Played about an hour since my last post. Couldn't find a decent $2/4 table on Cake, so took my second stab at $3/6. Kinda weird - the two 2/4 tables were tight as rocks, but the 3/6 table had a vpip over 65% ... go figure.
Anyways, it turned out to be reasonably uneventful, and I won around 7BBs, although was never down for the session. My seat was also ideal, with 1 massive and one minor fish sitting on my right, and the only TAG of the table to my left. Unfortunately I had to quit my super juicy table to get ready for work (not too disappointing though as the two main fish were down to about $30 left each - but woulda been nice if i'd taken it from them). I still have $40 in bonuses to clear on cake as well.
At the same time I opened a couple tables on 24poker, where I need to clear my $1,000 bonus, 320 or so raked hands at a time for a $50 release. The odd thing is using raked hands, is that it clears no quicker at $2/4 than it does at $0.50/1 .... so I figure i'll play mainly $0.5/1, with a bit of 1/2 if there aren't enough fishy tables at the lower levels.
Also just received another party reload offer, and will probably take that up as well for a very small amount. The irritating thing about party now, is that you lose 10% of your party points every week that you dont play. I can't believe that is in any way a good business decision on their part. Hopefully they lose a bunch of players and have to change it back soon. Since i'm currently clearing a party bonus though, I did open a $2/4 table there, and promptly won 20BBs before the fish decided to leave, so I had to quit the table as well, as the rest were extremely tight.
All in all a good little session, although played over too many sites which does get a bit confusing.
Current Bankroll: $6,600
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
Oops
Signed up for another bonus last night, which was one of those one's where the bonus conditions are going to be significantly worse if you wait another day. Problem is, now I have to clear $500 on the ipoker network, and $1,000 on microgaming.
It would be a bigger oops, except the microgaming one has a 90 day period to clear the bonus, release in $50 increments, and the ipoker one has hopefully 90 days to clear as well, but i'm not exactly positive on that one.
Only played briefly last night to create a hand history database to allow me to link up pokertracker to my new sites. The microgaming one clears via raked hands instead of rake though, so as long as I play at least .5/1 I will be clearing the bonus. So if i do that I should definitely make more than I pay in rake, although wont be making as much from actual poker winnings. I can live with that though - less variance :)
Current bankroll: $6,450
It would be a bigger oops, except the microgaming one has a 90 day period to clear the bonus, release in $50 increments, and the ipoker one has hopefully 90 days to clear as well, but i'm not exactly positive on that one.
Only played briefly last night to create a hand history database to allow me to link up pokertracker to my new sites. The microgaming one clears via raked hands instead of rake though, so as long as I play at least .5/1 I will be clearing the bonus. So if i do that I should definitely make more than I pay in rake, although wont be making as much from actual poker winnings. I can live with that though - less variance :)
Current bankroll: $6,450
Sunday, April 13, 2008
small update
Just checked my mail - I just squeaked into the money on Cake poker for $15 ... still disappointed but better than nothing!!!
Also forgot to mention, Party gave me $10 to play with as well. I managed to bank $50 before I lost the $10 that was restricted. Two thumbs up to party for giving away free money :)
cheers!
Also forgot to mention, Party gave me $10 to play with as well. I managed to bank $50 before I lost the $10 that was restricted. Two thumbs up to party for giving away free money :)
cheers!
Back from my break
Got back on the weekend and was able to put in a few hours on the tables.
Cleared my Pokerroom bonuses, so that was a quick $210 boost all up, although had a bit of a dark day at the tables, when I continued to be 2 outered more than enough times for it to be memorable as abnormal.
I also finally started up on ipoker to see how that deal there would work out. Have to say it started horribly with a super quick loss of 50BBs on the $2/$4 limit tables. Whilst it was annoying, there wasn't much I could do about it. I was playing well, and just not getting anything. My WTSD was around 28% and my W$SD was showing around 25%. Had the 2nd nuts a few times which didn't help the bankroll at all.
Fortunately I was able to find some quite fishy players, and a couple maniacs, who managed to donate all of that back to me, and then another 20BBs. So i'm currently up after around 600 hands on the ipoker network.
I also entered a cake $15,000 freeroll using goldcards this morning. Around 950 runners, and I found myself on an average stack size of $11k in about 120th with about 230 players left, and 130 of those being paid. Unfortunately my holidays are over so I had to go to work, and sit out for the rest of the tourney. I wonder if i made the money ... will check tonight when i get home. Oh well!
Before I forget, what I do need to check though is the rake on ipoker. On face value it appears to be MUCH higher than fulltilt. Will have to check pokertracker.
I've also signed up on microgaming to give that a go as well. So if there arent enough fishy tables on ipoker, will look on there at the same time. Its always good to have a choice of sites if the tables are too tight, as I refuse to play on them.
Current bankroll: $6,400
Cleared my Pokerroom bonuses, so that was a quick $210 boost all up, although had a bit of a dark day at the tables, when I continued to be 2 outered more than enough times for it to be memorable as abnormal.
I also finally started up on ipoker to see how that deal there would work out. Have to say it started horribly with a super quick loss of 50BBs on the $2/$4 limit tables. Whilst it was annoying, there wasn't much I could do about it. I was playing well, and just not getting anything. My WTSD was around 28% and my W$SD was showing around 25%. Had the 2nd nuts a few times which didn't help the bankroll at all.
Fortunately I was able to find some quite fishy players, and a couple maniacs, who managed to donate all of that back to me, and then another 20BBs. So i'm currently up after around 600 hands on the ipoker network.
I also entered a cake $15,000 freeroll using goldcards this morning. Around 950 runners, and I found myself on an average stack size of $11k in about 120th with about 230 players left, and 130 of those being paid. Unfortunately my holidays are over so I had to go to work, and sit out for the rest of the tourney. I wonder if i made the money ... will check tonight when i get home. Oh well!
Before I forget, what I do need to check though is the rake on ipoker. On face value it appears to be MUCH higher than fulltilt. Will have to check pokertracker.
I've also signed up on microgaming to give that a go as well. So if there arent enough fishy tables on ipoker, will look on there at the same time. Its always good to have a choice of sites if the tables are too tight, as I refuse to play on them.
Current bankroll: $6,400
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Goin nowhere, and short break
Only played maybe an hour since last Thursday, and in one session managed to lose to a 2 outer on the river 3 times. (Pocket pair v lower pocket pair). Would have been a great session apart from that, so i'm exactly where I started. (and again I managed to fire off a bit of abuse ... STOP IT!)
I did actually pick up a hopefully very valuable Ac in the Cake gold card promotion though, which i can hopefully cash in for a chunk of change one day. My highest card before that was an 8 which doesnt have a huge value. I believe a Q went for $80 and a K went for about $200 earlier this year, so an A should be a bit higher than that. Well at least it will keep me logging into Cake regularly to check.
I will also hopefully sign up to the fantastic deal on the ipoker network shortly too. I needed a long term deal on that network so it was a very handy find thanks guys. Feel free to message me for more details .. and i better get off my a$$ and sign up in the next day or so.
I'm going away for a few days this week though, so probably won't hit the tables to next weekend. Should be fun though, but may not hit that $6k barrier to next weekend now. (Although I think I only need another 150 points to clear the Pokerroom bonus, and Party just emailed me another 8x reload which should clear pretty quick, so maybe I will get there).
See yas in a week!
Current Bankroll: $5,950
I did actually pick up a hopefully very valuable Ac in the Cake gold card promotion though, which i can hopefully cash in for a chunk of change one day. My highest card before that was an 8 which doesnt have a huge value. I believe a Q went for $80 and a K went for about $200 earlier this year, so an A should be a bit higher than that. Well at least it will keep me logging into Cake regularly to check.
I will also hopefully sign up to the fantastic deal on the ipoker network shortly too. I needed a long term deal on that network so it was a very handy find thanks guys. Feel free to message me for more details .. and i better get off my a$$ and sign up in the next day or so.
I'm going away for a few days this week though, so probably won't hit the tables to next weekend. Should be fun though, but may not hit that $6k barrier to next weekend now. (Although I think I only need another 150 points to clear the Pokerroom bonus, and Party just emailed me another 8x reload which should clear pretty quick, so maybe I will get there).
See yas in a week!
Current Bankroll: $5,950
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Now a super fishy table!
Pokerroom was kind enough to give me a table with the average VPIP of around 74% for 5 players, including my VPIP of around 32 which was bringing the overall average down a lot!!
You'd think that would let me make a ton of cash, and at times I was doing fairly well. However my KdTd then managed to hit a 3 flush board. Unfortunately muppet #1 happened to have Ad5d. I 4 bet the turn, which he 5 bet ... so i figured i was in trouble and only called his bet on the river.
A few more nasty 3rd flush card hitting on the river to beat my top pair, and i think I ended up making about 1BB for the entire session. (Well that combined with the inevitable missing 5 flush draws and 2 OESDs in a row).
Playing Cake at the same time helped though, as one very aggressive player managed to donate about 20BBs to me by betting into me every time, including when i'd hit my hand. Thanks very much.
The Sit n Go's continue to be quite successful, although I'm still only playing a maximum of 10 pound tables. My ROI for the last 2 months has been somewhere near 30%, which is okay I think, particularly when you take add on the 40% rakeback and Sun's $20 bonus for 160 MPPs as well.
Current bankroll: $5,950
You'd think that would let me make a ton of cash, and at times I was doing fairly well. However my KdTd then managed to hit a 3 flush board. Unfortunately muppet #1 happened to have Ad5d. I 4 bet the turn, which he 5 bet ... so i figured i was in trouble and only called his bet on the river.
A few more nasty 3rd flush card hitting on the river to beat my top pair, and i think I ended up making about 1BB for the entire session. (Well that combined with the inevitable missing 5 flush draws and 2 OESDs in a row).
Playing Cake at the same time helped though, as one very aggressive player managed to donate about 20BBs to me by betting into me every time, including when i'd hit my hand. Thanks very much.
The Sit n Go's continue to be quite successful, although I'm still only playing a maximum of 10 pound tables. My ROI for the last 2 months has been somewhere near 30%, which is okay I think, particularly when you take add on the 40% rakeback and Sun's $20 bonus for 160 MPPs as well.
Current bankroll: $5,950
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Super muppet
Very brief session of 3 tables of William Hill, plus a cake table or 2. Managed to clear $20 of the $50 William Hill bonus for the month already, and in the process lost $30 ... great work there. Lost a couple terrible hands, where some muppet in middle position called my raise (AQ) and called down his T9o with no draws on the board to hit his T on the river. Couple other nasty suckouts and instead of winning a packet I ended down.
Cake was a different story though where I found a player who I will call super muppet. This guy would check/call raises on the flop and turn and then fold on the river. Now I know that doesn't necessarily sound too bad, however, he would fold when he could actually check, and i'm sure at least once he would have had me beat. Needless to say he was pretty easy to play against - a bet represented a hand, and if he had nothing he'd fold ... was kinda handy, and made me a good 15 - 20 BBs.
I will probably focus a bit more on Pokerroom tomorrow as that should be finished by the end of next week at the latest as well as playing cake whenever a fishy table is available. After that the next bonus will absolutely have to be found :)
Still haven't got past my small tilt problem where I chat in the chat box and may call people muppets.... Gotta get past that, as I dont want to scare off the fish!! especially my mate Super Muppet.
Current bankroll: $5,830
Cake was a different story though where I found a player who I will call super muppet. This guy would check/call raises on the flop and turn and then fold on the river. Now I know that doesn't necessarily sound too bad, however, he would fold when he could actually check, and i'm sure at least once he would have had me beat. Needless to say he was pretty easy to play against - a bet represented a hand, and if he had nothing he'd fold ... was kinda handy, and made me a good 15 - 20 BBs.
I will probably focus a bit more on Pokerroom tomorrow as that should be finished by the end of next week at the latest as well as playing cake whenever a fishy table is available. After that the next bonus will absolutely have to be found :)
Still haven't got past my small tilt problem where I chat in the chat box and may call people muppets.... Gotta get past that, as I dont want to scare off the fish!! especially my mate Super Muppet.
Current bankroll: $5,830
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