Uni
Total Entries: 8
Money finishes: 3rd (3), 2nd (1), 1st (1)
Profit/Loss: +£45
Another third tonight, good for £20 rather than money back like usual. 11 to the game for the extra money. Played well, one lucky hand (AQ all-in with KQ5 on the flop, villain has K, turn is a Q) but I got quite unlucky most of the time (except with KK when villain with AQ 3-bet all-in for about 5K, I covered with average around 3.5K). Happy overall with my performance, just unlucky not to place higher (for example, blinds at 300/600, my stack at about 17K, villains at about 6.5K and 4K. I pushed preflop from the SB with Q5s, called by J5o in the big blind and he hit a Jack on the river).
Also played a short online session.
50NLH LH
Stars
Opening Balance: $1 080.69
Number of Tables: 2
No. of Hands: 46
Closing Balance: $1 093.09 (+$12.40)
Running Totals: -$18.90/1031
-38ptbb/1031 (-3.67ptbb/100)
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
£10 Live SNG 7/11/07
Uni
Total Entries: 7
Money finishes: 3rd (2), 2nd (1), 1st (1)
Profit/Loss: +£35
Won this tonight. Start of the points league was also tonight, so extra reason to be pleased. Got lucky in the right places and didn't do anything too stupid (worst was calling a 2.5BB riase on the button with 8Ts, then calling a SB reraise behind the original raiser. There didn't seem like a good spot to let go preflop). I'd post about some hands but I can't really remember stack sizes, position or anything useful like that. So I won't.
Total Entries: 7
Money finishes: 3rd (2), 2nd (1), 1st (1)
Profit/Loss: +£35
Won this tonight. Start of the points league was also tonight, so extra reason to be pleased. Got lucky in the right places and didn't do anything too stupid (worst was calling a 2.5BB riase on the button with 8Ts, then calling a SB reraise behind the original raiser. There didn't seem like a good spot to let go preflop). I'd post about some hands but I can't really remember stack sizes, position or anything useful like that. So I won't.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
.05/.10 NLH LH 24/10/07
Stars
Opening Balance: $416.69
No. Of Tables: 3
No. of Hands: 171
Closing Balance: $423.74 (+$7.05)
Running Totals: +2279ptbb/9003
+$227.94/9003
(+25.3ptbb/100)
Still a good winrate going on. This session had a couple of big full houses that won a lot of money, and two KQ hands that got shafted (one was a cooler, the other was unlucky with a bad call on the flop by the villain and probably a bad river call from me). Still, I'm happy with it.
Another live STT last night, another third place. I'm trying to work out if I'm doing anything different to last year (where I struggled to make the top three at all) or if the last three weeks have all been heaters. I think I'm playing better, certainly more solidly than before and that's helping a lot. It also seems like I'm reading the game a little better and making some better bet sizes. Not much information so far (5 games, a second and two thirds) but I'm hopeful.
Opening Balance: $416.69
No. Of Tables: 3
No. of Hands: 171
Closing Balance: $423.74 (+$7.05)
Running Totals: +2279ptbb/9003
+$227.94/9003
(+25.3ptbb/100)
Still a good winrate going on. This session had a couple of big full houses that won a lot of money, and two KQ hands that got shafted (one was a cooler, the other was unlucky with a bad call on the flop by the villain and probably a bad river call from me). Still, I'm happy with it.
Another live STT last night, another third place. I'm trying to work out if I'm doing anything different to last year (where I struggled to make the top three at all) or if the last three weeks have all been heaters. I think I'm playing better, certainly more solidly than before and that's helping a lot. It also seems like I'm reading the game a little better and making some better bet sizes. Not much information so far (5 games, a second and two thirds) but I'm hopeful.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
PLO 17/10/07
Stars
Opening Balance: $303.89
No. of Tables: 2
No. of Hands: 178
Closing Balance: $371.34 (+$17.94; $49.48 bonus cleared)
Messed around with some more Omaha this morning. I'm really getting into it, and I think I'm starting to get a much better feel for it. SHPLO is a crazy game but for now I seem to be on top of things.
Also received copies of Professional No-Limit and The Mathematics of Poker in the post. Started reading PNL but haven't got past the stuff on the Basics yet, so no idea how much it'll help.
Also, finished third in a live 9-man SNG last night. Which makes a 2nd and a 3rd out of four entries this year, so up £5 overall. Go me!
Opening Balance: $303.89
No. of Tables: 2
No. of Hands: 178
Closing Balance: $371.34 (+$17.94; $49.48 bonus cleared)
Messed around with some more Omaha this morning. I'm really getting into it, and I think I'm starting to get a much better feel for it. SHPLO is a crazy game but for now I seem to be on top of things.
Also received copies of Professional No-Limit and The Mathematics of Poker in the post. Started reading PNL but haven't got past the stuff on the Basics yet, so no idea how much it'll help.
Also, finished third in a live 9-man SNG last night. Which makes a 2nd and a 3rd out of four entries this year, so up £5 overall. Go me!
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
£5+0 SNG 29/5/07
Uni Bankroll
Current win/loss : -£25
Number of entries: 3
Cashes : 0
Smaller buy-in than usual this week. End of the month, feeling the pinch a little.
It started out well. I identified my main candidate for extracting chips (I guy on the other side of the table who was very active). I knew if I could get a strong hand he'd hang himself, and it worked the first time (nut flush, although he laid down whatever he had when I reraised the river by 600 with about 1800 in there).
My next chance to hit him was when I was holding AJ. Blinds at 50/100, I have about 3000, he has about 2600 (I have him covered by 400). One limper, I make it 350 to go and he makes it 550 (I know, technically an underraise, but I didn't want to make a thing out of it. I was already being the guy who complains when people don't post blinds or take ten minutes to shuffle a frigging deck). Flop comes Ax6h7h. He bets 200, I raise to 700 and he goes all in.
So we're clear, I hoped he had a pocket pair less than the ace, an ace smaller than mine or a naked flush or straight draw (something like QhKh). Of course, AQ or AK was also possible, as was A6 or A7. I decided to call because, well, I'd been wanting him to bet big at me when I had a strong hand (top pair with no redraw on a flush-draw board counts as strong, evidently. No I didn't really have a strong hand). The structure is pretty brutal (2500 chips, 20 minute blinds with people who'd deal faster if they did it with their feet, levels of 50/50, 50/100, 100/200, 150/300 200/400, 250/500 etc.) and you don't really get many chances to make plays except for the very beginning and the very end.
He flipped 8h9h for a monster, hit the Qh on the turn and I was dead. I fold the next hand, then it'smy big blind. Some guy raises to 300, I push blind and the same guy as before wins the pot. Bastard.
Current win/loss : -£25
Number of entries: 3
Cashes : 0
Smaller buy-in than usual this week. End of the month, feeling the pinch a little.
It started out well. I identified my main candidate for extracting chips (I guy on the other side of the table who was very active). I knew if I could get a strong hand he'd hang himself, and it worked the first time (nut flush, although he laid down whatever he had when I reraised the river by 600 with about 1800 in there).
My next chance to hit him was when I was holding AJ. Blinds at 50/100, I have about 3000, he has about 2600 (I have him covered by 400). One limper, I make it 350 to go and he makes it 550 (I know, technically an underraise, but I didn't want to make a thing out of it. I was already being the guy who complains when people don't post blinds or take ten minutes to shuffle a frigging deck). Flop comes Ax6h7h. He bets 200, I raise to 700 and he goes all in.
So we're clear, I hoped he had a pocket pair less than the ace, an ace smaller than mine or a naked flush or straight draw (something like QhKh). Of course, AQ or AK was also possible, as was A6 or A7. I decided to call because, well, I'd been wanting him to bet big at me when I had a strong hand (top pair with no redraw on a flush-draw board counts as strong, evidently. No I didn't really have a strong hand). The structure is pretty brutal (2500 chips, 20 minute blinds with people who'd deal faster if they did it with their feet, levels of 50/50, 50/100, 100/200, 150/300 200/400, 250/500 etc.) and you don't really get many chances to make plays except for the very beginning and the very end.
He flipped 8h9h for a monster, hit the Qh on the turn and I was dead. I fold the next hand, then it'smy big blind. Some guy raises to 300, I push blind and the same guy as before wins the pot. Bastard.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
£10+0 SNG 15/5/07
Uni Bankroll
Current win/loss : -£20
Number of entries: 2
Cashes : 0
Another less than stellar performance, but it could've been much worse. At least, I don't feel I did badly, only lost one of those hands that happen every day.
Starting stacks of 3K, 10 players. Only two interesting hands. The first, I hold AQ and reraise preflop against a player I know is loose. He bets the flop of JQ7, I shove all in. He thinks for a while then folds, with encouragement from me (I'm confident I'm ahead, but also think he has something, so I'm ok with either a fold or a call). He shows KTo and rabbit hunts an 8 and a 9.
Next hand I hold 89h in second position. Under the gun limps, I limp, cut off limps, button limps, small blind folds, big blind checks. Pot of 550, I have 3500 behind, main villain, the button, has me covered by about 1200. Flop comes T84 rainbow.
The big blind, a very conservative, passive player, checks, as does the first limper. Trying to take it down, I fire off 500. Cut off folds, button raises to 1500. He's come over the top of me twice before on the flop, although this is the first time I've been betting with a genuine hand. In addition, he busted the first guy out with top two pair, where he minraised. He also minraised me both of the times he came over the top. I think at this point he has nothing, or at least not something very strong like TT or even AT. I'm thinking a big ace, a weak T or an 8.
Folds back to me and I raise back for 3K total. I'm left with 500 back, which might have been a mistake. It has no further benefit in this hand unless I hit one of my outs and get it in for a call. It's also only 5 big blinds so I'll be down to push/fold for a long time.
Otto, the villain, thinks for a long time. There's 550 from preflop, 1500 from him, 3000 from me for 5050 in the pot, and him having to call 1500. He does call, the turn is an under to my 8, we check, and the river is a king. I check, he bets me all in. I think I'm behind but I can't really fold.
He turns AK and I go home.
Later, I pondered my play. Essentially, I picked a hand to make a stand against the bully. I was ahead going in, although he had thin odds to call me if he put me on a pair with no A or K and could rely on me putting in my last 500. Had I put my last 500 in on the turn, he would not have had the odds.
Two other hands where I may have played badly.
About 15 hands in, blinds 50/100. I'm in the big blind and second to act raises to 300. Dan, the raiser, is very tight preflop, so I can put him on a range like JJ+, AQs+, AKo. It folds to me and I find AKs.
My first instinct is to raise it up. AKs is a raising hand, and if I make it something like 1200, he'll fold the unpaired hands, and maybe even JJ, QQ. He'll definitely call or come over the top with AA/KK. For the post-flop, I know he'll continuation bet if I check to him, giving me good implied odds if I hit my A or flush draw (he'd probably check behind if it was all spades). I also know that he knows I like to call in the big blind and make a bet on the flop to take control, and I know he's capable of coming over the top of me in that situation (for that reason, I'd give him a much wider range if he was in late position. He's tight, but he loves to make plays against me.) So whatever happens, I need to hit the flop in order to play this hand. Not wanting to risk a big pile of chips with a race hand, I call and check/fold when I miss the flop.
Second hand, I have AK again (actually, this was before the previous one. Never mind). I make it 150 to go (blinds of 50/50) and get called by the small blind. He's tight, passive when he misses and very aggressive when he hits. It's quite easy normally to know when you're behind. I don't know if he remembers, but two weeks ago I 3-bet him off TPTK on the flop with TPTK (which I showed, after he showed). We check the J-rag-rag flop, he bets 150 on the rag turn. I suspect I'm behind and needing to hit a K on the river, but this would be the third hand in about six that I'd raised pre-flop and given up post flop. This might be making me look like a tight player, or I might be looking like a weak-tight donkeyfish. I decide I can't fold again or my image will be trashed and I call. The river is an A. Suspecting two pair, I check, he checks behind and I show the winning hand.
I tried to justify the play to myself on the basis of image protection and my implied odds (which were nowhere near good enough, but helped). That it was a small pot was also good, as it meant my mistake, if that's what it was, was only a small one. Also, I thought that, against this particular villain, the likelihood of a bet on the end was quite low. I think I'd make the call again if I had to. Just not sure it was a good one.
Current win/loss : -£20
Number of entries: 2
Cashes : 0
Another less than stellar performance, but it could've been much worse. At least, I don't feel I did badly, only lost one of those hands that happen every day.
Starting stacks of 3K, 10 players. Only two interesting hands. The first, I hold AQ and reraise preflop against a player I know is loose. He bets the flop of JQ7, I shove all in. He thinks for a while then folds, with encouragement from me (I'm confident I'm ahead, but also think he has something, so I'm ok with either a fold or a call). He shows KTo and rabbit hunts an 8 and a 9.
Next hand I hold 89h in second position. Under the gun limps, I limp, cut off limps, button limps, small blind folds, big blind checks. Pot of 550, I have 3500 behind, main villain, the button, has me covered by about 1200. Flop comes T84 rainbow.
The big blind, a very conservative, passive player, checks, as does the first limper. Trying to take it down, I fire off 500. Cut off folds, button raises to 1500. He's come over the top of me twice before on the flop, although this is the first time I've been betting with a genuine hand. In addition, he busted the first guy out with top two pair, where he minraised. He also minraised me both of the times he came over the top. I think at this point he has nothing, or at least not something very strong like TT or even AT. I'm thinking a big ace, a weak T or an 8.
Folds back to me and I raise back for 3K total. I'm left with 500 back, which might have been a mistake. It has no further benefit in this hand unless I hit one of my outs and get it in for a call. It's also only 5 big blinds so I'll be down to push/fold for a long time.
Otto, the villain, thinks for a long time. There's 550 from preflop, 1500 from him, 3000 from me for 5050 in the pot, and him having to call 1500. He does call, the turn is an under to my 8, we check, and the river is a king. I check, he bets me all in. I think I'm behind but I can't really fold.
He turns AK and I go home.
Later, I pondered my play. Essentially, I picked a hand to make a stand against the bully. I was ahead going in, although he had thin odds to call me if he put me on a pair with no A or K and could rely on me putting in my last 500. Had I put my last 500 in on the turn, he would not have had the odds.
Two other hands where I may have played badly.
About 15 hands in, blinds 50/100. I'm in the big blind and second to act raises to 300. Dan, the raiser, is very tight preflop, so I can put him on a range like JJ+, AQs+, AKo. It folds to me and I find AKs.
My first instinct is to raise it up. AKs is a raising hand, and if I make it something like 1200, he'll fold the unpaired hands, and maybe even JJ, QQ. He'll definitely call or come over the top with AA/KK. For the post-flop, I know he'll continuation bet if I check to him, giving me good implied odds if I hit my A or flush draw (he'd probably check behind if it was all spades). I also know that he knows I like to call in the big blind and make a bet on the flop to take control, and I know he's capable of coming over the top of me in that situation (for that reason, I'd give him a much wider range if he was in late position. He's tight, but he loves to make plays against me.) So whatever happens, I need to hit the flop in order to play this hand. Not wanting to risk a big pile of chips with a race hand, I call and check/fold when I miss the flop.
Second hand, I have AK again (actually, this was before the previous one. Never mind). I make it 150 to go (blinds of 50/50) and get called by the small blind. He's tight, passive when he misses and very aggressive when he hits. It's quite easy normally to know when you're behind. I don't know if he remembers, but two weeks ago I 3-bet him off TPTK on the flop with TPTK (which I showed, after he showed). We check the J-rag-rag flop, he bets 150 on the rag turn. I suspect I'm behind and needing to hit a K on the river, but this would be the third hand in about six that I'd raised pre-flop and given up post flop. This might be making me look like a tight player, or I might be looking like a weak-tight donkeyfish. I decide I can't fold again or my image will be trashed and I call. The river is an A. Suspecting two pair, I check, he checks behind and I show the winning hand.
I tried to justify the play to myself on the basis of image protection and my implied odds (which were nowhere near good enough, but helped). That it was a small pot was also good, as it meant my mistake, if that's what it was, was only a small one. Also, I thought that, against this particular villain, the likelihood of a bet on the end was quite low. I think I'd make the call again if I had to. Just not sure it was a good one.
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
£10+0 SNG 8/5/07
Separate bankroll for uni play:
Current win/loss : -£10
Number of entries: 1
Cashes : 0
Sixteen of us for the £10 freezeout last night. The structure gets pretty brutal, starting with 2500 chips, blinds at 50/50. After twenty minutes, they're 50/100, twenty minutes later 100/200. So if you don't make any profit quickly, you're short stacked and that's that.
Only found two hands in the time I was there. First was JJ in mid position, Kev (on my right) raised to 200 (4BBs), I came over the top to 500, he gave me a dirty look and folded. I'm not sure if that was the right play, but I didn't want to see a flop without knowing much about his hand. The other was my last hand. Blinds at 100/200, I have 2400 in the SB. Kev shoves for 1050, I come over the top with AK (trying to isolate) and Dan, the BB, calls me with QQ. Nothing hits and I go out.
I did pick up a couple of tells, although I never got to use them. Hopefully nobody from the Society will read this. Dan's voice cracks when he's bluffing, and the guy with the Ultimate Dealer Button looks at the board when he's value betting and his chips when he's bluffing. Or those could've been coincidences. But you didn't hear it from me.
Current win/loss : -£10
Number of entries: 1
Cashes : 0
Sixteen of us for the £10 freezeout last night. The structure gets pretty brutal, starting with 2500 chips, blinds at 50/50. After twenty minutes, they're 50/100, twenty minutes later 100/200. So if you don't make any profit quickly, you're short stacked and that's that.
Only found two hands in the time I was there. First was JJ in mid position, Kev (on my right) raised to 200 (4BBs), I came over the top to 500, he gave me a dirty look and folded. I'm not sure if that was the right play, but I didn't want to see a flop without knowing much about his hand. The other was my last hand. Blinds at 100/200, I have 2400 in the SB. Kev shoves for 1050, I come over the top with AK (trying to isolate) and Dan, the BB, calls me with QQ. Nothing hits and I go out.
I did pick up a couple of tells, although I never got to use them. Hopefully nobody from the Society will read this. Dan's voice cracks when he's bluffing, and the guy with the Ultimate Dealer Button looks at the board when he's value betting and his chips when he's bluffing. Or those could've been coincidences. But you didn't hear it from me.
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