Roll over $850 now, it was over $900 at one point tho. I withdrew $100 also, so I have basically made back all I lost on Betfred. Loving the 9 seater $1/$2 game on PokerStars, plenty of bad players who have been paying off my big hands. Keep playing turbo tournaments and not winning, really shouldn't they lower my bankroll.
Going well tho hope it can continue.
Monday, 29 October 2007
Friday, 26 October 2007
$510
Since my last post I sat with $100 in $1/$2 full ring and left on just over $200, whatever i had a $249 roll. Didn't play the following night. Played last night, a $20 180 man S&G on Stars, came about 23rd, top 18 paid. Played a $10 27 man S&G and did awful. Played the $11 rebuy $45K guaranteed with no plan to rebuy. Managed to get it all in pre flop with JJ against 66 when the board came Q 8 5....4.....7 - no rebuy. So with just over $200 i sat in $1/$2 full ring again. Played well, hit some nice cards (but not amazing) other people played bad and I left that room 2 hours later on about $503 (had been $550 at peak). Roll is now $510. I feel the players in full ring tables are a lot weaker. Might post some hand histories if I can find them later. Can't keep a poker player down.
Bankroll - $510
Bankroll - $510
Wednesday, 24 October 2007
Got a mini-roll
I had to wait until last night before I was able to withdraw the $415 that I had put into PokerStars on Sunday night. I didn't play at all on Monday, but last night I had a dabble. I had about $450 in my account so I thought the only sensible thing to do was to play a bit of $2/$4 9 handed. I sat with the max $400 and had $630 when I sat out to take my dog for a walk, when I came back I had been kicked out of the room which is probably a good thing because if I stayed I might have thrown away my profit.
I then withdrew $500 - to cover the £250 I had deposited into InterPoker and PokerStars after losing my Betfred roll, so I am even with the bank again. This left me with $170 which I had sort of regained from my Betfred roll. I played a little 6 max $0.50/$1 but lost about $40 overall, I think I play better in bigger stakes! So now I have about $130 on PokerStars, I might transfer that roll to another site or maybe just leave it there and play some decent tournies or something. At least I have a small roll to play with again and who knows I might spin it up big again, I've done it before :-)
I then withdrew $500 - to cover the £250 I had deposited into InterPoker and PokerStars after losing my Betfred roll, so I am even with the bank again. This left me with $170 which I had sort of regained from my Betfred roll. I played a little 6 max $0.50/$1 but lost about $40 overall, I think I play better in bigger stakes! So now I have about $130 on PokerStars, I might transfer that roll to another site or maybe just leave it there and play some decent tournies or something. At least I have a small roll to play with again and who knows I might spin it up big again, I've done it before :-)
Monday, 22 October 2007
Cashed in the Sunday Million!
Bit of a party at my house yesterday, was a bit drunk, thought it wise to deposit $415 onto PokerStars and enter the Sunday Mil for $215 and use the rest for 2 $0.50/$1 tables. Soon got bored of the cash games and focused on the tourny. Well roughly 4 hours after it started I finished in 747th place out of 6800ish for $260. Pretty good considering it was probably the worst run of cards I have ever had, had KK twice the whole time and only won the blinds, AK once which missed and lost, QQ which lost a big pot. So, $45 for 4 hours work is pretty balla, ship it.
Saturday, 20 October 2007
Inevitable?
I have lost my entire roll. Since my last post my roll fluctuated and I was down to £75 at one point before working it all the way back up to £450. I managed to download Betfred poker at work, which I didn't think I could do, and play whilst I was working. Probably a big mistake, its not the ideal environment to play in, although on the first day I made about £130, the 2nd day about £75 and on the 3rd I was up £80 and had £450 in the roll, then it all went wrong. A combination of playing like a tilting fish and bluffing too much and I lost some. Then at lunchtime I played $1/$2 HU and lost a lot, got unlucky a lot too. Managed to get it all in pre flop with AKo against his AQo and he made a flush for a $360 pot. A lot of coolers etc and by the time I went home I had just £50 left.
Time to dig my heels in I thought and work it back. At home I played a guy $0.50/$1 HU, he was insane and kept pushing pre flop for $60+, I quite easily took him for $100. I got my roll back up to about £120 then played the same guy who had got lucky against me earlier in $1/$2 HU and sat with $100, left on $50 however.
Saturday morning now, came into the game with £83 roll and sat with $175 in a HU $1/$2 game. Managed to play very well and took someone for the $190 they were sitting with. They left, so did I with £170 and feeling good about myself knowing I could work it back again. Then I made my most fatal mistake, more stupid that playing limits I was not rolled for, I sat in a 6 max room of $0.50/$1 OMAHA... It was HU for a while and I was playing solid and was up $20, then the room filled and it all went wrong. So many fishes and outdraws and I started becoming a reckless gambling fish myself. On one hand after I had lost a lot I called a raise and a re raise for $28 with something trashy like Qh6h4hX and the flop was 3 5 x with 2 spades, so I needed a 2 or a 7 for a straight, anyway we were all all in, so much value in the pot, and the turn was a glorious 7, however I was up against a set of 7's and a flush draw and the river brought the inevitable spade to see the $265 pot that was mine one card ago ship the other way. I quickly lost the remainder of what I had holding A92x on a 9 3 2 rainbow board, the guy hit a 4 on the turn for a straight when we were all in on the flop, happy days.
Remembering the $25 I had on PKR, I logged on and withdrew it, then deposited the equivalent £12.50 onto Betfred in an attempt to spin it. Sat with it in a $0.25/$0.50 HU room. Was winning then this guy decided he liked to go all in PF if i raised all the time. I called him with A4s and his KJ won, back to even, then same thing happened and I stupidly called him with K8s against his A8. The very next hand he pushes and I call with 1010, he has J9off, the flop comes a nice 10 high with 2 hearts, Q of hearts on the turn however and I can already see how this was ending, needing a K, an 8 or a heart on the river he promptly hit an 8 to completely bust me, nice way to end it with a runner runner against top set. Is somebody trying to tell me something?
Well, it has been a fun couple of months of trying to build a roll. It was all going swimmingly for a long time, but then a lapse from BRM and the inevitable happened. My roll at peak reached £550, how I wish I could go back to how it was then, I would surely drop down the levels. Maybe I am not cut out to be a successful poker player? Mabye I just have too much gamble in me, the bigger stakes seem so alluring, especially with a half decent roll behind me. I guess it all stems from when I turned £20 into over £8000 in 10 days 2 winters ago by moving up the stakes quickly. Once you have tasted how easily it can be done its very hard to stay disciplined, of course that money didn't last long however, losing most of it in a drunken £10/£20 session in a couple of hours in the early hours of the morning. How cruel this game can be at times.
Well i made a fair few withdrawals over the last couple of months, probably up about £200 - £300 or something in that time. However, if I want to play again I need to make a proper deposit which I really do NOT want to do. I have been doing so well on saving money recently; not really going out, buying cheap food for the week, withdrawing bits from my poker roll to cover my spending etc, and with Christmas coming up, my car MOT and tax due, I need all the money I can get. Yesterday I had an extra £450, which probably would have paid for the lot, but there is no point dwelling. Its possible I may not post in a while, I'm not sure if I am going to continue playing. Depositing £50 or whatever will seem like such a small amount on the tables, yet in real bankroll terms it is a lot and I need it, have had better days :-(
Bankroll - £0.00
edit - just lost £50 on Interpoker, played for hours and lost it on the last hand with my AK against some morons A8, ffs.
Time to dig my heels in I thought and work it back. At home I played a guy $0.50/$1 HU, he was insane and kept pushing pre flop for $60+, I quite easily took him for $100. I got my roll back up to about £120 then played the same guy who had got lucky against me earlier in $1/$2 HU and sat with $100, left on $50 however.
Saturday morning now, came into the game with £83 roll and sat with $175 in a HU $1/$2 game. Managed to play very well and took someone for the $190 they were sitting with. They left, so did I with £170 and feeling good about myself knowing I could work it back again. Then I made my most fatal mistake, more stupid that playing limits I was not rolled for, I sat in a 6 max room of $0.50/$1 OMAHA... It was HU for a while and I was playing solid and was up $20, then the room filled and it all went wrong. So many fishes and outdraws and I started becoming a reckless gambling fish myself. On one hand after I had lost a lot I called a raise and a re raise for $28 with something trashy like Qh6h4hX and the flop was 3 5 x with 2 spades, so I needed a 2 or a 7 for a straight, anyway we were all all in, so much value in the pot, and the turn was a glorious 7, however I was up against a set of 7's and a flush draw and the river brought the inevitable spade to see the $265 pot that was mine one card ago ship the other way. I quickly lost the remainder of what I had holding A92x on a 9 3 2 rainbow board, the guy hit a 4 on the turn for a straight when we were all in on the flop, happy days.
Remembering the $25 I had on PKR, I logged on and withdrew it, then deposited the equivalent £12.50 onto Betfred in an attempt to spin it. Sat with it in a $0.25/$0.50 HU room. Was winning then this guy decided he liked to go all in PF if i raised all the time. I called him with A4s and his KJ won, back to even, then same thing happened and I stupidly called him with K8s against his A8. The very next hand he pushes and I call with 1010, he has J9off, the flop comes a nice 10 high with 2 hearts, Q of hearts on the turn however and I can already see how this was ending, needing a K, an 8 or a heart on the river he promptly hit an 8 to completely bust me, nice way to end it with a runner runner against top set. Is somebody trying to tell me something?
Well, it has been a fun couple of months of trying to build a roll. It was all going swimmingly for a long time, but then a lapse from BRM and the inevitable happened. My roll at peak reached £550, how I wish I could go back to how it was then, I would surely drop down the levels. Maybe I am not cut out to be a successful poker player? Mabye I just have too much gamble in me, the bigger stakes seem so alluring, especially with a half decent roll behind me. I guess it all stems from when I turned £20 into over £8000 in 10 days 2 winters ago by moving up the stakes quickly. Once you have tasted how easily it can be done its very hard to stay disciplined, of course that money didn't last long however, losing most of it in a drunken £10/£20 session in a couple of hours in the early hours of the morning. How cruel this game can be at times.
Well i made a fair few withdrawals over the last couple of months, probably up about £200 - £300 or something in that time. However, if I want to play again I need to make a proper deposit which I really do NOT want to do. I have been doing so well on saving money recently; not really going out, buying cheap food for the week, withdrawing bits from my poker roll to cover my spending etc, and with Christmas coming up, my car MOT and tax due, I need all the money I can get. Yesterday I had an extra £450, which probably would have paid for the lot, but there is no point dwelling. Its possible I may not post in a while, I'm not sure if I am going to continue playing. Depositing £50 or whatever will seem like such a small amount on the tables, yet in real bankroll terms it is a lot and I need it, have had better days :-(
Bankroll - £0.00
edit - just lost £50 on Interpoker, played for hours and lost it on the last hand with my AK against some morons A8, ffs.
Friday, 12 October 2007
Running bad...
Played last night; stupidly played 2 rooms of $0.50/$1 and ran very badly. I was getting sucked out on all over the place when I had the best hand and making shit calls when I had the worst hand, serves me right for stepping up the levels too early. Anyway had dinner, 2 nurofens and a hot toddy (got a cold at the moment), sat in my room with the heater on high and my hood up to try and sweat the cold out of me, and play some poker. Might not have been a good idea to play whilst feeling shitty these last few days, they have all been losing days, but I did nonetheless.
Anyway after dinner things continued in bad fashion, so I entered a $109 double stack multi with 123 runners and sat in a $50 cash game at the same time. Had got my stack to over $110 before my aces lost to ducks, I knew he had made a set yet couldn't stop betting. Feeling tilty, I sat in a $100, 10 seater room and quickly lost my buy in, topped up, left the $50 room and concentrated on the tournament and the $100 room. I ended up placing 25th in the tournament, top 20 got paid, about $3.7K for 1st. Final hand i had AJ on the button, a serial pre flop raiser made it 2,400 with blinds at 400/800, this was my first remotely good hand in a very long time and I figured he was weak so I pushed for about 8,600 total. He thought for a while and called with 33, the flop was K 10 K with two hearts actually making me a favourite on the flop, turn K and river blanked however and I was out, 5 off the money, I can't hit :-(
Whilst I was playing this tourney however I ran good in the cash game, playing aggressive and fairly loose and hitting a few flops eventually cashing out on $420 (only cos everyone left the room in sheer fear of my de-stacking ability). So my roll is now £350, which could have been worse, need to retain my discipline.
Anyway after dinner things continued in bad fashion, so I entered a $109 double stack multi with 123 runners and sat in a $50 cash game at the same time. Had got my stack to over $110 before my aces lost to ducks, I knew he had made a set yet couldn't stop betting. Feeling tilty, I sat in a $100, 10 seater room and quickly lost my buy in, topped up, left the $50 room and concentrated on the tournament and the $100 room. I ended up placing 25th in the tournament, top 20 got paid, about $3.7K for 1st. Final hand i had AJ on the button, a serial pre flop raiser made it 2,400 with blinds at 400/800, this was my first remotely good hand in a very long time and I figured he was weak so I pushed for about 8,600 total. He thought for a while and called with 33, the flop was K 10 K with two hearts actually making me a favourite on the flop, turn K and river blanked however and I was out, 5 off the money, I can't hit :-(
Whilst I was playing this tourney however I ran good in the cash game, playing aggressive and fairly loose and hitting a few flops eventually cashing out on $420 (only cos everyone left the room in sheer fear of my de-stacking ability). So my roll is now £350, which could have been worse, need to retain my discipline.
Wednesday, 10 October 2007
Minor slip up...
Last night I played poker till 3am. I was stuck about £260 at one point. It all started when I met some idiot HU who managed to beat me for 2 buy ins. I then had dinner and came back and 4 tabled and continued to lose bits here and there. So, stupidly I decided to buy into $1/$2 with $40 and lost that, think I might have done it again, then started to buy in for $80. Things were going crap and I was getting pissed off. Took a short break at about 1 then sat back in the room. Was sitting on about $200, this quickly went down to $80 and I could see myself losing the lot. However, I topped up to the full $200, dug my heels in and gradually began to outplay the table and build my stack, a lot of players left and I was HU with a guy who had been playing for hours and had sucked out his gutshot on my flopped set for a $260 pot earlier, then beaten my JJ with AA all in on a low flop. I managed to outplay this guy tho, before the table became full again. I left at 3 with a $600 stack and had made a great comeback, meaning I was only down £33 for the night, nothing to worry about.
I then sat in $5/$10 for about 2 rounds lol, was scary and I lost $10. Was just fucking around there lol and wasn't planning to stick around, lucky for me I didn't get dealt AK or anything!
In hindsight, it wasn't a good idea to play $1/$2 in order to make back what I had lost seeing as I was steaming a bit, it was hard to not tilt and play well again. But i managed it and luckily managed to make it back. I just hope something similar doesn't happen again cos next time I might not be so lucky. I began to feel like I had so many times, with the reckless abandon for the value of money, only in previous years it had ended a lot worse. But I want to keep this a thing of the past.
I then sat in $5/$10 for about 2 rounds lol, was scary and I lost $10. Was just fucking around there lol and wasn't planning to stick around, lucky for me I didn't get dealt AK or anything!
In hindsight, it wasn't a good idea to play $1/$2 in order to make back what I had lost seeing as I was steaming a bit, it was hard to not tilt and play well again. But i managed it and luckily managed to make it back. I just hope something similar doesn't happen again cos next time I might not be so lucky. I began to feel like I had so many times, with the reckless abandon for the value of money, only in previous years it had ended a lot worse. But I want to keep this a thing of the past.
Friday, 5 October 2007
Steady as she goes...
Not too much to report really but I thought I should update. My roll on Betfred now stands at £450, I have withdrawn about £100 since I deposited that original £50 tho, so I am doing well and considering that I am not finding much time to play at all, building steadily. I am being more conscious of money in general and trying to save as much as I can, and the casual withdrawals I am making help to keep my real life 'bankroll' in check, clearing my overdraft is my main priority.
In my last post I said I would steer clear of Heads Up play. Well I didn't, but I have had a lot of success there, probably more than anywhere else. I think I have an edge over a lot of the HU small stakes players on ipoker and my aggressive strategy often causes people to play tiltily and what feels to me like they are out of their comfort zones ,because they have to call me with the same mediocre hands that I am raising with. Heads Up play is also good when you are keen for a quick 20 minute session or something and just want to play a lot of hands rather than grinding the fuller tables.
I have played quite a few multis recently. Ones to note: a $25 rebuy 6 max tourney where 1st was $1700 and I came 12th for $58. A $2000 freeroll on Inter (through rakeback) which I came 40th in for $60 (1st was over $2.5k!). Cashed in a few more but nothing of any significant interest, still hoping for a big first place soon and I know it is coming.
An interesting point, I have noticed that I don't tilt nearly as much as I used to when using bankroll management, I feel like I have turned over a new leaf and I am a different player to how I was just 2 months ago. If only I had realised how important BRM was from the beginning I could have saved myself a lot of cash, hopefully now that I am on the straight and narrow however I will be able to make it all back, slowly of course but slowly is better than losing everything, watch this space.
Bankroll - £450 + $25 on PKR
In my last post I said I would steer clear of Heads Up play. Well I didn't, but I have had a lot of success there, probably more than anywhere else. I think I have an edge over a lot of the HU small stakes players on ipoker and my aggressive strategy often causes people to play tiltily and what feels to me like they are out of their comfort zones ,because they have to call me with the same mediocre hands that I am raising with. Heads Up play is also good when you are keen for a quick 20 minute session or something and just want to play a lot of hands rather than grinding the fuller tables.
I have played quite a few multis recently. Ones to note: a $25 rebuy 6 max tourney where 1st was $1700 and I came 12th for $58. A $2000 freeroll on Inter (through rakeback) which I came 40th in for $60 (1st was over $2.5k!). Cashed in a few more but nothing of any significant interest, still hoping for a big first place soon and I know it is coming.
An interesting point, I have noticed that I don't tilt nearly as much as I used to when using bankroll management, I feel like I have turned over a new leaf and I am a different player to how I was just 2 months ago. If only I had realised how important BRM was from the beginning I could have saved myself a lot of cash, hopefully now that I am on the straight and narrow however I will be able to make it all back, slowly of course but slowly is better than losing everything, watch this space.
Bankroll - £450 + $25 on PKR
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