weekly update #19
27 May 2008
19 May - 25 May:
2,295 hands (100nl)
$800.00 (weird, huh?)
17.43 ptbb/100
Pretty happy that I got in this volume of hands even though I only played Monday - Thursday. Spent the weekend at home with the family, which was good. Also learned that one of my old neighborhood friends is now a 6'6 350 pound Guitar Hero savant -- I watched the kid get 92% on Dragonforce on Expert mode. Never seen fat fingers move so fast... but I digress.
As far as poker is concerned, I'm quickly approaching the $7k bankroll milestone and really would like to improve my game more by signing up for Greg's SSNL course. However, something like 5 emails and 3 forum posts have gone unanswered in the past month, and I'm starting to think this isn't going to happen. Maybe I should just spend the $750 on Bobbo's book instead. Thoughts? Also, quick shoutout to Ian for the heads up on hhSmithey's new PokerStars datamining service. Even though it isn't even close to all-inclusive, 200k hands per week at 100nl should be a good place to start fish hunting and I'll be moving a good portion of my play back to that site in the near future.
A few big hands from the week:
Hand 1: Villain is a 22/18 regular who is capable of floating both streets with any pocket pair. I don't really like my river check since I'm not getting a bet from a lot of the hands I want value from (99, TT, JJ, JQ). In retrospect, I think I should lead out again since the only hands that will raise me are the ones that have me beat (AQ,55,66,88).
Hand 2: Villain is a 42/10 donk (typical AP) and is just generally god awful, so I'm pretty sure this is just a standard stackoff. Limp KQo ftw.
Hand 3: I'm not so good at the maths, but I'm thinking that I'm priced in to call here. I'm not loving it though. Sidenote: the reason I'm calling the PFR is that I wanted to play any hand I could with the UTG villain (terrible donk who was on tilt and would definitely pay me off). Also, who here hates the flop raise... show of hands?
Hand 4 and Hand 5: Sometimes I flop big and people like to give me $$$.
Hand 6: And sometimes I get lucky (although I'm pretty sure I need to make this play against a donk who could easily have A2, Ax, or a draw...)
Posted byM0NIKER at 10:43 AM 2 comments
weekly update #18
14 May 2008
05 May - 11 May:
619 hands (100nl)
$9.14
0.74 ptbb/100
Lollercoasters! One session for the week is, well, weak. Granted, I was pretty busy and didn't really have time to sit and focus, but still... Looks like I'm really going to have to crank out a bunch of hands in the next 1/2 of the month to stay on track.
In other news, the Pens are absolutely smashing faces on their way to the Stanley Cup. I've never really been a huge hockey fan (been getting more into it over the past 2-3 years... thanks High-Def), but my family is all about the Pittsburgh sports scene and I'm happy to see their years of totally sucking ass are finally bearing some fruit. Sid the Kid, Malkin, and Staal are all fantastic and fun as hell to watch. Let's just hope they're able to keep this core around for the next few years.
Posted byM0NIKER at 11:43 AM 2 comments
weekly update #17
06 May 2008
28 Apr - 04 May:
1,443 hands (100nl)
$385.88
13.37 ptbb/100
Blah blah blah, didn't play enough his week and all that jazz. I need to stop talking about failing and actually carve out time to play more. Unfortunately for me some good poker buddies recently joined the ranks of 100nl AP regulars, which limits the tables and times where I can play on that site (either that or I'll sign up for another sn and sit to their left!!!). This really shouldn't be an excuse since I can just fire up PStars and play there. Oh well, May is a new month... which should bring more play and a renewed focus. As mentioned before, I plan on joining Greg's SSNL class as soon as it gets started again, and I've teamed up with some other 100nl and 200nl players to trade sweats/etc. in the near future.
Oh, and in other news, BTimm is absolutely getting slaughtered in fantasy baseball. One month in, Kevin = 1st place and Brian = 10th place. Just sayin'...
Posted byM0NIKER at 1:47 PM 1 comments