Filed Under (30 Days of Poker) by Topher on 13-04-2011
Bah! Sometimes I really Love/*Hate* poker. So, over the course of 12 hours I managed to play 24 $2+0.16 double up sit-n-gos. Ten wins and fourteen losses. *Sigh* My starting stack of $110.19 has shrunk to $98.35. While this wasn’t a very productive session, I did win about $35 over the previous three weeks at this game, and about $15 since the blitz day, so I am not giving up on this format yet.
I performed a Key Pot analysis for this session of games. Key pots are pots where 50% or more of my stack is being committed to the hand. An analysis of these should give me an idea of how I am performing “when it counts”. This doesn’t really tell me if I am stealing enough, but I would hope I am “getting it in there” with better hands than my opponents.
Averaging the wins-vs-losses for all of the Key Pots gives me a win rate of 42.55%, however based upon the strength of the hands that I played I should have won 51.81% of the time. That is a variance of 9.26%. Seems a little unlucky to me.
I also noted a few hands that I believe were errors (8 actually). If we remove the errors from the analysis my statistical win rate should have been 59.28%. This is a nice improvement, (roughly 3:2 over my opponents) and reinforces the fact that you have to play excellent, error-free poker to be profitable.
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Filed Under (30 Days of Poker) by Topher on 06-04-2011
It has been quite a while since I have posted, but I have found an online game that I have really been enjoying. Sportsbook.com has a “double up” six handed game, $2+0.16 buy-in that seems to work well for me. Starting chips 1,500 - blinds 10/20. Top three players win $4.00, so the rake is 7.4%. Games take about 20-30 min. to play. Since it is short handed and turbo-ish (7 min. blinds) there is plenty of loose, aggressive action for me to take advantage of. Most players seem relatively new to the game and make fundamental errors.
So, I am going to play a full day blitz of this game and see where that takes me. My beginning bank roll is $110.19 which gives me 51 buy-ins. This should be playing plenty deep for this game. There are other buy-ins for this game format at $3.24 and $5.40 but that would leave me with 34 or 20 buy-ins. 20 buy-ins is pretty borderline, so I think I will try this price out for now, and maybe play another level up next time.
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Filed Under (30 Days of Poker) by Topher on 03-09-2010
Daytona Beach Kennel Club Sign
It’s my final day and I am at Daytona Beach Kennel Club again, to play the $225 tourney. An additional $10 for dealer addon and $5 to the royal flush jackpot. The poker room is also having their annual freeroll event, winner gets to chose from 6 envelopes. 3 contain “Cars” (Mustang, Charger and Camero) and the other 3 contain cash $5k, $7.5k and $10k. Nice freeroll jackpots! While my tourney is playing, the table next to ours is the final table for the freeroll event, and the gentleman who wins picks an envelope that wins him a brand new Mustang!
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Filed Under (30 Days of Poker) by Topher on 03-09-2010
Daytona Beach Kennel Club Sign
Today I played 1/2 no limit in the Daytona Beach Kennel Club Poker Room. Not many interesting hands for the first couple of hours, I fold a few pots and win a nice one with a turned nut flush and another with KK. However, I am in Seat 9 and Seat 1 is playing like a complete donkey. He has doubled up to $200 and is playing every pot. Calling Calling … and hitting! Poor players who get into luckbox mode drive me crazy.
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Filed Under (30 Days of Poker) by Topher on 02-09-2010
Matador Sign
My usual Thursday game at Matador tonight, and quite frankly I only played one real pot. A9 with a board of 287-T. At this point (I know my opponent here) and bet big. He moves in on top of me and I believe I am behind to a pair. I have the open ended straight draw and one overcard ( I’m estimating 11 outs here – aboud 20% or so to win) and his raise is giving me the right price since I bet big into him. I have to call, and he turns over 69 for the made straight. Ouch… I am drawing to a chop… and don’t get there.
Bye bye chips …. See you another time!
Filed Under (30 Days of Poker) by Topher on 02-09-2010
Hard Rock Tampa
Today I am playing at Hard Rock again, but the buy in is $240+$10 dealer addon. This is a significant slice of my stack, but go big or go home! Right? Starting stacks are 7,500 for this tourney and there are about 34 entrants. I get seat 1 at table 1-1 … Sound lucky to you?
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Filed Under (30 Days of Poker) by Topher on 02-09-2010
Hard Rock Tampa
Today is the Hard Rock $120 + $10 dealer addon, 6,000 starting chips. Big H has come along to help me bust this tourney. There is only about 31 entrants today and Tourney pays top 5. First hand I play is AJ -vs- A9 with a flop of QJ9 and win a decent sized pot. I win another reasonable pot with AQ when the flop comes AQ6. Now at 9,500 in chips. I win another pot with Ah7h when the board comes ATQblankblank, and we check it down. 11,300 in chips now.
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Filed Under (30 Days of Poker) by Topher on 31-08-2010
Big H has his usual home game tonight, $65 entry fee, and this time I had to do an addon for $10 at the first break. My first hand played is a full house on the turn, and I win a decent amount of chips. I lose a big pot with JJ vs QQ, but luckily manage to get away from my hand. After the break and addon I raise a hand with KdTd and get two callers, flop comes T37. I bet and get one caller, Mr. J with 44 … I win the big pot and get a speech “can’t believe you raised with KT!”. Oh well … tilt kills. I now have 8175 in chips and am in good shape.
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Filed Under (30 Days of Poker) by Topher on 31-08-2010
A day of online poker, playing on sportsbook.com. I like their 1 table double up format games. I play for a while and win 4, lose 2.
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Filed Under (30 Days of Poker) by Topher on 25-08-2010
Save The Boobies
Today is a charity event at Sip, a bar close to me, run by Orlando Hold’em. The charity is Libby’s Legacy which deals with breast cancer screening for people without health insurance. Entry fee is $30 + $10 for last man standing. 45 people are signed up, and starting stacks are 2,200.
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