Buzzing MTT win

The cash grind was going well. I put in a ton of hours (7 in one day) on Saturday all afternoon then while watching Mcilroy destroy the competition at the US open. I hit a high point of $5500 up on Saturday night from cash games, also cleared the ipad2 (being dispatched from apple this week) and had some rakeback of around $400 - so $5900 up + an Ipad2 was looking like a good month.



Somehow I didn't lose on the golf - a runaway favourite winning a major could have been a massive loss - but I equalised Rory on Thursday night Friday morning and indeed had a great book on who would come 2nd with all bar the top 8 in the betting winning me £10k + and even the favs were small winners.

I decided to relax by taking a night off from cash tables while watching my hapless golfers (4 of my £10k + crew got down below 20/1 but it wasn't to be with a tie for 3rd (runner up in the without Mcilroy book) the best they could muster. Was a little dull as the TV pics were way behind the betting so I cracked open a few MTT's including the Sunday million. All in all 2 x £215 1 x $55 and 1 x $100 on merge. I cashed small in the $55 at about 11pm after donking out of the Million and hilo events on stars earlier. Left with only the $100,000 Guaranteed on Lock poker I didn't hold out much hope with only an average stack and 160 left out of 750 starters. However at 4.52am after some decent hands a hell of allot of holds and a few suck outs later and I am now $20,000 richer....

Was a bit awkward 3 handed ($20k 1st, $12k 2nd and $6.5k 3rd) with me on 1mill, crazy loose Chip leader on 2 mill and other guy hanging in at 250k-500k for a while but when I re raised CL's raise all in with AQ and he snap called 77 the site threw up the glorious AKQ flop and I was huge Chip leader...... when I got heads up it was 3mill to 750k and i took it down confidently....

Sweet



Ps, 2 days after my last update had my biggest ever horse win when I nailed the tricast at 4000/1 on the Belmont Stakes a week past Saturday night. Also had the forecast and won on the outright by just going for the big outsiders as the track resembled a muddy swimming pool and upsets were on the cards!

All in all a good few weeks to head to USA with ---- might even hit a Vegas event now!!!

June Update

Started quite promisingly with a small profit and plenty hands then 2 days of depressing losses taking me back past even.

Monday night was good though as won $2500 in a 2.5 hour session.....

Things I have learned are that the quality of opponents varies dramatically based on time now that US are barred from Stars.... Merge network seems easy as players are too loose but I am still only break even there and hands wont be a problem.

Targets

1, Play 20,000 hands - Played 5,750 already so this will be easy as only played part time so far!!

2, Profit $5,000 - Well I'm half way there so looking good - only really played 4 days properly so should be OK with this based on average running and no tilting..

3, Vip/Rake - Made 3000 points on stars and am 1/3 of the way to the ipad promotion (and 35% rakeback) so on target here.....

All looking good had I not just booked flights to New York - (there was a deal on £299!) so gonna visit my brother 24/6 to 18/7 for some free golf..... hopefully I can get all my targets sorted before that but will need to keep playing while over there...

This weeks graphs...









:-)

June Targets

Well hello again..... 1 post every 18 months... well at this rate I have less than 50 posts left before I die!

Things have been very up and down since I last posted. I have probably played less than 20,000 hands of poker in the last 18 months , just playing occasionally when i felt like it. Things have been on a giant rollercoaster in the last 15 months, starting at Cheltenham races Mar 10 where I was getting pretty poor to go on a massive betfair heater hitting a high in mid Nov 10. Since then I have managed to lose nearly all of it..... we are talking 6 figures $$ wins and losses... now that's some swing...

Anyway as I have been hemorrhaging cash hand over fist in the last 6 months I have decided to knuckle down at poker and set some targets, as I don't think the world of real work look too good at present!

I am going to post all the way through June and hopefully by posting it will keep my on track to hit the targets I will detail below. Will be playing only hilo omaha. Will be looking to update every 2 or 3 days with mainly number based posts...... there probably wont be anything too interesting for the average reader...sorry.....

Targets June 2011

Hands - play 20,000 hands of hilo omaha at levels up to 2/4. (Reg players wont think this allot but the games dont run too often and 20,000 is a reasonable target)

Profit - The key will be to make a profit before rakeback/VIP bonuses etc. I am looking for $5,000 + but this will depend on whether the higher stake games run and if I run good on the bigger stakes games.

VIP/Rake - Looking to get my pokerstars back towards supoernova as those VIP points rack up then effectively giving you around 33% however I'm on gold at present and that's around 15%! So targets are 10,000 vip points on stars and also 6500 on merge poker as you get a free ipad if you rake $1000 this month.... http://rakeback.pocketfives.com/lock-poker-rakeback/

Cheers

November Results + LOL!

November was a funny month.

Guys that play cash games will be used to those kind of dips. But I hate them losing $5000 in 3 days crushed me for a while.

Managed to put the hands in though 25,000.











Playing a few tables this evening and Greg Raymer joins in the table. I am already on the verge of tilt as had to lost flips + all the players are actually good on my tables for a change which is annoying and Raymer sits down as if just to rub it in....

Anyway lol at game chat!

Dealer: Game #36306636267: kuhns89 wins Hi pot ($403) with a flush, Ace high
Dealer: Game #36306636267: FossilMan wins Lo pot ($403) with 8,5,3,2,A
kuhns89: again nh :)
kuhns89: mr unbeatable :)
Dealer: Fedigan221, it's your turn. You have 8 seconds to act
FossilMan: ?
kuhns89: just a joke...
Dealer: Fedigan221 has two pair, Jacks and Deuces
Dealer: flashbadger has two pair, Aces and Deuces
Dealer: Game #36306665779: flashbadger wins Hi pot ($791) with two pair, Aces and Deuces
Dealer: Game #36306665779: There is no low hand
Dealer: flashbadger, it's your turn. You have 8 seconds to act
flashbadger: well fvck me I actually hold up against ur horrible donk play 4 once
Dealer: Game #36306690604: Fedigan221 wins pot ($28.50)
FossilMan: be nice so I don't have to call mod; ty
kuhns89: lol
Dealer: Cyberscribe, it's your turn. You have 8 seconds to act
IMALLIN723: loololol
flashbadger: srry
kuhns89: u are the boss here or not :)
Dealer: Game #36306711182: FossilMan wins pot ($10)
FossilMan: anybody can call mod
flashbadger: Im bad

Someone called the moderator and I got a chat warning :-)

Tits up

Gone a bit tits up lately

This weeks graph














This months looks allot more healthy, but the whole thing is rather tilting

Grind

Played for 16 hours yesterday!

Amount of hands played isn't going to be a problem.... the win rate might be a problem though. In the end yesterdays session went well but only because one player at the end went mental and dropped a grand to the table...

Yesterday I played 2669 hands and won $1705. But that was the exception as had had a few days off before that and was reading water in the days before that.
For the whole of November I have played 11,799 hands and I am ahead $5,069.

Will be putting in the hours for the rest of the month so hopefully we can get near to having $20,000 online before xmas.

LOL

LOL at my laziness since March. Was running my stats (see below) this month when I decided to have a look at my Hilo stats this year broken down by month. There are some excuses about my lack of hands from July onwards (i decided PLO was the way forward - my pokertracker stats say it wasn't.) but even then its embarrassing how lazy I have been at times this year. Well onwards and upwards.

This month I have played about 7000 hands so far and am in front about $3500. So its quite a good month i suppose. Still on target for my 25,000 hands by xmas. the hands below are directly from pokertracker and don't take into account any rakeback , bonuses etc. so all in all it looks like a good(ish) poker year. However betfair has been appalling, despite some big wins on the golf I am well down this year again and judging by my card deposits and withdrawals i should just give the whole thing up whatsoever.



January 800 + $3300
February 17,500 +$9800
March 17500 +$10,100
April 1,400 -$800
May 5900 -$114
June 12,000 +$2600
July 5300 +$1300
August 2300 -$1500
September 686 -$737
October 7900 +$1400
November 5600 +$2800