Solid win

I played for about 4 hours today on Cake poker and made $1.3k. Nothing too exciting happened, once again. I did win a few nice pots with AA which I'll show...

This one was pretty standard IMO, the villain was a donkey.



This one was vs a reg, and very very standard.



I got an email today saying that I have been accepted to be a Cardrunners Coach, which is pretty cool. I am pretty booked as far as students go, but I think I may be able to take one more. It'll be interesting to see how the coaching forum finally turns out, as it seems like they have been working on it for half of a year...

Cake again

I played about 5 hours on Cake and won about $1k. Lost a flip AKs vs JJ and some guy hit a backdoor flush which I paid off when I had half my stack in with AA on a TX55X board. He shipped it all in when he was OOP... normally when a donk does that, it means the river card hit them in the face and helped their hand normally. Not sure if I could have laid it down or not, but I should have taken more time before deciding what to do.

Nothing really exciting to report, other than the fact that my intramural hockey team won our first regular season game tonight by a score of 5 to 2. So that was a lot of fun and it was nice to get a win for the first game of the year.

Short session on Cake

I didn't play a whole lot today. I just played for about an hour and a half on Cake poker and made two buyins. I did give a few lessons though, both of which I think went very well.

I'm happy with all of the students I selected. I think I'm pretty lucky that each student is an eager learner, has good work ethic, and a pretty decent understanding of the game already. I'm having a lot of fun giving lessons and look forward to teaching my students even more about the game in future lessons.

Not doing a stop-win anymore

I don't know what I was thinking earlier when I said that I was going to try a daily stop-win... lol.

It's a really dumb idea and doesn't make any sense at all. All it does is add false pressure to hit the daily goal that is extremely unnecessary... this made it more difficult to make the correct decisions while playing. Also, it caused me to check my account balance like every 5 minutes which just kills my play because it's so distracting. So no more stop-win or anything stupid like that anymore.

I'm just going to try and play shorter sessions like I did today... about 2-3 hours long. That should solve my problem of my quality of play dropping after like 800-1000 hands.

I ended up playing 600 hands on Stars today and made about $1k.



Most of the hands were pretty standard.

Here's one that is pointless as far as a learning perspective, just a brutal suckout that I feel like putting on here. The villain was a pretty big fish.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3284906


Other than this hand, the most I ever lost in one single hand was $100 and that was a failed 4-bet bluff.


I went duck hunting again this weekend with my Dad and it was a lot of fun. We shot a total of 20 ducks and a Canadian Goose over two days of hunting.

Broke even

I think I'm going to try out a stop-win of $1k per day this month... I should have used it today, as I was up $1.7k on Cake then decided to play some on Stars. Well, I ended up losing $2k on there... while running just 2 buyins below expectation.

I did unlock a $2k bonus from Stars so I guess it wasn't a total waste...

I think I just simply played too much poker today. I made some bad moves and towards the end was making light call-downs and some small mistakes that added up.

First session of October

I played about 1,300 hands on UB today and ended up winning $1k. I continued my trend from September of running like dog shit in all-ins, finishing the session 2 buyins below expectation. Also had one cooler hand that isn't included in the EV calculation, as I got raped in a 3-bet pot when I had AA...(3-bet was 25bb large... so I just called it) and someone flopped a boat on me when I had a pot-sized bet left. I did make one semi-mistake this session as I decided to pull a big bluff in a 3-bet pot on the river and got snapped off by TP medium kicker when the flush hit on the river...

Here's the HEM stats. My W$WSF stat is getting better every session... that's pretty good to have it over 50% in my opinion.




Here's a few hands:


Here's a fun hand. I ship it in with the nut flush and 2 overs and he binks a gutterball on the turn.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3267669


Here's the AA hand I was mentioning earlier... I like my play... shoving pre-flop is probably a poor idea because I don't really need to isolate the shortstack because he 3-bet so huge, I don't think anyone is getting proper odds to set mine me for 1/4 of a buyin...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3267675


This hand sucked... pissed me off even more that he waited until the turn to ship it in because I was a bigger favorite then.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3267681


I did actually win a few hands... here's one of them

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3267684


I ended up getting a new student today. He's a regular on $2/4 NL 6 Max on Stars and a very solid player. I'm looking forward to working with him, as he's already one of the biggest winners in my HEM database. I think I can show him a lot of non-standard stuff that will really get him to the next level.

I don't think I'll be taking any new students anytime soon... I have plenty of students right now and don't want to spread myself too thin. Plus, I want to have some time to play teh pokers as well.

I have been considering trying out a stop-win this month. Maybe something like win $1k per day. I have never done any stop-losses or stop-wins before... however, I noticed that quite frequently on my daily graphs I've seen my profit line go like straight up from 0 to about 800 hands... then it often tapers down and finishes below the point I was at when I had played about 700-900 hands.

I'm not sure if this is fatigue or what, but trying to make $X per day is something that I've always wanted to just try for the fun of it. I know it isn't correct as far as I could be making more, it doesn't really matter when I end my session because my whole career is one long session, etc. etc. But if I can make more money doing this by playing less hands as well it might be worth it. I'd be interested to hear from anyone who has tried something like this before...

September recap

I ended up playing about 75,000 hands for the month. I also gave about 10 hours worth of lessons to my students, so from a work ethic perspective I did an excellent job this month. Result of this effort? A $13k total profit from poker activities.

It is a solid month but nothing extraordinary. For playing that many hands at $2/4 NL, I really feel like I should have been up much more. However, as you could see from my previous blog post, I did not run very well in all-ins. So that part was out of my control.

Overall, I am pretty happy with the result I guess, considering how poorly I ran.

I'm going to really focus on improving my game in October and work hard on applying the things I'm learning from my lessons with Nutedawg. Hopefully I can crush the games in October.