My Betfred roll stands at £390 now, and that's with not really playing that much. I like to 4 table with two 6 max and two 8 max tables, pleeeeeeenty of fish and my roll would be a lot higher if it wasn't for the horrible rivers I have been getting lately. Like J3 beating my KK on a JQ7 flop, AK making runner runner straight when i held JQ on a 9 10 K flop, all in on flop, turn J river Q. That's just a couple of examples but luck evens out and these donks are paying me off in the long run.
I started playing this guy Heads Up quite a bit, an uber aggressive luck box who crippled my roll at one stage leaving me just £83 in the roll and $50 that I sat with, however I made it all back calling his big bluffs with marginal hands like 3rd pair, we have had a few crazy sessions with huge swings. I don't think I am properly rolled for heads up play though, the swings are too huge and its VERY easy to tilt so I will steer clear for now I think, it was fun though, our average pot was $65, in a $50 room! Where most of the others were just $4, shows you how crazy our sessions were, both being very aggressive.
I feel like I am playing well at the moment, and like being rolled for a level for once, almost every session I play is a winning one. I will move up to $0.50/$1 only once I reach $2000 (£1000), this will probably take a while, but at least I am not spending my wages :-D, things are good.
Thursday, 27 September 2007
Wednesday, 19 September 2007
Running well
Since my last post I have amassed a roll of £263 on Betfred and that's after withdrawing £20 to cover the cost of a t-shirt I bought online. The games are loose and there are fish a plenty. I now mostly 3 table $50 when I get the chance to play. I mixed up the rooms/stakes before I got to where I am now however...
It could have all gone wrong at one stage... I was getting fed up with grinding and decided to spin up, so sat with $200 in $1/$2 which was all i had at the time barring £7. I got off to a crap start and was down to $90. However, I battled on and played well and caught a few fish, leaving the room with $465. That was my only blip tho and other than that I have been fairly sensible. I like multi tabling the $50 rooms, cos you can make a lot of money in there, especially because a lot of the players are so bad.
In other news, I played some live poker at Riley's last week, came 5th of 18, 2 off the money. I think I played very well, and decided I don't like live poker that much, especially with loud obnoxious people and chavs. Playing live with friends however is fun, but I definitely prefer playing online, and far more cash to be won.
I haven't touched my huge $25 roll on PKR yet, might use it as an emergency source if it all goes horribly wrong on Betfred, but it hopefully won't come to that. I also haven't yet cashed my last wages cheque, I'm trying to hold out as long as I can that way I can't spend it and I should be able to save more, I'm getting so sensible these days :-)
Bankroll - £263
It could have all gone wrong at one stage... I was getting fed up with grinding and decided to spin up, so sat with $200 in $1/$2 which was all i had at the time barring £7. I got off to a crap start and was down to $90. However, I battled on and played well and caught a few fish, leaving the room with $465. That was my only blip tho and other than that I have been fairly sensible. I like multi tabling the $50 rooms, cos you can make a lot of money in there, especially because a lot of the players are so bad.
In other news, I played some live poker at Riley's last week, came 5th of 18, 2 off the money. I think I played very well, and decided I don't like live poker that much, especially with loud obnoxious people and chavs. Playing live with friends however is fun, but I definitely prefer playing online, and far more cash to be won.
I haven't touched my huge $25 roll on PKR yet, might use it as an emergency source if it all goes horribly wrong on Betfred, but it hopefully won't come to that. I also haven't yet cashed my last wages cheque, I'm trying to hold out as long as I can that way I can't spend it and I should be able to save more, I'm getting so sensible these days :-)
Bankroll - £263
Monday, 10 September 2007
Star spotting!
It's Monday afternoon at work and I had a great weekend. I went up to London on Saturday with some friends as I do quite often to go on the piss etc. As I was walking through Leicester Square I noticed the new casino that has opened there had the posters for the WSOPE (World Series of Poker Europe) and I remembered that it was on at the moment and thought I might see someone famous, but then thought I probably wouldn't because they were most probably inside and London's a busy place. Anyway, after getting some food I made my way to the theatre to see Les Mis for the third time lol. So I was round the back streets of Leicester Square and who did I see standing there? None other than Phil Hellmuth! He was in all his UltimateBet gear and wearing dark sunglasses on a non sunny day and he stood out quite a bit, I was a bit shocked at randomly seeing Phil Hellmuth wandering around the back streets of china town but I said "Hellmuth" to him and he completely ignored me, LOL!
I thought that would be the end of my star spotting, however, at about 9pm, already pretty hammered we decided to see if we could get into the casino, and we could! All you had to do was register there and then and that was it, we were in! So I snuck into a type of players lounge bit and started seeing so many famous poker players! Marcel Luske was first, followed by Devilfish, Scotty Nguyen, Brian Townsend, Patrik Antonius, Doyle Brunson and many many more! They were all playing a PLO event and they were dotted around various places in the casino and anyone could just watch them I ended up getting extremely drunk and having my photo taken with some of the pros and generally had a wicked pissed and somewhat surreal time. I also got to try on someones WSOP bracelet, what a great day!
Anyway, on the poker side of things, I withdrew $100 from PKR which I put on to Betfred to try out that site cos I heard its a goldmine with all the shit players. This leaves me with $25 on PKR which I am just going to use for fun cos it really is just too slow. On Inter, I played some Omaha and made about $55 in a $0.25 room so that was pleasing, giving me a roll of £66 roughly. Last night however, I lost the lot in less than an hour playing Omaha and Hold em, Omaha is awesome when you run well but I played so shite and tilted it all away. This loss really pissed me off more than usual and I was very angry with myself, I was playing very late and I was tired and half drunk so I put it down to that somewhat, but I shouldn't have been playing in bad conditions so only have myself to blame.
So now I have £50 on Betfred and $25 on PKR, which has all come about from that tournament win on PKR a few weeks ago. Not deposited in a long time now, long may it continue.
I thought that would be the end of my star spotting, however, at about 9pm, already pretty hammered we decided to see if we could get into the casino, and we could! All you had to do was register there and then and that was it, we were in! So I snuck into a type of players lounge bit and started seeing so many famous poker players! Marcel Luske was first, followed by Devilfish, Scotty Nguyen, Brian Townsend, Patrik Antonius, Doyle Brunson and many many more! They were all playing a PLO event and they were dotted around various places in the casino and anyone could just watch them I ended up getting extremely drunk and having my photo taken with some of the pros and generally had a wicked pissed and somewhat surreal time. I also got to try on someones WSOP bracelet, what a great day!
Anyway, on the poker side of things, I withdrew $100 from PKR which I put on to Betfred to try out that site cos I heard its a goldmine with all the shit players. This leaves me with $25 on PKR which I am just going to use for fun cos it really is just too slow. On Inter, I played some Omaha and made about $55 in a $0.25 room so that was pleasing, giving me a roll of £66 roughly. Last night however, I lost the lot in less than an hour playing Omaha and Hold em, Omaha is awesome when you run well but I played so shite and tilted it all away. This loss really pissed me off more than usual and I was very angry with myself, I was playing very late and I was tired and half drunk so I put it down to that somewhat, but I shouldn't have been playing in bad conditions so only have myself to blame.
So now I have £50 on Betfred and $25 on PKR, which has all come about from that tournament win on PKR a few weeks ago. Not deposited in a long time now, long may it continue.
Monday, 3 September 2007
Been a bit bad...
I lost the £36 on InterPoker in one evening. It started when I was testing out the 'proview' tables, allowing you to play more rooms. I played 4 in total, 3 x £3.60 sit and gos and a £2 multi and failed to cash in any of them. I think when the tables are small and I am playing more than 2 rooms I play worse, its impossible to watch players and get reads and everything is based on the cards.
Nevertheless, I decided to 4 table £0.05/£0.10 cash games after this sitting with £5 in each room, was playing like a bit of a moron really, managed to double up a couple of times in different rooms but inevitably lost it all. When I was down to my last room, I had £7 and just played shit almost on purpose, raised big with trash and pushing on the flop. 2nd time I tried this (which was almost my last hand I had unchecked the 'autopost blind' box) I raised big with 106s flop gave me a gutshot with 2 hearts and I pushed and got called by QJh, he hit a J. It was like I wanted to lose, playing shit on purpose, which was reminiscent of previous behaviour of mine which however had cost me a lot more than 20 odd quid (more like many hundreds). Well the insane moment was over and I went to bed not really caring too much.
Over on PKR I have played cash as well, I even played Omaha $0.25/$0.50 HU in a 6max room, managing to make $30 here. My roll on here is something like $80 now, so at least I have not gone bust which is probably because I am playing small stakes, although one bad beat at a cash game would have seen me cripple my roll (and donk off the rest no doubt).
I was tempted to cash out $50 again on PKR when I had about $95 and deposit £25 on Inter again, however it was approaching the beginning of a new month and I remembered rakeback so I thought it sensible to wait. I didn't expect to get much cos I really haven't been playing much on Inter however I received £43.54 today which was very pleasing as it was a lot more than I expected. Will continue to play the small stake S&Gs and probably small stakes cash as well.
Ignoring where I did a $50/£25 switch from PKR to Inter I haven't deposited in 18 days...
Bankroll - £80ish
Nevertheless, I decided to 4 table £0.05/£0.10 cash games after this sitting with £5 in each room, was playing like a bit of a moron really, managed to double up a couple of times in different rooms but inevitably lost it all. When I was down to my last room, I had £7 and just played shit almost on purpose, raised big with trash and pushing on the flop. 2nd time I tried this (which was almost my last hand I had unchecked the 'autopost blind' box) I raised big with 106s flop gave me a gutshot with 2 hearts and I pushed and got called by QJh, he hit a J. It was like I wanted to lose, playing shit on purpose, which was reminiscent of previous behaviour of mine which however had cost me a lot more than 20 odd quid (more like many hundreds). Well the insane moment was over and I went to bed not really caring too much.
Over on PKR I have played cash as well, I even played Omaha $0.25/$0.50 HU in a 6max room, managing to make $30 here. My roll on here is something like $80 now, so at least I have not gone bust which is probably because I am playing small stakes, although one bad beat at a cash game would have seen me cripple my roll (and donk off the rest no doubt).
I was tempted to cash out $50 again on PKR when I had about $95 and deposit £25 on Inter again, however it was approaching the beginning of a new month and I remembered rakeback so I thought it sensible to wait. I didn't expect to get much cos I really haven't been playing much on Inter however I received £43.54 today which was very pleasing as it was a lot more than I expected. Will continue to play the small stake S&Gs and probably small stakes cash as well.
Ignoring where I did a $50/£25 switch from PKR to Inter I haven't deposited in 18 days...
Bankroll - £80ish
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