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Ups and downs

Down: United lost
Up: +8 BI day today
Down: Still lost sklansky $$$ today
Up: I can pay rent
Down: United lost
Up: Close to getting to platinum star and my $650 bonus
Down: United lost
Up: I got demented to drown my sorrows:)

My stats at 25nl have turned pretty average to be honest. Beating it at a rate of 3.17BB/100, which isn't world class by any means, -though if you added on my sklansky bucks it would be a lot higher. Made just short of 1K since I started playing cash so I can't complain.



Despit this hand I still managed to run below ev on the day. I did rather enjoy sucking out on this dude, -I had been three betting him quite a bit so there was no way I was ever getting off it.



This one confused me a little, -it was against a supernova who I'm sure has a HUD and knows that I'm not splashing around with nothing. I suckered him in nicely but man it was just badly played on his part.

Running bad

Nothing hurts more than getting consistently unlucky at poker. It hurts so bad, especially if you plan to live off it for the summer. I just seem to be unable to get anything going, - sets aren't getting paid off, -I'm running hands into bigger hands and getting sucked out on. I have to play because I need to get to supernova again and get a $650 bonus to pay my rent.










I'm down about $250 in Sklansky bucks which at the moment is about 1/3 of my bankroll. And all-in ev only tells half the story.

I made a mental note since starting my blog that I wouldn't bitch about running bad, - so on a brighter note United are playing in the champions league final tonight. Gonna get drunk and forget all about poker till tomo.

Tipping away

Been playing quite a bit recently, -punching slightly below my weight with the following stats:

My hourly rate over 10 hours played worked out at $20.33 an hour which is fine but hopefully once I get out of a slump of running bad I will be making more. I felt at the start I played quite poorly but stepped it up a notch after posting my hands on 2+2 and getting some serious abuse. To top it off over those first 4K hands I didn't run good by any stretch of the imagination. There were a couple of key pots that help me maintain a decent hourly, The first outlines the merits of reraising with pocket kings:



This one is one that I posted on 2+2 and everyone thought I played it horribly, but I like it :) :



The early position raiser was running 13/5, basically raising AK or QQ+ and then calling pocket pairs, so I actually put him a big PP pre flop. Took a stab with a suited connector and got paid off... Lucky I know but I ain't complaining.

This is my pick of the bad beats:



and this tested my sanity too:



1 exam left on monday. Gonna see star trek tonight with Janis and then hit the books again tommorrow.

Over and out.

Exams, with a little grinding in between.

Just finished my fifth exam out of seven. It went really well I'm not used to coming out of exams and actually feeling ok about how they went. It's a new and strange feeling. Don't know if I've been just getting lucky or what but I think I've done very well in almost all of them so far touch wood. I have ground out another 7K hands or so since my last post. 3 hours ish yesterday. Wasn't bad at all, I made a few bob but it wasn't anywhere near my hourly rate.

Here is a beautiful hand I played v's some sucker slow playing a set, - the nice thing about this was the pot odds he gave me to catch up. He even could have folded the river (but I prolly wouldn't have, -then again I wouldn't have slowplayed it:) ).


I't seemed like this sort of thing kept happening to me over the last few hands, -Nothing to complain about, just a little variance to keep me on my toes. This is one of many I could have picked:












Stats:
Hours: 39.18
Total hands: 40,604
Vol. Put$ in pot: 12.95
PFR: 11.16
Hands/hr: 1036
BB/100: 4.66
$/hr: $24.19
Amount won: $947.75

PS, -39.18 hours put in total, - that's 1 weeks work during the summer. I'd be delighted with this return over the summer months :). Would set me up nicely for my final year in college.

For those of you who have just had one of those days.

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Running Hot

Played a little yesterday and today and went on a really good run. Yesterday I finished upo $300 playing cash and I was just about to go to bed when I decided to short stack 1/2 omaha. Ten minutes and three buy ins later I finished the day at a total profit of $240. As a punishment today for losing silly money I woke up early today and put in a quick 1.5 shift before I went to gfs' party. Won A tidy $130 this morning so very happy. There are some serious fish around. I was 20 tabeling aswell and found it easy, may move up to 24 after I get used to 20.

Here are a couple of juicy hands:

Usually I would raise this pre but on this table I was running really high like30/25 or something and had only just sat down so I smooth called pre, -two donkeys.

SB special, served with a side dressing of OVER STRAIGHT. The thing I loved about this was the size of his raises. Trying to squeeze every last penny out of me and I was sitting with the nuts:) Fish.

Graph to date... Things looking good for summer.








Stats:
Hours played: 30.82
Total hands: 33,300
Amount won: $841.85
BB/100: 5.06
Vol. Put$ in pot: 12.96
Raised preflop: 11.29
$/hr: $27.3