Tuesday 28 November 2006
tilt killed me!
ok, i know this is only a few days old.. but attempt 1 has failed. i got my $66 up to a peak of $152. then i got ahead of myself. number 3 below was my downfall. i took 2 horrible beats, involving KK being cracked by T9 and AK being beaten in a 3 way pot on an A high board by AQ and AQ again, Q on river. so i ended up sitting into a higher level with half my bankroll, about $55, and chased a flush draw i shouldnt have. then rebought for my whole bankroll, ran AJ into AK, and then lost a race with JJ againt AQ, and thats all she wrote... so thats that done then... attempt 2 will begin as soon as i find another 50 quid... any suggestions as to which site? anyone?
Congratulations are in order!
"Lucky" Lloyd O'Farrell took down the Green Joker Poker festival at the weekend. I'm absolutely delighted for the chap, playing in the biggest tournament he's ever played in against a QUALITY field. Well he outlasted them all and took down approx €32,000... good man lloydy!
How goes my challenge... as i said i couldnt handle the micro stakes so started playing .10/.25 on stars. I prematurely moved up stakes and played .25/.50 for a bit, ran well before crashing back to earth. I've decided i'm going to stick to the .10/.25 for a bit until i get a healthier bankroll that can take a few losing sessions at the .25/.50 level.
My cash game play has never been great, relying heavily on the deck hitting me hard. So i've tried to loosen up my game. I'm trying to see alot of flops cheaply and at this level i'm noticing alot of players happy to drop hands after the flop so i'm making alot of action post flop. My stack is going up and down more vigerously but steadily growing.
Lessons slowly being learned:
1. don't go broke with top pair
2. play small pots with small hands, play big pots with big hands.
3. DO SOMETHING ABOUT TILT!!
I know 1 and 2 seem obvious enough, and 3 is something i have to work on.
Once again, congrats to lloyd on his win!
How goes my challenge... as i said i couldnt handle the micro stakes so started playing .10/.25 on stars. I prematurely moved up stakes and played .25/.50 for a bit, ran well before crashing back to earth. I've decided i'm going to stick to the .10/.25 for a bit until i get a healthier bankroll that can take a few losing sessions at the .25/.50 level.
My cash game play has never been great, relying heavily on the deck hitting me hard. So i've tried to loosen up my game. I'm trying to see alot of flops cheaply and at this level i'm noticing alot of players happy to drop hands after the flop so i'm making alot of action post flop. My stack is going up and down more vigerously but steadily growing.
Lessons slowly being learned:
1. don't go broke with top pair
2. play small pots with small hands, play big pots with big hands.
3. DO SOMETHING ABOUT TILT!!
I know 1 and 2 seem obvious enough, and 3 is something i have to work on.
Once again, congrats to lloyd on his win!
Saturday 25 November 2006
And so it starts....
In true student style my only method of getting cash onto my new PokerStars account was via a player transfer, so i handed 50 yoyo's to richie (rp171) and got a fairly generous exchange and am sitting pretty on a huge $66. From the outset I have managed to go against my great plan of only 5% of my bankroll at risk at anyone time as i simply lacked the discipline to play the .01/.02 tables for an extended period of time. Having tilted off $6 in these games i figured i'd have to play SLIGHTLY higher and took $10 into a .10/.25 table... i ran ok in this and messed with gushansent3 and busted him twice, getting in cheap with trash hands and hitting raggy flops. Got out of this table on a health $25 dollars...
Following a quick bathroom break I sat down in another .10/.25 game, again with $10. I figure this $10 buy in works nicely at this level for 6handed games, gives you enough to play SOME poker. What i've been doing is playing alot of pots, and playing aggresively preflop. At this level my initial thinking is that i can raise alot preflop, but on the flop im only getting action off players who have some of it. Had a tasty hand with A8 in big blind, flop A88... stacked the SB who had X8... so another profitable session BUT i know i cant expect to hit flops that hard all the time.
I have decided to use checkyourbets.com as its useful for stat tracking on some level, i know its no POKER TRACKER or anything but i want to have a run at this before i start messing with poker software.
On another note, LuckyLloyd is playing the GJP main event and has just made the money, so figured what better way to congratulate than to mention him in my first poker blog posting!
Following a quick bathroom break I sat down in another .10/.25 game, again with $10. I figure this $10 buy in works nicely at this level for 6handed games, gives you enough to play SOME poker. What i've been doing is playing alot of pots, and playing aggresively preflop. At this level my initial thinking is that i can raise alot preflop, but on the flop im only getting action off players who have some of it. Had a tasty hand with A8 in big blind, flop A88... stacked the SB who had X8... so another profitable session BUT i know i cant expect to hit flops that hard all the time.
I have decided to use checkyourbets.com as its useful for stat tracking on some level, i know its no POKER TRACKER or anything but i want to have a run at this before i start messing with poker software.
On another note, LuckyLloyd is playing the GJP main event and has just made the money, so figured what better way to congratulate than to mention him in my first poker blog posting!
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