Back on Track

Things are going good again. Just had a +7 buy in day, and didn't even really play that long which is nice. And a positive red line which always feels good. My overall stats are actually a little depressing to look at, running just a little over 3.5BB/100 which isn't impressive at all but it is giving me a better hourly than a normal job. Just need to really start putting in more hours if I'm going to afford inter railing. We bought our flights today for the 3rd of August, flying straight into Amsterdam which is gonna be savage.

Had a couple of interesting hands, both of them versus regs and one versus my arch-nemesis, Virmos, who's an absolute nit. I've noticed that he will only really sit at tables where he's either across the table from, or has position on me, and I've berated him for it too. It felt SWEET.



And this beauty was a savagely cold deck for villain but he could have folded. Probably for the first time ever I typed something into the chat to try to extract the call. On the river after I went all in I said "Two pair no good". I did this hoping to rep the set because I actually had him on a weak flush. To be honest it was just a savagely cold deck, but I'm sure some regs might fold. The magical thing about this is that we both had more than one buy-in. My advice; If you're gonna hit a straight flush, -do it in a situation like this;



On a different note I've found a guilty pleasure song that is really cheesy but a friend threw it on for me recently and I haven't stopped listening to it since. It is pretty fucking cheesy though.














Later

Pulling my teeth out

Have nothing more to say.

Pulling my hair out

Since my last post about a week ago I've been putting off another post until I have something positive to say. Just played about two hours there and finished up about 4 BI's so I'll update how I've been doing. I've played about 20k hands, about 4/500 of those were played drunk which I will never attempt again. Another 4/5K of those were played while exceptionally tired after a night out (which I will also never attempt again) and the rest of them (bar today's) I was just playing poorly. Granted there are some ugly, ugly bad beats in there which are just plain unpleasant and happening with frightening regularity but that's part of poker. Over those 20K hands I ran at just over 1BB/100. A fantastic return for a reg at 25nl. Not. The really disappointing thing is that my red line (money won without showdown) Has been consistently heading south which is not the norm for me. I don't know if I'm just getting unlucky or c-betting too much but I'm down $125 from money won without showdown and even in the winning session I just had my red line is down.








I do have a couple of juicy hands from my sessions. I could choose from an absolute reem of bad beats but I'll only choose this one. These ones frustrate me the most. Far more than just cold decks, these really hurt me and put me on tilt:



^This genius 'traps' with AQ on the button, gets $8 into the pot behind, and $1.5 in the pot when he sucks out on the river.

For the newbs out there I'll provide ye with a short but very profitable lesson on how to crack queens with 45s out of position.





Eat that.

+ 3.5hours, + 3.5 BI.

Can't complain, tipping along nicely. Was up about 5 BI at one point but if ever anyone has run card dead while 22 tabeling I just did it. Hit a set exactly once every 45 times I saw a flop with a pocket pair which is never nice. No special hands of note, -biggest winning hand was AA on the day by a long way.

The first is me bullying a nit, -12/5, nothing gives me greater pleasure than sneaking a pot from their cold lifeless hands.



And this is me being too aggro. Not sure what if I would play this different again. I guess I could have checked the turn. I'll post it on two plus two (here) and see what they say.



My overall stats on both sites since starting to play cash just two months ago. Rakeback is not included:









It works out at roughly $24/ before rakeback. but I'm improving :)

Tipping along

Haven't really played a whole bunch over last two days, - between two and three hours which is pretty rubbish. Running roughly at 4BB/100 so happy enough. Made about $150 since my monster day, but I am running way above ev and not really playing very well. Was out last night and was very tired all day so couldn't concentrate and stopped. There were a couple of interesting hands and one that I think I did play well:



Villain in above hand was a 20/16 TAG reg and it's always nice to bust a reg. Hopefully he'll have second thoughts about joining my table again:)



Q4s is loose I know and generally I avoid these hands like the plague but the villain in this hand was a 32/2 calling station and in general a poor player. Suited cards on the button? -raise and isolate... I know I did smash that flop (and turn) but I have been working on isolating the weaker players at the table. To be honest I have had to work on this because 25nl isn't as soft as people think. I play most of my games around 10am to 6pm GMT, which is absolutely loaded with regs. I should really work on playing later in the day when tired Americans come home from work to donate. Long story short the only way to make money is to play as much as possible with the weaker players and just try to hold your own versus the other TAGs. Looking to stack regs is a very tricky business, and value can only really be taken from them by abusing their blinds and pushing them around in very small pots. It's the five-tabeling part time players with stats like 20/15 that are the best at doing this, and I'm sure I'm a prime target for them. I've noticed a few of the regs floating flops and 3 betting me more and more. They always seem to have the goods when I make a stand too! meh.

I've made a little over 2K now since I started playing cash. Running very slightly above 4BB/100 over 97K hands. Rakeback should make in or around 200 more at the mo, though I will wait for a $650 bonus.

Over and out, -post any comments/ questions.

Joe

Biggest day yet

Monster day today. Played 8k hands and won a total of $382.23 over 6 hours of play. Feel great! Basically I was smashing flops left right and center especially towards the end of the day. I even finished below ev!







Did have a couple of sickeners but I really can't complain after a day like today.



This hand is my funniest yet in my database. This is the standard of player I'm up against, the type of player that pays my rent and puts me through college. It is a











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Update

Been a quiet week in terms of poker for me. Haven't really been able to concentrate properly but I did put in a few hours today. Ran well and finished up about 8 buy ins. Couple of interesting hands and a few bad beats too.



This is my updated graph to date, and also I recently started playing on another site that gives much better rake back:



So far since the first of June I've made roughly $30/ hr before rakeback. I didn't realise I had been making that much till just now and it feels good. Having said that I've only played about 14 hrs which is really only two days proper work, and I need to pick up the hours if I'm gonna pay for inter-railing later this summer.

Interesting hands from my session:

Sickest hand I've ever played and probably sickest hand you'll ever see:



And I think I'd do this all over again. Villain in this case is running at 93/39 over 60 hands. His min raise looked so much like a donkey bluff and I reshoved. Really he still should have folded AQ pretty much at every stage in this hand but he made the 'hero' call and took down a $50 pot with A high!



Won't be playing tommorrow because I am going to Waterford with lads from college to a house party. I'll probably play and update again on Sunday.