End of Month

12 Games tonight.
Only 1 final table and a 4th place cash
7*45 mans and 5*90.


Date 30-Jun-09
Games Played 12
Av Profit -$6.79
Av Stake $15.96
Av ROI -43%
Profit -$81.50

Not a good way to end the month.

First month just trying to play just sngs to build the bankroll.

Totals so far below


Games Played 116
Av Profit $6.39
Av Stake $12.25
Av ROI 52%
Total Profit $760.08

Actualy won some before I started this task so total profit for the month was $1,071.25.

Started the month with two step 4 WSOP tickets on Pokerstars which didnt amount to much. Did get a step 5 from one of them but it was not to be.

Weekend and Monday play

No poker over the weekend. On Friday I was going to play but I had a few beers and found the discipline not even log onto the PC when I got home. Saturday was a great day. Train from London to Burnley for my Grandma’s surprise 80th birthday party. I also managed to fit in a quick few hours at a friend’s wedding as well with the reception at the new premiership ground (yippee) of Burnley -Turf Moor.
Monday – After I finished work I was itching to play. Although I delayed it a bit while I watched Andy Murray seesaw back and forward in his game. In the end I had to play and watch at the same time.
Things started of bad but ended on a high. Total played 7 games:
1*$12 90 man
2*$10 45 man
1* $6.5 90 man
2* $24 45 man
1* $24 90 man

I bombed out of the first one in just 5 hands. I flopped bottom set on a flop of A,Q,9 and got it all in against A,Q with Q turning. Say bye bye.

Some of the other were bad as well. All in with over pair v flush draw. Then I had a few ropey ones but after a few hours I was on 2 final tables. 1 45 man with the top 6 paying and I was chip leader going in. That didn’t go to well and I was out after 3 hands!! FFS muppet.

The last one was the best one to get a good score in the $24 90 man. I had gotten very lucky in this with 2 table left with a 2 way aipf. I had a,q and 2 people covered but the chip leader called as well with a,k!! The board came with a nice st8 for all of us J. I started to get real aggressive on the Ft and building up a nice stack. I ended up finishing 2nd to give me some profit from the night.

I have finished a few of these 2nd now and may need to calm down the aggression when I get heads up to try and trap more to get a hold of the big prize. Anyway here is a breakdown from the night.

Date 29-Jun-09
Games Played 7
Av Profit $38.21
Av Stake $17.07
Av ROI 224%
Profit $267.50

I am hoping to get a few games in tonight as well and keep building on the good month so far.

Bad day

Was super busy at work all day. Met a friend after for some delightful Nando's food. Always good. I need a new phone and will try to scope out an iphone over the next few days. I think it will either be that of a Blackberry. Not that i need it that much for e-mails as there is no way I will be linking it up to my work!

Got home and fired up 8 games. :(

Date 25-Jun-09
Games Played 8
Av Profit -$15.50
Av Stake $15.75
Av ROI -98%
Profit -$124.00

1) Button shoves (88) I shove over with A9 and BB then calls and has us both covered wakes up with AK. GG me 11th!! I would have beat the button as an ace flopped.
2) Cripple on a board of 8 3 10. I have QQ and other guy as Q10. River 10!
3) cant remeber
4) all in from button with AQ, Sb wake up with Ak
5) aipf A10s called by JJ.
6) aipf KK called by Q10s. hits flush!
7) small blind pushes all in which was odd I call with A9 he has Aj.
8) The best one till last -


Full Tilt Poker Game #13027854766: $5,000 Guarantee (96581669), Table 38 - 30/60 - Pot Limit Hold'em - 17:38:07 ET - 2009/06/25
Seat 1: icehawk (5,300)
Seat 2: ramagem (5,573)
Seat 3: younggunzosu22 (7,325)
Seat 4: Hero (1,894)
Seat 5: Try_Tilt_Me (4,066)
Seat 6: Joker1974 (268)
Joker1974 posts the small blind of 30
icehawk posts the big blind of 60
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [Ts As]
ramagem folds
younggunzosu22 raises to 180
Hero calls 180
Try_Tilt_Me calls 180
Joker1974 folds
icehawk folds
*** FLOP *** [7s 5s 6s]
younggunzosu22 has 15 seconds left to act
younggunzosu22 bets 360
Hero calls 360
Try_Tilt_Me has 15 seconds left to act
Try_Tilt_Me folds
*** TURN *** [7s 5s 6s] [Qd]
younggunzosu22 checks
Hero bets 425
younggunzosu22 raises to 2,625
Hero calls 929, and is all in
younggunzosu22 shows [9s 8s]
Hero shows [Ts As]
Uncalled bet of 1,271 returned to younggunzosu22
*** RIVER *** [7s 5s 6s Qd] [2d]
younggunzosu22 shows a straight flush, Nine high
Hero shows a flush, Ace high
younggunzosu22 wins the pot (4,058) with a straight flush, Nine high
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4,058 Rake 0
Board: [7s 5s 6s Qd 2d]
Seat 1: icehawk (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 2: ramagem didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: younggunzosu22 showed [9s 8s] and won (4,058) with a straight flush, Nine high
Seat 4: Hero showed [Ts As] and lost with a flush, Ace high
Seat 5: Try_Tilt_Me (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 6: Joker1974 (small blind) folded before the Flop


Thats was all! I guess I should have stayed out longer!!

Gym today 3k run the weights.

Finished watching Season 8 of scrubs. Always sad to see the end of a show. Although I have heard they may bring it back. Time to watch the end of CSI Season 9. They should finish this now as well since Grissom has left as well as a few of the other characters.

laters

24th June

24th June

Only had time to play for 30 mins but I didnt even need that. I played 3 quick $7.5 super turbos and donked out of all of them in about 10 mins. I have decided I hate them and will endeavour not to play anymore even if I am short of time. So $-22.5 for the day.

After that it was transformers time. I like the movie. It was longggggggggg so I am am glad I got there 10 mins early so I could wolf down a KFC. I liked the film. The story line wasn't as good as the first but there was lots of action. some of the scenes were too fast for there own good because so much is happening but all in all enjoyable brainless fun.

So far this week the gym has been going well.
Mon - 3k run (15mins), 1k row 4k bike
Tue - 3k run (15mins) then weights
Today - 6k run (30mins)

I'm BACK

Well its only been a year. I cant believe its been that long. I just checked the date of the last post and it was last July. From now on hopefully it wont be that long before I post again.

Well a lot has happened since then. I have played a bit of poker online and live. I had my biggest cash in a tournament in February. I had some hols from work and went to Vegas for a week. The Venetian deepstack was on and I wanted to at least try one tourney. I did want to pony up the $330 to buy in direct so I entered a few satellites. The event I wanted to play started at 12. I entered my last sat at 11am and finally won a seat. In the end I paid enough in the sat to buy in to the comp but who cares. The tourney started and I played the best poker I can remember for the next 16 hours. We stopped when we got down to 9 till the next day and I was 2nd in chips. The next day we came back played one hand and then everyone decided to chop it based on the chip counts. I ended up with just over $12,000 and was very pleased. Although I am still trying to get an ITIN number to get some cash back that was withheld.

Online I have just played little bits. This month to try and get back into playing more I decided to take all my BR on fulltilt and try to spin it up playing just SnG using some guidelines in order not to go broke. some of the other blogs I have read have done similar and it sounded like a good challenge.

Similar to other I will only play
MTT buyin no greater than 2% of my BR
SnG no greater than 5% of my BR.

Since the 3rd June I have played:


Games Played Av Profit Av Stake Av ROI Total Profit
86 $8.11 $11.35 71% 713.29

Today

Date 23-Jun-09
Games Played 9
Av Profit $33.86
Av Stake $13.42
Av ROI 252%
Profit $304.70

All is going well so far. I have been playing mostly 45 and 90 man sng on fulltilt.

I am hoping to get to play every few days and then post after.