I have created this blog to track my progress on pokerstars through the year 2012.

Tuesday, 31 January 2012

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.

Monday, 30 January 2012

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.

Sunday, 29 January 2012

28th of January

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

Saturday, 28 January 2012

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

Wednesday, 25 January 2012

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

Tuesday, 24 January 2012

23rd of January

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

Monday, 23 January 2012

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

Sunday, 22 January 2012

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

Saturday, 21 January 2012

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

Friday, 20 January 2012

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

Thursday, 19 January 2012

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

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

16th of January

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

Monday, 16 January 2012

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

Sunday, 15 January 2012

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

Saturday, 14 January 2012

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! :)

Friday, 13 January 2012

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

Thursday, 12 January 2012

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

Wednesday, 11 January 2012

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 !

Monday, 9 January 2012

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

Sunday, 8 January 2012

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

Saturday, 7 January 2012

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

Friday, 6 January 2012

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

Thursday, 5 January 2012

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

Wednesday, 4 January 2012

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

Tuesday, 3 January 2012

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

Monday, 2 January 2012

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.