lol donkaments: FEB in review

February was an interesting poker month for me, I am still a complete n00b when it comes to online poker, I have trouble beating NL cash games, no matter what the stakes. In previous months I hardly played any tournaments, only this month have I taken the time to manually imput my results from tournaments into Poker Tracker. Here's some charts and graphs from PT.

I spent quite a while this month getting pwned by pokerstars cash games, I am not playing NLcash at PS ever again b/c it lacks rakeback and I can't accumulate any FPPs playin NL10. I really got much better at multi-tabling this month, I would say that is easily my most important achievement because once I learn to not suck and/or start running well, I'll be able to profit nicely.

This month gave me a good idea of what goals I should shoot for, and thus, i am setting teh following goals for March. It will take lots of poker playing to accomplish these goals but I'm willing to do it.

10K Hands of NL CASH games
100 single table SNGs
10 $4.40 180 person MTTs on PS
25 other MTT SNGs

I can do sets of 5 SNGs, I only played 21 of them, but I absolutely killed the 6.50 Turbos on PS, I plan to repeatedly kill them again this upcoming month. I was raped by the 4.40 MTTs on PS, I don't know what my problem is but after 9 attempts this month I didn't even cash once, which is highly pathetic. I can see myself winning 2 of these in march just because variance gotta work like that, right?

MTTs were a massive dissapointment this month, I tread water basically for the 6.50 45 person turbos without a single win, very annoyingaments there.

Thats all for this entry wish me luck

tournament monday

I played many MTTs today. Cash games are treating me horribly and I just can't really stand playing them right now. If I had 1k or more in my bankroll I think i might enjoy playing NL50, not only because it's probably beatable, but b/c you can actually start to accumulate FPPs. I am a pretty good multi-tabler so once I am rolled for NL50 I will be able to get a PSipod in a month or two of supermultitabling.

Okay I played 13 different MTTs today, here are teh brutal details. Early in the day I was getting pwned left and right, unluckiness ensued, but I earned a couple of cashes later in the day to break even.

4@ $6.50 45-player turbo - no cash
1@ $12 45-player turbo - 4th place for $55
1@ $11 27 player SNG - 3rd place for $48
1@ $11 45 player SNG - no cash
1@ $2.20 MTT - no cash
1@ $5.50 MTT - no cash
1@ $11 MTT - no cash
3@ $4.40 180-player SNG - no cash

result: +$11, 15.38% ITM, 12.08% ROI, VP$IP 14.30, PFR 9.54

I just know that I am going to final table/win a bigger MTT any day now and my bankroll and I are anxiously waiting and playing. I'm glad that I can be breakeven+ when I am not exactly running well, basically getting no luck in T5 situations and losing crucial flips around the bubble to keep me away from big success, but that's all apart of MTT poker.

Hot weekend

I spent the weekend in toronto with my girlfriend. This normally results in not much poker, but she had to study for midterms for a while so I got to play poker for a couple of hours.

I was thinking - I have about 250$ on Absolute poker and about 350 on Pokerstars, yet I'm wasting my time grinding .05c/.10c on absolute, which is a fucking shit site. So despite the fact that I deposited 300 on absolute, due to my 150$ downswing in the first day of my deposit, I ground up another 100 and decided on sunday to fuck it all and just cash out. The play is tougher than at Stars and the software is balls, so it's not worth the 30% rakeback that I'm making at these crap limits.

I was going to take the 250 from absolute and move it over to stars so I can be sufficiently bankrolled for .10c/.25c NL25, but I think I'll just work with what I have at the moment, if I go through any downswing I'll perhaps make a small deposit just to keep myself comfortably rolled. I wish stars had a redeposit bonus :/

So I plan to build my stars roll in 2 ways:

10+.50 HU SNGs and 6+.5 Turbo 45-SNGs

This weekend I only played 3 MTTturbos, but I cashed in 2 of them. Both of those cashes were 5th place for $24, both times I pushed preflop with 33, got called by Q-9o and Q-7o and lost to a Q on the flop both times - it was kinda strange to bust in the same place to the exact same situation.

Busted from a STT when my flopped nut straight lost to a rivered flush.

I was also 7-3 in HU SNGs this weekend.

So, for the weekend, +79.50 with an ROI% of 71.30, so yeah it feels good to run well for once. I'm also playing fairly well and didn't run into too many coolers.

I'm gonna take a break from NL cash, it's depressing and slightly boring. Tonight I will hopefully get to play some live poker, I'm gonna go chill with some friends and play some billiards, if we don't play poker I'm probably just gonna come home and get high :)

life tilt

Yeah I'm just bored and on tilt. I had some pple pwn'd it HU SNGs and proceeded to lose flip after flip after flip after flip, ugh it's such balls to work so hard, chip away at your opponent, get a chip-lead, set up a table image, get your opponent to push over the top when you have AK preflop, then lose. I know, I'm only losing 60/40s here, but it's annoying and puts me on tilt.

Yuuuup, that's all, i will be starting fires soon. NL cash games are boring when you play .05c/.10c

I'm also sick and tired of Absolute Poker. I think I will be cashing it out as soon as I run well for a day, the software is bullshit.

Yeah I need to stop thinking about poker right now.

Live kick in the nuts

Not so much poker in the past couple days, I'm falling so far behind on my 1K hands per day, I don't really care though, I will plug away later today perhaps, but I haven't played much online in the past 3 days except for 2 uncessful donkaments on Pstars last night.


Wednesday was our weekly game of .50c/$1.00 NL40.

The session started out horribly, I made a questionable laydown.

Dealt to hero: 10-2o
Blinds are .50c/$1.00 MP1 ($35) calls, CO ($45) calls, Button (65$) calls, HERO SB ($38) call BB checks.

FLOP: 10-8-4r, pot $5

Hero bet $3, MP1 calls, Button calls.

TURN: 10, pot $11
Hero bets $6, MP1 folds, button raise to $12, hero calls

River: Q, pot $35
Hero ($22) check, button goes all-in, I fold :(

Maybe a bad laydown, he didn't show me despite my pleas, so I'll never know.


I didn't re-load after this hand, but maybe 2-3 hands later I knocked out a shorter stack to get up around 45.

Lame-ass bad beat:

Dealt to me: QJ in the BB

Preflop: EP1 calls, MP1 calls, button calls, SB calls, I check, $5 pot

Flop: Q-J-7

SB checks, I made a weak $2.50 hoping that someone goes over the top. EP1 goes all-in for another $25 or so, it folds to me and I call, pot is around $55-60 and I've got about 20$ left

EP1 shows J-9

Turn: 10
River: 8

Boooo

After that I re-loaded and went on a tear busting people all over the place, cashed out for $150.

Next day I played in a $50.00 donkament at sketchy.bar and literally didn't win a hand except taking the blinds once with AKo.

I made a check-raise against a short-stack who was playing 90% of pots and he went all in, I had 7-4o (nothing) and had to fold.

I had about 2K chips, blinds were 100-200 and picked up 99 on the button, chipleader raised to 450 and I pushed. SB calls and chipleader calls.

SB shows KK
Chipleader shows AA

flop K-Q-J
Turn 9
River 10

errrr live poker is rigged - especially when I'm the dealer : /


I set-mined for like 2-3 hours in the insane 1/2 game they had going, I grabbed someone's $40 stack early on with a set of JJs and then didn't win a hand for the rest of the night.

I think I was down about $115 for the day.

NOT so much of a great way to start off the month.

Tonight - online donk'n'gos on Absolute and maybe some .05c/.10c 6-max grindstationing.

Tuesday I vow to destroy the tournament at sketchy.bar.

January in review

Yeah Lol at the 6 total hands of 3/6 + 5/10, classic hit-n-run before my cash out at Titan. The 5.43ptbb/100 at .05/.10 is pretty gay after 5.5K hands but I have gone through some downswings, once I get up to 10K hands I"m sure I'll be much closer to 10bb/100.

The NL50 suck-out fest is that initial crash and my puny bankroll can't handle that kind of swing, but that is exactly what I needed to actually learn the lesson of good bankroll management.

I didn't play too many tournaments or sit'n'gos, but at least I'm in the black. I'm not sure how accurate this is as I"m not sure pokertracker found all my tournament histories, i definitely played a couple heads up sit'n'gos that didn't get included, although i was up 20~$ in these as well.