25nl Goal completed

This month in summary

Alright with a title like this its gunna be a lengthy post, firstly I did meet my goal, and I'm very pleased of course, I just feel like I smashed it - I only played 6k hands and managed this.

update 29 september* after 6751 hands I spun it up to $443

Unfortuantley holdem manger is screwed at the moment so will show you a poker officer graph its not as nice in detail but meh u can see my swings at least:




However Once again I could've done alot better with my blogging but alot of work in my job really affected alot of things alot good some bad.

The Bad:
*I couldnt play as much poker and hands as I would have liked to I only managed 6k hands this month which is just riddiclously small and I could've made alot more I rekon.

The Good:
*I started to read and almost finished a book called 'The Poker Mindset' when I was to tired to play poker after work and during my lunch breaks. I rarely give advice or anything in this blog because I feel I'm in no position to playing the stakes I play, however I HIGHLY recommend you get this book whatever limit you play. It made me realise I looked at the entire picture of playing poker just wrong, I wouldnt say its totally sorted my tilting issues thats a never ending process but it helped me realise my tilting triggers and methods to avoid it I think, but its made me accept pokers realities alot better and just how to keep a healthy poker mind and keeping it all in prespective. It made me see that when I was at 50nl I did think about alot of it in the wrong way, so when I move back up I feel alot better armed to deal with poker as a whole game winning and loosing. So definatley read this book it will sort out so many problems in your game.

Here is the cover

*I enjoyed playing poker alot more, everytime I played poker it never felt like a grind and I enjoyed every second of it, obviously having limited to to play due to work helped and also and since I'm wayyy over rolled for 25nl also I have zen like attitude to taking everything on and just making the best poker deccissions

*I relearnt very important concepts in poker that helped my winrate.

*I can play 5 tables now and follow everything since I'm used to pkr update v2.0 and my mind is more in tune playing more tables now it seems.

* I learnt when to leave a game and when to keep playing - something that was a huge problem for me.

So what to do now?

I'm not entirley sure, if you asked me at the beggining of the month I would've said soon as I make this goal I'm moving up! and that woulda been just an ego thing since I looked down on playing 25nl again.

I have a decent winrate at 50nl but I would like to have a slightly bigger money cushion I would like another 200 on top so I can have 4 buyins as an extra cushion on top, since the first week is always ruff moving up.

I think for the time being though I'm just going to dip my toe in the water with 50nl will play alittle see how it goes, I'm still going to play 25nl mind as well as 50nl in the future as well since one lesson I learnt this month is if the games juicy - play it, ego is the most idiotic thing in poker and if theres free money take it. For instance if for one night I feel 50nl is full of regs and its not really worth my time I'll sit with the easy money at 25nl.

so bottom line is I'm gunna grind another 200 and alternate between stakes.

Fast Poker News

A home grown Chris Moneymaker story has hit PKR and the WSOP (world series of poker) europe.

This time being the name of Scott Shelly, a 24 year old customer service represenative who works for PKR won a staff tournament to the prestigious WSOP europe event held at London's Empire Casino. He entered the NL event #3 and he battled his way through a field of dreamers and professionals alike and reached the final table and finnaly heads up to face defending reigning WSOP champion JP Kelly with two wsop bracelets to his name and potentiol record breaker if he won this tournament, he would have broke Phil Iveys record as the youngest 3 time WSOP bracelet winner, as well as many other records. However with the odds stacked against him Scott showed remarkable Heads up skill attacking JP Kelly in to a corner, and finnaly finished him off winning himself the covereted WSOP bracelet and £133,857 in hard sterling!
check the vid out here:

Might not be posting as much as I have been soon

I don't usually bring up my personal life in my poker blog but for this one I will, since its going to effect my poker. I've been working pretty much constant overtime and will be working alot more around October through december, doing twilight shifts like 10pm till 6am and playing poker in any of my free time (free hours) , reason I'm doing this is because I gotta pay the bills! and pay for birthdays and Christmas while also investing in my course. So hopefully I can juggle everything but if I'm not posting to much soon I'm probably sleeping or playing poker instead lol and wont have to much time to blog although I will make an effort to.

hope this has been interesting and as always just a final video I found hillarious I rather think of this vid as the mind of the pkr fish.



Good Luck at the tables.

Here is some great sites to try out:

• Learn poker at DragtheBar for 7 days free! click here
• PKR is a cool 3D poker site, also super soft! PKR Poker

25nl and I keep on winning

Today in summary

Yes as the title says my winning streak hasn't stopped!
So far this month I haven't had one loosing session and I'm halfway to this months goal of 300 in only 9 days. And its not like I'm putting in alot of days since I'm working alot. Today I made yet another $60 today, and yesterday I made $20. But as for today I admit even though I played well and caught a few bluffers and made some nice bluffs myself here and there I did catch some cards, in fact I ran real dam hot and got in to some dream spots that favoured me.

The players are still pretty bad though. I personally know I wouldn't get away with alot of the plays I make at 25nl at 50nl because they would be to obvious at 50nl but at 25nl people are more gun ho and don't think to much generally and are alot more call happy so I can raise bigger than normal and expect action.

It was only a few days ago I posted how I felt that 25nl was something I wasn't to proud of playing and I wanted to play got more cash and better players and all of that.

However now I'm completely turned around, to be honest seeing how big of an edge I have on the players at the moment even if I complete my goal I might just keep taking the free money and use 25nl money to invest in a 50nl cash game coach.

My winrate was decent at 50nl but nothing like my 25nl results overall (bb/100) I found making any ware between $500 to $1k at 50nl a very hard stress full process yet I seen 50nl cash game players making on average $1.5k to $3k so I'm still missing something that 50nl grinders are doing, also just to improve my game would be great so it would be something I will be definatley considering.

Interesting poker hand

This hand was a real interesting hand, so much so I actually asked other poker players about it on forums it brought up some good discussion and at the end of it I felt I had an answer to how the hand should've been played after looking at the advice. here it is I'm first going to let you look at it and let you decide how you would play this, then just below it I will put what I found to be the best way to play it.



Okay if you said all in on the flop, then firstly no.
The reason this is would be because we have the idiot end of a straight draw and not only that but not the highest possibility of the higher flush, and since were only going to get called by better its not worth re raising all in for such little gain, compared to the times we get called by better also gambling like this were we might only be a 55% fav at best at worst were 30% if the players have a set or straight.

The way the flop is played is fine by me so far, however on the turn is were it gets real interesting. the queen makes it so that anybody with a jack now has the straight and leaves me only really drawing to the flush draw which still maybe in trouble since Cashterm called he also maybe flush drawing or he already has the straight.

since Jellito re raised my bet I know he has some sort of hand whether that be two pair straight or a set, when he bets $7 I should fold I am calling because at the time I figure I'm getting good odds without considering all the other variables in this hand like, cash term being yet to act, the fact I might be drawing dead if Cashterm calls with ace hearts something or the fact I may just be 15% to win on the turn with the flush making it a bad play so folding the turn would have been best, I dont usually see a loosing hand I'm happy to talk about, but I felt I learnt quite abit on that hand.

Fast Poker News

Tony G is Jeremy Kyle in the
Daniel Negranu V Annie Duke

As some players may know who follow the news, last month in poker player magazine Daniel Negranu showed uncharacteristic anger directed at Annie Duke, both of these players have been reported to be at each others throats during there poker careers for reasons unkown, however Daniel was pretty pissed. Heres a transcript of what he said.

''What irked me is that this woman has the audacity on her website to call herself ‘the best female poker player in the world’. So on one side of the coin she’s fighting for, ‘Oh, we’re all equal, there shouldn’t be any gender thing,’ but when appropriate she decides to call herself the best female poker player in the world.

So I’m like ‘how offensive are you, you fucking cunt? You want to say you’re speaking for women, yet you claim superiority over all of them.''

Tony G of all people not bad mouthing or trash talking, but acting as pokers Jeremy Kyle trying his best to diffuse it came out with this heart warming letter to both players.

“Dear Annie and Daniel, Heal the world, make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race. I write to you both here to plead with you to calm down and offer the guiding diplomatic hand of Tony G to smooth things over. If necessary I will lube up with aloe vera and lavender and give you both a deep relaxing massage.”

Tony G making the world a better place.

Might not be posting as much as I have been soon

I don't usually bring up my personal life in my poker blog but for this one I will, since its going to effect my poker. I've been working pretty much constant overtime and will be working alot more around October through december, doing twilight shifts like 10pm till 6am and playing poker in any of my free time (free hours) , reason I'm doing this is because I gotta pay the bills! and pay for birthdays and Christmas while also investing in my course. So hopefully I can juggle everything but if I'm not posting to much soon I'm probably sleeping or playing poker instead lol and wont have to much time to blog although I will make an effort to.

Hope this has been interesting and good luck at the tables.

Here is some great sites to try out:

• Learn poker at DragtheBar for 7 days free! click here
• PKR is a cool 3D poker site, also super soft! PKR Poker

Another day another $

Today in summary

So I've been playing pretty well today played for around 5 hours. I'm up $65
once again as I said in a previous post the PKR 25nl games are so riddiclously soft right now, it wasnt that easy before I'm sure of it, theres plenty of free money laying around so get your fishing gear out, like seriously I think PKR has got to be the best kept secret in poker. But of course you say its only 25nl, but this is pkr 25nl! lol

and with that said I've put my ego aside (kinda) and happily picked up the money and if this bad player barrage continues, I will be at 50nl in no time. But due to my experience I feel that train of varaince comming, I gotta expect the suckouts soon its suprising I missed so many with the junk I'm getting called with, sure I get the odd guy who makes his four card flush, but its not happening frequently like it used to. I dunno maybe I just ran bad for 1 year of my poker lol and I've been paranoid ever since.

Here I would usually post hand historys, but its so dam standard I just feel posting them and then commenting on them would be a waste after todays session basically they played terrible and called me with any type of draw.


Now as for this blog I think I should be adding in alittle poker news in here since
my ramblings probably get alittle tiresome so here it is:

Every week post I will try and post one bit of poker news that I feel is intresting, here we go.

Fast poker news!

*Phill laak has been involved in an ATV (all terrain vechile) accident that left him in a hospital bed! its kinda scary for him since if the main gash on him was slightly higher he would be without one eye... yea pretty bad here is a picture of a bloodied phil laak, he's since had a fine recovery and stiches removed so dont fear phil will be back at the tables soon.



and with that time to cheer you up, here is my hero singing/reading Poker face



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Here is some great sites to try out:

• Learn poker at DragtheBar for 7 days free! click here
• PKR is a cool 3D poker site, also super soft! PKR Poker

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Start of a new month and Back on my game

25nl and wrestling my ego

Well I've played well today and it made me $65 up

Its nice to be winning again, I've basically made myself relearn the back to basics stratergy and then added in little crevets of my 50nl game to add to 25nl and its working very well, and its always important to keep the basics in mind at any stake, sometimes at 50nl I found myself so wrapped up in mind games I sometimes pushed aside the basics, I think it was a mistake to do so, some players just play on that level of thiking at any stake.

Theres plenty of new players at 25nl at the moment and this is great since they dont know my style to well, and to be honest there just new fish to the game and I dont wanna let my ego get in front of me here but there play is predicatble and terrible to say the least, but I desperatley wanna play 50nl to at least play semi good players, its easy money and I shouldn't mind picking it up.

My ego should be the last thing on my mind and keeping it in the back of mind keeps my bankroll in the Black. Its just I miss the challenge of playing other good players thinking further than ''I have a hand and I dont know what he has but I'll call'' mindset u see alot of 25nl players have. Now not all players are like this there is some very good players at 25nl, but 50nl I felt I learnt alot more.

Although its important to remember that poker is all about making as much money as you possibly can without hurting yourself by loosing to much when ur ego gets in the way. This is a good lesson for me basically: screw ego get money, its whats poker is about.

Multi tabling

I was also thinking of adding more than 4 tables in to my games and get as many hands in as possible my only problem with this is that My mind boggles at 4 nevermind anything else. But I think it will increase my winrate and lower varaince, however I might just try and used to 4 for the time being, I'm used to playin 3 tables now very well and keeping track of every one so 4 is the next milestone of constant play minmum, hopefully I will start 6 tabling in the future mind
(if pkr has enough tables open!) and gets some realy hands per hour in.



So what about a goal?

So with that said I think within maybe a month I could be back at 50nl I would think maybe 2 weeks could be achievable but due to the fact I'm working alot more now one month seems alittle optimistic, but screw it thats the goal for the month getting back at 50nl $300 is needed.

So shuffle up and deal pkr!


Here is some great sites to try out:

• Learn poker at DragtheBar for 7 days free! click here
• PKR is a cool 3D poker site, also super soft! PKR Poker