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Wednesday, 29 August 2007

Sit n' Go.......no where in particular

Well, it has been a long time since my last post in which I made a vow to play tournaments only, and yes I have stuck to it, almost.

So I started out with the $50 roll on PKR, at my lowest I went down to $17 but managed to get it up to $120 at peak playing $5 and $10 SNG's. I played mainly $5 6 seater speed games and had mixed success, I actually recorded a tally chart of all my tournaments and placings and the amount of times I came 3rd in this game was too many; mainly because of the turboness of it and the luck that therefore ensues. I did dabble in cash the other day for literally about 10 mins and made a profit with a set of 7's. But I have been keeping to my plan very strictly and for me that is impressive. PKR did a promotion where you had to win 7 SNG's in about 5 days, I managed to do this despite playing very rarely and being busy over the bank holiday, so now I am entered into a $2000 freeroll with (hopefully) not too many runners so I hope to do well in this.

Playing PKR is fun but it is still a bit slow so last night I withdrew $50 from my $107 roll. I then deposited the equivalent £25 into InterPoker using a double deposit code that will earn me £50 when I reach it. I aim to stick to tournaments and played my first last night; £3.60 and I came 1st for £15. So now I have a £36 roll on Inter and a $57 roll on PKR and am going to continue with tournaments for as long as I can avoid the lure of cash games. If only I had more time to play...

I have hundreds of pounds sitting in the bank but have not even been tempted to deposit and play bigger stakes. It feels good to have not deposited in so long and come next pay cheque I might actually not be broke. The reason I seem to have turned over a new leaf is partly owed to a guy called 'luckyjimm', whose blog has dissuaded me from continuing the way I was when I see what it can do to someone. I would actually like thank him for his well written and deeply personal and insightful blog, it made something wake up in me and I realised that spending money on things other than poker is a far better existence. I will add his blog to my links on the right.

So, I managed to turn out a profit, I haven't played as often as I would have liked, but the slowness of it all is not even bothering me that much. The slowness is counteracted by the fact that I am not wasting my wages, it makes me feel good and I am still getting a lot of fun out of playing poker, something which can be lost in the endless thrill of raking £200 pots. So I have small rolls on 2 sites and will keep trying to build with small buy in SNG's cos I know I am a fairly decent tournament player (when I'm not bored). Not sure how interesting this blog is going to be now however but I hope to build a roll big enough the hard way to be able to play bigger and bigger sit and gos.

Bankroll - $57 and £36

Friday, 17 August 2007

Tournaments Only

Have I reached a turning point? My wages cheque cleared on Wednesday but instead of rushing home to deposit half of it and sit in £1/£2 I actually didn't play at all, in fact I went out to see The Bourne Ultimatum which incidentally is very good as you would expect from the Bourne franchise.

Last night however, I felt like playing, however I was not in the mood to blow my hard earned cash in the cash games. I don't wake up early every day, work for a week only to give that money to some fat geek sitting there in his armchair and catching his 2 outter on me. Not any more. Instead, I decided to see if there were any decent multis running on PKR cos it's always fun to play multis on there. Well I noticed a $55 buy in with $1500 guaranteed tournament with very few runners so I thought seeing as how the players are so bad on this site that this is guaranteed easy money no bad beats ensuing.

So I deposited the $55 and entered, with 41 entrants in total I managed to finish 3rd for $307.50 - a good result but I was a little disappointed when I went out with AJd to Q10d because I felt I had an edge over my opponents and winning that would have given me the stack I needed to make moves with. Nevertheless it was pleasing - I withdrew $257.50 leaving myself with $50 on a new PKR bankroll. I thought it would be a good idea to actually BANK a win rather then just withdrawing what I had deposited and losing the rest.

So, a new idea has come to me and it is by no means original. Play tournaments only. This way, I minimise my losses and won't be able to donk off hundreds of pounds in an hour. I know the lure of cash games is going to be very hard to avoid but I know I am a much better tournament player and have had many good results in the past, so it makes sense. I don't need to worry about playing on Interpoker as rakeback on tournaments is not really worth bothering about. I will mainly stick with PKR and see what I can do with this $50 bankroll playing only tournaments, S&G's and Multis. The players are generally bad so standard ABC poker should see me turn over a profit. I might well deposit on Inter tho and try and further improve my sharkscope stats.

So, it starts here, no more cash games, I'm sick of throwing away my wages. Lets see if I can do it, I wish myself luck.

Bankroll - $50

Sunday, 12 August 2007

Busto

The whole £300 went today, played £1/£2, £0.50/£1 and £0.25/£0.50. Lost most of it in £1/£2. Final hand I made a shit call for the rest of my chips when I knew i was behind cos I was tilting slightly. Now have nothing to play with until my wages cheque clears but really don't want to be spending that money on poker, might have to put in £50 and see if I can do another spin up.

Saturday, 11 August 2007

What is bankroll management again?

Firstly, had a great holiday, it was lovely to get away and do nothing but it went all too quick. Was also good to have a break from poker, although I bought Poker Player mag on the way out so it wasn't completely gone from my mind.

Well, its Saturday right now and I have averted disaster! I will start from the beginning of when I got back from my holiday. I logged into my Interpoker account and was pleased to see that I had been awarded about £60 in rakeback for July which was nice, this meant my bankroll was about £210. Since then I played lots of £0.10/£0.20 and £0.15/£0.25 in an attempt to attempt some sort of bankroll management. Although not ideal because I still didn't have enough buy-ins it was the lowest I was prepared to play.

I had mixed results with these stakes, I would win a lot in one room then lose in others at the same time, and I never really got anywhere and began to drop £10-£20 every time I played. I would be running over one table but losing in others and it was very frustrating, alot of the players at these levels have very small stacks and never top up and it can be very annoying. This hand here made me laugh tho so I just had to include it, an example of how I sometimes owned the table (note my stack size compared to the others and my username is ironmonk).


Game #5361205464: Hold'em NL (£0.10/£0.20) - 2007/08/09 - 23:13:30 (UK)
Table "Euristi" Seat 1 is the button.
Seat 1: Janos0703 (£5.94 in chips)
Seat 2: ironmonk (£77.63 in chips)
Seat 3: Mindgame (£23.89 in chips)
Seat 4: Pau141159 (£6.17 in chips)
Seat 5: _ohfuk_ (£9.92 in chips)
Seat 6: ric1000 (£35.69 in chips)
ironmonk: posts small blind £0.10
Mindgame: posts big blind £0.20
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to ironmonk [Th Ad]
Pau141159: folds
_ohfuk_: folds
ric1000: calls £0.20
Janos0703: folds
ironmonk: raises to £0.80
Mindgame: folds
ric1000: calls £0.60
----- FLOP ----- [7c 7s 3s]
ironmonk: bets £1
ric1000: raises to £2
ironmonk: raises to £3
ric1000: folds
Returned uncalled bets £1 to ironmonk
ironmonk: doesn't show hand
ironmonk collected £5.51 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot £5.80 Main pot £5.51 Rake £0.29
Board [7c 7s 3s]
Seat 2: ironmonk (small blind) collected £5.51
Seat 3: Mindgame (big blind) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Pau141159 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: _ohfuk_ folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: ric1000 folded on the Flop

LOL. Anyway, this morning I started with about £130. I had 2 huge coolers that cost me pretty dear, one hand where I had 55 and the flop was 4 5 9, he ended up having 99 for a £78 pot, at a £25 room! Then later, against the same guy I had K10s flop had two spades, spade on the turn, he had A5s for a £50ish pot - what can u do?!

Anyway my roll went down to about £110 or so and it was then that I got fed up and moved to $2/$5 and sat with $200. When I was doing this I was telling myself it was a bad idea but I just didn't care and did it all the same. Well, needless to say I eventually lost it all when my AKd was no match for 67s despite re raising massive pre flop. I was mega depressed then but still wanted to play, and luckily I had my last £50 in my bank. I deposited this and then lost £12 straight away in £0.50/£1. Deciding I was bored I went to play heads up at £0.50/£1. I sat with someone who had £20 and stacked him, someone else sat down and I stacked him then a girl sat down and I stacked her twice. However I was down to just £6 at one point, my last £6, before pulling it all back, phew! At this point I was up to £105 and then someone with a £100 stack sat in. We were pretty even really but i was up about £20 off him. Then I started getting bored with the tooing and froing and was raising a lot more. I made it £4 with AQ on the button and he pushed all in (which he had done once before). I was fed up with him so I called the raise and he had 77, the flop bought a Q and a 7 and I lost the big pot and was down to £22 roughly.

The very next hand I got dealt AJ and pushed pre flop, he called with KJ and a K hit the flop along with 2 hearts, this pissed me off but then the turn came a heart and a miracle heart came on the river to go with my Jh and I doubled up. I later then doubled up agaisnt him with JJ against his 88 AIPF. He suddenly became massively aggressive raising to £5 pre flop frequently. He made it £4 and I had JQs and called. Flop came J Q x rainbow, I checked, he bet £8 and I went all in. He called with 9 10 and missed, he then left and I was left with £175. I left the room as well at this point and withdrew the £50 I had deposited earlier to make myself even. I then sat with £100 in £1/£2. I did OK, then made a mega call with a pair of 3's on the river for a £100 pot ( I had a veeeeery good read). I soon left and joined the 10 seater £1/£2 with £100 room where I still sit now. These following two hands against the same person happened:


Game #5382107474: Hold'em NL (£1/£2) - 2007/08/11 - 20:08:37 (UK)
Table "Mildura" Seat 5 is the button.
Seat 1: vortex49 (£80.90 in chips)
Seat 2: luckbox (£220.80 in chips)
Seat 3: who_the_h (£212.90 in chips)
Seat 5: Jose_pipe sits out
Seat 6: animalgod (£198 in chips)
Seat 7: Rob100540 (£200 in chips)
Seat 8: ironmonk (£98 in chips)
Seat 9: fiveaces (£83.37 in chips)
Seat 10: Shark23 (£225.45 in chips)
animalgod: posts small blind £1
Rob100540: posts big blind £2
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to ironmonk [Td Ts]
Jose_pipe sits back
ironmonk: raises to £6
fiveaces: folds
Shark23: folds
vortex49: raises to £10
luckbox: folds
who_the_h: folds
animalgod: folds
Rob100540: folds
ironmonk: calls £4
----- FLOP ----- [9c 5h 6h]
ironmonk: checks
vortex49: checks
----- TURN ----- [9c 5h 6h][9h]
ironmonk: bets £8
vortex49: calls £8
----- RIVER ----- [9c 5h 6h 9h][6s]
ironmonk: bets £10
vortex49: raises to £62.90 and is all-in
ironmonk: calls £52.90
----- SHOW DOWN -----
vortex49: shows [5c Qc] (Two Pairs, Nines and Sixes, Queen high)
ironmonk: shows [Td Ts] (Two Pairs, Tens and Nines, Six high)
ironmonk collected £161.80 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot £164.80 Main pot £161.80 Rake £3
Board [9c 5h 6h 9h 6s]
Seat 1: vortex49 showed [5c Qc] and lost with Two Pairs, Nines and Sixes, Queen high
Seat 2: luckbox folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: who_the_h folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: animalgod (small blind) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Rob100540 (big blind) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: ironmonk showed [Td Ts] and won (£161.80) with Two Pairs, Tens and Nines, Six high
Seat 9: fiveaces folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 10: Shark23 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Then shortly after:


Game #5382108994: Hold'em NL (£1/£2) - 2007/08/11 - 20:23:40 (UK)
Table "Mildura" Seat 2 is the button.
Seat 1: vortex49 (£211 in chips)
Seat 2: luckbox (£241.55 in chips)
Seat 3: who_the_h (£214.60 in chips)
Seat 4: Kaiser004 (£60 in chips)
Seat 5: Mr_thyr (£80.98 in chips)
Seat 6: animalgod (£230 in chips)
Seat 7: Rob100540 (£212.70 in chips)
Seat 8: ironmonk (£155.90 in chips)
Seat 9: fiveaces (£69.37 in chips)
Seat 10: Shark23 (£203.55 in chips)
who_the_h: posts small blind £1
Kaiser004: posts big blind £2
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to ironmonk [4d 4s]
Mr_thyr: folds
animalgod: folds
Rob100540: folds
ironmonk: calls £2
fiveaces: folds
Shark23: folds
vortex49: raises to £4
luckbox: folds
who_the_h: folds
Kaiser004: folds
ironmonk: calls £2
----- FLOP ----- [9c Kd 3h]
ironmonk: checks
vortex49: checks
----- TURN ----- [9c Kd 3h][3c]
ironmonk: checks
vortex49: bets £2
ironmonk: calls £2
----- RIVER ----- [9c Kd 3h 3c][4c]
ironmonk: bets £149.90 and is all-in
vortex49: calls £149.90
----- SHOW DOWN -----
ironmonk: shows [4d 4s] (A Full House, Fours full of Threes)
vortex49: shows [8c Tc] (A Flush, Ten high)
ironmonk collected £311.80 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot £314.80 Main pot £311.80 Rake £3
Board [9c Kd 3h 3c 4c]
Seat 1: vortex49 showed [8c Tc] and lost with A Flush, Ten high
Seat 2: luckbox (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: who_the_h (small blind) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Kaiser004 (big blind) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Mr_thyr folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: animalgod folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Rob100540 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: ironmonk showed [4d 4s] and won (£311.80) with A Full House, Fours full of Threes
Seat 9: fiveaces folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 10: Shark23 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

And I now sit on a £300 stack with £8 in the roll. So it worked out for me but I think I will go back to some sort of bankroll management now, I have had a lucky streak. Although I could just try and spin up even more.....lol. This brings me up to date, sorry if anyone reads this that this post was so long. I now have a bigger roll than I did on Wednesday tho so for the time being at least I am happy.

Bankroll - £310ish.