I hit this target just before I came back to the UK. I then had to remove $3500 for some house renovations and have now built that back up. Graphs and stats to follow this weekend.
Im still reluctant to take any shots at 200nl though. I want to feel 100% comfortable at 100nl but still have a few leaks that I need to work on.
I will review this again at $6k
Here's the discussion from the previous post hand range question.
http://www.raisetheriver.com/discuss/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7102
Friday, January 16, 2009
Thursday, January 15, 2009
What is Villains range here.
An interesting hand came up last night. I was 3 buyins down from a mixture of some bad play, wrong seating and a few villain suckouts. I thought I was not on tilt but looking back at this hand I see that I limped J8 on the button. This should have been a fold or a raise pf imo. Not weak limping with offsuit 2 gappers.
Anyway villain is an 18/14/2.4 reg over 550 hands. I have no other reads and have not played any real big pots with him before.
Note we are 160bb deep.
$0.5/$1 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com
Stacks:
Pre-flop: ($1.50, 6 players) Hero is BTN
UTG calls $1, 1 fold, CO calls $1, Hero calls $1, 1 fold, BB checks
Flop:
($4.50, 4 players)
BB checks, UTG checks, CO checks, Hero bets $4, BB folds, UTG raises to $17, CO folds, Hero ?
Anyway villain is an 18/14/2.4 reg over 550 hands. I have no other reads and have not played any real big pots with him before.
Note we are 160bb deep.
$0.5/$1 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com
Stacks:
| UTG | ($232.10) | ||
| UTG+1 | ($256.15) | ||
| CO | ($41.85) | ||
| Hero (BTN) | ($161.60) | ||
| SB | ($105.05) | ||
| BB | ($238.17) |
Pre-flop: ($1.50, 6 players) Hero is BTN
UTG calls $1, 1 fold, CO calls $1, Hero calls $1, 1 fold, BB checks
Flop:
($4.50, 4 players)BB checks, UTG checks, CO checks, Hero bets $4, BB folds, UTG raises to $17, CO folds, Hero ?
What range are you putting villain on here ? Whats your next move ?
Any readers are welcome to comment apart from dubs who has talked over this hand in detail with me already.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
The Card Virgin
Where have I been...? Well, Over the past few weeks I have been in the process of setting up a card school at a local club. I dont want to go into too much detail in this post but it's something I have been working on for some time now.
Last night saw me giving my first poker lesson with few friends and a few guys I have not met before. I was taken aback by a few questions I was asked by this one guy. He was a friend of a friend and told me he had no poker experience before.
- What value does a King or an Ace have ?
- How many suits are there in the pack ?
- Its probably good to know how many types of cards in this pack. How many Aces are in this one ?
- Is AQ better than AK ?
Jeez, i wasnt ready for that curveball.
Last night cemented the fact that I cannot assume anything when it comes to teaching poker. This guy had never seen the contents of a full pack of cards and did not know the order ranking of picture cards but I assumed, at the beginning, that everyone in the world would already know this.
Another thing I took from last night was that our poker language is very easy to communicate and understand when you are around other poker players but have you ever tried to describe a hand scenario to a non poker player and found that they stare at you blankly as if you have just spoken to them in Swahili. I have to change my language when teaching and stop assuming the world has poker knowledge.
Last night saw me giving my first poker lesson with few friends and a few guys I have not met before. I was taken aback by a few questions I was asked by this one guy. He was a friend of a friend and told me he had no poker experience before.
- What value does a King or an Ace have ?
- How many suits are there in the pack ?
- Its probably good to know how many types of cards in this pack. How many Aces are in this one ?
- Is AQ better than AK ?
Jeez, i wasnt ready for that curveball.
Last night cemented the fact that I cannot assume anything when it comes to teaching poker. This guy had never seen the contents of a full pack of cards and did not know the order ranking of picture cards but I assumed, at the beginning, that everyone in the world would already know this.
Another thing I took from last night was that our poker language is very easy to communicate and understand when you are around other poker players but have you ever tried to describe a hand scenario to a non poker player and found that they stare at you blankly as if you have just spoken to them in Swahili. I have to change my language when teaching and stop assuming the world has poker knowledge.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Tom 'durrrr' Dwan challenge accepted.
For those who havent seen Tom 'durrrr' Dwan set a challenge.
“I’m making this heads-up challenge to the world. Anyone can accept. Four tables, minimum of $200/$400, and I’ll put up $1.5 million to their $500,000. We play 50,000 hands minimum and if they end up a dollar after rake they keep the side money or whatever. So basically, if you and I played and you won a dollar, you would get my $1.5 million and if I won a dollar I would win your $500,000.So I’m giving a million dollars free if anyone thinks they can do it.”
He then added another rule which ruled out one player, Phil Galfond, who he must have decided he would not be confident in beating.
He's got 3 acceptances for the challenge.
Phil Ivey
David Benyamine
Patrik Antonious
Details are yet to be finalised. This will be very interesting to watch.
“I’m making this heads-up challenge to the world. Anyone can accept. Four tables, minimum of $200/$400, and I’ll put up $1.5 million to their $500,000. We play 50,000 hands minimum and if they end up a dollar after rake they keep the side money or whatever. So basically, if you and I played and you won a dollar, you would get my $1.5 million and if I won a dollar I would win your $500,000.So I’m giving a million dollars free if anyone thinks they can do it.”
He then added another rule which ruled out one player, Phil Galfond, who he must have decided he would not be confident in beating.
He's got 3 acceptances for the challenge.
Phil Ivey
David Benyamine
Patrik Antonious
Details are yet to be finalised. This will be very interesting to watch.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
2008 A reasonably successful year
Overall I feel 2008 was a good year for me in all apects of my life. My online poker bankroll grown from 500 to over 6k and live I have made around the same.
I havent played as much as I would have liked, logging 80k hands. I didnt have a 'number of hands' goal but I feel like it should have been around 120k (10k a month)
I didnt manage to play in any large online or live tournaments due to moving back to the UK in the middle of the year then spending a shedload of cash knocking through walls of my house to prepare for the imminent baby.
I am still at 100nl. I wanted to be at 400nl by this time but a withdrawal of most of my online roll resticted any move up to 200nl and squashed any thoughts of 400nl. To be honest though, I dont feel ready for 200nl as of yet. I am 100% confident I can beat 50nl and i want to feel that at 100nl. I am a winning at 100nl but I am still making mistakes, big mistakes and if i do that at any higher level I will be picked apart.
I have learned a lot this year and some concepts have finally clicked into place. I am making less mistakes but still have a long way to go.
So this leads to 2009. What do I want to achieve and what are my plans to get there.
I want to be a winning player at 200nl
I want to log at least 120,000 hands
I want to become better at beating the regulars at my level
I want to make $20k in total
I want a $1000 day
I want to play in atleast 1 $500+buy in tournament
All this is achievable. What I have found in the last year is that you dont just get better by playing. You get better by putting in the effort to find the things that are going wrong. You have to search for those leaks, review hand histories and be open minded when it comes to others opinions about a situation. I have found that having a few people to talk over hand histories, to share your bad beats and your suckouts relly helps your mindset when playing.
I would like to thank Dubspoke for his insight and support. I would like to thank Ray (get yourself a blog) for his help in the first part of the year. I would like to thank the missus who is now seeing the results of all that poker talk. Last of all I would like to thank all the monkeys that played poorly against me and that have a special place in my buddy list. Without you all I would be just another losing poker player trying to figure out what went wrong.
2009 - lets hope the UIGEA gets trashed.
Time to make some real money.
Ryverrat.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Holdem Manager 1 Pokertracker 0
Ive been a long time fan of pokertracker. I see the software as a big brother, guiding me through the world of online poker, highlighting fish and making my life a lot easier when multitabling.
Then along came Holdem Manager.
I must say I was dubious at first but this lasted all of 10 mins. Once I worked out the differences and adjusted the layout of the HUD I instantly felt way more comfortable than I ever have with PT. Ive imported all my hand histories from PT and am now tweaking all the information I can handle in HEM.
If you havent tried this great piece of software go give the trial version a run.
Then along came Holdem Manager.
I must say I was dubious at first but this lasted all of 10 mins. Once I worked out the differences and adjusted the layout of the HUD I instantly felt way more comfortable than I ever have with PT. Ive imported all my hand histories from PT and am now tweaking all the information I can handle in HEM.
If you havent tried this great piece of software go give the trial version a run.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Sticky situation....
$0.5/$1 No Limit Holdem
AbsolutePoker
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com
Stacks:
Pre-flop: ($1.50, 6 players) Hero is CO
UTG raises to $3.50, UTG+1 calls $3.50, Hero raises to $11, 1 fold, SB calls $10.50, 1 fold, UTG calls $7.50, UTG+1 calls $7.50
Flop:
($45, 4 players)
SB checks, UTG goes all-in $32.95, UTG+1 goes all-in $22.95, $32.95 to Hero ($87.5)?
AbsolutePoker
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com
Stacks:
| UTG | ($43.95) | ||
| UTG+1 | ($33.95) | ||
| Hero (CO) | ($98.50) | ||
| BTN | ($109.50) | ||
| SB | ($44.45) | ||
| BB | ($217.90) |
Pre-flop: ($1.50, 6 players) Hero is CO
UTG raises to $3.50, UTG+1 calls $3.50, Hero raises to $11, 1 fold, SB calls $10.50, 1 fold, UTG calls $7.50, UTG+1 calls $7.50
Flop:
($45, 4 players)SB checks, UTG goes all-in $32.95, UTG+1 goes all-in $22.95, $32.95 to Hero ($87.5)?
No reads
There is still a player yet to act with $33.45
Are we beat here or are we getting enough odds to call. We are getting over 3:1 with another potential caller that could make 4:1
Thoughts ?
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
November Result and Ryverrat the Superuser...
Had a good November. With Rakeback and bonus I made around $1000 and have comfortably included $100nl in my game.
Bankroll is now $3000 and building nicely back up again. 8695 hands was unfortunately just shy of the 10k I planned. Will try to catch up in December.
I saw the first signs of paranoia on the AP tables last night. I must be a superuser!!!
RLUCACIU wins (75c chips).
RLUCACIU: so did you guys know that ub had employees cheat people
RLUCACIU: out of their money
RYVERRAT: lol
RLUCACIU: they had this software that would show them what other ppl
RLUCACIU: had
RYVERRAT: titanic sunk aswell
RLUCACIU: lol
<<>>
RLUCACIU wins (95c chips).
RLUCACIU: I bet all of you have that software
RYVERRAT: rofl
RLUCACIU: your names sound pretty shady
<<>>
RYVERRAT wins ($1.75 chips).
RLUCACIU: totally like ub employees would name their accounts
<<>>
WESD0G wins ($1.25 chips).
<<>>
WESD0G wins ($1.20 chips).
<<>>
RYVERRAT: superuser !!!
RYVERRAT wins ($39.10) with (Full house, queens full of threes).
He upped and left.
Monday, December 1, 2008
60 Minutes Poker
For any of those that missed the 60 minutes episode yesterday here is the link.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4639069n
To be honest I dont think it was as bad as expected. Don't get me wrong, there was never going to be any upside in a credible news show investigating Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet scandals, but I feel the 15 mins exposure it got was a small kick in the shin rather than the nail in the coffin.
After watching this I am left with these headlines :-
Potripper superuser account and the great work on the online community
Russ Hamilton behind UB scam and still not charged with any misconduct or fraud
That all sites may have cheating software.
Sites will never be safe outside of US jurisdiction
The building where the servers are held look very nondescript.
I dont see that stopping a large percentage of players, current or new, to wager their money online. I think this one will be swept under the carpet and that the newly branded CEREUS merger of UB and AP will make this while thing disappear in the foreseeable future.
Anyone feel any different ?
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4639069n
To be honest I dont think it was as bad as expected. Don't get me wrong, there was never going to be any upside in a credible news show investigating Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet scandals, but I feel the 15 mins exposure it got was a small kick in the shin rather than the nail in the coffin.
After watching this I am left with these headlines :-
Potripper superuser account and the great work on the online community
Russ Hamilton behind UB scam and still not charged with any misconduct or fraud
That all sites may have cheating software.
Sites will never be safe outside of US jurisdiction
The building where the servers are held look very nondescript.
I dont see that stopping a large percentage of players, current or new, to wager their money online. I think this one will be swept under the carpet and that the newly branded CEREUS merger of UB and AP will make this while thing disappear in the foreseeable future.
Anyone feel any different ?
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