Most Recent Ramblings
December 8, 2008, 10PM
Log Update
 Donk---->
Dont forget to update your log....
You still need to log:
Vegas Trip
Tilt Loss
Poker Stars Step Tournys
Last Update: March 29, 2008, 2:50PM | Permalink (5 Comments)
July 20, 2008, 6PM:
WSOP Fantasy League Update
 **Edit**I changed the date on this so that when the WSOP rolls around I don't have to go find this log.
RyanMo6707 and I have drafted our teams. Overall I like my team. Ryan probably has a little more well-rounded team when it comes to different games, but a few of them don't play a very full schedule of tournaments.
My Team--------------------RyanMo6707's Team
Daniel Negreanu------------Phil Ivey
Phil Hellmuth--------------Allen Cunningham
Chris Ferguson-------------Erik Seidel
JC Tran--------------------Johnny Chan
Barry Greenstein-----------Gus Hansen
Michael Binger-------------Scott Fischman
Mike Matusow---------------Scotty Nguyen
Scott Clements-------------Howard Lederer
Erik Lindgren--------------Michael Mizrachi
Jonathan Little------------Huck Seed
I think my team has an edge in NL Holdem, because a lot of the guys will play more events and play them better. Also, if I was torn before a few guys, I went with the guy I would like to root for the most. That will make the 6 week sweat (or however long it is these days) that much more fun to follow. Just over a month and I will hopefully have a points lead to post!
Last Update: May 11, 2008, 9:39PM | Permalink (20 Comments)
June 1, 2008, 3PM:
Start of the Blog
I’m starting this blog as a record for myself. Each post will contain what I have achieved and what a plan to achieve. The following isn’t very entertaining, its just my history and plans. I’ve played poker since June 07, starting in a home game with little Mark, Carrie, Tash and a few of their mates. Played a couple of tournaments at the local Grosvenor casino (one £5 rebuy and freerolls). Started playing online in October 07 at Titans. Moved to Party with $160 and built it up to $600, then cashed out at $350. Made most money at .10/.25 cash and $6 50 man SnGs. Moved to blue squ where I’m not sure if I’ve made or lost money at cash but made $540 coming 3rd in a $5 MTT and $580 coming second in a $5 MTT. Played a bit of cash of Everest as well, no great wins. I currently have just under a $500 bankroll.
After this summer, I’m going to invest in Pokertracker and maybe PAH and concentrate on my cash game. I will start with a $400 bankroll playing at 20 or 25NL FR cash tables, playing 2 at a time and maybe moving to 3 or 4 once I have and can use PT properly. I want to run this to $1000 with a winrate of at last 5BB/100 before moving to 50NL. Once I reach 50NL I will grind at that level until I feel happy to move up. I’m not sure what site I will do this on. I may look at rakeback offers before making a choice. In PT3 there is a HUD that at the time of writing is limited to stars, FT and party, so this may influence my decision.
Another $100 of my bankroll will go in a separate account on another site which will be used as a tournament account. This will be used to play $1-$5 MTTs with a limit of a $10 loss each week. This is to keep track of my tournament play separate from my cash. Tournaments will be side lined to concentrate on cash, but I like to play them, so I will only play a couple a week. If I have a win similar to my previous $500 cashes, I will move my limits up. The reason my bankroll isn’t over $1000 already is because I had to spend the money on car insurance and surviving being a penniless student.
Once I have PT and start playing cash, I will try and plan each week when I want to play and for how long. These planned sessions will be reviewed hand by hand in PT to analyse my game. I will also start posting more on 2+2 strategy forums with my interesting hands that get me into trouble and I will comment on other people’s hands.
I have a subscription to PokerPlayer magazine and my friend Rory has inside poker. I will read all the strategy in these magazines and if time permits, write out summary sheets which I can quickly review in the future. Books I want to read:
Harrington on hold’em, v3
Tournament poker for advanced players
Harrington on cash v1/2.
Professional NL hold’em*
*need to buy
Some of these will be read when I’m in Oz. I would like to reread Theory of Poker and Every Hand Revealed. ToP needs to be summarised.
Check list:
Read books/mag and make notes if useful
Buy PT
Decide which sites to use for the 2 accounts and look at rakeback offers.
Timetable sessions in for the week starting Sunday evening.
Post/Review hands on 2+2
Qualify for a live event*
*Most packages are $2000+ and this money would be more useful as a bankroll, but the Virgin Festival is only a $200 main event, so I may put some money aside for trying to qualify for that, depending when the next one is that I can make it to.
Only other live poker I play is a £5 double chance SnG with mates, which are rare and the biweekly university run tournament. These cost £3 and are donkey luck fests. I’ve never cashed! Made 1 final table but lost with AK vs 77 and AT vs AK. Latest one my King high flush lost to a straight flush, tilt!! Money used for these tournaments wont be recorded in my BR as they are small. Any winnings should be stored and used to play future live tournaments.
Background and targets done. These are all for when I get back from Oz on the 23rd August. I also have a half marathon to train for when I get back.
Will record any other play before leaving on the 21st June, then will record progress once I get back.
Last Update: June 1, 2008, 6:48AM | Permalink (2 Comments)
May 30, 2008, 10PM:
WSOP
 Ok my fellow OPL'rs, i am heading to vegas in a couple of days for my WSOP, I have 2 events to play a 2k NLHE and I think I will play the ladies event for 1k, I am also going to play a couple of the deepstack tourneys at the venetian and cesears.
So wish me luck guys and hopefully my next posts will be six figures.......
Last Update: May 30, 2008, 10:16PM | Permalink (5 Comments)
May 29, 2008, 12PM:
Deposit Processed
Depositing money on to Cake Poker can be painful. They do not give players from the United States many options to deposit. My debit card was declined, so I had to deposit using my checking account though eWalletXpress. I thought it would be instant, but I had to wait for the vendor to make a withdrawal from my checking account before it appeared in my account and I could transfer it onto Cake Poker. I started this on Monday, and finally, 3 days later, my starting bankroll of $100 is on Cake.
Last Update: June 2, 2008, 4:20PM | Permalink (1 Comment)
May 29, 2008, 12AM:
Detailed Hand History
O M G!
I am playing a $2 double stacked tournament right now that I will post soon as I finish. However, I had decided at the start of this tourney to type out a detailed hand history as I played. For example:
Hand 1: 60xBB. MP with AK. I raised to 120 and got 1 caller. Details..............
6 folds.
Hand 8: Detailed hand analysis.......
9 folds.
Blinds raise to 25-50.
3 folds.
Hand #: Hand analysis.........
I am 140 hands (2 hours) into the tournament and had a ton of great stuff for any of you guys that wanted to read through it as well as a great tool for me to review my play when I accidently hit the refresh button at the top of the window. I feel more sick about this than whatever beat I will surely take on the bubble in this tournament lol.
It was quite a bit of work but I enjoyed doing it so I think I will try again but who knows how many more times it will take for me to get this deep while recording hands.
Anyways, just wanted someone out there to feel my pain since I was hoping some of you OPLers could maybe enjoy reading some of it. Oh well, GL me in this tourney.
Last Update: May 29, 2008, 12:33AM | Permalink (0 Comments)
May 26, 2008, 12PM:
Introduction/Experiment
Introduction
This poker blogging thing seems pretty cool – I think I will give it a shot. Even if nobody is interested in reading my entries, it would be cool to have my own poker diary to look back upon.
I play live about once a month in Atlantic City. You can usually find me at either Borgata or Showboat playing 3/6 or 4/8 limit. Sometimes when I am there on a Friday night/Saturday during the summer, I will play the "pink-chip ($7.50/$15.00) game" at the Tropicana for fun. I used to play no-limit, but my heart could not continue to take the stress that no-limit causes.
This online poker blog gave me the idea to try something different. I just signed up (with rake back!) on Cake Poker. For my experiment, I am going to deposit $100 and start with the micro-stakes limit games and attempt to work my way up the stakes through proper bankroll management. I will start at $.10/$.20 (500 big blinds), and I can not move up to the next level until I reach 500 big blinds. For example, I can not move up to $.25/$.50 until my bankroll reaches $250.
For those of you that choose to follow my journey/experiment, thank you, and I hope you enjoy.
Last Update: June 2, 2008, 4:10PM | Permalink (0 Comments)
May 23, 2008, 12PM:
MSOP on FTP
Full Tilt is running a "Mini Series of Poker" that coincides with the real World Series of Poker. Each tournament that starts on a given day during the WSOP will have a matching tournament on Full Tilt, but for 1% the buy in.
For instance, next Friday the WSOP will be kicked off by a $10,000 PL Holdem tournament. Full Tilt will be running a $100 PL Holdem tournament that same day.
Now, I won't be putting up $100 to play but there are several $1,000-$2,000 events ($10-$20 on FTP) as well as very low buy in sattelites. Most of the tournaments start at either 3:20 ET or 8:20 ET.
I work at a camp during the summer and have to "work" from 8pm-12:30am Sunday-Thursday so I will only be able to play the earlier tournaments or tournaments on the weekend. Either way, I look forward to playing several of these and satty'ing into several of the bigger ones. Hope to see you OPLers out there.
Here is the link to the FTP announcement:
http://w.fulltiltpoker.com/series-2008-mini-series-of-poker
Last Update: May 23, 2008, 12:32PM | Permalink (1 Comment)
May 20, 2008, 8PM:
Poker Bots
 Here is a comprehensive article about writing poker bots. Basically, a rules-based bot can break even at the tables and earn $80k in a year on rakebacks and player points.
http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/how-i-built-a-working-online-poker-bot-2
If you had 10 of these going, that's $800k/year, and you don't even have to make money at the tables.
I'm assuming most people know more about this than me, but I really like the "collusion server". Then again, it seems like the best thing for the bots to do is break even for as long as they can, which is good for the humans. It is unlikely that anyone with a winning bot would actually *want* to win...except to be able to prove that they can do it. I'm guessing that latter motivation may keep people from doing the smart thing, which probably means I'm getting my brains beat out by non-humans.
Last Update: May 20, 2008, 8:20PM | Permalink (1 Comment)
May 18, 2008, 12PM:
DOLLA DOLLA BILLS YALL
 IMMA TELL YOU, LIKE HE TOLD ME CASH RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME DOLLA DOLLA BILLS YALL DOLLA DOLLA BILLS YALL!!!
IMMA TELL YOU, LIKE HE TOLD ME CASH RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME DOLLA DOLLA BILLS YALL DOLLA DOLLA BILLS YALL!!!
Last Update: May 18, 2008, 12:13PM | Permalink (0 Comments)
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