20k mission

$60 shot on $0.50/$1

Published on 2007-10-20 21:17:00

I sat down tonight with $60 after coming home from town and put it on $0.50/$1 in a shit or bust effort. I also took a $30 buyin on $0.25/$0.50 to keep me from being bored. I made 3 huge hand in a row after waiting for about 20-30mins. They were 2 huge pots and then a nice small pot afterward that probably did not merit getting as big as it did, but my guess is the villain was floating in order to steal it from me. The 2 big pots came from a villain who was most likely tilting or else had no ide

Getting there

Published on 2007-10-18 22:15:00

I don't know if its a regular thing for people to get a lot of abuse at the tables online. Well i've been getting an excessive amount recently. The only thing I can guess is my aggressive play makes people very uncomfortable. I get huge abuse when i reship double suited run downs against aces and win. People hate losing with aces. I get called donk 'once' a day. Loads of other names aswell. Whats up with that?? Then this guy here calls me a mutt for reshipping with a straight and flush draw agai

Momentum

Published on 2007-10-17 21:20:00

Finding my groove again with PLO on pokerstars. Had a couple of good sessions now, hopefully it'll remain the same for another while. I'm beginning to think winning and losing in poker has a lot to do with your frame of mind. Not much to report other than every other session has been a monster for me recently on PS.Current Balance: $642

Yum Yum

Published on 2007-10-15 20:35:00

Back on the up .. for the time being!! Finally i can dodge flushes and hit em.Some big hands from the session.. i win a nice pot against aces to get back in contention.Then later i am reminded i am but a wee fish!Note the lack of brm. Im a little disappointed in this. I did drop down to short stacking $0.10/$0.25 for a while but that brought me down to an uber low of $50. AKA Square One!Current Balance: $378

New low!

Published on 2007-10-14 14:48:00

wow i must be retarded. I plyed about 2 hours of $0.25/$0.50 PLO and blew $260. I don't understand how it can happen that you can play for so long and keep losing!? Thats pretty crazy. Maybe my hand selection isn't the best.. i have no idea? I'm shocked ive come this low! Time to invest in some brm!!Current Balance: $101

Rubble

Published on 2007-10-13 13:08:00

This post is just a quick update on whats been happening over the last month and a half. Basically i have been swamped with work i've had to do at college for my PhD and regardless i've been playing poker when i didn't really have the time. My play during this period has been really down. I bust my FTP account following many runs of going over $1000 and below $300. It was all on the $0.25/$0.50 tables. My pokerstars account has experienced the same fate and it has largely been to bad brm and mos

There'll be ...

Published on 2007-08-18 14:41:00

... ups and downs, smiles and frowns ...What do i mean by that?? Well, for the past 2 weeks i ran like a demon on full tilt, this week it was like i was trying to run through a brick wall! Nothing was working for me at all. My semi-bluffs/draws missed, when i had my money in ahead i ended up behind. In all i dropped $700 from the full tilt account. I got some genuinely sick beats. No 60/40 bullshit. Flop the nuts and lose to a 4 outer! I fail to see how bpl21 got $60+ into this pot with 3rd pair

Loving PLO on Full Tilt.

Published on 2007-08-12 19:16:00

Pokerstars has taken a back burner for the last while and i've been playing PLO ($0.50/$1) 6 handed on full tilt almost exclusively. I can really see my game sharpening up a huge deal. I always buy in for $50 on the tables and run it up until thte table is dry, or if i'm getting creamed i've been able to leave (sometimes!). The main improvement i've had is playing each street rather than check-raise, ship-ship-ship. It really helps a load in certain spots. I love catching people who like to valu

Some Casino Time

Published on 2007-08-03 07:53:00

Dismal tournament post =(    I played the €200 freezeout last night in the Macau casino. It was a wicked game but I don't think i've played soo bad in a long time. It was the most passive i've played in ages. Nothing to do with the buy in or anything, it just seemed to be the mood i was in. Early on i got up to about 11k from 8k with KK vs JJ. Following this, I was playing uber tight, and it seemed to be on the side of tight passive =(. I don't really know why as my table was relativel

Grinding again.

Published on 2007-07-28 09:50:00

I luff to bluff. Just can't help it. Omaha is just the game to play deep stacked if bluffing is your game. On this hand i made a check raise bluff with just the bare Ad. It works a high % of the time, but the player in this hand repumped with his J high flush. Ballsy/stupid, i don't know. Against me its probably ballsy. Although, he hadn't been playing with me all that long. Anyone else think this is a tough fold? I'm in the process of building up both my bank rolls on full tilt and pokerstars.