Keeping Warm in Winter

[AAroddersAA]

So played a cash session this morning. A couple of hands I played I am questioning are below:-

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5587061

Not entirely sure what the best line would have been here. don"t think I can fold pre  to a simple 3-bet but it is large and alarm bells did go off. Calling is probably the best play but then the flop becomes hard. 4-betting should result in everything I beat folding but maybe my flop play does that anyway? Check the flop planning to call turn and river maybe. Hard to see TT or JJ checking the flop here. Once he shoves I doubt there is not any of his value range that does not absolutely crush me.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5587062

This one is more interesting than one I am not sure about. 5-betting pre seems pointless as it lets QQ and AK get away cheap and the only hand I get it in against is AA. The flop is a bit crap for me. I lose to QQ and JJ now, still lose to AA and AK will just fold anyway so betting feels like it achieves nothing and only gets me action when I am beat. I suppose somebody could have AQ but they shouldn"t. The turn now means I am beat by everything so I just have to fold.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5587064

This one is pretty standard up until the river. Think I have to call the turn due to pot odds but should be an easy fold on the river.

Overall the session went well though, made some good calls and laydowns and seem to be playing well at the moment. Wonder how long it is going to last.

Session Stats

Hands: 1000
VPIP: 22.35%
PFR: 17.51%
3-bet: 4.41%
Fold to 3-bet: 66%
Att to Steal: 40.79% (Seems i am not stealing enough from the cut off atm)
Total Profit: $67.66

was going to be the last day playing of the year but noticed that I am 90 FPP away from getting a $50 bonus which make it very +EV to play tomorrow so will play 1000 hands and some 180 mans just until I get enough points.

Of to Vinny Tan panto land for a few beers now.

[AAroddersAA]

Does anybody fancy a small prop bet in 2013. Say $50 (or less if people prefer) on Pokerstars? It can be more than two people but the rules are:-

1) You have to play at least 200 tournaments on Pokerstars in 2013 (any stake), if you play less you lose automatically
2) The winner is the person who OPR says has the highest ROI on Pokerstars at 6pm on 31st Dec 2013

This would help keep us focused during 2013

We could try to do something with cash games but that would have to be done with the use of tracking software as there are no reliable 3rd party trackers, and posting up screenshots which becomes really complicated.

Anybody up for this?

Yup, tournaments, in for $50.

Does anybody fancy a small prop bet in 2013. Say $50 (or less if people prefer) on Pokerstars? It can be more than two people but the rules are:-

1) You have to play at least 200 tournaments on Pokerstars in 2013 (any stake), if you play less you lose automatically
2) The winner is the person who OPR says has the highest ROI on Pokerstars at 6pm on 31st Dec 2013

This would help keep us focused during 2013

We could try to do something with cash games but that would have to be done with the use of tracking software as there are no reliable 3rd party trackers, and posting up screenshots which becomes really complicated.

Anybody up for this?

In for bet.

Hi Mark/Dave

Having just checked OPR pretty sure I win this one. Please ship $50 to 33teetwo33 when you get the chance.

Me and Mark certainly up for it again this year, Dave you want in?

[AAroddersAA]

Played cash today and got through 1700 hands. Lost $18 in the process. Pretty poor should have been up but had one hand where I should have folded and didn"t, that basically cost me $23. Didn"t run that well either though I don"t think, can be hard to tell.

Zoom Cash Hands: 1780
Cash Loss: $18.66
BB/100 = -4.2

[AAroddersAA]

Played more hands later turned it around to break even more than less for the day

Hands Played: 2500
Profit: $3.35 @ 0.5BB/100

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Final figures for 2013 on Pokerstars were

Cash Hands Played: 32,617 (poor volume really)
Total profit: $319.67 @ 11BB/100

Tournaments Played: 919
Total Profit: $345.79

Overall Profit: $665.46

Not that wonderful but at least it was a profit.

I won about £200 on Sky Poker across the year but dropped most of that on the APAT site. I was basically break even across those two sites.

Live poker did not go well though., with only one small cash in an apat.

I played 4 apat events 2xdtd, Coventry and Luton which was a total buyin of £377 and cashed for £220 so was down £157 plus £165 for international team events so was down about £322 for poker in the UK.

The year rested on Vegas which was a car crash. Think I lost about $800 at poker out there so the year was pretty poor. Not that it really matters as I was not trying as hard as I should have been.

If this year goes to plan it should be much better.

[AAroddersAA]

From Yesterday

Hands Today: 500
Profit Today: $12.46 @ 10BB/100

Hands MTD: 3000
Profit MTD: $15.81 @ 2.08BB/100

$2.50 180 manners

Games: 4
Cashes: 0
Loss: $10

MTD

Games: 4
Cashes: 0
Loss: $10

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6698443_C4B8540E9B

[AAroddersAA]

Had a pretty bad day at the tables today. Did 10 buyins most of which were totally my own fault (I should have stopped playing).

[TheSnapper]

Had a pretty bad day at the tables today. Did 10 buyins most of which were totally my own fault (I should have stopped playing).

Bugger, had those days myself, hard to take but we move on. Feel free to call if and when you feel like reviewing.

[AAroddersAA]

Had a pretty bad day at the tables today. Did 10 buyins most of which were totally my own fault (I should have stopped playing).

Bugger, had those days myself, hard to take but we move on. Feel free to call if and when you feel like reviewing.

Cheers mate - do need to review some stuff at some time soon. Probably don"t today though, not the last couple of hours anyway :-)

[AAroddersAA]

Just got back from an awesome weekend in Luton with some of APAT's finest. A big shout to Richard Baker for organising it all oh and for winning the event. I played two events but did not cash in either. However this did not matter as it was another chance to spend the weekend with some of the worlds very best people. Arrived at 7pm on Friday and in the Bar I found Curly, Asa, Delboy, JP, Pables and Karen. I think that was everybody, I immediately knocked a bottle over but ran good as it was empty *lol*. At the casino we met up with some others including Don Roberts and Michelle.

Played the £35 tournament did not win but gave my chips to Karen which was better than just donating them to a random. I joined the growing group in the bar and a few of us got taken unexpected drunk. I think I left about 2:30am leaving Asa and Delboy as the last two Standard at the bar and Ian as the last man standing in the tourny, which he chopped - yay.

I woke up on Saturday, went back to sleep then woke up again. Eventually met JP, Ian, Asa and Del in the bar and ordered food which helped a lot with the hangover. Paulie also joined us and soon Carl and Emma arrived and so did Ken and Branda. Ensured to mix some water in with the beer to begin with but soon got that sorted. Off to the casino and met up with lot"s of legends and heros.

Did not do too well in the tournament again, I think I probably made a bad reshove for the exit hand (shoved KJ on a fairly active player who has raised from ealier position - he had AQ)looking back it was marginal. I lost one massive flip earlier (AK
The evening was great as the people dropped out of the tournament they joined us and a good night was had by all. Hope we all do this again sometime as it was a lot of fun and a bit different to the APAT events which is always nice.

Very much looking forward to Stoke now.

[AAroddersAA]

Will do a write up on how the month is going at the moment soon. I have recorded this little session if people are interested

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTeD0KMCypc&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]

[AAroddersAA]

Still not doing too well in the pokers this year so far. My cash game has sprung more leaks than a dodgy plumber. Still losing 8 buyins so far on the month in Cash. 180 Mans I have cashed once out of 15 games and the two live events I have played have both been blanks.

Still gotta just keep going and keep the faith I can turn it around. I have been misplaying little pairs for a while so will put that right ans creating too many complex situations (this is an ongoing theme to my game).

Will still have crushed it by the end of the year I am informed (not sure about crushing it myself but will hopefully be in profit).

[AAroddersAA]

Hi Again

Technically should update this thread as I am really bad at it. Seem to be OK at it when I am doing well but useless when I play badly (which happens lots). Basically I played like a total idiot in Jan and lose like $300 (12 buyins). Not the end of the world but still pretty annoying. Won most of it back in Feb but lost like $100 playing $5 PLO - wonderful (also lost prop bet with Stu due to this). Also losing playing 180 games. My laptop died the other week and took my poker tracker database with it so not sure how I am now doing over all. This month I am winning like $250 over 16K hands. Should get Goldstar back by the end of the month pretty easily enough. Think that is as high as I can realistically get as I am just a $25 Zoom nl player. I am somehow or another winning online across the year anyway and the Stella Rewards help push the bottom line up too (I have collect $100 in those so far).

Live poker is still REALLY REALLY boring though, I have officially given up on it again after about 2 session. Played a couple of tournaments that I didn"t cash in and destroyed a local cash game (won just over £250 in 2 hours but think I would rather stick needles in my eyes) why the hell would anybody (trying to take poker seriously as opposed to playing for fun) play 25 hands per hour when you can play 500 without every leaving your house. Still that one session means I am currently up live for the year, unlikely to play much more though.

I have been collecting FPP points at a rate of knots which is fun. I managed to turn them into various tournament tickets which will be useful next Sunday as I have tickets for:-

Micro Millions Main Event $22
Bigger $22
Bigger $11
Hotter $11
Sunday Storm $11

So $77 worth of tickets for free (or at the cost of 4900 FPP). All helps the bottom line. I have next Monday off so will do a decent session on that Sunday will add the Bigger $8.80 and some 180"s to the schedule.

Here are some hands for general amusement, feel free to abuse/ridicule as you see fit:-

Not sure how I am ever good here but burning money is fun:-

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5809568

This is how not to play ace high, don"t try this at home:-

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5809572

Whose afraid of the big bad ace, the big bad ace, the big bad ace. Whose afraid of the big bad ace, tra la la not me:-

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5809574

Hmm what am I up too here? Answers on a postcard please:-

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5809575

This is pretty much as bad as it is possible to be too how to get it wrong at every point in the hand:-

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5809576

[AAroddersAA]

Didn"t know it was so long since I updated this thread.

In Coventry a couple of people asked me why I had stopped writing on here. The main reason was that I did not think it was very interesting and from a poker point of view I always seem to do worse when I am reporting results anywhere. Mind you over the last few months that would not have made much difference lol. Thought I would stick a post on here just to remind everybody I am still here haha.

Life is still pretty good really. I pretty do what I want when I want without needing to check with anybody or really consider anybody else, I am sure some people would not enjoy that but it works well for me *lol*. The football season has ended and looking back over my programme collection from this year I attended 14 games which is not a massive amount to be honest. 12 home games (so only about half) and two away games, the two away games were at Cheltenham (who unfortunately have been relegated as that is always a good day) and Plymouth. The Plymouth game was an awesome day as it was the final day of the 6 nations as well so before the game we were in the pub to watch the Wales game and again after the game (which was a 0-0 bore draw *lol*) to see the England game. The game itself was a good laugh as shown below with this video. Next season must try to get to more away games (and home games for that matter). I will certainly try to go to Plymouth again as I have to say the place itself is awesome, the harbour side with all the pubs and restaurants is worth the trip on its own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFsRcrPCfXk

Over the second half of this year I have a few poker and non poker related trips planned. In a few weeks time I am heading up to the Kingdom of Stockton and Yarm to visit the great Stockton Massive and play in their charity event, followed by a couple of days sat in the beer garden of The Black Bull on Yarm High Street (great pub - just be careful of your wallet, but if you lose it be sure to abuse whoever finds it and keeps it save for you -  ). In August we will welcome APAT to Wales for the Welsh Championship in Cardiff. As the weather is likely to be warm (it will rain but it will be warm) I am going to suggest a trip down Cardiff Bay on Friday.

Then it will be Belgium in September before Dublin in October. There is also a weekend in Manchester (Asa and Adam country) in between them. Then in November I will be joining some of APAT's finest people in Portugal to visit the mythical O"sheas.

As for today, will play a little bit online (180 manners I think) and possibly go and watch the Champions league final later. Evening qualifying for the GP of course as well - Let"s go Vettel and Kimi :-)

Oh I also need a new name for this thread, any ideas *lol*

Will post more soon (maybe *lol*)

[Paulie_D]

So I assume Portugal in June isn"t happening then?*

Oh well, it will be just me "n" Ger trying to drink the place dry.

It"s a dirty job but someone"s gotta do it.....

<*quitter/>

[AAroddersAA]

So I assume Portugal in June isn"t happening then?*

Oh well, it will be just me "n" Ger trying to drink the place dry.

It"s a dirty job but someone"s gotta do it.....

<*quitter/>

To be fair I think it is two good men to have on the job. I reckon Ger Jnr will help though.

Just awaiting on something next week before saying a definite no but I have to be honest and say it is quite unlikely.