Back to the cash games

After the heartache of tourneys its always good to know there are cash games. Only played a bit last night then again this morning but already i have managed to win back my tourney losses + more! I seriously think those videos i watched helped. I might just be running hot atm but i feel like im playing a lot better as well.

Current graph:

My stats 2930 hands into stars nl10:

My stats after 5771 hands!

Current Bankroll: $240.75

Point needed: 145

FUCK OFF TOURNAMENTS PART 2

The moment of truth.....

Oh get fucked!

/end rant.

So basically i need to stop convincing myself to play tournaments because they are clearly devil.

Bankroll: $217.90

Points needs: 177

FUUUUUUUUUCK OFFFFFFFFFF TOURNAMENTS PART 1

Ok for some reason i decided to fire up another tourney. Once again i was doing my uni work and thought "what better way to get me to stay at the computer than to have a tourney running".

So i sign up for a $3.25 turbo 45 player donkament. Everything is going semi cruisy, picking up some early pots etc. I continue to grind along and the players keep dropping etc. Nothing spectacular and by the key period in the tournament im starting to weaken greatly in chips. However i eventually make it to the final table:

bubble time......

for some reason i cant post anymore, so i will post the remaining screenies in another post.

Fuck off tournaments!

Every now and then i get the urge to play a tournament. Im normally a cash game man, but the allure of striking it rich with a good finish means i always like to have a go. What i keep forgetting every time i play tournaments is how fucking destroyed that can make you feel when you spend fucking ages on them only to come up short.



Today i decided to fire up a $4.40 180 man sng with the intention of kicking back, playing some good poker and doing some uni work while i played. For a while i was travelling brilliantly: 9k chips with about 50 people to go when the average was about 4k. I had doubled up but in the following few hands jokerstars gave me a square kick in the nuts. Fresh from my double up i decided to tighten everything up and just cruise for a while. About 2 hands after i get A9hh. UTG min raises to 300 and it folds to me on the cut off. I decide that i will stick to my "tighten up" plan and make the fold. Sure enough the the remaining button, sb and bb all call. The flop brings a devastating 979. As you can probably predict two players end up getting all in for a massive 17 k pot, the original raiser with JJ and the other bloke with A7. turn and river bricks, the jacks hold, and im left to ponder why im such a pussy.

Not much happens for a while and i maintain a steady stack, stealing the occasional blinds etc. With about 40 people left and my stack at about 10k i pick up Aj on the button. Blinds at 100/200 3 people limp and i decide to hammer it x5 to 1000 . I get one caller. flops brings 848 rainbow. He checks and i cbet 1900 into 2500. He calls. turns brings a 2. he checks once again and i check. River brings a 9. He checks once again. I really cant believe he has anything here so i fire like 4000 in the roughly 6500 pot. He tanks then min raises. FUCKKKKK OFFF.

Following that sickening hand im fucking crippled. The final hand of the tourney comes: im on the button with AQ. With only 3.5k left its pretty much do or die time. One of the biggest donks at the table, "Mbpride" min raises and gets a call from "doctorkevin". I decide to shove and fucking called by both of them. Obviously i had a ray of hope but that fucking cunt mbpride flopped his set. Out in 29th. gg.

Lightbulb moment?

Watched about 4 videos yestersday from this link: http://roulettenburg.com/poker/videos.html Really took away a lot of useful information, especially about 3-betting and playing in position. There's no shame in watching successful players and trying to mimic them! The only thing i need to do is tighten my opening range slightly compared to some of the nl50/100/200 players because raising and c-betting doesn't get as much respect at nl10.

Im trying to play more analytically; watching my opponents closely and thinking about how often they are raising, limping and what they are generally showing down. This has assisted me greatly in making +EV decisions when im involved with them in hands.

Here's my latest graph: It seems like the videos helped!

Tracker: Im back in the green baby!

Hopefully thinking about poker on a higher level and making better calls/folds will reduce the possibility of tilt.

Bankroll: $218.95

FPP's needed: 195

Running g00t

Only played a small session tonight. Opened up 4 tables: 2 of plo and 2 of nlh. Managed to do decent on all 4. My roll now sits at $203.10 which means im actually properly rolled for nl10. Omaha continues to provide the goods and im currently running at 50bb/100 hands over 440 hands. Obviously a small sample but this still equates to a $44.93 profit! happy days.

My small session of nlh was also successful. I only played 90 hands but managed to win around $7. This means that i only have $6.85 more to earn before i am back to square with nlh. Given that at one point i was around $50 in the red due to some serious tilt, this is a very pleasing statistic.

Here are my current stats and graphs:

PLO:

NLH:

I have noticed that some other blogs always finish their entries with a summary, so i have decided to do the same:

Current roll: $203.10

FPP's needed: 288

PLO fun!

Been running pretty bad at nlh so i decided to give plo a go. Im glad i did because in less than 300 hands i have managed to remove all the damage done by nlh recently.

While this is definitely only a tiny sample, but it still seems like plo could be quite profitable for me. I have a basic knowledge of the game which has helped me take advantage of a lot of horrible opponents. Having said that, i really cant say anything worthwhile until i've played about 10k hands and could easily be stuck $50 or something within 1000 hands.

Anyway, im definitely going to be firing up the nlh for the coming days. I need to get back in the green! My main problem lately has definitely been tilt. If i can get that under control i should certainly start turning a profit. Here's my graph of stars thus far. Yuk!