Saturday, 25 November 2006

Weekends are ideal for grinding=)

Ever since i started playing poker ive noticed that weekends often supply bad/drunk/overaggressive players in big numbers and this weekend was no exception=)
made 3,5 k grindin 10-20/5-10 NL on stars/party on friday for a few hours on the friday, saturday was even better:
found a guy on party 10 20NL who called an allin preflop for 1k with A4 (and sucked out of course) so i decided to hang around til i got a chance to bust him...
that came very soon: i raise 80bucks pre with AK, he quickly called.. flop 679 offsuit, i bet pot, he calls quickly again. turn is my beloved ace=) i check and he bets 500 bucks, i reraise him allin 700 more and he quickly calls so i fear he might have me but his J 10 doesnt hit the 4 outer luckily=) also got a nice 4k pot on stars 10 20NL when an aggressive player raises 60 utg in a 6-handed game, gettin 1 caller on the button.
i reraise to 240 from the BB with KK and he moves allin for 2k. i hesitate but couldnt lay the hand down, board gives no help to his QQ. a total of 10,5 k was a gooooood saturday hehe. november started out very badly when i lost 35 k on the 3 first days(lost some big pots on 25 50 NL) but now i have a positive total again, hope december gives me a better start=)

the above mentioned plays are very rare on these high stakes so i think its important to play a lot on the weekends since the games are that good. i also think (from own expensive experiences) that alcohol (in heavy doses that is...) and internet-poker shouldnt be mixed, live-games are different in my opinion though... i used to play drunk on occasions earlier but after a 25k drunk-tilt after a partynight with my poker-friends in barcelona 3 months ago i made a bet for 10k that i would never play drunk again, ill try to stick to that=)

Tuesday, 14 November 2006

Poker so far...

Been playing fulltime sinc oct-05, started out 5 or 6-tabling 2-4 NL at partypoker (had built a good bankroll from march to september -05), went on with that and went up to 10-20 NL several times, doin good but my tilt problem put me down to 2-4 again always.. had to keep my account at partpoker at max 10k dollars otherwise it was a risk i lose it all if i went on tilt=(
In june -06 i got lucky and won the 40k guarantee giving me 12k in a threeway split(i play multis sometimes, im kinda ok at it but patience is not my best trait hehe)

Anyway, i took a shot at 10-20 again and now i was successful, beatin the game since that point..
Had a setback when the americans were banned from party, the game got much tougher but it also has made me a much better player so i think thats prolly the best thing thats happened to me...?
At the moment im trying out a new approach, 9-tabling stars 5-10 fullringNL and 5-10/3-6 PLO, doin well so far but only been doin it 10 days so far.. Thats where i am right now and where my pokerblog begins=) i will not discuss to much of my own playin here since i dont want to give away edge in an already tough game but i will discuss moneymanagement, style of play and lots more with those who are willing to, and of course hand historys if it is of interest... welcome all!=)

Monday, 13 November 2006

blogging begins=)

thought about blogging sometims but never felt that i have the time... maybe i should take the time hehe, seems like a nice way of communicating! anyway it starts here=)