I had big plans for last weekend, it was going to be a bit of a poker orgy. I had an invite to the quarterly Queen-level $5k freeroll which I was going to have a go at, and I also had plans to put those unused party points, which let's face it, at my stakes I'm never going accumulate to a high enough level to convert to cash before they expire, into buying into a couple of sit'n'gos and seeing how I got on.
Friday night I had a reasonably short session, again getting a fairly unexciting run of junk cards, but managing to build back up from $1.20 to almost break-even and then turning a set with pocket 9s against a muppet foolishly slowplaying his AK to cashout with a $2.50ish profit. So, pretty happy with how I played and it's good warm-up for the weekend's binge...
...except then I had to work Saturday afternoon, which dragged on to working Saturday through to 3am, and then to also working Sunday until 8pm...
So, a bit of a let-down really. I'm mostly annoyed for missing the freeroll, because it's only once every three months. Probably longer than that until I can take part - with restrictions on my play time at the moment I think I'll miss minimum points expenditure and be dropping back down to Jack and so miss next quarter.
Probably no time for any poker this weekend, but on the plus side we should hopefully, in the next day or two, be getting internet properly installed in the place I'm currently living. That should mean more sessions and more frequent posts. So, to my reader (I think I'd been flattering myself to pluralise), watch this space...
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Thursday, 31 January 2008
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
suddenly more focussed, hooray!
I've been bouncing around with poker recently without really feeling like I've been hitting my stride. I've hit some good streaks to just about make up for some of my less than stellar play and so i've danced back and forth around the break-even point without ever looking like actually making significant profit. I've actually cashed-out some pretty nice totals, but always it's come after first losing a buy-in or two, making the actual day's profit something less impressive.
Anyway, this week things have clicked back into place - I'm finding it much easier to tighten my game up, rather than just saying I'm gonna tighten up and then still playing marginal hands and chasing speculative draws. I'm thinking a lot more too, trying to put people on likely hands and picking up on particular players' styles and using that to my advantage to judge what size bet they'll call, when to bluff or when to just check it down.
I've ended tonight after a couple of hours just over one buy-in up ($4.88). It's a nice win because it was done wihtout any of the horrible swings I've had recently where I've dropped to a very short stack or even lost a buy-in before hitting that big win to bring me back into profit. It's made me think; If I can keep control of my game like tonight, then when those big pots do come then firstly, it will add up to a lot more profit overall, and secondly, I'll have more cash to throw into the pot when I've got the nuts and therefore potentially win an even bigger pot!
So, fingers crossed I can keep this play up and start having some more consistently profitable sessions.
P.S. I won some money in a freeroll for first time, woo! Party is running Surprise tournaments at the moment and I battled my way through a 4,500 player freeroll to win ... $0.02. I placed 428, and had a decent stack so I could have gone further and maybe even got into to $0.07 band, but it was getting to bed time. Still, I can now say I am a winning player at tournaments!
Anyway, this week things have clicked back into place - I'm finding it much easier to tighten my game up, rather than just saying I'm gonna tighten up and then still playing marginal hands and chasing speculative draws. I'm thinking a lot more too, trying to put people on likely hands and picking up on particular players' styles and using that to my advantage to judge what size bet they'll call, when to bluff or when to just check it down.
I've ended tonight after a couple of hours just over one buy-in up ($4.88). It's a nice win because it was done wihtout any of the horrible swings I've had recently where I've dropped to a very short stack or even lost a buy-in before hitting that big win to bring me back into profit. It's made me think; If I can keep control of my game like tonight, then when those big pots do come then firstly, it will add up to a lot more profit overall, and secondly, I'll have more cash to throw into the pot when I've got the nuts and therefore potentially win an even bigger pot!
So, fingers crossed I can keep this play up and start having some more consistently profitable sessions.
P.S. I won some money in a freeroll for first time, woo! Party is running Surprise tournaments at the moment and I battled my way through a 4,500 player freeroll to win ... $0.02. I placed 428, and had a decent stack so I could have gone further and maybe even got into to $0.07 band, but it was getting to bed time. Still, I can now say I am a winning player at tournaments!
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