November

going all in pf with KK when you KNOW he has AA is BAD.

God I'm such a donk sometimes. I have no idea how the hell I came to the idea that it was a good play.

-__-;

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KK vs AA
QQ vs KK
77 vs AA

Poker hates me and I hate it.

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Day 4: Feb 8, 2007

Start: $40.38
Close: $26.92
Profit: (13.46)

The Beats Continue

So I have dropped to the lowest my bankroll has been today, and really I can't say anything. I didn't play today when I wasn't in the mood, and I even took a break and came back feeling great.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/hand/hand.php?hand=143857

http://www.liquidpoker.net/hand/hand.php?hand=143858

These are the ones that really stuck out, although really I didn't get any breaks today.

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Day 3: Feb 7, 2007

Start: $43.42
Close: $40.38
Profit: (3.04)

And this is why my blog is called the bad beat. =] I played solid for pretty much the whole day. I was +$4.00 at one point, and then the bad beats started hitting.

There were two big ones that just really hurt.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/143490
This was the first. It took out all the profits that had took me the entire day to make.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/143491
This one is the second, which brought me down minus 1 buy in.

I really don't think I played these wrong, and it's really frustrating to lose to poor playing, especially after playing conservative the whole day to NOT lose to bad beats like these.

I managed to cut most of my losses at the end, where I got AA and all-in'd pf. Some guy called me with JTs . trip 3's in the community cards gave me a full house for the win. So now I am only minus $3.

Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.


I've also been wondering. I see all these people with $15, $20 stacks on the $5NL tables, and I'm wondering how I can play in order to make that kind of profit? Not all of them can be lucky fish, right?

Is it just a matter of waiting for a strong hand to appear and then raising to hell and hoping someone calls, or is there something that I'm missing here?

I've also been noticing that the players who have the large stacks are often really aggressive. I know that at higher skill levels, aggressive play is the strongest, but in $5NL, where half of the people are calling stations, how do you play aggressively to maximize your profits?

I started drifting away from Grot's guide in the past few days, playing more loose, more aggressive. It's working fairly well when I'm alert and playing my A game. But I feel like I'm splashing around in the deep end without really knowing what I'm doing. It's really disconcerting, trying to mimic the aggressive patterns of other players who seem to know what they're doing.

Hopefully tomorrow I'll be up in the green. Today was pretty disappointing.

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Day 2: Feb 6, 2007

Start: $37.32
Close: $43.42
Profit: $6.10

I had a horrible start today, losing $7 in the first hour that I played. And really the only thing I can say is, it was bad playing on my part.

So I took a break, cooked dinner, and then sat down again with my mind fresh. I slowly won back my money by playing carefully. Then, I got my big break when I re-raised all in against two fish who called me when I had pocket 3's, with the board A3x . An A came up on the turn giving me a full house, netting me around $6 in that one pot and pushing me up to my goal of 1 buy-in per day.

New lesson: Don't play when you're feeling like crap.

Wait, wasn't that yesterday's lesson of the day?

I might play again later tonight.. then again, I might not.

[Edit]
Just wanted to post some goals.

Daily: Make 1 buy in per day . Don't play if I'm not playing my A game, even if I'm losing and can't reach my 1 buy-in goal.

Short Term: Reach $10NL by March 15 (~1.5 months from now)

Long Term: Try to increase my limits every 1.5 months, so I can reach $1/$2 by mid September.

This is going off of the 20 buy-in model that I read about on this site. I'm not sure how realistic these goals are, but it's a start.

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Day 1: Feb 5, 2007

Start: $30.20
Close: $37.32
Profit: $7.12

So today I am going to start my poker blog with a little over $30. I started two weeks ago with the $50 PP deal, and brought it up to $80 by the second day (I declined the bonus $25 after learning it would only stay in my account for a month. In hindsight, a bad decision). Last week, I lost over $50 to a mix of bad beats, bad plays, and overall just really bad luck. I am now learning more, and playing better and a little more conservatively with a low bank roll.

This blog will serve as a log of my daily gains for now, until I learn more about the game and can post stats or whatever.

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