I have a plan

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net


Haven't played since I made supernova, and in getting that I made about $200. I'm going away for Christmas so wont play til the new year.

I've been thinking about moving up to 50nl but am not sure about my br. I have $1230, which isn't enough, but I have the option of using 50k fpp's to get a 650 bonus. In doing this I would lose $100 because I get less $ for each fpp, but getting 650 now would enable me to move up, make way more rakeback an hour, and hopefully make more from the tables. I can't see much wrong with this idea after writing this so that's what I'm gonna do.
I only have 43k fpp's so it'll take me 13 hours to get to 50k and 30 more hours to clear it. After 43 hours of play and the bonus I br should be around 2300-2400 which is plenty to move up.
More than likely (definitely) it's not gonna run that smooth.

SUPERNOVA!!!!
suck my plums bronze, silver, gold and platinum losers!

Running Good

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net


25nl is still going well for me. My bb/100 is 3.07, and $/hour is 20.07. I've had 14 winning sessions out of 19, but I'm pretty sure this wont last. As long as I can grind at around 2bb/100 I'm happy. Sample size is getting bigger too, I've played 32516 hands at 25nl now.

I said I'd talk about strategy in this post but instead I'll just link to a very interesting thread about stealing. Dan makes a lot of sense, the bottom line being steal more.
Taking Blind Stealing To The Next Level

Quick Update

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net


In the last two days I played for 1.88 hours and won $78.50. I now have 3BB/100 at 25nl which I'm delighted with. Not much else to say, I might talk about strategy in my next post when I have more time.

Decentish day

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net


I played for almost two hours and made $23.55.
The good thing about today is that I made more from non-showdown hands than I did with showdown hands. I've been trying to improve at this because since I started with PT I'm down over $7800 from non-showdown, and up $8200 from showdown hands.
This change has basically come from raising rather than limping with the majority of pp's, and stealing more. It's going well for me at the moment.

Stats at 50nl
112.27hours
150976 hands
10/5
.016BB/100
$2.10 per hour
$235.65 profit


Stats at 25nl
18.6 hours
23742 hands
13/9
2.66BB/100
$16.98 per hour
$315.75 profit




This change in my play and in turn profit is all down to one man: (http://microstakesgrinder.blogspot.com/)
Thanks a million and good luck at 100nl and with getting supernova. When I'm a millionaire from grinding 25nl all day long I'll buy you into the main event.

Balls

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

Played for almost 3 hours and lost $96 today. The heater had to stop I suppose. Didn't get that unlucky except for one hand (below). People were playing back at me a lot more today, and I wasn't hitting flops or sets, and a bit of tilt. Gotta stop tilt.
I was a lot more aggressive today too, 15/12, might cut that down a bit next time.



PokerStars Game #22790397106: Hold'em No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2008/12/10 11:01:49 ET
Table 'Dziban II' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: deigojd ($25 in chips)
Seat 3: MoneyFlo888 ($21.10 in chips)
Seat 4: Mars82 ($16 in chips)
Seat 5: finnianp ($25 in chips)
Seat 6: poker_leoni ($4.65 in chips)
Seat 7: Run42 ($5.65 in chips)
Seat 8: Kitty2012 ($26.60 in chips)
Seat 9: littlemanni ($29.25 in chips)
Mars82: posts small blind $0.10
finnianp: posts big blind $0.25
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to finnianp [Qs As]
poker_leoni: folds
Run42: folds
Kitty2012: folds
littlemanni: folds
deigojd: folds
MoneyFlo888: folds
Mars82: calls $0.15
finnianp: raises $1 to $1.25
Mars82: calls $1
*** FLOP *** [2s 4d 6s]
Mars82: bets $3.25
Ather-II has returned
finnianp: raises $17 to $20.25
Mars82: calls $11.50 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($5.50) returned to finnianp
*** TURN *** [2s 4d 6s] [Td]
*** RIVER *** [2s 4d 6s Td] [Jd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Mars82: shows [7s Ts] (a pair of Tens)
finnianp: mucks hand
Mars82 collected $30.45 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $32 | Rake $1.55
Board [2s 4d 6s Td Jd]
Seat 1: deigojd folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: MoneyFlo888 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Mars82 (small blind) showed [7s Ts] and won ($30.45) with a pair of Tens
Seat 5: finnianp (big blind) mucked [Qs As]
Seat 6: poker_leoni folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Run42 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Kitty2012 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: littlemanni folded before Flop (didn't bet)



Moral of the story I raise he calls out of position. He bets into me on flop, he doesn't have a huge stack so I put him all in and he calls. I have nut flush draw, he has T high flush draw and hits a pair. Annoying.


**update: played for 43 mins and won $88.2. Down 8 for day. Delighted, ran into a few donks.

Bluffs/value bets are always fun

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net



Made $84.2 in 3 hours today. Was up 120 with ten mins left but had a few bad hands and lost a bit. It reminded me how quickly you can lose a couple of buyin's, I have to keep concentrating. But I am happy with today and in general, making more than enough to survive on at the moment.

Since dropping down to 25nl:

VP$IP/PFR = 12.59/8.49.
$21.6 an hour at 3.37BB/100.

Hope it stays like that but it's doubtful, its only over a 16k hand sample size and I'm hitting sets/flops a lot. Although I just checked and I'm hitting sets 12.2% of the time, which is about right. Maybe I'm getting paid off more than I should. It'd be good to have 500k hands or so under my belt, then I'd have a good estimate of what my long term results will be. Hopefully $10-$14 an hour with $7 rakeback.




Value bet of the day: (I'm finnianp)


PokerStars Game #22761990295: Hold'em No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2008/12/09 11:33:32 ET
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to finnianp [Qh Ah]
jekel2222: folds
Sir JV: folds
SCOTTGEORGE: calls $0.25
blackamk: folds
Edo_the_kid: calls $0.25
MasterAnt88: folds
MoneyFlo888: folds
finnianp: calls $0.15
Thehawk83: checks
*** FLOP *** [7h As 4s]
finnianp: bets $1
Thehawk83: folds
SCOTTGEORGE: calls $1
Edo_the_kid: folds
*** TURN *** [7h As 4s] [9s]
finnianp: checks
SCOTTGEORGE: bets $1
finnianp: calls $1
*** RIVER *** [7h As 4s 9s] [8s]
finnianp: bets $2.75
SCOTTGEORGE: calls $2.75
*** SHOW DOWN ***
finnianp: shows [Qh Ah] (a pair of Aces)
SCOTTGEORGE: mucks hand
finnianp collected $10 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $10.50 | Rake $0.50
Board [7h As 4s 9s 8s]

Seat 3: SCOTTGEORGE mucked [Ad Td]

Seat 8: finnianp (small blind) showed [Qh Ah] and won ($10) with a pair of Aces




In case its hard to make out there is four spades out and I bluff the river. Call, Muck.





**update. Just played 27 mins and won $19.20. Won exactly $300 since dropping down to 25nl. Not a cent more or less. Feels nice to be back winning.

1st Update

Played three and a half hours of 25nl today. Up 29.80. Quite happy though because I had a lot of biggish pots lost from turn to river when it was all in and I was ahead.

Since moving down to 25nl I have made $167.70 at $17.68 per hour. Plus around $5 an hour rakeback, which will go up to $7.50 an hour in 2000 vpp's time :)

BB/100 is at 2.78, I'd be happy with sustaining 2.5-2BB/100 while 18 tabling, which would give me around $15 an hour, plus $7.5 rakeback.

Other than that I'm studying my pokertracker stats a lot and revising my game plan. In the past week I've changed from raising 42% of total hands I play to 60%, and loving it. It means when I run card dead I can still profit unlike before. Running at 12.58/7.59, which is still relatively conservative but am working on it. Still can't bring myself to raise with Ajs 1st position which i probably should be doing.

Welcome!

Hello!

Initially I created this to post my poker tracker stats and get advice from another small stakes grinder like me. But as it's created might as well let you all know a little about me and give updates on how it's going.


BACKGROUND:
I started playing online about two years ago, deposited on a small European site called Irish Eyes Poker. It took me a year to lose about 170 euro's, which is quite a lot to a 17 year old. I think I read super systems around this time, but not sure, and told myself to knuckle down, use good BR management, and concentrate.
I deposited another 50 and said to myself this is my last chance. Over the next year I switched to Pokerstars, got a lot of luck, and am now showing profit of over $17000. This I managed because of a few things:
1. Lucky tournament cashes -
first real break came in winning a 180 man $22 entry for $1080
Continued at these tourneys for a while and got a 2nd and a 3rd too for a combined $1148
Won a $11 tourney with over 1000 players for $2858


2. All this success went to my head and I turned to $100 heads up sit'n'gos. I went on a lucky streak and I think I won something in the region of $4000. A lot of this was luck. I don't think I'm a bad heads up player, I know it. The poker gods graced me for this time and I'm very thankful. I got out due to a bad run and turned to

3. 100nl full ring. Again got a lucky streak and made something in the region of $3000. Stopped that because of a bad run and moved to

4. Micro Sit'n'gos, $11-$22 on Full Tilt and Pokerstars. Made around $3000, but was making very little per hour so stopped and moved back to 100nl.

( this are rough estimates, I know for definite though that I am up between 16500 and 17500 overall)



Which brings me to October 08, start of college for me, and finally it happened, my good luck ran out. It had to happen sometime and it wasn't pretty. It came at a very bad time, just after going on holiday with a few friends, and starting college, meaning lots of stupid cashouts. My bankroll is now at just over $1200. This all makes me sound like a complete degen bum, but i'm up over $16500 since Sept 07 so I can't be unhappy.

Anyway this poor run came from a combination of bad luck, playing above my head (100nl), and tilt. I have since dropped down to 50nl, and then again to 25nl. I have definitely become a worse poker player in the past few months, I keep finding myself paying people off when I know that once upon a time I would have folded. And I also stupidly bluff a lot. So at the moment I am relearning a lot of the principles I once knew well, all while trying to make enough to keep me going through college. Good luck to me.

BR is at $1243 and I'm going for supernova before Jan. I am currently 18 tabling 25nl, and I make around 134 vpp's an hour, 3210 left to make supernova. meh.

So thats my background, I'll just keep updating I suppose.
Finn