11th of March

Hi sorry i have not been blogging as much this month as i am very busy - i will resume my normal blogging at the start of april.

1st to 6th march

have been away so have not played any poker between these dates i will have to catch up by putting in a few extra hours of grinding

28th and 29th of Febuary

Did not play on the 28th of Febuary.  on the 29th I was only a short way away from platinum - which if achieved I could get a hundred + in additional bonuses due to more fpp's however on this day i lost $134 and had to stop playing to achieve it.

27th of Febuary

Played 4900 hands of 10nl - 25nl and was up $67

26th of Febuary

Played 3200 hands of 16nl-25nl and was down $22

25th of Febuary

Played 5600 hands of 5nl to 25nl and lost $45

24th of Febuary

played 3500 hands of 10nl to 25nl making a profit of $48

23rd of Febuary

Played 1900 hands of 10nl to 25nl making $19 profit

22nd of Febuary

Played 2100 hands of 10nl - 25nl fullring cashgames and gained $66 profit.
Also played some 25nl 6max on the iphone application and gained $12.

21st of Febuary

Started playing cash games for an hour or 2 at the stakes ranging between 10nl and 25nl. ( I had no idea that there was a 16nl - must be reasonably new.) made $33 profit in 1000 hands for a BB/100 of 9.38, so pretty good going :)

20th of Febuary

played lots of cap games today ran so bad - $200 down on estimated all in ev.   also played some $7 sngs and made $18 profit.

19th of Febuary

played 3 hours of 50nl cap and lost 70 dollars.  got quite a lot of VPP'S though.

18th of Febuary

Today I played a few tournaments with no success and also played pretty badly in some 6max 25nl cash games and ended up around 70 down for the day

17th of Febuary

Played 4265 hands of $0.10/$0.25 NL 6max and had $112.35 profit.  Which was very good.  won a massive $94 pot in one hand when I flopped a set of 3's against a flush draw and also against top pair,top kicker. 

Ran pretty good with my aces meeting kings a couple of times also.

16th of Febuary

Started the day well playing Razz with the stakes between $1/$2 and $3/$6 and dominated on the $3/$6 table making over $100 profit very quickly and after around an hours play ended up for a total of $115 profit.
In the afternoon I played in the big $22 and for the 2nd day in a row I got deep, however when I shoved AQ against TT I thought i would get a nice double up when the ace flopped, but of course the ten on the river ended my good run.

I had a disasterous end to the night though, because I entered 20 STT's all of a $15 buy in and then my internet connection died. 15-20 minutes later the connection came back, however it had crippled my chips so much in every table that I was not able to salvage one cash.

15th of Febuary

Played around 10 micro tourneys up to $5 buy ins with no real success and ended up around $40 down from that. 

I jumped on some 1/2 razz and 8 game tables and swang from around $10 to about $60 up to eventually coming to a $24 profit.

Finally I played 26 SNGs's which were 45 and 180 mans.  buy ins ranging from $2-$8.  I won 2 45man SNG's and unfortunatley got 2 9th place finishes in $2 180mans.  Still got a $102 profit which is very good :)

Blog Post for the WBCOOP entry - How I would spend the $5000 best blogger prize.

Five thousand dollars is a large sum of money to me, so at first I would not really be sure what to do with it all.  I think first of all I'd have to give a small percentage to parents for their help and support that they have given me.  I am also a big fan of tennis and although my house does not have enough room for a tennis court, i would love to have a table tennis table that will go with the pool table and dart board.
Of course I would put a sum into my pokerstars account so that I can learn to progress my game up out of the micro stakes and into the low to medium stakes where the strength of play is a lot greater.  it would be great if I could win that money as it would allow me to have a bankroll that is a lot higher so the poker tournament series, such as the TCOOP and SCOOP and WCOOP would be a lot more fun and intersting to me, because it would allow me to play in a lot more events then I would have used to have previously played.  I would have to be very strict on my bankroll management however as lots of dollars can easily be lost at those stakes... and very quickly I may add.
Also I think that I need a comfier place to play poker - especially when I am grinding the MTT's on Pokerstars as I can be sat at my laptop for quite a few hours on end, with just a five minute break every hour, because I usually find myself to be slouched over and have a curved spine, which could result into poor posture and back problems in later life.  Therefore a comfy chair would be a neccesity.
Some of the money would have to go into my savings account as I need to keep saving for future events in my life, so that I am not struggling to get by.
Gaming is a thing that I enjoy quite a lot, as it brings me some nice relaxation time ( I am not a hardcore, intense gamer), so I may splash out a small bit of that money on some new xbox games or perhaps the reasonably new xbox kinnect as that looks quite fun.

Finally I think I would go on a vaction.  This holiday would have to be abroad and out of the United Kingdom, because I love travelling to new places.  So far I have not been out of Europe and would love to explore the world further.  The United States of America would be a good option as there are lots of tourist attraction spots and cool stuff to see.  Asia and Africa would also bring an expierence as it would be very intesting to see the various cultures and how other people live their daily lives.

So in conculsion the five thousand dollars will give me lots of things from expierence, fun to learning more about the ultimate game that is... poker.

14th of Febuary

Played a lot of cap games and ran very poorly, however I think it is a poor choice for me to be playing the Cap games as they never really seem to bring me any profit and in reality i only play them for the VPPS you gain from them.  so was down about 10 buy ins on the Cap games.

Played 20 $15 STT's which went a little unfortunate towards the end, getting some bad run of cards. so was down a fraction around $35.

I must have played around 30 heads up hyper turbos between the buy ins of $15 and $30 winning around two thirds of all matches for a healthy profit.

13th of January

Grinded the MTT's again today - got 26th in the big $22 for around $100, which was slighly dissapointing as there was some major cash to be awarded on the final table and went out 14BB deep with A-K vs Q-T all in pre-flop.  Also got a 22nd in a $22 big antes tournament.  So in quite a few tournaments I am getting deep just losing those important flips to get the big money.

Also played 2 hours of 25 and 50 NL cap games and gained $5 haha. got a lot of VPP from playing those games though.

12th of Febuary

Grinded the MTT's today, buy ins ranging from $2 - 22 ( won a few satelites to $55's) no major wins to talk about.  placed around 30th in a few events.  got a final table of a $3 rebuy 180 man at the end of the night to take me to just 45 under profit for the day

Played an hour and a half of 25nl cap and ended $30 down

11th Febuary

today I grinded MTT's ranging from $0 - $5.50 entries.  I was fortunate enough to secure my first "decent" MTT prize of the year, worth $1899.95 for coming first in a $5.40 knockout ( turbo) with 3003 runners.  during the tournaments early goings-on I achieved a good, well above average amount of chips, however when it got towards the deeper stages I kept taking a few knocks and one substantial blow to my stack after attempting to steal the blinds and antes from the small blind, led me in the ultimate danger zone - being under 5 BB's with a bit of luck i was right back in the race, and soon enough i was on the final table.

I was in 8th out of 9th place going into the final table.  I got lucky with 8 players left getting A8 against A9 in a blind battle and fortunatley hitting an 8 on the flop.

I survived on blinds until I shoved K-Q on the small blind to get called by K-8 and my K-Q held. leaving just 4 remaining.  After this hand i shoved A-Q and ran into the BB's Q-Q.  Fortunatley I flopped an A.  I remained reasonably dominant from then on and took down the event.

5th Febuary - 10th Febuary

Did not play hardly any poker between these dates, as I have been very ill recently.
played an hour or two of 50 fixed limit, which resulted in a profit of around $10.
Also played some small stack razz and 8 game which started well peaking to around $25 profit, however then started to lose a bit so stopped when i was $6 up.

4th of Febuary

got staked in the big 55 and the 33 turbo. Did not cash in both of those.  However was railing and helping my friend who got 4th in the $5 2r1a so gained $120 for the help.

3rd of Febuary

played some more 50FL and was 20 cents down.  then played 15 $1 sngs at a time and earnt $11.  the $1 SNGS are very easy to multi table and on the micro stakes I can play around 20 at a time

1st and 2nd of Febuary

played a few thousand hands of $5nl winning $4
also played 50FL 6 max games and made $16 in a short amount of time, so may try a few more of those games in the days to come. 

31st of January

Played roughly the same amount of poker as the day before.  won a few dollars against this terrible play who decides to call 1/2 his stack with J-8ss against my KK and then shove the flop of 2-3-8. ran out K - 2

30th of January

Played $2nl just getting a few hours Of play and experimenting some different strategies. the same poker will apply for tomorrow.  I will be posting stats and graphs of this month for all different varients of my game. and also a paragraph on the month in review.

29th of January

Played a few MTT's in the evening with no success.  Think i will be hitting Febuary hard pokerwise.  as need to catch up on the VPP's and $.  also i will be revewing and finding leaks in my game to enbale me to improve for the rest of the year.

28th of January

Played in the $33 TCOOP but got rivered by A9 vs J8 on blinds  235XJ  :(

27th of January

Didn't play any poker today, because I was revising for my exam tomorrow.  I will be playing the $33 TCOOP event tomorrow evening :)

26th of January

Played a small amount of 0.5/1 8 game before revision for my exam.  lost $3 and earnt 8 VPP's

25th of January

Played 0.02/0.05 fr and earnt $6 and 34 VPP's

24th of January

Played an hour 24 tabling $5nl full ring.  made about $12 after 5 minutes then lost JJ vs AT and AA vs QQ

Earnt $8 and 25 VPP'S

23rd of January

Didn't play poker at all today, was in a tennis tournament. playing tennis again tomorrow also.

22nd of January

played the $55 knockout TCOOP poker event. and lost AA vs 57 on board KT795. all in on turn.pretty sickening also running horrific in other mtt events.

earnt 246 VPP's and lost $210

21st of January

played in 2 scoop events and cashed small in the $33 triple stud. no luck in other mtts

Earnt 150 VPP's and lost $154

20th of January

I played in both event  7 and 8 in the TCOOP.  the $22+r where I finished a few hundred places before the money. shoving QJdd with 7 blinds and running into the BB's AJ. Event 8 the $82 2xchance, only 1 buy in needed.  Was average stacked when the button ( who was a very loose aggressive player) shoved all in. I called with AT and he showed T9. the board ran KQ39J.

Earnt 241 VPP's and lost $76

20th of January

TCOOP Event 5 - $22 pl draw. entered and got double stack quite quick.  Then I remembered that i had tennis traning 1 hour into the event.  so had to sit out. and did not cash.

I did not play Event 6 - the $55 6 max shootout

19th of January

TCOOP Summary

event 1 - $22 6max no limit holdem = 31,500/43565, no cash

event 2 - $33 no limit omaha hi/lo, 1317/4474, no cash

event 3 - $134 knockout no limit holdem, N/A

event 4 - $33 no limit holdem, 444/9877, $95

earnt $73 and 90 VPP's

19th of January

TCOOP 1 - busted after 37 minutes

20 BB's

button min raises to 240
small blind calls 240
i raise to 2700 with ATs in big blind

button folds.  small blinds calls with AQs and hits flush on turn.

time for event 2 of the turbo poker series.  the $33 no limit omaha hi/lo

18th of January

Again played little poker, but trained hard fitness wise. body is in a lot of ache.  looking forward to the start of the TCOOP series, will let you know how I get on in the events.

lost $9 and earnt 45.11 VPP'S

17th of January

Played little poker today just a few hands of 25nl full ring.  no big pots. 

lost $5 and earnt 15.5VPP's

16th of January

Did not play today as was catching up on a lot of work that I was a little behind on.

15th of January

Played 2158 hands of 2NL whilst watching sherlock ( the TV series, which I found to be very very good ) and was a nice 2.5 buy ins up :)

played many micro stake MTT's with no major cashes

Earnt 74.65 VPP's and lost $22

14th of January

Also played a lot of low stakes MTT's when my connection went for about 15 minutes and probably cost me a fair bit. :(

Earned 245 VPP'S and lost  $112

14th of January

Just played 1700 hands of 10NL 6 max very swingy but ended up $20 up and close to a $10 bonus for reaching 2500 hands! :)

13th of January

played a few hours of 5nl fullring earnt $4 and around 140 VPP'S

12th of January

Played a little bit of fullring 5NL and some TCOOP sattelites. got an entry for the triple stud event.

earnt $27 and 82 VPP's

11th of January

Played around 30 minutes of 10NL and 30 minutes of 250nl full ring cap games ended up $18 in profit with a few run good hands for once :) have a lot of free time over the next few days so hopefully can rack up a lot of hands.

Earnt 26 VPP's and $18

10th of January

Also did not play today as I had my exam and a tough fitness schedule!

9th of January

Did not play today as I had to revise hard for my exam tomorrow !

8th of January

Another tournament day that did not go so well, I felt i was playing a lot better today though. wont be playing much on the 9th and 10th as I have to focus on an exam.

Earnt 249 VPP's and lost $95

7th of January

Played a lot of MTT's running so bad at the minute, losing almost every flip.  played about 40 tornies cashed in about 10 no big cashes.

Earnt 151 VPP's and lost $128

6th of January

Played mainly 25NL.  ran pretty bad for most.  Kings vs Aces twice.  However I did get one buy in back when I flopped a straight and flush redraw and got it in on the turn against aces.  I then played a couple of heads up hyper turbos and was about break even.

Earnt 156 VPP'S and lost $31

5th of January

Today I hardly played at all, because I had a full study day and then was so tired. just played about 20 minutes of Razz $1-$2 and lost $16

Earnt 12 VPP's and lost $16

4th of January

Yesterday I played some Razz and 25NL and it did not go so well, was playing pretty poor stuff making some very weak calls. I lost $72

later on I played 48 hyper turbo heads up SNG's, with the buy-ins ranging from $7 to $30, after a slight downswing to begin with, I grinded it back and ended up $3 up for the day. Woop Woop.

Earnt 222.28 VPP's and won $3

3rd of January

Was feeling very tired today as it was the first day back studying. managed to play an hour or two of $0.50/$1.00 - $1.00/$2.00 Razz. But ended up $20 down for the day.

Earnt 192 VPP'S and lost $21

2nd of January

To start the day I was playing 24 50-100NL CAP games.  I ran so bad in these losing $200, when my estimated EV showed I should be only $6 down.  I rescued some money back in a game of 25PLO with the following hand :

Hand #73155027366 begins at 2012/01/02
Dealing down cards
Dealt to jbauk [Th Jh 9s 7c]
Casparxx posts the small blind of $0.25
tamasri posts the big blind of $0.50
chekwaskommt posts the dead big and small blind of $0.75
jbauk raises to $2.50.
chekwaskommt folds.
lekcad calls $2.50.
Casparxx folds.
tamasri folds.
Dealing Flop [9h 5d Jc]
jbauk bets $6.
lekcad raises to $14.
jbauk raises to $47.50, and is all-in.
lekcad calls $33.50.
Dealing Turn [6s]
Dealing River [4d]
jbauk shows [Th Jh 9s 7c]
jbauk has Two Pair, Jacks and Nines
lekcad shows [5h Ks Js Ac]
lekcad has Two Pair, Jacks and Fives
jbauk wins $99.50

In the evening I played a couple of 180 man SNG's and got 3rd in a $8 for $157, however I got quite unlucky 3 way in a big pot :

Hand #73182993600 begins at 2012/01/02
jbauk posts the ante of 500
DJ BOMBOA222 posts the ante of 500
Tony131909 posts the ante of 500
Dealing down cards
Dealt to jbauk [4h As]
DJ BOMBOA222 posts the small blind of 2,500
Tony131909 posts the big blind of 5,000
jbauk raises to 143,263, and is all-in.
DJ BOMBOA222 calls 72,623, and is all-in.
Tony131909 folds.
Dealing Flop [Ah Td 8d]
Dealing Turn [Js]
Dealing River [Qd]
DJ BOMBOA222 shows [9c Kc]
DJ BOMBOA222 has Straight, Ace High
jbauk shows [4h As]
jbauk has One Pair, Aces
DJ BOMBOA222 wins 156,746

I earnt 701 VPP'S and won $7

1st of january

Ahh the first day of play started of well with a 2 buy upswing at 25NL.  Then later in the day i decided i was going to grind the MTT'S.  the buy ins totalled up to around $700 and only managed to win back $500.  i had a deep run in the Sunday Storm finishing in 135th place for a respectable $178 going out 66 vs QJ.

I earnt 240 vpps. and lost $150.