So I think I have finally gotten a few tilt issues out of the way.
I play when I can, which often means I play when I shouldn't.
So tonight whilst chatting in IRC I have been playing backgammon on freeplay tables instead 'cause I am too tired to play poker properly. Wish I had done this before.
Most of my profit from my luckboxing at the start of the year is gone, in fact I went down to zero profit at one point, and now the road to recovery is here.
The graph with bonuses added on is far more pleasant to look at however :-)
Saturday, 4 April 2009
2nd round of the ems HU champs
Didnt go well.
1st round caught a bad bout of non believeritis. Talked myself into thinking ratattack was bluffing (He wasnt)
2nd round got all in with AK vs A9. 9 hit.
oh well
The second chance bracket awaits
1st round caught a bad bout of non believeritis. Talked myself into thinking ratattack was bluffing (He wasnt)
2nd round got all in with AK vs A9. 9 hit.
oh well
The second chance bracket awaits
Friday, 20 March 2009
The EMS heads up championships
Well I signed up to play in the eatmystack heads up tournament.
EMS does loads of community events, such as a freezeout league, they have great value in added prizes but I rarely play in them as
So the draw was made and I was put up against blackshuck.
Now I can't say there are many weak players in the mix but 'shuck isn't my ideal 1st opponent. He plays much higher than I am ever likely to and has a pretty good handle on the game, go have a look on his ems blog if you want to see.
So the format is best of 3 and the 1st round went on for a while. Chip lead went both ways with neither player getting too far ahead, with eventually the luck going my way. 2nd round was much faster when my open ended straight hit on the river.
So I am through to the 2nd round, and 'shuck is into the 2nd chance bracket.
I really enjoyed the match, particularly the 1st round my next opponent is ratattack, another damn fine chap, but unfortunately another damn fine player :-(
EMS does loads of community events, such as a freezeout league, they have great value in added prizes but I rarely play in them as
- I am lousy at MTT's
- They are always on at inconvenient times (for me that is)
So the draw was made and I was put up against blackshuck.
Now I can't say there are many weak players in the mix but 'shuck isn't my ideal 1st opponent. He plays much higher than I am ever likely to and has a pretty good handle on the game, go have a look on his ems blog if you want to see.
So the format is best of 3 and the 1st round went on for a while. Chip lead went both ways with neither player getting too far ahead, with eventually the luck going my way. 2nd round was much faster when my open ended straight hit on the river.
So I am through to the 2nd round, and 'shuck is into the 2nd chance bracket.
I really enjoyed the match, particularly the 1st round my next opponent is ratattack, another damn fine chap, but unfortunately another damn fine player :-(
Sunday, 15 March 2009
Mini upswing, poker gods liked me last night
I haven't had much chance to play the last 4 weeks or so, but managed an hour or so last night.
Was playing a little LAGgy.
Tried a squeeze play with J10o, and flopped an open ended straight draw and decided to play it aggro, bet and reraised the flop, ditto the turn. the one guy in the pot with me went to the river and was most aggrieved when the 9 came and made my straight VS his top pair crap kicker.
Then on another table I saw a flop for free in the BB with 65s and again decided to barrel every street as the board was pretty draw heavy and I was only against 1 player so thought I could represent quite a few hands. He called every bet and again spat his dummy when my flush on the river beat his 2 flopped 2 pair. His passive play cost him the hand as any bet from him would have sent me running, essentially the flop had a straight and a flush draw, the turn gave a second flush draw and yet he chose to call it down, then call a river overbet to double me up.
In no way do I think my play was optimal and each time I had to hit to win, but when these guys are so passive when you do hit it is soooo worth it!
Was playing a little LAGgy.
Tried a squeeze play with J10o, and flopped an open ended straight draw and decided to play it aggro, bet and reraised the flop, ditto the turn. the one guy in the pot with me went to the river and was most aggrieved when the 9 came and made my straight VS his top pair crap kicker.
Then on another table I saw a flop for free in the BB with 65s and again decided to barrel every street as the board was pretty draw heavy and I was only against 1 player so thought I could represent quite a few hands. He called every bet and again spat his dummy when my flush on the river beat his 2 flopped 2 pair. His passive play cost him the hand as any bet from him would have sent me running, essentially the flop had a straight and a flush draw, the turn gave a second flush draw and yet he chose to call it down, then call a river overbet to double me up.
In no way do I think my play was optimal and each time I had to hit to win, but when these guys are so passive when you do hit it is soooo worth it!
Saturday, 21 February 2009
is the tilt over?
Well I dropped quite a few more $$
Didnt eat into my starting BR and with the bonuses unlocked along the way I am still relatively ok.
However I had a reasonable session last night. Didnt make any of my "ah sod it" calls when I know I am well behind. Also didnt join into family pots with rag hands just because "I had the odds" That is an area where I excel in stacking off, half hit a flop with trash and can't let go. So I have stopped giving myself the opportuntiy.
I also took the time where I would normally be fishing around to actually watch some of the other players. Very entertaining when a guy pushed 3/4 of his stack with a 9 high flush only to be instacalled with a guy with the K high. Serves him right for calling with 69 PF Imo
Didnt eat into my starting BR and with the bonuses unlocked along the way I am still relatively ok.
However I had a reasonable session last night. Didnt make any of my "ah sod it" calls when I know I am well behind. Also didnt join into family pots with rag hands just because "I had the odds" That is an area where I excel in stacking off, half hit a flop with trash and can't let go. So I have stopped giving myself the opportuntiy.
I also took the time where I would normally be fishing around to actually watch some of the other players. Very entertaining when a guy pushed 3/4 of his stack with a 9 high flush only to be instacalled with a guy with the K high. Serves him right for calling with 69 PF Imo
Friday, 6 February 2009
A bit o'tilt
I may have lost focus a little...
Ok I may have lost a lot.
I have been steadily winning since my Jan "reset" but not this weekend.
Lost about 1/3 of what I had held on one poker site, mainly due to being over aggro and also not believing my reads.
Stuff like trying to push a rock off a pot after he had raised PF and then bet out on a K high flop. I held AQ, he held KK ldo.
BAsically no one to blame but me. Not the cards, not variance but me. (Well there was one or two beats but on the whole all down to muggins here)
Anyhow I get an email commiserating at my massive loss and offering me a $25 bonus if I redeposit. With the $25 being paid up front! Now obviously what this translates to is. Hey Fish! People like you are good for the site. You keep donating and keep our regs in coke and hookers.
SO I have taken the bait. Gonna have at least a day or two off though and try and get back into the game fresh..
Ok I may have lost a lot.
I have been steadily winning since my Jan "reset" but not this weekend.
Lost about 1/3 of what I had held on one poker site, mainly due to being over aggro and also not believing my reads.
Stuff like trying to push a rock off a pot after he had raised PF and then bet out on a K high flop. I held AQ, he held KK ldo.
BAsically no one to blame but me. Not the cards, not variance but me. (Well there was one or two beats but on the whole all down to muggins here)
Anyhow I get an email commiserating at my massive loss and offering me a $25 bonus if I redeposit. With the $25 being paid up front! Now obviously what this translates to is. Hey Fish! People like you are good for the site. You keep donating and keep our regs in coke and hookers.
SO I have taken the bait. Gonna have at least a day or two off though and try and get back into the game fresh..
Sunday, 1 February 2009
So this is feb?
Snow outside! However not sufficient to stop me getting into work tomorrow morning. Bugger.
Apparently I will get some money this week, so that will be part payment for November. Suppose that is worth going in for.
Pokerwise, my graph has plateaued, mind you I have only played a few hours. A disastrous drop down to $2nl when bored led to a drop of a massive $6! The truth is that I cannot win against tables full of "bad players". Now before you howl at me, those are the players you want to play against! I have a small counter argument. The standard line is "they don't respect my raises" and "how can you put em on a hand if they don't know themselves" Well I think thats bollox in the main. The reason I lose at that level is that *I* play badly there. The buy in isn't enough to hold my attention, even with my restricted bankroll. *I* don't respect their raises. Snap calling "obvious river bluffs" when in reality they have hit their runner runner straight after they called a 6bb PF raise wit 47off and that is why they are pushing. It's because they hold the nuts!
I have since made the cashback at the rate of a couple of $$ per hour sat on the 10c20c tables where I have some focus :-)
Not going brilliantly though. It's quite disheartening when 1 table has loads of folks donating $$ and the other bleeding cash. So often I have doubled up on 1, via lots of small pots. However have dropped the same amount on the other, where it seems I cant catch a card and the table has the one calling station that is in every single pot with me so bluffs fail every time. Oh and I get a walk in the bb everytime I hold AA, KK.
Not planning on trying 3 tables just yet, It may flatten that feelling out but I don't think I am ready for that. I have tried in the past and it usually isn't pretty.
Apparently I will get some money this week, so that will be part payment for November. Suppose that is worth going in for.
Pokerwise, my graph has plateaued, mind you I have only played a few hours. A disastrous drop down to $2nl when bored led to a drop of a massive $6! The truth is that I cannot win against tables full of "bad players". Now before you howl at me, those are the players you want to play against! I have a small counter argument. The standard line is "they don't respect my raises" and "how can you put em on a hand if they don't know themselves" Well I think thats bollox in the main. The reason I lose at that level is that *I* play badly there. The buy in isn't enough to hold my attention, even with my restricted bankroll. *I* don't respect their raises. Snap calling "obvious river bluffs" when in reality they have hit their runner runner straight after they called a 6bb PF raise wit 47off and that is why they are pushing. It's because they hold the nuts!
I have since made the cashback at the rate of a couple of $$ per hour sat on the 10c20c tables where I have some focus :-)
Not going brilliantly though. It's quite disheartening when 1 table has loads of folks donating $$ and the other bleeding cash. So often I have doubled up on 1, via lots of small pots. However have dropped the same amount on the other, where it seems I cant catch a card and the table has the one calling station that is in every single pot with me so bluffs fail every time. Oh and I get a walk in the bb everytime I hold AA, KK.
Not planning on trying 3 tables just yet, It may flatten that feelling out but I don't think I am ready for that. I have tried in the past and it usually isn't pretty.
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