As you can probably tell by the lack of posts, I have played no poker whatsoever in the past week.
Had an absolute awesome week however, which is probably what kept me away!
Had 3 birthdays in a row at the start of last week, which were awesome, followed by my birthday weekend just gone, where a few surprises were revealed..
Eternally grateful for that, just what I needed and great fun!
I am also kind of unable to play much now I am back cos the mrs is off tomorrow and I won't see her for 10 weeks so she's quite insistent on being with me every second..damn it!
Whats more, it looks like I may head to Bulgaria for the best part of 3 weeks on Friday, can't really be arsed with the working grind here, life is too short. How many more opportunities am I gonna have similar to this summer? My parents are kind of in agreement so me and my old man might share the driving to Bulgaria, so so sick. Love it!
That also means a massive break from poker and entirely destroys my summer plans for the game! So, I intend to hit the Vic tomorrow night, one last time, hopefully take a nice profit away and then pay my live roll into the bank :( (loved having £50s rolling around my desk :P).
On Thursday I intend to grind the absolute shit out of 10nl all day and see if I can hit $200 online before also withdrawing that. Shall then have to pick up poker and reality upon my return!
Kind of frustrating, its been an odd summer I guess but really looking forward to things now, just hope I can get a job as soon as I come back, that way it sets me up again!
GL, will post again after ze Vic!
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Tuesday, 14 July 2009
:(
Going to have to return to work tomorrow..
They have been really good with my unreliability so I was honest with them this morning and told them what I was thinking, thought I owed them that at least. They were still positive (demonstrates how much faith they have in me!) and said return by the end of the week or not at all, which is fair enough.
I may as well return tomorrow as opposed to Friday/Monday, to earn some dollar.
I started thinking yesterday, after my largely uneventful day, that its all the same anyway. If I quit this job I just have to go through the whole interview process again, stress about getting a job, lose out on another week or two's wages and then get a job to do the same thing-earn money to pay the rent. If I quit and play poker full-time-its to earn money to pay the rent. I am therefore better off getting the job with the most pay and least hours, to earn MYSELF some money via poker in spare time. Well I have told work that I am only doing 9-5, not staying a minute over, so thats what I will start doing. I am also on a self-employed contract so I don't have to pay tax (yes I know I am a student but they deduct it anyway and the rebate wouldn't come in until the end of the fiscal year), I'm also exempt from paying NI, which at 11% of your salary hurts really.
Further, the mrs fucks off again on Weds, everyone else in London, that is around, is working, mates from back home will be working etc. So when I am coming back to an empty flat and all the rest of it, its boring anyway. May as well just maximise earning potential for a bit longer. Parents are going to Bulgaria for three weeks in a weeks time so its not like I could even go home really, its too much of a hassle.
So, I will slog it out until about the 10th August (when parents return), at which point I will have enough money to just live off for the rest of the summer. I will then go home soon after, to spend the majority of August there.
This neglects poker so I want/need to make the most of it here. If I leave at 5pm from work I can still play, so I shall go to the Vic on Tues/Thurs/Fri/Sat every week, unless other plans interfere. Will try and play online every other day though.
Still going to look for other jobs and if something better comes along then the plans may change again, but for now I think this is the only logical and sensible option.
GL
They have been really good with my unreliability so I was honest with them this morning and told them what I was thinking, thought I owed them that at least. They were still positive (demonstrates how much faith they have in me!) and said return by the end of the week or not at all, which is fair enough.
I may as well return tomorrow as opposed to Friday/Monday, to earn some dollar.
I started thinking yesterday, after my largely uneventful day, that its all the same anyway. If I quit this job I just have to go through the whole interview process again, stress about getting a job, lose out on another week or two's wages and then get a job to do the same thing-earn money to pay the rent. If I quit and play poker full-time-its to earn money to pay the rent. I am therefore better off getting the job with the most pay and least hours, to earn MYSELF some money via poker in spare time. Well I have told work that I am only doing 9-5, not staying a minute over, so thats what I will start doing. I am also on a self-employed contract so I don't have to pay tax (yes I know I am a student but they deduct it anyway and the rebate wouldn't come in until the end of the fiscal year), I'm also exempt from paying NI, which at 11% of your salary hurts really.
Further, the mrs fucks off again on Weds, everyone else in London, that is around, is working, mates from back home will be working etc. So when I am coming back to an empty flat and all the rest of it, its boring anyway. May as well just maximise earning potential for a bit longer. Parents are going to Bulgaria for three weeks in a weeks time so its not like I could even go home really, its too much of a hassle.
So, I will slog it out until about the 10th August (when parents return), at which point I will have enough money to just live off for the rest of the summer. I will then go home soon after, to spend the majority of August there.
This neglects poker so I want/need to make the most of it here. If I leave at 5pm from work I can still play, so I shall go to the Vic on Tues/Thurs/Fri/Sat every week, unless other plans interfere. Will try and play online every other day though.
Still going to look for other jobs and if something better comes along then the plans may change again, but for now I think this is the only logical and sensible option.
GL
Monday, 13 July 2009
Aaaaa-Game!
So incredibly happy with the way I just played my second and final session of the day on 10nl.
I really really focused and played some good poker. I looked at every hand I was involved in and gave it thorough thought, focusing on opponents. Indeed, I have started to use the "notes" facility more and more, which came in particularly useful for this hand. The villain was on 3 of my 6 tables and I had some pretty solid reads on him, I felt:
PokerStars Game #30416274889: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2009/07/13 18:14:08 WET [2009/07/13 13:14:08 ET]
Table 'Achernar VIII' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: Fafullon ($2.05 in chips)
Seat 2: ich_snej ($7.85 in chips)
Seat 4: Skarb25 ($5.05 in chips)
Seat 5: AlexRoux ($10 in chips)
Seat 6: Breesy1 ($9.40 in chips)
Seat 7: OberChiller ($5.70 in chips)
Seat 8: schakal5280 ($9.90 in chips)
Seat 9: jj2608 ($1.65 in chips)
jj2608: posts small blind $0.05
Fafullon: posts big blind $0.10
chiefrosi: sits out
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Breesy1 [8c 7c]
ich_snej: folds
Skarb25: folds
AlexRoux: raises $0.30 to $0.40
Breesy1: calls $0.40
OberChiller: folds
schakal5280: folds
jj2608: folds
Fafullon: folds
*** FLOP *** [3c Qc 3d]
AlexRoux: bets $0.50
Breesy1: raises $0.70 to $1.20
AlexRoux: calls $0.70
*** TURN *** [3c Qc 3d] [Th]
AlexRoux: checks
Breesy1: bets $2.30
AlexRoux: calls $2.30
*** RIVER *** [3c Qc 3d Th] [Qs]
AlexRoux: checks
Breesy1: bets $5.50 and is all-in
AlexRoux: folds
Uncalled bet ($5.50) returned to Breesy1
Breesy1 collected $7.60 from pot
Breesy1: shows [8c 7c] (two pair, Queens and Threes)
I was really happy with the way I played that. Further, I made a couple of epic value bets by over-betting the pot. Something that seems to confuse the crap out of people at this stake, so will bear that in mind. On two occasions two short stacks made similar moves and I called them off with an underpair and won. Was generally extremely pleased with the way I played.
I also think 6-tabling is my optimum. I earnt $17 in my hour this morning and I just earnt $21 in my hour just now. Seems to me that I can focus more keenly on 6 tables, make notes and play the opponent better.
Roll is now up to the $150 mark, I said I would withdraw but I may well leave it a bit, things are going well so why rock the boat.
Will post again later on my decision(s) regarding work, effectively gone full circle though. GL!
I really really focused and played some good poker. I looked at every hand I was involved in and gave it thorough thought, focusing on opponents. Indeed, I have started to use the "notes" facility more and more, which came in particularly useful for this hand. The villain was on 3 of my 6 tables and I had some pretty solid reads on him, I felt:
PokerStars Game #30416274889: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2009/07/13 18:14:08 WET [2009/07/13 13:14:08 ET]
Table 'Achernar VIII' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: Fafullon ($2.05 in chips)
Seat 2: ich_snej ($7.85 in chips)
Seat 4: Skarb25 ($5.05 in chips)
Seat 5: AlexRoux ($10 in chips)
Seat 6: Breesy1 ($9.40 in chips)
Seat 7: OberChiller ($5.70 in chips)
Seat 8: schakal5280 ($9.90 in chips)
Seat 9: jj2608 ($1.65 in chips)
jj2608: posts small blind $0.05
Fafullon: posts big blind $0.10
chiefrosi: sits out
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Breesy1 [8c 7c]
ich_snej: folds
Skarb25: folds
AlexRoux: raises $0.30 to $0.40
Breesy1: calls $0.40
OberChiller: folds
schakal5280: folds
jj2608: folds
Fafullon: folds
*** FLOP *** [3c Qc 3d]
AlexRoux: bets $0.50
Breesy1: raises $0.70 to $1.20
AlexRoux: calls $0.70
*** TURN *** [3c Qc 3d] [Th]
AlexRoux: checks
Breesy1: bets $2.30
AlexRoux: calls $2.30
*** RIVER *** [3c Qc 3d Th] [Qs]
AlexRoux: checks
Breesy1: bets $5.50 and is all-in
AlexRoux: folds
Uncalled bet ($5.50) returned to Breesy1
Breesy1 collected $7.60 from pot
Breesy1: shows [8c 7c] (two pair, Queens and Threes)
I was really happy with the way I played that. Further, I made a couple of epic value bets by over-betting the pot. Something that seems to confuse the crap out of people at this stake, so will bear that in mind. On two occasions two short stacks made similar moves and I called them off with an underpair and won. Was generally extremely pleased with the way I played.
I also think 6-tabling is my optimum. I earnt $17 in my hour this morning and I just earnt $21 in my hour just now. Seems to me that I can focus more keenly on 6 tables, make notes and play the opponent better.
Roll is now up to the $150 mark, I said I would withdraw but I may well leave it a bit, things are going well so why rock the boat.
Will post again later on my decision(s) regarding work, effectively gone full circle though. GL!
One Time!
I was up half the night contemplating whether to go to work, and I woke up still contemplating. I had a long chat with 2 people and both gave similar sort of responses, albeit disgruntingly at 8am! Eventually, against my better judgement, I put a suit on and commenced my journey to work. Then I got to the tube station, looked up and there it was, staring me in the face...the reason why I turned round and went home. 30/40/50 people descending on Bow Road tube station and not one, not one of them looked happy. I am NOT starting the grind now, im barely out of nappies. I have the rest of my life to worry about that.
My aim at the start of this summer was too add some weight to my CV (check-I got the job, its now on CV, never going anywhere, plenty of ways to skin a cat, goal 2-to have £1000 sitting in current account, to have £500 sitting in savings, to have a poker roll of about £500, to have part-time work guaranteed heading in to the new academic year. Nowhere in my list of goals were there t+c's saying "you must do whatever it takes to achieve these, its a life or death situation and this summer is crucial to the remaining 60 years of your life".
In a nutshell, fuck it. I intend to enjoy my summer AND achieve those goals, today was the beginning of that, hopefully.
However, I'm making myself sound more baller than I actually am. In reality, I am giving myself today and possibly tomorrow to make the decisions and prepare to take the gamble. I think I can get today off work without getting the boot. So if by the end of the day little changes, I may just turn up for work tomorrow with a tail between my legs, as my quest is defeated before I leave the port... I haven't quit right now, so as to leave myself a back-up plan. Just got to pray they don't email back something along the lines of "don't worry, we can't cope with the unrealiability". I also CANNOT let my parents find out, they know I intend to quit but I said mid-August, work till then and then I am sweet financially.
My basic pay breaks down to £6.25 per hour. I earn more than that per hour at the Vic and I am sure I can earn as much as that online. However, you obviously need a pain threshold with poker due to variance, something I don't have right now, unless I utilise an overdraft, which I don't want to do, ideally.
Thus, poker is not a plausible, legitamate option right now, but it is a foundation. I have applied for many other jobs and I am going job hunting today... hopefully, hopefully something comes in. Ideally I want to get something that is part-time but where I can do 25 hours a week if I choose, then switch to 12-16 hours a week when uni starts. I get to know people, I enjoy it (hopefully), its a consistent income. I was working 16 hours a week in Waitrose and earning £500pcm...that would pay my rent, poker can do the rest along with loan...
If I stick with my guns now it would be tough financially until something comes along or I get back to the Vic. However, I firmly believe I will enjoy summer way more this way and can still earn the money I desire, if nothing else I would just have to make savings and there are plenty of ways I can do that, without enjoying myself any less. When I have money I am a complete degen with it and spend it a lot. However, I never put money away so when the chips are down....the chips are down.
Anyway, like I alluded to above, I think poker can contribute massively but I have never fully appreciated what it can offer or been bothered to utilise it, its always been more about the fun part. Well when I was grinding 10nl I was earning fairly large amounts of money. I thought about this and remembered my winrate...I am sure I can make more than £6.25p/h and I pick my hours! Thus, I booted up Stars at 9.30am, was going to play till I earn $20 or stop at 11.30am to go job hunting.
I earnt $17, in one hour, on 10nl! This may well not be sustainable and obviously there will be downswings. However, it helps me out, I enjoy it and its flexible!
I definately intend to get a job but one where I can still fit in poker. Basically the job will just pay my rent every month, whilst poker pays for everything else, as well as providing me with money to put away for a rainy day.
I have also come up with a couple of money-making schemes. One being letting the second bedroom out in the flat for the 8 weeks that girlfriend is away (she would go apeshit). I could achieve £80p/w easily, the market rate is £125p/w. £80 per week pays for 3/4 of my rent...tyvm. Then I really could just play poker for a living...
Anyway, the bottom line is you only live once.. My contract at works ends on the Friday before the Monday I start uni again. There is no way in hell I am doing that. Evenings are a write off, too tired. Weekends are similar and I couldn't get home, for example, until about 10pm on the Friday night, if I left straight from work, I then have to be back in work for 9am on the Monday morning. Its impossible to enjoy myself. Yeh I may well earn £3000 or something but what the hell for?
Life isn't a dress rehearsal...
Anyway, will see if I can make the most of today and then decide whether or not to stick with my guns. It may well be that I just cave in, bottle it and go to work tomorrow but I am sure as hell gonna give it a shot..
My aim at the start of this summer was too add some weight to my CV (check-I got the job, its now on CV, never going anywhere, plenty of ways to skin a cat, goal 2-to have £1000 sitting in current account, to have £500 sitting in savings, to have a poker roll of about £500, to have part-time work guaranteed heading in to the new academic year. Nowhere in my list of goals were there t+c's saying "you must do whatever it takes to achieve these, its a life or death situation and this summer is crucial to the remaining 60 years of your life".
In a nutshell, fuck it. I intend to enjoy my summer AND achieve those goals, today was the beginning of that, hopefully.
However, I'm making myself sound more baller than I actually am. In reality, I am giving myself today and possibly tomorrow to make the decisions and prepare to take the gamble. I think I can get today off work without getting the boot. So if by the end of the day little changes, I may just turn up for work tomorrow with a tail between my legs, as my quest is defeated before I leave the port... I haven't quit right now, so as to leave myself a back-up plan. Just got to pray they don't email back something along the lines of "don't worry, we can't cope with the unrealiability". I also CANNOT let my parents find out, they know I intend to quit but I said mid-August, work till then and then I am sweet financially.
My basic pay breaks down to £6.25 per hour. I earn more than that per hour at the Vic and I am sure I can earn as much as that online. However, you obviously need a pain threshold with poker due to variance, something I don't have right now, unless I utilise an overdraft, which I don't want to do, ideally.
Thus, poker is not a plausible, legitamate option right now, but it is a foundation. I have applied for many other jobs and I am going job hunting today... hopefully, hopefully something comes in. Ideally I want to get something that is part-time but where I can do 25 hours a week if I choose, then switch to 12-16 hours a week when uni starts. I get to know people, I enjoy it (hopefully), its a consistent income. I was working 16 hours a week in Waitrose and earning £500pcm...that would pay my rent, poker can do the rest along with loan...
If I stick with my guns now it would be tough financially until something comes along or I get back to the Vic. However, I firmly believe I will enjoy summer way more this way and can still earn the money I desire, if nothing else I would just have to make savings and there are plenty of ways I can do that, without enjoying myself any less. When I have money I am a complete degen with it and spend it a lot. However, I never put money away so when the chips are down....the chips are down.
Anyway, like I alluded to above, I think poker can contribute massively but I have never fully appreciated what it can offer or been bothered to utilise it, its always been more about the fun part. Well when I was grinding 10nl I was earning fairly large amounts of money. I thought about this and remembered my winrate...I am sure I can make more than £6.25p/h and I pick my hours! Thus, I booted up Stars at 9.30am, was going to play till I earn $20 or stop at 11.30am to go job hunting.
I earnt $17, in one hour, on 10nl! This may well not be sustainable and obviously there will be downswings. However, it helps me out, I enjoy it and its flexible!
I definately intend to get a job but one where I can still fit in poker. Basically the job will just pay my rent every month, whilst poker pays for everything else, as well as providing me with money to put away for a rainy day.
I have also come up with a couple of money-making schemes. One being letting the second bedroom out in the flat for the 8 weeks that girlfriend is away (she would go apeshit). I could achieve £80p/w easily, the market rate is £125p/w. £80 per week pays for 3/4 of my rent...tyvm. Then I really could just play poker for a living...
Anyway, the bottom line is you only live once.. My contract at works ends on the Friday before the Monday I start uni again. There is no way in hell I am doing that. Evenings are a write off, too tired. Weekends are similar and I couldn't get home, for example, until about 10pm on the Friday night, if I left straight from work, I then have to be back in work for 9am on the Monday morning. Its impossible to enjoy myself. Yeh I may well earn £3000 or something but what the hell for?
Life isn't a dress rehearsal...
Anyway, will see if I can make the most of today and then decide whether or not to stick with my guns. It may well be that I just cave in, bottle it and go to work tomorrow but I am sure as hell gonna give it a shot..
Saturday, 11 July 2009
Happy Days
Just finished a session on 10nl and things couldn't really get much better at the minute. Live...I am earning. Tournaments...I am going deep. Online cash...I'm earning $10 an hour.
Was running pretty good to be honest, in general. Not on an absolute heater but I am praying that was the sign of a heater to come and it follows me to the Vic!
"Roll" is now exceeding the $100 mark once again. Although, as I said, once I get to $150, $100 will be coming off. One thing I was thinking to myself during that session is that I need to start analysing hands after. This blog has very little in the way of pure poker content and thought. Although, this was always going to be the case initially as I outline my aims and get a foothold in the game on a bankroll management front.
Nonetheless, I am going to try and be a bit more aware of hands, which is obviously difficult when multi-tabling, but I will try in order to take full advantage of 2+2..
Think that may well be it for a while on the poker front, unfortunately. Girlfriend's b'day on Monday so that effectively starts tomorrow, then a good mates 21st on Tuesday, then another mates 20th on Wednesday before I go home for mine on Friday, having also celebrated it here in London on Thursday...and again on Sunday :P
Going to be a truly epic week I think. Just a shame poker is going to have to take a backseat...
Gonna do my upmost to make it to the Vic before all the fun and games begin every night this week, need to take advantage of my momentum!
GL
Was running pretty good to be honest, in general. Not on an absolute heater but I am praying that was the sign of a heater to come and it follows me to the Vic!
"Roll" is now exceeding the $100 mark once again. Although, as I said, once I get to $150, $100 will be coming off. One thing I was thinking to myself during that session is that I need to start analysing hands after. This blog has very little in the way of pure poker content and thought. Although, this was always going to be the case initially as I outline my aims and get a foothold in the game on a bankroll management front.
Nonetheless, I am going to try and be a bit more aware of hands, which is obviously difficult when multi-tabling, but I will try in order to take full advantage of 2+2..
Think that may well be it for a while on the poker front, unfortunately. Girlfriend's b'day on Monday so that effectively starts tomorrow, then a good mates 21st on Tuesday, then another mates 20th on Wednesday before I go home for mine on Friday, having also celebrated it here in London on Thursday...and again on Sunday :P
Going to be a truly epic week I think. Just a shame poker is going to have to take a backseat...
Gonna do my upmost to make it to the Vic before all the fun and games begin every night this week, need to take advantage of my momentum!
GL
Close but no cigar...
After my post on here when I got in I booted up stars and played some 8-game for a bit, did quite well, more or less doubling my stack.
I think I was surviving off adrenaline at this point, having been up the best part of 48 hours, so, decided to enter a tournament-the $8.80 on Stars.
At about 5am I busted out in 49th, from a field of 2000. SUCKS!
I felt I really played well and once we broke into the 100 I was very decently stacked-on about 100k, just above average. The standard run bad when deep then ensued. Getting the odds to call shoves from short stacks, get value and sticking it in etc, all the standard stuff when deep, the minute I was getting close to the prize, it fell away. I won a huge race with QQ on the bubble and that gave me momentum, then it faded away!
Eventually, after losing every race under the sun, I finally busted when my AQ couldn't improve against JJ. Still, I was happy with the way I played and its a little more tournament experience under my belt. Probably just about as deep as I have been now (68th in a field of 5000 in the $3.30 was better).
I withdrew $100 yesterday and with the cash last night there is about $100 in there again. Once I get up to $150 I shall withdraw another $100 and do it all over again, hopefully keep it going!
Won't be playing for a few days now I imagine, girlfriend is back tomorrow and then its her birthday. Besides, I had Sky+ installed this morning so my time is now being devoted to that...
GL!
I think I was surviving off adrenaline at this point, having been up the best part of 48 hours, so, decided to enter a tournament-the $8.80 on Stars.
At about 5am I busted out in 49th, from a field of 2000. SUCKS!
I felt I really played well and once we broke into the 100 I was very decently stacked-on about 100k, just above average. The standard run bad when deep then ensued. Getting the odds to call shoves from short stacks, get value and sticking it in etc, all the standard stuff when deep, the minute I was getting close to the prize, it fell away. I won a huge race with QQ on the bubble and that gave me momentum, then it faded away!
Eventually, after losing every race under the sun, I finally busted when my AQ couldn't improve against JJ. Still, I was happy with the way I played and its a little more tournament experience under my belt. Probably just about as deep as I have been now (68th in a field of 5000 in the $3.30 was better).
I withdrew $100 yesterday and with the cash last night there is about $100 in there again. Once I get up to $150 I shall withdraw another $100 and do it all over again, hopefully keep it going!
Won't be playing for a few days now I imagine, girlfriend is back tomorrow and then its her birthday. Besides, I had Sky+ installed this morning so my time is now being devoted to that...
GL!
Friday, 10 July 2009
I'm fucking doing it I am!
Well, that brings the week to a close and I guess all round I can say its been successful. I earnt £73 tonight at the Vic and was extremely pleased with the way I actually played.
I made one bad call with KQ pre flop and followed it up with a bad decision on the flop, as well as playing A9 badly in a limped pot. Other than that I feel I did well. I was strong when I was playing, I limped twice (when not in the blind), otherwise I raised or reraised everytime, which I feel is critical to long-term success at the Vic.
I have taken some of the money to basically pay for my girlfriend's birthday but my live roll, as such, is now £150, after all deductions etc. Online is a separate issue but I don't intend to play all that much over the forthcoming weeks, definately concentrating on the Vic. Its a bit of a shame that I have to use the majority of my profit from this week, as it obviously means I am still walking a tightrope for the foreseeable future. Hopefully next week will see more of the same but some larger numbers.
I've put in a lot of hours over the past few days and indeed, not slept all that much! Thus, I intend to take a break and relax over the weekend. Hopefully I can bring my A game back to the felt on Tuesday/Wednesday of next week. I will try to make it on Tues/Weds/Thurs but certainly 2 of those 3.
I am setting myself a target of £60 per session, 4 sessions a week, £240 a week. I think this is obtainable, especially when I start running goot! The majority of my money last night and tonight came off big bluffs, just picking my opponents:
Raise from MP to £3, 1 caller and I elect to call with Ac6c on the button, SB a LAG calls
Flop 3 3 4(2 clubs)
Villain bets £7, folded to me, I raise to £18, he calls
Turn 5d, he checks, I bet £17, he calls
River 5h, he checks again, I bet £25, he folds. I flip air in order to create an image. He went on life tilt after so I guess he mucked 77/88 perhaps..
That was where the majority of my money came from and then some donk over bet shoving on the river with absolute air, whilst I rivered trips.. this was from the sb in a limped pot, got lucky.. Oh, and I made a nice call with 66 early on but had lost £20 at this point so it only brought me £20 above initial buy-in
Gonna hit the hay, hopefully manage to play a few hands online tomorrow and see where we go...Goodnight, good luck
I made one bad call with KQ pre flop and followed it up with a bad decision on the flop, as well as playing A9 badly in a limped pot. Other than that I feel I did well. I was strong when I was playing, I limped twice (when not in the blind), otherwise I raised or reraised everytime, which I feel is critical to long-term success at the Vic.
I have taken some of the money to basically pay for my girlfriend's birthday but my live roll, as such, is now £150, after all deductions etc. Online is a separate issue but I don't intend to play all that much over the forthcoming weeks, definately concentrating on the Vic. Its a bit of a shame that I have to use the majority of my profit from this week, as it obviously means I am still walking a tightrope for the foreseeable future. Hopefully next week will see more of the same but some larger numbers.
I've put in a lot of hours over the past few days and indeed, not slept all that much! Thus, I intend to take a break and relax over the weekend. Hopefully I can bring my A game back to the felt on Tuesday/Wednesday of next week. I will try to make it on Tues/Weds/Thurs but certainly 2 of those 3.
I am setting myself a target of £60 per session, 4 sessions a week, £240 a week. I think this is obtainable, especially when I start running goot! The majority of my money last night and tonight came off big bluffs, just picking my opponents:
Raise from MP to £3, 1 caller and I elect to call with Ac6c on the button, SB a LAG calls
Flop 3 3 4(2 clubs)
Villain bets £7, folded to me, I raise to £18, he calls
Turn 5d, he checks, I bet £17, he calls
River 5h, he checks again, I bet £25, he folds. I flip air in order to create an image. He went on life tilt after so I guess he mucked 77/88 perhaps..
That was where the majority of my money came from and then some donk over bet shoving on the river with absolute air, whilst I rivered trips.. this was from the sb in a limped pot, got lucky.. Oh, and I made a nice call with 66 early on but had lost £20 at this point so it only brought me £20 above initial buy-in
Gonna hit the hay, hopefully manage to play a few hands online tomorrow and see where we go...Goodnight, good luck
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