Played till 3am on Tuesday night managing to lose £300 after having been £60 up at one point- great. I was playing £0.50/£1 mainly 3 handed being soooo aggressive against some guy called omfg who was calling 99% of my raises and seeming to wake up with an ace or pair every time, it meant I did get paid off on my hands though. At about 2:15am with about a £90 stack I said that I would leave the table either at 3am or when my stack got to over £200. It got to £215 but did I leave? Course not, I stayed till it was all gone, which conincidentally, was 3am. Finally I could leave the room!
At the same time as I was playing I railed bluescouse play $250/$500 3 handed on Betfair agasint Ram Vaswani and an online pro. I watched him dump $50,000 in about 20 minutes and I had not been railing him from the beginning. Watching this made me feel better about losing just £300, the guy is insane.
I won £50 back in a 10 minute session last night in this sick hand:
Game #5217483403: Hold'em NL (£0.50/£1) - 2008/01/30 - 18:30:24 (UK)
Table "Ludwig" Seat 6 is the button.
Seat 2: ironmonk (£50.25 in chips)
Seat 5: andiwins (£92.87 in chips)
Seat 6: h2theizzo (£91.50 in chips)
ironmonk: posts small blind £0.50
andiwins: posts big blind £1
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to ironmonk [5d 5s]
h2theizzo: folds
ironmonk: raises to £3
h2theizzo sits out
andiwins: calls £2
----- FLOP ----- [Ks Kh 5c]
ironmonk: bets £4
andiwins: raises to £11
ironmonk: calls £7
----- TURN ----- [Ks Kh 5c][Qd]
ironmonk: checks
andiwins: bets £12
ironmonk: raises to £36.25 and is all-in
andiwins: calls £24.25
----- RIVER ----- [Ks Kh 5c Qd][5h]
----- SHOW DOWN -----
ironmonk: shows [5d 5s] (Four of a kind, Fives, King high)
andiwins: shows [Qc Kc] (A Full House, Kings full of Queens)
ironmonk collected £98.50 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot £100.50 Main pot £98.50 Rake £2
Board [Ks Kh 5c Qd 5h]
Seat 2: ironmonk (small blind) showed [5d 5s] and won (£98.50) with Four of a kind, Fives, King high
Seat 5: andiwins (big blind) showed [Qc Kc] and lost with A Full House, Kings full of Queens
Seat 6: h2theizzo (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
At one point in the hand I actually said in my head I bet he hits Kings full and wouldn't it be mad if I quad up on the river, and it happened! If anyone reads this I would be interested to know if you think I played the hand OK, I think with my stack size this was the only way to play the hand. Will play more tonight I think, a big multi and some cash games no doubt, hoping to bank a win.
Thursday 31 January 2008
Monday 28 January 2008
Back
Well, its been a long time since my last post. That is partly owing to the fact that I did not play poker for a long time because it was December and a very expensive month and I basically had no money to play with, and partly because I really didn't feel like playing. I managed to play in January, spinning up a £5 deposit into over £300 and withdrawing about £270 of this. However, things turned for the worst. I lost what i had left and on Thursday night lost about £60 which really, really annoyed me. So on Friday I deposited £140 in order to make a total of £200 to build a roll or whatever. Things were going well, but on Friday night I got drunk, and started to play at about 2am, I was playing this guy at $0.50/$1 heads up and he was just owning me so bad, I couldn't get my head round him so I left and had to deposit another £100. In drunk frame of mind I went and played some $1/$2 Omaha and went down to $90 ish, somehow however, in not very long this went up to about $680 and I really cant remember how. I then had £340 - but all in the one room, this is the point I should have left, £40 up by a miracle. However, I of course got greedy and ended up losing the lot in about the next hour, Omaha is a crazy crazy game. A guy next to me had just done a $600 stack in no time so I just followed suit.
Well, I then called it a night at 4:30am, mega pissed off. Still on tilt Saturday I managed to donk off another £250 or so, playing various games and limits. Never in the frame of mind to turn temporary wins into permanent ones. Well all that left me with about £22 in my bank account and I don't get paid till the 16th. So I had to ring my bank and arrange a new overdraft, that I had worked so hard to clear. It's funny how it can all turn around so very quickly. I wonder if I will ever learn? Probably not, especially after reading sites like this.
I just got off the phone to the bank and have arranged a new £1000 overdraft, I'm somewhat frightened about receiving this money as I can easily see myself losing it. Already I am making plans in my head of what to do with it: I will put £200 into PokerStars and another £200 into InterPoker, and see where I go from there. I've had enough of the ugly Betfred, although I might try to qualify for the $2,000,000 guaranteed they have coming up soon. I plan to play mainly MTT's. Nice idea but lets see how long it will last.
I have got to thinking recently, how many of my kind of player are there out there? I remember reading that only 5% of online poker players are winning players...5%. That means that 95% of us that enjoy the thrill of the virtual felt, huddled over the monitor for sometimes hours on end, clicking the deposit page over and over are losing our money. Sure we have a few wins here and there, the game can seem so easy sometimes, and it's for this reason that so many people will remain trapped in the endless cycle of winning a bit, but ultimately losing more, always reaching for the same heights of the likes of Brian Townsend and the shipitholla boys. How many people are thinking that if they can do it, why can't I? - I've read just as many books, have put in just as many hands, have made just as amazing river calls with bottom pair, I deserve to be a winner... and no matter how many setbacks I have, I WILL make the kind of money one day that will enable me to do this professionally and live out the dream that so few people actually have. We've all thought it at some points, right?
To escape the daily grind is such an alluring prospect that I don't think I will ever quit playing poker, sure I will have breaks here and there, but like so many others before me, Ed Hollis, Luckyjimm etc, we will always keep coming back as long as the sites stay in business, and most likely always lose, I wish my fellow degenerates the best of luck, they need it as much as I do.
I plan on winning the Sunday Million before this year is up, wish me luck?
Well, I then called it a night at 4:30am, mega pissed off. Still on tilt Saturday I managed to donk off another £250 or so, playing various games and limits. Never in the frame of mind to turn temporary wins into permanent ones. Well all that left me with about £22 in my bank account and I don't get paid till the 16th. So I had to ring my bank and arrange a new overdraft, that I had worked so hard to clear. It's funny how it can all turn around so very quickly. I wonder if I will ever learn? Probably not, especially after reading sites like this.
I just got off the phone to the bank and have arranged a new £1000 overdraft, I'm somewhat frightened about receiving this money as I can easily see myself losing it. Already I am making plans in my head of what to do with it: I will put £200 into PokerStars and another £200 into InterPoker, and see where I go from there. I've had enough of the ugly Betfred, although I might try to qualify for the $2,000,000 guaranteed they have coming up soon. I plan to play mainly MTT's. Nice idea but lets see how long it will last.
I have got to thinking recently, how many of my kind of player are there out there? I remember reading that only 5% of online poker players are winning players...5%. That means that 95% of us that enjoy the thrill of the virtual felt, huddled over the monitor for sometimes hours on end, clicking the deposit page over and over are losing our money. Sure we have a few wins here and there, the game can seem so easy sometimes, and it's for this reason that so many people will remain trapped in the endless cycle of winning a bit, but ultimately losing more, always reaching for the same heights of the likes of Brian Townsend and the shipitholla boys. How many people are thinking that if they can do it, why can't I? - I've read just as many books, have put in just as many hands, have made just as amazing river calls with bottom pair, I deserve to be a winner... and no matter how many setbacks I have, I WILL make the kind of money one day that will enable me to do this professionally and live out the dream that so few people actually have. We've all thought it at some points, right?
To escape the daily grind is such an alluring prospect that I don't think I will ever quit playing poker, sure I will have breaks here and there, but like so many others before me, Ed Hollis, Luckyjimm etc, we will always keep coming back as long as the sites stay in business, and most likely always lose, I wish my fellow degenerates the best of luck, they need it as much as I do.
I plan on winning the Sunday Million before this year is up, wish me luck?
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