater $20 SNG, Profit -$22
5 seater $20 SNG, Profit -$22
5 seater $20 SNG, Profit $48

So $104 profit

I have finally heard from Virgin last Friday. They said they will transfer $4000 into my virgin account to pay for thge WSOP vegas trip. I plan to play at event 49 a NLHE 3 day event but that stars in a couple of weeks and i still have nothing booked and they money hasn't been transferred so virgin and me better pull our fingers out quickly...

Update - WSOP still not getting anywhere...

Well i haven't been playing an awful lot in the last couple of weeks. What i have been doing when i have been playing is either playing 5 handed $20 STT for an hour on Virgin and see how much i am up or down in that time frame. I have been up every session but should have really won more. When i get down to 3 left (2 paid) i find myself being too aggressive, should i get into the money first and then try to win or is it right trying to win all the way through even if it means going out on the bubble???

I have also been playing $20 heads up games on Full tilt and Pokerstars and been doing ok.

I still haven't had confirmation from Virgin about the WSOP side event. This has been going on for a while now and the tournament is approaching rapidly...

Virgin Poker STT Challenge and South Africa

Well they posted the results for the 3rd week of the STT challenge and i came 4th with 100 points... I only played for a day and a half and thought i'd walk it... whoopsssss. I can't play next week so i'll give it a good push on the final week, not that i'm too bothered as the prize is entry to a WSOP event i'm already going to be in, i just figured i could swap one for something else!!.

I deposited some money into full tilt recently to see what it was like and to be honest, i now find all these sites to be much of a muchness... i have double my initial deposit of $100 in a couple of days so thats not bad. I have started playing short handed single table tournaments as the heads up was doing my head in a bit...

Anyway on to the holiday... I had a great time!! I started off in Cape Town for 3 days and did all the usual tourist stuff such as table mountain and Robben Island where Mandela was in prison. I met some cool people from Bristol who were over there scuba diving so spent the evenings with them. I also did the great white shark cage diving which is a must for anyone who goes to south africa, it was superb!!



After being in Cape Town i drove up the garden route to Knysna where i stayed with some friends. From there i went to a few wildlife places where i also did a cage dive with crocodiles and stroked some pussies (cheethas and lions...!!!) and also did the bungee jump off Bloukrans Bridge.. 216 metres and fucking shite myself.... If you want to see the video (from a distance it is me..honest!) please click here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmXXlgju4TA

i also did the skydive over Plettenburg Bay which was really good fun but not quite as scary as the bungee....

I then drove 8 and 1/2 hours to Bloemfontein to stay with friends of a friend i have never met... These two girls opened the door and i thought "Thank you god"". Was expecting two mingers and well see below...

Would you look at those puppies.....

Safe to say my next trip is being planned as i write this....

Virgin STT Challenge

Virgin are doing their STT challenge with 2 WSOP trips available as prizes.

The structure is slightly different to last time, there are 5 weekly winners who then play an final STT. I wasn't going to bother but then realisedi could hit the type of points needed to reach the final playing madly for only a couple of days.. i had to play non stop for a month last time...

So i am currently playing 2 5 seater STT and a heads up whilst trying to write this so i'll update later and let you know how i get on...