A small recovery

So after the failed 200nl shot i talked about in my last post i have been grinding hard to make back my losses. 100nl feels easier than ever right now. The other day all the 50BB min tables were packed with regs and i really wanted to play so looked at the normal tables and found there were hardly any good regs at them, just loads of shortstackers....

I won't repeat myself but rather link you to this post where you can see how i got on vs the shortstackers :) Of corse it hasn't been going that well all the time and i have had quite a few BE/losing sessions but heres a few pics of stats from the last 3 days.


Should be able to reach my 120k hand goal by the end of the month :D

Failed shot at 200nl

So i took a shot at 200nl yesterday that failed quite badly. It played alot different than i imagined it would and i think i tried to adjust my game to compensate by 3betting alot wider than i normally would. This put my in tough spots in larger pots than i was used too. I wouldn't say i was too out of my comfort zone but i remember one hand where i lost the nerve to fire large on the turn into 2 people beacuse it would mean shoving $200 on the river as a bluff if i missed my double gutter.


I've decided to grind the remainder of the year out at 100nl where im feeling pretty comfortable and should be able to make back $1600~ there by the end of the month.

$1k day right when i needed it

So Sexy :}

Took a break. playing shorter sessions.

So after losing a bunch last week i dont think my head was on very straight. If i ever play a session where instead of waiting till the big blind comes before sitting out i just kill stars to quit, then i know i should take a little break from poker.

This 'break' didn't really consist of much. I played a bunch of HoN and went the the driving range with my dad. I hadn't played golf in a while and we got a jumbo basket each. Hitting so many balls really tore up my hands and i have about 3 blisters on each now ;/


Last night a started up some tables again and decided i wanted to just book a win to save me any stress. I played 1k hands and made $220 which i was happy with. Since then i've tried to carry on just playing short sessions. I know alot of pro's do this and i think the reasoning behind it is to keep fresh and on your A game. Anyway, its going well so far so i think i'll keep it up. The only downside of course is not getting in as much volume!

Bad Downswing!

So the other day i lost around $1600 in 4000~ hands. I took a break and managed to get back on track and grind some of it back but it was still horrid. The first session was at 100nl 6-max and i think i was allin about 8 times in the session. I lost all but 1 flip and lost 3 times when i was 80% fav. At one point i was 16bi below EV over 3,000~ hands as you can see from the orange line on my graph.

Now i just have to grind alot to try and make $3,000+ by the end of the month.

Ended one stake, started a new one.

People who read the regs thread in SSNL will have seen that WCG|Rider has decided to end his stakes.

"Over the course of the past week stakes have really bombed, and with my new house, I'm looking to somewhat lower my variance on the staking front, so I decided to begin to end my Staking program."

Well i was one of these horses and have been staked since August. It was kind of annoying to hear it ending as i had plans to move upto 200nl and maybe even higher and had really not saved up much money at all for my own roll (just spending alot on nights out, eating out & new clothes). Anyway i have managed to get a new backer at a better % split so things should be ok :)

The stake with Doug started at 50nl and didn't really go well at first. It didn't go badly i guess but i was breakeven for a long time. I hadn't really played full-ring before and it deffinately took a lot more adjusting too than i though. What i have learnt now has really changed my game up, for the best i should add.

Here's a graph and some stats over the duration of the stake;



Anyway, over the course of the stake i was only playing full-ring (except for 1 session when i chased a fish to HU) and have decided to try and mix in some 6-max again. I played 2 sessions of 6-max (50nl and 100nl) and did pretty well, so i might start mixing in some 6-max from now on, depending on my mood.

Long Grind

I've been playing alot :x

And my month so far.. going to try and push for 120k hands!

Mixed thoughts on yesterdays session

First off i have to say i had a great session yesterday! I made a decent amount of money in the end but was and am still annoyed at myself for not quitting sooner. There was a point where i was up $980~ and though to myself "nice, another $1k day" so carried on playing to try and reach the 1k mark. I was forcing the action to try and get up to the amount and wasn't playing my usuall game. Of course i dropped a ton of buyins and ended up stopping just short of $600~ ;/


I played a lot more hands than i normally would in a day. I lent my 2nd monitor to my house mate as his broke and i felt really bad for him playing poker on a 13" screen untill his new order from FTP comes through. Because of this i havn't been playing tiled but rather cascading. I think this has helped alot (mostly due to eliminating fancy play syndrome) and now i feel quite comfortable 16 tabling 100nl.

Sadly the last hand of the session was a deep pot where i turned a Q high flush /w QJdd vs his turned K9dd flush :( My month so far..

Re-starting the Blog

This might not last very long but i thought i might start doing this blog again. I've re-read this blog from the start (from way back in Jan 2007 when i was playing 1000nl!) and it's quite fun and interesting to read and see how my game and outlook has changed.

At this time i have just started playing 100nl Full Ring on Pokerstars, moving up from 50nl where i had been doing quite well. 100nl is pretty breakeven so far but im thinking that once i put in some volume i should be able to get the hang of it. It's pretty tempting to move down to 50nl again so that i can just make some good money but i think im going to try and stick with it.

Thats all for now. I will probably update later after my next session /w graphs etc.