Archive for January, 2006

End of the month and its pretty quiet in my poker world. I’ll have to do the Cryptos (both poker and casino) when February starts up but for now I’m just quietly plugging away at my last $120 Poker Stars bonus. Playing 3-4 10+1 SnGs over lunch will clear me in a month or so. [...]

my bankroll is now where it was on January 1st. Started the month at $2000, got up to $3000, back to $2000 now.
I have 1000 hands at party to play and 800 points to earn at Pokerium in the next week or two. I plan on doing that at NL25(on party) [...]

Finally – a great night. Needed that.
21bb & 22bb pot in 10/20 6 max
stacked a couple folks in 200NL
2 tables 200NL: +$484.10
2 tables 10/20 6 max: +$587
Party Poker 10/20 Hold’em (6 max, 6 handed) converter
Preflop: Hero is Button with 7s, 9s. MP posts a blind of $10.
1 fold, MP (poster) [...]

So Pokerroom gives me a $50 bonus yesterday, with the caveat that I have to earn 200 player points by Feb 7 in order to cash it out. I don’t feel like playing the 200 points, so I decide I’m going to take the money and enter a tourney. I deposit $10 extra dollars and [...]

The sign of a great blog.
I am now in the red in poker on the month. Terrible night on Party at the 3/6 full tables. I should be just about done with the party bonus for the month, leaving me with just the NFL hands to work off for the [...]

Please kill me now.
PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $4 BB (8 handed) converter
CO ($603.90)
Button ($400)
SB ($396)
BB ($605.15)
UTG ($447.70)
Hero ($511.40)
MP1 ($193.50)
MP2 ($237.10)
Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with 4c, 5c.
1 fold, Hero raises to $12, 4 folds, SB calls $10, BB calls $8.
Flop: ($36) 9s, 2d, 3c (3 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets $16, SB [...]

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So soon after makign my last post about $25NL I realized that I probably didn’t have the time to play 4000+ hands of 25NL in the next 4 days, even with lunchtime hands counting double, and I immediately backtracked on that statement. Yesterday during lunch I fired up 4 3/6 bad beat full tables. [...]

I should have made a bigger raise preflop, I think…
Do I call here or fold or protect my hand?
PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $4 BB (6 handed) converter
UTG ($409.80)
Hero ($532.80)
CO ($504.20)
Button ($414.65)
SB ($567.90)
BB ($303.90)
Preflop: Hero is MP with Ac, As.
1 fold, Hero raises to $12, CO calls $12, 2 folds, BB calls $8.
Flop: [...]

PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $4 BB (8 handed) converter
UTG+1 ($449)
MP1 ($46)
MP2 ($384.25)
CO ($269.40)
Button ($913.05)
SB ($498.35)
BB ($685)
Hero ($422.80)
Preflop: Hero is UTG with Qd, Qh.
Hero raises to $12, 4 folds, Button calls $12, SB calls $10, 1 fold.
Flop: ($40) 7d, Jc, 7c (3 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $32, Button folds, SB calls $32.
Turn: ($104) 6s (2 players)
SB checks, [...]