Sunday, May 31, 2009

End of Month

Finished of the month tonight with a cash session. The tables were super donkey. Three hands were the highlights. I don't have the actual hand histories anymore but I'll tell you how the hands went down.

Hand 1:
1 limp, c/o raises to 4.50, button calls, I make it 20 from the SB with QQ, both players call. c/o has 80 left, and button only had 7 left. Flop Q52r, I check, c/o shoves, button calls, I call. c/o has 65o, and the button has 77.
Thank you superdonk, your $100 is appreciated.

Hand 2:
utg limp, I limp 99, c/o raises to 5$, we both call. Flop JhThTx, checks around. Turn 9h...
Honestly I had a bad feeling whent he flop came out and the raiser checked that he had a huge hand, like JJ. When the turn rolled off I wasn't actually that excited.
Check, check, and the c/o bets 10, I call. River 8h, putting the str8 flush out there. I lead out 10 and he makes it 35. I fold cause I don't really see him making it 35 with just the Ah. I thought he had Jacks full initially, but maybe he backed into the str8 flush. I should have lead on the turn to see how he played it and get a better feeling of what he had. Altogether, I am happy with my fold.

Hand 3:
I limp utg 44, 1 other limper, button makes it 4, both call. Flop KQ4, checks to the button who bets 8, I raise to 22, he calls. Turn T, I bet 32, he shoves 71 with KJ and river A... nice runner runner sir.

Things were going really well until that hand. The last bit of my session I just didn't seem to be winning any pots. I ended up breaking even on the session.

I ordered my own table on fulltilt with my ironman medals, so that should be pretty sweet. I am going to try to do a month recap. But since HEM was being lame the last few weeks I don't have good record on my cash game play, but I will do my best.

-Boooom

Tournaments

Played the 1.5million on stars today, got coolered then ran into AA, so didnt make it past hour 2. In the double deuce I was off to a great start... then this happened when the avg stack was 9k....

Full Tilt Poker Game #12545004802: The $200K Double Deuce (91719797), Table 761 - 140/280 Ante 25 - No Limit Hold'em - 18:29:59 ET - 2009/05/31
Seat 1: kudi66 (9,195)
Seat 2: BoooomBaby7 (15,653)
Seat 3: gigiyoffee (8,403)
Seat 4: mc0611tex (7,377)
Seat 5: Thorwaller (2,170)
Seat 6: EerWotBlud (3,463)
Seat 7: artbrancusi (102), is sitting out
Seat 8: mosjuve (3,342)
Seat 9: WHOS YA MAMA (15,900)
kudi66 antes 25
BoooomBaby7 antes 25
gigiyoffee antes 25
mc0611tex antes 25
Thorwaller antes 25
EerWotBlud antes 25
artbrancusi antes 25
mosjuve antes 25
WHOS YA MAMA antes 25
Thorwaller posts the small blind of 140
EerWotBlud posts the big blind of 280
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BoooomBaby7 [Ad As]
artbrancusi folds
mosjuve calls 280
WHOS YA MAMA calls 280
kudi66 calls 280
BoooomBaby7 has 15 seconds left to act
BoooomBaby7 raises to 1,299
gigiyoffee folds
mc0611tex folds
Thorwaller folds
EerWotBlud folds
mosjuve folds
WHOS YA MAMA calls 1,019
kudi66 has 15 seconds left to act
kudi66 folds
*** FLOP *** [7h Kc Tc]
WHOS YA MAMA checks
BoooomBaby7 bets 2,375
WHOS YA MAMA raises to 6,750
BoooomBaby7 has 15 seconds left to act
BoooomBaby7 raises to 14,329, and is all in
WHOS YA MAMA calls 7,579
BoooomBaby7 shows [Ad As]
WHOS YA MAMA shows [Ac Qc]
*** TURN *** [7h Kc Tc] [7s]
*** RIVER *** [7h Kc Tc 7s] [3c]
BoooomBaby7 shows two pair, Aces and Sevens
WHOS YA MAMA shows a flush, Ace high
WHOS YA MAMA wins the pot (32,461) with a flush, Ace high
BoooomBaby7 stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 32,461 | Rake 0
Board: [7h Kc Tc 7s 3c]
Seat 1: kudi66 folded before the Flop
Seat 2: BoooomBaby7 showed [Ad As] and lost with two pair, Aces and Sevens
Seat 3: gigiyoffee folded before the Flop
Seat 4: mc0611tex (button) folded before the Flop
Seat 5: Thorwaller (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 6: EerWotBlud (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 7: artbrancusi folded before the Flop
Seat 8: mosjuve folded before the Flop
Seat 9: WHOS YA MAMA showed [Ac Qc] and won (32,461) with a flush, Ace high

Sure woulda been nice to have a top 10 stack to pwn people the rest of the way. Also playing the 25k, and decided to play the 750k after I busted the stars tourny. In the 750k I'm off to a good start so we'll see if i can run good.

Going to play some cash games also so I'll be back to update later.

*****UPDATE*****

Had a nice stack for a bit in the 35k, then just ran poor for a bit then ran AQ into A6 and lost. Was doing well in the 750k, cruising along had a pretty loose image. Also 3bet with A7 one hand and a short stack shoves with TT so everyone saw that. So I'm sure I had the donkey image. One semi spewy guy just lost a pot, I raise with AJ one away from the cutoff, he shoves. It's half my stack to call, but I do he shows 88 and holds. I think I do pretty well against this players range considering the image I have. Then down to 7k and avg is like 12k so I'm not too bad. Get AK in the SB and no action. Then get QQ on button next hand, limp utg, another limp, I shove, AK utg calls and outruns me. Got about 750th place, 550 or so pays which sucks. So much for taking shots at big tournies today. Need to grind out some hands tonight and call it a month.

-Boooom

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Grinding

Grinded about 2300 hands today. Not much success I finished up down about $100. Definitely donkey day out there but things just didn't go my way. Lost on some sick rivers, and just wasn't making many hands. Maybe I was cbetting a little too much, but I felt like a played ok. I may have made a few bad calls at the end of my first session, but they were in smallpots, and I took a break shortly after.

I'll hit the table again tomorrow and might take a shot at a big tournament (750k?) since tomorrow is when the WSOP event I won a seat for starts. I didn't really want to travel up to vegas and spend 1k on the tourny, so I just took the cash. So maybe I'll conpromise and take a shot at something tomorrow.

A holdem manager support guy is supposed to help me fix my HEM this week, I just need to download teamviewer first. It will be nice to have my HUD back once this all gets fixed.

-Boooom

Progress

Yesterday was a pretty good day. Had a donkey donate 77$ to me in the morning in about 10 minutes on a HU game. I also got a small amount of rakeback. Then had a cash session where I turned over a small profit. Then before going to my friends house for a home game I played a HU sng, and a 45man super turbo. I lost the HU, but took 2nd in the sng for about $150. Profit of about $250 for the day, plus the $40 rakeback made it a nice day.

Need to grind out some ftps the next two days to advance my iron man status and make sure I can buy my own table with ironman medals next month. Table should be extra donkey today so I expect some nice results.

-Boooom

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Pretty good night...

Played alot today. Grinded for about 3 hours total. Had some success, and also played a 26/90 and the 35k tonight. Had a hue stack going into final table of the 26/90 but had a run of crap setups and took 5th. Also had a great start in the 35k, had a big stack the first few hours. Then with about 450 people left my internet went out. I had 15k chips, and the avg was 8k. It took about 45 minutes before I got back in... I had 10k chips, and the avg was up 21k. I got into the money then worked the short stack for a while. Then had JT in the BB, a guy limped with QJ, and a Jhigh flop did me in. Took 44th which was a disapointment but what can you do when you have to short stack it because ur internet connection f's you?

Overall ended up about +300 on the day and got myself back over the 4k mark. Still working on getting up to 6k so I can take shots at 1/2. I signed on and started to play a late night session, but quickly realized the tables weren't that good. Here is a sick hand against a guy who 16 tables and I know is solid...

Full Tilt Poker Game #12495588383: Table Village Center - $0.50/$1 - No Limit Hold'em - 1:42:24 ET - 2009/05/29
Seat 1: ChemTrade ($154.40)
Seat 2: Rob The Slob ($101.50)
Seat 3: xxanZacxx ($31.50)
Seat 4: Mauzinho ($100)
Seat 5: Glass Prison ($128.80)
Seat 6: BoooomBaby7 ($99)
Seat 7: surfski1x ($49.40)
Seat 8: MoeGreen85 ($157.35)
Seat 9: JROCKONE ($22.50)
MoeGreen85 posts the small blind of $0.50
JROCKONE posts the big blind of $1
The button is in seat #7
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BoooomBaby7 [2s 2d]
ChemTrade folds
Rob The Slob raises to $3.50
xxanZacxx folds
Mauzinho folds
Glass Prison folds
BoooomBaby7 calls $3.50
MoeGreen85 folds
JROCKONE has 15 seconds left to act
JROCKONE folds
*** FLOP *** [Qd 2h 4s]
Rob The Slob bets $6
BoooomBaby7 calls $6
*** TURN *** [Qd 2h 4s] [6d]
xxanZacxx has been disconnected
xxanZacxx has reconnected
Rob The Slob bets $13
BoooomBaby7 has 15 seconds left to act
BoooomBaby7 calls $13
*** RIVER *** [Qd 2h 4s 6d] [Ah]
Rob The Slob has 15 seconds left to act
Rob The Slob bets $46.50
BoooomBaby7 has 15 seconds left to act
BoooomBaby7: wow, AA got there huh?
BoooomBaby7 has requested TIME
xxanZacxx has been disconnected
xxanZacxx has reconnected
BoooomBaby7 folds
BoooomBaby7 adds $22.50
Uncalled bet of $46.50 returned to Rob The Slob
Rob The Slob mucks
Rob The Slob wins the pot ($44.20)
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $46.50 | Rake $2.30
Board: [Qd 2h 4s 6d Ah]
Seat 1: ChemTrade didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: Rob The Slob collected ($44.20), mucked
Seat 3: xxanZacxx didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: Mauzinho didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: Glass Prison didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: BoooomBaby7 folded on the River
Seat 7: surfski1x (button) is sitting out
Seat 8: MoeGreen85 (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 9: JROCKONE (big blind) folded before the Flop

I almost moved on the turn but I figured I'd wait until the river since I know he's not double barreling without a strong hand and I have position. I figure him for AA, KK, QQ, or small chance its 44/66 and AQ also makes sense with his bet sizing. I didn't like the river at all, and when he bets pot I am almost certain he has a set with a very small chance he has AQ. This is very common for regulars to put a huge bet on the river when they have a huge hand and want to get paid. It was the last river I wanted to see because I don't get value from KK anymore, and my only prayer would be that he's on AQ when he fires the big bet. I folded and feel pretty good about it.

I quit this session after a short amount of time because the tables were filled with regulars and figure I played enough today and will pick it up tomorrow when the tables are softer.

-Boooom

Cash games

Starting to get back into grinding the cash tables. Played some solid sessions the last few days. I have had minimal success, but I feel like I'm playing well. I kinda fell apart at the end of my last session. Very last hand I get AA utg, and I over raise it to 10$. Guy who has 60$ calls and flops a set with JJ, so that kinda sucked. At one point in the session I think I was up almost 150, but ended up down about 50. It happens... oh well. I'm going to hit the tables again tonight since the tables generally are a little bit softer in the evening.

HEM is still being lame, in my last two sessions it uploaded about 1/4 of the hands I played, but the HUD still didnt work. I e-mail them since nobody on the forum has replied to my post. Apparently they forwarded it to a guy who is going to help me, so hopefully I'll have my stats back soon.

Over the last few days I'm up about $100 so it's better than being down. I got pwned playing live last weekend. But I went with a friend the other night and ended up playing 8/16. I went 2.5 hours in a superdonk game and didn't win a pot. I was down over 400$, and only had 50$ in front me of, but proceeded to get AA in the BB and then won 5 hands in a row. I had a nice little run after that including a hue kill pot I won with Ts8s. I finished out +400 which was nice recovery from my last session there.

That's all for now, I'll try to update more frequently as I get back into grinding cash games more. Go Lakers!

-Boooom

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Refocus + Live game

Haven't been posting for a while. Haven't been playing much the last week. Got home after graduating and needed to clean all the crap I brought home. I ended up going through everything in my entire room. It's amazing how much stuff I have accumulated. Threw out a bunch of stuff, put stuff in storage. Took 3 days. Anyways my room looks way better, and everything is organized which will make moving out way easier (whenever that happens).

At home my internet connection sucks too much to grind cash games. One night I dabbled in some tournaments and got pwned, can't say I played very well. Also one night I played some HU 1/2. Ended up getting pwned for $400. Lost the first buyin on flush vs boat. This guy wasnt that good, I battled back to have 320 in my stack because he was fairly easy to read. We had a good action game going but ended up running TPTK into a big draw in a 3bet pot and lost.

My bankroll online is at only $3700 right now, which is very far from the 6k I want before I take weekend shots at 1/2. Good news is I just got my own internet line in my room yesterday. So now I should have a reliable connection for grinding cash games. I'm gonna hit it hard and work on my game a bit. Hopefully I can get about 3-4 hours a day in for the rest of the month.

Last night I went to Oceans and played, the 2/3 was kinda dead. Then I moved to the 5/5, which looked like some solid players with big stacks. However, I quickly realized it was a big action game and the players were pretty easy to read. I was down a bit, then got things rolling. I was about even (700), when I picked up KK on the button, guy raises to 35, one call, i raise 135, 1 caller. Flop 8xx, I start to count out chips and the guy mucks.

Next hand get AA, guy in 2nd position raises to 15 (this is guy I have played with before, he is pretty good but very over aggro and likes to play a ton of hands. I make it 75, and he calls. At this point I am led to beleive he has a hand of some sort. Flop QTx, he checks I check... I didn't like the flop I could see him having QQ or TT, I check because I know how aggro he is and I have seen him make slim value bets and slim calls when people under represent their hands. So it is a pot control move, and a deception move. Turn brick, he bets out 105, I call. At this point I could see him doing this with AQ or worse, and my flat call could represent something like JJ or even AK just being stubborn. I am pretty much set on calling the river, or value betting if he checks. But at thing point I would expect him to also think his AQ or JJ is good. River brick, he bets 240, I call and he shows TT. I think I played this decently vs. this player. Crappy flop, but oh well.

I went up and down from there, but finally got a double up right before leaving. 10 straddle and blind 20, I make it 65 with 99, 2 callers, flop J9x, we all check (I know straddle was set mining by her preflop action, and that blinds 20 will bet at alot of turns. Turn 8, guy bets out 130, I shove 450, he calls and says "you play your kings well", river K and he mucks when I show. He may have had something like a naked jack, or a draw. Ended up leaving up 300 so not bad considering the AA hand. Was crazy game... there were several 2k+ pots. I'd like to go play it again, but I don't want to play the 5/5 game too much cause I'm not really rolled for it and there is definitely a ton of variance.

That's all for now, time to grind and hope this new internet line is legit.

-Boooom

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Payback?

Played a 26/90 while I grinded some cash games for about an hour. Was pretty card dead but managed to get up to over 5k chips at this point. Two limpers and I felt like I had the best hand so I made my move....

Full Tilt Poker Game #12171684591: $24 + $2 KO Sit & Go (91010249), Table 8 - 120/240 Ante 25 - No Limit Hold'em - 2:48:28 ET - 2009/05/12
Seat 1: BoooomBaby7 (5,240)
Seat 2: PKTJKS (5,060)
Seat 3: paris_hilton 81 (2,240)
Seat 4: bigjoepo420 (3,795)
Seat 5: pokermazzz (5,600)
Seat 6: summit800x (5,505)
Seat 7: gmandv888 (2,510)
Seat 8: Jez509 (5,060)
Seat 9: Shak_AttacK1 (9,365)
BoooomBaby7 antes 25
PKTJKS antes 25
paris_hilton 81 antes 25
bigjoepo420 antes 25
pokermazzz antes 25
summit800x antes 25
gmandv888 antes 25
Jez509 antes 25
Shak_AttacK1 antes 25
BoooomBaby7 posts the small blind of 120
PKTJKS posts the big blind of 240
The button is in seat #9
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BoooomBaby7 [Ah 9s]
paris_hilton 81 folds
bigjoepo420 folds
pokermazzz calls 240
summit800x folds
gmandv888 folds
Jez509 calls 240
Shak_AttacK1 folds
BoooomBaby7 raises to 5,215, and is all in
PKTJKS calls 4,795, and is all in


At this point I know I must be drawing to 3 outs...

pokermazzz folds
Jez509 folds
BoooomBaby7 shows [Ah 9s]
PKTJKS shows [7c 4d]

... at this point I almost throwup because I can't beleive what I'm seeing...


Uncalled bet of 180 returned to BoooomBaby7
*** FLOP *** [Qd 7d 7s]
*** TURN *** [Qd 7d 7s] [3h]
*** RIVER *** [Qd 7d 7s 3h] [7h]
BoooomBaby7 shows three of a kind, Sevens
PKTJKS shows four of a kind, Sevens
PKTJKS wins the pot (10,775) with four of a kind, Sevens
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 10,775 | Rake 0
Board: [Qd 7d 7s 3h 7h]
Seat 1: BoooomBaby7 (small blind) showed [Ah 9s] and lost with three of a kind, Sevens
Seat 2: PKTJKS (big blind) showed [7c 4d] and won (10,775) with four of a kind, Sevens
Seat 3: paris_hilton 81 folded before the Flop
Seat 4: bigjoepo420 folded before the Flop
Seat 5: pokermazzz folded before the Flop
Seat 6: summit800x folded before the Flop
Seat 7: gmandv888 folded before the Flop
Seat 8: Jez509 folded before the Flop
Seat 9: Shak_AttacK1 (button) folded before the Flop


Well that was interesting, quads by the old 74o allin preflop. Well after my hideous suckout with K8o yesterday that ultimately won me a $2500 wsop seat, I guess we'll just call it even?

Cash session wen't pretty well, got a couple donations that got me a nice win for the short session.

Pwned in the miniFTOPS event earlier, card rack but kept getting coolered.

-Boooom

Sunday, May 10, 2009

WSOP seat... SHIP

So last night I decided to give up tournies for a while cause I haven't been playing my best. Although I am still going to play in whatever FTOPS events I can. Got back to my house today in time to play the miniFTOPS where I got pwned by a donkey when I had twice the avg stack. Didn't last very long in the double deuce. However I played the 33$ satelite for $2500 WSOP seats. It turned out to be a great value, 200k guaranteed in the prize pool, and only 3878 people signed up, making it about a $55 value. I got off to a good start and was cruising. Then I ran 88 into AA on a resteal attempt gone wrong. Taking me down to a short stack. This hand happened a bit later against a loose preflop raiser when I was in survival mode.


Full Tilt Poker Game #12148857428: $200K Stimulus Qualifier (83120707), Table 28 - 1700/3400 Ante 400 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:28:29 ET - 2009/05/10
Seat 1: BoooomBaby7 (36,936)
Seat 2: berkey11 (78,488)
Seat 3: Nooooanskin18 (58,476)
Seat 4: luecki800 (54,480)
Seat 5: ANOCR (130,149)
Seat 6: ChipnaChrrrr (122,818)
Seat 7: Geesa (238,180)
Seat 8: GBecks (111,928)
Seat 9: Steve Aces High (59,682)
BoooomBaby7 antes 400
berkey11 antes 400
Nooooanskin18 antes 400
luecki800 antes 400
ANOCR antes 400
ChipnaChrrrr antes 400
Geesa antes 400
GBecks antes 400
Steve Aces High antes 400
Nooooanskin18 posts the small blind of 1,700
luecki800 posts the big blind of 3,400
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BoooomBaby7 [Kd 8c]
ANOCR folds
ChipnaChrrrr folds
Geesa folds
GBecks raises to 8,999
Steve Aces High folds
BoooomBaby7 raises to 36,536, and is all in
berkey11 folds
Nooooanskin18 raises to 58,076, and is all in
luecki800 folds
GBecks has 15 seconds left to act
GBecks has requested TIME
GBecks calls 49,077
Nooooanskin18 shows [Qh Qd]
GBecks shows [Kh Ad]
BoooomBaby7 shows [Kd 8c]
*** FLOP *** [Jh 4c 6c]
*** TURN *** [Jh 4c 6c] [5c]
*** RIVER *** [Jh 4c 6c 5c] [7c]
Nooooanskin18 shows a pair of Queens
GBecks shows Ace King high
Nooooanskin18 wins the side pot (43,080) with a pair of Queens
BoooomBaby7 shows a straight flush, Eight high
BoooomBaby7 wins the main pot (116,608) with a straight flush, Eight high
BoooomBaby7: wow
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 159,688 Main pot 116,608. Side pot 43,080. | Rake 0
Board: [Jh 4c 6c 5c 7c]
Seat 1: BoooomBaby7 showed [Kd 8c] and won (116,608) with a straight flush, Eight high
Seat 2: berkey11 (button) folded before the Flop
Seat 3: Nooooanskin18 (small blind) showed [Qh Qd] and won (43,080) with a pair of Queens
Seat 4: luecki800 (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 5: ANOCR folded before the Flop
Seat 6: ChipnaChrrrr folded before the Flop
Seat 7: Geesa folded before the Flop
Seat 8: GBecks showed [Kh Ad] and lost with Ace King high
Seat 9: Steve Aces High folded before the Flop


Such a sick suckout. This have me a little more than avg stack with about 180 people left. I was able to ride this stack to the $2500 seat. It's all about timing, and this suckout got my $2500. Not sure if I'll play the event, probably not but I have some time to think about it.

However, I am still going to take a break from tournaments. Gonna try to grind my bankroll up to 6k (at about 4k right now), so I can play 1/2 on the weekends since it's so fishy. My exception is that I'll play FTOPS stuff when I can and tournaments on Sundays since it's the donk day.

I'll update more later on how my cash sessions went this last week with my not looking at HEM challenge thing.

-Boooom

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Run better please

Ugh, I've been playing very well in these rebuy tournaments. 120 left in the 11rebuy, avg stack is 22k and I have 32k. Guy raises in middle position, I call in the cutoff with ATs. Flop QTx, he bets, I call, turn A. He bets, I shove, he calls AQ, f me. Nice 65k pot. Cash has been going ok, I don't know how I'm doing on the week, but I've played pretty well and the tables have been very fishy.

Kind of tired of tournaments right now. I know I haven't been playing my best in every tournament, but overall I have played well and keep getting pwned/coolered. I want to play in some FTOPS events when my schedule allows me to, but otherwise I think I want to put in a huge volume of cash game hands the rest of the month. I have finals next week, and then I'll be home, and hopefully I can get alot in and run up my bankroll (as long as I can get my connection problem at home fixed). We'll see how it goes... still looking for the big cash.

-Boooom

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Crap day

Almost made a deep run in 34k, then psychodonkey (and i mean psycho, guy was reshoving 23o vs opening raises) wakes up with KK when I have JJ for huge pot. 22rebuy I did go deep, but just didn't run that great deep, got 32nd. Had chip lead in 33turbo going into the money, but lost 3 races in a row, and that does it. AA no good a couple times in the other donkey 26$ tournies.

The thing that made it a crap day was getting pwned on cash tables. Didn't seem like there was much for me to win with the setups that were out there for me today. It was one of those "minimize losses" sessions because you always have the 2nd best hand. It happens, oh well. Lost $250 on a short session. Then lost another $200 on a 1/2 5handed table and called it a day. Did HW the rest of the day because I need to get on top of that stuff. Last week of classes, then finals the following week.

Gonna try to grind in all of my spare time this week. Gonna try a new challenge where I don't look at HEM at all after/during sessions. Gonna go the whole week and just try to play as well as I can and examine my game without being too results oriented. Then at the end of the week we will see where I am, and if I pick up on any leaks in my game. I'm gonna try to do this until next Sunday, and hopefully get in over about 12k hands. So my posts will be more about reflecting on how I played, rather than on the results.

-Boooom

Barona

Had a crappy live session yesterday. It was like -$250 in an hour. People hitting flushes on the river. Wrong end of the set over set, etc.

Watched my friend's band play last night (www.familywagonmusic.com check them out). Then went to barona with one of my roomates. The 1/3 game was super donkey and I was just cruising. Game seemed so easy, people very predictable. Was up about 250, then lost a few small pots. Then made a bad call against this aggro asian guy. Guy put in a raise on the turn when the flush hit, it also made me two pair. I called, then called his river bet and he showed me T4h for the flush. Felt pretty crappy about that, left a little bit later and was only up $60. Would have stayed longer, but my friend had a bad run at 1/2 and was ready to go. Anyways, got my live game itch out of the way, maybe now I'll be more motivated to grind online.

Going to play several tournaments today. It's donkey sunday so hopefully I can make a few runs. Be back later for a report.

-Boooom

Saturday, May 2, 2009

April Recap!

April turned out to be a pretty solid month. I ran very well at NL100 (making up for last month). Here is the graph. One of the huge spikes later in the month was when I played a guy heads up and he shipped like $300 to me in 3 hands.



$1432 in profit over about 25k hands. I ran about $650 over expectation this month which I definitely won't complain about. Here is my year to date graph... and you can see that now for the year my EV line, and my profit line are almost at the same spot.



The problem this month was that I was really lazy when it came to putting in cash sessions. I would rather just play a tournament or 90man sng while watching TV, than to sit down and actually grind 12 tables. I really should be putting in 35k+ hands fairly easily. This month I am going to try to do better. Also, while I was really bored I would check out really soft short handed 1/2 tables. I played a guy HU, and played some 5handed tables. Altogether I played 70 hands on 1/2 tables and won $619 which is a super heater. I was winning every race and ran way above EV. So on the month my total profit for cash games was just about $2050.

This month tournaments sucked for the most part. In the middle of the month I started playing too many tournaments and definitely didn't play my best. I started getting my groove back towards the end of the month and made some decent runs. Still gotta clean up some mistakes in the late game, but I am going into May with renewed confidence in my tournament game. At one point I was down over 1k in tournaments on the month, not even the 26/90s could bail me out. I played 46 26/90s in April, and only cashed in 4 of them which is running way under EV imo. I shipped the 26$ pot limit turbo event just in time to save the month. I pulled off a profit of $173 for the month. Still looking for a big cash, hopefully I'll play better more consistently in May to give myself more shots.


All together it turned out to be a solid month profit-wise. $2050 on cash games. $173 on tournaments. Plus $367 rakeback. Total profit for the month was $2590. Much better than last month and I feel like I'm still evolving as a player.

I need to play more hands in May. FTOPS and miniFTOPS is happening soon, so I am going to try to play in a few events when I can. I graduate in two weeks, so I am going to be busy with school/ senior activities/ just trying to spend time with friends before we graduate. When it comes to tournaments I just need to not overload myself this month to the point where I don't put enough effort into them. Be nice to hit a big cash, but I can't complain about the consistent cash I get from NL100 when I'm running decent.

If the first day of May was any indicator... I won $170 in my first cash session. Then played in 4 tournaments, and three 26/90s. Took 9th and 1st in two of the 26/90s which was a nice way to start the month. Got donked in two of the tournaments. Min cashed the 50k, and went out near the bubble in the 28k. A solid start to the month.

-Boooom

Friday, May 1, 2009

End of month

Last night I played a cash session and some tournaments. I ran good/bad in the $10rebuy. I ran good when my tournament life was on the line, but mediocre otherwise. Took 16th, which I wasn't very happy about. Got f'ed in the 23k KO, and busted a few 26/90s. The cash session wasn't very good, but I got rakeback earlier today. I've been lazy with getting the month recap together, hopefully I'll get that done later tonight. Also considering going for some live play today.

-Boooom