Journal of a Poker Pro
boom, $3k day (well, $2971, but yeah)
+1.5k bonus cleared today, so lets call it a cool $4500 :)
I'm a bad blogger, I know.
But I have lots going on at the moment, so this has kind of fallen off my priority list.
I'm grinding every day, trying to reach 500,000 vpps, which gets me a $5,000 bonus. I'll make it, I'm like 7200points away.
I'm also moving to the phillipines in a week or so. Kind of random, I know. Should be a fun change up though.
This month sucks, and I may end up being down in cash games at the end. Thankfully bonuses will put be somewhere between $5-7000.
I'll do the numbers next week, and reflect on the year in a later post.
I guess there wass only one way to follow up my biggest hand ever, and it was with my biggest session ever.
Without including bonuses and/or rakeback, I'm 99% sure this was my best session ever:
5.5hrs, 5387hands, $2,381.
This helps my pathetic month tremendously. :)
This month has been a pain. I've been running pretty bad and breaking even for the month not including bonuses. Sucks.
Thus, no recent updates. I'm just waiting for the month/year to end and I'll re-evaluate from there. Grinding has been really annoying, especially while not making any money.
SOoOo, I took a shot at some 600NL and 1000NL and things went... well, check out the hand:
Poker Stars, $5/$10 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter
MP: $342.25
Hero (CO): $1,010
BTN: $1,105.50
SB: $990
BB: $460
UTG: $1,000
Pre-Flop: Q
Q
dealt to Hero (CO)
UTG raises to $35, MP folds, Hero calls $35, BTN calls $35, 2 folds
Flop: ($120) 4 Q
A (3 Players)
UTG bets $75, Hero calls $75, BTN folds
Turn: ($270) J (2 Players)
UTG bets $200, Hero raises to $640, UTG raises to $890 and is All-In, Hero calls $250
River: ($2,050) 8 (2 Players - 1 is All-In)
Results: $2,050 Pot ($3 Rake)
Hero showed Q Q (three of a kind, Queens) and WON $2,047 (+$1,047 NET)
UTG showed A J
(two pair, Aces and Jacks) and LOST (-$1,000 NET)
Ship my biggest pot ever. It was my 3rd hand at the table I think and I obv hit and ran. :)
Today was the weirdest poker session I've ever been a part of.
First, I played 7,000 hands. Which is probably the 2nd most I've ever played in a day.
But every big hand I got all in with,went terribly, and I ran ~$1200 below expectation. Yes, 6 buyins below expectation.
But whatever, I played really aggressively and took down a lot of mid-sized pots without going to showdown. And I mean, A LOT. It was fun.
So somehow, I managed to eek out a profit for the day:
lol. Yeah, I managed to win ~$1600 which is probably in my top 3 best days of the year.
If I ran at expectation today I would've made like $3k, which would've crushed my best day ever in cash games.
Oh well, can't complain. I was even for the month before this, so it feels great.
David “Chip” Reese, the three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, longtime cash-game star, and member of the Poker Hall of Fame, has died. He was 56.
Too bad, he was a great player and seemed like a nice, genuine dude.So I played a bit on sunday and got killed. I was up early and played/busted out of the sunday million after 3hrs. I just didn't feel like grinding and was down about $700 so I quit early. Probably not a good idea b/c I have to play sooo many hands this month.
