In a quick session last night, I was able to win about 30BBs but only at the $1/2 and $2/4 level, as very few tables were running that I thought were worthwhile sitting at.
I sat down at one fantastic looking $5/10 table, where I had replaced one of the fish, but there were still three big fish left at the table. Then first hand after i've sat down one of the fish leaves. Next hand another fish gets stacked, and now there's only one left that I don't have position on. I quickly had to uncheck the auto post blinds, as I was about to be dealt my first hand. Funnily enough the last fish then quits on that hand that would have been my first.
I'm still staring down the barrel of my first losing month, although with the missus off to netball tonight I might get in an hour or two of play and you never know. I've got a fair chunk of bonus cash coming in from Bodog, but that won't appear till the middle of October so I won't include that either.
Thinking about it though, i've had several stretches over 30 days before with being down - it's just that they didn't happen to occur between the start and end of a single month where I would have recorded it as a loss. Either way i'm not too concerned with what happens tonight. I'll get it back in the long term plus more, and I won't go out of my way to try to force it to happen.
Current bankroll: $20,100
September time played: 12h30m
September profit / (loss): ($250)
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
Frustratingly even
Found a superb fish on a $4/8 table last night with a $400 stack. He'd see about 70% of flops and showdown about 60%, winning all of about 30% of those.
Unfortunately for me, those 30% winnings were mainly against me, where he cracked my AA, KK and JJ ... with the JJ particularly nasty on a J92r flop. Runner, runners and 2 outers were the order of the day. Add to that and within half an hour i've lost over $200 to him alone and he's managed to lose his entire stack of $400 plus my $200 to the other guys at the table.
A couple of the other fish did donate quite a lot to me and i'd started the session with a couple wins, so I somehow managed to end the session even. A couple of those suckouts had me ready to put my fist through the monitor half way through the session though. Funny thing is, it doesn't really impact the way I play the cards - and if it did i'd be quitting the session.
I've earnt some decent rakeback, but probably wont be paid till next month, so this is still looking like a losing month overall.
Current bankroll: $20,000
September time played: 12h
September profit / (loss): ($350)
Unfortunately for me, those 30% winnings were mainly against me, where he cracked my AA, KK and JJ ... with the JJ particularly nasty on a J92r flop. Runner, runners and 2 outers were the order of the day. Add to that and within half an hour i've lost over $200 to him alone and he's managed to lose his entire stack of $400 plus my $200 to the other guys at the table.
A couple of the other fish did donate quite a lot to me and i'd started the session with a couple wins, so I somehow managed to end the session even. A couple of those suckouts had me ready to put my fist through the monitor half way through the session though. Funny thing is, it doesn't really impact the way I play the cards - and if it did i'd be quitting the session.
I've earnt some decent rakeback, but probably wont be paid till next month, so this is still looking like a losing month overall.
Current bankroll: $20,000
September time played: 12h
September profit / (loss): ($350)
Sunday, September 27, 2009
FT it takes two done
Completed my $50 bonus on fulltilt over the weekend. Overall a net loss of about $40, which is actually a lot better than the $200ish that I was down on the site at one stage. Still annoying to get a bonus and actually still be losing.
Didn't get a lot of play in after Friday night - maybe half an hour all up to complete the bonus. Ran okay in that time and found a few fish who sucked out slightly fewer times than they didn't suck out, so made a few BBs here and there.
I've also replaced my router with wireless N instead of G. Much faster throughput which is kinda handy, although for some reason my msn messenger has actually dropped out a couple times. No issues yet on the poker tables, but maybe i'll have a look at changing channels in case there is some interference. Knowing my luck the one time it does break for me playing poker is when i'm involved in a 20BB pot.
The voip through it also appears pretty good, but i'll wait for the wife's verdict, as that's really what counts .....
The bankroll is still down for the month, but slowly crawling back up, and I have at least hit the $20k mark again - hopefully it stays there this time. I'm also about to withdraw another couple hundred from RakeBackStat as well which will go straight against the margin loan for my shares.
I think I will also sort through a couple other of my poker accounts which I don't really use but have cash on. No point in leaving cash idle on various sites i'm not going to play on.
Current bankroll: $20,000
September time played: 11h30m
September profit / (loss): ($350)
Didn't get a lot of play in after Friday night - maybe half an hour all up to complete the bonus. Ran okay in that time and found a few fish who sucked out slightly fewer times than they didn't suck out, so made a few BBs here and there.
I've also replaced my router with wireless N instead of G. Much faster throughput which is kinda handy, although for some reason my msn messenger has actually dropped out a couple times. No issues yet on the poker tables, but maybe i'll have a look at changing channels in case there is some interference. Knowing my luck the one time it does break for me playing poker is when i'm involved in a 20BB pot.
The voip through it also appears pretty good, but i'll wait for the wife's verdict, as that's really what counts .....
The bankroll is still down for the month, but slowly crawling back up, and I have at least hit the $20k mark again - hopefully it stays there this time. I'm also about to withdraw another couple hundred from RakeBackStat as well which will go straight against the margin loan for my shares.
I think I will also sort through a couple other of my poker accounts which I don't really use but have cash on. No point in leaving cash idle on various sites i'm not going to play on.
Current bankroll: $20,000
September time played: 11h30m
September profit / (loss): ($350)
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Friday night search
With my wife out to dinner friday night, I had a couple hours for poker.
Problem is, Friday night Aussie time, is Friday morning still for the majority of the poker community.
So, in order to find at least a few decent tables, I ended up having to open Fulltilt, Bodog, Pacific, Cake, and even purple lounge for the first time in months. Even then I struggled to have open more than a couple tables.
The rocket scientist that I am, didn't even think of opening a few fulltilt points tourneys ... duh
Anyways, I actually ran fairly well, and made a solid 40 or so BBs spread between 1/2 and 4/8. Would have been a few more, but now my PC decided to overheat and pause on me, which cost me a few pots. It obviously had to happen in the 5 minute span that I actually had 5 tables open for.....
Current bankroll: $19,900
September time played: 11h
September profit / (loss): ($450)
Problem is, Friday night Aussie time, is Friday morning still for the majority of the poker community.
So, in order to find at least a few decent tables, I ended up having to open Fulltilt, Bodog, Pacific, Cake, and even purple lounge for the first time in months. Even then I struggled to have open more than a couple tables.
The rocket scientist that I am, didn't even think of opening a few fulltilt points tourneys ... duh
Anyways, I actually ran fairly well, and made a solid 40 or so BBs spread between 1/2 and 4/8. Would have been a few more, but now my PC decided to overheat and pause on me, which cost me a few pots. It obviously had to happen in the 5 minute span that I actually had 5 tables open for.....
Current bankroll: $19,900
September time played: 11h
September profit / (loss): ($450)
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Horrible result partly avoided
Over the last couple days i've actually got a few hours in, and even found some super fishy tables and the $4/8 and $5/10 limits.
Unfortunately for me, I ran into some fish running super hot, with at least one player on each table running with a vpip of 65+ combined with a went to showdown of 50+ and a won $ at showdown of 55+. Effectively that means they're running super hot ... which obviously means someone else on the table is running super cold. That would be me.
After not much more than an hour I was about 80BBs down - and at those limits that's about $700 down. Pretty ugly for me considering i've been hardly making that much in a whole month lately.
The tables were plenty fishy though so I stuck at it and recovered about 60BBs in another couple hours. At least that saved me from tearing my hair out completely.
A quick check of poker tracker confirmed I was running fairly cool. I was going to showdown a fairly standard 40% of the time, but only winning 40% rather than closer to 50%+. Having a quick look through individual hands, and AKo was only winning 13% of the time and was showing a fairly significant loss, which if running normally would basically cover all of my losses and then some for the month. A9o was the only other stand out, which had not won a single hand in 13 appearances.
On the plus side, I should be getting a nice rakeback boost from playing those limits for several hours. I generally had four tables running, so that will generate a lot of rake, although towards the end of my session the higher limit tables had run out of fish so I had to drop back to $1/2 and $2/4. No point staying on a higher limit table if it's not fishy enough.
Current bankroll: $19,750
September time played: 9h
September profit / (loss): ($600)
Unfortunately for me, I ran into some fish running super hot, with at least one player on each table running with a vpip of 65+ combined with a went to showdown of 50+ and a won $ at showdown of 55+. Effectively that means they're running super hot ... which obviously means someone else on the table is running super cold. That would be me.
After not much more than an hour I was about 80BBs down - and at those limits that's about $700 down. Pretty ugly for me considering i've been hardly making that much in a whole month lately.
The tables were plenty fishy though so I stuck at it and recovered about 60BBs in another couple hours. At least that saved me from tearing my hair out completely.
A quick check of poker tracker confirmed I was running fairly cool. I was going to showdown a fairly standard 40% of the time, but only winning 40% rather than closer to 50%+. Having a quick look through individual hands, and AKo was only winning 13% of the time and was showing a fairly significant loss, which if running normally would basically cover all of my losses and then some for the month. A9o was the only other stand out, which had not won a single hand in 13 appearances.
On the plus side, I should be getting a nice rakeback boost from playing those limits for several hours. I generally had four tables running, so that will generate a lot of rake, although towards the end of my session the higher limit tables had run out of fish so I had to drop back to $1/2 and $2/4. No point staying on a higher limit table if it's not fishy enough.
Current bankroll: $19,750
September time played: 9h
September profit / (loss): ($600)
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Coulda, shoulda, wasn't
Planned to play a bit on the weekend, but didn't get round to it.
However, when I did play, I had half an hour on an amazing $5/10 table. Two 90/5 fish and one 70/3 fish and two overaggro muppets made up the table, and within the first orbit I was up 20BBs. My top pair top kicker held up twice when I was sure I was gone in a four way pot that was raised on the turn.
I could have quit there and been back to even for the month. However, since the table was so juicy and I still had another 15 minutes to play, I decided to stay.
Obviously what happens next is a sequence of nasty beats, and I drop 40BBs to be down 20BBs for the session. AA couldn't hold up twice, AJ on a flop of AJ2r lost to AQ, my QQ then runs into T8o on a flop of 562r ... turn 9 river 7 and wtf ...
My two big fish then left, so it was time for me to leave as well. No point chasing losses on a short table versus some aggro opponents.
Next time .....
At least I made a few BBs off Fulltilt from the $2/4 and $3/6 tables at the same time so it wasn't all bad.
Current bankroll: $19,950
September time played: 6h
September profit / (loss): ($400)
However, when I did play, I had half an hour on an amazing $5/10 table. Two 90/5 fish and one 70/3 fish and two overaggro muppets made up the table, and within the first orbit I was up 20BBs. My top pair top kicker held up twice when I was sure I was gone in a four way pot that was raised on the turn.
I could have quit there and been back to even for the month. However, since the table was so juicy and I still had another 15 minutes to play, I decided to stay.
Obviously what happens next is a sequence of nasty beats, and I drop 40BBs to be down 20BBs for the session. AA couldn't hold up twice, AJ on a flop of AJ2r lost to AQ, my QQ then runs into T8o on a flop of 562r ... turn 9 river 7 and wtf ...
My two big fish then left, so it was time for me to leave as well. No point chasing losses on a short table versus some aggro opponents.
Next time .....
At least I made a few BBs off Fulltilt from the $2/4 and $3/6 tables at the same time so it wasn't all bad.
Current bankroll: $19,950
September time played: 6h
September profit / (loss): ($400)
Thursday, September 17, 2009
My first security scare
Received an email this morning from Pokersource thanking me for my order.
Rewind a sec .. thanks for my order ... I have not even logged into my pokersource account for over a month.
Logged into my account, and sure enough, there was an in progress order for a transfer to redkings.
This made me a little suspicious, partly because I don't even have an account at redkings ....
Anyways, I jumped onto the Pokersource customer service chat who incidently responded immediately which I was quite impressed with.
It then took all of about two minutes to get the order cancelled and my password changed to something else just in case.
I'd be surprised though if it was me actually having my password breached at my end, particularly as I haven't even logged into pokersource for a month or three. Weird. I'll have to check if there's anything happening on 2p2 regarding this kind of incident.
All in all, a good result for me though, and I understand the matter has been sent to their management.
On the router front, since resetting and manually entering my settings, it appears to be working okay, but I only put in a small session so its difficult to really conclude anything.
My session was okay, although I missed about five draws in a row which would have drastically improved it. Maybe i'll hit a few in a row next time.
Not sure how much play i'll get in on the weekend, but hopefully I can get some volume through this month soon. I'm also due some rakeback which for some reason hasn't been showing up, although it won't be a huge amount.
Current bankroll: $20,050
September time played: 5h30m
September profit / (loss): ($300)
Rewind a sec .. thanks for my order ... I have not even logged into my pokersource account for over a month.
Logged into my account, and sure enough, there was an in progress order for a transfer to redkings.
This made me a little suspicious, partly because I don't even have an account at redkings ....
Anyways, I jumped onto the Pokersource customer service chat who incidently responded immediately which I was quite impressed with.
It then took all of about two minutes to get the order cancelled and my password changed to something else just in case.
I'd be surprised though if it was me actually having my password breached at my end, particularly as I haven't even logged into pokersource for a month or three. Weird. I'll have to check if there's anything happening on 2p2 regarding this kind of incident.
All in all, a good result for me though, and I understand the matter has been sent to their management.
On the router front, since resetting and manually entering my settings, it appears to be working okay, but I only put in a small session so its difficult to really conclude anything.
My session was okay, although I missed about five draws in a row which would have drastically improved it. Maybe i'll hit a few in a row next time.
Not sure how much play i'll get in on the weekend, but hopefully I can get some volume through this month soon. I'm also due some rakeback which for some reason hasn't been showing up, although it won't be a huge amount.
Current bankroll: $20,050
September time played: 5h30m
September profit / (loss): ($300)
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