Sunday, April 06, 2008
Overbet for value
You can read about it here
This hand doesn't quite qualify as the overbetter lost - to me! - but I thought it would be fun to include it.
I've also sent it to Fuel; would be cool if he publishes it.
My foe was a big-stacked donkey with a penchant for firing out huge overbets. I thought about his riverbet and couldn't put him on anything that beat me.
BODOG Hand number: 1180464032
HOLE CARDS
QuanticFive calls 50c with [4c 4h]
latinumman raises $0.50c to $1
cringle calls
pokerdr calls
QUanticFive calls
FLOP [As 9h 2h] Pot size $4.25
latinumman checks
cringle checks
pokerdr folds (?!)
QuanticFive checks
TURN [As 9h 2h] [9c] Pot size $4.25
latinumman bets $ 0.50
cringle folds
QuanticFive calls $ 0.50
RIVER [As 9h 2h 9c] [4s] Pot size $5.25
latinumman bets $ 47.00
QuanticFive calls all-in $ 46.75
SHOW DOWN
latinumman shows [3s 5s] a straight, Five high
QuanticFice shows [4c 4h] - a full house, Fours full of nines
QuanticFive wins the pot ($96.75)
OBFV called $46.75 and the pot was $52 = 0.90
Friday, April 04, 2008
A $3.50 night
I was hitting but no-one was calling - I hit top set three times, with Ks, Qs, and Js but couldn't get anyone to bite.
I don't think I've seen Bodog playing so tightly. The night before there was a huge fish on one of my tables, who was sending the table wild.
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Back with a whimper
I managed around 300 hands in 2 sessions, both marginal losers.
I also tried Bodog's $2k guaranteed, starting at 9pm UK time as there was 15% overlay as there are on many of Bodog's guaranteed tourneys.
I lost a bunch with Ak v A10 when he flopped top two, then doubled up when I luckily rivered a flush.
However, I crashed out when my flopped nut str8 lost to runner, runner full house.
Will have another go tonight!
Monday, March 31, 2008
No play
I've had a friend staying so I haven't managed to play a single hand since he arrived on Friday.
He's around until Wednesday so I doubt I'll get much play until he's gone.
So...erm...nothing to report really.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Pot odds
At the end of the hand my foe said "pot odds", then left!
I had to add the hand manually to the site PokerHandReplays and the pot sizes are not quite right - he had a $40 stack so I won around $50 but a truly bizarre hand.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
200 hands, up $30
Roll there close to $1,200 now.
The site has this nice facility for PokerTracker phobes like me which tracks your recent winnings.
Over three days I'm up $172, over seven days I'm up $356 and since I deposited ten days ago I'm up $695.
Speaking of PokerTracker, I'm going to try to get back to using it again. Its a no brainer really, I just couldn't be bothered to transfer all the data when I upgraded my laptop last year.
By the time my one-month bonus period is up on Bodog my roll should be $5k and I'm going to have another stab at the $100NL tables again.
I've been watching them on Bodog and Mansion and don't see much different to the $50 tables.
Last time I tried them for any length of time I got spanked so it will be a good test of how far I've come in a year.
Lastly, I've been reading this guy for a while now and he CRACKS me up.
If you haven't checked him out, you should: WAffles on Poker
Monday, March 24, 2008
Easter summary
I've put in a lot of hours - more than I have all this year.
Managed to double my buy-in on one of the three tables during my last one session, leaving me a stack of $1166.45.
I also have around $65 of bonus due next month.
My updated bankroll stats are on the right which shows I'm only up around $700 since the start of the year, although most of this has come in the last couple of weeks.
Anyway, back to work tomorrow...
Token woes
I am currently 6 and 0 in these and it looks like it will soon be seven entries without a token - I am 140th out of 141 left in the daily $6 + 50c with a paltry 550 chips. The top 50 getting a token.
I'm also playing a $3, 90 man tourney also on Full Tilt where I'm 7th with 17 left - top 9 pay. Its one of those knockout ones, but not managed to knock anyone out yet.
On Bodog, I have edged up to $1,120 with a couple of double up with big pairs, one again an all-in check raise with a flush draw, the other was a slightly odd one.
25c/50c NL, 6-handed
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Button raises $2
QuanticFive raises $6 from SB with [As Ah]
BB calls $6
Button calls $4
*** FLOP *** [6c 3d 3h]
QuanticFive bets $10.50
BB folds
Button calls $10.50
*** TURN *** [6c 3d 3h] [Ac]
SB checks (Way ahead here and the Ace would have scared any high pair)
BB checks
*** RIVER *** [6c 3d 3h As] [Kh]
SB bets $24.50 (Hope he has something
Button calls $24.50
*** SHOW DOWN ***
QuanticFive shows [As Ah] a full house, Aces full of threes
UTG+1 mucks [2c 3c] - three of a king threes !!!
How the guy can call the pre-flop re-raise with 2,3 suited. Although I got v v lucky on the turn as I was going all in.
UPDATE: Just busted out 13th from the $3 tourney, four off the money.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
650 hands....-$30
What are shitty day. Played a lot, and couldn't get anything going.
Everytime I won a decent pot, I would lose another. One foe in particular really got under my skin...he was hitting everything on me but was losing to everyone else.
The most galling was his $60 shove into a $30 pot, I had $40 left, and folded.
He turns over AQs for the $30 side pot, board was A 10 2 9 2, I fucking fold my AKo - my read was right but I pussied out.
Earlier he won a $45 pot off me with 109o, we got it all in on a A 10 9 flop, and he was the pre-flop aggressor.
He also won a $120 pot all-in pre with Ajs v kk. He rivered a str8.
Generally, the raising pre-flop was crazy, and the calling even crazier. One chap called me down with 42o...I raised pre-flop, post-flop and the turn with AQo. He wins a $30 with a pr of 4s.
I must have played 30 pocket pairs and hit once, with Ks, for a $15 pot.
My stack on Bodog, is now $1,030.
I shall try again tomorrow.
Friday, March 21, 2008
Bodog rules
Have more than doubled my $500 deposit in six days which I'm pretty chuffed about :)
Gonna play a lot over the Easter weekend and accrue as much bonus as possible before the 30 day offer period is up.
If I keep going as I am I should make another $150 on top of my winnings.
I'm not sure if its luck, skill or fishy players that is behind my winning run, prob a combination of the three, but long may it continue
Monday, March 17, 2008
More Bodogging...
Just finished another decent session on Bodog, winning around $90.
I should really move up as my bankroll is now around $4,300 - most experts would put my on at least the $1/$2 tables.
To be honest though I'm happier plodding along - it stressing me out losing, and I see this as my hobby rather than a source of income.
This evening I had no real stand out hands, although I won a nice $25 when I limped with Ako in mid position and milked the SB's AJo.
I also pot raised in the SB with AKo and got four callers.
FLOP was a rainbow Q, 10, 4
I checked, BB, who was pretty weak, bet $2 into a $12 pot, the button called, and I called, hoping to hit my four outer.
Bingo, Jc, making a club flush draw.
I check, BB bet $4, button called and I raised it up to around $18.
BB folded, button called, and then folded to my bet on the river when the flush didn't hit.
Anyway the bonus on offer has definitely galvanised my interest, as has the fact that I'm now working out my notice for a month and don't care as much about the magazine.
GL all!
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Set mining
Some US bloggers refer to it as Bodonkey and I can see why. I couldn't get anything going and was only $80 up on Sat and early Sunday, despite playing more than 800 hands, but I knew it was just a matter of time. Too many idiots...
Set mining (Part 1)
QuanticFive 4s 4h
phil3333 Ad Kd
QuanticFive Call $ 0.50
phil3333 Raise $ 2.75
QuanticFive Call $ 2.25
FLOP 4c Kc Jd
QuanticFive Check
phil3333 Bet $ 6.75
QuanticFive Raise $ 13.50
phil3333 All-in $ 29.95
QuanticFive Call $ 23.20
Side pot = $80.15
TURN 9s
RIVER 10h
Rake amount $ 2.00
Quad mining (Part 1)
(MP) QuanticFive Call $ 0.50 55 (5h 5s)
(Button) RoyalME Raise $ 2.00
(BB) effoo Call $ 1.50
QuanticFive Call $ 1.50
FLOP 6d 5d 5c (QUADS!!!!)
effoo Check
QuanticFive Check
RoyalME Bet $ 2.50
effoo Raise $ 6.00
QuanticFive Call $ 6.00
RoyalME Fold $ 2.50
TURN Card dealt to table 4s
effoo Bet $ 9.00
QuanticFive Raise $ 18.00
effoo Call $ 9.00
RIVER Card dealt to table Ad
effoo Check
QuanticFive Bet $ 36.50
effoo Fold (had to be medium to high pair)
Rake amount $ 2.00
QuanticFive Hand result $ 54.75
Set mining (Part two)
BB ZeroCall 7c Ac
EP sealit Jh Ah
MP QuanticFive 2h 2s
FLOP 9c As 2c
ZeroCall Bets $ 4.00
sealit Raise $ 8.00
QuanticFive Raise $ 20.25
ZeroCall Call $ 16.25
sealit Call $ 12.25
TURN 7h
ZeroCall All-in $ 26.50
sealit All-in $ 13.30
QuanticFive Call $ 26.50
RIVER Kd
Rake amount $ 2.00
QuanticFive Hand result $ 130.05
I've put the last hand through an odds calculator.
Pre-flop I was actually ahead with a 36% chance of winning vs AJ's 34.75% and A7's 23.5% - although my foes had a 5% chance of splitting.
The flop, however, changed all that.
I moved to a 68% favourite, AJ down to 0.66% with A7 now at 30.5%
I papped my pants when I saw my foes cards after the 7 turn, but A7 now was down to 28.5% against my 71.5% with AJ drawing dead.
The bonus/rake system for the first month on Bodog, is pretty generous and I'm racking up the points. On the downside they only allow three-tabling, which will limit my gains somewhat.
I'm up $250 from my $500 deposit, with $25 of bonus to come, and this has put my roll up to $4,200.
Saturday, February 09, 2008
Decent start to the year
I returned to FT to take advantage of the bonus on offer, a $75 for me.
From a starting roll of $80, I am now up to $500.
All four-tabling on the $50 tables.
I'm really pleased with my cash play at the moment, I am much more aggressive pre-flop and am mixin up my play well.
I still play ABC poker, but my starting range for pre-flop raises has increased, hopefully making it harder to put me on hand.
The stack would have been 600 if I could lay down As.
Twice now I've busted off a buyin in the face of aggressive on the turn or river. On both occassions I could probably have gotten away from it.
One foe in particular made it v v obvious he had hit his set but I carried on calling regardless.
PLayed another $24 + $2 just now but busted again jut out of the money.
I'm going to keep playing them as I feel a big cash is just around the corner.
Can't be arsed to work out my exact stack but it must now be approaching $4k.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Slow start
I'm up, probably around $100 only, after a tough couple of sessions ate into my roll.
The SNGs on Stars are also hurting and I have had a run without a cash.
But I have probably played just five or six times this month. My goal of doubling my bankroll to $7k this year seems a long way away.
The only tourney of note I've played, in fact the only tourney at all, was a $26 + $2on FT with my token.
I busted in the top 100 with 54 paying.
I feel I was unlucky as I had a top 30 stack when I lost all-in with Ks v AJo, 5s v AKs and AKs v Js, all against the same player.
Busted with AJ v AJ to a four flush...
Have bought the first two Harrington tourney books with points on Stars which hopefully might spark a run.
Monday, January 07, 2008
2007 update
OK, here are my stack totals:
Mansion: $559.45
Pokerstars: $559.45
Party: $1527.75
Full Tilt: $81.11 (plus one $26 token)
Neteller: $673.64
This makes a grand total of...errrr...£3401.4 (plus token!)
Slightly on tilt when I write this from running sooo bad in Omaha H/L games, driving me nuts.
Anyway here were my resolution's last year:
1) Build my roll to $3,500.
$100 shy of this, would have easily made it if I hadn't used some of my roll to repay a debt to a friend.
2) Win a cash MTT with more than 100 entrants.
Nope, came close, but nope
3) Don't play limit holdem and NO RAZZ.
Succeeded in this, a bit of limit and Razz in the horse games on Stars but didn't do too much damage to my roll.
4) Learn how to use Pokertracker better
Used it, mastered it, changed PC, and no don't use it anymore :(
5)Try to vary my game more
Not really but I'm a better player than I was a year ago.
Soooo, this year me thinks I want to double the roll to $7k. Do-able but it will be hard.
I'm not playing as much as last year, and every time I moved up to the $100 tables I got my ass handed to me and I had to move back down.
We shall see.
I will be posting sporadically, just for fun. I know I don't really have any regualr readers but even if its just for me, it will be nice to keep the blog going.
GL on the tables.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Up and down
Been grinding at Party since they started the promo offer 'Winning Hand', many, many others have joined me, so traffic has been good.
Overall I have been losing small amounts here and there during the course of the promo, with a couple of big wins.
The promo bonus has netted me $115 clean, so I'm up to $1600 there, on a $950 deposit.
I'm thinking of making another switch soon as I am without a rakeback site (Mansion, despite its new software, still sucks IMO).
Ladbrokes maybe, not sure yet.
Pretty sure I won't get to $4k by the year end, been putting in some solid sessions but remain hovering around $3.5k.
Work is good so pretty content all round.
Friday, December 07, 2007
Running good
My last seven SNGs have yielded 3 2nds and four firsts, and I'm running super hot according to Sharkscope.
Also running well on Party and have won $250 on the cash tables in the last three days. At this rate I may hit $4k by the year end...here's hoping!
Recent Results
GameID Date (GMT) Type EntryFee Profit
69507986 7-Dec-07 11:36 TURBO PL Omaha H/L $3 10 $11.60
69464421 7-Dec-07 01:51 TURBO PL Omaha H/L $3 10 $11.60
69459396 7-Dec-07 00:55 TURBO PL Omaha H/L $3 10 $11.60
69453366 7-Dec-07 00:03 TURBO PL Omaha H/L $3 10 $11.60
69399070 6-Dec-07 13:22 TURBO PL Omaha H/L $3 10 $5.60
69241149 5-Dec-07 00:28 TURBO PL Omaha H/L $3 10 $5.60
69136494 4-Dec-07 00:08 TURBO PL Omaha H/L $3 10 $5.60
68979027 2-Dec-07 13:34 TURBO NL Holdem $11 180 -$12
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
The run endeth
I've lost my mojo to play again after most nights over the past few weeks.
I've run my roll back up to $3.3k, this includes sending my mate $250, so I'm pretending its $3.5k.
No big wins, just grinding at the $50 tables, booking wins here and there.
I've been continuing with Party and Stars, with a bit of FTilt thrown in.
Also been railbirding my crazy gambler mate who has no clue but is playing SNG up to $220!
He was down $1500, then scored a big win on a $69 45 man SNG, and is slowly loosing it all again.
Prob do one more update to close out the year.
Byeee
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
This game is easy...even when I lose
I logged off, had some supper, had a quick lie down and came back feeling ready for the fray, and won back $60. I misplayed a couple of nut hands where looking back I think I could have made some more.
At these levels, against these players, I think I can keep eeking out a profit.