Well its official, I am now a member of team Badbeat.
I got the news from Riggy on Monday it means that my Bankroll is now doubled allowing me to play 100nl regularly and 200nl when games are soft.
Its a relief for me after being holed $500 after the first week to prove what I can do and grind a $2k profit over the course of 6 weeks.
I think i'm experienced enough to hit 100nl hard and make decent profit although i'm sure it will have its challenging moments.
Its been one of the best poker weeks of my life tbh. Got my new computer now on route, have been running really good both live and online and have achieved my three month goal of becoming properly affiliated with badbeat.
I think my next challenge is to get into a routine once again. I dont think that laying in until 3pm is plus ev even with late finishes with the poker. I want to get exercising regularly and make sure I hammer home a squash bet i've placed with a friend of mine.
However i'm off to play the £50 deepo with Alex 2nite and am hoping for a repeat final table performance ala last week, if not cash games ftw..i'll be broke by tommorow
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
Sunday, 27 September 2009
Goooooood week
This week has been very good to me poker wise. I've won about $1k online and £1100 live in the last seven days. As a poker player its sometimes hard to disguish with your game improving and you simply running good for any particular week. I feel like ive folded alot more online, not getting into high variance spots and in general just believing the story my opponents are telling.
I'm beggining to find that online is all about quantity over quality at the lower stakes. You can auto pilot for 5 hours playing 6 tables and make more money than if you were honed into every decision, trying to outwit your opponents and engaging in 3 bet and 4 betting wars. My mentor Jeff sais that I overthink and overwork hands and I would tend to agree.
I played the £75 fo at Luton on Friday night, heading down there with my chief mentor and super sick player Alex Martin. I managed to get my AK in vs AQ fairly early doors to build a 10k stack going into the first break. I managed to play table bully for a while grinding my stack up to 18k ish. Then the following hand happened. I raise in late position to 1200 (blinds 200/400) with 55, btn who is sitting on 6000 chips ships in and SB who happens to be the craziest player at Luton, and a thoroughly nice bloke for that matter over calls. This leaves me with 4800 to call leaving me around 14k behind. Knowing that because of the sb's tendency to push any flop that connects him my implied odds were too great to fold. The flop came down beautifully for me, 5 2 9 r. Sb instantly ships in for 30k and i snap with my set of fives. Avi tables A9 off, practically leaving him dead and btn flips 88, blank blank on turn n river leave me scooping a near 40k pot. I managed to build on tht and go to the final table average in chips. However despite relentless stealing and grinding away at some weak players in the blinds eventually I ran my 1010 into someones K3o for a 70k pot, a King door card sealed my fate and I was left to settle for 4th.
I proceeded to spin the £400 for 4th up to £1200 playing cash on some of the weakest tables ive played at Luton.
I need to put some more hours in online and will hopefully put in a few k 2nite.
I've also decided a need a hobby
I'm beggining to find that online is all about quantity over quality at the lower stakes. You can auto pilot for 5 hours playing 6 tables and make more money than if you were honed into every decision, trying to outwit your opponents and engaging in 3 bet and 4 betting wars. My mentor Jeff sais that I overthink and overwork hands and I would tend to agree.
I played the £75 fo at Luton on Friday night, heading down there with my chief mentor and super sick player Alex Martin. I managed to get my AK in vs AQ fairly early doors to build a 10k stack going into the first break. I managed to play table bully for a while grinding my stack up to 18k ish. Then the following hand happened. I raise in late position to 1200 (blinds 200/400) with 55, btn who is sitting on 6000 chips ships in and SB who happens to be the craziest player at Luton, and a thoroughly nice bloke for that matter over calls. This leaves me with 4800 to call leaving me around 14k behind. Knowing that because of the sb's tendency to push any flop that connects him my implied odds were too great to fold. The flop came down beautifully for me, 5 2 9 r. Sb instantly ships in for 30k and i snap with my set of fives. Avi tables A9 off, practically leaving him dead and btn flips 88, blank blank on turn n river leave me scooping a near 40k pot. I managed to build on tht and go to the final table average in chips. However despite relentless stealing and grinding away at some weak players in the blinds eventually I ran my 1010 into someones K3o for a 70k pot, a King door card sealed my fate and I was left to settle for 4th.
I proceeded to spin the £400 for 4th up to £1200 playing cash on some of the weakest tables ive played at Luton.
I need to put some more hours in online and will hopefully put in a few k 2nite.
I've also decided a need a hobby
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Locked out
Well, my poty mouth has finally got me in trouble. A swingy session which left me going insane (literally) has led to a verbal exchange that has seen my account locked for "security reasons".
This french donk I would have been better off leaving alone tilted me ultra hard, consequenting in a regretable outbust from myself which led him to run to teacher. Although I cant recount exactly what I said, i'm sure due to the time I had been playing and they way it had been going, it was probably as hatefilled as possible for me to articulate (feel free to fill in the blanks)
Hopefully it will all be sorted out and I think ill avoid these outbursts in future, paticulaly against fish. I think ill speak for alot of people when I say that these things are often said in the heat of the moment, at your lowest points and when it feels like hell is closing in on you. I'd compare it to being at a football match, people vent anger, say the worst possible things to get to people, some times you have to man up and be able to shake it off. There are far too many pussies on this planet imo. Rant over.
Poker wise ive been splashing around this week, not playing at the right time or in the right frame of mind, maybe up like $100? but nowhere near my target set of making $1k last week. Its been a pretty bad week pokerwise tbh, bustoed the 50fo at luton getting my money in pretty decent w/1010 on a r flop of 2 4 7 vs some old timers AQo.. Q bink on river gg me. 20k aswell so would have left me with a fair wack at the money.
Worked a couple of days at the beloved Arsnenal. Now have my own box im working for so its quite kool getting to know all the rich millionaires and pretending to be their unequal. These people literally have more money than sense so if badbeat do see the light and be done with me and my foul mouthed I may be asking one of these fat cats for some rollage...ha!
This french donk I would have been better off leaving alone tilted me ultra hard, consequenting in a regretable outbust from myself which led him to run to teacher. Although I cant recount exactly what I said, i'm sure due to the time I had been playing and they way it had been going, it was probably as hatefilled as possible for me to articulate (feel free to fill in the blanks)
Hopefully it will all be sorted out and I think ill avoid these outbursts in future, paticulaly against fish. I think ill speak for alot of people when I say that these things are often said in the heat of the moment, at your lowest points and when it feels like hell is closing in on you. I'd compare it to being at a football match, people vent anger, say the worst possible things to get to people, some times you have to man up and be able to shake it off. There are far too many pussies on this planet imo. Rant over.
Poker wise ive been splashing around this week, not playing at the right time or in the right frame of mind, maybe up like $100? but nowhere near my target set of making $1k last week. Its been a pretty bad week pokerwise tbh, bustoed the 50fo at luton getting my money in pretty decent w/1010 on a r flop of 2 4 7 vs some old timers AQo.. Q bink on river gg me. 20k aswell so would have left me with a fair wack at the money.
Worked a couple of days at the beloved Arsnenal. Now have my own box im working for so its quite kool getting to know all the rich millionaires and pretending to be their unequal. These people literally have more money than sense so if badbeat do see the light and be done with me and my foul mouthed I may be asking one of these fat cats for some rollage...ha!
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Its been going pretty bad on the online poker front lately. Havent had a winning day for nearly a week now, and basically everything I do seems to go wrong.
I'm finding the limp callers at 50nl excruciatingly frustrating. They are slowly sucking the life out of me and at some points are making me stoop to their level. Lost about 8 bi's in the last few days, a downswing I was really hoping to avoid.
Its so frustrating when your not on your game, or things arent going your way. Some days it just seems like everyone is holding the nuts vs you, and then when Mr Tilt comes to visit all hell breaks loose on the ipkr network. I think I may have paid for some nice gifts for the 50nl grinders wives as of late, if any of them ever see daylight to find themselves a girlfriend.
Rant over, its not all bad, live seems to be going well. I'm going again tonight to get away from this bloody computer, hopefully ill take this Donkament down as I have been threatening to do so for a while now.
Played some poker on a pub machine with some friends the other day, was an awesome bit of kit. I managed to luck out a few times to give the impression that my chosen profession looked a fitting one, gg me. Managed to get a bluff/lie through a couple of my friends which is always nice ( :
I find that writing this relaxes me so will try and update as regularly as possible, got two horses in the £30 trip chance so we will see what comes of that....but as usual I will probably leave nursing empty pockets..
I'm finding the limp callers at 50nl excruciatingly frustrating. They are slowly sucking the life out of me and at some points are making me stoop to their level. Lost about 8 bi's in the last few days, a downswing I was really hoping to avoid.
Its so frustrating when your not on your game, or things arent going your way. Some days it just seems like everyone is holding the nuts vs you, and then when Mr Tilt comes to visit all hell breaks loose on the ipkr network. I think I may have paid for some nice gifts for the 50nl grinders wives as of late, if any of them ever see daylight to find themselves a girlfriend.
Rant over, its not all bad, live seems to be going well. I'm going again tonight to get away from this bloody computer, hopefully ill take this Donkament down as I have been threatening to do so for a while now.
Played some poker on a pub machine with some friends the other day, was an awesome bit of kit. I managed to luck out a few times to give the impression that my chosen profession looked a fitting one, gg me. Managed to get a bluff/lie through a couple of my friends which is always nice ( :
I find that writing this relaxes me so will try and update as regularly as possible, got two horses in the £30 trip chance so we will see what comes of that....but as usual I will probably leave nursing empty pockets..
Saturday, 12 September 2009
Its late so this will be a short one.
The last week has been busy to say the least. Played relatively few hands but managed to turn a $1k profit at 50nl, puting my total up to $1500 up in the last 3 weeks.
Graduated on Thursday which was awesome. We were homeless for a couple of days but luckily friends and and very kind B & B lady took us in for a couple of nights! It really was a fitting end to without doubt the three best years of my life, i'm pretty lucky that two of my closest friends live so close otherwise leaving would have hit me three times as hard. Either way, alot of people will be missed.
I got absoloutely trashed at our gradball, which despite early concerns turned out to be as brilliant as our time in Lincoln itself, I look a complete tool in all the photos, unshaven and damn right scruffy, still, why change a habit of a lifetime.
Had a nice much needed win at Luton last night. I think its due as the place has took me for about £1k in the last few months, half way out of the hole aint bad!
I hope i'll continue to run good and enjoy life as much as I am at the minute in weeks to come
The last week has been busy to say the least. Played relatively few hands but managed to turn a $1k profit at 50nl, puting my total up to $1500 up in the last 3 weeks.
Graduated on Thursday which was awesome. We were homeless for a couple of days but luckily friends and and very kind B & B lady took us in for a couple of nights! It really was a fitting end to without doubt the three best years of my life, i'm pretty lucky that two of my closest friends live so close otherwise leaving would have hit me three times as hard. Either way, alot of people will be missed.
I got absoloutely trashed at our gradball, which despite early concerns turned out to be as brilliant as our time in Lincoln itself, I look a complete tool in all the photos, unshaven and damn right scruffy, still, why change a habit of a lifetime.
Had a nice much needed win at Luton last night. I think its due as the place has took me for about £1k in the last few months, half way out of the hole aint bad!
I hope i'll continue to run good and enjoy life as much as I am at the minute in weeks to come
Friday, 4 September 2009
Running bad...playing bad.....and getting even
I've heard alot of online players whinge about running bad and always frowned upon people making noise about their own gambling misfortunes.
But to be fair i've been guilty of this of late. I've had some tough days where flips wernt going my way, some donkeys getting lucky and some days where my discipline has cost me dear.
However i'm beggining to think this is just part of the lifestyle that playing thousands of hands of online poker daily provokes.
Of course if I play 3000 hands in a day i'm going to get unlucky a few times. Of course my QQ will get stacked by JJ at some point, I guess the way to look at it that everything that goes around comes around, and the times that we get lucky are instantly more forgettable than the sickening beat we are quick to moan about.
Anyway, the poker is going well as a whole. I've been a trainee for two weeks now and have grinder from a $600 loss after the first 5 days to a healthy $500 profit after two weeks.
My target is to make $2500 by the end of September and become a full time badbeat trader. I think its a target that is within reach if I can stop spewing in ridiculous pots as shown below
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4659308
And stop calling a drunk bloke who announces to the table "I am going all in with 7 5, and I will win this pot"..of course i wake up with KK...
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4659253
Anyway life is pretty sweet at the moment. Had an interesting job proposition which might lead to me actually being able to live life like a total playboy once again with some serious $$$.
Stay safe kids
But to be fair i've been guilty of this of late. I've had some tough days where flips wernt going my way, some donkeys getting lucky and some days where my discipline has cost me dear.
However i'm beggining to think this is just part of the lifestyle that playing thousands of hands of online poker daily provokes.
Of course if I play 3000 hands in a day i'm going to get unlucky a few times. Of course my QQ will get stacked by JJ at some point, I guess the way to look at it that everything that goes around comes around, and the times that we get lucky are instantly more forgettable than the sickening beat we are quick to moan about.
Anyway, the poker is going well as a whole. I've been a trainee for two weeks now and have grinder from a $600 loss after the first 5 days to a healthy $500 profit after two weeks.
My target is to make $2500 by the end of September and become a full time badbeat trader. I think its a target that is within reach if I can stop spewing in ridiculous pots as shown below
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4659308
And stop calling a drunk bloke who announces to the table "I am going all in with 7 5, and I will win this pot"..of course i wake up with KK...
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4659253
Anyway life is pretty sweet at the moment. Had an interesting job proposition which might lead to me actually being able to live life like a total playboy once again with some serious $$$.
Stay safe kids
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