4th operation

nah there's no way i won't get supernova, i was just ranting that i might not have it by November 6, which is when the 4th quarterly freeroll tournament is going down. there's a million dollar prize pool, so i'd guess that's like a free $100-$150 entry and i don't wanna miss out!

so the last 24 hours have been very good on the tables, and i'm solidly back in the black for the month of september. 19,989 VPP's to go until Supernova!

It's not so much the $ value of the buy-in that's so awesome, it's the soft field you get to play in for an obviously great prize pool. I won a satellite and played the last one and it was so soft. Maybe I just had good tables but I was shocked by how badly everyone was playing.

So yeah, even if you don't make Supernova by then, you should still satellite in.

that's awesome courtie, do you remember how many players were in the last freeroll tourney?

and also dropped 8BI yesterday to put me back in the red. it's hard to know whether you are running bad or just playing bad sometimes, like in my case I've basically been breakeven for the last four months after starting out the year +4k. no definite idea about what's going on here..

No sorry, I totally don't remember! It's definitely a big field, though.

On Friday September 24 Lords of the Realm 2, Siege Pack came in the mail. I ordered this old school computer game from amazon and was really looking forward to playing, and coupled with the fatigue from grinding I hadn't played poker in almost 10 days.

That ended today; I played 500 hands and finished down 1BI. I played a little PLO as well and won some there, so overall it was a pretty good 'return session'. Seeing as i took such an extended break it's probably unlikely I'll be able to get supernova before the Nov 6 Freeroll, and I'm no longer planning on it.

I'm excited that stars has changed the way they reward FPP bonuses and can't wait for the day I get supernova and instantly receive $2500!

my last update was a little incomplete. for the record:

net for September: -200
current BR: 1.2k
VPP to go: 18k

still on a semi-hiatus from poker; I've got exams this week so it's gonna be another light week at best for poker

It's now been about 6 months since I've made money playing poker... about 150k hands. I know this because I know roughly how much I made each month (Apr +1700, May +300, June -2300, July +450, August +500, Sept -200). So far in October I'm down 250, most of it at PLO. I also dabbled in 100nl this weekend and that didn't work out.

This weekend I put in 3k hands, almost half my volume this month. With 5.5k VPP to go for platinumstar this month and a busy week ahead, it's gonna be a challenge to get in the volume! PLO is actually great for racking up VPP's so I'll definitely be playing plenty of that through the rest of the month (right now I'm averaging 1 VPP for every 1.5hands of 50plo).

I read through some earlier entries in my blog today; in May I was projecting 20k in profits for 2010. Here in October, 10k in profits would be outstanding! I'm up slightly over 4k so far, and I have 2.5k in bonuses that are basically a guarantee. Oh well, it's all good overall.

lol my last few entries have been pretty uninspired. this one is much more positive

I slacked off on putting in volume throughout the month, and started Friday needing to clear 3.2k VPP's for platinumstar. I doubted it was even worth the effort to try and clear all these VPP's, and considered not even trying. But, after 12.5k hands at 50nl I'm finished and quite ahead of schedule too. I even managed to win a few BI's over the two day mega grind, thanks to running great again I'm particularly happy I managed to play my B/A game while grinding this weekend, as thoughtless spew calls/jams have historically been my downfall when I sit down to play for several hours in a day.

October ended on a really good note and I'm headed into November needing 11.2k more VPP's for Supernova, really motivated to play poker again!

October Results

25k hands of NL, about 1k of PLO

1k hands 100nl: -100 (euro losses)
24k hands 50nl: +875 (800 of this profit came from euro tables)
1k hands 50plo: approx. -200 (no PT for omaha yet)

Good thing I run my best on those euro tables!

Just wanna post I owned this fish while stoned out of my mind. Playing high seemingly didn't affect my play much tonight, probably because I'd already played 12k hands before I sat down to finish out my VPP clearing. I found out it's really fun to win money at poker when you're really high!

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (5 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

saw flop | saw showdown

SB ($47.60)
Hero (BB) ($50.75)
UTG ($53.75)
MP ($50)
Button ($53.80)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 10, J
3 folds, SB calls $0.25, Hero bets $2, SB calls $1.50

Flop: ($4) 10, 9, 7 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $3, SB calls $3

Turn: ($10) 8 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $6.50, SB calls $6.50

River: ($23) Q (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $24.50, SB calls $24.50

Total pot: $72 | Rake: $2

Results:
SB mucked 9, 6 (straight, ten high).
Hero had 10, J (flush, Queen high).
Outcome: Hero won $70

What? Being stoned doesn't render you incapable of value betting the uber nuts vs a moran?

Well it obv does a little bit since your turn sizing should be bigger lolz

lol true carroters I should've 3/4PSB the turn on that very wet board, being as he's a fish and is calling with the same frequency anyways. I think i was extra proud of that hand at the time i posted it cuz of the marijuana effects

grinded a little more today and the magic continued, 2.5k hands +2BI. thanks to euros being awesome my profits for october are now 1k USD!

Today during part of my session I played CasualCay HU, a SSNL crusher who's up almost 40k on stars. It was a fun match cuz I ran well and finished +3BI He complimented my play after the table filled up and our match finished. I didn't know how good he was until I looked him up on PTR afterwards, or honestly I probably would've found another table!

Best hand of the match imo. At this point I had the momentum and felt I had a good spot to trap and let him try and take away the pot

PokerStars Game #51982563141: Hold'em No Limit (€0.25/€0.50 EUR) - 2010/10/31 19:35:29 CT [2010/10/31 20:35:29 ET]
Table 'Xanthippe' 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: CasualCay (€50 in chips)
Seat 6: VI-Popsmak (€134.50 in chips)
CasualCay: posts small blind €0.25
VI-Popsmak: posts big blind €0.50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to VI-Popsmak [As Ah]
CasualCay: raises €1 to €1.50
VI-Popsmak: raises €3 to €4.50
CasualCay: calls €3
*** FLOP *** [9h Kh 3h]
VI-Popsmak: checks
CasualCay: bets €6
VI-Popsmak: calls €6
*** TURN *** [9h Kh 3h] [2d]
VI-Popsmak: checks
CasualCay: bets €13.50
VI-Popsmak: raises €110.50 to €124 and is all-in
CasualCay: calls €26 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (€84.50) returned to VI-Popsmak
*** RIVER *** [9h Kh 3h 2d] [2h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
VI-Popsmak: shows [As Ah] (a flush, Ace high)
CasualCay: shows [6d Kd] (two pair, Kings and Deuces)
VI-Popsmak collected €99.50 from pot

I'm still feeling the run good in November. I've been playing a combination of 50/100nl; 8k hands, +700 at the euro tables. BE in the dollar games. How fortunate I have been to run good in the games with higher value currency!

Went to the casino Saturday and lost 280 in about 90 minutes in a 2-20 spread game. QQ<KK, AA>64o. Haha man those tables were insanely good, but I only brought 300 with me. It was probably for the best I didn't bring more, because I suspect a >500 loss would've significantly affected my poker mindset.

I am arranging to spend my next semester studying abroad in Australia! I've still gotta finish my paperwork and sign up for classes this week, plus study for two tests. Poker volume will probably be lagging this week!

With the new way Stars rewards bonuses, I may wait until 250k FPPs for the 4k bonus. This would cover almost half of my costs for school next semester, which would be sick because if things go well with cards between now and February I may not have to borrow money to finance my Australian experience.

Hello VI-Popsmak,

Following our recent communication, we regret to inform you that the bank account from which the check below was issued has been closed. In order to make the funds available to you without delay, the amount of this cashout has been re-credited to your PokerStars account with an additional 10% bonus as a goodwill gesture for any inconvenience this may cause you.

Transaction #: 46987765
Amount: $1500.00

Pokerstars is so cool for comping me $150 for the inconvenience of not getting my check out to me when I asked for it. I'm glad they're competing for my business

November Update:

I am running very good! Poker is going great so far in November; I'm up 2k over 15k hands, mostly 100nl.

My preflop stats: 25/20 8% 3bet (when 4-6 players at the table). I started the year 21/17 4-5%, which shows I've been successful in 'opening up my game' over the course of the year.

I'm currently rolled for 100nl, though I plan to move down if I go on a -5BI swing. More importantly I'm as confident as ever that I can become a long term winner at 100nl.

5.1k VPP to go until Supernova

I'm up a handsome 20BI at 100nl this month, running well but playing ohh so much better than I have in the past this year when I've moved up. I'm playing totally fearlessly, yet making big folds. barring a trainwreck finish to the month this is going to be my best month of the year!

I've reduced the amount of big mistakes in the form of spewy calls/shoves, though I made a bad check/shove in a 3bet pot deep at the very end of my session tonight. my opponents range was polarized and I had a pair+FD.. should've check/called.

The best news of all though is I'm 1k VPP away from the mighty supernova. Then I can begin getting FPP's for the 4k bonus

nice job!! I'm jealous of your supernova.

Vi - awesome news! You're the man...keep it up

thanks kmizz and courtie, i have now achieved my goal of the year which was to get Supernova!

I've been thinking about this accomplishment since yesterday afternoon; my thoughts so far:

1). consistency is soooo important to succeeding in almost anything
2). I have the potential to set myself up to not have to work <$15/hour jobs if I can maintain the hand volume I did this year (hopefully the player pool/legislation doesn't significantly change while I'm in my twenties!)
3). When I'm sipping a Foster's on some Australian beach in February, I'll have the fish at pokerstars to thank. God bless the fish

Happy Thanksgiving!

grats on supernova man. i remember the first time i got it, feels amazing to hit that target.

gl moving forward and enjoy them fpps!

The end of November did turn out to be a semi train wreck, at least on Pokerstars. I was up 23BI at 100nl at one point, and managed to finish +12.5 (11.5 in euros tho). +7BI at 50nl, all over 40k hands. despite running lukewarm at best the final week of the month, the major disappointment is that i feel i didn't play my A game for a couple of those sessions and I paid the price. Additionally I still have bad discipline for moving down in limits when I should; earlier I said I'd move down when I hit a -5BI patch. Now that I'm -7BI I have decided I won't play 100nl on the weekdays until I can get my bankroll consolidated and pay for a few major items (vacation + overdue taxes).

I heard about the Rush Week promo on Full Tilt so I put $1200 on to grind 100nl and earn the $250 bonus. Today is day three and so far it's going great, I'm clearly getting the old account-reactivated-run good. +4.5BI over 4k hands.

All in all November was definitely my best month of poker this year. I put in about 45k hands, and I played my best during most of those sessions. I've cut back on smoking, upped the fitness, and got Supernova. I'm very satisfied with my progress, and look forward to working hard in December when I'm not busy writing papers or studying for finals!

let me know if you got my PM, "sent messages" box isn t working apparently

yea boss I got your pm

zomg if you need ftp cash anytime soon in exchange for ps, let me know!!! need to get rid of some damn ftp money.

Originally Posted by Genitruc

let me know if you got my PM, "sent messages" box isn t working apparently

For future reference, I believe messages only appear in 'sent' once they are opened by recipient. I could be wrong.

Originally Posted by courtiebee

zomg if you need ftp cash anytime soon in exchange for ps, let me know!!! need to get rid of some damn ftp money.

I'm in the same boat at the moment, just gonna withdraw all my tilt funds when this promo ends tomorrow and then reload my stars acct


quick update: almost +10BI at the rush pokers. JJ>KK, QQ>AA. thanks for the run good!!

I played one of my best sessions ever last night.. +4BI 100nl on stars over 800 hands. Although I was on the right side of coolers and my sometimes opponents made their hands obvious to me, I could literally find only two minor mistakes (slightly too small sizing on one of my 4bets/3bet JJ vs reg I just stacked.. didn't want to get AI PF). I just called it a night after that session because it felt good to end on such a high note

Today I finished the rest of the hands I needed to earn the $250 rush poker bonus. +9BI overall on Full Tilt since I started late last month over 12.7k hands, mostly because I ran like god tho I'm also mostly happy with the quality of my play. Over 1800 hands today I was down half a BI, playing my B game.

From here on out the plan is to grind on Pokerstars whenever I get a chance. My goal for the month is to play 50k hands, which should put me within 30k FPP's of my bonus by the start of January. That will give me plenty of time to finish clearing and withdraw it before I leave for Australia. I haven't extensively studied the costs of the semester abroad or what my exact financial situation is, but I expect it to cost me roughly 12k (parents offered to cover my plane tickets+half my tuition) and I currently have 6k in liquid cash. The full ride via poker is a legitimate possibility if I'm fortunate enough to avoid any prolonged run bad over the next two months!

I believe this is the biggest pot I've won this year, in a session where I played my B game and still came up 4.5BI. God forbid I stop running like He's clicking the buttons (lol God joke)

pot was in euros too

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $1.00 BB (3 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

saw flop | saw showdown

SB ($436.15)
Hero (BB) ($200.50)
Button ($100)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 7, 9
1 fold, SB bets $4, Hero calls $3

Flop: ($8) 2, 9, 9 (2 players)
SB bets $6, Hero raises to $19, SB calls $13

Turn: ($46) 8 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $31, SB calls $31

River: ($108) 8 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $146.50 (All-In), SB calls $146.50

Total pot: $401 | Rake: $1

Results:
SB had Q, Q (two pair, Queens and nines).
Hero had 7, 9 (full house, nines over eights).
Outcome: $401 returned to Hero

das schippitz

Nice!

thanks

-6BI tonight over 1k hands, almost exclusively in USD thankfully. I made a couple mistakes tonight, but definitely played better than I did yesterday. I'll grind 50nl tomorrow and reevaluate on Friday whether I wanna go back up then. My confidence wasn't affected by this single session, but 1-2 more like it in succession would be financially and morally ruinous. See where I'm at when the weekend comes

Oh yeah so I make a God joke and the very next session I laid an egg. Just wanted to point that out

I've been breakeven since my last update, which is fine by me considering some of the spectacularly bad stackoffs I've made. I'm too tired to play tonight but tomorrow I'll be back in the trenches. School and work have been keeping me occupied for the most part; I'll be working more once the semester ends but I'll still have more time to grind than I do now! The challenge of getting 250k FPP's before mid January is starting to loom larger, since I'll need to give the check time to get to me before I leave for Australia (Feb 2nd). I currently have 180k which means a minimum of 55k hands at 100nl over the next 30 days. hmm... I'll have to think on this more but as a last resort I'd take two $1500 bonuses. Still that would suck

I wonder if I'll have any problems getting my checks and FPP gear from Full Tilt. I was listening to steel108's Leggo podcast the other day and he said he has a 26k check from Full Tilt and he doesn't know why he hasn't gotten it yet. that scared me

hey, im kinda in the same boat as you trying to get 250k. currently 220k fpp but i play 50nl now since i get crushed at 100 i think ive seen u on the tables b4.

i go by Vi-Popsmak at the pstars tables my man. Yeah the fpp grind is truly that, a Grind. but I loves the monies

thanks for chimin in

o, im ty4mybr on stars. ive played u b4 but i dont think ive had any big pots against you. lets help each other crush 100nl lol...

yea i looked you up in my database, we've actually never play a pot >20bb or so it seems.. the hands i do have on you are just you getting coolered when you flop sets

+6BI over 2.5k hands at 100nl since yesterday. run good is a curious thing sometimes, and you just never know when it's gonna happen to you


i think my estimation of the number of hands i need to play was a little high. now i think 50k is the max i'll have to play, and it may be less depending on how often the euro games are running.

finals are really cramping my grinding style! I'd love to just play play play right now but responsibilities are calling for my time. All the same there should be some time tomorrow. now I'm gonna do a little studying. peace out

In my last two sessions I'm down 5BI. After looking over my 100nl results since October, and considering my financial needs, I have come to the conclusion that I ought to move down to 50nl for a little while. My winrate at 100nl since October is 1.9BB/100 (45k hands) and I've ran good over that sample which is a strong argument that my 'true' winrate is lower than that. Also I cannot afford a serious patch of coolers at 100nl without serious consequences to paying for school next semester. Not to mention my last two sessions were semi crushing, so it's possible I've not been playing my best poker lately.

I'm happy I've come to this conclusion BEFORE I was in the red for the month! I'm up 6BI on stars and 4.5BI on full tilt at 100nl in December. Looking forward to stress free grinding of 50nl, and I'll figure out the FPP bonus situation in a couple weeks in regards to maybe moving back up to clear it. My first thought is that I'll play 2-3more tables and that'll mitigate most of the difference in rate of FPP accrual.

Ahhhh feels good

I'm in NYC at my friends house. I don't have my computer so I don't have exact numbers for how december went in front of me.

In my last session of 2010 I played a $55 tourney on stars and finished 32/1700 for $155. I lost a flip AK<99 for a top 5 chipstack. Oh well it was a blast.

I didn't stay disciplined and only play 50nl, but I believe I finished up a couple BI's at 100nl over the last two weeks of the month. I did grind some 50nl too and I think that actually went worse lol, but when I get back I'll post actual results.

I won't be able to play again until at least the 7th, then I'll grind maniacally until the end of January (and then I leave for Australia)!

So far my impression of NYC is that it's a really cool place to visit but I would not like living here. I'll be here for 4 more days tho so maybe that'll change.

quick update: ballin hard without my PT3.. having a great January so far at 100nl!

played a couple tourneys that haven't panned out for a big score yet. having a blast and enjoying the run good immensely

You play a combination of Tilt and Stars @ 100NL? At Stars, do you play 50bb max, 100bb max, or 250bb max?

I only played 1wk on Full Tilt and that was for the $250 Rush Poker bonus. On stars i play 40-100bb tables exclusively. I have been a small winner in these games since June 2010, and they seem to be getting easier all the time

good news: I received my last check from Full Tilt today, so I got all my money successfully off the site. I had been concerned about the safety of my funds after listening to a December podcast on leggopoker but those fears were unfounded.

good news: was up 2.6k and already cleared 6k VPP in January. Over the last week I ran ridiculously hot

bad news: just had a -6.5BI session (luckily all USD) over 600hands at 100nl on my recently restored computer. I took a lot more marginal risks in this session but mostly it was lol pot odds and horrible turn cards that cost me so much $$. looking back I only became tilted at the very end when I got it in with 77 on T743ddd versus a nit for 130bb after he just stacked me KK<AA -- he had the nut flush.

I'm considering playing a high stakes SNG for the entertainment. Even if I lose a $200 SNG I'll still have ~35BI for 100nl. I've played this stake SNG before and there are definitely fish.

nothing wrong with taking a shot if you are rolled and ready.

keep at it man! you've made a lot of progress since you first started this thing. oh yeah, how are those red stars treating you? :P

thanks m2m, there is something about being supernova that motivates me to work harder and not want to take any long breaks which is fantastic.

red stars = never having to flip burgers for $6.50/hr.

BR is now 3.3k after two more losing sessions at 100nl. I played a $100 turbo and cashed but then played some smaller MTT's and didn't cash in any of those. My latest session at 100nl started horribly, but then I made two big folds with QQ that I think saved me 1.5BI's so mentally I feel much better than I did after my big losing session on Monday.

I watched Genitruc run the streets last night and in the process got into some quality discussion. I need to pay greater attention to when my opponents range is polarized and foresee how I can put my opponents into tough spots on the turn/river. The paradigm shift for me was that it's okay to put myself in difficult spots as long as I've put my opponent in an even tougher spot. It's a concept that I've unknowingly been applying when I'm value betting the very bottom of my range but now I should be able to apply it in spots other than thin vbetting. In fact one of my very last hands last night I put out a turn barrel in a 3bet pot with almost no equity because I had a good idea what the top of my opponents range was and how strong my line looked based on the board texture. And he folded!

I thought I'd move down to 50nl after Monday, but that was primarily to recover my confidence. At the moment my confidence has returned so hopefully I return to playing my A game in the near future!

If PokerStars gets rid of shallow tables, which there are rumors circulating that they may, I'm not exaggerating when I say I think you'll start crushing $100NL by comparison if you only minimally table select. The 100bb games will start swimming with fish again and there will just be so much more choice and less reg rock fests. In fact, I'd say just about EVERY player who is winning at 40bb - 100bb can move up one level if they make that change if you're playing 200NL or lower. Now, if your bankroll can't support it, obviously don't make the move, but that's my prediction. Hopefully they do make the change, but good luck either way.

That's great news jason, I really hope stars does the right thing and gets rid of 20-50bb. I must say tho that I am not having much trouble finding fish to sit with, which may just be the result of good table selection. Or it may be because it's January and the fish are chasing the VIP stellar rewards bonuses

Tonight I logged a winning session at 100nl; 1k hands, up half a BI. It isn't a ton but I started out down a BI before I got Genitruc to sweat me. I learned a ton tonight!

- concept of elastic and inelastic board textures and more effectively altering my bet sizing on the turn and river to get more value from my nut hands.
- use of overbet in spots where opp has a highly inelastic calling range
- again, rebluffing against polarized ranges (even tho I chickened out in the one spot where it came up). The ideal example of this is raising Axx flops vs EP open raise + cbet with >110bb stacks. We talked about it last night but honestly I usually need to hear + try things a half dozen times before they start to stick.
- generally messing with the regs with non standard bet sizing
- I got to try exploiting my opponents perception of the flow between me and them and ran some bluffs I normally would not have attempted. Overall this turned out to be a great success and eventually induced a 3bet shove with Ace high from the reg I/we dicked with the most lol

6.7k VPP cleared so far

*I finalized my preparations for Australia today. Classes aren't scheduled to start until the end of February yet I'll be arriving there on Feb 4th!

8k VPP cleared; big session tonight. 2k hands, +1.5BI. Against the fish I either ran into the nuts when their ranges were super polarized or they rivered me. Against the regs I ran really good and took their money!

My favorite hands:

opp is going for SNE this year I think, since he's almost always grinding when I'm on. unsurprisingly he's breakeven over 550k hands. We tangle a lot preflop and he's felted AQ against me before BTN v Blind.

this flop raise isn't repping much. 77/33/occasionally AQ/mayyybe KQ/QJ/QT. based on the fact he's somewhat passive postflop I think it's unlikely he'd raise worse than KQ on the flop. I have the backdoor FD/straight draw + Ace high so I decide to 'put him to the test' -- he folds.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $1.00 BB (6 handed) - PokerStars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

saw flop | saw showdown

Hero (BB) ($155.90)
UTG ($38.50)
MP ($130.20)
CO ($101.50)
Button ($114.70)
SB ($311.10)

Preflop: Hero is BB with A, J
3 folds, Button bets $2, 1 fold, Hero raises to $9, Button calls $7

Flop: ($18.50) 7, 3, Q (2 players)
Hero bets $12, Button raises to $24, Hero raises to $146.90 (All-In), 1 fold

Total pot: $66.50 | Rake: $3

Results:
Hero didn't show A, J.
Outcome: Hero won $63.50


And then the biggest pot of the night. I do a CiB 5bet just so CO has to factor in the 2% chance I misclicked. The stars really aligned on this hand

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $1.00 BB (6 handed) - PokerStars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

saw flop | saw showdown

Hero (Button) ($201.55)
SB ($39.65)
BB ($100)
UTG ($100)
MP ($101.50)
CO ($146)

Preflop: Hero is Button with A, A
2 folds, CO bets $3, Hero calls $3, SB calls $2.50, BB raises to $14, CO raises to $29, Hero raises to $44, SB calls $36.65 (All-In), 1 fold, CO raises to $146 (All-In), Hero calls $102

Flop: ($345.65) 2, 9, 3 (3 players, 2 all-in)

Turn: ($345.65) 3 (3 players, 2 all-in)

River: ($345.65) 2 (3 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: $345.65 | Rake: $3

Results:
Hero had A, A (two pair, Aces and threes).
SB had A, 5 (two pair, threes and twos).
CO had K, K (two pair, Kings and threes).
Outcome: Hero won $342.65

nh SB, such a bad beat for him that the straight draw whiffed.

Just finished another ugly session, 1k hands -7BI. I have 3.1k online, enough to continue playing 100nl with my 4k bonus on the way (25k FPP to go!). And besides the very last hand where I shoved top two on a third spade river into a river flush in a 340bb pot I mostly played well. It was a really bad shove -- and that's why I quit my session, but in the heat of the moment I thought he might hero call me with AA/TPTK because of how much I'd been battling him as well as having shown down at least one slowplayed hand.


coolers include AKs<AA 120bb, 22<77 flopped sets 140bb, KK<QQ for 110bb, AQ<AK versus a fish in 3bet pot for 90bb.


9.8k VPP cleared so far. By the end of the week I'd like to have cleared at least 12, hopefully more like 14k VPP's. My goal for this year is to clear 200,000VPPs, which should result in me earning three $4k bonuses +$3600 in stellar rewards. If I can win at 1BB/100 over 600k hands of 100nl that will amount to $12k in profits. Not to mention once my online roll reaches 12k I'll try moving to 200nl, and as I continue to improve I should expect my winrate to increase.

I could reasonably make 25k this year if I continue to treat poker as my job. Playing 600k hands will probably take 1200 hours, but that would still be a fantastic per hour income. All of this is contingent upon pokerstars not being blacked out from the U.S., and assuming I don't report my poker income to the government. All I can do is take it day by day I suppose...

won some of it back this morning over 1k hands at 100nl. my redline is tanking into negative territory though so my next 1k hands are going to be at 50nl!


hardcore suckout: this hand came immediately after I cold 4bet his SB 3bet. I thought he'd give my 5bet shove a ton of credit, or at the very least that his 4bet range would be highly polarized and my 56s would have decent equity against QQ+/AK. It didn't matter

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $1.00 BB (6 handed) - PokerStars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

saw flop | saw showdown

Button ($116.15)
Hero (SB) ($135.85)
BB ($100)
UTG ($103)
MP ($105.85)
CO ($100)

Preflop: Hero is SB with 5, 6
3 folds, Button bets $3, Hero raises to $11, 1 fold, Button raises to $24, Hero raises to $135.85 (All-In), Button calls $92.15 (All-In)

Flop: ($233.30) 6, 6, 5 (2 players, 2 all-in)

Turn: ($233.30) 2 (2 players, 2 all-in)

River: ($233.30) 7 (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: $233.30 | Rake: $3

Results:
Button had A, Q (one pair, sixes).
Hero had 5, 6 (full house, sixes over fives).
Outcome: Hero won $230.30

Here's my big bluff of the session: BB is the table fish and BTN seems to open a lot in LP. I have no postflop reads on BTN and I haven't done anything out of line over the 15 hands I've been at the table. Ordinarily I'd shut down after the flop without more info but I thought the board texture was very good for a three barrel bluff. top of BTN's range after flatting the turn is AQ I'd think, and he may fold worse Qx to a river shove.

PokerStars Game #56489557205: Hold'em No Limit (€0.50/€1.00 EUR) - 2011/01/24 11:36:38 CT [2011/01/24 12:36:38 ET]
Table 'Guinevere XXV' 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: kizza_om (€200.05 in chips)
Seat 2: graebsch (€112.35 in chips)
Seat 3: VI-Popsmak (€100 in chips)
Seat 4: EyecedTea (€42.75 in chips)
Seat 5: BIackWater (€100 in chips)
Seat 6: TheCleaner77 (€102 in chips)
VI-Popsmak: posts small blind €0.50
EyecedTea: posts big blind €1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to VI-Popsmak [As 3c]
BIackWater: folds
TheCleaner77: folds
kizza_om: folds
graebsch: raises €2 to €3
VI-Popsmak: raises €8 to €11
EyecedTea: folds
graebsch: calls €8
*** FLOP *** [Qs 4s 8c]
VI-Popsmak: bets €11
graebsch: calls €11
*** TURN *** [Qs 4s 8c] [5c]
VI-Popsmak: bets €23
graebsch: calls €23
*** RIVER *** [Qs 4s 8c 5c] [9c]
VI-Popsmak: bets €55 and is all-in

Wow one of the best sessions ever! +5BI in 1k hands at 50nl, truly ran the streets for this 90min session

31/28/10% 3bet + running good again, and totally unafraid of the $$$

listening to Rage Against the Machine probably played some role too

i took a 2BI shot at 200nl last night because my confidence was very high. after 400 hands I ended down a little more than a BI. There were only two hands I question whether I made the proper play, so despite being a losing session it wasn't a failure.

got back to 100nl this morning and +3.5BI in 600 hands. there were some ridiculous fish on the euro tables today and I cleaned up.

My morning session: down 2BI. Badly misplayed two pair for a stack, and the second one possibly overplayed JJ and stacked off to KK in a 4b pot.

First evening session: 50nl, down 1.75BI. I did a lot of experimenting with bluffs/bet sizing, overall this session went well.

Night session: down 1.5BI in 80 hands as a result of backfired aggression before my internet disconnected, strangely untilted through the process. Got the internets running again and played 500 hands, down 0.5BI. Ran amazing for the first 200 hands, then multiple coolers until I decided enough was enough.

-$650 (euros ) on the day, after shipping my friends $100 so they could play my online BR is 3.1k. First session will be at 50nl tmrw

gogogo, more run good vs regs plz!

have an awesome trip

don t forget to ask me for some contact info if you venture into brisbane!

recap of yesterdays poker:

played two $3+R satellites without success.

played a $115 1tbl turbo and took that down, +$360.

IZ NICE