Monthly Archives: December 2009

constantly running under ev…

Long story,made short: BR 930$. Played now 11k hands at 25nl. Plus 11 buyins overall,without bonus and rake.
Had an okay session today.after going up for 2 buyins,i got it in with ak against qq.i know,it’s a flip.i flop top two! Villain rivers his 2 outer!
That really hurts…having a good session and losing it all again in a flip.
The main thing that it only goes up this slow,is my “expected value” graph.
The last 4k hands i’m running 4 buyins under ev!

I hope not to tilt….i already feel that i can manage it better nowdays.compared to a year ago.
GL @ tables

A swingy break even session

Hi all,

played for 1.5 hourse yesterday. Basically its still the same. I always have my PT3 graph (Filtered on the day) in the background running.I take small steps with going up….until I’m almost up for a Buyin. No big pots, just “doing well”. Then I come in a spot where I just get owned. And all the money has gone again.

However, I got stuck at -50USD yesterday. So I decided to change something. I cut down the tables to 2. Wanted to play really concentrated…just my best game. And because I actually belive that I could beat 50NL…I switched to 2 tables at 50NL. took me half and hour to get 1 Buyin back. No really big pots, once again, only with playing IP, stealing, squezzing….all that stuff.

One hand was pretty interesting: BTN raises to 1.75, SB fold, I’m BB with AA. I reraise to 7.00. He kinda min-4bets to 15USD. I still play straight forward…So I shoved. He then folds! Wow!

I review my entire PT3 DB at the end. played now around 8k hands. dont really know my winrate (I’m not having PT3 with me, right now). But one thing is crazy: My “All In Performance graph” looked for 5k hand pretty similar to the “money actually won” graph. Now, it’s like a scissors! Allin Performance graph, expected value, is about 4 Buyins higher than my actual winning graph…The funny thing is: This makes me happy! I’m not playing bad (Ok, I screwed up 2 or 3 big pots in the last days, that’s for sure)! But would my allin performance be “allright”, I would still be winning.

Rakeback and Bonuses keep me alive!

the good old downswings are back…

During my last 1300 hands I lost about 7 Buyins…

It’s just crazy how the cards flow! I’m still not as good in manageing downswings as I would like to be.

Todays session I got AA 2 times and KK one time (played 500hands). I was actually pretty happy to get it in pre every single time – I lost ALL of them. on time against AKs (flush), one time against 99 (set) and the last time against QQ (straight..?!??!éà£)

I think my game is still ok. Since I ended todays session at 25NL “only” with -10 Bucks. My Pokertracker “All-In Performance” looks somewhat strange! made actually minus 10 dollars… should be plus ~60…

I keep playing the same game and just hope for luckier session.

BR is down on 820…still a good way up to 1250 for 50NL.

Addition: Maybe it’s just because it’s now flowing right now, but it appears like some opponents have pretty good ready on me. The play back so many times at me (3bet from blinds, C/R dry boards in raised pots,…whatever). I sometimes even have to move to another table. Hmmmm…looking forward for the next session.

Got 10 Buyins now…still grinding

In todays session I didn’t get many big hands. And because of this reason, I’m actually very happy that I’m up for 1.5 Buyins. ;-)

In total that’s now 10 Buyins at 25NL 6max. My stats seem to settle down on 21/16/4 (I’m working on the 3bet…I know).

I will write a more detailed update very soon.

cya