Sunday, January 20, 2008

1/9-20/07 Limit/NL

Online
5/10LHE - played 2,071 hands and lost $1,603
100NL - played 1,631 hands and won $541.90
15/30 2-7 TD - played 30 hands and lost $300
10/20 LHE - played 50 hands and won $146

Total for period: ($1,215.10)
Total since start: $7,129.12
Total for month: ($898)

Total Hands: 19,319

I currently have a $1,500 bonus pending that needs an additional 9,836 base points. Going at a rate of roughly 2 hands/point that's about another 19.6k hands at 100NL.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

01/7-8/08 Bunch of different stuff

Online
5/10 SH LHE - Played 1,918 hands and won $773
1/2 FR NLHE - Played 2,724 hands and lost $975.45
2/4 2-7 TD - Played 30 hands and lost $16
5/10 2-7 TD - Played 50 hands and lost $265

Total for Today: ($483.45)
Total since start: $8,344.22

Total Hands: 15,537 (I'm including the 5/10 SH LHE hands because they get points at an equal or faster rate than the 200NL hands. I'm currently 3.5k hands ahead of my 40k hand goal, but 500 hands behind the 60k hand goal.)

Some thoughts:
After playing 200NL for the last little bit I think my edge is pretty small currently. I don't think I have the experience that I need to destroy this level. I havn't decided what I will do about this. As regards the 5/10 SH I played 2k hands and the games are unbelievably soft. They might be as good as 1.5 years ago (for different reasons though). So I'm adapting my current play to include both NL and LHE hands not just NL hands. I like playing LHE because I learned how to play doing it so I'm very comfortable playing it. It'll also be a good change of pace switching from one to the other rather than just grinding one version all the time. I'll have to figure out exactly how I will want to break up my time though.

Sunday, January 6, 2008

1/06/08 200NL, 2/4 2-7 TD

Online
Played 2,314 hands and won $197.65.
Played 81 hands of 2/4 2-7 TD and made $135.

Total Today: $332.65
Total since start: $8,827.67

Biggest net win: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1904901
Biggest net loss: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1904914

Total hands: 10,895

1/4-5/07 200NL

Online
Played 5,766 hands at 200NL and lost $286.15.

Biggest net win: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1901547

Biggest net loss: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1901557

Total for period: ($286.15)
Total since start: $8,495.02

Total hands for Jan: 8,581

Thursday, January 3, 2008

1/2-3/07 200NL

Online
Played 1,358 hands at 200NL and won $95.70

Biggest net win: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1888820
This is a pretty simple hand, I raise AA PF and get 2 callers.
I flop an overpair and con't bet, though the flop isn't great with a pretty drawy board, the caller is pretty tight so I'm not happy about him calling me (for some of these guys a call here is similar to a raise by others).
The turn makes me a set and puts me ahead of everything except QJ, so I bet again.
The river bring a boat, I bet out and it's obviously an easy call of the AI.

I don't really like my opponents push on the end. There's only really 3 hands that I might have that will call him. After firing on all streets and raising PF I think you have to put me on a legit hand. Of the legit hands there is 99, TT, AA, AK, AQ, AJ, QJ. TT is unlikely since he already holds a T. AA and AK beat him. I'd fold AQ/AJ. That leaves 99 and QJ, 99 I'm probably not folding and QJ it's like a 50/50 shot. Overall I think it's a very close play.

Biggest net loss: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1888821
I pretty much completely misplayed this hand, because of a self-image that I wasn't two-barrelling enough and that this opponent was half-retarded (which isn't too far off).

PF: I 3-bet here, this oponent is very loose and the 3-bet is fine.
Flop: I con't bet, he calls. However, he calls very many con't bets with very little - I decide to 2-barrel.
Turn: I bet again. Notice I'm only betting 1/2 the pot this is probably why I didn't win the hand right here, or alternatively save myself the extra $96 on the river and instead spend an extra $20 right here.
River: I check, he basically raises $100. My problem here is that I'm getting 3:1 on the call. Meaning he has to have worse than A high slightly more often than 33% of the time for the call to be correct. I felt the way this hand played out that he either had absolutely nothing or a huge hand. I decided that he has nothing often enough for me to call.

Played 58 hands 2/4 2-7 TD and made $162.50

Total today: $258.20
Total since start: $8,781.17

My goal this month is to play at least 40k hands at 200NL. If I manage to play over 60k hands I'll give myself a 5% bonus on the profit withdrawal.

Total hands in January: 2,815

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

1/1/07 200NL

Online
Played 1,457 hands at 200NL and won $513.30

Total today: $513.30
Total since start: $8,540.42