*****July Results/August goals*****

Hmmm stressful month. Signed up for 2+2 team challenge as Capt so I spent the month grinding 25nl, ugh vomit. Ship the first prize though. But christ I'm never doing this again.



[] redline skills

So I'm pretty much skipping and taking 100nl shoots everytime I hit $2k, dropped up and down about 4 times so far, cock. Still gonna stick at it for a bit longer and I might up my shot taking limit to 25 buy-ins if I can't crack it in the next week or so.

August goals
[] full time at 100nl by months end
[] 30k hands at 100nl by months end

*****June Results******

Bit late on this. Here's my graph for June:



Mostly 20NL with some 50Nl thrown in. Winrate @ 20nl was only 5.65BB/100 over 10k hands. Played well enough though and I've been tilting a lot less as well which is great. For July I'm going back to FR for a month to do a team challenge on 2+2, gonna post a full update tomorrow, 31k hands in already though!

Redjoker quality

14/06/09: A tale of Two sites

So I've been mainly playing Ipoker but I like a switch every now again cos quite frankly Ipoker software is pretty poor and annoying. So I got a $50 bonus for party(whoop whoop baller) so I decided to give that go at NL 25 and a bit at NL 50, epic fail.




I found the games alot more agressive then the nit passive fest Ipoker is. Even NL25 on party is more aggressive then Ipoker $50nl. Alot of 3betting and c/r on the flop. I lost 2 buy-ins at NL 50 and then 8 at NL 25, alot of spew involved which I haven't done for awhile so I was a bit disappointed with that. I cleared the bonus and was going to keep plugging away until I went to broke even but I pulled that plug on that when I got to 5 buy-ins down and proceeded to lose another 3 in about 5 minutes.

So I thought that was enough of my vacation from Ipoker and it's nice 50% rakeback so I went back to Ipoker this evening which went brilliant, obviously rewarding me for my coming back I finished up 6 buy-ins today despite getting running K's into Aces twice against 2 giant nits.

Update: 04/06/09 Better late then never

So I haven't played much in the last two month's but I have been getting back into it again and back at NL $50 6max. 2k hands in so far this month and up 3 buy-ins running at 31/26/3.6 which is alot looser then I usually am.


Some hands so far.

Hand 1:

Villan was 18/13/1.4 over 253 hands, however I didnt remeber him so it was either old or datamined.

Party Poker $50.00 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 143542

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CO: $53.49

Hero (BTN): $52.41

SB: $57.38

BB: $64.91

UTG: $50.04

MP: $114.52



Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BTN with 5 7

3 folds, Hero raises to $1.50, SB calls $1.25, 1 fold



Flop: ($3.50) 9 4 3 (2 players)

SB bets $2.50, Hero calls $2.50





Probaly a bad call but I have a GS, backdoor flush draw and a back door OESD so I decided to peel. I never respect people who donk and usually raise them but with his nitty stats I didnt want to get blown away.

Turn: ($8.50) 6 (2 players)

SB bets $6.75, Hero raises to $18, SB raises to $53.38, Hero calls $30.41 all in




Never good when the card you need is the one that completes the flush. Still I have to raise here and once he shoves over me I can't fold although I wasn't hugely happy but there's enough sets/two pair in his range to make it standard.

River: ($105.32) A (2 players - 1 is all in)





Final Pot: $105.32

SB shows 9 T

Hero wins $102.32

SB wins $4.97

(Rake: $-1.97)





eh, I didn't expect him to turn over that from his stats.



Hand 2:

I posted this on boards looking for some help. I was fairly lost on the flop, pretty annoying spot. The general consesus was a fold which is probaly right, I think JT is a call. but J9 is just to vunerable.

Party Poker $50.00 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 142825

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Hero (SB): $54.90

BB: $50.37

UTG: $70.49

MP: $19.93

CO: $76.96

BTN: $46.75



Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is SB with J 9

1 fold, MP calls $0.50, CO raises to $2.25, BTN calls $2.25, Hero calls $2, 2 folds



Flop: ($7.75) T J 9 (3 players)

Hero bets $5.50, CO calls $5.50, BTN raises to $16.50, Hero raises to $52.65, CO calls $47.15, BTN calls $28 all in



Turn: ($157.55) 3 (3 players - 1 is all in)



River: ($157.55) T (3 players - 1 is all in)



Final Pot: $157.55

CO shows K Q

BTN shows 8 A

CO wins $154.55

(Rake: $3.00)





Hand 3:

I hate this kind of spots where I don't know if my hand is strong enough for a raise and I can't really raise fold either. Villan was unknown. Looking back I should really raise I think to $25 or so. I've made to river calls with the best hand where I should of raised and I have to really get over my nittiness.

Party Poker $50.00 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 143551

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BB: $108.58

UTG: $51.75

MP: $155.93

CO: $23.73

Hero (BTN): $49.25

SB: $39.23



Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BTN with T J

1 fold, MP calls $0.50, 1 fold, Hero raises to $2.50, SB calls $2.25, BB calls $2, MP calls $2



Flop: ($10.00) 7 7 8 (4 players)

SB checks, BB checks, MP checks, Hero checks



Turn: ($10.00) 9 (4 players)

SB checks, BB bets $5.00, MP folds, Hero calls $5, SB folds



River: ($20.00) A (2 players)

BB bets $11.00, Hero calls $11



Final Pot: $42.00

BB shows 7 T

Hero wins $39.90

(Rake: $2.10)

Ugh 100k Challenge epic failaments

Disaster. I packed it in after 38k hands as I knew it was just going to get worse and worse. I dropped down to 25NL and did a bit better. Ended up down -$50 for the month but cleared a $600 bonus and made $330 from FPP so it wasnt a complete write off month. I'm back to 20nl on Ipoker.

20k hand mark

Not much to say, graph says it all. Gonna spend a bit of time deciding if I'm going to go on with this. I seemed to be getting back on track until today, A's vs K's all in on K high flop, set of T's all in on turn vs K's, King on the river. c-bet top set on J42 brd, turn 3, get crai all in by A5. Ship it. Spewed/titled off about another $50 from making stupid calls on the river in 7 or 8 different pots.

12k hands in, Story so far!

sdkfjdlfkjdfglfjgpgapoaspoif! sums it up really. The one thing that's good aobut this challenge is that it will give a good test of how I can handle tilt, going okay so far.

Been going over all the major hands I have lost and there's only a few I am unsure of how I played them.

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 39.484% 39.48% 00.00% 7427 0.00 { AhKh }
Hand 1: 60.516% 60.52% 00.00% 11383 0.00 { QQ-JJ, 55, QJs, Th9h, QJo }

I need 40% equity to make it a profitbale 3bet shove here, with fold equity and the chance of him having worse I should of got it in. But when I run bad I tend to start playing more passively and tighten up. He had QJo


Party Poker $50.00 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players - View hand 56068

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CO: $51.05

BTN: $56.45

SB: $25.45

BB: $50.75

Hero (UTG): $61.75

UTG+1: $140.70

UTG+2: $106.70

MP1: $9.95

MP2: $40.00



Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is UTG with K A

Hero raises to $2, UTG+1 calls $2, 5 folds, SB calls $1.75, 1 fold



Flop: ($6.50) J 5 Q (3 players)

SB checks, Hero bets $4.00, UTG+1 raises to $11, SB folds, Hero calls $7



Turn: ($28.50) 2 (2 players)

Hero checks, UTG+1 bets $16.00, Hero calls $16



River: ($60.50) 9 (2 players)

Hero checks, UTG+1 checks





Hand 2:

I was pretty tilted when this hand came so it was a bit of a disaster. A hands ago it was folded to me in the SB and I raised with Q9s, the same villan in this hand 3bet and then I made a small 4bet and folded to his shove, ugh.

I need 2/1 to make it a call so he needs to shove AQo+ to make it profitable. He was 19/17/3 with a 3bet % of 6 over 350 hands but it hard to say what he's going to shove over my 4bet.


Party Poker $50.00 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players - View hand 56068

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CO: $51.05

BTN: $56.45

SB: $25.45

BB: $50.75

Hero (UTG): $61.75

UTG+1: $140.70

UTG+2: $106.70

MP1: $9.95

MP2: $40.00



Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is UTG with K A

Hero raises to $2, UTG+1 calls $2, 5 folds, SB calls $1.75, 1 fold



Flop: ($6.50) J 5 Q (3 players)

SB checks, Hero bets $4.00, UTG+1 raises to $11, SB folds, Hero calls $7



Turn: ($28.50) 2 (2 players)

Hero checks, UTG+1 bets $16.00, Hero calls $16



River: ($60.50) 9 (2 players)

Hero checks, UTG+1 checks



Final Pot: $60.50

Hero shows K A

UTG+1 shows Q J

UTG+1 wins $57.55

(Rake: $2.95)