Probably the last post of March

Well the end of March has come upon us and from a poker front im quite please, although im not on track monetary wise, im certainly on the right track if i keep up the effort and persistence.

As you can see in the stats below im running pretty well, well at least thats what the stats say, to degree i can't really complain about luck, most of my stack for stack hands have held and really i haven't got my money in bad too often which is always a key!!

Im still on stox poker, trying to utilize it to its full to fast track my progression so my goals can come into fruition.

below you can see my session stats from today, it was my first main day at the .25/.50 level, so far so good, some post flop leaks i need to iron out but im feeling good.



life in general is pretty mundane but i can't really complain, i work roughly 25 hours a week and about the same per week with poker and the rest is spending time with my lovely girlfriend and finding some time to catch up with friends.

here are the March stats, please feel free to comment, i wanna know if anyone actually reads with blog.... lol







i hope everyone had a great March and i wish you a big April. BRING IT ON!!

things are looking brighter

since the last entry things have been a bit better, slowly but surely im making some money, not as much as i need to be but im hoping as long as i play the sort of poker i know im capable of playing the results will come.

i had a horrendous week last week only saved by a ridiculous session and basically one player, i left the table with over 7 BI which was pretty nice!

life continues to roll on, working, not much of a social life, this weekend the AFL premiership season starts so thats something to look forward to, lol im joking there is plenty to look forward to in my life, but as you all know the grind is pretty brutal.

if someone can fill me in about the use of HEM's EV feature that would be great, im not sure why but it says i shouldn't have made half of what i have made so far, not good!! ha

here is the progressive graph and todays session, didn't play that much today due to a sleep in and having to go to uni and work!

peace!

a bad day

i knew one was comming, as bad as that sounds, i have been doing pretty well of late but i didn't expect a 5+buy in loosing day on the biggest day of the week for me.

a combination of bad play leading to some tilt and prehaps a little bad luck but not much resulted in me spewing almost 6 buy ins.

to make matters worse i mixed in some NL 50 tables just to dabble and got anally raped, not fun :(

i cbf putting numbers up cos they are too depressing.

later lagtards

wednesday 11th march

had an overall good day, again i finished doing some stupid things in the last half hour that really cost me. you cannot be unhappy with a day like that though currently running at 11bb/100 hands which is i guess good for 13k hands played. Time will tell though.

im looking to move up when my BR hits 1500, so hopefully sometime next week i will be play nl50, kinda scary, i have mixed in a couple nl50 tables already and i seem fine its just a lot more money you have a risk at any one time!

rakeback is great isn't it, in 13k hands I've earn't $93 bucks, its great for your overall win rate!

below are today's session stats

using infomation

villain was a standard calling station i felt with a 48/6/0.4 to be honest i thought he was on the FD hence my continual basically pot bets but i still used his statistics here to know that TP or second pairs are usually good against such a large range in which this guy has. using his calling station stats i made appropriate flop and turn bets and because the flush didn't complete on the river i tried to make a bet that looked weird, to induce a call from his "busted flush draw" which may had also of made a small pair or other possible hands in his wide range.

given what he showed down i could have got the other $1.70 in his stack from him but in respect to the pot and the opponent i thought this was a near perfect play. :)


***** Hand History for Game 1483357896 *****
$20.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, March 10, 08:11:25 ET 2009
Table TURBO Kokomo (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: jackspirate ( $15.24 USD )
Seat 3: MowMowMatch ( $16.03 USD )
Seat 5: ToshMG ( $13.21 USD )
Seat 6: Macaupj ( $19.90 USD )
Seat 8: NoBody1sPerfect ( $30.13 USD )
Seat 10: AMeansToAnEnd ( $20.00 USD )
MowMowMatch posts small blind [$0.10 USD].
ToshMG posts big blind [$0.20 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to AMeansToAnEnd [ Ac Ad ]
Macaupj folds
NoBody1sPerfect folds
AMeansToAnEnd raises [$0.70 USD]
jackspirate folds
MowMowMatch folds
ToshMG calls [$0.50 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3c, Qc, 3h ] ($1.50)
ToshMG checks
AMeansToAnEnd bets [$1.40 USD]
ToshMG calls [$1.40 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4h ] (4.30)
ToshMG checks
AMeansToAnEnd bets [$4.20 USD]
ToshMG calls [$4.20 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ 2d ] ($12.70)
ToshMG checks
AMeansToAnEnd bets [$5.25 USD]
ToshMG calls [$5.25 USD]
AMeansToAnEnd wins $22.20 USD from main pot
ToshMG shows [Jc, Qs ]

Thursday the 5th

hey guys

as poker goes the last few days have been up and down but today i came out of a little 3k hand rough spot as can be seen in the graph and session stats






Life is continuing to carry on, i work about 25 hours a week at a caffe/restaurant. im working mostly nights which is good for poker as i get up at about 5:30 am to play but the long days are already taking their toll. Being tired is not a good thing for my poker but also for life in general.

In the next few weeks once my routine with work and poker is settled i will be incorporating my gym work which will work nicely with my attempt to eat well.

I hope my luck continues as i strive for a big enough BR to be able to move up to nl50 in the next week or so. today as you can see i ran way above EV but i think i deserved it!! :)

adios! thanks for reading!

monday the 2nd

Today has been one of those days where your happy about 1 session and furious about the next few. My first session I felt I was unstoppable and playing really solid poker. The next few sessions of the day I found myself having brain fades and making really stupid decisions as well as having a bit of rough luck as we all get.

Im as yet to work out a specific routine in terms of when the best time of the day is to play etc but I think after this week I will have it all worked out. I will also be depositing some more money as planned at the start and continue at the .10/.20 level until im ready or 10k hands, I think the game is so different between nl20 and nl50 but I know it sounds weird but im positive I will be better suited to the nl50 game!!

Below is my graph as it stands, you can really get a grip of what I was talking about in the first few lines of my post.