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Keeping Warm in Winter
technolog:
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--- Quote from: AAroddersAA on January 31, 2011, 02:24:45 AM ---
I wrote this post then deleted it and this is now this post - What happens on APAT Weekends stays on APAT weekends.
OMFG - I love APAT, thank you season four. Bring on season five.
Rodders (after several beers)
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Don"t make new rules, thats Vegas, not APAT. Tell us..!! Or.. Is it about Jack and I already know by now? LOL at Jack.. Just LOL... Twice..
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;D
Laxie:
LOLOLOLOL - come on...spill it!
AAroddersAA:
I don"t actually fully remember why I made the above post, I think it was just the full weekend mixed with Jacks relatively minor but REALLY funny incident. I had a few little incidents to be fair, including not being able to work out what time pubs close and trying to convince Dawn to convince everybody else we should stay in the pub after it closed and falling in a puddle.
Anyway, enough of this, play time is over, down to business.
On Sunday I played my first live cash session of the year. I was originally just watching the game as it was a £1/£2 game which is above my bankroll. I was hoping a 50p/£1 gam would start but eventually I decided I had to have a go in that game, the play was so poor. Gareth Cash was playing in it which was not really what I wanted to see but he had been playing for 24 hours so I felt this would give me an advantage. Nobody else on the table was on any concern accept for Stuart Oliver who given my seat I was going to have position on. I buy in for £200 which is a little short but fine imo.
Early on I get AQ in early position and Stuart raises. I don"t like flatting here so make a reraise. I get called in two spots and The flop is a helpful Queen high. I am pretty sure I am miles ahead of their ranges as there are no realy draws out and I make a small bet (of less than half to pot) they both fold which was fine. I could have flatted a raise and gone from there if they had played.
The players to look out for in the game are Gareth, who is quite aggressive, another guy who has a massive stack but had bought in for £600 so was not up too much and Stuart. Stuart leaves the game shortly after which I am not too dissapointed about, I can"t remember why but I think he got a bad beat against a guy who was drunk and was clearly the fish at the table, I think everybody had figured that. I think he was actually probably not a bad player sober but was very drunk, nice guy though. I lose a pot to Gareth after I flat his raise with 7-7 and the flop comes K-K-5. He bets I raise it up he repops me and I fold. I win it back a little bit later when I raise it up with J-J and a Jack hits the flop, I bet the flop and get called but the turn makes the board look scary and I have the fire quite big to get paid before it gets even more scary and to price out draws. He makes a good fold.
I then get in a hand with the guy who had been there drinking all night. He had been running really good and had about £750 at the table. I had 8-8 and hit the flop and got it all in against his pair and draw I think. I won the hand anyway and doubled up taking £200 on that hand alone. I ended the session £268 in profit after charges and tips (not bad for 3 hours work). Very happy with that first cash session of the year. Think I played well, was very tight as I often am in cash games and got handed a few good spots which I was able to take advantage of. With the exception of Gareth (and Stuart early on) the table was not that tough and some pretty downright poor play was on show as well as people trying to educate the table "You were a massive underdog to my range there" type comments annoy me. Why say it, all you are doing is giving players infomation about the type of player you are. That kind of comment gives more away than a lot of people might realise on a live cash table.
The bottom line for Jan was as follows then:-
Online Cash Games: -£65
Online Tournaments: +£13 (not exact by very close, actually just over)
Live Tournamnets: -£125
Live Cash: +£268
So I manage to nick a profit on poker in January of £91. Not great but could easily have been a lot worse. Will be trying to do better in Feb though. Already have a cash session to report on from this morning and there are also two blonde leagues running so will be doing that. The Blonde leagues really are excellent value I have to say.
AAroddersAA:
Played online again today, was sticking to the £20 buyin still until I got even as I had agreed with myself.
So I started the mont £65 down online after a poor start to Jan. It took me just a week to lose £200 and give myself a tough btask to climb back to parity. I made a decent start though, grinding the lower limit and slowly turning it around. Bt the end of the month I was only £65 down online. although still down overall due to the buyins to both APATs (although I had already made the buyin to Spain last year so it does not actually feel that bad. The live cash session above turned it and put me in profit for the year overall.
Back to online and this game is strange. I made a bad start when somebody limped UTG with KK and I raised the button with 77. The flop came K-7-x and I was a buyin down, however that reversed itself almost staright away with AA vs KK. Good luck and Bad luck so broke even in luck and in cash there. I then played quite well and won about £40 no really big hands but some good consistant value betting does the trick and making good folds when you are behind often enough to know it is -EV to continue with the hand. I then lost a buyin when I got it allin on a flop of 5h-Qc-8c with AsQd. My opponent showed 4c5c, so it was a race and I lost but he had 15 outs so I believe he is a slight favourite, not sure how the redraw went but it pretty much played itself and nothing I can so to save chips there. I did mis play one hand I think. Playing against a sky reg in this pot. I have K-J and raise it from the cut of to 80p. I get a call from the blinds by this player and we see a flop of 3-10-7 rainbow. I know this player will often float so I check, intending to check raise or bet the turn as I reckon if he checks he is pretty weak. He does check and the turn comes an A. This is a great card for me to bet as he will find it really hard to continue without the ace so I put in a bet of £1.50. He calls and the river comes down a 2. I decide I have to turn my hand onto a bluff so fire £4 into the pot and get pretty much insta called. He had the Ace which he was never laying down for £4 so I probably there lost £4 I did not need to. Apart from that one hand though I am quite happy with my play.
I tehn got a nice hand, playing pretty deep I made a set against and overpair. I raised his flop bet and he called and we got it in on the turn so I made about £35 off that hand, then ran it up a bit more to just get to £81.11 profit for the day. That will do me for today as it puts me back in the black for the year. The lesson here I get is it has taken me three weeks of good work tocorrect the damage done by one weeks bad play at the start of last month (where I lost the best part of £150 I should not have lost). It is so much easier to stay disciplined when you are doing well though, some tips for online cash players (nothing new here but it would do us all good to remember)
1) Don"t get fancy with plays unless you know EXACTLY why you are doing so - 90% of the time you should just be making the standard best play.
2) Don"t play for too long and don"t play when you are not feeling like it - a leak I have sometimes. If I finished all my cash sessions 1 hour earlier I would have made more money at poker.
3) Take breaks - see above you have to have them. It varies for everybody when you need them but last month I badly needed one but did not take one until I had lost at least £100 that I should not have done.
Back in work tomorrow but I am going to play the Blonde league tonight and also try the Blonde sit n go league maybe. My current bottom line for the year is:-
Online cash: +£16.07
Online Tournaments: +£13
Live cash: +£268 (1 session)
Live Tournaments: -£125 (2 Tournaments)
JamieCarra:
--- Quote from: AAroddersAA on February 01, 2011, 12:59:12 PM ---
I win it back a little bit later when I raise it up with J-J and a Jack hits the flop, I bet the flop and get called but the turn makes the board look scary and I have the fire quite big to get paid before it gets even more scary and to price out draws. He makes a good fold.
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Am honestly surprised you had JJ here, would have bet my life on you having QQ
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