Yo-Yo Poker

YO-YO Poker
Thats is what I seem to be playing this month.
No nice easy gradual upswing graph for me this month, I have been up ( a bit), down a lot, back to almost even, down a lot again and now clawing back towards even ( fair way to go yet). Expect I will be posting a loss for this month, which is always a bit soul destroying.
However I feel there have been a few positives:
1. Got Dataminers going at last. Eyepoker for ipoker and just bought SpadeeyeOmaha for FullTilt & Party. Got a heap of hands on them and now sorting out how to code the data, but it does mean I am not sitting down with tables full of winners and usually sitting down with tables full of losers. This has to be half the battle even if it hasn't produced great results this month.

2. been great staking Simon Trumper and see him bring in a good return for me.

3. I have just found out PokerPlex are running a rake race for a month from Oct15, well I knew but didn't pay much attention until I looked to see I am on the table list. in 29th place on 26Oct and didnt play much upto then, but have hammered it a bit since so should be up in the cash places now. Cant see me making the top3 but its $200 I didn't know I would get....always like that, like finding a tenner in your coat pocket weeks later.

I will post an update pic each post until the rakerace end.

Aces is Ace ...again !!

You might remember a few weeks back I decided to back Simon 'Aces' Trumper in the WSOPE PLO and then the European PLO which he duly chopped for 22k (£500+ for me from my £25). Well the little tempter thrown in was if he cashed for more than 4k, then all backers would get 2.5% of him in the Thanet GUKPT. So today I have followed it and watched my "horse" make it through over 200 players to the final table. NICE ONE Simon !
He is the short stack at the moment, but with first prize at almost £70k, I could be looking at a tidy sum upto £1,600.

Not played live , and laid off a bit online , but being going fairly well making about $600 at Plex cash and getting a few 3rd places for the BlSq league, so we are back in this months comp now with 6 tourneys to go.

My eyepoker dataminer has been on overtime and I now have more than a million hands on PLO & PLO8 at ipoker. I am being much more selective with tables now using the table scan feature and only sit down at tables where most of the players are losers. I think this is probably the biggest step I have made in terms of online play for a long while and is something EVERY serious player should have. Better explanation with a few screenshots next blog..

For now, c'mon ACES !

Just realised why I dont play big MTTs much any more, just played a 200+ one on Full Tilt for "something to do". Fortunately I did OK and came 4th for almost 300 but it has taken 5 hours !!!

Bad,Bad and more Bad !

I cant stop losing !! official !

I have just kept going downhill. Well Up 'n' down, but ultimately I'm now almost a $1000 down for the month....A DISASTER. Not had a week like this for ......ever.

I don't feel as though I'm playing particularly badly or rashly but everytime I semi-bluff push with a draw I get called and never hit. And every time I get someone pushing on me when I have the goods they seem to hit. Well its not every time but it seems it is more than the odds dictate. There I go sounding like a compulsive gambler (loser?) and blaming it all on luck. Maybe its time I did a bit of analysis, how can I make almost a grand last month and yet lose that much already this month??

* I have played mainly at 2/4 this month and started 6 tableing, so maybe the standard is a little higher than the .5/1 or 1/2 PLO games. Might step down to the lower games or just play the 4 games at once. Hate going backwards but think it could be needed here.

*I've got over half a million hands now logged thru the eyepoker dataminer, so need to look at that and see if any stats are showing differently for me this month vs last month.

* Am I actually playing -EV or just getting a real bad run? My PokerEV software free trial has expired so might purchase that to find out.

Bit of a negative post, but I was so looking forward to hammering this month and seeing how much I could make. I've already played almost as many hands as last month and it is only 6 days in.

On the positive side the Blue Square league started yesterday and although Sneaks didn't cash he has had a bit of a run on the cash tables and we are upto $3k.

Ladbrokes have a great added money series coming up which I will highlight next post.

OOOH Dear ...DOWNSWING

Last post I was bragging about how well Sept had gone and the fact I was flyin in Oct too........well that was a curse as I have not hit a thing since. Everything has missed or been outdrawn everytime it all goes in, I actually feel as though I have played fairly well and not made too many mistakes, but nevertehless I keep losing. I have gone from $250 up to $300 down in the space of 2 days.
While it is hardly going broke, it does show how soul destroying this game must be to play as a pro sometimes. How many jobs do you put a solid hard days work in and go home with less (a lot less) sometimes than you start with.

The general thinking within the poker community is that you should be target setting based not on results but on play. In other words , dont worry how much you are up/down, but concern yourself with the number and quality of hands you play.
So this month I am going for 20,000 hands , which considering I only played just over 5,000 last month is going a bit. I am starting to move upto multi-tabling 6 tables at times and think this will become the norm at busy times soon. It will also give me about 50,000 points on the pokerplex player programme...ONLY need 17 million for a BMW M3 !! http://www.pokerplex.com/online_shop.shtml

Off Poker now ~ It chucked it down all day yesterday and I ran a trip to watch the Rugby League Grand Final at Old Trafford. The coach was half an hour late and I got soaked waiting for it and never dried out once but still didnt stop it being a fantastic day with a great atmosphere. Rugby League is the best sport to watch and I think this will become a regular annual trip.

Sept Accounts

Accounts for September

PokerPlex : up $705
Blue Square: up $420
Full Tilt: down $50
Playing live: NO LIVE PLAY ALL MONTH !!!
In total for playing up $1075

Staking : up $950 (ty Aces)
Bonus this month of $150 and not too sure of what this new pokerplex rakeback will be? I'm guessing about $250

So +$2425 for the month.

and +$8540 for the year so far.

This is a bit more like it and I only played from the 8th onwards ! I think PokerPlex is a lot softer than the Crypto network and has a lot more games on offer, I've already made a good $250+ start to Oct.

As promised here are the Sept. stats from PokerTracker


I also haven't been extremely lucky running fairly true , in fact PokerEV shows that I was slightly "unlucky" in both PLOmaha and also PLOmaha Hi/Lo. Red line is what I "should" have won based on normal luck and the green line shows what I did win.



Boys are in the air to Vegas right now, cant stop wishing I was there. LOL

2 straight flushes but I'm still jealous

Last couple of nights have been a bit opposite: one I felt I was playing well but got unlucky time after time and lost a couple of hundred, whilst the other I seemed to be making bad decisions but got paid off lucky at the end with a few big hands ending me winning a couple of hundred.
At one point I had two straight flushes within seconds of each other. Pics of pokerplex hand histories here. The first one was real nice as I hit my straight flush against his Nuts Ace high Flush to stack him.




However even with these hands , I'm still in mourning as a whole load of the boys are off to Vegas tomorrow and Im stuck here in the north of England blowing my whistle!
Im gonna make sure Devilperch books it outside of term time next year!

Update on Daz in the WSOPE is he is not the next poker Million, but can have no complaints after going steady enough all day before he got it all in for an above average stack pot with KK against AK only to see the board savage him with a couple of Bullets. I think he enjoyed himself although he did show that he is a bit of a lightweight as he sat next to Jennifer Tilly all day and night without getting a date or even her number ! WUSS !

September accounts up tomorrow with pokertracker stats and Poker EV graphs. oh so exciting !