Forgive me readers for I have neglected. It has been a fortnight since my last post.
And it has all been due to a frightening amount of work I've had on for the past month or so which I've now happily ploughed my way through the majority of in time to start focusing on poker I have scheduled for April and May.
I'll play a few games online this week and get through a few more chapters of Harrington Vol I hoping I can go into the APAT Regional with confidence. Taking down my 2nd BritBlogger last night didn't do me any harm. In a tourney when showing 72 is the done thing (I love it although I don't do it) I was bullied off two pots last night only to be shown 'The Hammer'. How fitting it was then when on the BB on last hand I'm dealt 72 and raised only 2xBB. I call and the board comes 972. I sneakily check it over and with AK, Cell 1919 pushes. He too is mildly amused when the cards are turned.
Still on RaiseTheRiver Tourneys, I had qualified to play in the SuperLeague to determine the Player Of The Year 2008. Last night, in the first of the qualifiers, I managed 3rd. MikeSaban was a worthy winner not least for having beaten Cloud who until then had been invincible heads up.
This weekend the APAT Regional Qualifiers are played across the UK with players shooting for a seat at the Scottish National held in my 'home casino' the Gala Maybury in Edinburgh. I'll be playing the Regional in Edinburgh and look forward to welcoming new and known faces (I was going to say 'old' but some may take exception ;) ).
I'll let y'all know how it goes. Good luck at the tables!
Monday, 31 March 2008
Monday, 17 March 2008
Cash / Bankroll / Sunday Million
I have just spent most of last week playing and turning a profit on Cash games - not the norm for me. I have still played the $8.80 18 player SNGs on FT and have still been fairly successful in them with three $26 Tokens in the bank now from just four attempts.
My Bankroll currently reads;
Total Cash Deposits (2008) : $770
Cash In Play : $460 (plus $72 in FT Tourney Tokens)
Total Cash Withdrawls : $0
In Bank awaiting investment / deployment: $2,000
Having almost completed my $3 90 Man Challenge on RTR, I'm waaaay behind and now out of the running completely. wendellsailor is the man at the front and with 2 wins to his name he will be very difficult to beat. I find these pretty painful and I've continued on the off-chance that everyone else would do just as badly. As this is not the case, I just can't get motivated to play the remaining ones. I would like to be able to say that I have made some money from this Challenge though so I will try my best at the final one. At the moment, I'm $36 in, $3 back in Bounties and haven't yet made the money.
I played the two APATs last week (badly and impatiently). I forgot all about the Scottish one on Thursday night and got to the table over 90 mins in surprised to see that I still had almost 75% of my starting stack waiting for me. I never really got going and it didn't take long to donk off what I had. On Saturday night, in the San Marino Open, AQ failed me twice - I called the SB to the end on a AK6 A 5 board losing half of my stack, then I mis-read Telmison4's bet on the 67T flop as weak, I re-raised and he shoved with the suited 89 for the nut straight. OK, saying AQ failed me is a bit harsh - I failed myself.
Last night when on to play in the Sunday Hundred Grand and BritBlogger, Jim and I got chatting. He had entered a Satellite to Sunday Million on FullTilt and was looking like needing the $30 Add-On to survive. As I was $20 in credit with him, he offered me 50% of winnings to clear the slate. At 33% stake for 50% return I agreed and he played great with me on the rail to finish in the top 12 for a $525 seat. Unfortunately we didn't realise that the Sunday Million started less than 5 mins later so before we got a chance to decide what we were going to do with $525 (it was likely that we would both have had a bash at the PS Sunday Million next weekend), he was in the game and left explaining to Dani that he'd likely be pulling an All-Nighter.
To summarise his game, he went to around 4k after a few risky calls, doubled up to 8k with pocket Ts on a QTx board when a 9k stack called him with AQ. He fell back to 5k when facing an All-In re-re-raise then went out in a pretty sick fashion when, with A9 flopped top pair and shoved. He was called by a 9 high flush draw and although he managed to avoid the Diamonds, he lost to the runner runner straight.
Right, back to another busy week of work.
My Bankroll currently reads;
Total Cash Deposits (2008) : $770
Cash In Play : $460 (plus $72 in FT Tourney Tokens)
Total Cash Withdrawls : $0
In Bank awaiting investment / deployment: $2,000
Having almost completed my $3 90 Man Challenge on RTR, I'm waaaay behind and now out of the running completely. wendellsailor is the man at the front and with 2 wins to his name he will be very difficult to beat. I find these pretty painful and I've continued on the off-chance that everyone else would do just as badly. As this is not the case, I just can't get motivated to play the remaining ones. I would like to be able to say that I have made some money from this Challenge though so I will try my best at the final one. At the moment, I'm $36 in, $3 back in Bounties and haven't yet made the money.
I played the two APATs last week (badly and impatiently). I forgot all about the Scottish one on Thursday night and got to the table over 90 mins in surprised to see that I still had almost 75% of my starting stack waiting for me. I never really got going and it didn't take long to donk off what I had. On Saturday night, in the San Marino Open, AQ failed me twice - I called the SB to the end on a AK6 A 5 board losing half of my stack, then I mis-read Telmison4's bet on the 67T flop as weak, I re-raised and he shoved with the suited 89 for the nut straight. OK, saying AQ failed me is a bit harsh - I failed myself.
Last night when on to play in the Sunday Hundred Grand and BritBlogger, Jim and I got chatting. He had entered a Satellite to Sunday Million on FullTilt and was looking like needing the $30 Add-On to survive. As I was $20 in credit with him, he offered me 50% of winnings to clear the slate. At 33% stake for 50% return I agreed and he played great with me on the rail to finish in the top 12 for a $525 seat. Unfortunately we didn't realise that the Sunday Million started less than 5 mins later so before we got a chance to decide what we were going to do with $525 (it was likely that we would both have had a bash at the PS Sunday Million next weekend), he was in the game and left explaining to Dani that he'd likely be pulling an All-Nighter.
To summarise his game, he went to around 4k after a few risky calls, doubled up to 8k with pocket Ts on a QTx board when a 9k stack called him with AQ. He fell back to 5k when facing an All-In re-re-raise then went out in a pretty sick fashion when, with A9 flopped top pair and shoved. He was called by a 9 high flush draw and although he managed to avoid the Diamonds, he lost to the runner runner straight.
Right, back to another busy week of work.
Sunday, 16 March 2008
Am I a 'Winning Player' ... ?
The topic of 'Are you a Winning Player?' has just been posted on the RTR Forum and it has got me to thinking about the time I've spent playing NLTHE Poker.
First off, until recently I hadn't had any Bankroll Management record in place but I'll admit right now to being a losing player. Over the three years of recreational play ($5/$10/$20 SNGs and 25c/50c and 50c/$1 Cash Games and a few live games in cardrooms and casinos), I'd estimate that I'm around £500 down.
Despite two recent wins, which in monetary terms show me as being £20,000 up, I still class myself as a losing player as I have posted more negative months than positive ones. I still regularly take shots at stakes out-with the comfort zone of my Bankroll and I regularly go through phases where I lose faith in my instinct and ability and this usually results in failure to make big lay-downs / value bets / re-raises (as I'm sure many of us do) and I do believe this is what causes me to have to re-deposit regularly.
From game to game Poker tests your ability and keeps senses sharp thanks to the hundreds of the different situations we find ourselves in be it during a Cash Game, a 5 minute Heads Up SNG or a 7 hour MTT. As my memory is not great, I tend to forget some lessons I've learned the hard way and fall into the same / similar traps many times over. I do think that I have a reasonable level of understanding of the game and as a result have made some serious money from it - I'm just not consistent.
Blogging it out in this way has been good. I don't think I have taken the time to look at myself from the outside like this before. Using this post as reference and with proper Bankroll records now in place, I hope to be posting a 'Yes' answer to this question in the near future.
See what other RTRers have said on the Forum
First off, until recently I hadn't had any Bankroll Management record in place but I'll admit right now to being a losing player. Over the three years of recreational play ($5/$10/$20 SNGs and 25c/50c and 50c/$1 Cash Games and a few live games in cardrooms and casinos), I'd estimate that I'm around £500 down.
Despite two recent wins, which in monetary terms show me as being £20,000 up, I still class myself as a losing player as I have posted more negative months than positive ones. I still regularly take shots at stakes out-with the comfort zone of my Bankroll and I regularly go through phases where I lose faith in my instinct and ability and this usually results in failure to make big lay-downs / value bets / re-raises (as I'm sure many of us do) and I do believe this is what causes me to have to re-deposit regularly.
From game to game Poker tests your ability and keeps senses sharp thanks to the hundreds of the different situations we find ourselves in be it during a Cash Game, a 5 minute Heads Up SNG or a 7 hour MTT. As my memory is not great, I tend to forget some lessons I've learned the hard way and fall into the same / similar traps many times over. I do think that I have a reasonable level of understanding of the game and as a result have made some serious money from it - I'm just not consistent.
Blogging it out in this way has been good. I don't think I have taken the time to look at myself from the outside like this before. Using this post as reference and with proper Bankroll records now in place, I hope to be posting a 'Yes' answer to this question in the near future.
See what other RTRers have said on the Forum
Monday, 10 March 2008
Another week ... (APAT FT #4 / Sunday Mill)
I've just realised that it has now been over a week since my last 'News' related post on here. It's hard to keep a Blog ...
As a member of APAT and RaiseTheRiver I find it great to have two friendly and not over-crowded Forums to post on. I'm not too bothered about how well this is kept up to date for the meantime as I have reference to almost all of my recent games which have been part of a Challenge on RTR and thoughts on them are on there.
The only other result of any significance to me is my 4th APAT Final Table of the season in the Portuguese Open (2nd March). I finished 10th for $19 and zero points which I am quite upset about, but I was happy to have played a good game and gone all out for the win and the 10 points. A couple of hands into the final table with a healthy stack and with TT, I called a push and was beaten by AQo when an A rivered - sooooo close! Then, with KTo in late position, I shoved and was called by smilinassassin with AK on the SB. Out in 10th.
Jim from our syndicate did OK on the Sunday Million last night. Well, top 45% for no cash and no glory but he had a blast, we gained quite a bit of experience and I enjoyed railing, especially when his 52o on BB saw a cheap flop after UTG limped and SB made it up. With bottom pair he saw a cheap turn (5 for trip 5s), got some chips in, got called by UTG, rivered a 2 for a full house and he extracted the maximum. With 30k in chips shortly after the first break he then started to get picked on. Although aggressive himself, he was out-bullied on a couple of hands with over 6k invested and was soon back to around 16k. A push with QQ was called by AsTs and both an A and T appeared on the flop. Another T on the turn meant lights out and it was only sad faces appearing in the chat boxes.
I'm up next in April. As I'll be at the APAT Regional in Edinburgh on Saturday 5th, I'll probably leave it until the night of 13th / hopefully morning of 14th.
ACF accommodation is now booked too - 1 mile away from Casino and still in the middle of Paris. And we have 7 going now - Derek Liddle (Zanshin / Oenone) the newest addition.
As a member of APAT and RaiseTheRiver I find it great to have two friendly and not over-crowded Forums to post on. I'm not too bothered about how well this is kept up to date for the meantime as I have reference to almost all of my recent games which have been part of a Challenge on RTR and thoughts on them are on there.
The only other result of any significance to me is my 4th APAT Final Table of the season in the Portuguese Open (2nd March). I finished 10th for $19 and zero points which I am quite upset about, but I was happy to have played a good game and gone all out for the win and the 10 points. A couple of hands into the final table with a healthy stack and with TT, I called a push and was beaten by AQo when an A rivered - sooooo close! Then, with KTo in late position, I shoved and was called by smilinassassin with AK on the SB. Out in 10th.
Jim from our syndicate did OK on the Sunday Million last night. Well, top 45% for no cash and no glory but he had a blast, we gained quite a bit of experience and I enjoyed railing, especially when his 52o on BB saw a cheap flop after UTG limped and SB made it up. With bottom pair he saw a cheap turn (5 for trip 5s), got some chips in, got called by UTG, rivered a 2 for a full house and he extracted the maximum. With 30k in chips shortly after the first break he then started to get picked on. Although aggressive himself, he was out-bullied on a couple of hands with over 6k invested and was soon back to around 16k. A push with QQ was called by AsTs and both an A and T appeared on the flop. Another T on the turn meant lights out and it was only sad faces appearing in the chat boxes.
I'm up next in April. As I'll be at the APAT Regional in Edinburgh on Saturday 5th, I'll probably leave it until the night of 13th / hopefully morning of 14th.
ACF accommodation is now booked too - 1 mile away from Casino and still in the middle of Paris. And we have 7 going now - Derek Liddle (Zanshin / Oenone) the newest addition.
Monday, 3 March 2008
Poker Achievements
I just wanted to post this here so that I have a record of it and so that my profile on APAT Forum doesn't look as crowded.
Oct 07 - 1st of 701 in a $1 ReBuy for $485 (I had $2 left after depositing $46 and entering four $10+$1 APAT Online Events)
Oct 07 - Final Table and 10th in the APAT Austrian Open
Oct 07 - Final Table and 7th in APAT Swiss Open for 3 APAT points
Oct 07 - Final Table, 1st (APAT Gold Medal) and 10 APAT points in Danish Open - WELL CHUFFED!
Nov 07 (Live) - Final Table and 5th in a $50 tourney in Fitzgerald's, Las Vegas
Dec 07 - Final Table and 10th in APAT's 'OnLive' Event
6th Jan 07 - 1st of 1315 on PokerListings.com's $50,000 SPECIAL on Titan Poker winning a "$45,000 Multiple Live Poker Package" for a 250 Tournament Points Buy-In. I was offered and accepted $40,000 cash (£19,612)
See http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=999.0 for the chat.
10th Jan 07 - 1st of 246 on InsidePoker Annette 15 Freeroll #1. Prize is package to Annette Obrestad's pre-WSOPE training camp in London, including travel and accommodation and entry into a 6 man $1,000 freeroll sit&go tournament.
Mar 08 - Final Table and 10th in APAT's Portuguese Open
Oct 07 - 1st of 701 in a $1 ReBuy for $485 (I had $2 left after depositing $46 and entering four $10+$1 APAT Online Events)
Oct 07 - Final Table and 10th in the APAT Austrian Open
Oct 07 - Final Table and 7th in APAT Swiss Open for 3 APAT points
Oct 07 - Final Table, 1st (APAT Gold Medal) and 10 APAT points in Danish Open - WELL CHUFFED!
Nov 07 (Live) - Final Table and 5th in a $50 tourney in Fitzgerald's, Las Vegas
Dec 07 - Final Table and 10th in APAT's 'OnLive' Event
6th Jan 07 - 1st of 1315 on PokerListings.com's $50,000 SPECIAL on Titan Poker winning a "$45,000 Multiple Live Poker Package" for a 250 Tournament Points Buy-In. I was offered and accepted $40,000 cash (£19,612)
See http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=999.0 for the chat.
10th Jan 07 - 1st of 246 on InsidePoker Annette 15 Freeroll #1. Prize is package to Annette Obrestad's pre-WSOPE training camp in London, including travel and accommodation and entry into a 6 man $1,000 freeroll sit&go tournament.
Mar 08 - Final Table and 10th in APAT's Portuguese Open
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