Friday, April 27, 2007
$1000 NL full ring
So last friday I was bored at work and decided I would play some online poker. Since there isn't a 2/4 or 3/6 full ring game, I had to play 5/10. Since then, I'm up around $7k in about 4500 hands. It actually was $8500 before I had a semi-annoying losing session last night. Can't really say what went wrong - I somehow got stuck playing a few drawing hands like : early raiser, three (!) callers (this is very unusual since it is a tight game), I have QJs in the blind, raiser bets less than half the pot and theres a caller, I have to call but never find a spot to make a play at the pot, yadda yadda yadda. So anyway, lost one and a half stacks last night. Guess that's not a big deal.
I have a bunch of hands that I will post below later, since I am clueless how they should be played correctly.
I still can't seem to play AA - this time I'm not losing with them but I can never ever EVER get any action. When I reraise, they fold. When I make a standard open raise (and I am a fairly active raiser), they fold and if not they fold to the continuation bet. When I tried limping utg, once a big stack raised behind me and I felt I needed to reraise against this particular player/stack and he folded, and the other time it got folded around to the BB (!). Won $13.75 there.
I have a bunch of hands that I will post below later, since I am clueless how they should be played correctly.
I still can't seem to play AA - this time I'm not losing with them but I can never ever EVER get any action. When I reraise, they fold. When I make a standard open raise (and I am a fairly active raiser), they fold and if not they fold to the continuation bet. When I tried limping utg, once a big stack raised behind me and I felt I needed to reraise against this particular player/stack and he folded, and the other time it got folded around to the BB (!). Won $13.75 there.
Monday, April 02, 2007
First Quarter Recap
Time to look at just poor my performance has been this year so far.
I've played what I consider a good bit of online poker. I don't know how many hands I played, but it wasn't even enough to make the first VIP level on Party, since that requires earning 10,000 party points and I collected about 9,600. I played almost exclusively on Party and currently have $1400 more in that account than I did on January 1st. That's not including bonus money and whatever I used to purchase modo product, so I think I've won about $2500. Not exciting but at least not losing.
I didn't play live poker at all in January, only a few sessions in February, but picked it up a bit in March, going to Harzburg twice and to Hamburg twice. In total I won 2100 Euros in seven sessions (although most of them were only a few hours), minus whatever I spent on gas and such. So, in total I'm only up about €4k, but again, at least not losing.
I've played what I consider a good bit of online poker. I don't know how many hands I played, but it wasn't even enough to make the first VIP level on Party, since that requires earning 10,000 party points and I collected about 9,600. I played almost exclusively on Party and currently have $1400 more in that account than I did on January 1st. That's not including bonus money and whatever I used to purchase modo product, so I think I've won about $2500. Not exciting but at least not losing.
I didn't play live poker at all in January, only a few sessions in February, but picked it up a bit in March, going to Harzburg twice and to Hamburg twice. In total I won 2100 Euros in seven sessions (although most of them were only a few hours), minus whatever I spent on gas and such. So, in total I'm only up about €4k, but again, at least not losing.
