This Is Why I Play Poker.......... + 70 Countries

Today I noticed my Flag Counter Stats. I had not looked at this in ages. I have had blog visitors from an amazing 70 different countires since installing this application.

70 Nations represent approximately a third of the planet. Wonder if I can get 100 Countries.... It's nice to know that there is poker interest all around the world


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If any of you players out there were thinking that the games are dead then think again.

The hand below will show you how crazy maniacs are still swimming around our tables:





Poker Stars $100.00 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players

BTN: $135.15
SB: $100.00
Hero (BB): $112.85
UTG: $71.95
UTG+1: $100.00
UTG+2: $26.60
MP1: $100.00
MP2: $100.00
CO: $47.00



Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is BB with A J
2 folds, UTG+2 calls $1, 3 folds, BTN calls $1, 1 fold, Hero checks

Flop: ($3.50) J J A (3 players)
Hero checks, UTG+2 checks, BTN bets $1.00, Hero calls $1, UTG+2 raises to $4, BTN calls $3, Hero calls $3

Turn: ($15.50) K (3 players)
Hero checks, UTG+2 bets $21.60, BTN raises to $43.20, Hero raises to $107.85, BTN calls $64.65

River: ($252.80) 9 (3 players)


Final Pot: $252.80

BTN shows 6 Q
Hero shows A J
UTG+2 shows 8 A

Hero wins
Lolz......

March 2011 Review

Another disappointing month goes by. I am not even making enough to cover my monthly bills which amount to around $1,600.

Ideally I want to be making $3000+ a month to cover my bills with some extra cash to save or blow on whatever.

So what am I doing about it?
Well, one of my main issues has been tilt. In March this has been well controlled and I actually won at the tables for the first month this year. All be it a negligible amount. a win is a win!

I can see my tilt control getting back to its very best in April, mainly due to no more 24 tabling. I have now settled for playing between 12 - 16 tables max.

I am looking at receiving some coaching for NL100. I can beat all levels up to and including NL25 at over 2pt bb/100. At NL50 I win at around 1pt bb/100. However when I step up to NL100 I break even. This month I will for the first time ever seriously consider taking on a good coach. I will see how the first 2weeks go and take it from there.

My challenge to make the top 50 winners at NL50 for March failed as I moved up to NL100 pretty early into the month. For some reason I also started mixing in NL25 to see how that level was like. I won over the 20,000 or so hands I played at 8pt bb/100

I had a nice top 8% finish in the 5yr Anniversary Sunday Million which got me $355. I swapped percentages with other players so I had to distribute a small amount. Stars also had a 60 billionth hand promo giving out free cash. They also introduced the new Sunday Storm Tourney

The highlight of my month was a nice $1,500 upswing in the middle of the month. Unfotunately I was already in deficit when that happened so it just brought parity. I hope I can catch a nice heater in April. Target for April is to make $1,000 profit at the tables.


The final numbers for March are as follows:

103,000 Hands Played
20,748VPPs

+$106 (Cash Game Winnings)
+$234 (Tourney Winnings)
+$200 (Stellar Rewards)
+$150 (Deposit Bonus)
-$60 (Tourney Swap Distributions)
+$93 (Viper Sunglasses from PS Store)
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+$722 (Total Month)


The Ytd numbers as at the end of March are as follows:

356,000 Hands Played
95,815 VPPs

-$1,214 - Jan
+$1,075 - Feb
+$722 - Mar
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+$583 (Total YTD)


As you can see from the YTD picture I am failing to make anything really. I should have made at least $4,800 to cover my bills but I am more than $4,000 under that and living off savings. This can't go on for much longer. If it does I will have to get a real job come the end of the summer. Time to step it up!!

Also, due to my slow attainment of VPPs in the first 3 months I will now reduce my annual target to 500k VPPs

All the best for April

We can do it like the mandem suga suga suga

Here's a juicy hand from today

Would you fold if you were in the villain's position?


Poker Stars $25.00 No Limit Hold'em - 7 players

BTN: $24.98
Hero (SB): $25.00
BB: $28.77
UTG: $25.00
UTG+1: $10.37
MP: $29.42
CO: $26.36


Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is SB with T T
2 folds, MP calls $0.25, 2 folds, Hero raises to $1.50, 1 fold, MP calls $1.25

Flop: ($3.25) 9 K Q (2 players)
Hero checks, MP bets $2.00, Hero calls $2

Turn: ($7.25) 6 (2 players)
Hero checks, MP checks

River: ($7.25) J (2 players)
Hero bets $3.98, MP raises to $7.96, Hero raises to $21.50, MP calls $13.54

Final Pot: $50.25

Hero shows T T (Straight Flush)
MP shows A 8 (Ace High Flush)


Hero wins $48.25
(Rake: $2.00)


GL in April guys!!

Sexy Six

My Cash Game run good continues and I am now up 6 days in row. It feels just like the old days!!

On the last Sunday of each month I play the Turbo Takedown, DNG (Daily Ninety Grand - Sunday Special) and from now onwards the newly re-named STORM. I also occasionally play the Sunday Million or Sunday Warmup

Today I didn't fare well in the tourneys and was dumped out of all of them by 11pm, ouch....

The end of the month is close and I am hoping to win the last four days of march to make it 10 up days on the trot.

I now play 10 Tables of NL100 as my standard with a few variations thrown in for laffs



Anyways, here is the graph:

Stats:

In other news, Sri Lanka absolutly smashed England in the Cricket World Cup and now meet New Zealand in the Semi-Finals. We have already beat them in the group stage so it should be a repeat battering.

Draw:

Cheers

Coconut Man, You Ready?

Today something rare occurred in the course of my poker adventure. I won monies for the 3rd day in a row. This almost never happens these days.... so, weeeeeeeeeeee

I remember a couple of years ago when it was normal for me to go on 6 or 7 day winning streaks. I Hope those days return, but for now it's a hat Trick..!!

Just a quick shout out to the Sri Lankan Cricket Team wishing them crushings vs England in the big match on Saturday.

Here's Jessie:

Drop Down n Loosen Up

Today as I was watching the World Cup Cricket match between Sri Lanka & New Zealand I decided to fire up some some NL25 tables

I only opened up 6 tables so I could concentrate on the TV

Anyway without even thinking about it my game opens up and I loosen up. Im not sure whether its due to the level or the number of tables but I certainly did not think oh its only NL25 so let me up the agression

Sri Lanka crushed New Zealand and the business end of the World Cup is very close now so I'm pretty excited about that. England have also made it through to the quarter finals and have been invovled in the most nail biting matches so far

Here are my stats from today's sessions. As you can see I ran at around 19/14 at NL25 and I nitted it up at NL100

The Graph was all over the place:

I would have had an awesome day if the biggest hand of the day went my way. One time it will..!!

Poker Stars $100.00 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players

BB: $307.20
UTG: $253.85
UTG+1: $69.60
UTG+2: $250.00
Hero (MP1): $132.05
MP2: $132.05
CO: $248.00
BTN: $250.00
SB: $145.55

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is MP1 with K K
2 folds, UTG+2 raises to $3, Hero raises to $10.85, MP2 raises to $30, 5 folds, Hero raises to $131.85, MP2 calls $101.85

Flop: ($268.20) 6 8 9 (2 players)

Turn: ($268.20) Q (2 players)

River: ($268.20) 6 (2 players)


Final Pot: $268.20
Hero shows K K
MP2 shows Q Q

MP2 wins $267.00
(Rake: $1.20)



All in all today was a good day

Poll

Which is the Most Multicultural City in the World?

Gone Fishing

I had heard a few rumours that the NL100 tables were a lot better since stars implemented the table changes.

I have been playing NL50 all month and yesterday I played 2 short sessions at NL100. I made small wins in both sessions but I decided to play only 10 tables. When I was winning at poker I never played more than 10 tables at any one time.

Today I fired up my 10 tables again and have won again, all 3 sessions today. So that's 5 sessions out of 5, hmmmmmmm.

I can say that there were 2 extremely tough spots where I made big lay downs, correctly or incorrectly I don't know but if I was 24 tabling they would have probably been insta calls where I wouldn't have had the time to think through how the hand played. I usually get shown the nuts in these situations and cry for a little bit.

I will try and stick to this new set-up unless I have a hugely bad run.

Some nice fish are back at NL100 and here is an example. You would never see a reg call pre with this hand in the SB


Poker Stars $100.00 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players

UTG+2: $102.75
MP1: $100.00
MP2: $100.00
Hero (CO): $100.00
BTN: $122.65
SB: $48.20
BB: $134.30
UTG: $100.00
UTG+1: $129.60


Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is CO with Q K
4 folds, MP2 raises to $3, Hero calls $3, 1 fold, SB calls $2.50, 1 fold

Flop: ($10.00) K Q 7 (3 players)
SB checks, MP2 checks, Hero bets $5.85, SB raises to $11.70, MP2 folds, Hero raises to $97, SB calls $33.50 all in

Turn: ($100.40) 9 (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: ($100.40) 8 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $100.40

Hero shows Q K
SB shows 7 K

Hero wins $97.40
(Rake: $3.00)


Peace