I hereby declare my losing streak to be over. My February and March were really bad (down 1k and 1.5k, respectively which is bad at my bankroll level), and I decided to stop playing online until I was winning again. I played 5 sessions in April and May for an average loss of $110. In June, I finally started at least breaking even in the cash games, though I was down 1.7k on the month, due to the WSOP and Binions tournament buyins.
Things finally turned around in July, where I had 7 winning sessions, and my only losing sessions were tournaments. In August, I've had 2 up sessions and 2 down sessions, but my average result is $260 in profit. In cash games, I'm now nearly back to even for the year.
I'm starting to feel like I'm ready to play online again, but I'm thinking of closing out my Full Tilt account, since I don't have rakeback. Chad's been extolling the virtues of rakeback in relation to his Sit-n-go challenge, and I'd like to find a place to play that offers that.
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Thursday, August 16, 2007
Sunday, January 28, 2007
WPBT cash
Well, I made the final table and the money in my first Poker Blogger event, the World Poker Blogger Tour event #1.
I went on two nice streaks, one early-on, which put me in the chip lead for a while, where I got AA a couple times and KK a couple of times. Then, when we were down to 2 tables, I got another streak where short stacks were pushing into me, and I would call with a hand *just* good enough to beat them. 66 vs 55, AT vs A9, etc. I was 2nd in chips going into the final table. I lost a race in a blind vs blind situation, and was back down to average stack, then went card dead for a while. Aside from one exciting moment, I basically folded my way into 5th. My M was about 6 when Mean_G, the big stack at the table raised my blind. I had K9, and thought it was a position raise, and pushed. I was wrong, and he called with AT, and IGH 5th.
The exciting moment was one of two times I dropped the hammer in a bluff reraise. I very rarely bluff reraise in my regular game unless I really smell weakness (which I didn't in either case here), and let me tell you, it really gets the heart pumping to put 40% of your chips at risk with the worst hand!
Anyway, I had fun, and it's always nice to finish in the money. I hope I'll get to play in more of these, and get to know some of the folks better, since I already feel like I know many of them from their blogs.
Raveen took it down. Nice going!
I went on two nice streaks, one early-on, which put me in the chip lead for a while, where I got AA a couple times and KK a couple of times. Then, when we were down to 2 tables, I got another streak where short stacks were pushing into me, and I would call with a hand *just* good enough to beat them. 66 vs 55, AT vs A9, etc. I was 2nd in chips going into the final table. I lost a race in a blind vs blind situation, and was back down to average stack, then went card dead for a while. Aside from one exciting moment, I basically folded my way into 5th. My M was about 6 when Mean_G, the big stack at the table raised my blind. I had K9, and thought it was a position raise, and pushed. I was wrong, and he called with AT, and IGH 5th.
The exciting moment was one of two times I dropped the hammer in a bluff reraise. I very rarely bluff reraise in my regular game unless I really smell weakness (which I didn't in either case here), and let me tell you, it really gets the heart pumping to put 40% of your chips at risk with the worst hand!
Anyway, I had fun, and it's always nice to finish in the money. I hope I'll get to play in more of these, and get to know some of the folks better, since I already feel like I know many of them from their blogs.
Raveen took it down. Nice going!
Friday, October 13, 2006
Going AIP!
One of the media I exploit for my poker edutainment is the Ante Up! podcast. I just started listening about 5 weeks ago, and I'm really enjoying catching up on the back episodes when I have time. They have a great rapport, and the show is a good mix of education/exploration and entertainment.
For the last few weeks, they've been running a mixed tournament series called the Ante-up Intercontinental Poker Series (AIPS). Each week the tournament is a different poker variant, to encourage their listeners to check out some of the other games than just Hold 'Em. This week, the game was "Stud Hi/Lo, 8 or better", or "Stud/8". I guess I probably had an advantage over most of the field, since my local cardroom actually spreads this game, so I've gotten some experience with it in the past 6 months or so.
I got a couple big hands in succession about 40 minutes in, and moved from near the bottom of the field to the top 5. After that, I was able to play big-stack poker, and win a lot of pots through sheer aggression. (This was a good experience for me, because my usual style is much tighter, at least until I get to the short-handed part of the tournament.) By the second break, I had twice as many chips as my closest competitor, and by the time we were down to 10 players, I had half the chips in the tournament. Perhaps needless to say, I won the tournament:
My victory is officially commemorated here. I'm now 6th in the overall player standings, so I'm gonna try to cash again in the next few. After winning the "top banana" trophy for this tournament, now I'm going for the series trophy.
For the last few weeks, they've been running a mixed tournament series called the Ante-up Intercontinental Poker Series (AIPS). Each week the tournament is a different poker variant, to encourage their listeners to check out some of the other games than just Hold 'Em. This week, the game was "Stud Hi/Lo, 8 or better", or "Stud/8". I guess I probably had an advantage over most of the field, since my local cardroom actually spreads this game, so I've gotten some experience with it in the past 6 months or so.
I got a couple big hands in succession about 40 minutes in, and moved from near the bottom of the field to the top 5. After that, I was able to play big-stack poker, and win a lot of pots through sheer aggression. (This was a good experience for me, because my usual style is much tighter, at least until I get to the short-handed part of the tournament.) By the second break, I had twice as many chips as my closest competitor, and by the time we were down to 10 players, I had half the chips in the tournament. Perhaps needless to say, I won the tournament:
My victory is officially commemorated here. I'm now 6th in the overall player standings, so I'm gonna try to cash again in the next few. After winning the "top banana" trophy for this tournament, now I'm going for the series trophy.
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