Have been running crap since my last post. Won a few STT's but busted out in far too many throught some sick beats. Still no breakthrough in the MTT's. So after my bad run I decided to spent more time concentrating on the cash tarbs. Possibly through tilt or playing in the wrong frame of mind, I decided to jump a level to the $0.50/1 nl tables. Was treading water for the first few days not making much progress but at the same time no big loses, until Friday.
Playing 4 tables with $100 at each I hit two nice hands quickly followed by three sick all-in beats. At one table I hit pocket Jacks on the BB, made a 4xBB raise and was called by 2 players. Flop came JJ9, very nice, I checked as did the other 2, turn came an Ace, I check again and one player goes all-in for $57 and the other player folds. I insta call and take a nice pot. Exactly one round later and again on the BB I get JJ again. Another raise and I get called by the button. Flop 983 rainbow. I make a pot size bet and button goes all-in for $119. I call and he turns over pocket 7's. Turn comes a 6 and as you can guess the poker Gods decided to interveen and dish out a 10 on the river giving the villan his back door straight.......sick.
On another table I hit QQ in mid position, make a big raise and get put all-in by the BB for $89. Thinking he was protecting his BB I call and hit a Q on the flop and take down the pot against the BB's pocket Aces, very nice. He calls me a few nice names in the chat box and says 'Sick'. Well that wasnt sick compared to the very next hand. My turn to get AA, so I make a large bet, 8xBB and get raised all-in by the BB, who also had the most chips and had me covered. I insta call showing my AA and he shows 36 of hearts......wtf........ but nice I think. Flop comes 335........end of story. How the fuck can anyone go all-in with 36 sooted and why is such bad play rewarded? Totally sick.
The other all-in loss was my flopped str8 against top pair that went on to hit a back door flush!
Lost a total of $482 that day and have went on to record a total loss of $627 since my last post, totally devestated, and roll now in bad shape.
Looking back at what happened, well I suppose it was bad brm in moving up another level for which I wasnt properly rolled and as a result the Poker Gods have punished me. The manner in which they went about this punishment was so sick, so I have decided to take a break for a few days to try to recover my composure and focus. Note to self, must start to play with a profit/loss strategy to ty to minimise losses.
Back down to where I started I suppose on the $0.10/0.20 tables !
Roll $716
Saturday 23 February 2008
Tuesday 12 February 2008
Still going
Still aint cracked the multi table tournaments yet, have bubbled again but still no cash from them, but still encouraged by my play and think its only a matter of time till I take one down. As for the rest, well I have own a few stt's and had a little success on the cash tarbs, so all in all things aint goig too bad.
Roll now $1343.22
Roll now $1343.22
Tuesday 5 February 2008
$1K at last !
As the title suggests, my roll has not passed the $1k mark ! I must confess this has been a real grind of a month, these micro limit tables are soo fcuking fishy and depressing. So I decided to experiment a little but trying the odd stt and mtt.
Tournament play is an area of my poker that has been sorely neglected for quite a while. I did win several reasonable tournaments, $5K +, during 2005, but turned to cash games shortly after. I aint played a tournament since. So given I was becoming a little depressed with the micro limits, I ventuerd to try my luck at some stt & mmt action. In the last week or so I have won almost two hundred dollars at stt's ($10, 10 seat) and must admit I have thoroughly enjoyed the game. As for the MTT's well I aint cashed in any yet but I have had a few encouraging results, getting close to the money, so I feel there is definately room for improvement and a result ! This slight change in direction has given me a whole new impetus in my poker play, I am actually enjoying playing tourneys as opposed to grinding the cash micro levels.
My roll now mean I can now move up to the $0.25/0.50 levels, but I shall continue to give the cash tables a miss for a week or so and carry on with the tourney experiment !
Roll: $1073.26
Tournament play is an area of my poker that has been sorely neglected for quite a while. I did win several reasonable tournaments, $5K +, during 2005, but turned to cash games shortly after. I aint played a tournament since. So given I was becoming a little depressed with the micro limits, I ventuerd to try my luck at some stt & mmt action. In the last week or so I have won almost two hundred dollars at stt's ($10, 10 seat) and must admit I have thoroughly enjoyed the game. As for the MTT's well I aint cashed in any yet but I have had a few encouraging results, getting close to the money, so I feel there is definately room for improvement and a result ! This slight change in direction has given me a whole new impetus in my poker play, I am actually enjoying playing tourneys as opposed to grinding the cash micro levels.
My roll now mean I can now move up to the $0.25/0.50 levels, but I shall continue to give the cash tables a miss for a week or so and carry on with the tourney experiment !
Roll: $1073.26
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