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Benzooor United States. Feb 12 2007 15:55. Posts 630

First off thanks for the bankroll management advice on my last post. I'm aware that it's atrocious but until recently I really used online poker more as a "hey, let's put 100$ on and have something to do when I get bored," rather than "lets make money." I'm well aware of the concept of money management as I have been demo-trading forex for about 6 months and money management is HUGE in that market.

[ALL SUITS // HANDS APPROXIMATE]

Anyways, Saturday afternoon after lunch with my girlfriend my buddy called me up for a cash game. It was with these guys from Vegas that I have only played with once before. I have not had success with them before. They are somewhat loose, and love to reraise. We were playing .50/1$, but if you raised anything less than 6$ odds were someone would bump it up 10$ to try and steal. We had a full 9-person table with 2 waiting, and I just could NOT hit a card to save my life. I saw pocket 3's a bunch, and knocked out a shorter stack when I was holding(**all suits approximate**)

the flop came

. He was holding

, but I sucked out with a

on the turn.

From that point on I just proceeded to bleed chips continously. There was an Arab guy sitting to my left that just called EVERYTHING that I was betting at him, and drew out on me all the time. I lost a big hand when my

hit a

flop, turned the

, but the other player had

. Not a whole lot I could do in that situation, I bet 15$ on the turn and he reraised all-in for 25$ more into a 75$ pot (I had led off with a bet on the flop, there was a raise to 5 or 6$ pre-flop which I called in SB after 4 or 5 people called as well).

Finally my pocket 9's (the best hand I'd seen all night) busted to AK for my last 30$. UTG had raised to 6$ and 3 other people had called, I pushed on the button and AKs in the SB pushed on top of me and everyone else folded.

..

So I ended that game down 200$. Not terrible but a definite dent.

..

Later that night at a party I was talking to a few friends and we decided to get a small house game going the next afternoon. I brought 20$. So we played a 7-way 10$ tournament, which I won, but I ended up giving 2nd place 30$ of the pot since he was poor and it was a friendly game (and I knew I would crush him headsup).

Then we played a 5$ tournament on a game we made up called blackjack hold'em. Basically (as you can guess) it's texas hold'em with one of your hole cards flipped up on the deal. It's a very fun game when it's at least 4way, but smaller than that it's just kind of dumb (headsup when your opponent has top pair showing

. I also won this.

So I had turned that 20$ into 80$, and 3 of us took off to play a .50/1$ game with another group of players that we have played with the last few weeks or so. These players I have been very successful against. I've played with them about 4 or 5 times and I'm probably up about 800$-1k$.

The game was 9-handed, with one or two people waiting at a time usually.

I bought in for 80$, lost about 20$ when someoen sucked out on me with an ace on the river (he was chasing flush draw) and started out doubling up when I had

and the flop came

; one of the guys who had bought in for $160 (everyone else had bought in for 80-100) was trying to bully me PF and bet the flop hard for about 25$, I pushed on him and he called me with KJ, I turned a

and he was drawing dead.

I was playing very good poker, making good laydowns, bluffing at appropriate times, valuebetting, and actually HITTING CARDS. I felted two people when there was a live straddle to 2$, 4 called and I raised to 7$ with

on the button. FIVE people called to see the flop, which came

; SB bet 12$, folded around to shortstack in MP, who pushed in for 10$ more; and I raised to 45$ more, putting the SB all-in. SB was holding KJ, MP was holding KT; Their gutshots didn't hit and I took down the huge pot.

After about 4 hours, I was up nearly 300$

So in all, it was a good weekend, turning 20$ to 300+ on sunday was a good feeling after blowing 200$ on saturday.

Im only working until 9pm weekdays now, so I will be able to play much more live games. We've got a great scene going on here, there is a good full cash game every night of the week pretty much, with tournaments every wednesday, staurday, sunday, and scattered throughout with turnouts of anywehre from 8 to 40+.

I'm facing online as just a challenge to grow the account now, I was only able to play for about an hour online this weekend, but grew the acc up to 45$, so I'm much safer now that I'm not risking 100% of my BR on the table. Not that having 45$ is that much better, but it's an improvement.

It's marvelous how much time I have to type while running HDD diags at work

Cheers!

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Last edit: 12/02/2007 15:57

Refrain[FriZ] Canada. Feb 12 2007 16:16. Posts 1395

I like the integration of the cards into your blog posts, it's very nice.

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Critterer United Kingdom. Feb 12 2007 23:00. Posts 5337

Which stakes you playing online whilst doing the .50/1 live?

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Benzooor United States. Feb 13 2007 15:51. Posts 630

.05 / .10

I don't put much money online.