Fuck feeling ill!

Hey

Feeling really crap at the moment and still played cash thinking i was alright. Erm no lol. I lost even more on crypto making total loss for today with cash at £300. It's okay though because my innate ability with tournies means i can be nigh on death and still final table. So i need one of those right now. No better than that im coming first. Would help if i could watch the screen without getting dizzy or not being able to see it clearly but hey ho im a warrior. A silly one it seems.

Peace.

Cardinal sin

Hey

Just like to remind you all never to play when hungover or tired lost 200 euros in an hour session depleting my BR on devilfish to a measley 400 euros. Will gamble and stay on the 50max limits and just hope i catch a lucky break to develop that roll. Annoying becos i notice the play is poor but i get sucked into poor plays because im chasing the losses and really end up playing as bad as them. Need more sleep and have to make sure in the future i only ever play poker when i am fit to.

Peace.

The "Tourney Bug"

Hey

Gonna be a grind this week on the cash games, looking to get 12 tables up at any one time and hit the games hard for the bonuses this week. Looking at playing 40 hours of 12 tables a week from now on which means on average i am looking at 40000 raked hands per week, which should be great for bonuses. This will hopefully allow myself to move up the limits quickly and i will only decide to make the move up if i have at least 50 buy ins available, so 5000 to go up to 0.50/1. Moreover, I am going to allow myself £100 a day to put towards only 2 tournaments maximum (so as to not get in the way of the cash grind too much) and this probably will be the £33 £6K GTD and the £55 £9K GTD on crypto.

Also I am going to be opening some new accounts, primarily on party poker, betfair and Purple Lounge. That should be fun and hope to get a good BR going on all of them. 500 is the amount i will start on, on each account and i will be playing on 10 BB's on each at the 0.25/0.5 limits at whatever currency the site uses. Confident that this is enough to have to start a roll, but if times are bad i will top up.

Would also like to add how i have shyed away from keeping records of my bankrolls profits and losses as it takes the emphasis away from the beauty of the game and how it should be played, and more on trying to hit targets for each day which only adds negative pressure. Also haven't been interested in getting any sort of pokertracker as trying to use these in addition to playing 12 tables would be murder. However, when the time comes i will purchase one as it will let me review all the hands i have played and i may be able to mend leaks against certain players and make sure my play becomes more profitable in the future.

There is also another point i would like to stress and that is that i blame tourney poker for hindering the amount of money i have made at this game. As i am nigh on addicted to playing them over cash games as the rush of winning one or doing well in one is unmatched in the field of poker. The cash games are sort of mondane unless you are playing out of your comfort zone. My point being is that if i started playing cash games primarily over tournies i would be much much more successful than i already have been as i would enjoy the cash games more and would be making a better profit and a much quicker rise up the stakes. But if you're infected with the "tourney bug" its always hard to concentrate fully on cash and be satisfied with its repetition. I am in effect a tourney player who is trying to play cash, and i will find it hard to become an out and out quality cash game player when i have the lure of the tourney game.

Peace.

Worst call i have ever made

Hey

Have a butchers

Game #7025966613: £10K GTD Rebuy (ID8982578) £30+£3 - Hold'em NL (100/200) - 2009/01/22 - 21:36:43 (UK)
Table "8982578 - 9" Seat 5 is the button.
Seat 1: Denlizliz (9540 in chips)
Seat 2: Darkh0209 (8325 in chips)
Seat 3: Ant040689 (8390 in chips)
Seat 4: Bigd11108 (3641 in chips)
Seat 5: Dewicool (15745 in chips)
Seat 6: Whitlow (12965 in chips)
Seat 7: godown61 (18145 in chips)
Seat 8: Hodgio (7445 in chips)
Seat 9: BrrrB (3575 in chips)
Seat 10: Wugambino (3110 in chips)
Whitlow: posts small blind 100
godown61: posts big blind 200
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to Ant040689 [Qs Th]
Hodgio: folds
BrrrB: folds
Wugambino: folds
Denlizliz: folds
Darkh0209: folds
Ant040689: raises to 600
Bigd11108: folds
Dewicool: folds
Whitlow: folds
godown61: calls 400
----- FLOP ----- [6h Qh 6c]
godown61: checks
Ant040689: bets 600
godown61: calls 600
----- TURN ----- [6h Qh 6c][Tc]
godown61: checks
Ant040689: bets 2000
godown61: calls 2000
----- RIVER ----- [6h Qh 6c Tc][Kd]
godown61: bets 14945 and is all-in
Ant040689: is all-in 5190
Returned uncalled bets 9,755 to godown61
----- SHOW DOWN -----
godown61: shows [Ad Jh] (A Straight, Ace high)
Ant040689: shows [Qs Th] (Two Pairs, Queens and Tens, King high)
godown61 collected 16880 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot 16880 Main pot 16880 Rake 0
Board [6h Qh 6c Tc Kd]
Seat 1: Denlizliz folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Darkh0209 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: Ant040689 showed [Qs Th] and lost with Two Pairs, Queens and Tens, King high
Seat 4: Bigd11108 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Dewicool (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Whitlow (small blind) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: godown61 (big blind) showed [Ad Jh] and won (16880) with A Straight, Ace high
Seat 8: Hodgio folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: BrrrB folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 10: Wugambino folded before Flop (didn't bet)


Sort of put him on QK but i was hoping he had AK hearts and just called. Shocked by his Play up until the river, and even his river play was suspect against a good player, because they would fold, i was tilted however and just gave this to him. £93 tht tourney cost me. I'm a disgrace.

Poker watch bought

hey

I say poker watch but it just has the suit of the cards as the numbers 3 6 9 and 12 and has roman numerals for the rest. I'm happy with the purchase and hopefully will bring me good fortune and level headedness for the future. Here it is.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&item=120297662762

peace.

GRRRRRRRRRR

Hey

Really annoyed at my play today. I donked out of the 9K GTD which seems to be my fav tourney of late in 14th place raising 1/4 of my stack pre flop with Q7 to be re raised all in and seemingly pot committed i called and lost. This was a demise as i was chip leader with about 30 to go. I confounded this mistake by making others in other tournaments including spunking all profits made on the devilfish site by entering the wild west tourney they have there. You can rebuy to whatever stack you like and to give myself a chance i stacked about10 times onf the original 5 euros entry or maybe more!

Feelings with the situtation now is to take tourney play with a pinch of salt if you cannot afford the swings. If i am trying to start up a balance from scracth on the site cash games is the answer and very small multis because you want low and assured variance to help your bankroll prosper before gambling with variance and entering higher buy in tournies.

One other thing, i was looking to buy some sort of poker jewellry so i can have it to hold to remind me not to play stupidly and when thinking about doing it i can look at it and play like a pro. No idea where to find this tho.

Peace.

Limbo

Hey

Sort of in a state of limbo as to what to do with my baaaaaaaaad poker self as there are many options available to me. There are tons of sites i could use also to play on either cash or tournies. One thing i am realising is that for tournaments you really do have to have a lot of buy ins ready to play them consistently and that is why i saw a problem with pokerstars and Full tilt. I only had $400 in each and was playing $50 tournies, so my BR on those sites depleted quickly. Decided not to use them again for a while to concentrate on the more heavily orientated european poker rooms, because i believe that they will be softer. Maybe not a wise thought but i think it's fair to sat pokerstars and full tilt are two of the toughest rooms for cash, and in many ways tournies. Still to research fully into how fishy their sngs are but that is for a nother time when i feel like reloading on those sites

Back to the prediciment anyway. I started playing on Devilfish poker today and grinded on the 0.25/0.50 euros rooms there with a starting BR of 550E and in one sitting of about an hour got it up to 700E so i am happy with that. Got most of the monies from one generous individual in particular whom was giving me gifts :) It is an entriguing site. The software is great and the resizing of the tables is excellent. Still need to see whether the games on the whole there are easy or not but will look further into it!

A little report on the boss media network now as well. Their software for multitabling in my opinion is poor. The buttons are far too fidgety and you see yourself making mistakes in raises. Also the alerts are poor. If you have 9 tables up you may find yourself sitting out of 3 games as you didn't know it was your turn. Maybe it's something to do with having to get used to the software which may well be the case. From grinding on it, it seemed to be relatively tight but not soo much so as to put me off putting in some sessions there. So i have this as an outlet of poker as well.

Well as i was writing this i sort of realised what i was going to do with myself which is nice lol. I am going to play on the boss, devilfish and crypto sites as i may well be most comfortable there until i hopefully build up some nice monies, of which i can then put 500 pounds into various other rooms that i know nothing about, and give them a test try. Hopefully get some monies in every single available poker room, try them all out, and then stick to a few and mix and match. Looking forward to the task. Also a little mention of the party poker network. Wouldn't mind somebody giving me a little bit of infor on what the 0.5/1$ and 0.25/0.5$ are like on there as well as the multis. Been put off playing there because of the no rakeback scheme but if there is a profit to be made there it would be worth my while.

More posts to come and may i direct you to my friend's blog in fenix35 who has just started it up. First post a good read and i hope he updates his as much as i do mine :)

Gl PPL