Since then I've been keen to get some hands in as my volume this year has been poor and the overriding reason for this is laziness. This week I've been grinding like eight hours a day. Yes, eight hours! Like an actual, real job. Unfortunately the action at 2/4+ on PKR has been very dry. 2/4 barely runs in the day time and at night there are only a few tables and anything higher just runs sporadically. Fortunately when tables do run they have been really soft, and I've done okay.
Due to the lack of PKR action I have been playing a bit on Stars and also doing decently. The Stars games differ quite a lot from the PKR games with much more 3/4 betting and generally better regs. Saying that, there's still a good amount of fish floating around and for every Nanonoko type reg who basically has NL 6m solved, there's a load of very mediocre regs (biggest leak I have noticed is bet-sizing mistakes). So basically, there's money to be made from those games, especially if you work at your game. Here's one cool hand from the Stars games, really like how I played it....
Seat 1: TotalBiz ($648.70)
Seat 2: roquemola ($457.70)
Seat 3: gvynt ($400)
Seat 4: verdriet ($449.40)
Seat 5: hotwussy ($433)
Seat 6: knwizz ($145.80)
| Dealer |
| Posts small blind $2 |
| Posts big blind $4 |
Seat 5: hotwussy ($433)
Seat 6: knwizz ($145.80)
Dealt to TotalBiz
Preflop: (Pot: $6)
FOLD hotwussy
RAISE knwizz, to $8
RAISE TotalBiz, to $16
FOLD roquemola
RAISE gvynt, to $50
FOLD verdriet
CALL knwizz, $44
CALL TotalBiz, $36
RAISE knwizz, to $8
RAISE TotalBiz, to $16
FOLD roquemola
RAISE gvynt, to $50
FOLD verdriet
CALL knwizz, $44
CALL TotalBiz, $36
River: (Pot: $1,102.70)
Showdown:
SHOWS gvynt
SHOWS TotalBiz
TotalBiz wins the pot of $248.70
TotalBiz wins the pot of $853
There's been a few random people turning up to play higher stakes and my results had been meh but turned around a bit tonight. Some hands....
Sucky spot vs someone who is keen to get in money with much worse than top pair 2nd kicker.
| Date: | Tuesday, September 27, 09:19:33 ET 2011 |
| Type: | Cash Games |
| Game: | Hold'em NL |
| Table: | 40209670 |
| Blinds: | $10/20 |
Table info:
| Dealer, Posts small blind $10 |
| Posts big blind $20 |
Dealt to Rhymenoceros
Flop: (Pot: $70)
CHECK PaulvanWees
BET Rhymenoceros, $60
RAISE PaulvanWees, to $1,685
CALL Rhymenoceros, $1,625
River: (Pot: $3,440)
Showdown:
SHOWS Rhymenoceros SHOWS PaulvanWees
PaulvanWees wins the pot of $3,449
This one is much more marginal, but then given the game dynamics my hand seemed like the nuts to me. He ended up playing it well, which was probably by accident.
| Dealer, Posts small blind $10 |
| Posts big blind $20 |
Dealt to Rhymenoceros
Flop: (Pot: $110)
CHECK PaulvanWees
BET Rhymenoceros, $80
RAISE PaulvanWees, to $160
RAISE Rhymenoceros, to $240
RAISE PaulvanWees, to $320
CALL Rhymenoceros, $160
River: (Pot: $1,470)
CHECK PaulvanWees
BET Rhymenoceros, $1,238
CALL PaulvanWees, $1,238
Showdown:
SHOWS Rhymenoceros
SHOWS PaulvanWees
PaulvanWees wins the pot of $4,195
SHOWS PaulvanWees
PaulvanWees wins the pot of $4,195
Funny one. He open folded like this just the one time in the match. I actually bellowed in pained laughter when it happened.
Dealt to Rhymenoceros   Preflop: (Pot: $30)RAISE Rhymenoceros, to $50 CALL PaulvanWees, $40 Flop: (Pot: $110)  FOLD PaulvanWees Showdown: Rhymenoceros wins the pot of $119 |
Decent river for me, though I like my post flop bet sizing given the board and the villain.
Dealt to Rhymenoceros
Preflop: (Pot: $30)
RAISE PaulvanWees, to $30
RAISE Rhymenoceros, to $140
CALL PaulvanWees, $120
RAISE Rhymenoceros, to $140
CALL PaulvanWees, $120
River: (Pot: $1,250)
BET Rhymenoceros, $1,360
CALL PaulvanWees, $1,360
Showdown:
SHOWS Rhymenoceros
SHOWS PaulvanWees
Rhymenoceros wins the pot of $3,999
SHOWS PaulvanWees
Rhymenoceros wins the pot of $3,999
Sometimes, what can you do?
| Posts big blind $20 |
| Dealer |
| Posts small blind $10 |
Dealt to Rhymenoceros
Preflop: (Pot: $30)
RAISE TeddyMonroe, to $50
CALL 777andrej777, $40
CALL Rhymenoceros, $30
CALL 777andrej777, $40
CALL Rhymenoceros, $30
Flop: (Pot: $150)
CHECK 777andrej777
CHECK Rhymenoceros
BET TeddyMonroe, $100
FOLD 777andrej777
CALL Rhymenoceros, $100
River: (Pot: $790)
CHECK Rhymenoceros
BET TeddyMonroe, $500
RAISE Rhymenoceros, to $1,630
CALL TeddyMonroe, $1,130
Showdown:
SHOWS Rhymenoceros
SHOWS TeddyMonroe
TeddyMonroe wins the pot of $4,049
SHOWS TeddyMonroe
TeddyMonroe wins the pot of $4,049
So all in all I'm down only a bit (relative to the stakes anyway) in these games but hopefully can get more action soon.
Other stuff
Apart from poker I've decided I need to start doing more exercise as I've been gradually putting on weight over the last couple of years and clearly the occasional bit of sport I had been doing isn't enough. What hasn't helped is some drugs I have been taking for a long-term digestive problem I have which not only make you appear more fat, they also increase your appetite thus making you eat more food and actually get more fat anyway. Double whammy innit. On the positive side they have been working very well for said earlier problem and they actually seem to give me more energy so exercise is somewhat more appealing to me.
My plan at the moment is to exercise three times a week which would include games of tennis, squash or football. Unfortunately all these sports are never regularly fixed in schedule and are sometimes weather permitting. But I have a number of people to play squash and tennis with now and hopefully football can become a regular thing. If I can't get in a session of one of these three things then I will go on a run (sigh). Really don't like running but I can obviously see the benefits of it and I ordered some running shoes the other day. Anyway, I've managed to play tennis and squash so far this week and have tennis arranged again for tomorrow. I really enjoy playing these games so that's all good and I must say exercise does give you some sort of 'high' feeling after it.
One more thing is that I'm starting this journalism course on Friday. It's just a part-time thing and is only one morning a week with one extra morning each month along with extra work to do outside contact hours. I'm looking forward to it though often the enjoyability of such things depends on your tutor and what the other people in the class are like. Hopefully I get some run good there.
This seems like a long blog and I've had enough, laters.
