Cracking Aces

Blue Square League game tonight and still on 1st level. I had to hit on the river but had that many outs , I was totally priced in, remembering it was PL. Think I played the hand great and I imagine the guy couldn't believe what was happening when the chips started moving my way after he had flopped Trip Aces. I even wrote in the chat box "OWNED" ~ I'm such a **$* at times!

Going well on Plex last day or so and back to almost even now for the month, which is a result considering the hole I had dug for myself. No progress up the Plex rake race ladder though. Going to have to have a mental night or two to get in those cash places now. It finishes on Saturday.

Rakerace is nuts

This rakerace is all a bit stupid. It is only $200 I'm after, but feel I have to get there now. I'm upto 26th just 3 off the cash and I guess I'm not the only one thinking the same. I suppose I should look at the fact that if(when) I make it I will also have earnt a heap of extra bonus and rakeback. So I guess it will be more like $400 I'm going to gain by playing so much.

Having said that I had another downswing the other day, losing about $500 over almost 1000 hands. The thing is I'm beginning to get the feeling as though I am going to keep losing, yet still play on ! I don't feel I am playing particularly badly and the players on the tables aren't all winners, yet after a while I sense I'm just unlikely to win and probably going to lose more. Maybe it is a balance of the players on the tables or my position to them that is creating this, but as it is happening across multi-tables I have to assume that I am getting unlucky or playing not well enough. I think it is a bit of both and that I should definitely introduce a stop/loss limit to avoid me possibly "tilting" at all.


Finish with this hand from a Party Poker tourney the other day (my EXIT hand)

Get it all-in preflop with JJ v KK...."OOOPS"

Flop J3K.............................."Ah JESUS"

Turn J..............................."Get in you little beauty"

River K..............................."HUH"


Couldn't complain really, but what a damn tease !

New Month...Same Rollercoaster

Quick post.

November has arrived and my bottomline has plumetted and come back up again.

Saturday played the £150 tourney at Leeds ALEA. Great game, great room and will be back to play it again. 15k chips, 45min blinds and every level going. Basic story is I was going well and then ran KK into QQ on a Q hi flop and then AJ got outdrawn by A7. Probably misplayed the KK hand by not re-raising, but hey-ho.

Online dropped $400 in 30 minutes when I decided the value was all at 2/4 PLO. I got it all-in 7 times with the best hand and lost 6 of them , including 3 pots of almost $300. No doubts here, I ran BAD, BAD !
Still made a whole lot back since and probably hardly down now.

I dropped out of the rake race table but back in today at 27 just out of the cash. Stupid idea these rakeraces and I should steer clear, but I will defo make the $200 places now, gives me more incentive I guess.


Blue Square League has started and I have donked out just short of the final table both games with two pieces of play suitable of a monkey.

Friday night going to go and play a local pub game and hopefully see some of the regular crew. Always enjoy these games no matter how I play.

October Accounts

Accounts for October

PokerPlex : down $580
Blue Square: down $460
Full Tilt: up $120
Playing live: NO LIVE PLAY ALL MONTH !!!
In total for playing down $920

Staking : up $240 (ty Aces)
Bonus this month of $240 and pokerplex rakeback about $320

So -$120 for the month.

and +$8420 for the year so far.

So another negative month.....not good !

Pokerplex play was so up and down, in particular 2 three day sessions where I lost about $1000 each time and at all other times I was creeping back up grinding away as it should be. LOL
Was I tilting for those little downswings, didn't feel like it but maybe just a little frustration leads to minor misjudgements or maybe it was just the high variance of PLOmaha. It has made me realise playing for an actual living must be so frustrating.

Blue Square this month was another "bubble" result in the league , finishing 5th again. Could have been very different as I bubbled again in 2 tourneys and 3rd in another two. Losses mainly come from Sneaks who had a downswing on the cash tables, which was fair enough as he had ran real well and we were talking about it being our little Vegas fund. We are still up tho and we have never really got going any month yet. It will just be the league games here from now on I think.

Not played live for two months now, but will be breaking that drought with a lovely little £150 game with 15k chips and 45min levels at ALEA Casino in Leeds today. Hope to have something good to write tomorrow.

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