An 'ok' session

Just finished another 1500 hand session at nl100 where i regreted not quiting earlier. At one point i was up about $550 and feeling pretty good about my game. I lost a few all-ins, mostly flips but one KK vs AA that was unavoidable even though it was against the tightest nit ever. I think i ended up the session up about $220 which obviously i dont mind, but i woulda taken the $550!

Here's a funny hand i played which can only be described as complete spew by him. Remember this is nl100 so the stacks were 240bb deep effective!

Full Tilt Poker $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players

yy1988 (MP): $97.00
Hero (CO): $358.10
roli57 (BTN): $68.35
mich_alumni (SB): $238.25
bigwheel77 (BB): $67.80
eastern motors (UTG): $130.85

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is CO with A A
2 folds, Hero raises to $3.50, 1 fold, mich_alumni raises to $14, 1 fold, Hero raises to $36, mich_alumni calls $22

Flop: ($73.00) 2 4 2 (2 players)
mich_alumni checks, Hero bets $51, mich_alumni raises to $202.25 all in, Hero calls $151.25

Turn: ($477.50) T (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: ($477.50) 6 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $477.50
Hero shows A A (two pair, Aces and Twos)
mich_alumni shows Q K (a pair of Twos)
Hero wins $474.50
(Rake: $3.00)

Bankroll: $5100

Swongs!

Had a swongy day today at nl100, cashed out $1000 too though :)


I also won one of my largest hands this level, a 570bb pot;

Full Tilt Poker $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players

SB: $109.55
BB: $171.25
UTG: $262.80
MP: $81.85
Hero (CO): $332.25
BTN: $285.05

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is CO with 7 7
1 fold, MP calls $1, Hero raises to $4.50, BTN calls $4.50, 3 folds

Flop: ($11.50) 3 7 J (2 players)
Hero bets $6, BTN raises to $12, Hero raises to $32, BTN calls $20

Turn: ($75.50) 9 (2 players)
Hero bets $55, BTN raises to $160, Hero raises to $295.75 all in, BTN calls $88.55 all in

River: ($572.60) 5 (2 players - 2 are all in)

Final Pot: $572.60
Hero shows 7 7 (three of a kind, Sevens)
BTN shows 3 3 (three of a kind, Threes)
Hero wins $569.60
(Rake: $3.00)

Im still not really pleased with my monthly performance compared to last month. This month im playing pretty much twice the stakes and only making the same hourly amount, but i guess im still on track for a $5k~ month if things carry on as they are. Need to try and improve my winrate though!

Bankroll: $4875

Mid November Update

I havn't really updated much in the last week or so as to be honest theres been nothing too interesting to say. At the moment im on a pretty big break even stretch. My little shot at nl200 turned bad after a while and the rest of the month has been grinding back up at nl100.

Today i also decided to take a shot in FTOPS event #9 which was a $300 buyin tourny. I did ok in it considering i didn't ever get above the average chip stack. I placed 1,100th out of around 6,000 players but failed to cash (top 750 cashed).

Heres a graph and stats of my "rakeback grinding" month so far:


Bankroll: $5450

Starting off November

So as i hadn't played poker for a few days (mainly due to hangovers from halloween!) i decided to play a long session to gradually increase my bankroll. It went pretty well overall but only after putting in a ton of hands! After 3400 hands i was down $350 and another thousand hands on from that i had broken even for the day. From there onwards i managed to win 8 buyins and was feeling pretty confident with my game.

.....so i decided to take a shot at nl200, at this point my roll was about $4800 so it wasn't too bad of a thing to take a shot, i mixed in 3 tables of nl200 at first with 3 of my best nl100 tables. At first i was steadily going between being up a buyin and even then i took a 3 buyin downswing.

I won a couple of big pots towards the end of the session and so decided to quit while i was ahead, up $1100 for the day having played just under 9k hands (and made another $200 from rakeback :)


Here are a few of the hands i played today:

• River the nuts Vs a slowplayed top set (view hand)
• Coolered someone in i think my largest nl100 pot (view hand)
• 93% on flop... 89% on turn.... AA gets cracked :/ (view hand)
• Had the 'tilted' image after getting coolered the hand before, i don't know what he was doing though? $650 pot! :O (view hand)
• Finished the session off with this hand (view hand)
  

Bankroll: $5000