Only time for a short update today, but the personal poker news was fairly good for a change today, so I figured I’d post while my spirits were riding high.
Played two sessions today. First was a short session of multi-tabling $.25/.50 and $1/2 limit. This brief in-and-out play lasted but 40 hands in the early afternoon, but it resulted in a nice $7 up-tick in the bankroll. Miraculously (or so it seemed) I had AA hold up and a couple of other nice hands not fall apart when they might have. Seemed almost unnatural to have good hands make money for a change…
The second session was an even nicer little addition to the bankroll. I decided to play some NL cash games after watching yet another Grinderschool video (which, actually, wasn’t very good; the player in this video was a guy named Spenda, and he didn’t do a lot of explaining or teaching, but rather just made a lot of strange comments about how bad he was running. He also made to me what looked like a total donk move, calling an all-in in a 3-way pot with JJ from an UTG preflop limp-reraiser which positively screamed AA or KK. He justified it by saying he was getting 3:1 on his money, but even this amateur knows that a limp-reraise from early position is a huge hand. Bizarre…. but I digress).
Anyway, my NL cash foray was about 100 hands or so at three simultaneous tables of $10NL (Translation: $.05/.10 blinds; no-limit cash; max buy-in: $10). Things didn’t start very well, and I was down $3 fairly quickly, but I stuck to my guns and played a semi-tight (average VPIP was ~25% or so), very aggressive and relatively fearless style. By fearless, I mean I wasn’t afraid to 3-bet players with AQ-type hands if I sensed any kind of weakness. I also attacked the blind relentlessly from both the button and cutoff with a lot of success. At one of the three tables, the BB started pushing back on me about halfway through the session, so I quit bullying him and picked on some of the other nits at the table.
My aggression allowed me to slowly accumulate chips, but the biggest play came when one of the table’s big stack ($11) raised UTG one to my right to forty-cents. He was a 6/0 player, so he obviously had a real hand. If I had anything but AA or KK, I would have insta-folded, but (miracle of miracles) I had AA and re-popped him up to 90-cents, trying to fold out the rest of the table, but still give him good numbers to call. To my pleasant surprise, he reraised to $3.50, and I then came over the top at him all-in. He made a very fast call and turned over KK. The rockets held up and I raked a pot of $22. WoooooooHoooooo! Hey, this poker stuff is kinda fun!
All-in for now…
-Bug
PS. The graph is today’s results. No real reason to post it here, but DAMN I like looking at it! :-)
Played two sessions today. First was a short session of multi-tabling $.25/.50 and $1/2 limit. This brief in-and-out play lasted but 40 hands in the early afternoon, but it resulted in a nice $7 up-tick in the bankroll. Miraculously (or so it seemed) I had AA hold up and a couple of other nice hands not fall apart when they might have. Seemed almost unnatural to have good hands make money for a change…
The second session was an even nicer little addition to the bankroll. I decided to play some NL cash games after watching yet another Grinderschool video (which, actually, wasn’t very good; the player in this video was a guy named Spenda, and he didn’t do a lot of explaining or teaching, but rather just made a lot of strange comments about how bad he was running. He also made to me what looked like a total donk move, calling an all-in in a 3-way pot with JJ from an UTG preflop limp-reraiser which positively screamed AA or KK. He justified it by saying he was getting 3:1 on his money, but even this amateur knows that a limp-reraise from early position is a huge hand. Bizarre…. but I digress).
Anyway, my NL cash foray was about 100 hands or so at three simultaneous tables of $10NL (Translation: $.05/.10 blinds; no-limit cash; max buy-in: $10). Things didn’t start very well, and I was down $3 fairly quickly, but I stuck to my guns and played a semi-tight (average VPIP was ~25% or so), very aggressive and relatively fearless style. By fearless, I mean I wasn’t afraid to 3-bet players with AQ-type hands if I sensed any kind of weakness. I also attacked the blind relentlessly from both the button and cutoff with a lot of success. At one of the three tables, the BB started pushing back on me about halfway through the session, so I quit bullying him and picked on some of the other nits at the table.
My aggression allowed me to slowly accumulate chips, but the biggest play came when one of the table’s big stack ($11) raised UTG one to my right to forty-cents. He was a 6/0 player, so he obviously had a real hand. If I had anything but AA or KK, I would have insta-folded, but (miracle of miracles) I had AA and re-popped him up to 90-cents, trying to fold out the rest of the table, but still give him good numbers to call. To my pleasant surprise, he reraised to $3.50, and I then came over the top at him all-in. He made a very fast call and turned over KK. The rockets held up and I raked a pot of $22. WoooooooHoooooo! Hey, this poker stuff is kinda fun!
All-in for now…
-Bug
PS. The graph is today’s results. No real reason to post it here, but DAMN I like looking at it! :-)
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