An Update

I didn't get to play on Thursday or Friday due to work, and Saturday I logged on to play a morning session before Cricket. Unfortunately the William Hill morning game selection is non existent and the 4 $50 NL tables were populated with short stacks, so I didn't bother playing.

I played a quick session on sunday and made decent profit.

Here were the stats:

Hands: 727
VPIP: 16.92%
PFR: 12.10%
Amount Won: $97.35
BB/100 Hands: 13.39

I also played for a short while last night. I didn't want to play that long as I was tired after spending most of the day getting drenched trying to watch Kent v Ireland at Cricket and playing in the nets at the ground during the breaks in play. In both the sunday session and monday's, I moved up to 5 tables playing at a time. It took me about 10 mins to get used to but after a while I found it fine, and if I can find 6 tables worth playing, I will do that in the future too. You can get so many hands in during a short space of time, which obviously is a big advantage if you are a winning player.

My stats for last night:

Hands: 522
VPIP: 17.62%
PFR: 12.64%
Amount Won: $110.43
BB/100 Hands: 21.16

In my opinion, I played my A game last night, I was really pleased with how I played. There were only one or two hands I thought I would have played differently with hindsight, but these were small pots against people who I didn't have PT numbers on yet. I also got stacked with aces when I was 90% odd when the money went in on the turn.

I am several sessions away from moving up to $100 NL using my very strict bankroll conditions. This should happen hopefully some time this week if I can get the hands in, if not early next week when my rakeback should push me over the barrier. I have been watching my brother a lot at $100 NL and he is absolutely killing the game, but plays in a bit of a different style to me and wins some huge pots with marginal starting hands. In my opinion there are more fish there than at $50NL as at $50 NL they want to see flops but not play as many big pots. At $100 NL they seem to want to play a big pot all the time with marginal hands. I am looking forward to it!

Here's some interesting hands from last night:

The first two illustrate the value of raising pre flop with premium hands and not limping in and then betting like crazy when you flop top pair/overpair. It just may be the case that a certain player in the blinds flops a monster on the cheap...

Game #1981291133: Hold'em NL ($0.25/$0.50) - 2006/05/29 - 20:37:01 (UK)
Table "Katerina" Seat 4 is the button.
Seat 1: hmrl ($40.45 in chips)
Seat 2: Mardell88 ($28.90 in chips)
Seat 3: J____S ($32.55 in chips)
Seat 4: fricken ($29 in chips)
Seat 5: Fruitypro ($58.95 in chips)
Seat 6: Loffman ($41.65 in chips)
Fruitypro: posts small blind $0.25
Loffman: posts big blind $0.50
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to Fruitypro [7s Qs]
hmrl: calls $0.50
Mardell88: calls $0.50
J____S: folds
fricken: calls $0.50
Fruitypro: calls $0.25
Loffman: checks
----- FLOP ----- [Qh 7c 3c]
Fruitypro: bets $2.50
Loffman: folds
hmrl: folds
Mardell88: raises to $8.40
fricken: folds
Fruitypro: raises to $58.45 and is all-in
Mardell88: is all-in $20
Returned uncalled bets $30.05 to Fruitypro
----- TURN ----- [Qh 7c 3c][7h]
----- RIVER ----- [Qh 7c 3c 7h][4h]
----- SHOW DOWN -----
Fruitypro: shows [7s Qs] (A Full House, Sevens full of Queens)
Mardell88: shows [As Qd] (Two Pairs, Queens and Sevens, Ace high)
Fruitypro collects $56.35 from Main pot



Game #1981469173: Hold'em NL ($0.25/$0.50) - 2006/05/29 - 20:47:33 (UK)
Table "Katerina" Seat 3 is the button.
Seat 1: hmrl ($43.85 in chips)
Seat 3: J____S ($23.30 in chips)
Seat 4: fricken ($38.65 in chips)
Seat 5: Fruitypro ($86.85 in chips)
Seat 6: Loffman sits out
fricken: posts small blind $0.25
Fruitypro: posts big blind $0.50
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to Fruitypro [6c 6s]
hmrl: folds
BACH joins the table at seat #2
J____S: calls $0.50
fricken: folds
Fruitypro: checks
----- FLOP ----- [7s 3c 6h]
Fruitypro: bets $0.90
J____S: raises to $5
Fruitypro: raises to $86.35 and is all-in
J____S: is all-in $17.80
Returned uncalled bets $63.55 to Fruitypro
----- TURN ----- [7s 3c 6h][9d]
----- RIVER ----- [7s 3c 6h 9d][5d]
----- SHOW DOWN -----
Fruitypro: shows [6c 6s] (Three of a kind, Sixes, Nine high)
J____S: shows [Td Th] (A Pair of Tens, Nine high)
Fruitypro collects $44.55 from Main pot

With this hand, I put him on Kx after his actions on the turn. I was correct in that, and he got lucky on the river. If people want to get their money in drawing to 5 outs with one card to come, I am going to be a very rich man. Unfortunately you do get suck outs which happened here. His call on the turn with top pair 7 kicker is atrocious.

Game #1981712343: Hold'em NL ($0.25/$0.50) - 2006/05/29 - 21:01:24 (UK)
Table "Truffle" Seat 5 is the button.
Seat 1: Persiano ($44.55 in chips)
Seat 2: Wizzy_X ($45.40 in chips)
Seat 3: dwags222 ($123.92 in chips)
Seat 4: Pontan ($49.60 in chips)
Seat 5: Fruitypro ($49.25 in chips)
Seat 6: roadkill ($76.37 in chips)
roadkill: posts small blind $0.25
Persiano: posts big blind $0.50
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to Fruitypro [As Ad]
Wizzy_X: folds
dwags222: calls $0.50
Pontan: calls $0.50
Wizzy_X leaves the table
Fruitypro: raises to $3.50
roadkill: folds
Persiano: folds
dwags222: folds
Pontan: calls $3
----- FLOP ----- [Ks 2d 6h]
Pontan: bets $4
Fruitypro: raises to $12
Pontan: calls $8
----- TURN ----- [Ks 2d 6h][3c]
Pontan: checks
Fruitypro: bets $33.75 and is all-in
Pontan: calls $33.75
----- RIVER ----- [Ks 2d 6h 3c][Kh]
----- SHOW DOWN -----
Fruitypro: shows [As Ad] (Two Pairs, Aces and Kings, Six high)
Pontan: shows [7d Kc] (Three of a kind, Kings, Seven high)
Pontan collects $96.75 from Main pot