Good few days

Made over ten buyins a day for the last three days, including my best profit ever at 25nl of $302. Total $875 in 20k hands, so I'm delighted really. Bit tired now, will update soon.

Another average day

Made around 11 buyins today. Meh.


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Ah no I'm delighted, it's very close to my best day ever at 25nl, if not the best. AND seeing as I played my 10 BI session last night after 12 o clock you might even say that it is a +21 BI day. Shiiipp. $525. Happy out. This all probably makes for boring reading, so I'm sorry for that. Don't worry though, a losing session is on the cards, fo sho. Everything is going so well something bad is bound to happen. I've got a great positive attitude as you can see.

**Edit - Actually no fuck that my next sesh is going to be even bigger. Roll on a 30 BI day. (last ditch effort to negate my clever fating of the gods earlier, please no doomswitch stars;)

Two in a day again, I'm too nice

Just finished up an average +10 BI session, including quads and a royal flush! As you do. Good times.





I love the weekends on stars, I'd love to know my winrate on just Fri, Sat and Sun nights. Cant be arsed to load a filter, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was 7 or 8 ptBB/100. So many people calling down to the river full sure of the fact you are holding AK. Not a hope it is anything else, AK AK AK!The board is something like QJ976, and they pull a hero call out of the hat with a9 or 88. Loveit.

Oh and I forgot this earlier



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I just can't get it right

First three hands against aggrotards:













Then this against a nit.






I'm such a fish.

One more thing

Swingy Days

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It has been pretty damn swingy since my weekend off, but profit is profit.

I'm right on track for 10k vpp's, playing quite a lot. Can't wait for the first of June when I can give this boring shit up, for two months at least. I'm taking a month off lazing around my hometown, and then a month of traveling all around Europe. For now its back to the grindstone til the end of this month to make some $$$ and keep that Nova.

Here are a few hands in which the players involved were most likely proffesionals. Any thoughts appreciated, on bet sizing in particular.

Ouch. just realised that two of these hands were against the same poor guy. Raped.

Good to be back + update

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So I took a holiday to London, had a great time, and am now back reinvented, refreshed, and ready. I have had two good sessions since returning, which is a sign that I'm playing well. Today I was stuck $150 (six buyins) at one stage, but kept a cool head to finish up $3, which I'm delighted with. I was pissed off at one stage but I don't think I let my play suffer. Sessions where you lose a lot to recoup at the end are so much better than being up like 6 buyins to finish even.

Full steam ahead now to maintain Nova for this month! Here are some hands from today.


In this hand I manned up and called this aggrotard's shove. Its a nice feeling to catch people with their hand in the cookie jar, getting caught is an awful feeling though.



And a nice ol' hand here


**Update - Played another 45 min session, + 3 BI's. Feels good to be grinding again, got 600 vpp's today. Another 9 days like today and I'm there.

Avoiding the Raw Deal

Picture the scene: the lights are dimmed, you are one card away from a
big win and you have the upper hand. There’s no way they can beat you.
But ‘that guy’ who usually ends up in your games seems to be dealing a
little strangely today. Before you’ve finished blinking your eyes,
that very same guy has begun to deal the cards on the table one by
one, but yours lands face up! The whole hand has to be dealt once
again. You seem to be playing at reasonably high stakes and so this
shouldn’t really be happening any more…
Well it happened to me last night. At my own home game which made it
rather frustrating too. Like my friends, I am certain that every mid
to high stakes gambler wants the security that a professional casino
dealer provides. When the stakes are high you can’t afford to make any
errors. Getting a professional is the only way to ensure that all the
rules are complied with and you get the added bonus of experiencing a
far more convincing playing field that resembles a professional casino.
I’ve always hired professional poker dealers/croupiers to deal at our home games and
dinner parties. When we invite guests over, the dealer gives us a
quick demonstration of his card handling skills, accompanied by a few
shuffling tricks. Once the formalities are over, we get down to the
actual game. Its usually Black Jack followed by Poker. Both test his
dealing skills to the limit well until the early hours every week.
Since I am no longer a casino man - naturally my wife takes care of
that, I am able to do this by visiting a site I found called Dial A
Dealer. Its a rather clever directory of dealers and high quality casino hire events companies from around the
world. Dealers can sign up to the site and enter all of their
accolades as well as photographs and highlight which games they excel
at. I was able to quickly find a reliable dealer who is now a good
friend in my area.
The site has a distinct design that sets it apart from most casino
related sites. There is an informative article section which contains
advice for the newcomers covering all sorts of important topics such
as dealing etiquette and the top five worst mistakes you can make.
Perhaps the dealer from last night’s game should have read this site?!
There is also a blog section that allows people like me to keep in
touch with all the latest news from the gambling world. Alongside this
are tips and advice to improve your home games as well.
Overall, I think they have all the popular locations covered like the
US, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Its interesting to note
that the search for my dealer was made very easy by a feedback system
that lets users rate the dealers. Since I regularly have larger
parties I sometimes use the dealer’s extra services to hire tables or
venues and the site lets me see instantly who offers these.
Every time I go to a game that starts to go high stakes, I recommend
calling up a dealer from www.dialadealer.com to make sure the odds are
in everyone’s favour.

Burnout

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I have played just one session since the last blog post. 1800 hands, minus 2 BI's. I really think I've burned out properly this time. I can't stand to think of playing poker through the summer. I have around $5k, which I'm hoping will get me through til August/September.

I'll keep playing for the next few weeks hopefully, and then stop for good until August sometime. Actually I just decided I'm going to try and move up to 50nl. Should be a bit more fun than the usual 25nl donks. Anyway I'm off to watch Man United crush Wigan.

This is my bro's blog, he's started it up after hearing I have made a bit of $$$ from this.
Stupid Blog

Downswing + 25nl stats

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I can't seem to stop myself from tilting these days. It's not ubermega "I'm gonna hit 5/10 heads up," tilt, just that I'm playing my B-game constantly. Scratch that, it's more like my F-game:



The villain was running 16/12, and of course my tilted brain interprets this to mean that villain is DEFINITELY bluffing. Snap call that river, why not? I have the nuts.

Through analyzing my PT3 stats I've noticed I have had five losing sessions at 25nl in a row. God damn awful, whichever way you look at it. I don't know what to do to stop spewing. Not getting outdrawn at the start of sessions would help, but one or two bad outdraws never used to tilt me. Whats changed? I have been getting coolered and outdrawn a lot more but its no excuse, I used to be so confident at 25nl. I know I can still kill it, but before I was just more confident. I'm gonna play a lot less over the next week or two, and then increase the hours a lot to keep supernova at the end of May.


Here are my stats at 25nl to make myself feel better

Hands 395,806
Hours 254.22
BB/100 3.84
Total Profit $7599.70
$/hour $29.89
$ from Fpp's $2361.97

Total Hourly Rate ...... $39.19


Just to remind myself, I got $ from fpp's by
(Hands/100) x (11 x .0155 x 3.5)



On a non poker related subject United are through to the final of the Champions League!!!! Roll on Rome, I hope Barcelona get through. I have a bit of money on 2-1 Barca as well.

I am really pissed off about Fletcher though, it's an disgrace that the decision can't even be appealed. He is a player that truly puts his all into every game, and he deserves to be in that final more than most of our team. Fuck that retarded ref.



ONLY FOR YOU FLETCH!

140k hands my arse

So yeah I'm a lazy fuck, 140k hands in May aint gonna happen. I have played 3k hands so far, (what a hardcore grinder) for a profit of -$17.80.

I have decided that I'm probably gonna work through the summer, minus the time I'll be off traveling. This means for May I'll just maintain Nova and enjoy the month. I'm bringing my girlfriend to London next weekend for our four year anniversary, which should be a good laff.

My next blog post I'll upload some hands or something concretely poker related, this blog is after taking a turn for the worse ie. shitloads of non-poker related content. Serious poker stuff coming up, in the meantime I should get grinding, well behind on keeping supernova this month.