Perrydiddle's Poker

I worked out that since the start of the year when I began seriously concentrating on poker I have withdrawn around $7000. That means that if I had not relied solely on poker for my income, I would have a $8800 bankroll by now.

I feel pretty sick about only having $1800 online right now.

Alot of people (including myself) have goals stating that they will never have to re-deposit. I am now giving myself a goal to not have to withdraw. I can't possibly rise up the limits at the pace I want if I have to keep taking out money. So, next time I need some cash, i'll be heading out to look for a job instead of putting dents in my online bankroll.

So far in April i've been really slacking off in the cash games. Here's my stats from the first 15 days:

I've played under 3000 hands which is nothing. I'm going to really up the number of hands for the rest of the month so I can record some decent numbers and hopefull get some good results.

-Richard

Today I am down around $550.

I played 2 satellites to get into the Sunday major on Party. Lost them both. I then decided to just buy straight in for $215.

While I played that I had 4 tables of $100NL up and running. I lost $275 in these. Here are the highlights:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1000774

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1000777

A guy on Cardrunner's called Brian (Hookem148) is looking for two students to mentor. He was one of the two guy's that Taylor Caby took on as student's and is currently playing the $5-$10 limits. He is now looking for two student's himself and I decided to apply. It'd be pretty cool to be his student as i'd learn a lot more, a lot faster than I am now.

Anyway's from now on there will be no more direct buy-ins into the big multi's. After the gym tomorrow i'm going to put in a hardcore session at $50NL to get my confidence up a bit again.

My bankroll is now looking a bit shoddy. I've been toying with the idea of getting a part-tme job so I don't need to keep withdrawing from it. If I work a couple of nights a week at my old delivery job I could make £80 a week and wouldn't need to keep withdrawing. Although my last big withdrawl should keep me going for a bit.

Bankroll: $1870.14

-Richard

So last night I went out for a curry and then heading into town for drinks and a good time, which it was.

I then pretty much stayed in my bed recovering until 9.30pm when I had a game of 6-a-side booked. This all went, I had a good time and came home. I registered for a couple multi's that started at midnight. I went for a quick shower, but when I got out the problems started.

I sat down at my computer screens and realised that my vision was slightly blurred. That's strange, I thought. It was about this time that I realised that I felt sick and had a really sore head. So I quickly realised that I needed my bed. I went to un-register from my tournies. However, it was know 11:46pm and this means that Party Poker won't allow me to un-register as I have to do this 15mins before it starts for some stupid reason.

I then proceed to have the most uncomfortable poker session i've ever had. Even though i'm sitting with my head in a bucket, thinking i'm bound to start throwing up as soon as I remove it, i'm getting some really good cards and end up with a decent stack. However, we now come to the really sickening part.

Some complete chump is sitting next to me and proceeds to make a horrible call pre-flop for all his chips with A8. So he takes half my stack. But that's ok, i'm sure to get them back of him soon. Wrong.

He then goes on to stack two other people and has now got a massive chip lead. Then, after 2 1/2 hours of hell we get to the bubble. 31 left, 30 get paid and as usual on Party, the play is of a pretty poor standard. After having built up an ok stack, (ok only being 15 blinds with the terrible blind structure they have), i'm actually feeling a bit better. It is then when the poker gods / the dealer / the logorithmic computer card generator decides to give me QQ in the BB.

"Oh fuck". I know whats going to happen before you could say, "Jesus, how long is this post gonna be"

You better believe the small blind picks up AA, and you better believe it was the same guy who I should have put out before. It's the first, and hopefully only, time that i've said, "that's so sick" and then thrown up straight after.

As a treat for those of you who managed to read all, or even half of this, i'm going to put up a funny picture of my good friend, HARRY HILL!

Amount of bankroll still online: $2645.58

Peace,

Richard

Bought directly into the 11pm $400k on Full Tilt but ended up crippled when some donk limped under the gun with 88, then called all in with a raise, re-raise and re-re-raise in front of him. I had AA and he hit his two outer on the river. I struggled to stop myself from berating him for his stupidity but I somehow managed to hold it in.

I was left with 2600 chips with the blinds at 300-600 with a 75 ante. I pushed with 89o from MP and got called by 2's. I flopped an open ender but didn't hit. The river was a 2 just to rub it in.

Previous to these two hands I lost a big pot with 1010 vs A6s when a weak player came after my blinds with A6s and saw fit to call my push over the top of him. This was for the table chip lead but I lost this also. This was clearly not my tournament.

For the time being MTT's are definatley going to be my game of choice. I feel i'm playing them really well and it won't be too long until I pick up a few decent scores.

They require more patience, longer periods sitting at the computer and an ability to deal with tough beats in bad situations (i.e on the bubble). However, I feel comfortable in these games for now. If the U.S legislation changes I will certainly be going back to cash games sharpish, but for now i'm happy playing my nightly multi's. I may even up the number's i'm playing daily.

Bankroll: $2906.38

-Richard

Haven't played much cash games.

Withdrew $2500 to pay for my summer holidays. I'm going on a mediterranean cruise with 3 friends where I plan to get very drunk and will see lots of beaches.

Just finished a $75 multi on Full Tilt and busted out 6th for just over $800. I'm pretty raging because the five other players that were left were uttur fish. On the final table I was ruling but lost twice with QQ.

First one I flopped top set on a Q69 board and got it all in vs 78 which promptly rivered a straight. I then end up all in, for a pot that would get me back the chip lead, with QQ vs J10s pre-flop. When he flops his straight I bust out in 6th leaving the 5 donks to fight it out for the meaningful amounts of money.

Anyway, considering I withdrew $2500 from it, my bankroll isn't looking too shabby.

Bankroll: $3459.38

-Richard

So I haven't written in this for a few days.

Went to St. Andrews and it turned out to be really good apart from me losing in the tourney and getting food poisoning. I was pretty happy with the way I played. In the first hour I got all in pre-flop with QQ vs 88 and lost which took half my stack away (The other guy had already been involved in several pots). I then hit middle set and got it all in vs a guy with top set. I was left with 1900 from the 10,000 starting stack with the blinds 100-200. I managed to play a good short stack game and ended up getting through to the second day with an average stack. Unfortunately the structure sucked and by the final day the average stack was only 10 BB's. Ended up going out on a blind steal from the button.

Last night, once I got home I played 8 tables of $100NL on Party and quickly lost $200. I decided I wasn't in the right mindset so quit and hung out with some friends instead.

Today I played $200NL on Full Tilt and lost $219.20. I ran pretty badly but i'm not upset at how I played the cards I was getting. I also entered the Party $100 midnight tournament and came 2nd for around $3700. The players that were in it were shockingly bad and I pretty much played ABC poker, picking up chips pretty easily and getting paid off on my big hands.

When it got heads up the guy I was up against was hitting everything under the sun and I lost pretty quickly. In the 24 hands we played he flopped the nut straight, the second nut flush and two pair more than once. And here's the hand i went out on:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?961793

The overbet on the turn put me off as I had seen him do this with air twice before we were heads-up. He had also been betting into me on the flop everytime he hit top pair. Ah well, can't win them all but it always upsets me when I come second.

Anyways, April has now started and i'm going to have to decide if I want to take anything out of my bankroll, and what my goals are going to be for the end of the month.

Currently my bankroll is at $5560.25

-Richard

http://www.pokerhand.org/?949620

Today I played a $55 multi with 110 entrants. I missed the fisrt 60 mins because I went downstairs and forgot about it. When I came back upstairs and noticed I was sitting out a tourney, I had 1600 chips and the blinds were 150-300. I promptly went all in with K9s and sucked out AK and then won a AK vs QQ race and was up to an average stack. I ended up coming 14th when I pushed with AJo into the blinds and ran into KK. I got $77 back.

On the cash tables I got in 886 hands and won $318.51, which I was happy about. Didn't take much longer than 2 hours. I still can't seem to put in long spells playing. Can't remember the last time I played for more than 3 hours straight. I'm going to try and up my hours for the next few days so I can hopefully bump up my bankroll before I leave for St. Andrews on the 30th. If I can get to $3400 i'll be pretty much even for the month, although I wanted to start April with $4k.

Here are some hands for today:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?939542

http://www.pokerhand.org/?939544

http://www.pokerhand.org/?939548

http://www.pokerhand.org/?939551

Here I got my money in bad against a super aggressive player who I thought was 3 and 4-betting light....WRONG.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?939554

http://www.pokerhand.org/?939560

Here are some losers:

On the turn here I thought I had the correct odds. I looked into it and turns out I didn't, was close though:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?939565

Here I was on the phone to a friend and wasn't really paying attention, I didn't even remember the hand until after I looked through PokerTracker and I was like whaaaaat?

http://www.pokerhand.org/?939573

Bankroll: $2868.69

-Richard

Edit: I then decided to play again a bit later. After about 2 mins I got this hand on one of the tables. After this I realised I really couldn't be bothered and decided to go to bed.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?940182

On the 24th I played 808 hand for $88 profit. Was all pretty standard. Here's the biggest hand:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?937475

On the 25th I started off by playing qualifiers to major tournies on Party Poker and Full Tilt. I got into both pretty quickly, only having to play 3 satellites total to get into both.

In the Party major I came around 400th out of 1500 with 200 getting paid. The blinds were getting high and I went out on a pretty standard 50-50.

In the Full Tilt tourney I built up a good stack, but with 600 left out of the 2100 entrants I took a huge hit when I raised it up with KK pre-flop and got called by a guy with 36o. Flop came 652 and we got it all in. He hit a 3 for 2 pair and I was very badly crippled. From there I doubled up once but then went out with 1010 vs AQ.
I played it like a complete donk. I raised pre-flop and got 1 caller. The flop came JJ8 and I checked with the intention of raising. I felt sure he would bet any two cards here since he was an over aggro fish, and had raised every time anyone checked to him. I was wrong and he checked. The turn brought a Q, which gave me a gutshot and a flush draw. I bet out a little less than pot, commiting myself to any raise. He did just that and fliped over AQ. I missed my draws and went out, annoyed and frustrated at my own incompetence.

In the cash games I played whilst in the tournies I made $221 in 1 hour 40 mins having played 754 hands. Here's the highlight hands:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?937478

Ths is my favorite:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?937480

http://www.pokerhand.org/?937501

And the biggest pot lost:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?937504

I withdrew $600 today to tide me over for a while and to fund my St. Andrews trip. It's annoying to have to take money out from my bankroll all the time as it makes it alot harder to climb the levels. However, it would be more annoying if I had to go and get a job, so I guess it's the lesser of two evils.

Bankroll after withdrawl: $2537.18

-Richard

Didn't played much today. Played some cash games for just over an hour and a couple of multi's.

In the cash games I played 554 hands and won $126.91. I then played a $55 multi at 8pm where I cashed, getting back $122. I also played a $33 shootout at midnight and got back $233.10.

Nothing too exciting but another winning day. I've not been playing many hours of cash games so tomorrow i'm going to try and play for at least 4 hours. Hopefully i'll feel up to it.

Bankroll: $2989.60

-Richard