Rough weekend, on the comeback

Had a rough weekend, but I'm on the comeback. Still about $50 down from my peak, dropped out of the top 5 on ptr also. Really sucks. I didn't go on monkey tilt, but lost quite a few buyins playing back at the stupid monkeys at the table. Last night guy was 3 betting 20%, just a stupid monkey, of course when I play back and 4 bet light he has my AT crushed with AQ. Naturally, when I 4bet with AA/KK he instafolds. It's just ridiculous how lucky monkeys get sometimes. I guess I just need to be more patient, but it's frustrating at times when you play AK or QQ back at them and the flop either comes all garbage or AKK when you have QQ. And when you have KK/AA they fold everytime like they can see your cards.

I'm really thinking about making the jump to 25nl and just putting in massive volume. Even if I win at 1bb/100 I think the rakeback could be worth it. Just build my roll while collecting the vpps. I'll just have to see.

Epic bad day yesterday

Last night was an epic failure of a day at the tables. Seriously, I ran worse than I have ever run in my poker career. It wasn't even necessarily a ton of bad beats and coolers. I just NEVER hit on the flop or turn EVER. No top pair. Everyone calling my cbets everytime. It was just silly.

Nobody would call my pfr with AA/KK/QQ. I was actually opening up a bit looser to try to catch something, ANYTHING, but that wasn't working and people were still folding pre to my 3-4bb raise with these premiums. Of course they always called when I had junkier stuff.

I think I won a total of 5 dollars over 4k hands or something stupid with AK/AA/KK/QQ. Even filtering for AA/KK/QQ i won only 15 dollars over 4k hands. Normally I win at least twice that over that sample and sometimes 3 times that.

Then I lost a couple of 4bet hands against this aggro f'in DONKEY who was 3betting 45%. I caught AK against him once and tried to bluff him out but he was simply a station on a very dry flop. Of course I didn't catch an A or K (didn't catch it all night, and if I did I was facing a straight or a set) and he raised my turn bet so I was done with the hand. Overall, I am not really displeased with my play. I may have tilted away one buy in, but I ended up down 10 buyins. It was run-bad of epic proportion. The biggest pot I lost was only for 110bb, it wasn't like I was getting it in super light and deep and losing 2BI at a time. Just ridiculous, but whatever, it can't last forever, and I guess if this makes the fish think they can beat this game, the more power to them.

Back to running decent

I've won about $60 over the last 3 days after my 9 buyin downswing. Running halfway decent, not getting into really sticky situations the last few days. I did lose a 2BI hand with my JJ overpair vs an ace high flush draw on the turn, but my equity was only 65 vs 35 so not a terrible beat. Still sucked.

My roll is looking pretty decent, up to around $760 now after cashing out the $600 ($500 deposit + $100 reload bonus). I'm still #2 on the stars 5nl chart for the month, which is fine. I haven't had a lot of time this week to put in volume, working 12 hour days and getting home, the last thing i want to do is grind for another 3-4 hours. So I've kept my sessions to around 1.5-2 hours max. Just glad the run bad is over!

Run goot over

Okay, run good is over, and I blew a couple buyins from tilt, overall went on a 9 buyin down swing after staying break even for like 9k hands.  Last night was 3 buyin below ev, still won 4.  Kind of crappy.  Lost 3+ buyins in a single hand during the downswing:

Poker Stars, $0.02/$0.05 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players

BTN: $17.13
SB: $7.09
BB: $7.73
UTG: $12.43
Hero (MP): $15.46
CO: $9.45

Pre-Flop: 9 9 dealt to Hero (MP)
UTG raises to $0.15, Hero raises to $0.47, CO folds, BTN calls $0.47, SB calls $0.45, BB folds, UTG calls $0.32
Flop: ($1.93) T 9 7 (4 Players)
SB checks, UTG checks, Hero bets $1.47, BTN calls $1.47, 2 folds
Turn: ($4.87) J (2 Players)
Hero bets $3, BTN calls $3
River: ($10.87) 7 (2 Players)
Hero bets $10, BTN raises to $12.19 and is All-In, Hero calls $0.52 and is All-In

Results: $31.91 Pot ($1.56 Rake)
BTN showed T T and WON $30.35 (+$14.89 NET)
Hero showed 9 9 and LOST (-$15.46 NET)


Gross.  Another great hand vs. an idiot donkey.

Poker Stars, $0.02/$0.05 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 5 Players
BB: $9.66
UTG: $10.18
Hero (CO): $16.38
BTN: $12.95
SB: $5.25

Pre-Flop: J J dealt to Hero (CO)
UTG raises to $0.15, Hero raises to $0.47, 3 folds, UTG calls $0.32
Flop: ($1.01) 4 J 2 (2 Players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $0.77, UTG calls $0.77
Turn: ($2.55) 5 (2 Players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $1.70, UTG raises to $3.85, Hero raises to $10.69, UTG calls $5.09 and is All-In
River: ($20.43) A (2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Results: $20.43 Pot
UTG showed 6 3 and WON $19.42 (+$9.24 NET)
Hero showed J J and WON $1.75 (-$8.43 NET)

Oh well what are you going to do, last night this hand:

Poker Stars, $0.02/$0.05 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
Hero (SB): $12.70
BB: $5.07
UTG: $5
MP: $7.24
CO: $4.86
BTN: $2.67

Pre-Flop: J J dealt to Hero (SB)
UTG folds, MP raises to $0.15, CO folds, BTN calls $0.15, Hero raises to $0.62, BB folds, MP calls $0.47, BTN calls $0.47
Flop: ($1.91) T 3 4 (3 Players)
Hero bets $1.46, MP calls $1.46, BTN raises to $2.05 and is All-In, Hero calls $0.59, MP calls $0.59
Turn: ($8.06) K (3 Players - 1 is All-In)
Hero checks, MP bets $4.57 and is All-In, Hero calls $4.57
River: ($17.20) 2 (3 Players - 2 are All-In)

Results: $17.20 Pot ($0.84 Rake)
Hero showed J J and LOST (-$7.22 NET)
MP showed Q A and WON $16.36 (+$9.12 NET)
BTN showed A 5 and LOST (-$2.67 NET)

Not much I can do when people play ridiculously and I lose to coolers/bad beats. I'll claw my way back up. I think i dropped down to 2nd overall for the month at Stars 5NL. I can still make #1 if I keep my head straight.

HEEEEEEEATER

Massive heater continues.  At one point i was running 35BB/100+ over around 1600 hands.

Love the weekends!

Thats the good news.  Now the bad news.. I traded 27.50 at PS for 27.50 at ftp just to mess around on rush poker FR since reading a thread at DC about how soft it was.  Whatever, I quit that site months ago to move to Stars because of the just absolutely sick run bad (I was like 20 buyins below EV it was just sick) and I go there, and the run bad continues something fierce.  F that site, I'm done with it.  Their rake system sucks anyway at the micros, I just figured if it was softer it would make up for it, but wth, I just made 30+ dollars an hour tonight lol, no way ftp will compare unless I play 25NL+, and I definitely don't want to transfer my roll over to that shithole.   I am just really happy my run good is continuing.  Hopefully I can clear another 100 over the next two days, will make for a $150 weekend... Nice pocket change!

Moved into #1 5NL Stars for the month

So I am now solidly #1 at 5NL (lol) on Stars.  Something tells me I should be able to beat the games at 25NL if I just made the jump and just dealt with whatever variance throws at me, and learn to adapt to the increased aggression.  I may make that a goal for January if I'm going to try to make a run for SN.  But 5NL is such easy money and it's not stressful at all, so even if I can make a little more at 25NL, maybe I just save that for when I'm not mentally drained (which I usually am after work).

10NL is definitely not worth my time, if I'm going to move up I'll just make the jump to 25NL.  For now, I think I'll just milk this gravy train til 2011.

First Time Goldstar

Made Goldstar for the first time this month.  Have been putting in some decent volume, but working like mad too at my day job is cramping my style, so not really playing as much as I'd really like to at times.  I guess I'm addicted to the grind.  Even though I make 3-4x at my day job what I make grinding the micros, I still find it a rather interesting game and it's a hobby that's fun and actually makes money.  How many hobbies do you know that MAKE money?  They are pretty far and few between imo.


Grafs for the month.

If you are on Stars, don't forget to purchase the 50 billion hand bonus, $50 for 3000 fpp works out to like .0166c per fpp, which is better than anything in the store.  I got the reload bonus this month ($100) plus $50 stellar awards, plus the $50 bonus, so I have already netted $500 for this month.  Gf's birthday is coming up and I really want to buy her a new laptop (yes, we're practically married so this isn't to extravagant imo).  But I've got a lot of bills since she's still going to school and I'm trying to pay off my debts so I don't have to worry about it and can take some shots at 25nl next year.  Maybe I can win the 30k freeroll this weekend? :)  Going to try for the 100k freeroll too now that I qualify for the first time.  I think my odds are better than 1:xxxx people entering, so realistically it's a helluva lot better odds than the lottery.  Just need some run goot!!!!

last two days ~5500 hands, $57 profit so over 10BB/100.  Not bad.  I am going to be #1 this month on stars 5NL.