New car

Firstly poker, i had a bad day a few days ago where i lost $700 tilting away the last $400 something i thought i could avoid. Played a load of sunday tournaments yesterday and lost about $140, played well and had a few where i could have went deep so will play then more regular.

Went to Leominster car auction last week and bought myself a car, its a ford focus estate 1.8 petrol 2000 92k miles for £700. It has a bit of bodywork damage but thats what i wanted to keep the price down and to have something with a bit more kick than my fabia. Its at the garage atm as there are a few mechanical problems (to be expected) it sounds like a wheel bearing needs replacing at the least, hopefully it wont cost me too much to get roadworthy.

As usual my posts are either positive or negative dependant on how im running, fortunately this one is positive as i have finally broke 10k as my roll. Heres the best of a lot of hands in the past week:

http://cakepoker.com/en/HandHistory/Default.aspx?Hand=xczGxcTFxsTCzcTExMXDzYjMzcPFxs0%3d

$200.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, March 29, 02:27:34 ET 2009
Table Markab VI (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: XPC_Factory ( $200.00 USD )
Seat 2: Krasucki ( $194.05 USD )
Seat 3: LexPayne ( $34.00 USD )
Seat 4: Maxorero ( $59.85 USD )
Seat 5: Mr_Rahl ( $219.50 USD )
Seat 6: jlost88 ( $224.05 USD )
Seat 7: czyrsk23 ( $251.15 USD )
Seat 8: MakeIt3Bets ( $200.00 USD )
Seat 9: dymarko ( $91.30 USD )
czyrsk23 posts small blind [$1.00 USD].
MakeIt3Bets posts big blind [$2.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Mr_Rahl [ Ac Qh ]
dymarko folds
XPC_Factory folds
Krasucki calls [$2.00 USD]
LexPayne folds
Maxorero folds
Mr_Rahl raises [$8.00 USD]
jlost88 folds
czyrsk23 folds
MakeIt3Bets folds
Krasucki calls [$6.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6c, Tc, 9c ]
Krasucki checks
Mr_Rahl bets [$12.00 USD]
Krasucki calls [$12.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9d ]
Krasucki checks
Mr_Rahl checks
** Dealing River ** [ 8d ]
Krasucki bets [$32.00 USD]
Mr_Rahl calls [$32.00 USD]
Krasucki shows [Qc, Kh ]
Mr_Rahl shows [Ac, Qh ]
Mr_Rahl wins $104.00 USD from main pot

Car wise ive started looking for a replacement, initially i was gona get something crap but as i keep looking i keep upping the budget so we shall see what i end up with by the end of easter.

End of 2nd term

Its been a long time since i posted last, dont like leaving it so long between posts but poker has taken a back seat recently. Fortunately i now have a month off and im sure to play a bit. My roll is around the $9k mark so not a lot of change. Im yet to sort a new car, wanted to go straight to a kit car but cant insure one until im 21 so on the backburner again. I got £1100 from the skoda so ill prob get a cheap runaround soon.

I heard a neil channing interview recently and was surprised to hear his views were very similar to mine especially on tournaments vrs cash and letting yourself get into tough spots.

Have the UKSPC next week that im looking forward to, hopefully ill sh1p regardless of my record playing students in poker tournaments (ill win a DUPS tournament one day).

fuck fuck FUCK

ive had a rediculous day, i drove to pool practice at claypath at about 7:30 after 1 frame theres was a call that a skoda was on fire downstairs. The fire pple had already been called so there was nothing i could do but watch it burn and the occasional pop. The most likely cause is an electrical fault but its hard to say. I have fully comp insurance but the real kick in the teeth is it may be financially better for me to not claim. Im so frustrated atm that the idea of skipping next week and taking a train home is growing on me quick. If it was just the case of jumping in the car and driving id have gone hours ago.
There must be some irony that its friday the 13th today.

pokerwise i cane 3rd in an aspers donkament for £300 at some point between this post and the last one.

update

Ive only managed 4 hours of my heads up cash experiment at 50nl going well so far but i expect some big swings. Im not convinced ill be able to make money at this so far rake is $4.5/100 hands thats a rediculous 9bb/100hands you have to beat it by just to break even. Despite this i'll carry on as HU cash is a muscle i want to develop.

Im playing a higher fraction of my hands at 200nl these days but i still only have a small sample. Results wise i had a nice steaking score recently but wont count that in my roll which is now about $9.5k.

$200.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, January 30, 04:19:05 ET 2009
Table Majesty Palm (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Seat 1: ghart ( $197.00 USD )
Seat 2: mikeforge2007 ( $130.50 USD )
Seat 3: AmateurJr ( $58.00 USD )
Seat 4: iggi001 ( $30.10 USD )
Seat 5: gregorydr ( $83.50 USD )
Seat 6: lehtinen ( $54.60 USD )
Seat 7: Astro-Nutt ( $196.00 USD )
Seat 8: Mr_Rahl ( $216.15 USD )
Seat 9: torr99 ( $271.20 USD )
gregorydr posts small blind [$1.00 USD].
lehtinen posts big blind [$2.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Mr_Rahl [ As 9s ]
Astro-Nutt folds
Mr_Rahl raises [$6.00 USD]
torr99 folds
ghart folds
mikeforge2007 calls [$6.00 USD]
AmateurJr folds
iggi001 folds
gregorydr folds
lehtinen folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2h, 3s, 6h ]
Mr_Rahl checks
mikeforge2007 bets [$8.00 USD]
Mr_Rahl calls [$8.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qh ]
Mr_Rahl checks
mikeforge2007 checks
** Dealing River ** [ 3d ]
Mr_Rahl checks
mikeforge2007 bets [$17.00 USD]
Mr_Rahl calls [$17.00 USD]
mikeforge2007 shows [Ks, Js ]
Mr_Rahl shows [As, 9s ]
Mr_Rahl wins $62.00 USD from main pot

As usual im looking for a new site. I cleared my reload bonus on stars and my small ft bonus, this combined with willhill dieing makes cakes bonus and RB combination look good.

Ive just been and got myself a Markus from ikea which is bound to increase my hourly by at least 10bi.

4am as good a time as any

Have been back in uni a week now and as expected im playing a lot less poker, im starting to branch out a bit and have started a new database just for HU cash. Im also trying to improve my omaha game. Above is the start of my HU experiment graff notice the EV line.

A couple of days ago i was railing 136_fail playing some big SNGs as i opened one of the lobbies i accidently hit the Register To Any button which instantly (didnt even get a confermation message) sat me against a 4 star winner in a $116 HUSNG, oh damm was my reaction considering my SNG skilz this wasnt a good investment. Thankfully i hit some hands and busted him in a few mins with a flopped str8 against TP.

Went to aspers last night/ today and as usual i couldnt even make it passed the 2nd blind level, (next time im gona fold my way to the break just to see whats its like), thankfully the night wasnt totally lost as it gave me more time to play 1 2 cash. I had two £100 bullets in my wallet, thankfully the first was good enough for me to run it up to £260 with a couple of nice hands before leaving at around 1am.
The most exciting thing was James Browning (above) came in to play 5 5 one of my poker heroes from the poker night live days, i was also wearing my poker night live t-shirt at the time under my jumper. I wish i had went all out and embarresed myself by taking my jumper off and asking for his autograph. aah well he plays there quite a lot so may have to sit at 5 5 to pull some moves on him next time.

My roll is still about 8.5 and probably wont be changing dramatically until i get some time to play.

[ ] 2009 poker aims included

2008 has now passed, poker has been up and down as always fortunately i ended the year on a high.
December has been my best cash month to date however much of the profit goes into filling the hole the previous couple of months made. My roll is now around 8500. Hopefully it will stay above 7k so i never HAVE to go back to 100nl. Saying that im not ready to 10table 200nl and anything else seems slow these days. So ill be mixing in some 10tabling 100nl with 4 tabling 200nl.

A couple of days ago i felt like playing some tournies as its been a long time since ive felt like gambling, i loaded up 8 games of various fields with $10 - £30 buyins and ran well cashing in 3 of them for a total of $450 lol.

I managed silver ironman for december and got a helpful $50 bonus to work off, i managed a similar amount on WH bonus wise however the games seem to be dying therefore rarely play on there anymore. Im also working off a stars reload bonus which is prob isnt worth more than RB but its nice to have a change of scenery.

As for poker aims, ive never been one to set resolutions or targets as the aim in poker is to end up with the most money. Therefore my target is to take my br and make it as big as i can as soon as i can.

snowdon fun

Climbed Britains 2nd highest mountain yesterday Snowdon for an adventure obv, heading north at 10am a rediculous hour considering i am playing poker till 3am most nights. We decided to take the hard route 'Crib Goch' despite wiki advising us to stay away in bad weather.

"Some less experienced walkers have been known to get confused at this point, later finding themselves out of their depth on Crib Goch."

Obv we did get lost and ended up retracing our steps back to the normal route costing about 90mins, the time lost meant we had to rush to the summet to be sure of getting back before dark. We were on the mountain for 4.5 hours in the end but it was definately worth it.

Poker wise ive only played an hour today but it is officially my biggest cash sesh ever, finishing up $500 9 tabling 100nl.
Fortunately this has brought my br above the 7k mark so its time for another shot at 200nl, my 1k loss in 700 hands at 200nl previously hurt my stats, hopefully ill rectify this and make the permanent move up.

minesweepers my game but ill talk about poker

Right firstly after going to all the trouble of signing up for the bloggers tourny thing, i havent actually played any. Ill try and make an effort to tomorrow but who knows.

Got back to wales yesterday glad to have a break from work even if they have given us a rediculous amount to do over christmas.

Recently ive been battling with the decision weather to stay on a masters or switch to the shorter BSC course i cant see myself doing anything directly physics related so will prob cut a year off my course and get on with things.

Poker wise things have finally picked up a bit, i still multitabling 100nl on ft slowly increasing the amount of tables im comfortable with (currently at 10 or 11) the rake is crazy bout $35ph i reckon rake hits these stakes the hardest. My br has recovered to $6270 not near 200nl shots but better than it was.
Im probably gona make silver iron man this month and i have a chance at gold normally this is close to worthless but with the year end bonus comming up ill get a bit more of my rake back def a good thing.
Above is loadza graffs starting with december then all hands with uninteresting functions

donkaments def my speciality

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

The WBCOOP is an online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers.

Registration code: 909423

thank fk for RB

Ive started something new (basically cos i cant win at 6 max anymore) 7-9 tabling 100nl fr. Sounds realy dull and at first i thought it would be, especially as its realy tight and rake is $20-$30ph. Saying that my LAG style from 6 max converts to about 22 16 at fr which (in my head anyway) is beating the game at a decent rate. Unfortunately the stats dont back that up im down about $600 multitabling 100nl in 5500 hands. Im gona stick with it for the time being cos im enjoying the change and i think i can crush it.
As the title suggests rake back is the only thing keeping my graph looking respectable atm. My win rate has dropped to a depressing 1.6BB/100 and my br stands at $5700.

I did play this hand yesterday that i was happy with and shows that i can fold big pairs ocassionally.

$100.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, November 29, 09:18:08 ET 2008
Table Low Bridge (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: SuperTaise ( $27.00 USD )
Seat 2: missle9 ( $102.90 USD )
Seat 3: foodwatcher ( $54.05 USD )
Seat 4: galasater ( $59.75 USD )
Seat 5: AnthonyC179 ( $107.80 USD )
Seat 6: phmSo69th ( $21.90 USD )
Seat 7: BahBahBaaaahaha ( $40.00 USD )
Seat 8: Mehman666 ( $70.05 USD )
Seat 9: Mr_Rahl ( $124.00 USD )
Mehman666 posts small blind [$0.50 USD].
Mr_Rahl posts big blind [$1.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Mr_Rahl [ Ac Ad ]
SuperTaise folds
missle9 calls [$1.00 USD]
foodwatcher folds
galasater folds
phmSo69th folds
Mehman666 calls [$0.50 USD]
Mr_Rahl raises [$3.00 USD]
missle9 calls [$3.00 USD]
Mehman666 calls [$3.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8h, 3h, 9c ]
Mehman666 checks
Mr_Rahl bets [$8.00 USD]
missle9 calls [$8.00 USD]
Mehman666 raises [$20.00 USD]
Mr_Rahl folds
missle9 raises [$90.90 USD]
Mehman666 calls [$46.05 USD]
missle9 shows [Ah, 6h ]
Mehman666 shows [3d, 3s ]
missle9 wins $32.85 USD
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2c ]
** Dealing River ** [ Ts ]
Mehman666 wins $149.10 USD from main pot

On a sie note im planning on playing the UKSPC in april so wana get a good crowd together to go down to birmingham, if your interested let me know and i can secure you a ticket through DUPS.