Something funny happen today. I went busto. I have $0 in my account.

First let me bring things up to speed.

Dec
15. 4 hours
16 4 hours
17 no internet
18 no internet
19 moving all day
20 moving all day
21 moving all day
22 on planes all day
23 no internet
24 ''
25 ' '
26 ' '
27 ' '
28 Played for 2 hours went from 250 to 180
29 From 180 to $0 sweet

Ok. So my roll went from $3500 to $0 by not making any $ in 5 weeks.

So I'm broke. I have $500 to my name. Not a whole lotta prospects at this point. My knee is still jacked up so I'm gonna have to keep going to the gym 5 days a week. I have a few ideas. Maybe I can find a part time job where I won't have to stand up. Hmmm.... I don't know, I haven't been this broke in about 4 months. We'll see what happens.

Hours of play: 4 1/2
Hands: 1400
Roll: $990
How I played: Damn. I played decent in my opinion, but I got destroyed for 4 hours straight. Ran like trash. Made one dumb bluff on a FH/quad type board that cost me $40 but aside from that I just got destroyed. Oh well.

-70 JJ overpair vs Q high flush draw ai on flop, 53% to win
-45 q high fd + gutter loses to aj tp 54% to win
-50 QQ vs shortie w KK preflop ai yay
+90 aa ai preflop vs a7 off
-50 next hand ak tp vs shortie n A7 off donk disgusting cooler here
+85 w K high 1 card flush on river vs overe betting donk
-16 $ all in good with AJ tp vs rivered 10 high flush yuck

Hours of play: 2 1/2
Hands: 900
Roll: $1250
How I played: I played decent today. Ran like crap.
-100 Flopped straight AI on flop loses to set that fills up
-100 KK finds AA
-80 JJ OOP I 3 bet pre, flop a set and lose to A5 suited that flopped a flush
+80 AQ top two vs AJ stubborn tp who thought I was tilting
+55 K5 two pair ip vs KQ tp

Mistakes: I played my best today. Didn't get around to taking break every hour. Maybe today is the day.

Hours of play: 4
Hands: 1300
Roll: $1500
How I played: I played decent today. Ran like crap. Lost $100 with 77 bottom set ai on turn vs top two. I was 91% to win the hand and it was my biggest hand of the day.

Mistakes: Hour 3 I tilted pretty hard from just getting worn out. Gotta take a 15 minute break/hour tomorrow. I also tilted and started limping with lots of shit hands like K7 suited etc from late position. Lost $10 oop w K6 one time. Lost $25 with a limped J9 suited another time. And a few other similar travesties. I gotta work on my game and limit my mistakes.

Hours of play: 4
Hands: 1500
Roll: $1650
How I played: I played decent today. Raised lots of trash hands on the button which is something I need to do more often. Also important that I put opponents on a range, and evaluate each decision as it comes to me taking no street for granted. These are my 3 areas I need to improve on.

Mistakes: Made 1 very bad mistake where I raised with QQ, flopped a set, donkey bet $38 into me on turn, and I called instead of shoving. River made a 4 to straight board, and i had to fold to a river shove -$50

Dec 5th Friday, 2 hours of play, 3 tabling

6th Saturday-Went to UH game, 0 hours

7th-Ramon arrived, went to bar. 2 hours of play after going to $1 movie theater.

8th-Went to bar with Ramon. 0 hours of play. Therapy, gym, worked on car situation.

9th-2 1/2 hours of play before meeting with Ramon at CPK Ala Moana. Won $0

10th -Wednesday 10th- 3hours of play, finished even at $1250. KK got 2 outered ai vs 77 on low flop, I was 88% to win -100
AQ AI preflop loses to 74 suited -60. These are two of the biggest pots of the day for me, and I lost despite being in way ahead.

December 4th.

Hours played: 4.5
Hands played: 1800
Rolls: 1230

How I played: I think I played OK, don't think i ran all that good. Connected the SB too much and limped into a few pots late. Next session don't do this.

Hands of interest:
+37 JJ IP low flop vs AQ suited draw
+75 J high flush ip vs reluctant to fold AQ oop, i priced him in to pay on the river
-45 AI w TP on flop, got 2 outered by A9
-20 2 outered again, i had AK he had A10 this time
-50 w KK overpair AI on turn, got 3 outered

Note: I would be + today if I had ran at expectation.

December 3rd

4 1/2 hours of play 1848 hands

Roll has dwindled down to $1219.

I feel like someone who has been starving to death on a deserted island or something. Played 3 days of poker against garbage players and I'm down $170 as a result of it. My soul is feeling crushed at this point. It's not like its a bad run, just down a couple of buy-ins, but poker is starting to eat away at me. The grind of losing again and again to bad players makes me hate the damn rake. If it wasn't for the rake, I'd be even despite AQ

Played 6 1/2 hours. 1700 hands 4 tabling. -140 on the day, down to 1366

Hands of importance: 

• -$50 bluffing w AJ off vs a guy w K7 off top pair, he bet 1 into 15 oop on flop, i thought he had FD
  
• -60 QQ AI vs shorstacker w AA
• -45 AK TPTK vs QQ turned set
  
• -60 AK AI preflop vs shortie w AA
  
• -35 ai w JJ vs QQ
  
• --70 AI on a flop 375 flop w QQ vs A2 Offsuit

• +100 88 FH vs QJ top trips, I was out of position, he put in a big turn raise, so I chck called river shove

• +71 99 flopped FH vs tag in sb who turned smaller FH w 64 suited

• -$40, 3 betting  AK oop, shoving flop vs short stacker who had KQ tp obv

• -35 racing AK vs JJ

Daily Grind: Today was a tough day, at one point I dropped $400 in an hour and I tilted hard. Gonna have to break my sessions down to an hour each in order to avoid tilt. 

How I Played: I played alright until I was hit with 4 straight coolers. Then I tilted and my play was borderline +EV. I began to look at the computer screen and see pure rage for a while. My second 3 hours I played solid in my opinion, coulda been more relaxed when I played which woulda made my decision process more on point. Towards the end of my day I felt like a poker zombie who was grinding out hand after hand in order to earn my $3 an hour or whatever of rakeback. When I play for a long time and I'm still down $ it feels like I'm going through .25 NL or .5 NL grinding struggles all over again. A couple of good runs at $1 NL should help me out. This is only my 2nd month at $1NL, gotta pull it together. 

December 1st

1 hour of play
334 hands
+120

How I played: I think I played well because I was clearly +ev in this session. I found 3 donks who were calling raising preflop with marginal hands and losing large pots with hands like 95 offsuit 4th pair.

For example, I started by losing a race of JJ vs KJ all in preflop -$50, I also lost $20 with A10 2nd pair vs a donk and I lost $15 on the button calling 1/2 pot bets 3 way with the nut flush draw +3rd pair that never improved.

I rallied back by set over setting a donk HU for $130 and getting it all in vs him for the rest of his stack with JJ vs his A4 off on a 234 flop.

Mistakes I made: There were a few minutes where I was caught up in one table and I found myself in a hand at another table with no reads cuz I wasn't really paying attention. This wasn't a problem back when I was using my other computer cuz PT was running smoother, while I use my backup CPU I gotta figure out a way to avoid this.

My current computer problems are:

• Slow computer, PT running causes the action to freeze
• Poorly lit monitor that agitates my eyes
• A small screen 13 or 14" is not good for multitabling.
• USB ports broken, mouse not working
• Sytem is infected by viruses, my web browsers keep crashing and there are security issues

There were also a few spots where I called in the SB with a small pocket pair HU oop vs a good tag which was bad cuz his range was wide. And a few spots where I limped in with marginal holdings, and a few other spots where I shoulda folded pre.

November Wrap Up

November Breakdown

82 hours played

1140 profit

14/hour

My biggest issue with this month is that I was lazy about keeping track of my sessions and I didn't make my sessions clean. I need to sit at the computer for 1-2 hours and focus on poker. No email, no surfing the internet, no youtube, no myspace, no facebook. Then when my session is over I need to get in the habit of restarting the computer. 

This month I was challenged by a 4 day flu, computer issues on both computers, as well as knee attention issues. I didn't deal with these challenges very well, and I reverted back to some of my old tilting ways. I also broke tons of my poker rules. So many that I'm gonna list them all right here cuz I need a refresher.

November was a failure. Hoping for good things from November and that I am able to learn from these mistakes. I broke every one of my rules this month and that is why I didn't have a higher hourly win rate. 

My Poker Rules

1. Take a break every 1 hour of play
2. Do not play when on tilt
3. 3 table before I 4 table in order to get reads
4. Do not play without PT stats of each player up and running
5. Do not play on Sundays
6. If I cannot recognize who the donk is at a table who I have a big edge over, leave the table immediately.
7. Do not sit at tables with lags on my left. 
8. Do not play marginal hands preflop.
9. No surfing the net, checking email, listening to music while I play.
10. Make my sessions clean, get on, play for a block of time, then GET OFF THE COMPUTER
11. Keep track of how many hands I play per day.
12. Keep track of how many hours I play per day.
13. Do not constantly think about my bankroll size or my current loss/profit for the day.
14. Do not play marginal hands out of position. Tighten up out of position.
15. Do not play sick, physically or mentally.
16. Take care of important stuff before I play poker, bathing, brushing, errands, tasks, etc. 
17. Give my maximum attention to each hand that I play
18. Think about whether to bet, raise, or fold, each time I make a decision

Wednesday 2 hours

Thursday 1.5 hours

Friday 3 hours

Saturday 1 hour

Tuesday:

Up $380 this morning, don't think I played all that great, though better than last night, I just ran good hitting monster hand after monster hand.

Kept thinking I would finish this month at 2K but thats a random goal. At this point I'm just hoping to play every hand as best I can. Trying to focus on no knowing my bankroll, bonus amount or rakeback amount every second I'm playing. I don't wanna know any of that stuff, just wanna focus on my play.

Monday

Tilted again, this time hard and longer. Dropped $200 in playing horribly while sick and not feeling so great. I knew I shouldn't have played but I played anyway. I was too sick to really pay attention to the cards -$200. Got tilted by GF and went on life tilt. Not good.

Sunday:

Played for 3 hours. Played OK. Mistakenly took at shot at $200NL in which I played ok, but with my tiny bankroll I was not able to withstand the swings.

Not optimal. This is a form of tilt.

Played 3 hours yesterday and finished at $1370

Played 1.5 hours so far today, still at $1370.

Played 3.5 more hours for a total of 6.5 hours.

Finished at $1300. Oops

Played 3 hours today.

Started with $1400 finished with $1070, so -$330.

Tilted hard at the end. -$100 because of tilt. Losing hand after hand just wore me out after 2 hours.

Bodog ticker 11170, played for 3 1/2 hours.

My roll is at $770. Felt like I ran bad today. Played about 1200 hands today I think.

Lost a lot of small pots, didn't get much action on my big hands. Not sure what else to say. Went over all my hands in PT 2, can't find anything I'd do different.

There is a hand where I check called all in w JJ 3 bet bet oop on a low flop on turn. The guy was nitty but he had 3 bet my AQ to 15 the hand before so I just went with my JJ.

Later vs the same guy, he raised to 3 pre, I thought this looked weak so I 3 bet w AJ off on the button and cbet, he min raised to $36 on the flop and I had to fold my A high. I gotta find weaker players who will give me action soon.

Ran like crap today.

Roll is at $800

1000 hands played. 3 hours played.

Donked off like $50 out of frustration at one point.
Running bad started to effect my play a lot.

-$55 KK flopped set vs j 10 that rivered straight
-$35 KK oop vs j9 that turned two pair
-$30 w AQ two pair vs shorstacker who rivered straight on button w kj off
-$30 straight vs bigger straight, so no chop-$25 top two j 10 vs turned stra8t short stacker
-$45 nut straight vs quads
-$35 oop w a7 2nd pair donking off

-$250 today

Overall I'm satisifed w my play.

R a few things I coulda done better tho. Stick with 3 tables instead of 4 unless I already have good reads on who is who. Table select a little better. Do not play when I have a lost/no reads feel for poker atm.

Recommended DC videos from Janis, I should check these out:

From the Ground Up by tubasteveBaby Steps by tubasteveTurning the Corner by sthief09both Real Life Micro NL-Grinder series by wiltontiltthe Late Night Coaching with Joe Tall vids on NL are pretty good too but i think some of them might be above micro level. "

Played poker all day pretty much. 9am-9pm. 2ooo hands today.

I'll say I played 6 hours today. Finished with 1010.

November 2008 Post 1

Hours played in November

1st 4
2nd 1
3rd 3
4th 1
5th 3
6th 3
7th 7
8th 4

Running total: 26
Running total $770 $150 withdrawal fee
Money in account $620
Running hourly: 29

October Wrap Up

October was an interesting n unique month as far as poker goes. I started the month with a $2K roll and feeling the need to take a shot at $100NL due to my carpal tunnel and overall loss of interest in .25-.5 poker. So take a shot I did. In my first 10K hands at 100NL I proceeded to lose $700, $200 of which I was able to get back.

So on October 15th I was down and out, sitting with a $1500 bankroll and a hard headed persistence to stick at 100Nl despite not winning. I got a lesson from a successful bodog $600 NL regular and things turned around. In the two week period from October 15th-October 30th I built a $100 bankroll on Bodog into a $3000 bankroll on Bodog plus $180 on AP for a monthly total of $3180 and finishing the month +2480.

I am starting October with $3000 on Bodog and $180 in Absolute Poker.

My plan is to continue at $100NL Bodog and to try to win enough that at the beginning of next month, December, my bankroll will have grown.

For the time being I feel relieved but I need to stay vigilant.

September Wrap Up

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On the wait list for rakeback at FT
Set up PT w UB
Played at Cake, Bodog, UB, AP, and FT and decided I like UB and Bodog the best for now.
Minimal tilt

Carpal tunnel, Carpal tunnel, Carpal tunnel, my wrists are f*cked
Rakeback: 268/ Bonus: 250, these numbers are WAAAAAAAAY too low
RAN 19/10/2, att steal blinds only 22, limped too much, little too nitty
Still don't have any savings.
Issues with PAHud, still needs work
Played scared $$$ at 100NL
Played when tired

9/29-9/30

Last two days: 1337 hands of No Limit

Bodog: 30
AP: 0
Cake: 0
Full tilt: 0
UB: 1607
= 1637 current BR

43438 hands 50NL so far in September. 50NL, +$1109, 5.10 bb/100, (jackpot not included, bonus/rake included)
7237 hands of 100NL. +$234, 3.25 bb/100
Started month 600 BR

-1080 withdraw 1
-2225 withdraw 2
deposit +990

Net September: + 3352 September total, 1327 w out jackpot (JP=$2025)

9/28/08

1510 hands of no limit today
Bodog: 30
AP: 105
Cake: 117
Full tilt: 80
UB: 1604
= 1936 current BR

43438 hands 50NL so far in September. 50NL, +$1109, 5.10 bb/100, (jackpot not included, bonus/rake included)
5900 hands of 100NL. 100NL, +$637, 10.79 bb/100
Started month 600 BR

-1080 withdraw 1
-2225 withdraw 2
deposit +990

Net September: + 3651 September total, 1626 w out jackpot (JP=$2025)

9/27/08

2603 hands of 100NL today

Bodog: 30
AP: 105
Cake: 117
Full tilt: 80
UB: 1628
= 1960 current BR

43438 hands 50NL so far in September. 50NL, +$1109, 5.10 bb/100, (jackpot not included, bonus/rake included)
4390 hands of 100NL. 100NL, +$652, 14.85 bb/100
Started month 600 BR

-1080 withdraw 1
-2225 withdraw 2
deposit +990

Net September: + 3675 September total, 1660 w out jackpot (JP=$2025),

9/26/08

1787 hands of 100NL today
896 hands of 50NL

Bodog: 30
AP: 105
Cake: 117
Full tilt: 80
UB: 1601
= 1933 current BR

43438 hands 50NL so far in September. 50NL, +$1109, 5.10 bb/100, (jackpot not included, bonus/rake included)
1787 hands of 100NL. 100NL, +$520, 14.57 bb/100
Started month 600 BR

-1080 withdraw 1
-2225 withdraw 2
deposit +990

Net September: + 3648 September total, 1623 w out jackpot (JP=$2025),

9/25/08

9-25/25 about 2K hands total

Bodog: 30
AP: 105
Cake: 117
Full tilt: 80
UB: 1038
= 1370 current BR

42542 hands so far in September.
Started month 600 BR

-1080 withdraw 1
-2225 withdraw 2
deposit +990

Net September: + 3085 September, 1060 w out jackpot ($2025), 4.98 BB/100 (jackpot not included, bonus/rake included)

Time for This

The olympics are over...

...time to play some poker. Looking forward to grinding out my next 10,000 hands.

3 hours of play today, and -185. It was just a day of bad cards. Lot of my hands ran into other people's hands and it was not pretty. It seemed like I couldn't get dealt a hand and people kept hitting monsters against me. When I would hit top pair, some guy would river two pair with a hand like 7 5 suited and win the pot. Or river a flush, or a straight. It was disgusting and it could have been a lot worse. Here's an example:

HU i'm on button with AJ ($100 stack vs. $25 short stack). I raise to 3, SB calls. Flop comes J 10 7. I bet 3 streets, SB shows 7 9 offsuit for the flopped straight.

-$25 all in pre with JJ vs Ak
-$12 chasing flush draw to turn vs aggro donk shover
-$14 aj tp vs 79 mini raiser flopped straight coulda got real ugly
-$25 AA loses to J8 all in with money good on turn, i was 8 outered
-$25 all in on turn with $ good vs shor stacker who 8 outered me on the river
-$12 my jj overpair on flop loses to short stacker who turns nut flush coulda got ugly
-$20 i turned one card str8, he turned a flush and fired $42 psb on river, i folded
-$10 my AJ 2nd pair in position raised pre 4.5 bb pre loses to 75 suited who rivers two pairs
-$30 all in vs short stack with k high diamond flush draw, i shoved when checked to on flop $13 in middle he had $22 more
-$12 top pair weak kicker vs an aggro guy with trips

+$60 w KK full house vs a 10 trips
+$30 AA first hand vs donk short stack w k6 2nd pair
+$17 hu vs a guy with a baby as an avatar,

Summary: starting roll, $1015, 3 hours of play, ending roll $834, result -181

Status update

I am currently in the $0-$10K challenge on cardplayer.com.

I'm up around $4K for the year since I started.

In the process of building up my bankroll from a $50 deposit.

The Push to Kick the Addiction

I'm taking a 6 week break from poker to work on my job prospects and to take care of some important things.

I'm still alive...BARELY

I dropped a shitload of $ on day 3 of the burn...another $350 or so....

As far as poker goes I'm hoping to be reborn.

In the last 3 weeks I've been hanging tought at 1/2 200 max heads up and 6 seat...

I stumbled onto $1/$2 after winning $2000 there in two days about 3 weeks ago. Since then I've just been getting fucked...to make a long story short my bankroll went from $2300 to about $1400 which doesn't seem like a big drop but I withdrew about $1000 so I'm down to $400 which is pretty fucking weak.

My biggest accomplishment lately is that I've been playing a lot of $1/$2 and I've been taking "shots" at $300 max, $400 max, $600 max, and I even took a shot at $1000 max. I have no problem playing pots of any size. Its a fucking miracle that I've been able to play all of these big limit no limit games on my measly ass bankroll. The main issue though is that I haven't had any big winning days in 3 weeks and with all the other stuff I've got going on in my life I don't really have time to play poker and take it seriously cuz it's low on my priority list.

Today is March 3rd, if I had to take a guess I'd say that I'm up about $1500 in the last 2 months (playing part time a few nights a week). This isn't bad, and I'm happy to be winning, but I'm still not sure if I'm a winning player and I feel like I've been putting all of my poker energy into simply moving up levels and moving to short handed games and heads up games rather than really getting good at any particular type of no-limit hold'em. I've also been sacrificing thousands of dollars of my bankroll to get used to the various bet sizes and strategies at these new short handed higher limit games that I've been playing.

I'm happy with what I've accomplished but I'm discouraged because I've been playing poker for 9 months now (which is not a long time) and I have still yet to make a significant profit to justify the time that I've put into playing poker online at night time.

Still burning baby.....ahhhhh

Burn baby burn, after dropping $490

yesterday I dropped another $300 2day. It went something like this...

-100 flopped 10 high flush vs flopped J high flush

-100 KK vs flopped set

-100 all other blinds and bets + winning no big pots at all

Summary 3 hours of play starting roll $860 (withdrew $500 yesterday), Ending roll $560, Net -$300

Ahhhhhhhhhhh...hehehe

Crash and Burn

Crash and burn baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-$125 KK flopped set sucked out on by flush draw
-$200 shoving all in with AK vs guy who called me with 55 4th pair.

-$150 playing a variety of hands that went really badly

-$100 blinds

-$50 drawing etc

8 hours of play, Starting roll $1890, Ending roll $1400, Net -$490

Had a really weird 8 hours of play yesterday (Friday) and today (Saturday). This hand pretty much sums it up.

I'm on button w Qh 10h (4 cllers, I limp in)

Flop KQ4 (rainbow)...All check to me, I bet 3, 2 callers.

Turn 10 Checked to me, I bet 8 into $12, 1 caller in MP

Rver 10 Board=K Q 4 10 10 MP checks to me, I bet $15 into $28, MP min raises to $30, I shove for $150 total (150 bb),

MP calls and shows KK and wins 300 BB

Summary: 8 hours of play, starting roll $1900, ending roll $1893

1/2 hour session

Busy with school this week. Fortunately I ran good lately.

+100 AA vs QQ...he 3 bet pre flop, I 1 1/2 re-raised to $25 w read on him as too tight to fold and too tight call flop shove (screen name Deep Jr.)

Summary: 1/2 Hour session, starting $1790, ending $1905, net +$115

1 hour session...haven't played much this week

Busy so far this week...I played 1/2 hour today. In 1/2 hour I got dealt AA, KK, and QQ, and got action with all three and got paid on AA and QQ.
-$40 I took a check call all in line with KK out of position but I had to fold river because it paired top pair and brought a flush (guy had miniraised me on flop).
+90 AA I got paid by tp
+$75 w QQ, 3 betting and psb flop, shv turn, he folds

Summary: 1/2 hour session, Starting Roll $1640, Ending roll $1790, Net +$150

Weekly Summary

Date range: 1/28-2/3/08, 16 Hours of Play, Starting Roll $1200,
Ending Roll $1600, Net +400, $/HR=$25/HR

Caught a few Super Bowl Donks

Caught a few Super Bowl Donks

I doubled up a few times vs donks who had total junk..2 hours of play

I ran just ok, so I'm happy that I finished ahead...
I took two bad beats:
-100 flopped set that lost to a 2 outer all in on the flop
-100 all in ip on turn raised pot w JJ top set vs 46?!?! turned str8?!?!?

Summary: 2 hours, starting roll $1470, ending roll $1605, Net +135

Saturday night and I was super busy looking for a job 2day and going to the b-ball game that I was only able to squeak out a 1 hour session.

I doubled up with qj two pr, all in on turn vs aq tp donk who called my shove. I played solid but I was unable to focus because my session was super short I didn't really have time to sit down and get real comfortable.

Summary: 1 hour, Starting rolling $1400, Ending roll $1470, Net +70

Ugghhhh..playing too loooooose.

2 Hour session, Friday Night,

Overall I played garbage cards that I should have folded preflop and as a result I dropped $60 in two hours despite bad play on the part of my opponents.

Starting roll $1440, Ending Roll $1380, Net -60 yuck

Quick Session After Getting Home Late From School

1 Hour of Play
Highlights
+100 A9 flopped trip 9's vs donk oop calling my 3 bet n shv w kq tptk
+75 KK all in on flop after 3 bet pre vs AJ FD

Lowlights
-22 AA 3.5 bb pre, 2/3 pot, 12/22 flop fold to miniraise

Summary: 1 Hour of Play, Starting Roll $1340, Ending $1440 net +100

Should I 3 bet JJ in SB vs loose players?

Played for 2 hours today and I got a lot of action at the tables (3-tabling).

Here's a breakdown of all the major hands, most all but one were heads up.

Losing Hands

-50 AK sted all in on flop w two to flush vs 10 10 short stack.

-35 While oop I 3-Bet pre w JJ to 12 vs Lag then psb folded A high flop

-50 Trying to call down a bluff, I thought he missed flush, with A3 tp in pos. he shoved w a5 (he rivered two pair)

-100 3-betting QQ preflop, psb call shove low flop vs unknown w KK

Winners

+80 Shoving KJ flopped trips on flop, vs guy w K10 flopped trips

+120 Flopped a set all in on flop 3 way vs donk w tp and A flush draw who was getting good odds, my set held up

+100 A4 flopped two pair vs donk w 64 two pair, all in on turn

+100 AA 3 bet, psb call shove, in position vs donk w 77 1 pr

Overall I think I did some things well. I'm going to rethink 3 betting w JJ utg because in all honesty I'm not prepared to take JJ to the felt at this moment in time. Two more things I can improve on is playing out of position and playing garbage hands in position (I shouldn't be doing this). I ran pretty good today.

Summary: 2 hours of play, starting $1220, ending $1350, +130

8 More Hours of Play-Up and Down-Finished Up

8 hours of play later..starting at $1150 I dropped all the way down to $980...went up to $1300, and finished at $1220.

I started raising 4bb+1 per limper preflop and it has increased the size of the pots I play. Playing bigger pots in position has led me to add a number of bluffs to my range...with mixed results. I'm experimenting with pot size bluffs on boards that are super dynamic. I've also been practicing plays such as check raising 3x with a variety of hands, and blowing pots up when people try to cbet me. I am generally working on being more AGGGRREEESSSIVE.

I've noticed so far that playing bigger pots means that small mistakes are more costly. In this last session I made several incorrect errors just because I failed to consider all of my options and I easily lost a buy-in doing this. I'm trying hard to focus more on each decision. When the action is coming to me, I need to take a few seconds to consider the value of checking/betting/folding.

Summary: 8 Hours of Play +$70

Yesterday I deposited $1000 into my Bodog account, a large amount for an unemployed student such as myself. I made a commitment to once again take a shot at poker to see "if my winning has been luck" or if I've really gotten better and I can squeeze a few more thousand out of this online poker thing. Since moving to 6 max tables a month ago during winter break I've had a more success than I ever had in the 7 months I spent playing full ring. hehehe

So day one with my new roll went ....ok. I started off losing 3 quick buy-ins. I got impatient when I was card dead and made the following horrendous plays:

1. Re-re raising all in on flop oop for 100bb with KK overpair vs super duper nitty guy who made a huge flop raise vs me with a flopped set.
2. Stacking off oop with A 10 top pair vs super nitty guy who flat called w AA preflop.

I also ran bad at first:
1. Losing all in on river with nut full house vs guy who rivered a straight flush (both of his cards played and he called without odds)
2. Getting two outered all in on flop with flopped set vs AA over pair sucking out on me.

After losing these 4 buy-ins and tilting between 4-7pm it wasn't until 4am, 9 hours later that I was able to rally back. I started the day w $1000, dropped to around $700 in a few hours and finished the day at $1150.

Here is how I stacked people:
1. Reraise to 12 pre w aa in position. Pot flop shove turn vs donk w q 10 top pair.
2. QQ all in on turn vs guy with AJ TPTK.
3. Guy bluffing into me all in while I held l card A high nut flush.
4. Calling a river shove with flopped flush on river that paired board vs guy bluffing "a full house"
5. Set mining a guy with AA, all in on the flop and not getting sucked out on.
6. All in on flop with set vs guy who check reraise shoved flop with A high flush draw and didn't suck out.
The battle continues...stay tuned. I need some tuition $.

I'm ba-ack!

After 3 months of not blogging I'm back and with some good news. For the month of December and January I am up $2000. In fact I've already withdrawn into savings/spent the $ so I have 0% chance of losing that $.

This is pretty much the 1st time that I've made any real $ playing poker after 8 months of play since I first started last May.

I've had some success lately due to...1. Being more aggresive and 2. Playing short handed 6 seat tables instead of full-ring.

Well my current bankroll is a measly $220 after all my withdrawing...I'm looking to build it back up to around $1000...let's do it again! ...A couple more times....let's pay for some tuition!!!

1-19-08 MLK day-Day off. 

1-18-08

Hands: 800

Hours: 5

Roll: $800

Uneventful day. 

1-17-08 No poker played. Day off.