Its funny how things tend to just work out in the end.
I wrote the other day how I screwed up my Cake reload, by accidently depositing $50 instead of $400, which meant my bonus was all of $12.50 instead of $100.
On Saturday I then receive an email from Party offering a 20% reload that clears at 3x party points. For a shorthanded player that is equivalent to around 120% rakeback, based on my play, and for a full ring player it would be even higher. So basically its a no brainer to take up the offer.
The thing is, if i'd have taken up the full Cake offer, i'd only have $100 left in my Neteller account, and may not have been able to take up the Party offer. As it happens, my screw up left me with $500 in my Neteller account, basically exactly the amount I needed to take up the Party offer in full.
Over the last couple days i've cleared the $100 Party bonus on the $2/4 tables, and whilst clearing also made around 40BBs on the tables and added enough points to my party points balance to get a $25 cash back payment as well, so all in all, a tidy little exercise. In summary, I deposited $500 on Saturday and then withdrew $800 back to neteller on Monday.
The only bit of a problem I have with party is that there are tons of TAGs there, and I seem to be forever shuffling tables. On Sunday, when 2 tabling whilst playing a tourney, in the space of 3 hours I opened up and sat down at 18 different tables. Monday was quite similar with 21 tables being opened in a 3 hour window. However, as i've discussed before i'm refusing to play on tables that are too tight, and now make it a rule that on my immediate right I either have a fish, or a complete maniac or I have to leave the table.
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Monday, December 1, 2008
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Handy little session
Started the day feeling crook so too the day off work. Thought i'd probably get in a bit of poker but had a massive headache so couldn't play for too long at a time. That being said, probably put in about two hours in total.
Turned out to be a reasonably profitable two hours, as I cleared my Interpoker sign up bonus for the remaining approx $200, and also received my monthly Bodog reload for $70.
Found a couple sweet $3/6 tables on Cake where I had position on at least one fish and on one table two fish. I'd made about 12BBs on each in one orbit, and then to my disappointment, both of the fish quit ... so I played all of two orbits before quitting. The $2/4 tables on Interpoker were also a little kinder to me than they have been in the past, and I would have made at least another 10BBs there by the time i'd cleared my bonus. It was a little problematic there though in that I couldn't seem to find any good tables or if I did, i'd have a horrible position, so was quitting after a single orbit and just waiting for better spots a lot of the time.
I guess patience really is the key for table selection, and I refuse to play where I have bad position these days. Its just not worth it.
The Bodog $1/2 tables were also running better than usual and I made about 30BBs in reasonably quick time. The fish didn't quite suck out as often, although did suffer a number of nasty beats from one guy who hit a 2 and 3 outer two hands in a row when I was holding the near nuts. He was then kind enough to cap the river against me holding nuts to give most of it back which was nice of him. (I had the A on a 4 flush board that wasn't paired ... although there was the potential for an unlikely straight flush).
Sometimes I am a muppet though - got an email from cake about a reload so tried to deposit. Got a message back saying that the code wasn't available yet. I guess they sent the email a little early .... Anyways, I again signed up later, and this time it went through, only i'd forgotten to change the deposit amount. So instead of a $100 reload bonus, I earned myself a princely reload bonus of $12.50. I blame the fact that my head was killin me which clouded my thinking ability ... (although probably it was just coz i'm an idiot). I hope they have a christmas reload as well and then I wouldn't have lost anything ....
Current bankroll: $14,600
Turned out to be a reasonably profitable two hours, as I cleared my Interpoker sign up bonus for the remaining approx $200, and also received my monthly Bodog reload for $70.
Found a couple sweet $3/6 tables on Cake where I had position on at least one fish and on one table two fish. I'd made about 12BBs on each in one orbit, and then to my disappointment, both of the fish quit ... so I played all of two orbits before quitting. The $2/4 tables on Interpoker were also a little kinder to me than they have been in the past, and I would have made at least another 10BBs there by the time i'd cleared my bonus. It was a little problematic there though in that I couldn't seem to find any good tables or if I did, i'd have a horrible position, so was quitting after a single orbit and just waiting for better spots a lot of the time.
I guess patience really is the key for table selection, and I refuse to play where I have bad position these days. Its just not worth it.
The Bodog $1/2 tables were also running better than usual and I made about 30BBs in reasonably quick time. The fish didn't quite suck out as often, although did suffer a number of nasty beats from one guy who hit a 2 and 3 outer two hands in a row when I was holding the near nuts. He was then kind enough to cap the river against me holding nuts to give most of it back which was nice of him. (I had the A on a 4 flush board that wasn't paired ... although there was the potential for an unlikely straight flush).
Sometimes I am a muppet though - got an email from cake about a reload so tried to deposit. Got a message back saying that the code wasn't available yet. I guess they sent the email a little early .... Anyways, I again signed up later, and this time it went through, only i'd forgotten to change the deposit amount. So instead of a $100 reload bonus, I earned myself a princely reload bonus of $12.50. I blame the fact that my head was killin me which clouded my thinking ability ... (although probably it was just coz i'm an idiot). I hope they have a christmas reload as well and then I wouldn't have lost anything ....
Current bankroll: $14,600
Monday, November 24, 2008
Poker points
One of the small benefits (or problems depending on which way you look at it) of bonus chasing is that you also accrue a bunch of poker points. The problem is they're usually a relatively small amount, and spread across a stack of different sites.
Some of them are relatively simple to convert into cash -
Some of them are relatively simple to convert into cash -
- Bodog - converts 1 point to 1c with a minimum of 500 points
- Party poker - converts 1 point to 1c with a minimum of 2000 points (or so .. i should check that one)
- Everest - 1 point = $0.004
Others, not so simply, where you need to use your points to enter tournaments and hope to cash in those tournaments, or qualify in those tournaments and cash in the next tournament down the chain.
For example, I have about 20k points on Full Tilt, and i've decided to use them on the 1800fpp sitngos where the top 3 win a $23 (or so) tournament entry ticket. I think the next step is to enter a tournament and try to cash, or enter a satellite and hopefully win another ticket that I can deregister for tournament $ and then play lower stake tourneys. Sounds like a pain in the ass? Well .. yes. Cake is similar but using Gold chips instead of points, which I have a fair stack of. Cake also has gold cards which i've occasionally converted into cash through tournaments. I have one fairly rare Cake gold card that i'm hoping to be able to convert to cash directly sooner or later whenever it comes up in their lottery.
Other sites you buy bonuses with your points which basically convert them to cash, but you need to actually have earnt enough points for the bonus, and then you have to play through to clear it.
Finally, other sites have points that dont actually do anything at all. Go figure.
Many sites also have a shop that you can convert your points into stuff. I generally prefer cash, but there are probably decent options out there.
I really need to go through all my sites that i've signed up for and cashed out of to see if I have points that I can use for something - effectively I had basically written them off if they didn't convert directly to cash, but obviously they do have some value that I may be able to extract.
I'll have to look at what I can do with relatively few points on Pacific, Interpoker, Ultimate bet, Mansion, Gnuf, Sun, Littlewoods, Titan, Cake, William Hill, 24poker, Pokerroom to name just a few. I'm still wondering if my Fulltilt method is the best as well or if there are better options.
So far i've played in one of the 1,800 FTP tourneys and won a $23 token. It basically played like a double up sitngo since it has a flat prize structure.
Didn't actually get to play much last night - maybe 10 minutes for virtually no movement in the bankroll.
Current bankroll: $14,100
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Shooting ... and missing ...
Took another shot at Bodog $4/8 and got burnt … again.
Found a couple good tables, although didn’t necessarily best position on the fish. Offsetting that was that the players to my right though were still passive and slightly loose, so I didn't think i'd actually get pushed off too many blinds, which turned out to be the correct assumption.
However, the fishes decided it was time to slaughter me.
Atshizzle – 71/11/.84/54 with W$SD 47 … with most of those wins against me …
YA221 – 78/29/1.24/45 with W$SD 45 ..mostly against me
Tungpeter – 51/27/.84/43 with a W$SD 43 .. again mostly against me …
A frustrating procession of me v fish resulting in suck out, followed by fish v someone else losing my money to them. Annoying, but I still didn't tilt at all that I could see - in fact I don't think I loosened up at all in trying to chase losses, or overplay any marginal hands that flopped poorly.
My stats for the session:
VPIP 24% .. I was a bit down on receiving decent starting hands
PFR 16% … as above
AF 1.43 … down on usual .. maybe I was a little passive .. but more likely I was having to check/call a few marginal hands
WTSD 33% … low … I couldn’t hit a flop to save myself
W$SD 42% …unbelievable that I can go that badly with such a low WTSD. But I guess the suck outs hurt a lot.
The thing is … at the $1/2 tables at the same time I also managed to drop 75BBs in about 2.5 hours running even colder .. about a 20% WTSD and a 30% W$SD over 600 hands. Only played about an hour and a half of $4/8 and at one stage was 50BBs down before finishing at 20BBs down. Boy was it ugly for a while. Couldn’t hit a draw to save myself.
Anyways .. a few hands from the session: (sorry about the lack of converter .. I’m getting errors on weaktight for bodog at the moment).
Hand 1:
Hold'em Limit ($4.00/$8.00) - 2008-11-08 18:24:22
Table 'Bristol (max 6)' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: HERO ($370.00)
Seat 2: atshizzle ($212.75)
Seat 3: troutman101 ($92.82)
Seat 4: doseone916 ($135.22)
Seat 5: Ducati Hottie ($303.61)
Seat 6: YA221 ($648.00)
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NEW HAND
atshizzle: posts the small blind $2.00
doseone916: posts the big blind $4.00
--- DEALING POCKETS
HERO is dealt [Ad,Kd] nice!
Ducati Hottie: folds
YA221: folds
HERO: raises $4.00 to $8.00
atshizzle: calls $6.00
doseone916: folds
--- DEALING FLOP [6s,6d,6h] not a horrible flop. i'm in front of everything except pocket pairs and this dude is a muppet ...
atshizzle: checks
HERO: bets $4.00 value/c bet
atshizzle: calls $4.00
--- DEALING TURN [3d]
atshizzle: checks
HERO: bets $8.00 value/c bet
atshizzle: calls $8.00
--- DEALING RIVER [Qd]
atshizzle: bets $8.00 u gotta be kiddin me .. surely the Q didnt help
HERO: calls $8.00 Don't think i can fold here.
atshizzle: shows [Qc Td] FFS ... thats about the 3rd suckout he's laid on me.
atshizzle: wins main pot($58.00)
Hand 2:
Hold'em Limit ($4.00/$8.00) - 2008-11-08 18:19:11
Table 'Bristol (max 6)' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: HERO ($360.00)
Seat 2: atshizzle ($264.75)
Seat 3: cleovictoire ($53.72)
Seat 4: doseone916 ($154.00)
Seat 5: Ducati Hottie ($355.61)
Seat 6: YA221 ($492.50)
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NEW HAND
HERO: posts the small blind $2.00
atshizzle: posts the big blind $4.00
--- DEALING POCKETS
HERO is dealt [Qd,Qs] at this point i havent had a hand for a while, so this is great!
cleovictoire: calls $4.00
doseone916: calls $4.00
Ducati Hottie: calls $4.00
YA221: calls $4.00
HERO: raises $4.00 to $8.00
atshizzle: folds
cleovictoire: calls $4.00
doseone916: calls $4.00
Ducati Hottie: calls $4.00
YA221: calls $4.00
--- DEALING FLOP [Jd,6h,8c] (frickin cold callers and i've missed .. but still my overpair is likely to be good)
HERO: bets $4.00
cleovictoire: calls $4.00
doseone916: folds
Ducati Hottie: calls $4.00
YA221: calls $4.00
--- DEALING TURN [7d] (thats not a good card ... 678 ... still ...)
HERO: bets $8.00
cleovictoire: calls $8.00
Ducati Hottie: calls $8.00
YA221: raises $8.00 to $16.00 (arr crap. wonder if i'm now drawing dead?)
HERO: calls $8.00 (calling ... but dunno if this is correct)
cleovictoire: calls $8.00
Ducati Hottie: folds
--- DEALING RIVER [9h] ARGH
HERO: checks
cleovictoire: checks
YA221: checks interesting ... I would have folded to a bet i think 3 ways
HERO: shows [Qd Qs]
cleovictoire: mucks
YA221: shows [7h 6d] WTF? and thats his 3rd suckout on me for the session as well .. although he would have had the odds to call that flop after his idiotic preflop effort.
YA221: wins main pot($113.00)
Hand 3:
Hold'em Limit ($4.00/$8.00) - 2008-11-08 18:39:12
Table 'Bristol (max 6)' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: HERO ($287.50)
Seat 2: atshizzle ($180.25)
Seat 3: troutman101 ($17.14)
Seat 4: doseone916 ($112.22)
Seat 5: Ducati Hottie ($353.11)
Seat 6: YA221 ($778.18)
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NEW HAND
HERO: posts the small blind $2.00
atshizzle: posts the big blind $4.00
--- DEALING POCKETS
HERO is dealt [Jc,Kd] cool.
troutman101: folds
doseone916: folds
Ducati Hottie: folds
YA221: calls $4.00 here fish
HERO: raises $4.00 to $8.00
atshizzle: calls $4.00
YA221: calls $4.00
--- DEALING FLOP [Qh,7s,Jh] Not bad ... 2nd pair. i'm probably in front
HERO: bets $4.00 cbet
atshizzle: folds good
YA221: calls $4.00 hmm
--- DEALING TURN [4c] good
HERO: bets $8.00 cbet
YA221: calls $8.00 prefer a fold here ..
--- DEALING RIVER [4d]
HERO: checks i'm going to c/c my showdownable hand here
YA221: bets $8.00 not a good sign.
HERO: calls $8.00
YA221: shows [5s 4s] OMFG
YA221: wins main pot($61.00)
Hand 4:
Hold'em Limit ($4.00/$8.00) - 2008-11-08 19:52:15
Table 'Bristol (max 6)' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: HERO ($181.51)
Seat 2: atshizzle ($158.60)
Seat 3: cminuts ($161.50)
Seat 4: doseone916 ($249.72)
Seat 5: Ducati Hottie ($346.39)
Seat 6: Stitch676 ($145.00)
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NEW HAND
atshizzle: posts the small blind $2.00
cminuts: posts the big blind $4.00 LAG/TAG
--- DEALING POCKETS
HERO is dealt [Js,Ad] cool
doseone916: folds
Ducati Hottie: folds
Stitch676: folds
HERO: raises $4.00 to $8.00
atshizzle: folds
cminuts: calls $4.00
--- DEALING FLOP [Jd,6d,2s] wicked
cminuts: checks
HERO: bets $4.00
cminuts: calls $4.00
--- DEALING TURN [Tc] cool
cminuts: checks
HERO: bets $8.00
cminuts: calls $8.00
--- DEALING RIVER [Th] hmm
cminuts: checks
HERO: bets $8.00
cminuts: raises $8.00 to $16.00 oh crap
HERO: calls $8.00
cminuts: shows [Ts Ac] you lucky F ... POS
cminuts: wins main pot($71.00)
Hand 5:
Hold'em Limit ($4.00/$8.00) - 2008-11-08 20:09:42
Table 'Billings (max 6)' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: YA221 ($393.00) (note he had almost $800 earlier ... and even took more off me to donate to the others)
Seat 2: 1rockstar ($125.00)
Seat 3: HERO ($364.50)
Seat 4: elpsredmen ($220.50)
Seat 5: cminuts ($509.49)
Seat 6: tungpeter ($379.50)
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NEW HAND
YA221: posts the small blind $2.00
1rockstar: posts the big blind $4.00
--- DEALING POCKETS
HERO is dealt [Ah,Qh] sweet
HERO: raises $4.00 to $8.00
elpsredmen: folds
cminuts: folds
tungpeter: calls $8.00
YA221: folds
1rockstar: folds
--- DEALING FLOP [Kh,Js,Ac] nice
HERO: bets $4.00
tungpeter: calls $4.00
--- DEALING TURN [6h]
HERO: bets $8.00
tungpeter: calls $8.00
--- DEALING RIVER [9d]
HERO: bets $8.00
tungpeter: raises $8.00 to $16.00 oh oh ... surely i woulda heard from QT earlier and who calls an UTG raise from the button with QT?
HERO: calls $8.00
tungpeter: shows [Jc Kd] interesting ... i guess you call an UTG raise with KJo from the button and play passively to the river....
tungpeter: wins main pot($75.00)
Hand 6:
Hold'em Limit ($4.00/$8.00) - 2008-11-08 20:13:07
Table 'Billings (max 6)' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: YA221 ($415.50)
Seat 2: 1rockstar ($109.00) also appears to be a fish ...)
Seat 3: HERO ($346.50)
Seat 5: cminuts ($489.49)
Seat 6: tungpeter ($388.50)
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NEW HAND
1rockstar: posts the small blind $2.00
HERO: posts the big blind $4.00
--- DEALING POCKETS
HERO is dealt [6s,7c] yuk ..
cminuts: folds
tungpeter: raises $4.00 to $8.00
YA221: calls $8.00
1rockstar: folds
HERO: calls $4.00 with one cold caller who is a muppet i think worth a call
--- DEALING FLOP [7d,Ts,6d] Nice!
HERO: checks
tungpeter: bets $4.00
YA221: folds
HERO: raises $4.00 to $8.00
tungpeter: raises $4.00 to $12.00
HERO: raises $4.00 to $16.00
tungpeter: calls $4.00
--- DEALING TURN [8s]
HERO: bets $8.00
tungpeter: raises $8.00 to $16.00 (hmm i'm up against trips or the 9? calling down now)
HERO: calls $8.00
--- DEALING RIVER [Ah]
HERO: checks
tungpeter: bets $8.00
HERO: calls $8.00 I think pot is big enough to call here, although that A is a terrible card as I was in front of AT before.
tungpeter: shows [8c Th] FFS .. out turned again ... T8o is an interesting CO raise
HERO: mucks
tungpeter: wins main pot($104.00)
Hand 7:
Hold'em Limit ($4.00/$8.00) - 2008-11-08 20:24:02
Table 'Billings (max 6)' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: YA221 ($390.50)
Seat 2: 1rockstar ($172.00)
Seat 3: HERO ($287.50)
Seat 4: atshizzle ($234.10)
Seat 5: cminuts ($460.99)
Seat 6: tungpeter ($344.50)
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NEW HAND
YA221: posts the small blind $2.00
1rockstar: posts the big blind $4.00
--- DEALING POCKETS
HERO is dealt [As,9s] not bad
HERO: raises $4.00 to $8.00
atshizzle: calls $8.00
cminuts: folds
tungpeter: raises $4.00 to $12.00 okay this guy is a bit of an aggro muppet preflop so could have anything
YA221: calls $10.00 nice call fish
1rockstar: calls $8.00 here fishy
HERO: calls $4.00
atshizzle: calls $4.00
--- DEALING FLOP [8s,4s,Kc] awesome flop
YA221: checks
1rockstar: bets $4.00
HERO: calls $4.00 call here waiting for the tungpeter raise so that YA and rockstar aren't facing 2 bets to call
atshizzle: raises $4.00 to $8.00 interesting
tungpeter: raises $4.00 to $12.00 man ..dont scare em off
YA221: folds doh
1rockstar: calls $8.00 bonus
HERO: calls $8.00 toss up between a raise and a call .. i decided to call here given atshizzle had reraised before
atshizzle: raises $4.00 to $16.00 can't complain here
tungpeter: calls $4.00
1rockstar: calls $4.00
HERO: calls $4.00 (capped here so i cant reraise otherwise I possibly would)
--- DEALING TURN [7h] hmm woulda been nice to hit that spade here ...
1rockstar: checks
HERO: checks
atshizzle: bets $8.00
tungpeter: raises $8.00 to $16.00
1rockstar: calls $16.00
HERO: calls $16.00 hmmm ... i wonder if i'm up against trips. if i'm up against another spade draw that does reduce my outs significantly. I really dont want to see the board pair on the river, but need that final spade. Not sure, maybe this should be a raise since the pot is already huge.
atshizzle: calls $8.00
--- DEALING RIVER [Ks] well .. that's hit my flush .. but also paired the board .. could be ugly
1rockstar: checks
HERO: bets $8.00 dont really want this to be checked through.
atshizzle: raises $8.00 to $16.00 oh oh he's back awake again ...
tungpeter: folds raise turn and fold the river in a huge pot for 2? wtf ...
1rockstar: raises $8.00 to $24.00 ack .. this isnt looking good
HERO: calls $16.00 can't fold in a pot this big when i've surely got reasonable equity
atshizzle: raises $8.00 to $32.00 argh ..this is lookin bad ...
1rockstar: calls $8.00
HERO: calls $8.00
atshizzle: shows [Kh Qd] heh .. you owe me a lot more than just that one
1rockstar: shows [Ts 5s] doofus preflop, but unlucky flush over flush.
HERO: shows [As 9s]
HERO: wins main pot($281.00) biggest pot ever for me I think .. but i'm still way down for the session
So .. all in all a pretty horrible session, but at least recovered late with that hand. So coulda been a lot worse. Looks like I’ll be back to the $1/2 tables on bodog for a while. And that could be quite a while as I’m still running very cold there in total at a 36% WTSD and now I’m actually under 47% W$SD…. And that’s over 8.5k hands…
I also played a stack of $5 double up sitngos on interpoker as there were literally no cash games running when I was playing. I think I cashed in about 6 out of 8 of them and they are quite fun. It looks like most people dont really know how to play them. As soon as my bankroll hits $500 on there I might take a swing at the $15 double ups. I'm assuming the play there is also fairly terrible.
Current bankroll: $13,800
Found a couple good tables, although didn’t necessarily best position on the fish. Offsetting that was that the players to my right though were still passive and slightly loose, so I didn't think i'd actually get pushed off too many blinds, which turned out to be the correct assumption.
However, the fishes decided it was time to slaughter me.
Atshizzle – 71/11/.84/54 with W$SD 47 … with most of those wins against me …
YA221 – 78/29/1.24/45 with W$SD 45 ..mostly against me
Tungpeter – 51/27/.84/43 with a W$SD 43 .. again mostly against me …
A frustrating procession of me v fish resulting in suck out, followed by fish v someone else losing my money to them. Annoying, but I still didn't tilt at all that I could see - in fact I don't think I loosened up at all in trying to chase losses, or overplay any marginal hands that flopped poorly.
My stats for the session:
VPIP 24% .. I was a bit down on receiving decent starting hands
PFR 16% … as above
AF 1.43 … down on usual .. maybe I was a little passive .. but more likely I was having to check/call a few marginal hands
WTSD 33% … low … I couldn’t hit a flop to save myself
W$SD 42% …unbelievable that I can go that badly with such a low WTSD. But I guess the suck outs hurt a lot.
The thing is … at the $1/2 tables at the same time I also managed to drop 75BBs in about 2.5 hours running even colder .. about a 20% WTSD and a 30% W$SD over 600 hands. Only played about an hour and a half of $4/8 and at one stage was 50BBs down before finishing at 20BBs down. Boy was it ugly for a while. Couldn’t hit a draw to save myself.
Anyways .. a few hands from the session: (sorry about the lack of converter .. I’m getting errors on weaktight for bodog at the moment).
Hand 1:
Hold'em Limit ($4.00/$8.00) - 2008-11-08 18:24:22
Table 'Bristol (max 6)' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: HERO ($370.00)
Seat 2: atshizzle ($212.75)
Seat 3: troutman101 ($92.82)
Seat 4: doseone916 ($135.22)
Seat 5: Ducati Hottie ($303.61)
Seat 6: YA221 ($648.00)
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NEW HAND
atshizzle: posts the small blind $2.00
doseone916: posts the big blind $4.00
--- DEALING POCKETS
HERO is dealt [Ad,Kd] nice!
Ducati Hottie: folds
YA221: folds
HERO: raises $4.00 to $8.00
atshizzle: calls $6.00
doseone916: folds
--- DEALING FLOP [6s,6d,6h] not a horrible flop. i'm in front of everything except pocket pairs and this dude is a muppet ...
atshizzle: checks
HERO: bets $4.00 value/c bet
atshizzle: calls $4.00
--- DEALING TURN [3d]
atshizzle: checks
HERO: bets $8.00 value/c bet
atshizzle: calls $8.00
--- DEALING RIVER [Qd]
atshizzle: bets $8.00 u gotta be kiddin me .. surely the Q didnt help
HERO: calls $8.00 Don't think i can fold here.
atshizzle: shows [Qc Td] FFS ... thats about the 3rd suckout he's laid on me.
atshizzle: wins main pot($58.00)
Hand 2:
Hold'em Limit ($4.00/$8.00) - 2008-11-08 18:19:11
Table 'Bristol (max 6)' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: HERO ($360.00)
Seat 2: atshizzle ($264.75)
Seat 3: cleovictoire ($53.72)
Seat 4: doseone916 ($154.00)
Seat 5: Ducati Hottie ($355.61)
Seat 6: YA221 ($492.50)
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NEW HAND
HERO: posts the small blind $2.00
atshizzle: posts the big blind $4.00
--- DEALING POCKETS
HERO is dealt [Qd,Qs] at this point i havent had a hand for a while, so this is great!
cleovictoire: calls $4.00
doseone916: calls $4.00
Ducati Hottie: calls $4.00
YA221: calls $4.00
HERO: raises $4.00 to $8.00
atshizzle: folds
cleovictoire: calls $4.00
doseone916: calls $4.00
Ducati Hottie: calls $4.00
YA221: calls $4.00
--- DEALING FLOP [Jd,6h,8c] (frickin cold callers and i've missed .. but still my overpair is likely to be good)
HERO: bets $4.00
cleovictoire: calls $4.00
doseone916: folds
Ducati Hottie: calls $4.00
YA221: calls $4.00
--- DEALING TURN [7d] (thats not a good card ... 678 ... still ...)
HERO: bets $8.00
cleovictoire: calls $8.00
Ducati Hottie: calls $8.00
YA221: raises $8.00 to $16.00 (arr crap. wonder if i'm now drawing dead?)
HERO: calls $8.00 (calling ... but dunno if this is correct)
cleovictoire: calls $8.00
Ducati Hottie: folds
--- DEALING RIVER [9h] ARGH
HERO: checks
cleovictoire: checks
YA221: checks interesting ... I would have folded to a bet i think 3 ways
HERO: shows [Qd Qs]
cleovictoire: mucks
YA221: shows [7h 6d] WTF? and thats his 3rd suckout on me for the session as well .. although he would have had the odds to call that flop after his idiotic preflop effort.
YA221: wins main pot($113.00)
Hand 3:
Hold'em Limit ($4.00/$8.00) - 2008-11-08 18:39:12
Table 'Bristol (max 6)' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: HERO ($287.50)
Seat 2: atshizzle ($180.25)
Seat 3: troutman101 ($17.14)
Seat 4: doseone916 ($112.22)
Seat 5: Ducati Hottie ($353.11)
Seat 6: YA221 ($778.18)
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NEW HAND
HERO: posts the small blind $2.00
atshizzle: posts the big blind $4.00
--- DEALING POCKETS
HERO is dealt [Jc,Kd] cool.
troutman101: folds
doseone916: folds
Ducati Hottie: folds
YA221: calls $4.00 here fish
HERO: raises $4.00 to $8.00
atshizzle: calls $4.00
YA221: calls $4.00
--- DEALING FLOP [Qh,7s,Jh] Not bad ... 2nd pair. i'm probably in front
HERO: bets $4.00 cbet
atshizzle: folds good
YA221: calls $4.00 hmm
--- DEALING TURN [4c] good
HERO: bets $8.00 cbet
YA221: calls $8.00 prefer a fold here ..
--- DEALING RIVER [4d]
HERO: checks i'm going to c/c my showdownable hand here
YA221: bets $8.00 not a good sign.
HERO: calls $8.00
YA221: shows [5s 4s] OMFG
YA221: wins main pot($61.00)
Hand 4:
Hold'em Limit ($4.00/$8.00) - 2008-11-08 19:52:15
Table 'Bristol (max 6)' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: HERO ($181.51)
Seat 2: atshizzle ($158.60)
Seat 3: cminuts ($161.50)
Seat 4: doseone916 ($249.72)
Seat 5: Ducati Hottie ($346.39)
Seat 6: Stitch676 ($145.00)
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NEW HAND
atshizzle: posts the small blind $2.00
cminuts: posts the big blind $4.00 LAG/TAG
--- DEALING POCKETS
HERO is dealt [Js,Ad] cool
doseone916: folds
Ducati Hottie: folds
Stitch676: folds
HERO: raises $4.00 to $8.00
atshizzle: folds
cminuts: calls $4.00
--- DEALING FLOP [Jd,6d,2s] wicked
cminuts: checks
HERO: bets $4.00
cminuts: calls $4.00
--- DEALING TURN [Tc] cool
cminuts: checks
HERO: bets $8.00
cminuts: calls $8.00
--- DEALING RIVER [Th] hmm
cminuts: checks
HERO: bets $8.00
cminuts: raises $8.00 to $16.00 oh crap
HERO: calls $8.00
cminuts: shows [Ts Ac] you lucky F ... POS
cminuts: wins main pot($71.00)
Hand 5:
Hold'em Limit ($4.00/$8.00) - 2008-11-08 20:09:42
Table 'Billings (max 6)' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: YA221 ($393.00) (note he had almost $800 earlier ... and even took more off me to donate to the others)
Seat 2: 1rockstar ($125.00)
Seat 3: HERO ($364.50)
Seat 4: elpsredmen ($220.50)
Seat 5: cminuts ($509.49)
Seat 6: tungpeter ($379.50)
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NEW HAND
YA221: posts the small blind $2.00
1rockstar: posts the big blind $4.00
--- DEALING POCKETS
HERO is dealt [Ah,Qh] sweet
HERO: raises $4.00 to $8.00
elpsredmen: folds
cminuts: folds
tungpeter: calls $8.00
YA221: folds
1rockstar: folds
--- DEALING FLOP [Kh,Js,Ac] nice
HERO: bets $4.00
tungpeter: calls $4.00
--- DEALING TURN [6h]
HERO: bets $8.00
tungpeter: calls $8.00
--- DEALING RIVER [9d]
HERO: bets $8.00
tungpeter: raises $8.00 to $16.00 oh oh ... surely i woulda heard from QT earlier and who calls an UTG raise from the button with QT?
HERO: calls $8.00
tungpeter: shows [Jc Kd] interesting ... i guess you call an UTG raise with KJo from the button and play passively to the river....
tungpeter: wins main pot($75.00)
Hand 6:
Hold'em Limit ($4.00/$8.00) - 2008-11-08 20:13:07
Table 'Billings (max 6)' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: YA221 ($415.50)
Seat 2: 1rockstar ($109.00) also appears to be a fish ...)
Seat 3: HERO ($346.50)
Seat 5: cminuts ($489.49)
Seat 6: tungpeter ($388.50)
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NEW HAND
1rockstar: posts the small blind $2.00
HERO: posts the big blind $4.00
--- DEALING POCKETS
HERO is dealt [6s,7c] yuk ..
cminuts: folds
tungpeter: raises $4.00 to $8.00
YA221: calls $8.00
1rockstar: folds
HERO: calls $4.00 with one cold caller who is a muppet i think worth a call
--- DEALING FLOP [7d,Ts,6d] Nice!
HERO: checks
tungpeter: bets $4.00
YA221: folds
HERO: raises $4.00 to $8.00
tungpeter: raises $4.00 to $12.00
HERO: raises $4.00 to $16.00
tungpeter: calls $4.00
--- DEALING TURN [8s]
HERO: bets $8.00
tungpeter: raises $8.00 to $16.00 (hmm i'm up against trips or the 9? calling down now)
HERO: calls $8.00
--- DEALING RIVER [Ah]
HERO: checks
tungpeter: bets $8.00
HERO: calls $8.00 I think pot is big enough to call here, although that A is a terrible card as I was in front of AT before.
tungpeter: shows [8c Th] FFS .. out turned again ... T8o is an interesting CO raise
HERO: mucks
tungpeter: wins main pot($104.00)
Hand 7:
Hold'em Limit ($4.00/$8.00) - 2008-11-08 20:24:02
Table 'Billings (max 6)' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: YA221 ($390.50)
Seat 2: 1rockstar ($172.00)
Seat 3: HERO ($287.50)
Seat 4: atshizzle ($234.10)
Seat 5: cminuts ($460.99)
Seat 6: tungpeter ($344.50)
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NEW HAND
YA221: posts the small blind $2.00
1rockstar: posts the big blind $4.00
--- DEALING POCKETS
HERO is dealt [As,9s] not bad
HERO: raises $4.00 to $8.00
atshizzle: calls $8.00
cminuts: folds
tungpeter: raises $4.00 to $12.00 okay this guy is a bit of an aggro muppet preflop so could have anything
YA221: calls $10.00 nice call fish
1rockstar: calls $8.00 here fishy
HERO: calls $4.00
atshizzle: calls $4.00
--- DEALING FLOP [8s,4s,Kc] awesome flop
YA221: checks
1rockstar: bets $4.00
HERO: calls $4.00 call here waiting for the tungpeter raise so that YA and rockstar aren't facing 2 bets to call
atshizzle: raises $4.00 to $8.00 interesting
tungpeter: raises $4.00 to $12.00 man ..dont scare em off
YA221: folds doh
1rockstar: calls $8.00 bonus
HERO: calls $8.00 toss up between a raise and a call .. i decided to call here given atshizzle had reraised before
atshizzle: raises $4.00 to $16.00 can't complain here
tungpeter: calls $4.00
1rockstar: calls $4.00
HERO: calls $4.00 (capped here so i cant reraise otherwise I possibly would)
--- DEALING TURN [7h] hmm woulda been nice to hit that spade here ...
1rockstar: checks
HERO: checks
atshizzle: bets $8.00
tungpeter: raises $8.00 to $16.00
1rockstar: calls $16.00
HERO: calls $16.00 hmmm ... i wonder if i'm up against trips. if i'm up against another spade draw that does reduce my outs significantly. I really dont want to see the board pair on the river, but need that final spade. Not sure, maybe this should be a raise since the pot is already huge.
atshizzle: calls $8.00
--- DEALING RIVER [Ks] well .. that's hit my flush .. but also paired the board .. could be ugly
1rockstar: checks
HERO: bets $8.00 dont really want this to be checked through.
atshizzle: raises $8.00 to $16.00 oh oh he's back awake again ...
tungpeter: folds raise turn and fold the river in a huge pot for 2? wtf ...
1rockstar: raises $8.00 to $24.00 ack .. this isnt looking good
HERO: calls $16.00 can't fold in a pot this big when i've surely got reasonable equity
atshizzle: raises $8.00 to $32.00 argh ..this is lookin bad ...
1rockstar: calls $8.00
HERO: calls $8.00
atshizzle: shows [Kh Qd] heh .. you owe me a lot more than just that one
1rockstar: shows [Ts 5s] doofus preflop, but unlucky flush over flush.
HERO: shows [As 9s]
HERO: wins main pot($281.00) biggest pot ever for me I think .. but i'm still way down for the session
So .. all in all a pretty horrible session, but at least recovered late with that hand. So coulda been a lot worse. Looks like I’ll be back to the $1/2 tables on bodog for a while. And that could be quite a while as I’m still running very cold there in total at a 36% WTSD and now I’m actually under 47% W$SD…. And that’s over 8.5k hands…
I also played a stack of $5 double up sitngos on interpoker as there were literally no cash games running when I was playing. I think I cashed in about 6 out of 8 of them and they are quite fun. It looks like most people dont really know how to play them. As soon as my bankroll hits $500 on there I might take a swing at the $15 double ups. I'm assuming the play there is also fairly terrible.
Current bankroll: $13,800
Monday, November 3, 2008
Multiple sites simultaneously
I've noticed having multiple sites open at once is normally not much of a problem. However, when you add Cake into the mix with no HUD, it does become a little more tricky, as I have to make sure I have time to make manual notes. I'm still comfortable with 4 tables open, although it can be a little hectic and occasionally I need to open hand histories to back track on notes on some players.
I don't think it hurts my win rate though, as I can spot the fish relatively quickly, although do have the occasional revision where i've mistaken a LAG for a fish.
I got in about an hour of play last night, which turned out to be relatively profitable. Cake had some nice $2/4 and $3/6 tables, although I didn't really go far with them but made a few BBs. Should have some nice rakeback though. I found a nice $2/4 table on Interpoker though, and for once I didn't get slaughtered there. I'm back to being a bit better than -3BB/100 there now ... after making 25BBs ... sheesh. There was one other pretty decent table on interpoker with two tags and three pretty big fish. Problem was I found myself directly to the left of the two tags, and that made for some pretty hard going, so I quit the table after a couple orbits.
Current bankroll: $14,000
I don't think it hurts my win rate though, as I can spot the fish relatively quickly, although do have the occasional revision where i've mistaken a LAG for a fish.
I got in about an hour of play last night, which turned out to be relatively profitable. Cake had some nice $2/4 and $3/6 tables, although I didn't really go far with them but made a few BBs. Should have some nice rakeback though. I found a nice $2/4 table on Interpoker though, and for once I didn't get slaughtered there. I'm back to being a bit better than -3BB/100 there now ... after making 25BBs ... sheesh. There was one other pretty decent table on interpoker with two tags and three pretty big fish. Problem was I found myself directly to the left of the two tags, and that made for some pretty hard going, so I quit the table after a couple orbits.
Current bankroll: $14,000
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
The importance of a large backup room
Whilst clearing away these bonuses and various deals on smaller poker rooms, I've noticed that its important to have a larger site as a back up to play on when traffic is poor. Its even more relevant to me, as being on Aussie time, my evenings are generally when most sites have their lowest number of players. In some cases there is not even a single table running at my game/stakes.
So, which is my site of choice? Fulltilt. I know Fulltilt gets knocked a fair bit on sites like 2p2 as a site where non Americans should avoid as other sites are softer. I find however, that although there are many tight players on Full Tilt, you are also able to table select a lot more, as more tables are actually running. That actually allows you to target the fish.
The other thing I like about Fulltilt is the relatively smaller rake structure for the games I play. I pay significantly less rake there than on say ipoker or cryptologic. So even though the rakeback is a bit lower at 27%, since i'm paying less rake in total, it basically evens out, or actually puts Fulltilt in front at some levels. (Although at 27% rakeback its still well in front of Pokerstars which is why I don't play there).
So when my tables have dried up on Bodog and Ipoker, Fulltilt is where you'll find me playing. My sign up of choice that i'd still recommend is raketherake (link on right) for the standard 27% rakeback as well as various races and freerolls.
I did put in an hour of play last night, and suffered a number of terrible beats on the $1/2 tables on Fulltilt, which was more than offset by a 20BB profit on a single $2/4 table where the fish were biting nicely and I was just reeling them in. Bodog also paid off a few BBs from the one table that was running.
Current Bankroll: $13,650
So, which is my site of choice? Fulltilt. I know Fulltilt gets knocked a fair bit on sites like 2p2 as a site where non Americans should avoid as other sites are softer. I find however, that although there are many tight players on Full Tilt, you are also able to table select a lot more, as more tables are actually running. That actually allows you to target the fish.
The other thing I like about Fulltilt is the relatively smaller rake structure for the games I play. I pay significantly less rake there than on say ipoker or cryptologic. So even though the rakeback is a bit lower at 27%, since i'm paying less rake in total, it basically evens out, or actually puts Fulltilt in front at some levels. (Although at 27% rakeback its still well in front of Pokerstars which is why I don't play there).
So when my tables have dried up on Bodog and Ipoker, Fulltilt is where you'll find me playing. My sign up of choice that i'd still recommend is raketherake (link on right) for the standard 27% rakeback as well as various races and freerolls.
I did put in an hour of play last night, and suffered a number of terrible beats on the $1/2 tables on Fulltilt, which was more than offset by a 20BB profit on a single $2/4 table where the fish were biting nicely and I was just reeling them in. Bodog also paid off a few BBs from the one table that was running.
Current Bankroll: $13,650
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Bodog bonuses
Only played a small session, but managed to have one table where the card gods decided to smile on me and ended about $50 up in half an hour. The other tables still managed to deliver a number painful beats, but I can live with that if i'm destroying another table.
It was actually one of those tables which are just about perfect. Two very loose passive fish on my right, and a very tight player on my left who folded to almost all of my preflop raises.
It would be nice to have a few bigger wins, so hopefully that will happen in one of my next few sessions.
I did get my Bodog reload bonus of $230 the other day which was handy. That takes me to about $230 in total for the month on that site alone which makes up for me running fairly cool. The interesting thing about their bonus is that you seem to be able to withdraw as well without it actually impacting the bonus. I will withdraw the $200 i deposited yesterday in about a week, as i'd rather just be playing that site on pure profits. A few more decent sessions on there and i'll be able to start stabbing at $4/8 again.
Interpoker i'm now over 900 points so have less than 100 points to hit my goal for this month, so I may have to stop playing there for a few days if I hit that tonight.
Current bankroll: $13,600
It was actually one of those tables which are just about perfect. Two very loose passive fish on my right, and a very tight player on my left who folded to almost all of my preflop raises.
It would be nice to have a few bigger wins, so hopefully that will happen in one of my next few sessions.
I did get my Bodog reload bonus of $230 the other day which was handy. That takes me to about $230 in total for the month on that site alone which makes up for me running fairly cool. The interesting thing about their bonus is that you seem to be able to withdraw as well without it actually impacting the bonus. I will withdraw the $200 i deposited yesterday in about a week, as i'd rather just be playing that site on pure profits. A few more decent sessions on there and i'll be able to start stabbing at $4/8 again.
Interpoker i'm now over 900 points so have less than 100 points to hit my goal for this month, so I may have to stop playing there for a few days if I hit that tonight.
Current bankroll: $13,600
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Variance = upswing
Interesting how quickly things can change. I was almost redepositing on Interpoker only a couple days ago, and now all of a sudden i have nearly 200BBs for 1/2 on there, and 100 for 2/4. Admittedly its a lot less than i'd like to have, but considering I was less than half that a couple days ago, it's not a bad position to be in.
Got credited with around $50 in bonus and rakeback and then also played a very brief (around 15 minute session. So all up around 50 hands, of which about 15 were at $2/4 where I made another 20BBs. No real hands of interest, just all my TPTK hands held up, and a few of those went to the river 3 ways. My only nemesis hand of the session was 3 times I was up against 22 that had hit trips on the flop, and I called down with either top pair or two pair in each instance. Kind of odd to have trips hit against me so many times in such a small space of time, but I guess it happens sometimes.
Overall up around $100 for the session, thanks to some very loose fish who liked to call down.
In other news, it appears William Hill is moving to ipoker in January, so for anyone wanting rakeback on the ipoker network, this may be a way to get it. So if interested, feel free to sign up through RTR - link on the right hand side of my blog as always. Although based on what happened at Pacific, it would be more likely to work if you sign up sooner than later.
Current bankroll: $13,400
Got credited with around $50 in bonus and rakeback and then also played a very brief (around 15 minute session. So all up around 50 hands, of which about 15 were at $2/4 where I made another 20BBs. No real hands of interest, just all my TPTK hands held up, and a few of those went to the river 3 ways. My only nemesis hand of the session was 3 times I was up against 22 that had hit trips on the flop, and I called down with either top pair or two pair in each instance. Kind of odd to have trips hit against me so many times in such a small space of time, but I guess it happens sometimes.
Overall up around $100 for the session, thanks to some very loose fish who liked to call down.
In other news, it appears William Hill is moving to ipoker in January, so for anyone wanting rakeback on the ipoker network, this may be a way to get it. So if interested, feel free to sign up through RTR - link on the right hand side of my blog as always. Although based on what happened at Pacific, it would be more likely to work if you sign up sooner than later.
Current bankroll: $13,400
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Double up SNGs
I've played a few of these double your money SNGs on interpoker, mainly the 6 man ones, just as a bit of a break from the cash tables. They're actually reasonably fun, and relatively quick, as you only have to make it into the top half of the field to double your cash, and as soon as half the field is out, everyone goes all in.
So far the opponents i've seen have been a lot looser than I would have expected, although i've only played at the $5-$20 buy in level. I used to play them on Sun which is also on the Crypto network, but I think I played too many and got bored. Now its a nice change of pace again, so I figure i'll keep playing them from time to time.
My strategy in them so far has been to play tight early on, although if i can overlimp in cheap with either a pocket pair or suited connector I will give that a go too. Late game as the blinds increase I try to steal a few blinds from the mid stacks to maintain my stack, but generally don't get involved in a confrontation unless I have something relatively strong. I think patience is the key in these, as you're not necessarily aiming to win, just survive to the top half.
Also they credit 3mpps per $ in fees, and when you add in rakeback as well i'm paying virtually no rake whilst my bonus is still clearing.
I did get to play for a little over an hour last night, and had an interesting little session. There weren't many Interpoker tables running so I had to sniff around at Bodog and also opened one on Pacific. I could not believe how cold I started running. On Pacific I just couldn't hit anything, and even with a bit of a comback late in the session, I was running at a WTSD of 20%!!! ... and of those I was only winning 40%. WTF. Admittedly the suckouts were coming thick and fast. My Bodog and Interpoker tables also started terribly, but after the first 15 minutes turned around completely. On Interpoker I ended up at a 35% WTSD with a 75%W$SD, and had not quite as good, but similar results on Bodog.
Add in a couple small double up wins, and my bankroll increased by about 20BBs. WOuld have been more but Pacific was my big loser at $2/4, Interpoker was a big winner at $2/4, but Bodog was only at $1/2.
Current bankroll: $13,350
Note to self: go back through notes to self and actually post about them when they are relevant
So far the opponents i've seen have been a lot looser than I would have expected, although i've only played at the $5-$20 buy in level. I used to play them on Sun which is also on the Crypto network, but I think I played too many and got bored. Now its a nice change of pace again, so I figure i'll keep playing them from time to time.
My strategy in them so far has been to play tight early on, although if i can overlimp in cheap with either a pocket pair or suited connector I will give that a go too. Late game as the blinds increase I try to steal a few blinds from the mid stacks to maintain my stack, but generally don't get involved in a confrontation unless I have something relatively strong. I think patience is the key in these, as you're not necessarily aiming to win, just survive to the top half.
Also they credit 3mpps per $ in fees, and when you add in rakeback as well i'm paying virtually no rake whilst my bonus is still clearing.
I did get to play for a little over an hour last night, and had an interesting little session. There weren't many Interpoker tables running so I had to sniff around at Bodog and also opened one on Pacific. I could not believe how cold I started running. On Pacific I just couldn't hit anything, and even with a bit of a comback late in the session, I was running at a WTSD of 20%!!! ... and of those I was only winning 40%. WTF. Admittedly the suckouts were coming thick and fast. My Bodog and Interpoker tables also started terribly, but after the first 15 minutes turned around completely. On Interpoker I ended up at a 35% WTSD with a 75%W$SD, and had not quite as good, but similar results on Bodog.
Add in a couple small double up wins, and my bankroll increased by about 20BBs. WOuld have been more but Pacific was my big loser at $2/4, Interpoker was a big winner at $2/4, but Bodog was only at $1/2.
Current bankroll: $13,350
Note to self: go back through notes to self and actually post about them when they are relevant
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Interpoker bonus
Finally got round to checking how my bonus was going compared to rake on Interpoker.
Pokertracker2 tells me that i've paid approx $67 in rake. Interestingly, my RTR indicates a rake paid of $83. Not sure what the difference is - maybe PT2 is calculating contributed rake, versus RTR paying rakeback on dealt?
I've also earnt 280mpps - and need to get to 1,500mpps to clear $370 (150pounds + $120) in bonus cash. So effectively that's around $70 of the bonus cleared.
All up then my bonus appears to be clearing at around 100%, and then the cream on top is the rakeback of $27. Happy with the deal so far.
As far as play goes, I put in about half an hour last night, and started horrendously with a number of nasty suck outs in the space of 5 minutes putting me down by around 30BBs. One particularly nasty one was when I held AK on a board of AK8r. Turn 3, river 6. I got called all the way and reraised on the river by a guy showing down 66 ... wtf were they thinking. Add in a few similar beats and i'm ready to punch a hole in my monitor.
However, the remainder of the session was significantly improved, and these clowns kept calling down with trash, and my hands kept holding up. I also managed to hit a flush draw or two for the nut flush in a couple big pots which also helped. In the end I was around 15BBs up on a combination of $1/2 and $2/4 tables.
I also dabbled briefly on a full ring table which had a players per flop of 50%. Unfortunately by the 2nd orbit the 3 massive fish had busted out, so I quit as well after breaking even, but making quite a few MPPs just because they were building big pots every hand.
Current bankroll: $13,300
note to self next post - considering eurolinx through RTR to get back onto some fishy microgaming.
Pokertracker2 tells me that i've paid approx $67 in rake. Interestingly, my RTR indicates a rake paid of $83. Not sure what the difference is - maybe PT2 is calculating contributed rake, versus RTR paying rakeback on dealt?
I've also earnt 280mpps - and need to get to 1,500mpps to clear $370 (150pounds + $120) in bonus cash. So effectively that's around $70 of the bonus cleared.
All up then my bonus appears to be clearing at around 100%, and then the cream on top is the rakeback of $27. Happy with the deal so far.
As far as play goes, I put in about half an hour last night, and started horrendously with a number of nasty suck outs in the space of 5 minutes putting me down by around 30BBs. One particularly nasty one was when I held AK on a board of AK8r. Turn 3, river 6. I got called all the way and reraised on the river by a guy showing down 66 ... wtf were they thinking. Add in a few similar beats and i'm ready to punch a hole in my monitor.
However, the remainder of the session was significantly improved, and these clowns kept calling down with trash, and my hands kept holding up. I also managed to hit a flush draw or two for the nut flush in a couple big pots which also helped. In the end I was around 15BBs up on a combination of $1/2 and $2/4 tables.
I also dabbled briefly on a full ring table which had a players per flop of 50%. Unfortunately by the 2nd orbit the 3 massive fish had busted out, so I quit as well after breaking even, but making quite a few MPPs just because they were building big pots every hand.
Current bankroll: $13,300
note to self next post - considering eurolinx through RTR to get back onto some fishy microgaming.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Perception v reality
Its always interesting when you start up at a new site. Often if I have a bad run early at a new site, I will think less of a site, than if I start off well. In reality this could easily be variance, and I should really ensure my focus is on the hard evidence of what a site is like - ie
- How soft is it - are there plenty of fishy tables?
- Are there enough players to allow for table selection?
- Does the lobby show players per flop?
- Are there any bugs?
- Am I getting timed out for no reason?
- How much does it rake?
- How much do I rakeback?
- Are there any other benefits?
- Is cash out simple and quick?
I guess what made me think of this topic is that i've just started on Pacific, which has a relatively high rake. I'm struggling a bit to find the same level of fishiness on the tables as the blindman, but i'll keep giving it a go - they must be out there. Admittedly I also lost to a couple of horrendous beats for decent sized pots as well which may also bias my opinion. So at the moment the jury is still out on Pacific.
The next thing I really need to do is find another decent sign up bonus. I'm leaning towards a longer term deal on Interpoker through RTR using a pounds rather than $US account. It looks like their monthly bonuses are very generous if you use that currency, as well as the initial ipod nano bonus (or cash equivalent for me I think).
As far as play goes, I put in less than half an hour's play yesterday, and basically broke even. Started horribly early on when I raised UTG with ATo, and got one cold caller from the button. Flop 933 rainbow. I cbet, he calls. Turn is a T, which I bet out again and get raised. WTF could he have? T9? a 3s? I'm fairly sure i'm in front here, but just call. River is an 8. I check, he bets, I call, and he shows down QJ ... wtf. Slowly clawed my way back, although had another set back or two with some even nastier beats, before getting back to even. Got credited $50 in rakeback though, so I end up positive for the day.
Current bankroll: $13,450
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Cake reload complete
Got in about two and a half hours over the weekend, which was time enough to hit the $2/4 tables on Cake to clear my latest reload in full. I think about $50 for the month which is okay.
I then withdrew most of my bankroll there, and will deposit and play there again when the next reload is offered. Till then, will give Cake a miss, as there's not much point in playing when i'm not getting both rakeback and a reload bonus.
I also reloaded on Bodog for their reload bonus, and have started clearing that. Don't quite have enough of a bankroll on there yet to risk playing $4/8, but hopefully should have shortly. If I didnt cash out about half of my bonus there to another site, i'd probably have enough, but I'd rather make sure i'm cashing out regularly there given rumors regarding the site. Can't say i've had any problems though, and cashouts have been processed within about 10 hours for me there so far.
Also just signed up to a decent Pacific deal, although the actual bonus part of the deal looks fairly tough to achieve (well except the up front payment part - although i'm still not sure exactly how many points I need to clear that even). Hadn't really researched that I need to go buy handgrabbing software for Pacific if I want to track my opponents. I might have to look into sourcing the handgrabbing software at the best deal possible. Maybe through a sign up deal somewhere and pick up the bodog handgrabber at the same time.
(Oh, and if anyone is looking for a pretty good Pacific deal flick me a message).
I'm still not 100% certain how much i'll play on pacific, but the blindman seems to think its a great site. Will see.. i'll just have to avoid the tables he's on :)
Anyways the weekend went okay, although I did lag out a couple times, so i'm not sure if my router or ISP is working 100% at the moment. Managed to make about 30BBs on a combination of $1/2 and $2/4 tables. Had a fantastic start where I did a couple of big suckouts when holding a good but 2nd best hand - which then promptly turned around when a couple fish sucked out on me over and over again. Oh well. At least the session ended up!
Might post on goals etc again soon .. or might not ... depends if I think it through any further.
Current Bankroll: $13,050
I then withdrew most of my bankroll there, and will deposit and play there again when the next reload is offered. Till then, will give Cake a miss, as there's not much point in playing when i'm not getting both rakeback and a reload bonus.
I also reloaded on Bodog for their reload bonus, and have started clearing that. Don't quite have enough of a bankroll on there yet to risk playing $4/8, but hopefully should have shortly. If I didnt cash out about half of my bonus there to another site, i'd probably have enough, but I'd rather make sure i'm cashing out regularly there given rumors regarding the site. Can't say i've had any problems though, and cashouts have been processed within about 10 hours for me there so far.
Also just signed up to a decent Pacific deal, although the actual bonus part of the deal looks fairly tough to achieve (well except the up front payment part - although i'm still not sure exactly how many points I need to clear that even). Hadn't really researched that I need to go buy handgrabbing software for Pacific if I want to track my opponents. I might have to look into sourcing the handgrabbing software at the best deal possible. Maybe through a sign up deal somewhere and pick up the bodog handgrabber at the same time.
(Oh, and if anyone is looking for a pretty good Pacific deal flick me a message).
I'm still not 100% certain how much i'll play on pacific, but the blindman seems to think its a great site. Will see.. i'll just have to avoid the tables he's on :)
Anyways the weekend went okay, although I did lag out a couple times, so i'm not sure if my router or ISP is working 100% at the moment. Managed to make about 30BBs on a combination of $1/2 and $2/4 tables. Had a fantastic start where I did a couple of big suckouts when holding a good but 2nd best hand - which then promptly turned around when a couple fish sucked out on me over and over again. Oh well. At least the session ended up!
Might post on goals etc again soon .. or might not ... depends if I think it through any further.
Current Bankroll: $13,050
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Another bodog bonus cleared
Actually I need to look up when I last deposited on Bodog to see if I can reload again yet. Might have to wait another day or two but would be useful to know.
It's always nice when you log in and your bankroll is $100 higher than when you last quit. Admittedly I knew I was due a decent bonus payment but hadn't included it in my bankroll as yet.
Only got in about 20 mins of poker, but still managed to gain about 15BBs on a combination of $1/2 and $2/4 tables mixed between bodog, cake and fulltilt. No real interesting hands, although one guy was quite good to me as he was quite aggro, and raised a 3 way hand on every street with a flush draw versus my top pair 2nd kicker only, on a board that had draws for both a flush and straight which all missed. I did battle to find a decent fulltilt table, although eventually got on one with a bunch of tight passives, and one very loose passive that I had position on.
Should have a few more bonus $ coming my way from Bodog as well. The next consideration for me will be whether to withdraw again from Bodog next month, or let my roll keep building up on that site so that I can play some more $4/8 there again. I'm kinda leaning towards the latter option, as it would be good to play some larger stakes again on there. Its a bit annoying they don't have $3/6 or $2/4 6max tables there.
I've also noticed that with the interest i'm earning from my withdrawals, i've almost paid off the interest debt from my initial bankroll investment online. (I figure I have to charge myself for the time it took me to actually make my first withdrawal of my original deposit). So basically from next month on, all interest will be added back into my bankroll for an added little bonus.
Current bankroll: $12,950
It's always nice when you log in and your bankroll is $100 higher than when you last quit. Admittedly I knew I was due a decent bonus payment but hadn't included it in my bankroll as yet.
Only got in about 20 mins of poker, but still managed to gain about 15BBs on a combination of $1/2 and $2/4 tables mixed between bodog, cake and fulltilt. No real interesting hands, although one guy was quite good to me as he was quite aggro, and raised a 3 way hand on every street with a flush draw versus my top pair 2nd kicker only, on a board that had draws for both a flush and straight which all missed. I did battle to find a decent fulltilt table, although eventually got on one with a bunch of tight passives, and one very loose passive that I had position on.
Should have a few more bonus $ coming my way from Bodog as well. The next consideration for me will be whether to withdraw again from Bodog next month, or let my roll keep building up on that site so that I can play some more $4/8 there again. I'm kinda leaning towards the latter option, as it would be good to play some larger stakes again on there. Its a bit annoying they don't have $3/6 or $2/4 6max tables there.
I've also noticed that with the interest i'm earning from my withdrawals, i've almost paid off the interest debt from my initial bankroll investment online. (I figure I have to charge myself for the time it took me to actually make my first withdrawal of my original deposit). So basically from next month on, all interest will be added back into my bankroll for an added little bonus.
Current bankroll: $12,950
Sunday, August 31, 2008
New bonus site
Okay my new bonus site actually paid out, so i'm reasonably confident with them!
I signed up with rakeaway:
http://www.rakeaway.com/?ref=snaffle22
I did the Everest bonus and Pokertime bonus through them and was successfully paid out. (They both cleared extremely quickly!!)
And did a couple of their bonuses that are actually through Regalos Poker. Thing is, rakeaway actually gives you an additional bonus on top of the Regalos Poker cash bonus, so its definitely worth using rakeaway for Regalos bonuses.
The other bonuses, well, I will either go through rakeaway, or through the people i've already signed up through if i'm already signed up on their referring site, as there doesn't seem to be any additional bonuses.
It is a very good site though, possibly the best i've found for comparing bonuses, and clearance rates, so i'd highly recommend taking a look.
Anyways if you're interested please use my referal link :)
Also bear in mind that you don't want to use the one off bonus deals on sites where you are likely to want to play on long term and are better off with rakeback. I'd still recommend raketherake for all your long term deals, as well as rakebackstat if you're interested in Bodog. (Links on right)
I found an error with Rakebackstat the other day, which was actually a Bodog error, and Rakebackstat still gave me a credit of $10 just for finding the error. Kudos to their customer service. They also report daily stats which is handy.
I'm off on holiday so i'll catch everyone again in a week's time when i'm back and at the tables.
Cheers all!
Current bankroll: $11,450
I signed up with rakeaway:
http://www.rakeaway.com/?ref=snaffle22
I did the Everest bonus and Pokertime bonus through them and was successfully paid out. (They both cleared extremely quickly!!)
And did a couple of their bonuses that are actually through Regalos Poker. Thing is, rakeaway actually gives you an additional bonus on top of the Regalos Poker cash bonus, so its definitely worth using rakeaway for Regalos bonuses.
The other bonuses, well, I will either go through rakeaway, or through the people i've already signed up through if i'm already signed up on their referring site, as there doesn't seem to be any additional bonuses.
It is a very good site though, possibly the best i've found for comparing bonuses, and clearance rates, so i'd highly recommend taking a look.
Anyways if you're interested please use my referal link :)
Also bear in mind that you don't want to use the one off bonus deals on sites where you are likely to want to play on long term and are better off with rakeback. I'd still recommend raketherake for all your long term deals, as well as rakebackstat if you're interested in Bodog. (Links on right)
I found an error with Rakebackstat the other day, which was actually a Bodog error, and Rakebackstat still gave me a credit of $10 just for finding the error. Kudos to their customer service. They also report daily stats which is handy.
I'm off on holiday so i'll catch everyone again in a week's time when i'm back and at the tables.
Cheers all!
Current bankroll: $11,450
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Cake payin me back quickly
At least i'm making up some more of my losses on Cake.
The $2/4 and $3/6 tables there donated another 30 or so BBs in total within a couple hours, so i'm gradually clawing my way back up.
Not a hugely interesting session though. I was hitting my cards reasonably often, but probably not more than my fair share. Had a fairly cool run on one table where my VPIP was down to 15% over 100 hands. I still actually ended even on the table though which is quite handy, so would have cleared a bit of bonus and earned some rakeback there as well at worst.
Also upgraded my Pokertracker so microgaming is now importing correctly again. Havent actually played there apart from one orbit though.
Probably wont get much in on the weekend and i'm going away for most of next week, so there wont be too much pokers.
Well at least i'm back up over the $11k mark, and only $100 short of my peak which I dramatically fell off only a few days ago.
Good luck all. Will write again after the weekend.
Current bankroll: $11,250
The $2/4 and $3/6 tables there donated another 30 or so BBs in total within a couple hours, so i'm gradually clawing my way back up.
Not a hugely interesting session though. I was hitting my cards reasonably often, but probably not more than my fair share. Had a fairly cool run on one table where my VPIP was down to 15% over 100 hands. I still actually ended even on the table though which is quite handy, so would have cleared a bit of bonus and earned some rakeback there as well at worst.
Also upgraded my Pokertracker so microgaming is now importing correctly again. Havent actually played there apart from one orbit though.
Probably wont get much in on the weekend and i'm going away for most of next week, so there wont be too much pokers.
Well at least i'm back up over the $11k mark, and only $100 short of my peak which I dramatically fell off only a few days ago.
Good luck all. Will write again after the weekend.
Current bankroll: $11,250
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Winning 100BBs in two hours
Kinda sux that it wasn't at $3/6 .. but a mixture of $2/4 and $1/2 .. but anyways...
Was playing my Everest bonus as I have just signed up there as well as a bit of bodog $1/2 and a few hands of $4/8 but the juicy tables kept breaking up. Boy are there some fish on Everest!! I think in my 350 hands so far i'm running at a super hot 18BB/100 ... I didn't actually play any different from my previous session, just instead of missing every flop and getting sucked out on, my hands actually held up, and I even hit a draw or 2.
Anyways. Here's an example of some of the opponents on Everest:
Hero in co Card dealt to a spot Th8h
Hero raise $8
NORAA call $6
chiapas call $4
Flop: AcQs8s .... hmmm might bet out to see if i can steal this one although not the nicest of flops
NORAA check
chiapas check
Hero raise $4
NORAA call (damn .. well might try to show this down cheap now. wont fire another bullet on that board with him calling and not closing the action)
chiapas fold (well at least one out)
Turn: 2c
NORAA check
Hero check (dont want to get check raised here. do want to showdown my pair)
River: Ad (hmm maybe my pair is good)
NORAA check
Hero check
NORAA shows AQ for a full house .... (way to get value out of that!!!)
Current Bankroll: $11,100
Was playing my Everest bonus as I have just signed up there as well as a bit of bodog $1/2 and a few hands of $4/8 but the juicy tables kept breaking up. Boy are there some fish on Everest!! I think in my 350 hands so far i'm running at a super hot 18BB/100 ... I didn't actually play any different from my previous session, just instead of missing every flop and getting sucked out on, my hands actually held up, and I even hit a draw or 2.
Anyways. Here's an example of some of the opponents on Everest:
Hero in co Card dealt to a spot Th8h
Hero raise $8
NORAA call $6
chiapas call $4
Flop: AcQs8s .... hmmm might bet out to see if i can steal this one although not the nicest of flops
NORAA check
chiapas check
Hero raise $4
NORAA call (damn .. well might try to show this down cheap now. wont fire another bullet on that board with him calling and not closing the action)
chiapas fold (well at least one out)
Turn: 2c
NORAA check
Hero check (dont want to get check raised here. do want to showdown my pair)
River: Ad (hmm maybe my pair is good)
NORAA check
Hero check
NORAA shows AQ for a full house .... (way to get value out of that!!!)
Current Bankroll: $11,100
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Crawling back up
Got in a half hour session, with the first 10 minutes clearing my last $10 of my William Hill monthly bonus as well as making a tidy 15BB profit. I still believe that is one of the best bonuses going around particularly for people who dont mind playing $1/2 limit (as i've been discussing with The Blindman). So I highly recommend everyone sign up for William Hill and play that bonus every month - using my link on the right of course ... :)
You could simply 5 table for one hour and clear $50 in bonus as well as receive about $10 - 15 in rakeback on the $1/2 tables. Simple as that.
Anyways, also played a bit on the $2/4 tables on microgaming, but basically ended where I started. All in all made around $50 for the session which isn't too bad, and i'm slowly creeping back up towards my peak from last month.
Also got an email from party poker for a reload of 20% to a max of $100. Checking the fine print it clears at a super quick 3 party points per $. I can't see myself not taking this one up! Its about time party gave me a decent bonus though - i've usually been getting 8x one's which aren't worth doing. I do appreciate when they give me the free money bonuses though ... so keep them coming please party.
A couple hands from my session:
Hand 1
** Ingenvinus [Hold 'em] (2.00/4.00 Fixed - $ Cash Game) Real Money
- hero sitting in seat 1 with $686.72
- Raigor sitting in seat 2 with $183.66 (aggro fish pre flop)
- errabundo sitting in seat 3 with $19.00
- TenGrand sitting in seat 4 with $193.40 [Dealer]
- DJQuick3 sitting in seat 5 with $131.82 (aggro fish i think)
DJQuick3 posted the small blind - $1.00
hero posted the big blind - $2.00
** Dealing card to hero: Q of s, 10 of c (hmm not the best)
Raigor raised - $4.00
errabundo called - $4.00
TenGrand folded
DJQuick3 called - $4.00
hero called - $4.00 (already 3 handed and i'm closing the action for only half a bet)
** Dealing the flop: 6 of c, Q of c, 7 of c (top pair, 4th nut flush draw actually looks okay to me)
DJQuick3 checked
hero bet - $2.00 (lets donk and see where I stand if mytop pair is good enough)
Raigor called - $2.00 (hmm open raiser just called .. interesting ... wonder if he clean missed the flop .. or has 88 to TT? Probably doesnt have a high club)
errabundo raised - $4.00 (hmm the overcaller preflop reraises ... weird ... maybe top pair as well? hopefully a weaker kicker. Maybe he has the flush? might be ugly if he has trips, but in that case i have the flush draw still)
DJQuick3 folded
hero raised - $6.00 (lets try to push out the open raiser who could also have something like AK)
Raigor folded (cheers)
errabundo called - $6.00 (hmm no reraise)
** Dealing the turn: 9 of s
hero bet - $4.00 (might bet/fold here)
errabundo called - $4.00
** Dealing the river: 3 of c (okay i've hit my flush .. surely he would have raised the turn if he had a big flush card?)
hero bet - $4.00 (might throw out a bet here, although this might be another one of those where I only get called when i am beat. He might call with trips though .. or two pair)
errabundo called - $4.00
hero shows: Q of s, 10 of c
errabundo mucks: K of h, Q of h (hmmm top pair .. that was my original thought ... its nice to outdraw someone once in a while)
hero wins $43.70 from the main pot
Hand 2:
** Ingenvinus [Hold 'em] (2.00/4.00 Fixed - $ Cash Game) Real Money
- hero sitting in seat 1 with $676.12 [Dealer]
- Raigor sitting in seat 2 with $208.31
- errabundo sitting in seat 3 with $38.05
- TenGrand sitting in seat 4 with $199.40
- DJQuick3 sitting in seat 5 with $100.82
Raigor posted the small blind - $1.00
errabundo posted the big blind - $2.00
** Dealing card to hero: K of h, J of s (not bad)
TenGrand folded
DJQuick3 folded
hero raised - $4.00 (easy steal raise from the button)
Raigor called - $4.00 (this guy has called most raises from the SB .. vpip 80%
errabundo called - $4.00 (also has proven to be a bit fishy)
** Dealing the flop: 2 of d, 5 of h, A of s (not the best flop for me at all. dont really like the ace
Raigor checked
errabundo checked
hero bet - $2.00 (2 checks to me, definitly cbetting)
Raigor folded (good)
errabundo called - $2.00 (doh)
** Dealing the turn: 9 of c (thats fairly blank)
errabundo checked (hmm he's showing weakness again)
hero bet - $4.00 (always cbetting here again from position)
errabundo folded (cbets do work sometimes!)
hero mucks:
hero wins $19.20 from the main pot
Hand 3:
** Ingenvinus [Hold 'em] (2.004.00 Fixed - $ Cash Game) Real Money
- hero sitting in seat 1 with $722.02
- Raigor sitting in seat 2 with $191.81
- errabundo sitting in seat 3 with $38.00
- TenGrand sitting in seat 4 with $222.40
- biiarne sitting in seat 5 with $104.90
- Biolan sitting in seat 6 with $449.48 [Dealer]
hero posted the small blind - $1.00
Raigor posted the big blind - $2.00
** Dealing card to hero: J of s, Q of s (not bad)
errabundo folded
TenGrand folded
biiarne folded
Biolan folded
hero raised - $4.00 (always stealing with this hand in the SB .. and a LOT trashier hands as well)
Raigor called - $4.00 (he folded to my last steal, but didnt fold a lot. also called with 85o earlier to a raise)
** Dealing the flop: Q of h, 6 of h, 4 of c
hero bet - $2.00 (nice flop for me, I think i'm in front)
Raigor raised - $4.00 (this guy has an AF of 5 ... i'd be surprised if i was behind)
hero raised - $6.00 (might as well make him pay. i will probably still call down if he 4 bets me)
Raigor called - $6.00 (only a call .. i'm still betting hard unless a heart or A or K hits)
** Dealing the turn: 9 of s (awesome card for me .. complete blank)
hero bet - $4.00 (value bet)
Raigor called - $4.00 (no raise ... good)
** Dealing the river: A of s (not a good card for me .. but I will check/call)
hero checked
Raigor checked
hero shows: J of s, Q of s
Raigor mucks: 8 of c, 6 of d (nice hand fish)
hero wins $26.60 from the main pot
Current Bankroll: $10,700 (+360 Aug)
You could simply 5 table for one hour and clear $50 in bonus as well as receive about $10 - 15 in rakeback on the $1/2 tables. Simple as that.
Anyways, also played a bit on the $2/4 tables on microgaming, but basically ended where I started. All in all made around $50 for the session which isn't too bad, and i'm slowly creeping back up towards my peak from last month.
Also got an email from party poker for a reload of 20% to a max of $100. Checking the fine print it clears at a super quick 3 party points per $. I can't see myself not taking this one up! Its about time party gave me a decent bonus though - i've usually been getting 8x one's which aren't worth doing. I do appreciate when they give me the free money bonuses though ... so keep them coming please party.
A couple hands from my session:
Hand 1
** Ingenvinus [Hold 'em] (2.00/4.00 Fixed - $ Cash Game) Real Money
- hero sitting in seat 1 with $686.72
- Raigor sitting in seat 2 with $183.66 (aggro fish pre flop)
- errabundo sitting in seat 3 with $19.00
- TenGrand sitting in seat 4 with $193.40 [Dealer]
- DJQuick3 sitting in seat 5 with $131.82 (aggro fish i think)
DJQuick3 posted the small blind - $1.00
hero posted the big blind - $2.00
** Dealing card to hero: Q of s, 10 of c (hmm not the best)
Raigor raised - $4.00
errabundo called - $4.00
TenGrand folded
DJQuick3 called - $4.00
hero called - $4.00 (already 3 handed and i'm closing the action for only half a bet)
** Dealing the flop: 6 of c, Q of c, 7 of c (top pair, 4th nut flush draw actually looks okay to me)
DJQuick3 checked
hero bet - $2.00 (lets donk and see where I stand if mytop pair is good enough)
Raigor called - $2.00 (hmm open raiser just called .. interesting ... wonder if he clean missed the flop .. or has 88 to TT? Probably doesnt have a high club)
errabundo raised - $4.00 (hmm the overcaller preflop reraises ... weird ... maybe top pair as well? hopefully a weaker kicker. Maybe he has the flush? might be ugly if he has trips, but in that case i have the flush draw still)
DJQuick3 folded
hero raised - $6.00 (lets try to push out the open raiser who could also have something like AK)
Raigor folded (cheers)
errabundo called - $6.00 (hmm no reraise)
** Dealing the turn: 9 of s
hero bet - $4.00 (might bet/fold here)
errabundo called - $4.00
** Dealing the river: 3 of c (okay i've hit my flush .. surely he would have raised the turn if he had a big flush card?)
hero bet - $4.00 (might throw out a bet here, although this might be another one of those where I only get called when i am beat. He might call with trips though .. or two pair)
errabundo called - $4.00
hero shows: Q of s, 10 of c
errabundo mucks: K of h, Q of h (hmmm top pair .. that was my original thought ... its nice to outdraw someone once in a while)
hero wins $43.70 from the main pot
Hand 2:
** Ingenvinus [Hold 'em] (2.00/4.00 Fixed - $ Cash Game) Real Money
- hero sitting in seat 1 with $676.12 [Dealer]
- Raigor sitting in seat 2 with $208.31
- errabundo sitting in seat 3 with $38.05
- TenGrand sitting in seat 4 with $199.40
- DJQuick3 sitting in seat 5 with $100.82
Raigor posted the small blind - $1.00
errabundo posted the big blind - $2.00
** Dealing card to hero: K of h, J of s (not bad)
TenGrand folded
DJQuick3 folded
hero raised - $4.00 (easy steal raise from the button)
Raigor called - $4.00 (this guy has called most raises from the SB .. vpip 80%
errabundo called - $4.00 (also has proven to be a bit fishy)
** Dealing the flop: 2 of d, 5 of h, A of s (not the best flop for me at all. dont really like the ace
Raigor checked
errabundo checked
hero bet - $2.00 (2 checks to me, definitly cbetting)
Raigor folded (good)
errabundo called - $2.00 (doh)
** Dealing the turn: 9 of c (thats fairly blank)
errabundo checked (hmm he's showing weakness again)
hero bet - $4.00 (always cbetting here again from position)
errabundo folded (cbets do work sometimes!)
hero mucks:
hero wins $19.20 from the main pot
Hand 3:
** Ingenvinus [Hold 'em] (2.004.00 Fixed - $ Cash Game) Real Money
- hero sitting in seat 1 with $722.02
- Raigor sitting in seat 2 with $191.81
- errabundo sitting in seat 3 with $38.00
- TenGrand sitting in seat 4 with $222.40
- biiarne sitting in seat 5 with $104.90
- Biolan sitting in seat 6 with $449.48 [Dealer]
hero posted the small blind - $1.00
Raigor posted the big blind - $2.00
** Dealing card to hero: J of s, Q of s (not bad)
errabundo folded
TenGrand folded
biiarne folded
Biolan folded
hero raised - $4.00 (always stealing with this hand in the SB .. and a LOT trashier hands as well)
Raigor called - $4.00 (he folded to my last steal, but didnt fold a lot. also called with 85o earlier to a raise)
** Dealing the flop: Q of h, 6 of h, 4 of c
hero bet - $2.00 (nice flop for me, I think i'm in front)
Raigor raised - $4.00 (this guy has an AF of 5 ... i'd be surprised if i was behind)
hero raised - $6.00 (might as well make him pay. i will probably still call down if he 4 bets me)
Raigor called - $6.00 (only a call .. i'm still betting hard unless a heart or A or K hits)
** Dealing the turn: 9 of s (awesome card for me .. complete blank)
hero bet - $4.00 (value bet)
Raigor called - $4.00 (no raise ... good)
** Dealing the river: A of s (not a good card for me .. but I will check/call)
hero checked
Raigor checked
hero shows: J of s, Q of s
Raigor mucks: 8 of c, 6 of d (nice hand fish)
hero wins $26.60 from the main pot
Current Bankroll: $10,700 (+360 Aug)
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Frustrating up and down session
The Bodog fish decided to pay me back some of the cash they'd luckboxed off me in the previous session. I was up about 20BBs at one stage on the $4/8 table, until the last two hands where I managed to lose with KJ v J6o and then my AA was dominated by QT. Still .. finished about 10BBs up which wasn't too bad.
I also had a Cake table open at the same time which was $3/6 and I had a superb position on the left of 2 massive fish. What followed was a horrendous session, where I ended up with a WTSD of 20% rather than closer to 40% and of those I won a huge 10%. Quite a few were massive pots where some numb nuts would hit their gutshot or flush draw, or even the board would pair losing me the pot, or in a couple hands splitting the pot when I had a big ace versus my opponent calling down with a small ace. Needless to say that did not end well, with me down almost my buy in of 25BBs. Eventually the two fish quit so I had to leave the table as the other guys were basically TAGs.
I then decided to open a couple $1/2 tables on cake and bodog as they were the only juicy tables running. Bodog decided it was time to smash me and several muppets chasing 2 and 3 outers hit them against me on the river .. and i'm left thinking wtf .. why would you call down with that ... anyways eventually a clawed back up to even there as the fish continued to call down with virtually nothing.
The cake $1/2 table was virtually the opposite of my $3/6 experience, even though the table was not quite as good in terms of my position on the fish. I was up by over 25BBs in the first 5 hands, predominantly from the first hand where I had KK with the betting capped 4 ways, flop of KJx was superb for me, and another J on the turn meant that I had the 2nd nuts to JJ, which I wasn't particularly scared of. Was probably a 20BB pot from that hand alone.
All in all I ended up about $50 in two hours, although i'm sure I would have earned a decent chunk of rakeback as well, so I cant complain too much. It could easily have been a lot better though. Must be due for a hot run again soon!
Current Bankroll: $10,750 (+360 Aug)
I also had a Cake table open at the same time which was $3/6 and I had a superb position on the left of 2 massive fish. What followed was a horrendous session, where I ended up with a WTSD of 20% rather than closer to 40% and of those I won a huge 10%. Quite a few were massive pots where some numb nuts would hit their gutshot or flush draw, or even the board would pair losing me the pot, or in a couple hands splitting the pot when I had a big ace versus my opponent calling down with a small ace. Needless to say that did not end well, with me down almost my buy in of 25BBs. Eventually the two fish quit so I had to leave the table as the other guys were basically TAGs.
I then decided to open a couple $1/2 tables on cake and bodog as they were the only juicy tables running. Bodog decided it was time to smash me and several muppets chasing 2 and 3 outers hit them against me on the river .. and i'm left thinking wtf .. why would you call down with that ... anyways eventually a clawed back up to even there as the fish continued to call down with virtually nothing.
The cake $1/2 table was virtually the opposite of my $3/6 experience, even though the table was not quite as good in terms of my position on the fish. I was up by over 25BBs in the first 5 hands, predominantly from the first hand where I had KK with the betting capped 4 ways, flop of KJx was superb for me, and another J on the turn meant that I had the 2nd nuts to JJ, which I wasn't particularly scared of. Was probably a 20BB pot from that hand alone.
All in all I ended up about $50 in two hours, although i'm sure I would have earned a decent chunk of rakeback as well, so I cant complain too much. It could easily have been a lot better though. Must be due for a hot run again soon!
Current Bankroll: $10,750 (+360 Aug)
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Fantastic table that paid off
Didn't actually get too much time to play on the weekend, although did manage to get in almost 2 hours on Saturday. Turned out to be a pretty good couple hours though, as I managed to find two very fish tables.
Firstly on Cake I got on a table which had 4 players that i'd flagged as being reasonably fishy and one unknown. One player turned out to be a bit of a maniac, however, he had a style that i'd never seen before. He would limp into almost every pot, and then raise and sometimes reraise every flop, most turns and the occasional river as well no matter what 2 cards he actually held. It quickly became obvious to try to isolate him and then call down with any reasonable holding such as middle pair, and value bet constantly with any medium/strongish holding, such as top pair or better. He sucked out on a few guys early, and at the $3/6 level that gave him about a $200 stack.
I figured with his style it was only a matter of time before he went broke, so I may as well take as much as possible. Since he only limped preflop, I was getting to see heaps of flops cheaply, so every time one hit, I was able to win a decent amount, and every time I missed, he would win a smallish pot. I didn't have ideal position on the maniac, but since he didn't knock me out of hands preflop with raises it didn't matter as much as it normally would.
On one hand that he 3 bet the turn, raised the river and called my reraise he showed down 63o with no pair and no draw versus my set of jacks. This guy was almost like going to the ATM. By the time he quit and the table broke up I was up around 40BBs.
I also managed to find a nice fishy table on Bodog where there were 4 to 5 players to every flop. Although there was the odd suck out when I was betting strongly, a heap of my hands held up, including AA with 4 players still in the pot and calling my raises on the river. The other guys in the hand showed down bottom pair, or air going for backdoor draws. Made about 25BBs there in pretty quick time, and also made plenty of notes on players that I'd love to play against in future.
Sorry I dont have any hand histories from either cake or bodog, as I cant easily get them into pokertracker the only time I have hands is if i copy and paste them there and then from the active hand history. Generally I played my normal LAG/TAG style, although bluffed less and value bet some more marginal hands due to the calling station nature of my opponents and the specific maniac on Cake.
Current Bankroll: $10,550 (+360 Aug)
Firstly on Cake I got on a table which had 4 players that i'd flagged as being reasonably fishy and one unknown. One player turned out to be a bit of a maniac, however, he had a style that i'd never seen before. He would limp into almost every pot, and then raise and sometimes reraise every flop, most turns and the occasional river as well no matter what 2 cards he actually held. It quickly became obvious to try to isolate him and then call down with any reasonable holding such as middle pair, and value bet constantly with any medium/strongish holding, such as top pair or better. He sucked out on a few guys early, and at the $3/6 level that gave him about a $200 stack.
I figured with his style it was only a matter of time before he went broke, so I may as well take as much as possible. Since he only limped preflop, I was getting to see heaps of flops cheaply, so every time one hit, I was able to win a decent amount, and every time I missed, he would win a smallish pot. I didn't have ideal position on the maniac, but since he didn't knock me out of hands preflop with raises it didn't matter as much as it normally would.
On one hand that he 3 bet the turn, raised the river and called my reraise he showed down 63o with no pair and no draw versus my set of jacks. This guy was almost like going to the ATM. By the time he quit and the table broke up I was up around 40BBs.
I also managed to find a nice fishy table on Bodog where there were 4 to 5 players to every flop. Although there was the odd suck out when I was betting strongly, a heap of my hands held up, including AA with 4 players still in the pot and calling my raises on the river. The other guys in the hand showed down bottom pair, or air going for backdoor draws. Made about 25BBs there in pretty quick time, and also made plenty of notes on players that I'd love to play against in future.
Sorry I dont have any hand histories from either cake or bodog, as I cant easily get them into pokertracker the only time I have hands is if i copy and paste them there and then from the active hand history. Generally I played my normal LAG/TAG style, although bluffed less and value bet some more marginal hands due to the calling station nature of my opponents and the specific maniac on Cake.
Current Bankroll: $10,550 (+360 Aug)
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Clearing through the fish
Well, i've been off work, and put in about 8 hours in total over the last couple days, and it has been somewhat painful, although at least still in a positive direction. The first day I hit the $10k mark which I thought was a great result for me, as I still haven't been playing quite a year, and really havent taken too many risks along the way.
Had one huge fish on Bodog complain about me raising all the time, as he continued to limp into pot after pot only to get raised by me in position. Problem was, he managed to suck out way more than his fair share, which was really getting annoying. For some reason he thought that 22 was good in a raised pot in a flop of KJTr, where I was holding AK. 2 on the river though sunk me quick. Every time he had an A he would call down, and about three contests in a row where I was in front of him, he managed to pair his A on the river to take the pot. For example I had KQo on a board of K52 - obiously him with A7o is worth peeling for in this case. Turn of a 2, is still obviously worth calling a raise. River A ... sux. He also managed to hit a flush with Q5o v my KK where the board hit a 4th flush card on the river for his 5 to be good enough to beat me.
Fortunately towards the end of the session he was no longer sucking out quite so often, so for example when I bet every street with KJ on a board that read K99, turn 9, river 4 and he called me down with A2o I made a few BBs back.
At ongame I was on a table with 3 fish with stats around 60/2/0.3/60 ... and of those 60% going to showdown each of them was winning over 50%. The 3 other players on the table including me were just getting slaughtered. My actual winrate at Ongame where i'm clearing the mansion bonus (well have now cleared) was reading at a horrendous -8bb/100 over the first 1,000 hands. I've now got it back to more like -4bb/100 as the tables have remained pretty fishy, and the suckouts aren't coming all that often.
I did let fly a bit in the chat box, before deciding I was way better off keeping quiet and hoping he'd keep playing at the table. In hindsight though I think he was enjoying the banter.
I also played in one of the Cake gold card tournaments, and was actually doing okay in the top 40 of around 1,300 runners when I had to go see the doctor. Bit annoyed that I had to throw it away, although my stack was only a quarter the size of the largest stack, I was definitely still in it. Got about $30 or so from that, so I guess its better than nothing.
With respect to bonuses, I cleared the Mansion bonus, so that should be around $100. Will find out in a couple days. Hopefully also have some decent rakeback/cashback from bodog and cake as well. I think i'm also about 1/3 of the way through my GNUF bonus as well, although i'm having a bit of trouble putting some more $ on that site at the moment.
Current Bankroll: $10,100
Had one huge fish on Bodog complain about me raising all the time, as he continued to limp into pot after pot only to get raised by me in position. Problem was, he managed to suck out way more than his fair share, which was really getting annoying. For some reason he thought that 22 was good in a raised pot in a flop of KJTr, where I was holding AK. 2 on the river though sunk me quick. Every time he had an A he would call down, and about three contests in a row where I was in front of him, he managed to pair his A on the river to take the pot. For example I had KQo on a board of K52 - obiously him with A7o is worth peeling for in this case. Turn of a 2, is still obviously worth calling a raise. River A ... sux. He also managed to hit a flush with Q5o v my KK where the board hit a 4th flush card on the river for his 5 to be good enough to beat me.
Fortunately towards the end of the session he was no longer sucking out quite so often, so for example when I bet every street with KJ on a board that read K99, turn 9, river 4 and he called me down with A2o I made a few BBs back.
At ongame I was on a table with 3 fish with stats around 60/2/0.3/60 ... and of those 60% going to showdown each of them was winning over 50%. The 3 other players on the table including me were just getting slaughtered. My actual winrate at Ongame where i'm clearing the mansion bonus (well have now cleared) was reading at a horrendous -8bb/100 over the first 1,000 hands. I've now got it back to more like -4bb/100 as the tables have remained pretty fishy, and the suckouts aren't coming all that often.
I did let fly a bit in the chat box, before deciding I was way better off keeping quiet and hoping he'd keep playing at the table. In hindsight though I think he was enjoying the banter.
I also played in one of the Cake gold card tournaments, and was actually doing okay in the top 40 of around 1,300 runners when I had to go see the doctor. Bit annoyed that I had to throw it away, although my stack was only a quarter the size of the largest stack, I was definitely still in it. Got about $30 or so from that, so I guess its better than nothing.
With respect to bonuses, I cleared the Mansion bonus, so that should be around $100. Will find out in a couple days. Hopefully also have some decent rakeback/cashback from bodog and cake as well. I think i'm also about 1/3 of the way through my GNUF bonus as well, although i'm having a bit of trouble putting some more $ on that site at the moment.
Current Bankroll: $10,100
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