I'm shit at poker....

i get dillusions of grandure at poker and win a few quid and suddenly think i'm Phil Ivey and play £7 million billion pound limits and get stuffed... I have no money at the moment so am playing $20 heads up STT on stars and grinding out a $200 a month profit :-)

This time next year rodney...

I'd Cry if i want laughing so much.........

Just had the worst game i think of ALL TIME!!!! $50 turbo heads up on Pokerstars.. ALL of these are from the same game.. honestly.. how many times...

PokerStars Game #12993180709: Tournament #65940131, $55.00+$2.50 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level IV (50/100) - 2007/11/02 - 11:00:20 (ET)Table '65940131 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: United113 (2560 in chips)
Seat 2: Kip1972 (440 in chips)
United113: posts small blind 50
Kip1972: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to United113 [Ah 6h]
United113: raises 400 to 500
Kip1972: calls 340 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [2h As 8h]
*** TURN *** [2h As 8h] [Js]
*** RIVER *** [2h As 8h Js] [Ks]
*** SHOW DOWN ***Kip1972: shows [Qc Th] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
United113: shows [Ah 6h] (a pair of Aces)
Kip1972 collected 880 from pot*** SUMMARY ***Total pot 880
Rake 0 Board [2h As 8h Js Ks]
Seat 1: United113 (button) (small blind) showed [Ah 6h] and lost with a pair of AcesSeat 2: Kip1972 (big blind) showed [Qc Th] and won (880) with a straight, Ten to Ace

Honestly?!?!?!?!?!

PokerStars Game #12993192705: Tournament #65940131, $55.00+$2.50 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level IV (50/100) - 2007/11/02 - 11:01:19 (ET)Table '65940131 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: United113 (1970 in chips)
Seat 2: Kip1972 (1030 in chips)
Kip1972: posts small blind 50
United113: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to United113 [Ad 9d]
Kip1972: calls 50
United113: raises 1870 to 1970 and is all-in
Kip1972: calls 930 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [Ts Jc Th]
*** TURN *** [Ts Jc Th] [9c]
*** RIVER *** [Ts Jc Th 9c] [Qd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
United113: shows [Ad 9d] (two pair, Tens and Nines)
Kip1972: shows [4d Kd] (a straight, Nine to King)
Kip1972 collected 2060 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***Total pot 2060 Rake 0
Board [Ts Jc Th 9c Qd]
Seat 1: United113 (big blind) showed [Ad 9d] and lost with two pair, Tens and NinesSeat 2: Kip1972 (button) (small blind) showed [4d Kd] and won (2060) with a straight, Nine to King

WWWWWHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTT????????????????????????

PokerStars Game #12993208479: Tournament #65940131, $55.00+$2.50 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level V (75/150) - 2007/11/02 - 11:02:35 (ET)Table '65940131 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: United113 (765 in chips)
Seat 2: Kip1972 (2235 in chips)
United113: posts small blind 75Kip1972: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to United113 [5c Ah]
United113: raises 615 to 765 and is all-in
Kip1972: calls 615
*** FLOP *** [Qd Ks 7s]
*** TURN *** [Qd Ks 7s] [Qs]
*** RIVER *** [Qd Ks 7s Qs] [2s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Kip1972: shows [Jc Qc] (three of a kind, Queens)
United113: shows [5c Ah] (a pair of Queens)
Kip1972 collected 1530 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***Total pot 1530 Rake 0 Board [Qd Ks 7s Qs 2s]Seat 1: United113 (button) (small blind) showed [5c Ah] and lost with a pair of QueensSeat 2: Kip1972 (big blind) showed [Jc Qc] and won (1530) with three of a kind, Queens

UNBELIEVABLEEEEELELELELELELELELELE

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Not so good

Well i've not updated for a while so here goes and i could really do with your help and comments. This post is going to be like councilling for me, I don't know you reader, i may have had blog conversations but i am going to lay out, completely honestly, my life and any comments would be good.... This may be a long one....

If you have read my blog then you will know that me and my long term girlfriend split up in january. Even though we were having issues, i think one of the reasons was my poker play. She went to New York for 3 months august 2006 and the month before she went Virgin Poker were running one of their STT challenges to win en EPT copenhagen seat. Virgin had run one of these before with 2 WSOP side event seats as prizes along with flights and accomodation etc and, as a poker player, would have loved to have gone. Now i don't see myself as a great player that could win a big satellite to win a seat, but the system Virgin were running (STT results: 10 player STT win 5 points, 5 player STT win 3 points and heads up STT win 1 point meant that by just amount of play you could win) i felt that i could win. It just so happened that during the first challenge which I had started ok, myself and my now ex misses had a 2 week holiday to the bahamas booked. Now i don't like sitting on the beach all day every day, so some days i would go and sit in their internet room and play poker. It was a windowless room where i couldn't concentrate properley and realising my misses was getting pissed off by this I stopped playing. this however made me annoyed slightly as i really really wanted to go to the WSOP. Next time Virgin ran this tournament i thought THIS TIME!!!... So the month before she was going I was playing all the time and, ven though this will sound selfish, it was HER leaving for 3 months not me and she commented later on that i was more interested in the poker then her. I ended up splitting the prize with m3monster http://m3monster.blogspot.com/ and was told by Virgin that i could go to the WSOP 2007 and play a side event. My misses came back and we eventually split up and i don't know whether this was a reason, but at the time all i wanted was to be a pro poker player.

I started playing more when she left, all the time playing only $20 heads up sit and go tournaments on Pokerstars and was constantly winning. Once i tried moving up to $50 and lost a bit so moved straight back. I was winning a bit, but nowhere near enough to live on, around $400 a month every month. I don't know why but i always thought that to be a pro and good poker player you had to play cash games so i started playing cash on Full Tilt (to get rakeback) and Virgin. I would win a lot and then lose it all and more with hands i couldn't get away with. I would hold AA for example, the flop would come K 6 9 rainbow, all would go in with me thinking AK and my opponant would hold KK. Another point was when i had AK and the flop came A K 7 rainbow, i raise guy goes all in, how do i get away??? I call and he holds 77. The biggest pot i lost which was really bad was holding jack 10 suited. No raise before the flop and i'm in the big blind, the flop comes J 10 10, i bet, guy raises, i re raise and he pushes, i call turn 8 river K. No i know i did the right thing and was outdrawn but when you win those hands and win $50 and i lost $500 to a $1000 pot on this hand it's difficult to get back.

I bought poker tracker and linked it to Full tilt and played cash on there. I have been playing a while so played $0.25 - $50 and $1-$2 and was up for a bit but now after around 3,000 hands am $1000 down. I played $2 - $4 once and in the first hand lost the buy in when my AA was beaten by KK. My problem seems to be winning not a lot with premium hands and either being outdrawn or not being able to get away winning hands. I cashed high in a MTT on Pokerstars and started being stupid and playing $50, $110 and $220 heads up STT on Pokerstars and was doing ok but that was way out of my bankroll. What do i do? Can i be succesfull playing heads up STT or do i play that just to win $400 a month?? How do i get away from big hands like listed above???

I recently haven't played much at all, i met another girl who i have just split up with yesterday. She kept telling stories that i believed were not true, culminating in her telling me last night she was pregnant as i was walking out. She called later and i told her i was going to go round there in the morning with a pregnancy test, and half an hour later she was on the phone with her neighbour telling me she was having a miscarriage....

With everything thats happened in my personell life i haven't played that much and i think i got disallusioned with the cash game defeats. One thing that poker traker did highlight was the amout of rake you actually pay playing cash games... Fuck me... You don't miss it when they take it but it does accumalte a LOT.. I did have a thought though.. Would you like it if the poker room took DOUBLE rake as you don't miss it when they take it, but give you half of it back every month??? That would give you a nice bonus from money you don't miss when they take??

Anyway my head is fucked from everything that has happened, but please comment on anything that i have said, poker related or not, as any support would be greatly appreciated.

Also i have been out with a girl from my work. nothing happened but we got on really well and i really like her (she'll probably turn out to be a mentalist knowing my past history..). The issue is, is that i am 28 and she is 18 but an old 18 if that makes sense. Now if i was 40 ans she was 30 or 35 and 25 then i have no problem with that.. To be honest i don't have a problem with her being 18 but some people I have mentioned it to do.. What do you all think??? Is 18 to young as they are still not classed as an adult till 21??? She is an old 18 though so mature, funny and we get on well??? What do you all think????

She's also unbelievably attactive which helps...

Rant over

Matt

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