the end

just flushed my entire roll within 30 minutes. Feel absolutely sick right now. Lost a bunch of hands at nl10 and went nuts. Opened some heads up nl100 & nl 50 and yeh the rest is history.

There were 2 key hands: all in with kk against AA - http://www.pokerhand.org/?2556069

Seriously cant believe he fucking called. biggest pot i've ever lost online: http://www.pokerhand.org/?2556071

Well its the end. To be honest i've wasted so much time lately on poker its probably a good thing. My uni results have been dropping and i have been spending less time with my friends etc. In the end unless your making 50k plus a year from poker or you can limit yourself to how much play it really isn't worth it.

Back!

It's been a fairly crazy week or so pokerwise. I had grinded my roll upto an all time high of $270 when disaster struck. In the space of about 20 mins i had KK run into AA 3 times, losing all 3 (obv). This was combined with a few other coolers. The net result was a loss of about $60 and raging tilt! Unfortunately the majority of the hands i logged on my laptop so no hand history, however i continued my tilt rampage on my main computer, playing some nl50 etc and a few crazy sng's:





At one stage i was actually down to about $130. Fortunately i managed to win the above sng as well as a bunch of $6 hu sng's (about 8 out of 10!). I even cleared my bonus and thus was able to finish with a roll of about $250.

I took a break for a few days but yesterday decided to make a fresh start in May with my $250 roll. I have made a number of rules for myself:


1. 3 buy in stop loss. NO MATTER WHAT!
2. Only play when you are feeling mentally with it! (No drunk poker!)
3. More hand posting on 2p2
4. Really think about each decision!!!
5. Update tracker & Excel after each session!


WIth this in mind i played my first session last night and almost had to enforce rule 1. I was $29 down at one stage but really wasn't playing badly. Fortunately i got a set of 8's all in against TPTK for full stack and won a few other smaller hands to finish the session down an acceptable $13.35


Current Bankroll: $236.58

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