New even month ?

Great ! I've just lost in 3 days all my month winnings. Today I even played some NL600 and steamed all the way... what a great idea !














Anyway, good news : tomorrow night I fly to Argentina for 3 weeks vacations ! Will try to forget a little bit about poker as last 2 months have'nt been great. I might obviously read some books (I have The Poker Mindset & some PLO Books to read) and play some HU on my labtop but not too much : I feel I need a little poker break.
In January I will certainly make a cashout and start back to grind NL400 as I was doing at the beginning of the month.

Still going up' !

For this month, things are going pretty well for the moment sinceI had 1 loosing day for 5 winning ones. I feel a bit lazy today so I won't post any hand (I just went quickly through PT and haven't found any interesting ones)

Confidence is back !

This is my 2nd "2 days" session in a row ! Wow, I have the impression it has been a while since it happened las time :)
Regarding month stats, I'm now @ 4BB/100, which is not so bad regarding what happened during the first days.














http://www.pokerhand.org/?1776376
Opponent was agressive intelligent player so I thought my AQo was above his range and I wanted to profit of a squeeze play thanks to wee bo call.
When he reraises, I thought he could make a move thinking I was squeezing with a very wide range.
equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 24.385% 19.23% 05.15% 1914927371 513083802.17
{ AcQs }
Hand 1: 44.491% 39.53% 04.97% 3935570189 494432291.17
{ TT+, AJs+, AQo+ }
Hand 2: 31.125% 29.59% 01.53% 2946313879 152829523.67
{ 22+, A2s+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, T9s, 98s, 87s, 76s, ATo+ }

Since I had 26% equity with these defined HR, my move is very dependent of the fold equity (I would need som FE > 10% to have a +EV move)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1776425
Standard coin flip but my opponent play was quite tricky (call reraise OTB then all-in on my reraise)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1776447
Nice deep pot. Opponent told me he was on tilt

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1776448
Check river to induce bluff

Waiting for a good run...

I guess I'm still not running very good for the moment, but at least I'm positive.














http://www.pokerhand.org/?1768242
Powned ! Didn't think he could have checked the river with the 8. I usually don't slowplay set unless against short stacks

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1768267
Classic... but happens too often for the moment

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1768272
That's poker...

November Results - December Objectives

November Results

I think this is my worst ever month :(
Very tough month with some bad run and some bad plays
Went back to NL400 around my 25K hand

December Objectives

I will fly to Argentina middle of december for vacations and I really don't know if I will be able to play there. If I can play it will be on y labtop, so I think I will play max 4-tabling some PLO 6-max and NLH HU
We will say that my main obkective for december will be to earn some money this time :)

Hands History - 28/11

Was a tough day again but at least I managed to finish positive after a bad stard a -1500$ down peak. That's my first winning day since 1 week !!! Hope luck is kind of turning around and that last 2 days will be OK to make a decent month.

I've just looked at this session and I actually didn't loose to much big pots, but I lost a lot of 200-300$ pots. Weird...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1751528
Classic KK vs AA. It will be my turn soon :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1751534
Wow, I just should have folded that one. He limp/call reraise and then miniraise my CB.
Look so obvious... now :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1751543
Lol@badtiming !

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1751550
He was 3-betting me a lot in the last 10 minutes so I decided my 9s were strong enough to call a raise. Flop is good, but was lucky to find a nice river to crack his As (I would have checked any non-9 card)

Hands History - 27/11

Goods news : I play better !
Bad news : I can confirm that I'm running bad !





http://www.pokerhand.org/?1748540
I always have to start my sessions with a missed bluff...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1748544
My opponent was so loose that it was impossible for me to lay down that hand

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1748552
My opponent was so aggresive so that my HR is way ahead when he shoves my bet on flop.
I was right ! River was not !

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1748560
The "classic" one outer

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1748550
Straight flush in my face ! That's not a terrible beat since I was only 65% favorite on flush but that hurts anyway :)

Hands History - 26/11

Well, this month is really tough, full of swings. Again last night I was quickly up 3 BIs before loosing them.















I feel I'm kind of running bad for the moment but I feel also that I'm not playing very well.
Therefore, in order to improve my game I decided I should rewiew every session some loosing hands.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1744716
Don't really know what to think of this hand. My opponents was very agressive at the river and I bet 25$ like a false blocking bet to encourage him to bluff so when he shoves I have to call.
Don't really know if it was only bad timing or bad play here. Check call river would definetly have been better.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1744725
Tough turn, I think fold is standard here
This is the kind of hand that at least tells me that I'm not on tilt. On tilt I would insta-call this one :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1744733
Opponent was nitty, stats like 13/10 so I'm quite sure he has QQ+ here and no way he's folding his hand

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1744738
Don't know what to think about that play. Certainly a misses standard bluff ?

Hands History - 13/11

It has been a very long time since I haven't posted some hand histories. So let's go for some specimen of last night :

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1697493
All tables are full some we just arrived to a new table and wer are starting HU before some more players arrived.
Comments from my opponent : "rigged" ;)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1697500
Had some nice stats from him, something like 50/10/1.
Should I obviously fold river to such a passive guy. Took a note : "lead = monster"

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1697505
Same opponent, same hand for me but not for him. Got my money back :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1697512
When I reviewed this hand I first thought i had missplayed it at river. But could I really fold ? I hadn't much info about the other player and as we were deep he could easily have a middle pair like 99/JJ

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1697523
Hummm... got some work to do with pot control I guess...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1697530
Missed bluff :( Guess my river over pot didn't scare him since he insta-called me

October Results - November Objectives

October Results














NL200 heads-up : 4K hands +6.85BB/100
NL400 6 max : 9K hands +5.45BB/100
NL600 6 max : 35K hands +0.92BB/100

Not so bad as I didn't plan to play so much NL600. Play seems a little more agressive than NL400 but there are still a monton of bad players. I should be able to beat this limit quickly

Novembre Objectives

Winrate > 3BB/100 in NL600

Deauville - 1st video

Barriere Poker Tournament - Deauville - Week end 1/2
envoyé par chilipoker

Deauville here I come !!!!

Fantastic news !!!

Can't believe it, this week-end I will participate to the first "Barriere Tournament" in Deauville !
I will fly to Deauville with Fabrice Soulier himself and spend 2 days there thanks to my poker room Chilipoker.
What an incredible present !

Here is the program :
Friday
2:00 PM : Meeting with Fabrice @ Paris heliport
2:30 PM : Flight to Deauville
Free afternoon and I bet I'll throw some $ @ some cash game tables
Saturday
3:00PM : 500€ 1 rebuy/1 add-on tournament
Sunday
Back to Paris

I Can't wait this week-end.
I will sure post during my stay to tell you more about my adventures in Deauville ;)

September Results - October Objectives

September results

Mission accomplished ! 3.27 BB/100

October objectives

- Winrate > 3BB/100

- Some shots to NL600 if tables are soft

August Result - September Objectives

August Results

I failed my 2 objectives :
- close from 0BB/100
- forgot my PLO books before leaving home :(















September objectives

Winrate > 3BB/100 in NL400

July Results - August Objectives

July Results

Very good month overall as I almost reached 10K$... almost
23K hands in NL200 : 3.42BB/100 winrate
33K hands in NL400 : 2.25BB/100 winrate
















August Objectives

Winrate 3BB/100 in NL400
Get some PLO Basis during my 1 week vacations

10K Struggling hands

Running 1.6BB since last sunday. Not so bad but after an amazing week-end I was hoping for much better :(











Really too lazy for the moment to show some hands :)

15K hands even and a rush

Since last sunday I played around 17K : 10K in NL200 and 7K in NL400
As I made 3.4BB/100 in NL200 for 23K hands I thought it was a good idea to make a new try for NL400.
I had up and down until yesterday night when I ran through a very good rush : 21.9BB/100 over 1.6K hands

Week-end variance

Week-end should allways be the profitable time to play. Unfortunately that's very often the time I choose to play bad an tilt. Got a 1000$ downswing saturday before grinding up during the night and this sunday. I will play tonight few hours against and I also plan to spend my last Everest 100$ in the 100K$ guaranteed














http://www.pokerhand.org/?1244206
Special jhurault "bluff"... :(

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1244214
Flop raise should have been a strong warning against this usually loose opponent
Why can't I get some credits to the plyaers sometimes ???

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1244224
Nice flop ! Don't think my image was very nice when I look at my opponent's hand...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1244228
Was vey surprised - and happy - to see all the chips coming at me
Don't really know if this play is really +EV but I take it today

Roaller coaster

Starting the month very well last week-end but then I dropped 7 BIs running bad. That's just incredible how level is different between week-end and other days of the week! Had a very good run yesterday night (thanks to a nice deep stack beat at the end of the session) and I'm at the moment @ 6.8BB/100 for first 6.5K hands.














Too lazy to look for interesting hands, so I'll show you some classic stuff

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1236508
Classic set meeting with AA

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1236512
Classic KK vs AA (I still never fold AA preflop)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1236515
Classic coin flip

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1236520
Classic AK vs AA agains a loose player...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1236531
Poker is only about skillzzzz :)
... I still never fold AA preflop... should have here being pretty deeped

June result - July Objectives

June results

Month started well... that's all ! :((
Then got a beginning of downswing in NL400 so I prefered going back to NL200 to avoid a catastrophic month. Finished quasi-even, actually slightly negative














July objectives

Winrate 3BB/100 in NL200
New shot in NL400 end of month if good results

2nd shot in NL400

After 1K disappointing hands in NL200, I decided this week-end to take a shot in NL400 to change of routine. I think I was starting getting bored playing NL200 event if my winrate was very low.
I have a very strange feeling : for the moment I find NL400 way easier than NL200.
However I try too cool down tonight : I played only 3K hands so it's much too soon to get conclusions on the level of play
But that's allway better to start to win when we try to move-up, isn't it ?
Overall I made 4.5K hands, up +2181$ for a nice 6.0 BB/100 winrate.














http://www.pokerhand.org/?1146533
Classic set up against a very agressive opponent. but his range was so high that I don't regret my move.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1146541
Happens... it's just twice sader than in NL200 :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1146548
Beeeeurk...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1146559
Biggest pot won until now !
I wanted to check raise the flop, unfortunately nobody bets. When the SB bet I think that he might have a flush and I just call to stack him if I make a full. When button move all-in, I almst fold instantly, then I figured that he may well represent a set, a DP, or even a semi-bluff thinking I'm drawing. So I decided to call whereas I may have folded on a smaller raise.
Was really really happy to discover his hand :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1146572
What a bad play with the Cowboys :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1146581
Was really amazed by my opponent play...

May results - June objectives

May results

- Play a lot :)
Managed to play more than 50K hands. So I can say that this objective was achieved
- Winrate > 3BB/100
Didn't achived that one : only 1.5BB/100 for the month
- Be rolled for NL400
Not really. I could obviously take some shots @ NL400 but I don't feel enough confident with my game for the moment.














June objectives

- Get a decent winrate > 3BB/100
If I can avoid some 10-15 BIs downswing as I'm used to run each month it should not be so difficult
- Be rolled for NL400

Swingy week

Haven't posted since last saurtday, actually haven't played that much. 2 main reasons :
1. Was playing and running bad
2. Lot of family time
I played a little more than 7K hands, for a small profit +500$. Not so bad as I was down -1000$ few days ago.














Had a bunch of hands to show you, but something weird is at the moment happening with pokerhand. Hope it will be back soon, otherwise I will have to find another way to show my hands.

Poor plays, need a break

Haven't played well for the past 4 days, and I will take a 2-3 days break to profit of the return of my family. May won't be as good as I thought, but actually I'm still positive for the month so that's not so bad. However, expet if I run a very good run till the end of the month I don't plan playing NL400 in June. I really want to make a 4BB/100 average month before going up (and it obviously won't be the case this month)

10K hands later

Running pretty well, just over 4BB/100 for +1525$. Not bad since I would be glad to keep a 4BB/100 winrate over the longterm.













http://www.pokerhand.org/?1094921
Obvious tilt play. Should have at least given up at the river

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1094928
Easy poker ;)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1094935
Check check flop & turn, I could not put this player on a better hand than mine.
Figured he could called a shove thinking I'm bluffing with small pp. was right ;)

Oufffffffffffffffffffffffffff........

Why do I play poker ? Maybe because it's so intense emotionnaly :)
2 days ago I was facing my worstdownswing, was playing bad, and people were sucking me out.
Yesterday I had up and down, starting nice my session with +6Bis before dropping 3 BIs just at the end. Actually I was ready to make a small break as I did some weaks ago.
And today... well today everything went well, no bad beat, nice set-ups, nice fishes. My big hands got paid. I Finished my sessions up +2000$ with an amazing start (+1300$ for just 440 hands)














A few hands, don't have many comments. As I was running bad since several days I did'nt think to much about making tricks. I played my hands very agressively and it worked.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1082538

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1082544

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1082548

Ouccccchhhhh....

Worst downswing since I'm playing poker :(
-3300$ in less than 6K hands














http://www.pokerhand.org/?1075168
This a kind of hands I can play at the moment. Should definetly give more credit to my opponent. RIver should have been obviously a check

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1075210
Getting stacked with a set. Well played from my opponent, could not put him on 67.
My opponent is 28/8, maybe I should have considerfolding on turn (but I had already put lot of money in the pot)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1075230
QQ vs AA. Happens
Actually if the firts reraiser was full stack I might have folded but here it was difficult

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1075241
Set vs set :(

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1075249
Classic tilt play. Don't want to admit that i'm behind

I have tons of hands like last one. Sure I had some bad beat and nice suck outs, but I really can't blame Mrs. Luck for my bad run. I'm for the moment just playing bad !

Downswing - On tilt !

I don't want to talk a lot about my play since saturday. Totally horrible ! Got sucked many times but i missplayed most of the hands I played since 2 days.
Wasted all the good results of the beginning of the month. Sad :(

First day without wife & kid

Nice start for my "pokerathon". Managed to play 2K mains tonight and did very well with +11.6BB/100 and a nice profit of +1001$














Players seemed very loose to night. Hope they will keep this playing all the week-end :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1062927
2 hands before, I made quite the same play against this player. I raised PF, then CB on dry flop, my opponent raise my CB and I reraised him. He folded.
This time I had the feeling he was really annoyed by my play and was trying to make a move on me. saying "stop messing with me"

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1062945
Really strange hand. Opponent was 50/0 so obviously a big fish
Was very happy to win that hand and I think I actually played it bas regarding the stats of the other player (never bluff a calling station)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1062954
Good set up and my opponent's not giving me much respect

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1062973
Hum... Don't remember the context with the other player.
But I remember I got stacked bad ;)

I got also stacked for 300$ with 99 that I played really poorly at the button. I waited the turn that was a K to fire big, and was against AK.
I lost many small pots during this night but I think this helped me building a nice fishy image to help me winning big pots.

May the luck be with me :)

Nice start for the month.
Running +8.00BB/100 for the 3K first hands. But actually I could be much lower if I didn't suck out a big stack.














http://www.pokerhand.org/?1056398
This is the hand against a deep stack. Nice suck out but he could have also AA, 55,99,TT...
I'll never fold such an overbet (mistake ?)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1056407
At least they were not cracked

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1056414
My winrate will be much better once I stop making such play against tight players (There are some at Everest...)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1056417
I used all my timer for that call. Reviewing this hand now that was quite an easy call
Sets or dp certainly had raised before and I don't see my opponent making such an overbet with AK.

Avril results - May objectives

Avril Results

Well, not very proud of that :)
I wasted all my winnings playing NL400 on the last day of the month. In fact I'm not sure that was a so bad idea since I was not on tilt. The problem is that I played really poorly, ended down 13BB/100 for 1K main. But actually this limit doesn't seem much harder than the 1/2, so I'm quite confident for setting my self in NL400 in few months, even in June if May goes well :)















May Objectives :

- Play a lot :)
Wife & Kid leave the house from 4th to 18th may for some vacations. I have nothing planned during those days so I should be able to play many hours before their return
- Winrate > 3BB/100
I won't try to set up myself in NL400 if I can't keep such winrate on a longterm
- Be rolled for NL400
Need a 4000$ month. Should be ok if I don't mess...

Still going up

Still running pretty good since my last post. Actually today was my 7th consecutive winning day.
Didn't get any really big day, but I can't complain with the way things are going since 1 week.














+925$
+3.9BB/100

Remains 4 "playable" day before the end of the month. Hope I can get few hundreds $ more. Actually I would be glad to finish the month today (almost +2K$ and +1.5K$ of RB) but I don't see myself not playing poker 4 days :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1038447
Thought my opponent was tighter than that. I missplayed this hand. I think (if I wanted to bluff) I should have reraised the turn to represent an overpair. I could have also folded on the flop...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1038472
Big pot against a regular. He's very agressive with 23/20 stats for 1K hands we played together. so his range to reraise me is pretty large. I would say 99+, AJ+
When I call his reraise, I know that I will go all the way with my hand exept if any A appears on the flop.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1038563
"Double squeeze" play. Same player than the hand before but not the same session

Back on track ?

Here are my results from 11/04 to 19/04 :
-1167$
-2.8BB/100
Not really good...

Since 19/04 :
+1819$
+12.2 BB/100
Much better... :)














Why ?

1. I think I'm not able to 8-tabling for the moment. I'm really more focused on the player when I 6-tabling.
2. I got some nice set-up
3. Didn't get any bad beat since 4k hands (really help winrate and confidence)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1021867

Bad luck (or bad play?) from my opponent who slowplayed his TPTK all the way. Thought he was floating or drawing the flush on the flop and fired a 2nd barrel on the turn thinking he was going to give-up. River's giving the perfect card.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1021891

Very weird line here. When he checks the river, I'm pretty sure to be ahead, so I make value bet to be paid by hands like Ax. When he reraised he offered good odds and I could not folds my hand... fortunately :)

Tilting again...

Well, I started writting this blog to help me not tilting and playing better. For the moment it doesn't work...Have lost something like 6 BIs when I played last saturday and haven't played since that day.
Will certainly play few hours tonight. I will 4-tabling to try to recover my "A-game"

I play bad !!!!

Last 2 days were horrible for me for 2 reasons :
- I played very poorly
- I got sucked out




http://www.pokerhand.org/?993969
Here I slowed down by the turn. This was clearly a bad idea here since I paid a pot bet at the river...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?993983
A nice 7 outer vs deep stack ... in my face :(

Road to 100K

Like many people, I'll start to write about my poker adventures on a blog. Main goal is : D-I-S-C-I-P-L-I-N-E. As all poker players, i obviously have up and down in my games, but I'm sure that this blog will make me think a lot more about my game, what is necessary to improve.
Bankroll is at the moment 8K$ high and I'm playing NL200 game (8-tabling). I'd like to reach 100K$... by end 2008 even if I plan to cash out about 1K$ every month.


Why make cash-out that will slowdown my bankroll progression ? I want to profit (and that my little family proit as well) of my poker earnings in case I unfortunately run to bankrupt


Here is my planning regarding BR and limit :
$6000 NL200 (30 BI)
$16000 NL400 (40 BI)
$30000 NL600 (50 BI)



With 3BB/100 :










I can reach 50K hands by month.
So let's see end June if I'm closed to the 30K